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Saint Jack is a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux that was adapted into a 1979 film of the same name. It tells the life of Jack Flowers, a pimp in Singapore. Feeling hopeless and undervalued, Jack tries to make money by setting up his own bordello, and clashes with Chinese triad members in the process.
Compelling character study centering on Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small-time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to live a life of luxury. Savvy but not unsavory, he strikes up a friendship with William Leigh ...
SAINT JACK. Directed by. Peter Bogdanovich. United States, 1979. Drama. 112. Synopsis. Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. Synopsis.
Saint Jack is sometimes called Cassavetes-lite and while there's similarities (Gazarra, lots of guys boozing together, a hangout atmosphere), the alienation expressed is very different from him. There's actually much more of a certain conspiratorial displacement from some of Welles non American films, but without the more oppressive undercurrents.
30 de nov. de 2017 · The original trailer of Saint Jack directed by PeterBogdanovich starring Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers & Joss Ackland.
1 de feb. de 2022 · Saint Jack (1979) Saint Jack was produced by Roger Corman, with whom Bogdanovich worked on the film The Wild Angels (1966); Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner was one of Saint Jack’s executive producers. But there’s nothing exploitative about the movie: a sequence where two prostitutes dance for one of Flowers’ clients to a recording of Shirley ...
14 de jun. de 2023 · There’s a scene in Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich, 1979) when Jack Flowers, played with charm and grace by Ben Gazzara, returns to the Singapore Chinatown shophouse where he’s employed as a ship chandler (a go-between for local traders and foreign vessels). His reappearance there, after a sour venture running an R&R camp for the US army, feels like a defeat.
