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1971

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Starring	Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban, Louise Lasser, Sylvester Stallone
Director	Woody Allen
Genres	Comedy

Bananas

Woody Allen leads a revolution in a small Latin American dictatorship in this hysterical comedy that parodies everything from the American media and political activism to the CIA and the judicial system. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a nebbish unwilling to commit to anything--until he meets Nancy, played by Louise Lasser. Mellish soon finds himself fighting with guerrilla forces in the small third world country of San Marcos, and he becomes an international figure, even appearing on ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS with Howard Cosell, who plays himself. The film is loaded with sight gags that pay homage to Chaplin, Bergman, and the Marx Brothers while taking on politics, government, and religion, even breaking for a commercial for cigarettes endorsed by the church. One of the most memorable scenes of Allen's career occurs when Mellish defends himself in the funniest courtroom scene since the Three Stooges' DISORDER IN THE COURT. Allen's obsessions with food, sex, and death begin to take form here, on their way to becoming major themes in such films as LOVE AND DEATH, ANNIE HALL, and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.

Starring	Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban, Louise Lasser, Sylvester Stallone, Danny DeVito
Director	Woody Allen
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 18 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1971 To Rent: DVD: 19 Feb 2001

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- Allen's second feature, a tribute to the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, is a wonderfully incoherent series of one-liners... read more on Time Out
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  Comedy Classic
  
  I've heard how much people rate Woody Allen over the years, but never really touched upon his films. After hearing how highly rated Bananas was, I plumped ... read more »
  
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  Give him some chicken soup
  
  I am a big WA fan but for whatever reason I hadnt seen this one. Jokes are fine if somewhat dated but my big switch-off was because of the poor sound (recorded ... read more »
  
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  BEFORE THE ROT SET IN
  
  Back in the good old days when Woody Allen was funny, along came this minor gem of a satire on US-supported, Latin-American military dictatorships: Amusing with... read more »
  
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  Very funny and ironic
  
  Very funny and ironic. mixing comic images from before the sound of cinema took standups to comic standups (in images, lines). It could be very well subtitled ... read more »
  
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Whatever Happened to Woody Allen?
- 21 May 2008
He's made (at least!) a film a year since 1970, a record that's all the more remarkable when you realise that he's written and directed all of them, and starred in most. They include some of the best-loved and most quoted comedies in cinema history: Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters take some beating, and that's to ignore "the early, funny ones" (Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas); the lovely miniatures from what I consider his finest period (the early 80s gave us Broadway Danny... Read more
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  Woody Allen leads a revolution in a small Latin American dictatorship in this hysterical comedy that parodies everything from the American media and political activism to the CIA and the judicial system. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a nebbish unwilling to commit to anything--until he meets Nancy, ...