Saint Jack
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1h 54m
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich | 114 mins | 1979
Nobody could hit a suave groove like Ben Gazzara. In Bogdanovich’s melancholy character study, Gazzara plays an American pimp in Singapore who carves out a charmed space in the red-light underworld. But his luck turns in this ambience-rich Corman-produced adaptation of a Paul Theroux novel, shot by perennial DP of the demimonde Robby Müller and co-starring Denholm Elliott, local talents, and Bogdanovich himself.
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