Bananas (film)
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Theatrical release poster by Jack Davis
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | Jack Grossberg |
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| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Cinematography | Andrew M. Costikyan |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $11.8 million |
Bananas is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion. Parts of the plot are based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell.
Filmed on location in New York City, Lima, Peru, and Puerto Rico, the film was released to positive reviews from critics and was number 78 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and #69 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs in 2000.
Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is the protagonist, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos and a coup d'état that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas (Carlos Montalban) to power, sets up the situation in which Mellish would become embroiled. The scene was in the form of a championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports, with Don Dunphy as the host and Howard Cosell as the commentator.
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