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The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 American musical comedy film written and produced by Norman Lear, with music and lyrics by the duo of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, and directed by William Friedkin.
With Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker. A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.
They dream up the sort of persecution of vice detectives that Ben Hecht was recording in Chicago. They regard burlesque not so much as an occupation, more a way of life. The story concerns a young Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who comes to the big city and is blinded, as they say, by the glittering marquees. She dreams of dancing at Minsky's.
To distance herself from her strict Amish family, naïve Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) escapes to New York City to become a dancer. While Rachel's dances based on Biblical stories are too...
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The plot of The Night They Raided Minsky's revolves around Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland), a Pennsylvania Amish girl who escapes her strict father Jacob (Harry Andrews) and goes to New York, where she hopes to perform dances based on Bible stories.
To distance herself from her strict Amish family, naïve Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) escapes to New York City to become a dancer.
In 1925, Rachel Schpitendavel, a young Amish girl, comes to New York City to dance. She ends up at Minsky's, a legendary burlesque house that prude Vance Fowler is trying to shut down. As she grows more accustomed to the ways and mores of city life, her family searches for her and a comedian falls for her. — Huggo.
Jul 30, 2023 · A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in...
The Night They Raided Minsky's. A naive Amish girl arrives in New York City where she hopes to act and dance in religious stage plays but instead finds herself performing in one of the cities' most notorious burlesque houses. 121 IMDb 6.0 1 h 39 min 1968. PG-13. Comedy · Drama. Watch with a free Prime trial. Watch with Prime.
Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided.
