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Saint Jack is a 1979 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich based on the 1973 novel Saint Jack. Ben Gazzara stars as Flowers in the film. The film also features Denholm Elliott and Lisa Lu.
Dec 5, 1979 · Saint Jack: Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. With Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland. Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early-1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to live a life of luxury.
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.
Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) is an American pimp in Singapore, and, although his livelihood is unsavory, he is not morally bankrupt, and makes friends with auditor William (Denholm Elliott).
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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.
Dec 26, 2016 · Saint Jack (dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1979) with Ben Gazzara. "In 1970s Singapore, Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in small time pimping, dreams of ...
Nov 30, 2017 · The original trailer of Saint Jack directed by PeterBogdanovich starring Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers & Joss Ackland.
Saint Jack is a film short on plot, but long on character study, at least for the title character Jack Flowers, patron saint of the working girl in Singapore. Ben Gazzara plays the title role and if you can imagine Humphrey Bogart at his most existential running a brothel, than you've got Gazzara's character.
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Jun 14, 2023 · Saint Jack is adapted from an early book by Paul Theroux – raunchily fictionalised from his experiences as an English literature lecturer in Singapore between 1968 and 1971. Theroux’s evocation of the sights and sounds of place is superlative, but the basic narrative could be transplanted elsewhere.
Absorbing character study of an amiable, ambitious pimp who thrives in Singapore during the early 1970s. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, based on Paul Theroux's novel.
