"People make love for so many crazy reasons-- why shouldn't money be one of them?" - The Gospel According To Saint Jack
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Producer: Roger Corman
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
115 min
Rating: 6.6/10
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Ben Gazzara
Jack Flowers
Denholm Elliott
William Leigh
James Villiers
Frogget
Joss Ackland
Yardley
Rodney Bewes
Smale
Mark Kingston
Yates
Movie Info
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Producer: Roger Corman
Production Companies: Shoals Creek, Copa del Oro, Playboy Enterprises, New World Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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CinemaSerf:
"Flowers" (Ben Gazzara) reckons there are easy pickings to be had setting up a brothel in Singapore and feathering his nest for a life of luxury back in the USA. Upon his arrival he alights on a collection of ex-pat Brits and befriends "William" (Denholm Elliott) - a decent man, an accountant, with little interest in the goings on in an whorehouse besides balancing the books for it's owners. Needless to say, the local Triad gang don't look too kindly on his interfering enterprise, but events in Vietnam might just provide for the most unlikely of supporters for his increasingly risky venture. Initially I thought Gazzara too lightweight to hold this together, but coupled with quite a poignant effort from Elliott and relying on a solid cast of familiar British faces, the story develops into quite an interesting observation of a man who does, indeed, have some scruples and standards of his own - even if he doesn't mind so much just quite how he makes his fortune! As events proceed, even those priorities begin to be re-thought. It's a bit of a slow starter, this, but to watch the naive cynicism of "Flowers" evolve, mature even, is worth a watch.