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. Synopsis. Peter Bogdanovich. The film was adapted by Peter Bogdanovich, Howard O. Sackler and Paul Theroux from the 1973 novel by Theroux himself. Jack yearns for more than the small-time, though -- his ambition is to open an entire bordello. Saint Jack is a film about Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American washed up on the shores of Singapore and a pimp of local girls who just happens to be the most moral person in all the land. By May Ee Wong. Feeling hopeless and undervalued, Jack tries to make money by setting up his own bordello, and clashes with Chinese triad members in the process. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd (in her first role) as a trio of sexually-confused teens trapped in a dying, dust-blown town.

Ben Gazzara stars as Flowers in the film. Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury.

Saint Jack is a 1979 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich based on the 1973 novel Saint Jack. Saint Jack (1979) was groundbreaking in that it was the first Hollywood movie to be filmed entirely on location in Singapore, the first to contain a gay Singaporean sub-plot complete with full frontal male nudity and the first to have a Singaporean trans woman nude scene..

SAINT JACK, 1979, Concorde-New Horizon, 112 min. As an American hustler chipping out a fortune as a pimp in 1970’s Singapore, Ben Gazzara is magnificent. The film also features Denholm Elliott and George Lazenby. What is it that makes him act the way he does? Years ago, the Singapore music/pop-culture magazine BigO approached me to write something about Saint Jack, a 1979 Peter Bogdanovich drama apparently deemed unworthy of Singaporean eyes because its depiction of the seamy, vice-ridden underbelly of Singapore does not … Jack yearns for more than the small-time, though -- his ambition is to open an entire bordello. Edit Report This. It tells the life of Jack Flowers, a pimp in Singapore. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Saint Jack near you. Saint Jack is a 1979 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich based on the 1973 novel Saint Jack. Ironically, I have the government of Singapore to thank for introducing me to a movie banned in Singapore. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971, Sony Repertory, 118 min. ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. Saint Jack (1979) Plot Summary (4) Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. In the crime melodrama, Saint Jack by director Peter Bogdanovich, Ben Gazzara plays an American pimp, operating in Singapore. Ben Gazzara stars as Flowers in the film. Synopsis. Saint Jack Synopsis Favorite Movie Button Overview; ... (Denholm Elliott). Sometime in 2002, before returning for my Honours year in university, a female friend and I had gone on a two-week backpacking tour of Vietnam. Saint Jack centers on the efforts of Jack Flowers, a middle-aged American expatriate in Singapore, to achieve a success that he believes is almost within his grasp. The saint of the story is Jack Flowers, who in both the novel and the film is an American beatnik who winds up working on a ship, finds himself in Singapore, then stays.

But Jack's conscience starts to dog him when Schuman hires him to take compromising pictures of a visiting Senator (George Lazenby). Saint Jack, or How I Understood Singapore’s Past through a White Man’s Eyes Rediscovering what's lost in Singapore via a once-banned 1979 film . With restrained and forceful performances by Gazzara and Elliott, Saint Jack was something of a succès d'estime for the embattled Bogdanovich, winning the Italian Journalist Award for Best Film at the 1979 Venice Film Festival. Saint Jack is a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux and a 1979 film of the same name.

Dir. Is it the circumstances, the vice filled city, the accident of chance, the desperate loneliness of a foreigner in a city with no hope of ever returning h Like Jack Flowers, Singapore has … Here is an actor whom in real life was a stocky average joe yet was a smooth-talking enchanter enough to have once stole Audrey Hepburn’s heart, and his Jack Flowers character in a movie like this treats all his girls with an equal kind of effervescent care and respect, a den father. The film also features Denholm Elliott and George Lazenby.

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).