| 词条 | Saint Jack (film) |
| 释义 |
| name = Saint Jack | image = Saint Jack (film).jpg | caption = | director = Peter Bogdanovich | producer = Hugh M. Hefner Edward L. Rissien | screenplay = Peter Bogdanovich Howard Sackler Paul Theroux | based on = Saint Jack by Paul Theroux | starring = Ben Gazzara Denholm Elliott George Lazenby | cinematography = Robby Müller | editing = William C. Carruth | distributor = New World Pictures | released = {{film date|1979|4|27}} | runtime = 112 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2 million[1] | music = }} Saint Jack is a 1979 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 George Lazenby. Cast
Film adaptation rightsCybill Shepherd sued Playboy magazine after they published photos of her from The Last Picture Show. As part of the settlement, she got the rights to the novel Saint Jack, which she had wanted to make into a film ever since Orson Welles gave her a copy.[1]ProductionSaint Jack was shot entirely on location in various places in Singapore in May and June 1978. Places featured in the film include the former Empress Place Hawker Centre (now demolished) and Bugis Street. The local authorities knew about the book, hence the foreign production crew did not tell them that they were adapting it, fearing that they would not be permitted to shoot the film. Instead, they created a fake synopsis for a film called Jack of Hearts, (what the director called "a cross between Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and Pal Joey"[2]) and most of the Singaporeans involved in the production believed this was what they were making. ReleaseThe film was banned in Singapore and Malaysia on January 17, 1980. Singapore banned it "largely due to concerns that there would be excessive edits required to the scenes of nudity and some coarse language before it could be shown to a general audience," and lifted the ban only in March 2006.[3] It is now an M18-rated film. Saint Jack was re-released in North America on DVD in 2001. In an interview with The New York Times on 15 March 2006, Bogdanovich said "Saint Jack and They All Laughed were two of my best films but never received the kind of distribution they should have."[4] ReceptionRoger Ebert gave the film a four-star review. In praise of Gazzara's performance, he writes "sometimes a character in a movie inhabits his world so freely, so easily, that he creates it for us as well. Ben Gazzara does that in Saint Jack." He goes on to say "The film is by Peter Bogdanovitch and what a revelation it is, coming after three expensive flops. But here everything is right again. Everything."[5]References1. ^The Upside-Down Views of Cybill ShepherdMann, Roderick. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 21 May 1978: n37. 2. ^1 Bogdanovich's Picture ShowLee, Grant. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 10 Aug 1979: e16. 3. ^{{cite news | title = Saint Elsewhere | first = Cheong | last = Suk-Wai | publisher = The Straits Times | date = 29 March 2006 | work = Life! | page = 5}} 4. ^Ibid. (A search of The New York Times' archive on 29 March 2006 failed to find the text of the interview.) 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Ebert|first1=Roger|title=Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007|date=2007|publisher=Andrew McMeel Publishing|location=Kansas City|isbn=978-0-7407-7179-8|page=666|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNBX1H4C98QC&lpg=PA666&dq=saint%20jack%20review&pg=PA666#v=onepage&q=saint%20jack%20review&f=false|accessdate=21 September 2017}} External links
15 : 1979 films|1970s drama films|1970s LGBT-related films|American LGBT-related films|American films|American drama films|English-language films|Films about prostitution|Films based on American novels|Films directed by Peter Bogdanovich|Films set in Singapore|Films shot in Singapore|New World Pictures films|Screenplays by Peter Bogdanovich|Works about prostitution in Singapore |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。