

Bananas
1971-04-28 · 82 min · ★ 6.7
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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- Directors
- Woody Allen
- Production companies
- Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, United Artists
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 2,000,000
- Revenue
- USD 11,833,696
Top Cast
Woody AllenFielding Mellish
Louise LasserNancy
Carlos MontalbánGeneral Emilio M. Vargas
Nati AbascalYolanda
Jacobo MoralesEsposito
Miguel Ángel SuárezLuis
René EnríquezDiaz
Jack AxelrodArroyo
Howard CosellHimself
Charlotte RaeMrs. Ruth Mellish
Dorothi FoxJ. Edgar Hoover
Eddie BarthPaul
Conrad BainSemple
Allen GarfieldMan On Cross
Roger GrimsbyHimself
Don DunphyHimself
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