Bananas

Apr 28, 1971

1h 22m

★ 6.7

The Revolutionist That Shook the World With LAUGHTER!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

United Artists

Bananas Trailers

Cast

Fielding Mellish

Woody Allen

Nancy

Louise Lasser

General Emilio M. Vargas

Carlos Montalbán

Yolanda

Nati Abascal

Esposito

Jacobo Morales

Luis

Miguel Ángel Suárez

Diaz

René Enríquez

Arroyo

Jack Axelrod

Himself

Howard Cosell

Mrs. Ruth Mellish

Charlotte Rae

Dr. Al Mellish

Stanley Ackerman

J. Edgar Hoover

Dorothi Fox

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