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In this highly acclaimed film from director Peter Bogdanovich ("The Last Picture Show"), an Italian-American, Johnny Flowers (Ben Gazzara, "Summer Of Sam", "Dogville", in one of his most memorable roles), fulfils his dream of opening a whorehouse in Singapore during the final years of the Vietnam War.
A street-savvy hustler, Johnny is inevitably caught up in the seamy and seedy Singapore underworld; and to secure protection from the local mob, he is forced to blackmail a senator whom he photographs sleeping with a young male prostitute.
Adapted from a novel by Paul Theroux, produced by Roger Corman (Hugh Heffner was Executive Producer), and proposed by Orson Welles, this fine character study driven by Gazzara's charisma and subtle suspense was described by Roger Ebert as "a revelation" and won Bogdanovich Best Director at the 1979 Venice International Film Festival.
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