Check this one out. I hate Peter Bogdanovich films with a passion. His films generally bore me to death or annoy me to the point of immense anger. However, in the late 1970s he put out a splendid character study of an American Pimp in Singapore. It's a great movie, incredibly slow-paced, well-acted with great camera-work, great location filming, and a meaningless cameo by the director himself. Ben Gazzara makes this picture, without him as the title character, Jack Flowers, the film is nothing. Gazzara's performance rings true in the end and that is what makes or breaks this film. If you're at all familiar with the Coen Brothers' classic "the Big Lebowski" (1998), it's interesting to compare Jack Flowers the Pimp to Jackie Treehorn the Pornography-Tycoon; in both roles Gazzara gives his all except he's twenty years younger in "Saint Jack" and twenty years older in "the Big Lebowski"--but in both he will remain timeless in his coolness. George Lazenby, James Bond of the well-done but poorly acted "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), has a small cameo as a US senator with homosexual tendencies.
Review of Saint Jack
