Bananas Blu-ray

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Before Woody Allen became known for serious character driven comedies including Annie Hall & Manhattan he made screwball comedies & Bananas remains one of his most hilarious When bumbling product tester Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is jilted by his politically-aware girlfriend Nancy (Louise Lasser) he decides that an awareness-raising holiday is in order So he heads to the tiny Central American republic of San Marcos only to become kidnapped by anti-government rebels triggering a series of unlikely events that sees Mellish himself become both President & the FBI s number one target Gag for gag & one-liner for one-liner Woody Allen s second feature is one of the funniest that he ever made satirising everything from relationships to dictatorships in the vein of his beloved Marx Brothers There s some pointed political satire for those minded to look for it but surreal whimsy rapidly takes over as San Marcos s new official language is deemed to be Swedish & J Edgar Hoover disguises himself as a large black woman for the purposes of one of the maddest courtroom showdowns ever filmed