Saint Jack

Saint Jack

6.6IMDb Score
Released:1979-04-27
Genre:Drama
Duration:115 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Peter Bogdanovich
Actors:Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes
Production:Shoals Creek, Copa del Oro, Playboy Enterprises, New World Pictures

Overview:

Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.

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