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The Comedians is a 1967 American political drama film directed and produced by British filmmaker Peter Glenville, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay. The stars were Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, and Alec Guinness.
The Comedians: Directed by Peter Glenville. With Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov. A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
The movie tries to be serious and politically significant, and succeeds only in being tedious and pompous. Still, you have to hand it to Liz and Dick: For them to make a movie attacking Papa Doc Duvalier's dictatorship took even more courage than when Senator Dirksen defended the marigold.
Comedians, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Our Greatest Achievement! Disembarking in Port-au-Prince, evangelical vegeterains the Smiths (Lillian Gish, Paul Ford) and retired "Major" Jones (Alec Guinness), met by Captain Concasseur (Raymond St. Jacques), then a brief appearance by Petit Pierre (Roscoe Lee Browne), early in Graham Greene's The ...
Sep 20, 2014 · Complications include his inability to sell the hotel so he can leave, a friendship with a rebel leader, some politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the German-born wife of a South ...
Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, this movie tells the story of a sardonic Welsh hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism and poverty.
An English hotel owner (Richard Burton) woos a diplomat's wife (Elizabeth Taylor) and goads an arms dealer (Alec Guinness) in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti.
