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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.
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Time has been kind to The Comedians for the same reason that history has been unkind to us. As similar nightmare governments have erupted in Cambodia, Uganda, Rwanda and The Sudan, Haiti under Papa Doc looks like a forerunner to them all, and The Comedians an unsettling portrait of a terrorist regime that has become far too common.
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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.
