Bananas: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Nati Abascal. When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American …

Bananas: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Nati Abascal. When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American …

Bananas (1971) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Woody's theoretical directorial debut was in What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966); a Japanese spy flick that he dubbed over with his own comedic dialogue about spies searching for the secret recipe for egg salad.

"Bananas" is just that on the surface - a crazy, off the wall movie written by, directed by, and starring a very young Woody Allen as a clumsy New Yorker who winds up as the leader of a small country.

Bananas is like a cookie-batter of all of those early Woody Allen jokes all plopped into a bowl and shaken around. It's a film loaded with political jokes, but without a direct focus aside from Cuba and …

Meanwhile in New York City, clumsy looser Fielding Mellish ( (Woody Allen)) works as a product researcher at General Equipment, where he tests electrically warmed toilet seats, coffins with piped …

The best movies of Woody Allen In the early 20th century, wacky inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian invite two other couples for a weekend party at their romantic summer house in the …

Esposito: [sings rebel song] Rebels are we, / Born to be free, / just like the fish in the sea! [Note: the rebels in Sleeper, which Woody Allen made in 1973, sing the same song]

Bananas (1971) - In an interview, Woody Allen was asked why he named the movie "Bananas". His response: "Because there are no bananas in it." A reference to the 1920s novelty song "Yes, we …