Synopsis
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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Cast
- Woody AllenFielding Mellish
- Louise LasserNancy
- Carlos MontalbánGeneral Emilio M. Vargas
- Nati AbascalYolanda
- Jacobo MoralesEsposito
- Miguel Ángel SuárezLuis
- René EnríquezDiaz
- Jack AxelrodArroyo
- Howard CosellHimself
- Charlotte RaeMrs. Ruth Mellish
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Any movie that attempts to mix together love, Cuban revolution, the C.I.A., Jewish mothers, J. Edgar Hoover and a few other odds and ends (including a sequence in which someone orders 1,000 grilled cheese sandwiches) is bound to be a little weird—and most welcome. - 70
Time Out London
Allen's second feature, a tribute to the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, is a wonderfully incoherent series of one-liners centered around a puny New York Jew's unwitting and unwilling involvement in a South American revolution. - 70
Variety
Allen and Mickey Rose have written some funny stuff, and Allen, both as director and actor, knows what to do with it. - 70
Chicago Reader
It is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. - 60
Empire
Although there are fine homages to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Eisenstein and Harold Lloyd here, this is a scattershot offering full of apolitical mockery. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Although some of the humor falls flat in this Allen comedy, his satire of revolutions and revolutionaries is perpetually topical. - 60
The Telegraph
Effectively the Marx brothers’ Duck Soup with a Cuban spin. It looks cheap, which is funny in itself, and satire and spoofery are crammed in until it bulges at the seams.
