Bananas ****

Director: Woody Allen

Year: 1971

Writers: Woody Allen, Mickey Rose

Cinematographer: Andrew M. Costikyan

Woody Allen's outrageous satire in which he accidentally becomes the reluctant dictator of a small South American country. Does a great job at cutting jokes about the way the US has a habit of assassinating democratically elected leaders and installing lunatic dictators in order to "protect the people against communism". Woody of course does what he does best, make fun of himself and people like him. As always, a few references to Swedes, Swedish film, or Ingmar Bergman directly.

I love the opening scene with the Wide World of Sports reporting live on the assassination of the president of "San Marcos."

Woody Allen ends up as the new president of his own "banana republic". Good laughs all the way through.