Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán
Defining moment: Two twentieth century icons unite as Woody is menaced on the subway by none other than a very young, almost fresh-faced Sylvester Stallone.
Before he became overly preoccupied with love and death, Woody Allen was primarily a gag man, and the jokes are never more silly and inspired as they are in this early directorial effort. Mixing silent cinema buffoonery with the absurdity of his '60s stand-up routines, the movie sees Woody head down south to join a revolution in a small fictional Latin American country. With Woody adopting radical politics to win the affections of right-on Louise Lasser, ‘Bananas’ is Allen’s most avowedly Marxist film – Groucho, that is, not Karl. Edward Lawrenson
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