Graham greene the comedians review6/28/2023 Greene was eager to tell the world about the regime in Haiti and in doing so felt very real danger of reprisal from the dictator who was known for exacting revenge on his critics regardless of location. Set in Haiti but filmed in Dahomey (now Benin) it struck me more for its depiction of life under the Papa Doc Duvalier dictatorship than for the film as a whole. Knowing that Greene himself wrote the screenplay makes the broadside against Duvalier all the more understandable. Featuring a stellar cast of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guiness, Peter Ustinov and a young James Earl Jones it proved less of a hit than one would have predicted given the talent and funding it received. In 1967 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the film version of Graham Greene’s novel The Comedians. Review of the 1967 film of Graham Greene’s ‘The Comedians’…
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