The Comedians

Overview

The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the philandering wife of a South American ambassador Peter Ustinov. She seeks solace in the arms of hotel-owner Brown (Richard Burton), whose main focus is to keep making improvements on his crumbling building. Alec Guinness plays Jones, the suave charlatan who claims to be a retired military officer to hide his vocation as a shadowy weapons dealer. Brown later gets a sudden twinge of morality and decides to go off to the mountains to help the rebels in their heroic cause. Watch for silent film great Lillian Gish as Mrs. Smith in this plodding drama.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/30/2020
UPC:	0883929713172
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English
Time:	2:32:00
Sales rank:	42,384

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Elizabeth Taylor	Martha Pineda
Richard Burton	Brown
Alec Guinness	Major H. O. Jones
Peter Ustinov	Ambassador Manuel Pineda
Paul Ford	Mr. Smith
Lillian Gish	Mrs. Smith
Georg Stanford Brown	Henri Philipot
James Earl Jones	Dr. Magiot
Robin Langford	Angelito
Zakes Mokae	Michel
Raymond St. Jacques	Capt. Concasseur
Douta Seck	Joseph
Roscoe Lee Browne	Petit Pierre
Cicely Tyson	Marie Therese
Gloria Foster	Mme. Philipot
Aliba Peters	Cesar,César
Laurence Rosenthal	Composer

Technical Credits

Graham Greene

Peter Glenville	Director,Producer
Graham Greene	Screenwriter