Documentary about the production behind The Comedians (1967), which was filmed in Benin (what was then called Dahomey).Documentary about the production behind The Comedians (1967), which was filmed in Benin (what was then called Dahomey).Documentary about the production behind The Comedians (1967), which was filmed in Benin (what was then called Dahomey).
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Georg Stanford Brown
- Self
- (uncredited)
Roscoe Lee Browne
- Self
- (uncredited)
Richard Burton
- Self
- (uncredited)
Lillian Gish
- Self
- (uncredited)
Peter Glenville
- Self
- (uncredited)
Graham Greene
- Self
- (uncredited)
Alec Guinness
- Self
- (uncredited)
James Earl Jones
- Self
- (uncredited)
Raymond St. Jacques
- Self
- (uncredited)
Elizabeth Taylor
- Self
- (uncredited)
Peter Ustinov
- Self
- (uncredited)
Karl Weber
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis making-of trailer for The Comedians (1967) during the narrator's naming of the film's cast includes a piece of incidental drumbeat music called "Cuban Presto" by Syd Dale. While it wasn't used in the actual movie, a short time later, it was used by New York City's WPIX-TV for the theme to their movie bumper opening on late nights for "The Channel 11 Film Festival", in which variably sized squares containing drawings of famous film stars would momentarily pop up to the fast tempo of the music.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Comedians (1967)
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Not so much a film about Dahomey and more a film trying to get you to go see "The Comedians".
"The Comedians" was a big financial bust of a film back in 1967. And, if you watch the DVD for the film, you'll get this little featurette as an added extra. While it purports to be about Dahomey (part of modern Benin in West Africa), it's really a film about the movie in order to get you to go to the movie. But as I said, the film lost money and so apparently "The Comedians in Africa" didn't help very much!
The short talks about how "The Comedians" was made there because there is no way they actually could have filmed the movie in Haiti...where it was supposed to be set. There are some similarities and the folks of Dahomey speak French....though I didn't believe the narrator as he said how perfectly suited Dahomey was as a substitute for Haiti!
Overall, mildly interesting though considering it's about a film that is pretty mediocre, there's probably not much need to see either...especially "The Comedians in Africa" since it's really just a lengthy ad!
The short talks about how "The Comedians" was made there because there is no way they actually could have filmed the movie in Haiti...where it was supposed to be set. There are some similarities and the folks of Dahomey speak French....though I didn't believe the narrator as he said how perfectly suited Dahomey was as a substitute for Haiti!
Overall, mildly interesting though considering it's about a film that is pretty mediocre, there's probably not much need to see either...especially "The Comedians in Africa" since it's really just a lengthy ad!
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- planktonrules
- May 6, 2021
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- Runtime11 minutes
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