Blu-ray Review – Saint Jack

Before 1979's "Saint Jack" was put into production, director Peter Bogdanovich was in a difficult position career-wise. After breaking through with "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon," the helmer harpooned his popularity with the flops "Nickelodeon" and "At Long Last Love." Requiring a centering of his moviemaking chakras, Bogdanovich ran away to Singapore for "Saint Jack," which erases any hope for Old Hollywood glamour and Americana to deliver a complex tale of a pimp inching closer to trouble, keeping star Ben Gazzara on the move as the locations are explored in tremendous detail. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com