Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
- escape
- fbi
- morocco
- wilderness
- camel
- sahara desert
- beautiful woman
- singer
- singer-songwriter
- buddy comedy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Warren Beatty
Lyle Rogers
Dustin Hoffman
Chuck Clarke
Isabelle Adjani
Shirra Assel
Charles Grodin
Jim Harrison
- Jack Weston — Marty Freed
- Tess Harper — Willa
- Carol Kane — Carol
- Aharon Ipalé — Emir Yousef
- Fijad Hageb — Abdul
- David Margulies — Mr. Clarke
- Rose Arrick — Mrs. Clarke
- Julie Garfield — Dorothy
- Cristine Rose — Siri Darma
- Robert V. Girolami — Bartender
- Abe Kroll — Mr. Thomopoulos
- Directed
- Elaine May
- Written
- Elaine May
Production
- Rating
- 4.6 / 10 · 171 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Delphi V
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
