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The Night They Raided Minsky's is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 22 december 1968 with Jason Robards

The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)

The Night They Raided Minsky's
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Released in USA 22 december 1968
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating59% 2.9988852.9988852.9988852.9988852.998885

The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925. The film is based on the novel by Rowland Barber, published in 1960.

Synopsis

Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland), an innocent Amish girl from rural Pennsylvania, arrives in New York's Lower East Side, hoping to make it as a dancer. Rachel's dances are based on Bible stories. She auditions at Minsky's Burlesque, but her dances are much too dull and chaste for the bawdy show. But then Billy Minsky (Elliott Gould) and the show's jaded straight man, Raymond Paine (Jason Robards), concoct a plan to foil moral crusader Vance Fowler (Denholm Elliott), who is intent on shutting down the theater. Minsky publicizes Rachel as the notorious Madamoiselle Fifi, performing the "dance that drove a million Frenchmen wild." This will invite a raid by Fowler and the police. But Billy will let Rachel perform her innocuous Bible dances, thus humiliating Fowler.

Actors

Jason Robards

(Raymond Paine)Britt Ekland

(Rachel Schpitendavel)Bert Lahr

(Professor Spats)Norman Wisdom

(Chick Williams)Forrest Tucker

(Trim Houlihan)
And :
Harry Andrews
Joseph Wiseman
Denholm Elliott
Elliott Gould
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