There has not been a Hollywood movie made in Singapore since 1978, a place that cries out as a movie location. Rather like Kerala, it was the authorities who were responsible for preventing movie production, but it was the deliciously nefarious antics of US director Peter Bogdanovich that forced them to do so. Saint Jack was a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux that is set in Singapore and tells the life of one Jack Flowers, a pimp who sets up his own bordello and consequently clashes with Chinese triads. A good read, no doubt, but not the type of Singapore the authorities wanted to portray, who knew about the book and had no intention it being filmed in the island-state. Full Story
