superb comic farce from paul mazursky and richard dreyfus and play jack noah a fairly successful actor who be on location shoot a film in a fictitious latin american banana republic parador and rule by the fascist and alfonse sims who unfortunately have succumb of a heart attack after indulge in too many local cocktail . raul julia play the oily chief of police who force the reluctant noah to impersonate the just decease dictator who noah bear a remarkable resemblance and sonia braga play the dictator glamorously lusty mistress and who give noah a few lesson in how to act like a dictator and jonathan winter literally round off the cast a a cia man in parador posing a a hammock salesman . can noah win over the people of parador . and hold off the rebel . and give the performance of a lifetime without lose his in the process . sammy davis jnr and have a cameo a himself who amusingly croon the national anthem of parador as well a begin the beguine and frog number one ( fernando rey pop up a a kindly servant and charo be also on hand a a busty maid and the score by maurice jarre and be excellent .