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The interesting 1957 Havana-set American film noir crime film The Big Boodle is based on the 1954 novel by Robert Sylvester, and stars Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendariz, Rossana Rory and Gia Scala. It is shot in […]
Director John Huston’s 1949 We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as Tony Fenner, who helps a 1930s Cuba plot to overthrow the tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado by blowing up a cemetery at […]
20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]
Producer-director Arne Glimcher’s brilliant, beguling 1992 musical drama The Mambo Kings is the musical film as a style object. Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas star in a soulful love story with music about two brothers […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1956 romantic adventure movie Santiago stars Alan Ladd and Lloyd Nolan as Cash Adams and Clay Pike, rival gunrunners aboard an old-time paddle steamer at the time of the Cuban war of […]
Director Richard Lester’s 1979 adventure Cuba stars Sean Connery as retired British army Major Robert Dapes, a mercenary who comes to Havana to serve as a military training adviser to the crumbling regime of General […]
Joseph H Lewis’s 1950 MGM black and white thriller film A Lady without Passport starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak is a heady brew, mixing romantic adventure, film noir and crime drama. Director Joseph H […]