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We Were Strangers

"An explosive story of violent lives...lived dangerously!"

User Score19 votes
61%6.1/10
Release1949
Runtime1H 46M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased

Synopsis

China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.

Principal Cast8

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Director

John Huston

John Huston

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Certification

NR

Keywords

cemeterypolitical assassinationrevolutionarycuban americanhavana, cuba1930swar with fascismbrother murdersecret tunnelromantic subplotcorrupt police officialsdigging

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talisencrw8/10

It was unique to come across this early Huston work. It's weird that today, three generations later, when Scarlett Johansson gets in trouble for being cast as an Asian, that this was long the practice. I've seen star Jennifer Jones here as a Cuban, and later in 'love is a Many-Splendored Thing' as Eurasian. She and John Garfield (himself playing a Cuban-born American businessman and revolutionary supporter) had good chemistry, and the film was finely made. Worth purchasing and rewatching.

May 1, 2016

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