We Were Strangers

1949

1h 46m

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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.

Directors

John Huston

Writers

Peter Viertel(screenplay by)

John Huston(screenplay by)

Robert Sylvester(novel by)

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Jennifer Jones

John Garfield

Pedro Armendáriz

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China Valdés

Tony Fenner

Armando Ariete

Guillermo Montilla

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Miguel

Ramón Sánchez

Toto

M. Seymour

Consuelo Valdés (uncredited)

John Huston

Señor Muñoz (uncredited)

Directors

John Huston

Writers

Peter Viertel(screenplay by)

John Huston(screenplay by)

Robert Sylvester(novel by)

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8/10

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.

talisencrw01 May, 2016