China Valdés
Jennifer Jones
China Valdés
We Were Strangers
“An explosive story of violent lives...lived dangerously!”
6.1
1949
1h 46m
DramaThrillerAdventureRomance
Director: John Huston
Overview
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.
Cast
Tony Fenner
John Garfield
Tony Fenner
Armando Ariete
Pedro Armendáriz
Armando Ariete
Guillermo Montilla
Gilbert Roland
Guillermo Montilla
Chief
Ramon Novarro
Chief
Miguel
Wally Cassell
Miguel
Ramón Sánchez
David Bond
Ramón Sánchez
Toto
José Pérez
Toto
M. Seymour
Morris Ankrum
M. Seymour
Consuelo Valdés (uncredited)
Lelia Goldoni
Consuelo Valdés (uncredited)
Señor Muñoz (uncredited)
John Huston
Señor Muñoz (uncredited)
Reviews
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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.
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