Columbia Pictures
Directed by John Huston
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Columbia TriStar)
Cuban revolutionaries dig a tunnel from a house in Havana to a cemetery across the street, hoping to kill politicians at a funeral. Young Jennifer Jones is pulled into the plan when her brother is killed for distributing anti-government leaflets. Her transformation from innocent bank teller to machine-gun toting revolutionary is the heart of the film. John Garfield is their leader who hatches the plan. Gilbert Roland almost steals the film as a guitar strumming member of their cell. It's a little too obvious the stars were never in Havana by the overuse of back projection as a substitute for location shooting.
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