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- Release Date: 1949
- Runtime: 106 min
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Starring: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland ... see all
- Director: John Huston
- Plot: 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.... Read more
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We Were Strangers ends in a frantic, slightly existential machine gun battle that plays as a precursor to bloody last stands in later violent epics like The Wild Bunch .
Even though it's eventually revealed that Tony has a personal stake almost as strong as China's, the movie absolves America of any involvement in the repressive Cuban dictatorship of Gerardo Machado.
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Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as revolutionary-minded Tony Fenner. A member of an underground movement dedicated to toppling the despotic Machado regime, Tony supervises the booby-trapping of a cemetery where several top Cuban... ... Full Article