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We Were Strangers. We Were Strangers is a 1949 American adventure drama film directed by John Huston and starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield. Set in 1933, the film concerns a group of revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Cuban government of Gerardo Machado. The story is based loosely on an episode in Robert Sylvester's novel Rough ...
We Were Strangers: Directed by John Huston. With Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland. In 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
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- Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Huston
- 1949-04-27
“We Were Strangers” is a film with a reputation so red, it seems like a mistake that its specs are listed in black and white. “Strangers” - so blatantly sympathetic to the Cuban revolutionary cause - forced director John Huston to create an independent production company just to distribute the work; which, also starred favorite McCarthy Hearings target John Garfield.
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- Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures
- John Huston
NR 1 hr 46 min Apr 27th, 1949 Thriller, Drama, Romance, Adventure. China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and ...
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- Jennifer Jones
- John Huston
- Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures
Feb 13, 2007 · John Huston first broke into independent production with We Were Strangers, a 1949 political thriller. Although the film was a major box office failure (his first big flop), it was in many ways ahead of its time, both as an independent production and as a barely disguised indictment of U.S. foreign policy.
- John Huston, Carl Hiecke, Gladys Hill
- Jennifer Jones
Other articles where We Were Strangers is discussed: John Huston: Films of the 1940s: …was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.
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We Were Strangers is a 1949 American adventure drama film directed by John Huston and starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield. Set in 1933, the film concerns a group of revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Cuban government of Gerardo Machado. The story is based loosely on an episode in Robert Sylvester's novel Rough Sketch and draws on ...
