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Cuba

Year:

1979

Duration:

122 min

Genres:

Adventure | Romance | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

5.6

Director:

Richard Lester

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1979-12-21

Filming Locations: Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $527,540 (USA) (23 December 1979)

Gross: $527,540 (USA) (23 December 1979)

Cast

Actor

Character

Anthony Pullen Shaw

Sean Connery

Maj. Robert Dapes

Brooke Adams

Alexandra Lopez de Pulido

Jack Weston

Larry Gutman

Hector Elizondo

Capt. Raphael Ramirez

Denholm Elliott

Donald Skinner

Martin Balsam

Gen. Bello

Chris Sarandon

Juan Pulido

Danny De La Paz

Julio Mederos

Lonette McKee

Therese Mederos

Alejandro Rey

Faustino

Louisa Moritz

Miss Wonderly

Dave King

Miss Wonderly's Press Agent

Walter Gotell

Don Jose Pulido

David Rappaport

Jesus

Wolfe Morris

Gen. Fulgencio Batista

Michael Lees

Roger Maxwell-Lafroy

Tony Mathews

Carrillo

Roger Lloyd Pack

Nunez (as Roger Lloyd-Pack)

Leticia Garrido

Celia

Maria Charles

Senora Pulido

Pauline Peart

Dolores

Anna Nicholas

Maria

Earl Cameron

Col. Leyva

John Morton

Gary

Stefan Kalipha

Ramon, Cigar Factory Foreman

Raul Newney

Painter

Ram John Holder

Fat Sergeant

James Turner

Pulido's Chauffeur

Fidel Castro

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ana Obregón

Woman (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Director Richard Lester had previously worked with Sean Connery on Robin and Marian (1976).

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At around the time of release, Executive Producer Denis O'Dell once said of using Spain to portray Cuba: "Cuba has changed radically in twenty years, But Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz and Seville, which was a major source of Cuban architecture in the first place, have hardly been touched by time."

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Director Richard Lester once described this movie as "A political film within which no one speaks about politics and a love story in which no one speaks about love."

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Goofs

The story is supposed to take place in 1959 but the limousine is a 1961 Chrysler.

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When they cut to the Hotel Roma about forty five minutes in, the television said Channel 6, it should have said Chanel 6. It was filmed in Spain, and the movie was about Cuba.

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At the start of the film, a subtitle announces "1959", indicating the year in which the story takes place. However the actual date of the last event of the film - Fidel Castro riding into Havana, marking the completion of the Revolution - was 1 January 1959. All of the preceding events must have occurred in 1958.

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Quotes

Maj. Robert Dapes: [confronting a woman guerilla] It's a girl! I want to question her.

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Juan Pulido: It's not like you to be so insulting!

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Maj. Robert Dapes: [to bellboy in cheap hotel] I want a room with water which is sometimes hot. If there's a bath to put it in, I wouldn't mind.

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