We Were Strangers (1949)

★ 6.1 1h 46m IMDb

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.

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Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones as China Valdés Died 2009 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Phylis Lee Isley (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), better known by her stage name Jennifer Jones, was an American actress. A five-time Academy Award nominee,...
John Garfield
John Garfield as Tony Fenner Died 1952 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in Depression-era New Y...
Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz as Armando Ariete Died 1963 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the...
Gilbert Roland
Gilbert Roland as Guillermo Montilla Died 1994 · Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned...
Ramon Novarro
Ramon Novarro as Chief Died 1968 · Durango City, Durango, Mexico Mexico native Ramon Novarro (born Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego, February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968) was a Hollywood film and television actor. He was a major star and matinee idol of 1920s Silent through...
Wally Cassell
Wally Cassell as Miguel Died 2015 · Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Wally Cassell was born on March 3, 1912 in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy as Oswaldo Castellano. He was an actor, known for White Heat (1949), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Story of G.I. Joe (1945).

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talisencrw 8/10 May 01, 2016
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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