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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1953 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381171228 |
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Customer Reviews of Cuban Story
Used car salesman In a way an interesting film, more due to the circumstances when it was shot. I have never seen any Errol Flynn movie, but it is clear that he should have stayed away from doing anything else than rephrasing manuscripts prepared by the more gifted. The scenes might be of some historical interest, but similar (scenes) can be seen in other movies, with competent analyses.
The movie doesn't explain anything whatsoever about the revolution and doesn't provide any insights - it is obviously made by people not up to the task. Like a used car salesman explaining the functionality of a Boing 747.
Take your hard earned money and spend it on something else like the film "Fidel". I can only recommend it for nostalgia. The only thing possible to learn is about the dubious character Flynn himself.
A QUIRKY LOOK AT A FAILED PROMISE
By the late 50s, a clean-shaven Fidel Castro was considered a hero by most Americans when he challenged the corrupt Batista regime. And the once dashing and beautiful (there's no other word) Errol Flynn was a burned out, drug-addled alcoholic has-been actor who was in Cuba with his 15 year old girlfriend Beverly Aadland making a grade Z flick called "Cuban Rebel Girls."
Flynn ingratiated himself with Castro to get needed help to complete his guerilla girl flick. Somewhere along the way, Havana theater owner Victor Phalen and Flynn made "Cuban Story."
It appears there's shared footage and music between the two films. Flynn, with mustache, introduces the documentary and later is seen, without mustache but with Aadland -- arriving at George Raft's Havana nightclub in a white, big-finned Caddy.
Phalen narrates the reasonably tight 50 minute film that purports to document the revolution and charismatic Castro's promise of a return to democracy. But whoa, 43 years later Castro still rules -- much like Batista -- and there's yet a free election.
Near the end of of the movie, Flynn reads a telegram from Castro welcoming Americans to visit Cuba, the land of "freedom and liberty."
This odd, pro Castro film was supposedly kept in a British vault for the last 40 odd years. The suspect liner notes seem to reflect biographer Charles Higham's false view that Flynn was a traitor.
But in time's clear eyed rear view, this bizarre film is a highly entertaining new genre -- cinema irony. Off-beat and weirdly meaningful.
A lost gem...
Lost for many years this short film, just over one hour, is great for students of Cuban history and Flynn fans. Loads of long lost footage of the revolution in Havana and beyond. As a journalist resident in Havana from 1993-1999 it hold special interest to me as I can see my old apartment building there!
A great buy for those interested in the subject or the film maker - less so for the general viewer.