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We Were Strangers

An explosive story of violent lives...lived dangerously!

6.3(22)19491h 46m2

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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Language
English
  • cemetery
  • police corruption
  • political assassination
  • revolutionary
  • cuban american
  • havana, cuba
  • 1930s
  • war with fascism
  • brother murder
  • secret tunnel
  • romantic subplot
  • digging

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Director

John Huston

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR27 Apr 1949

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We Were Strangers was released on 27 April 1949.

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    talisencrw

    5/1/2016

    8/10

    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 go…

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