which could have been the working title of almost any picture Huston made. The first endeavor of his and Sam Spiegels independent Horizon company, its a very offbeat film that deserves to be better known. In 1933, an American leftist (John Garfield) returns to his native Cuba to help topple a dictator. Thrown together with a diverse band of co-conspiratorsincluding a recently radicalized young woman (Jennifer Jones) and an endearingly lusty proletarian (Gilbert Roland)he hatches a macabre plot for planting a bomb under El Presidente and his cabinet. Have no doubt that, in finest Hustonian tradition, the quest will trace a twisted itinerary, with several grotesque detours, to the most bitterly ironical of endings. The casting of Garfield, soon to be a victim of the Hollywood blacklist, retrospectively darkens this HUAC-era production.

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