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Pier 5, Havana
Directed byEdward L. Cahn
Written byJoseph Hoffman
Robert E. Kent
Produced byRobert E. Kent
Edward Small (executive)
StarringCameron Mitchell
Allison Hayes
CinematographyMaury Gertsman
Edited byGrant Whytock
Music byPaul Sawtell
Bert Shefter
Production
company
Robert E. Kent Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • October 1959 (1959-10)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pier 5, Havana is a 1959 American Neo-film-noir , action, adventure, mystery, thriller crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn starring Cameron Mitchell and Allison Hayes, with the unique distinction of being perhaps the only American drama filmed in Cuba just after Fidel Castro's revolution.[1][2][3]

Plot summary

Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) fights to protect Fidel Castro from dangerous pro-Batista counterrevolutionaries. Steve comes to Cuba to find his friend Hank Miller (Logan Field) who has been missing for a while. It turns out that he has been captured by Fernando (Eduardo Noriega), the leader of the pro-Batista forces, who needs Hank to convert their airplanes into bombers. Steve's former girlfriend Monica (Allison Hayes) is now Mrs. Hank Miller.

'Pier 5, Havana' is not the only American movie filmed in Cuba after the revolution. The Errol Flynn semi-documentary Cuban Rebel Girls, and the black comedy Our Man in Havana were also shot on location in the island post-revolution.

Cast

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmovie.com/work/pier-5-havana-106088. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 165889907. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "HERE BE DRAGONS: seamus MacCall traces the ancestry of the Dalkey Monster". The Irish Times. Nov 23, 1959. p. 6.