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Affair in Havana
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLaslo Benedek
Screenplay byMaurice Zimm
Produced byRichard Goldstone
StarringJohn Cassavetes
Raymond Burr
CinematographyAlan Stensvold
Music byErnest Gold
Production
companies
Allied Artists Pictures
Dudley Productions
Distributed byAllied Artists Pictures
Release date
  • October 1, 1957 (1957-10-01) (United States)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Affair in Havana (1957) is a crime film noir directed by Laszlo Benedek and written by Maurice Zimm. It stars Raymond Burr and John Cassavetes.[1]

The film is about a piano player who falls in love with a crippled man's wife.

Plot

Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair.

Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub. Mallabee secretly is aware of this, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife.

The twisted mind of Mallabee has come up with a scheme in which Lorna kills him. She won't do it, but a trusted servant, Valdes, does cause his death by drowning. But the relationship between Nick and Lorna comes to an unhappy end.

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