
Pier 5, Havana
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.
Plot
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.
More details
author | Robert E. Kent |
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contentLocation | Cuba |
director | Edward L. Cahn |
editor | Grant Whytock |
genre | action adventure crime drama mystery thriller |
keywords | batista capture cuban rebel girls eduardo noriega errol flynn fidel castro fulgencio batista our man in havana shot on location |
musicBy | Paul Sawtell |
producer | Edward Small |
productionCompany | Robert E. Kent Productions |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | black comedy noir |