Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
- cuba
- politics
- revolution
- plantation
- mercenary
- cuban revolution
- havana
- cuba
- gunrunner
- gun runner
- soldier of fortune
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sean Connery
Maj. Robert Dapes
Brooke Adams
Alexandra Lopez de Pulido
Jack Weston
Larry Gutman
Héctor Elizondo
Capt. Raphael Ramirez
- Denholm Elliott — Donald Skinner
- Martin Balsam — Gen. Bello
- Chris Sarandon — Juan Pulido
- Danny De La Paz — Julio Mederos
- Lonette McKee — Therese Mederos
- Alejandro Rey — Faustino
- Louisa Moritz — Miss Wonderly
- Dave King — Miss Wonderly's Press Agent
- Walter Gotell — Don Jose Pulido
- David Rappaport — Jesus
- Wolfe Morris — Batista
- Directed
- Richard Lester
- Written
- Charles Wood
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 54 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
