The withering Errol Flynn tried desperately to recast himself in the role of a heroic modern-day swashbuckler but only revealed his own dissipation in this sad semidocumentary of the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba by Castro's guerrilla forces. The film boasts "actual footage
shot during the star's real-life adventures with the Castro rebels"; it's actually nothing more than a sorry exit for a once-great film star. Flynn also chose to cast his 16-year-old girl friend, Beverly Aadland, as Beverly, a young American girl who travels to Havana before the fall of Batista's
regime in order to find her boy friend, Johnny (John MacKay). The star plays himself...
Released:
1959
Rated:
NR
Length:
68 mins