Cuba (film)

Cuba
Theatrical release poster, artwork by Ted CoConis
Directed byRichard Lester
Written byCharles Wood
Produced byArlene Sellers
Alex Winitsky
StarringSean Connery
Brooke Adams
Jack Weston
Hector Elizondo
Denholm Elliott
Martin Balsam
Chris Sarandon
Alejandro Rey
Lonette McKee
CinematographyDavid Watkin
Edited byJohn Victor-Smith
Music byPatrick Williams
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Holmby Pictures
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • December 21, 1979 (1979-12-21)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7 million
Box office$5.6 million

Cuba is a 1979 American adventure thriller film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, portraying the build-up to the 1958 Cuban Revolution, filmed in Panavision.[1][N 1] Neil Sinyard in his The Films of Richard Lester wrote that the film, "developed originally out of an idea of Lester's own, inspired by a conversation with a friend about great modern leaders. From there, Lester's thoughts began to formulate in complex ways around Castro and Casablanca (1942), and out of that audaciously bizarre combination comes Cuba.[2]

  1. ^ Ferguson 2004, p. 257.
  2. ^ LoBianco, Lorraine. "Articles: 'Cuba'(1979)." TCM, 2019. Retrieved: August 12, 2019.


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