We Were Strangers
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Among the grittiest, most offbeat films of Huston’s studio period, We Were Strangers depicts in documentary-like fashion a band of Cuban revolutionaries, led by an American expat (John Garfield) and a revenge-seeking girl (Jennifer Jones).
Among the grittiest, most offbeat films of Huston’s studio period, We Were Strangers stars Jennifer Jones as a Cuban girl who swears revenge when the chief of police murders her leftist brother. She falls in with a band of resistance fighters led by an American expat (John Garfield), helping them tunnel into a cemetery where they plan to set off a bomb at a state funeral. Taut, understated, and documentary-like at times, the film failed to connect with audiences on its release due to empathy for would-be assassins and its Hispanic supporting cast (including Pedro Armendáriz as the despicable police chief and standout Gilbert Roland as a guitar-strumming revolutionary).
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