Review – Pier 5, Havana

This movie has one interesting thing going: it was made in 1959, after Castro’s revolution succeeded but before the United States decided he had to go. As a result, the bad guys in this tale of intrigue are pro-Batista terrorists. But other than its status as a historical curiosity, there isn’t much to this. It’s a stale bit of hardboiled drama about a tough-as-nails guy trying to track down a missing friend. It has all the genre clichés, right down to the tough-as-nails love interest (and you’d have to be tough as nails to put up with having your boobs crammed into bras as ridiculous as the ones this poor actor had to wear). At least it was short. See if desperate