Review – We Were Strangergs

Terrorism must have been a much different thing back in the middle of the 20th century. The protagonists in this John Huston production from 1949 are revolutionaries plotting to end the Machado regime in Cuba by blowing up the President and most of his cabinet. Figuring all the most important dignitaries will show up for a funeral of a prominent politician, they plant a bomb in the cemetery where an important legislator will probably be buried if oh say he just happened to die. Inspired by an agitator from the United States (John Garfield), a small cadre with no previous connections to one another labor to tunnel under the grave site from the basement of a house across the street owned by a woman with a vendetta against the government (Jennifer Jones). Political weirdness aside, this is a run-of-the-mill thriller. Mildly amusing