Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford argued at length with the US State Department about gaining permission to bypass their embargo … More
Tag: March 2014
Scene Location: ‘Our Man in Havana’ (1959)
Filmed by a British company just after the communist victory of 1959, Our Man presents the last days of the capitalist … More
Scene Location: ‘Weekend in Havana’ (1941)
As with most travelogue musicals and holiday romances to emerge from the Classic Hollywood system, Weekend in Havana was shot predominately … More
Scene Location: ‘Havana Widows’ (1933)
Havana Widows is a classic pre-code comedy ‘sex film’ from the Hollywood studio system, where the titillation of the story … More
Scene Location: ‘Wreck of the Battleship “Maine” and Morro Castle, Havana Harbor’ (1898)
Due to the rising commercial demand for dramatic content in the new medium of film, William Paley was commissioned in … More