A professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game and falls in love with a woman whose revolutionary Cuban husband is arrested and tortured.
Sallow and overlong re-imagining of Casablanca to a pre-revolution era Cuba context, fails in nearly all departments.
Halliwell (no stars): "Inconsequential, rambling tale with no perceptible point."
Maltin **1/2: "No masterpiece, overly reminiscent of CASABLANCA, and a huge box-office disaster, but still unjustly maligned as a stinker. (..) Production designer's dream is very entertaining for about 90 minutes, then tails off. Similar to the underrated Richard Lester film CUBA."
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