Explosion in Cuba (1979)

Explosion in Cuba: Directed by Richard Lester. With Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo. A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista’s Army against Castro’s guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

“(Some Spoilers) The days are not only numbered for the year 1958 but also for the Batista regime running Cuba as well. With the Cuban rebels lead by the u0026quot;Bearded Oneu0026quot;, Fidel Castro, streaming out of the Mestra Serria Mountains and linking up with thousands of supporters in the big cities like Havana and Santiago. Batista and his gang are making every attempt to get out of the island with all the loot that can carry before the rebels take over the Havana airport, Batista u0026amp; Co.only escape route, and put them in front of a firing squad. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the middle of all this chaos British mercenary Maj.Robert Dapes, Sean Connery, is hired by the Batista government to help steam the rebel tide. Arriving in Havana Robert finds that thereu0026#39;s more then a revolution going on in Cuba. Thereu0026#39;s the stunning and beautiful Alexandra Lopez de Pulido, Brooks Adams,there for whom heu0026#39;s carried a torch for over fifteen years, since he was a British soldier in North Africa back in WWII.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRobert realizes right away that the situation is hopeless for the government forces and plans to get out of the country as soon as he can. Yet heu0026#39;s torn with fleeing Cuba an at the same time leaving his former, and now rediscovered, lover Alexandra behind. Alexandra is married to wealthy and politically connected Cuban Juan Pulido, Chris Sarandon,who besides being a good for nothing spoiled rich boy is also cheating on her. Juan is having an affair with the sexy Therese Mederos, Lon Etta McKee, who works in his cigar factory as a tobacco roller. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWith everything falling apart in the confusion Thereu0026#39;s younger brother Julio, Danny De La Paz, whou0026#39;s a Castro supporter. Julio is out to kill Juan for his disrespecting his sister by having her treated like sheu0026#39;s a hooker. Robert tries to get Alexandra to come with him out of the war-torn island nation but she decides to stay in her beloved Cuba and face whatever the coming Castro regime has to offer her. With Robert leaving on the last plane out of the now rebel-controlled Havana Airport we see Alexandra, on the ground, in tears watching him leave Cuba as well as her heart forever. As for Alexandrau0026#39;s cheating husband Juan he getu0026#39;s just whatu0026#39;s coming to him at the conclusion of the movie. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film u0026quot;Cubau0026quot; shows the audience just how things were on that island nation back in late 1958 and up to New Years Day 1959 when the Castro rebels took over the country. The last days of the Batista Regime were so weird and surrealistic that most of the people there couldnu0026#39;t fathom just what was happening and acted as if everything was just normal; as their world was slowly collapsing all around them.”