It's probable that this enterprise planted the seed that became White Hunter, Black Heart, throwing as it did screenwriter Peter Viertel and John Huston together several years before The African Queen. I seem to be in a minority here as most comments are highly favourable. I concede that it was brave in the extreme to make a pro-revolution movie at the time they did but other than that I find it on the dull side. Garfield especially is muted virtually throughout which goes completely against his screen persona of the virile, vitriolic short-fused hero and there is virtually no chemistry between him and Jennifer Jones, who comes close to reprising her Duel In The Sun shoot-out in the last reel. Gilbert Roland takes what acting honours there are in what for me is a curio rather than a lost gem.
Review of We Were Strangers
