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Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.
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Anthony Cardoza
- Landis
- (as Tony Cardoza)
- …
Tom Hanson
- Bailey Chastain
- (as Tom Hansen)
Frederic Downs
- Tinsley
- (as Fredric Downs)
James H. Russell
- Kelly
- (as Jamie Russell)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaJohn Carradine sings the title track.
- GoofsOne of the American soldiers shot dead by the Cuban firing squad reappears minutes later as a Cuban guard.
- Alternate versionsMany variant prints of this film exist. Missing from most prints, but included in the widely distributed Mystery Science Theater version are scenes that feature a longer opening, a scene where Landis and Cook drive their truck to a gas station and ask for work, a longer invasion of Cuba sequence, an extended scene with the blind woman, a longer train riding sequence, and an extended scene where Griffin and Landis get into a fight over Landis's ring.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Red Zone Cuba (1994)
- SoundtracksNight Train to Mundo Finé
Written by Ray Gregory
Music played by Ray Gregory and the Melmen
Sung by John Carradine
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This movie hurts.
This is a truly awful movie. Keeping your attention on the dialogue is harder than holding a bar of wet soap. Sitting through that endless scene in the bunkhouse is like having a fifteen-minute continuous blackout; the moment it's over, you immediately forget what just happened. It is physically impossible to stay focused on this movie for more than about three words-- it's that painful.
That's not the only reason why this movie is impossible to comprehend. No scene in this movie seems to follow from anything else. Many scenes end with a shot of the main characters (who seem to appear in one shot, then vanish in the next, then reappear again as if nothing had happened) in a stationary plane; however, since the plane is never shown flying, it's impossible to tell if they have actually left or arrived. It doesn't help that every shot in the movie (including those supposedly in Cuba) was taken in the same small American town.
The movie begins with what is apparently a runaway convict, played by the flabby Mr. Francis himself. He gets together with about seven other people and they decide to invade Cuba (???), which actually doesn't seem like such a bad idea since as far as the movie's concerned the total population of Cuba is three soldiers and a man with a really fake beard (Castro.) This somehow gets around to a tungsten mine (back in America? who knows or cares?) and a man thrown into a well for no apparent reason.
This movie hurts. After you see this movie, you'll want to hurt it too. It's actually worth seeing just to experience the sheer awfulness of it; if you like bad movies, you'll get a laugh out of watching the line flubs, scene goofs, continuity jumps and gaping plot holes. But this movie is not funny so much as just pathetic.
That's not the only reason why this movie is impossible to comprehend. No scene in this movie seems to follow from anything else. Many scenes end with a shot of the main characters (who seem to appear in one shot, then vanish in the next, then reappear again as if nothing had happened) in a stationary plane; however, since the plane is never shown flying, it's impossible to tell if they have actually left or arrived. It doesn't help that every shot in the movie (including those supposedly in Cuba) was taken in the same small American town.
The movie begins with what is apparently a runaway convict, played by the flabby Mr. Francis himself. He gets together with about seven other people and they decide to invade Cuba (???), which actually doesn't seem like such a bad idea since as far as the movie's concerned the total population of Cuba is three soldiers and a man with a really fake beard (Castro.) This somehow gets around to a tungsten mine (back in America? who knows or cares?) and a man thrown into a well for no apparent reason.
This movie hurts. After you see this movie, you'll want to hurt it too. It's actually worth seeing just to experience the sheer awfulness of it; if you like bad movies, you'll get a laugh out of watching the line flubs, scene goofs, continuity jumps and gaping plot holes. But this movie is not funny so much as just pathetic.
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- $30,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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