A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
Vince Barnett
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Frank Brownlee
- Drunk
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
- Detective Mac
- (uncredited)
Blythe Daley
- Dance Hall Girl
- (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
- Marine
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film now exists in a 4k digital restoration, shown at London's National Film Theatre in February 2017; it's in superb condition, sharp, well graded and not a mark on it. It really does look as if it was shot yesterday. The sound is extremely good for the period; the stunning opening tracking show has some complex mixing as the camera tracks past various bars and different bands are heard playing (rather like the restored opening to Touch of Evil (1958)).
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are etched into the sand of a beach alcove, paging continually with each new incoming wave.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cuban Love Song (1931)
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Outstanding pre-code melodrama cinched Phillips Holmes as a matinée idol
This outstanding pre-code melodrama cinched Phillips Holmes as a matinée idol. It's one of the earliest and certainly the best rendition of the Frankie and Johnny story...Frankie (Helen Twelvetrees) is the young prostitute on the Havana waterfront who is exploited by her nasty pimp (Cortez)and befriended, then beloved by an innocently angelic, poor young sailor (Phillips Holmes)(He even sings for her!) The Cuban government of the time protested the sleazy portrayal of its major port and the film was withdrawn after it's initial release. Thanks to the Hays code,it was never seen again and languished in film vaults. Holmes later starred in many more films in his tragically short career; "Broken Lullaby","Stolen Heaven", and "An American Tragedy" notably among them, but it was this film that raised him to luminary status. The gallant quality of the two young leads to rise above their tawdry environment and depressing circumstances is somehow still very touching and the film is an exceptional example 1930 film-making.
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- Apr 12, 2004
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Su hombre
- Filming locations
- Havana, Cuba(atmosphere shots)
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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