{"id":16281,"date":"2011-03-16T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16281"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:57:20","slug":"cuban-rebel-girls-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16281","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;When you become a rebel, you give up a lot of things that make a feminine life easier.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Poster-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Poster-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Poster-82x128.jpg 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Poster.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA journalist (Errol Flynn) in Cuba during Castro&#8217;s revolution narrates the story of two &#8220;rebel girls&#8221; &#8212; including a naive American (Beverly Aadland) searching for her boyfriend (John McKay).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Errol Flynn Films<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nErrol Flynn&#8217;s final film before his premature death from alcoholism at the age of 50 was this true historical oddity: a pseudo-documentary about Castro&#8217;s revolution in Cuba, centering its &#8220;narrative&#8221; (I use that word loosely) on the travails of a na\u00efve American beautician (Flynn&#8217;s own under-aged paramour at the time, Beverly Aadland) who heads to Cuba to locate her rebel boyfriend and quickly finds herself a sympathizer in the cause. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-1536x858.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland-483x270.png 483w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Aadland.png 1731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess there&#8217;s more to this war stuff than I thought&#8221;, she notes &#8212; with typically brilliant insight &#8212; at one point. Unfortunately, <em>Cuban Rebel Girls<\/em> is really, really bad &#8212; but never in an amusing way. At just an hour&#8217;s length, it feels far too long, and viewers will be hard pressed to pay attention past the first 15 minutes or so. Poor Aadland can&#8217;t act to save her life, and Flynn (playing a variation on his later self &#8212; apparently he owned property in Cuba and was a genuine supporter of the revolution) only appears on-screen during the film&#8217;s bookends, looking and sounding somewhat disoriented. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-1536x857.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn-484x270.png 484w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Flynn.png 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A bit of trivia:<\/strong> While making <em>Cuban Rebel Girls<\/em>, Flynn simultaneously cobbled together a shoddy documentary called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0321867\/\"><em>Cuban Story<\/em><\/a>, which I have no intention of checking out, though it was apparently released on DVD recently, for those with insatiable curiosity.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An all-too-brief brief snippet of a most interesting folk tune, played about 35 minutes into the film for just a few seconds (I&#8217;m really stretching here)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song-479x270.png 479w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cuban-Rebel-Girls-Folk-Song.png 1899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though I suppose it&#8217;s worth a cursory glance (two minutes or so will do) simply for its status as an historical oddity. Listed as a Cult Classic in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052717\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1959\/12\/26\/archives\/article-4-no-title.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=5592&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoopy.com\/cubanrebelgirls.htm\">Scoopy&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When you become a rebel, you give up a lot of things that make a feminine life easier.&#8221; Synopsis: A journalist (Errol Flynn) in Cuba during Castro&#8217;s revolution narrates the story of two &#8220;rebel girls&#8221; &#8212; including a naive American (Beverly Aadland) searching for her boyfriend (John McKay). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cuba Errol Flynn Films Revolutionaries Review: Errol Flynn&#8217;s final film before his premature death from alcoholism at the age of 50 was this true historical oddity: a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16281\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63325,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions\/63325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}