A pretty awful movie but for Errol Flynn fans totally absorbing because it’s so random. Errol may have made a hash of his life, boozing and blowing his money and running around with a teenager, but you’ve got to give him credit for not going gently into that good night – I mean, running off to Cuba to hook up with Castro when he’s at death’s door, then making a documentary and film in support of the leader? It's bizarre.
Errol, looking very weary, plays himself, who goes to Cuba and meets with the rebels in some footage that is told with his own weazy-sounding voice over. Then the film goes to a story focusing on three Cuban rebel girls: Maria, an agent for the rebels who lives in Havana chased by agents), Jackie, a Cuban exile who smuggles some guns for the rebels, and Beverly Aadland (Errol’s real life gaol bait), whose boyfriend is fighting with the rebels. They all troop off into the hills; Errol arrives to do his story, gets injured in the leg (something which apparently really happened to Flynn in Cuba), then leaves.
Although Flynn wrote the story, he isn’t in it much and it would have been a better movie if he had (just like with another script he wrote, The Adventures of Captain Fabian). There is a pointless scene where the three girls go for a nude swim. Technically the film is poor - bad acting, lousy sound, nil production values. It’s just so weird to see such a pro-Castro film (even though he wasn’t a confirmed commie then) from a Hollywood movie star.
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