Affair in Havana | |
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Directed by | Laslo Benedek |
Produced by | Richard Goldstone |
Screenplay by | Maurice Zimm |
Starring |
John Cassavetes Raymond Burr |
Music by | Ernest Gold |
Cinematography | Alan Stensvold |
Production
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Allied Artists Pictures
Dudley Productions |
Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
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77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Affair in Havana (1957) is a crime film noir directed by Laszlo Benedek and written by Maurice Zimm. It stars Raymond Burr and John Cassavetes.
The film is about a piano player who falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair.
Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub. Mallabee secretly is aware of this, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife.
The twisted mind of Mallabee has come up with a scheme in which Lorna kills him. She won't do it, but a trusted servant, Valdes, does cause his death by drowning. But the relationship between Nick and Lorna comes to an unhappy end.