punctuated by throwaway bits." The review of Cuba by Vincent Canby in The New York Times was more typical of the critical responses. He wrote "Richard Lester's 'Cuba', which is set in Cuba late in 1958, in the weeks immediately preceding the triumph of Fidel Castro's revolution, is a straight-faced romantic melodrama that's almost as lunatic as Mr. Lester's 'Help!' and 'How I Won the War', both written by Charles Wood, who also wrote the screenplay for the new film. I can't help but suspect that at some point during the production, which was shot in Spain, Mr. Lester and his associates decided that there was absolutely no way to realize the Harold Robbins-like potential of the story and chose, instead, to make a film that is a crazy fantasy about old-time Hollywood melodramas. Film critic Leslie Halliwell in Leslie Halliwell's Film Guide (1989) similarly reviewed Cuba, declaring " (an) aimless romantic melodrama which gets absolutely nowhere and might have been better played in the Casablanca-vein. References Notes Citations Bibliography Ferguson, Fiona. "Review: 'Cuba'. in Pym, John, ed. Time Out Film Guide. London: Time Out Guides Limited, 2004. . Halliwell, Leslie. Leslie Halliwell's Film Guide. New York: Harper & Roe, 1989. . Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2013. New York: New American Library, 2012 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988. . Pfeiffer, Lee and Phillip Lisa. The Films of Sean Connery. New York: Kensington Publishing Co., 2001. . External links 1979 films Films directed by Richard Lester 1970s action adventure films Films scored by Patrick Williams Films about the Cuban Revolution Films set in Havana Cuban Revolution in fiction American aviation films United Artists films American action adventure films Films about mercenaries 1970s English-language films 1970s American films