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- In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
- In pre-Castro Cuba, Ned Sherwood is caught between police and counterfeiters.
- A young woman with a Spanish father and an American mother living in Spain under the supervision of a strict aunt slips out to attend a bullfight. There she becomes fascinated by the toreador Carrita.
- An entertaining series of views, showing the quaint beauty in the capital of the Star of the Antilles.
- This story deals with the adventures of a "ham actor," who tries to "make good" in moving pictures. This Ham comes into the studio and assures everyone, including the directors, that he is the "real thing." He starts to do things. He not only gets into trouble with the cameraman and everyone else, but makes a general nuisance of himself. The film shows, besides its ludicrous story, many of the methods in film production. This is one of the scenes, which is characteristic of the story: A Seaside Scent. The Ham, in summer costume. The leading lady also in summer costume. Three girls in bathing suits, listening to orders, then step out of the picture. The Ham is supposed to flirt with the leading lady, makes her acquaintance, then he hears a cry of help. He bravely goes after one of the supposedly drowning bathing girls, but he trips and turns a somersault, and soon is in need of assistance himself. They drag him out, roll him on a barrel and there's an end of his moving picture career.
- This film begins with a beautiful picture of historical old Morro Castle, which majestically towers above us as we enter port from the sea. It also visualizes a magnificent panoramic view of Havana Harbor, showing Cabanas Fortress, and other points of interest. There is a close-up view of the Havana Cathedral, where the remains of Christopher Columbus were interred for many years. There are scenes from the Columbus and Central Parks, two of the most interesting and beautiful spots to be found among the scenic exceptions of the world; there is the Nine Students Monument, showing inscriptions which every Cuban loves and reveres. This picture also reproduces a carnival on the Prado, where one hundred thousand persons, fantastically garbed, celebrate the independence of Cuba once each year. The picture also takes us to a more remote part of the island, and shows the arrest, imprisonment and trial of insurrectos. There is a most complete and instructive reproduction of the largest sugar plantation in the world, in full operation. From the cane fields to the hemp sacks, this wonderful industry is minutely pictured. There are trainloads of sugar cane being emptied into the troughs which lead to the crusher; the crusher in full operation, separating the sugar from the cane; the evaporator through which a million gallons of water pass every hour; the government expert testing the syrup, and a score of other interesting and instructive views which are part of the daily routine of this beautiful land of unlimited opportunities.
- We are first shown two lovers bidding the General good night and being guided out of the labyrinth of turns and angles in an old Spanish fortification by the sea; after viewing the beauty of this crumbling grandeur, they are suddenly halted by their guide, who indicates that they must go no further towards the sentinel tower, as it is haunted. Laughing at his superstition, they start in its direction, when a distant church clock chimes out the midnight hour and clearly upon the walls of the fortification can be seen the ghost of the tragic past. The guide then starts to tell them the story of this ill-fated pair, and here the present fades away into the past and we are shown the sad story of José, the sentinel of the tower, and of Louise, daughter of the Governor-General of the island.