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DrameAnnée1936Durée1h 25mIMDb5.9

Message à Garcia

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Based on the actual event of Rowan's carrying a message from President McKinley to Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The parts of Dory and Raphalita are added.

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Bande-annonce

Casting

George Marshall

Director

Wallace Beery

Sergeant Dory

Barbara Stanwyck

Senorita Raphaelita Maderos

John Boles

Lieutenant Andrew Rowan

Alan Hale

Dr. Ivan Krug

Herbert Mundin

Henry Piper

Mona Barrie

Spanish Spy

EA

Enrique Acosta

General Calixto García

Juan Torena

Luís Maderos

Martin Garralaga

Rodríguez

Blanca Vischer

Chiquita

José Luis Tortosa

Pasquale Castova

LV

Lucio Villegas

Commandant

Frederik Vogeding

German Stoker

Pat Moriarity

Irish Stoker

OG

Octavio Giraud

Spanish Commandant

Sam Appel

Proprietor

GA

Guillermo Arcos

Captain

JB

Josefina Betancourt

Aggresive Flirt

EH

Elbert Hubbard

Writer

AS

Andrew S. Rowan

Writer

WL

W.P. Lipscomb

Writer

GF

Gene Fowler

Writer

SH

Sam Hellman

Writer

GL

Gladys Lehman

Writer

Commentaires

9 commentaires

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uSBAHLENov 16, 2022

A Message to Garcia

Fat Make upNov 16, 2022

This was an interesting recounting of the real-life events around Lieutenant Andrew Rowan carrying a message from American President McKinley to General Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. He did so under grave peril and withstood many hardships while alluding Dr. Ivan Krug who's mission it is to stop him. Along the way he enlists the help of a native Cuban Raphaelita (played by the gorgeous Barbara Stanwyck, who my one complaint...didn't even attempt a plausible Cuban accent-I love her though, it is more of an observation) and an AWOL marine who is a bit of a con artist living by his wits in Cuba. This was a wonderful docu-drama, although I am not sure how accurate as they cross a river crawling with alligators by bopping them on the head with a stick. Either way it was a fun film to watch and Barbara Stanwyck is gorgeous and at her lovely prime in this film...so I say give it a view.

uppoompatNov 16, 2022

A Message to Garcia has two sterling stars in its cast; Wallace Beery and Barbara Stanwyck. It also features John Boles as a romantic lead for Stanwyck. The film vaguely interesting, but only for the two lead stars. The storyline is not strong enough to gain any momentum. Stanwyck as a Cuban is not the best of casting. (Wouldn't Delores Del Rio have been a much better choice?). Interesting from a historical perspective.

abusrwal1996Nov 16, 2022

Turgid, set bound drama with some wild miscasting in central roles. It's not that the film isn't filled with some very good performers, Beery is believable as a renegade wanderer looking for the prime advantage but he's the only actor that really seems to fit. John Boles gives his usual block of wood performance, a dull hole at the center of the movie. The most ludicrous of all is Barbara Stanwyck, a great actress yes but a native born Cuban senorita? never! They couldn't have borrowed Lupe Velez or Dolores del Rio? Perhaps not Cubans either but at least being Latin they would have not stood out so glaringly. All great stars have turkeys in their filmographies this is one manages to take down both Missy and Wally Beery. What could have been an interesting rendering of a historical event becomes just so much studio fodder to fill a double bill.

LawdPorry Nov 16, 2022

As fans of practically everybody in this cast, I knew that the casting of Barbara Stanwyck as a Cuban would be suspect. I proved myself to be right, not having seen this film in over 20 years. This is difficult to overcome and as hard as I tried, I couldn't get past that, her Brooklyn accent, although not outrageously strong, coming through at certain intervals. She had attempted this in one of her very first films (the disastrous "Mexicali Rose") and by 1936, was big enough of a star to choose her own projects. Wallace Beery's character seems to be there to be the comic matchmaker between Stanwyck and John Boles (as an American Lieutenant) with Alan Hale the stereotypical Spanish villain. All this casting is ironic considering that a year later, Stanwyck would be nominated for an Oscar for "Stella Dallas" where Boles played her husband and Hale played her alcoholic sidekick.

RayanNov 16, 2022

President McKinley -- body by Dell Henderson, voice by John Carradine -- orders Lieutenant John Boles to deliver a message to rebel General Garcia that the US will begin a war against Spain, and cooperate with him. Along the way he is pursued by German spy Alan Hale, and picks up as aides Cuban rebel Barbara Stanwyck and US Marines deserter Wallace Beery. The last two are inventions for the movie. Beery plays a variation on Long John Silver, and Miss Stanwyck is as hot as a jungle. Neither did Lieutenant Rowan head down to Cuba as a stoker carrying a letter. He traveled comfortably with an oral message. That, however, would not have made an interesting movie, and producer Raymond Griffith and director George Marshall lay it on thick. What will surprise most people, given his fallen reputation, is how good Boles is: simultaneously intrepid, inventive, naive, and romantic. It's romantic piffle as history, a staple of the moom pitchers, but a lot of fun.

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