Caboblanco

Caboblanco
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Produced by	Lance Hool
Written by	Morton S. Fine Milton S. Gelman
Starring	Charles Bronson Jason Robards Dominique Sanda Fernando Rey Denny Miller
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Álex Phillips Jr.
Release dates	1980 (1980) (U.S.) 1981 (1981) (UK)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Caboblanco (1980) is an American drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda and Jason Robards. The film has often been described as a remake of Casablanca.

The movie marks the third collaboration between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson (following 1976's St. Ives and 1977's The White Buffalo).

Plot

Giff Hoyt (Bronson), a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief (Rey) also intimidates a new arrival Marie (Sanda), and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff (Robards), a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.

Reception

The film was poorly received by critics, described as an "appalling rehash" of Casablanca and as "indescribably inept" by Time Out.^[1] Halliwell's Film Guide described it as a "witless spoof of Casablanca which seems to have been cobbled together from a half-finished negative."^[2]

Jerry Vermilye states that the movie's producers advised the trade press that it was not a remake of Casablanca, arguing that the similarities were very limited.^[3]

Cast

Charles Bronson - Gifford Hoyt
Jason Robards - Gunther Beckdorff
Dominique Sanda - Marie Claire Allesandri
Fernando Rey - Captain Terredo
Simon MacCorkindale - Lewis Clarkson
Camilla Sparv - Hera
Gilbert Roland - Ramirez
Denny Miller - Horst
Clifton James - Lorrimer

References

↑ Time Out Film Guide, Penguin, 1989, p.96.
↑ Halliwell's Film Guide, 16th edition, 2000, p.126.
↑ Vermilye, Jerry (1980). The Films of Charles Bronson. Citadel Press. p. 250. ISBN 0-8065-0695-4.

External links

Caboblanco at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by J. Lee Thompson

Murder Without Crime (1950)
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Yield to the Night (1956)
The Good Companions (1957)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
North West Frontier (1959)
No Trees in the Street (1959)
Tiger Bay (1959)
I Aim at the Stars (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
Return from the Ashes (1965)
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Country Dance (1970)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
St. Ives (1976)
The White Buffalo (1977)
The Greek Tycoon (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Caboblanco (1980)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
10 to Midnight (1983)
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
The Ambassador (1984)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Murphy's Law (1986)
Firewalker (1986)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Messenger of Death (1988)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

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