I resume the Lloyd Bridges Show episodes that I began to comment several months ago; in this series Lloyd Bridges plays two characters: one in real time and the other in the flashback. Interesting scheme, isn't it? Of course, you already know the fatal fate of the lead character, but many movies use the same mean to start their stories; the most important matter is then the development and mechanism that leads to this end. You have guessed that this topic is an authentic tribute to Cuba revolution that occurred one year earlier. Jack Cassavetes is surprising and excellent in this role, the revolutionary leader trying to convince the American to abandon the fight against him. Gena Rowland's husband is outstanding in the hero's Nemesis role.
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El Medico
Prismark109 April 2024
There seem to be no end of American made dramas dealing with dictatorships in Latin America or nearby communist countries.
Modern eyes might be more jaded and cynical about it all.
Journalist Adam Shepherd is with an American army officer, dealing with the personal effects of Dutch Miller. He was executed by a thinly disguised Cuban type country.
Shepherd imagines what Miller went through in the Caribbean dictatorship where he inspired the revolutionaries.
The authorities there are on the lookout for El Medico. The American doctor helping the peasants and wanting to overthrow the dictatorship.
When Dutch Miller and a local man is captured. The police chief Castigo (John Cassavetes) is sure he has got El Medico. He just needs to get Miller to confess and Castigo would have made a name for himself with the regime.
Only Miller refuses to sign a confession, insisting that he is a mercenary. Not the fabled El Medico.
Interestingly it is Castigo who is then taken away by his superiors. To be tortured, a common trope in these dramas. The torturer has the tables turned against him.
Castigo could not get a confession so he is dispensable. Apparently there have been reports that El Medico still lives and operates elsewhere in the country.
Adam Shepherd has to decide. Whether to let the name and spirit of El Medico live, or tell the readers just who Dutch Miller really was.
Modern eyes might be more jaded and cynical about it all.
Journalist Adam Shepherd is with an American army officer, dealing with the personal effects of Dutch Miller. He was executed by a thinly disguised Cuban type country.
Shepherd imagines what Miller went through in the Caribbean dictatorship where he inspired the revolutionaries.
The authorities there are on the lookout for El Medico. The American doctor helping the peasants and wanting to overthrow the dictatorship.
When Dutch Miller and a local man is captured. The police chief Castigo (John Cassavetes) is sure he has got El Medico. He just needs to get Miller to confess and Castigo would have made a name for himself with the regime.
Only Miller refuses to sign a confession, insisting that he is a mercenary. Not the fabled El Medico.
Interestingly it is Castigo who is then taken away by his superiors. To be tortured, a common trope in these dramas. The torturer has the tables turned against him.
Castigo could not get a confession so he is dispensable. Apparently there have been reports that El Medico still lives and operates elsewhere in the country.
Adam Shepherd has to decide. Whether to let the name and spirit of El Medico live, or tell the readers just who Dutch Miller really was.
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