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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1967 Format: DVD - Color,Soft-Matted WSE for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 32 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy Drama, Ensemble Film

The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the philandering wife of a South American ambassador Peter Ustinov. She seeks solace in the arms of hotel-owner Brown (Richard Burton), whose main focus is to keep making improvements on his crumbling building. Alec Guinness plays Jones, the suave charlatan who claims to be a retired military officer to hide his vocation as a shadowy weapons dealer. Brown later gets a sudden twinge of morality and decides to go off to the mountains to help the rebels in their heroic cause. Watch for silent film great Lillian Gish as Mrs. Smith in this plodding drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Richard Burton - Brown
Elizabeth Taylor - Martha Pineda
Alec Guinness - Maj. Jones
Peter Ustinov - Ambassador Pineda
Paul Ford - Mr. Smith