A Message to Garcia

A Message to Garcia (1936)

3 GREAT STARS AT THEIR GREATEST IN A GLORIOUS AND BOISTEROUS VENTURE THAT DECIDED THE FATE OF THREE NATIONS!

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

Date of release
1936-04-10
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
George Marshall

Casting

Interesting facts

A Message to Garcia is a 1936 American adventure spy film directed by George Marshall and starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles.

Production

A Message to Garcia was inspired by the 1899 essay "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard. The essay was loosely based on an incident happening during the ramp up to the Spanish–American War. The essay had previously been adapted into a 1916 silent film of the same name. In the story, U.S.

The 1936 A Message to Garcia was produced by Twentieth Century Pictures, but was distributed by 20th Century Fox following the merger between the two studios. The final day of filming was November 16, 1935. Twentieth Century Pictures had developed a reputation for producing high-budget prestige films, and A Message to Garcia was one of the company's final efforts.

Before the film's release, the Government of Spain intimated that they might ban all 20th Century Fox films from Spain if A Message to Garcia was defamatory of their nation.

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