Caboblanco

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Genre: Adventure, Romance Film, Drama
Year: 1980
Country: United States of America, Mexico
Language: English Language
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Fernando Rey, Dominique Sanda, Ernest Esparza III, Carlos Romano, James Booth, Martin LaSalle, José Chávez, Jorge Russek, Camilla Sparv, Clifton James, Denny Miller, Gilbert Roland, Simon MacCorkindale

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.

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.

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

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