History Film / RedZoneCuba

* TheGump: Griffin and company get involved in The Bay of Pigs invasion.

Once back in the US however, the trio are distracted by a restaurant and decide to vent their frustrations by murdering the owner and raping his blind daughter, hopping on a freight train (driven by none other than John Carradine) and stealing each other's keepsakes for petty cash. When they finally get to the mine, the soldier's widow happily offers to split the deeds to the mine with them, and, out of gratitude, Griffin shoots her. Then the soldier, who it turns out was not dead after all, finds his dead wife somehow and cries (she may still be alive - the actress' inability to remain still makes it unclear). Coleman Francis is shot, his partners surrender, and the film thankfully shudders to a stop.

* TheCameo: John Carradine, who's listed as a "guest star".

* DoItYourselfThemeTune - "[[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Red_Zone_Cuba_1966.aspx?Page=2 As John Carradine's picture fades away, we suddenly hear the voice of Satan himself. No, wait, I'm sorry, I got that wrong. Actually, what we hear is John Carradine singing [!!!!] this movie's theme song.]]"

* MoneyDearBoy: The only explanation for John Carradine being in this movie. A lot of people would be surprised at how much tasteless exploitation John Carradine is in because of this very reason.

Once back in the US however, the trio are distracted by a restaurant and decide to vent their frustrations by murdering the owner and raping his deafblind daughter, hopping on a freight train (driven by none other than John Carradine) and stealing each other's keepsakes for petty cash. When they finally get to the mine, the soldier's widow happily offers to split the deeds to the mine with them, and, out of gratitude, Griffin shoots her. Then the soldier, who it turns out was not dead after all, finds his dead wife somehow and cries (she may still be alive - the actress' inability to remain still makes it unclear). Coleman Francis is shot, his partners surrender, and the film thankfully shudders to a stop.

* AntiHero - Supposedly Griffin (maybe), though any audience sympathy has evaporated by the time he's raping the restaurant owner's blind and deaf daughter.

* [[BuryYourDisabled Rape Your Disabled]]: Griffin forces himself on a blind and deaf woman

''Red Zone Cuba'', also known as ''Night Train to Mundo Fine'', is a movie about... well, it's hard to say really. It follows Griffin, an escaped convict and outlaw played by none other than ColemanFrancis (who also wrote, produced and directed the film) and his two associates as they try to survive. They learn that the army is planning to invade Cuba (good job on the whole "secret" thing, huh?!) and decide to sign-up -- so they can desert with the signing bonus. (Unfortunately for them, the Army doesn't pay cash up front.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - The camera zooms in on a Advertising/BurmaShave "How will you spend eternity?" advert. Judging by the pacing of the movie, probably watching this scene.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba episode recap page]].

-->]-'''John Carradine''', "Night Train To Mundo Fine"

''Night train to [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Mundo Fine]]\\

Night train to the end''
->-'''John Carradine''', "Night Train To Mundo Fine"

Once back in the US however, the trio are distracted by a restaurant and decide to vent their frustrations by murdering the owner and raping his deafblind daughter, hopping on a freight train (driven by none other than John Carradine) and stealing each other's keepsakes for petty cash. When they finally get to [[strike: Mordor]] the mine, the soldier's widow happily offers to split the deeds to the mine with them, and, out of gratitude, Griffin shoots her. Then the soldier, who it turns out was not dead after all, finds his dead wife somehow and cries (she may still be alive - the actress' inability to remain still makes it unclear). Coleman Francis is shot, his partners surrender, and the film thankfully shudders to a stop.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent - Obviously Cherokee Jack isn't supposed to be an actual Cherokee, but there's still no explanation as to why an airplane pilot in a desert somewhere in the American south has a Brooklyn accent.

* IGotBetter: [[spoiler: Chastain, who was terminally ill in Cuba. He miraculously survives and shows up at the end to rejoin his wife in Nevada.]]

* CaliforniaDoubling - Reasonably well for Arizona. Not nearly so well for Cuba.

* HollywoodDarkness: Several "night" scenes are clearly shot in the daylight

* AuthorAppeal: Coffee, vigilantism, light aircraft, big breasts aimed at the camera -- it must be a Coleman Francis film!

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->'''Tom Servo:''' [[TheyJustDidntCare Well, I see the movie has finally thrown up its hands and said "I just don't know."]]
->'''Crow:''' I wanna hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me.
->'''Mike:''' Did they even need to GO to Cuba?
--> --''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4852679885193523220 take]]


''Red Zone Cuba'', also known as ''Night Train to Mundo Fine'', is a movie about... well, it's hard to say really. It follows [[strike:[[TheThreeStooges Curly Howard]]]] Griffin, an escaped convict and outlaw played by none other than ColemanFrancis (who also wrote, produced and directed the film) and his two associates as they try to survive. They learn that the army is planning to invade Cuba (good job on the whole "secret" thing, huh?!) and decide to sign-up -- so they can desert with the signing bonus. (Unfortunately for them, the Army doesn't pay cash up front.)

-->'''Servo:''' [[FridgeLogic How can you have a guest star]] ''[[FridgeLogic in a movie?]]''

-->'''Mike''': Fortunately Cuba has only eight guys in it.

-->'''Mike:''' Pie doesn't make ya wanna kill yourself. Want some?

-->'''Crow (as the dog):''' Ow! Now I'm barren!

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!! The ''{{MST3K}}'' presentation contains:

* {{Bowdlerized}}: The MST3K version thankfully omits the whole "raping the blind-deaf" daughter scene, per the show's "No Rape" policy.
* CelebrityResemblance: The riffs have remarked on how Coleman Francis looks like [[TheThreeStooges Curly Howard]].
* ContinuityNod: "[[ManosTheHandsOfFate The Master says you can't stay here!]]"
** Mike and the bots call back to [[TheSkydivers their previous Coleman Francis experience]] when they recognize Petey the Plane.
* FanNickname: [[strike:Chastain]] Justine
** The Three Hobos
* FromNobodyToNightmare: This was the second Coleman Francis film featured. In the first, ''TheSkydivers'', he goes entirely unmentioned, but by starring here he makes himself a running joke (''"Obviously, you don't know who you've captured here - I'm Coleman Francis."'', ''"The Yankees will pay highly for you, Señor Francis"'') and when ''[[TheBeastOfYuccaFlats Yucca Flats]]'' subsequently aired Mike and the bots freaked.
** What's funny is that Mike had used ''The Beast of Yucca Flats'' as a ''warm up'' for ''TheBrainThatWouldntDie''.
* {{Mondegreen}}: Servo mishears part of the movie's TitleThemeTune as "Mundo Penis."
** There's also Chastain's name; the bots mishear it as [[FanNickname "Justine"]].
* NapoleonDelusion: The movie drives Mike to believing he's Carol Channing at one point.
* NotableOriginalMusic: The "Bouncy Upbeat Song".
-->'''Mike:''' Everybody's having fun and smokiiiiing, and the dogs are eating toooooo... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick robbing people, killing people]]...
* RunningGag: "I'm Cherokee Jack!" and "You shove off!" are running gag riffs by Mike and the 'bots.
** In the review, ThreeStooges references.
* SanitySlippage: The [[http://www.wayfellows.com/mst3k/bouncyup.shtml ending host segment]]. Even the Mads have gone insane by the end.
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[''[[TheStinger Deaf-blind woman stares vacantly and plays piano]]'']

* IGotBetter - Chastain, the dying soldier, whose fever is magically cured and [[OffscreenTeleportation somehow teleports]] him back to the US.

* MoneyDearBoy: The only explanation for John Carradine being in this movie.
** A lot of people would be surprised at how much tasteless exploitation John Carradine is in because of this very reason.

* AuthorAppeal: Coffee, vigilantism, light aircraft, big breasts aimed at the camera - it must be a Coleman Francis film!

* FromNobodyToNightmare: This was the second Coleman Francis film featured. In the first, ''TheSkydivers'', he goes entirely unmentioned, but by starring he makes himself a running joke (''"Obviously, you don't know who you've captured here - I'm Coleman Francis."'', ''"The Yankees will pay highly for you, Señor Francis"'') and when ''[[TheBeastOfYuccaFlats Yucca Flats]]'' subsequently aired Mike and the bots freaked.

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* RapeIsTheNewDeadParents: Griffin rapes a girl, and this event is never mentioned again.
** Well, considering he ''also'' murders her father...

->'''John Carradine''', "Night Train To Mundo Fine"

->JohnCarradine, "Night Train To Mundo Fine"

->Far be it for me to spoil a movie this early into a recap, but ''Red Zone Cuba'' is a film that seriously gives ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' a run for its money in the "being about nothing" department.
--> --''The WebOriginal/AgonyBooth'''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Red_Zone_Cuba_1966.aspx take]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - The camera zooms in on a BurmaShave "How will you spend eternity?" advert. Judging by the pacing of the movie, probably watching this scene.

* RapeIsTheNewDeadParents: Griffin rapes a girl, and this event is never mentioned again