The Wealthy Families, by Dustin Hoffman

The film is in its first third, it's very deliberate in showing you how bad things are under Batista. We don't really meet anyone who is working class. Not a bit. That might be because they overwhelmingly supported the revolution. So we meet Patista around that time, finally. And he's depicted certainly as a venal nasty guy. Although Batista's US connections are, I think basically unmentioned. No, the closest you get is Meyer Lansky, who just seems like an independent operator. You know, just like traipses through the nightclub. Yes. The mafia, we're told in this, in this first act when things start to go south, blows