![]() ![]() Log in or register to post your own reviews or comments. Login to post your own review or comments. Special Features: Isolated Music & Effects Track / Original Theatrical Trailer An extraordinary cast also includes Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara, Ernie Kovacs, and Ralph Richardson notably the film, gloriously directed by Carol Reed in his third collaboration with Greene, was shot in Havana just two months after the fall of the Batista regime, with the full permission of Fidel Castro. As his imagination turns out to be more highly developed than his espionage skills, the plot thickens. It tells the story of Wormold, a hapless Hoover salesman unwittingly recruited. ![]() Our Man in Havana (1959) is the great Graham Greene’s saucy adaptation of his own novel, starring the singular Alec Guinness as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in pre-revolutionary Cuba, bizarrely recruited (by Noel Coward, no less) as a British Intelligence spy. First published in 1958, Our Man in Havana was the last of the novels designated by the author as an 'entertainment'. ![]() Certain aspects of the plot, in particular the importance of secret military constructions. “A disarmingly humorous film…slyly impious…all of it sparkling with the drolleries of able actors and the witty sarcasm of Mr. Our Man In Havana is a novel by British author Graham Greene. Guinness is wonderful…the film cleverly captures the confusion of optimism, cynicism, and money-grubbing greed of the ‘never had it so good’ years.” “A real ‘winds of change’ film, with traditional values crumbling in the heat of pre-revolutionary Cuba. ![]()
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