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Release Date: 1959 Cast: Joseph P. Mawra, Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Duncan Macrae, Maurice Denham, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maxine Audley, Burl Ives, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Karel Štěpánek ...MORE
Cast: Joseph P. Mawra, Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Duncan Macrae, Maurice Denham, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maxine Audley, Burl Ives, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Karel Štěpánek, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson, Gerik Schjelderup, Ernie Kovacs, Jo Morrow ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Film adaptation, Black-and-white, Comedy, Political satire, Satire, Political thriller, Crime Thriller, Spy Our Man in Havana is a 1959 film directed and produced by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch.
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows... MORE
Our Man in Havana is a 1959 film directed and produced by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch.
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight, and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum parts to increase his value to the service and to procure more money for himself and his expensive daughter Milly. Because his importance grows, he is sent a secretary, Beatrice (Maureen O'Hara), and a radioman from London to be under his command. With their arrival it becomes much harder for Wormold to maintain his facade. However, when they do, all of his imagined information begins to come true. One of his "agents" is killed, and he is himself targeted for assassination. He admits what he's done to his secretary, and LESS
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