Based in pre-revolutionary Cuba, the best secret agent in the western hemisphere, an ex-pat vacuum cleaner salesman, has his own secrets.
Business is not so good for Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) but the offer of recruiting a crack team of spies (payment made for each new recruit) is an offer too good to miss. With no idea where to start and a teenage daughter with expensive tastes, Wormold provides a fictional list of names and drawings of a nuclear plant for the benefit of his London paymasters. So impressed, they send a support team, headed by Beatrice Severn (Maureen O’Hara). But local police chief Captain Segura (Ernie Kovacs) becomes suspicious.
Full of wit and wry humour, Our Man in Havana is a light adaptation by Graham Greene from his own novel and directed by Carol Reed that shuffles along at its own pace.
Rating: 66%
Director: Carol Reed (The Fallen Idol, The Third Man)
Writer: Graham Greene (The Fallen Idol, The Third Man)
Main cast: Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Bridge on the River Kwai), Maureen O’Hara (The Quiet Man, Miracle on 34th Street), Burl Ives (The Big Country, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
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