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Our Man in Havana

1959

Carol Reed

Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs ...

6.7

1,165

Comedy Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act as a spy. Jim has no experience in espionage and no useful knowledge to pass along, but Hawthorne is willing to pay for his services, and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"So much potential in casting, script etc... but the translation from the book didn't quite make sense on screen."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"For those who regard Alec Guinness as the niftiest little con man on the screen, we will guarantee Our Man in Havana to be a source of immeasurable fun."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Polished, diverting entertainment, brilliant in its comedy but falling apart towards the end when undertones of drama, tragedy and message crop up."	NEU

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