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Hawthorne (Noel Coward) is a Secret Service official based in Jamaica charged with recruiting a group of secret agents to report on Cuban military activities for a monthly stipend. Hawthorne approaches Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness), an expatriate Englishman living in Havana in the late 1950s with his beautiful teenage daughter Milly (Jo Morrow ...
Subscribe for $3 a Month. James Wormold, a middle-aged English vacuum cleaner salesman living in the heart of Havana, Cuba has very little going for him. Business is slow, his wife has left him, and his 16-year-old daughter, Milly, is difficult and demanding. She is pious and religious, yet materialistic and superficial, and nothing Wormold ...
Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, 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 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a ...
Our Man in Havana also features Burl Ives and Maureen O'Hara in supporting roles. 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.
Purchase Our Man In Havana on digital and stream instantly or download offline. A vacuum cleaner salesman (Alec Guinness) is recruited by the British secret service to act as a spy in Havana. When Guinness sends off phony reports, "recruits" mysterious agents and "discovers" mysterious installations, the home office decides to send him some help in the form of an agent named Beatrice.
Sep 3, 1991 · OUR MAN IN HAVANA is an enjoyable and at times very funny read.Greene is not someone you'd think of as a funny writer but he manages take a serious topic and turn it into light comedy for much of the story.The novel is deftly plotted and is delightfully light until the "serious" overwhelms the comedy.Fortunately that doesn't happen until you're ...
- Graham Greene
Synopsis. Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
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