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Our Man in Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene. Greene uses the novel to mock intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants. The book predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, but certain aspects of the plot, notably the role of missile ...
- Graham Greene
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- 1958
- Novel
Our Man in Havana: Directed by Carol Reed. With Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs. Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
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- Carol Reed
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
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. [2] [3] [4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and ...
- $2,000,000 (US/ Canada)
- Frank Deniz, Laurence Deniz
- Carol Reed
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36,355 ratings2,662 reviews. Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction. First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day.
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Rated: 4/4 • Feb 14, 2022. British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country...
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- Alec Guinness
- Carol Reed
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
Our Man in Havana, novel by Graham Greene, published in 1958 and classified by the author as an “entertainment.”. Set in Cuba before the communist revolution, the book is a comical spy story about a British vacuum-cleaner salesman’s misadventures in the British Secret Intelligence Service.
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.
