Comedy ·Thriller · United Kingdom · 1960 · 1h 51m

Our Man in Havana

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Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Alec Guinness as Jim Wormold Burl Ives as Dr. Hasselbacher Maureen O'Hara as Beatrice Severn Ernie Kovacs as Capt. Segura Noël Coward as Hawthorne Ralph Richardson as 'C'
Crew
Oswald Morris — Director of Photography Bert Bates — Editor Laurence Deniz — Original Music Composer Frank Deniz — Original Music Composer Graham Greene — Screenplay Graham Greene — Novel
Tagline

A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !

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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Mood & Themes
based on novel or bookcubaspysalespersonblack and whitesingle fatherbritish secret servicevacuum cleanerhavana, cubabritish intelligence
Key Collaborators
Carol Reed Director Oswald Morris Director of Photography Bert Bates Editor Laurence Deniz Original Music Composer Frank Deniz Original Music Composer Graham Greene Screenplay Graham Greene Novel Carol Reed Producer
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