Our Man in Havana (film)
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| Our Man in Havana | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Carol Reed |
| Produced by | Carol Reed |
| Written by | Graham Greene |
| Starring | Alec Guinness Burl Ives Ralph Richardson Noel Coward Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs |
| Music by | Frank Deniz Laurence Deniz |
| Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
| Editing by | Bert Bates |
| Release date(s) | 27 January 1960 (USA) |
| Running time | 111 min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Our Man in Havana is a 1959 film directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch.
[edit] Plot
In pre-Castro Cuba James Wormold (Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, becomes a member of the British secret service. In an attempt to increase his importance to the service he invents an intrigue over a sketch of a secret rocket launching-ramp which is actually a circuit diagram of a vacuum cleaner.
[edit] Production
It was actually filmed in Havana. The new Cuban government was willing to have a movie made that showed the corrupt old regime along with meddling foreign spies.
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