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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9788371341311
Feature: PAL, Region 2 - requires multi-system DVD player for the US
Format: PAL, Full Screen
ISBN: 8371341318
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Number Of Items: 1
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 103 unknown-units
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
Features:- PAL, Region 2 - requires multi-system DVD player for the US
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 since Jim's daughter Milly (Jo Morrow) has expensive tastes, he can use the money. To keep Hawthorne happy (and his paychecks coming in), he turns in reports on the Cuban revolution that are copied from public documents, "hires" additional agents who don't exist, and presents blueprints of secret weapons that are actually schematics of his carpet sweepers. However, Hawthorne and associate "C" (Ralph Richardson) think that Jim is doing splendid work and encourage him to continue; meanwhile, Capt. Segura (Ernie Kovacs), the elegantly corrupt chief of police, has been fooled by Jim's charade into believing he's a real spy and has also become attracted to Milly. Our Man in Havana also features Burl Ives and Maureen O'Hara in supporting roles.
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The movie version of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) is well worth a watch - if you can find it in the US. Hmm, a movie about Cold War paranoia that cannot be purchased in the US? Perhaps the spooks at the CIA really do have a sense of humor.
Alec Guinness stars as Jim Wormold in this comedic spy thriller. Wormold is a vacuum salesman in Havana with a daughter with expensive tastes. He becomes the unlikely head of a British spy ring and is handsomely rewarded by ... Read More
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Our Man in Havana is an excellent, sly black comedy with a screenplay by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. James Wormold (Alec Guinness) is a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana. He's getting by but needs more money to take care of his teen-aged daughter. He's recruited as a spy for Britain by Noel Coward. He doesn't really know what's wanted, but he can use the money. Since he doesn't know anything of value, he begins making up stories and inventing plans, and mentioning the names of people ... Read More
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It is scandalous that this fine film has been withheld from DVD and VHS, Region 1 release in the United States. What possibly could be the problem? It couldn't be because of the director, the same Carol Reed of The Third Man, The Fallen Idol, A Kid for Two Farthings, Oliver, and scores of other fine films. It couldn't be because of the superb cast of Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs, Ralph Richardson, and Noel Coward. It certainly would not be because of the same infallible ... Read More
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