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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396285668
Format: Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D28566D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/03/2009
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Carol Reed's 1960 adaptation of Graham Greene's satiric Cold War novel (Greene also wrote the screenplay) is simultaneously funny and scary, a microcosm of profiteering under the shadow of nuclear war and a grim comedy about the lengths to which men will go to uphold a useful ruse. Alec Guinness plays Jim Wormold, a low-key, English expatriate and vacuum cleaner salesman living in pre-revolutionary Havana, Cuba, with his daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow). Short on funds, Wormold accepts an offer from a British spy recruiter (Noel Coward) to keep a clandestine eye on Cuban activities, a job for which Wormold has no experience. Anxious to keep the home office happy, Wormold sends schematics of vacuum cleaners he declares are blueprints of secret weapons, and creates fictional agents who appear to send in field reports suggesting something is amiss on the island. Espionage head "C" (Ralph Richardson) is pleased with Wormold's progress, but when the former sends out a beautiful handler (Maureen O'Hara) and a possible assassin turns up at a sales convention, Our Man's faux hero has to think fast to keep up his charade--and stay alive. Ernie Kovacs is excellent as a corrupt police chief trying to win Milly's heart by appealing to her father, and Burl Ives has never been better than as a German expat with a mysterious background. Reed has a superb grasp of the tone and pacing of this spy comedy, with its surges of genuine darkness--he did, after all, give the world the much-less-funny The Third Man. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
This flick should have everything going for it. Directed by Carol Reed from a story by Graham Greene who previously collaborated on the greatest British noir, "The Third Man". A top-notch cast led by Alec Guiness and Maureen O'Hara. Alas, it's the story that does the film in. This espionage tale of a vacuum cleaner salesman pawning off bogus intelligence to the British Secret Service and raising all kinds of havoc in the process just doesn't get off the ground. There are two things I can recommend ... Read More
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Guinness, Greene, and Reed, but for all that, this film never seems to find the right tone: not funny enough to be comedy nor dramatic enough to be drama, OUR MAN IN HAVANA is most interesting for the disconcertingly un-typical and out-of-step performances it exacts from Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, and Ernie Kovacs, and for its frozen portrait of Cuba before the revolution.
Rating:  -
This movie was filmed a few months after Castro came to power but is set before. Some of the negative aspects of pre Castro Cuba are exaggarated, but this film is a spy movie set against the backdrop of the more seedier aspects of life in Havana at the time. Ernie Kovacs is the real star of the film as the Mercedes 300SL driving Capt Segura. Havana was the most beautiful city in Latin America at the time and we have this film to remember it by.
Rating:  -
Classic British comedy and more. Guinness and Ives are wonderful but Ernie Kovacs and Noel Coward are fantastic too. When people would ask me what going to a much less traveled Caribbean in the '70s I would say it was like stepping into a Graham Greene novel.
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While innuendo and scuttlebutt battle as different sides of the same coin in Our Man From Havana we are presented a dilemma. Is this truly `espionage in an exotic land' or a dark comedy on trials and tribulations of a start up business in a foreign locale? In this initial DVD release by Sony on their Martini Movies series, the renowned team of Carol Reed the director/producer and Graham Greene (who penned the novel and screenplay adaptation) grant us a rare treat and last glance into a pre-Castro regimen ... Read More
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