Our Man in Havana (1959)

Directed by

Carol Reed

Genre

drama film, spy film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British vacuum cleaner salesman living in Havana is recruited as a spy. He invents false reports and fake agents to satisfy his handlers, but his fabrications start to turn real.

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What happens

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. The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch. The movie marks Reed's third collaboration with Greene. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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