Product Information
Directed by Carol Reed (THE THIRD MAN) and written by Graham Greene (THE QUIET AMERICAN), OUR MAN IN HAVANA is a comedy that centres on a vacuum cleaner salesman (Alec Guinness) who unwittingly becomes involved in a Cold War plot.Product Identifiers
ProducerCarol Reed
EAN5035822146532
eBay Product ID (ePID)48676602
Product Key Features
ActorAlec Guinness, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Burl Ives, Maureen O'hara
Film/TV TitleOur Man in Havana
DirectorCarol Reed
LanguageEnglish
Run Time103 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2005
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Martini Movies-Secrets of Seduction\Martini Movies-How to Travel in Style
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Additional InformationGraham 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 paycheques 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.
ScreenwriterGraham Greene
AuthorGraham Greene
Movie/TV TitleOur Man In Havana
Consumer AdviceContains mild sex references