Our Man in Havana

1959·111'

Carol Reed

ComedyThriller

★ 6.7

Letterboxd TMDB #25495

A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

Cast

Alec Guinness Jim Wormold

Burl Ives Dr. Hasselbacher

Maureen O'Hara Beatrice Severn

Ernie Kovacs Capt. Segura

Noël Coward Hawthorne

Ralph Richardson 'C'

Jo Morrow Milly Wormold

Grégoire Aslan Cifuentes

Paul Rogers Hubert Carter

Raymond Huntley General

Ferdy Mayne Prof. Sanchez

Maurice Denham Admiral