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Our Man in Havana (1959)
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19 February 1960 (West Germany)
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Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 1 nomination
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Graham Greene at his cinematic best.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alec Guinness | ... | Jim Wormold |
 | Burl Ives | ... | Dr. Hasselbacher |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Beatrice Severn |
 | Ernie Kovacs | ... | Capt. Segura |
 | Noel Coward | ... | Hawthorne (as Noël Coward) |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | 'C' |
 | Jo Morrow | ... | Milly Wormold |
| Grégoire Aslan | ... | Cifuentes (as Gregoire Aslan) |
| Paul Rogers | ... | Hubert Carter |
| Raymond Huntley | ... | General |
| Ferdy Mayne | ... | Prof. Sanchez |
| Maurice Denham | ... | Admiral |
| José Prieto | ... | Lopez (as Jose Prieto) |
| Duncan Macrae | ... | MacDougal |
| Gerik Schjelderup | ... | Svenson |
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USA:111 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti had originally been in talks with Graham Greene about making a film together just after World War II. They had devised an outline story about a vacuum cleaner salesman operating as a spy in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in 1938. This project stalled when they were refused government permission to lampoon the Secret Service. Undeterred, Greene carried on under his own steam, drawing on his experience observing Abwehr (German intelligence service) agents in Portugal during World War II, who had been paid per report and not according to results.
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Errors in geography: At the end of the film,the aerial footage of the Tower of London has been flipped, resulting in Tower Bridge being on the West of the Tower of London and all traffic driving on the right.
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Jim Wormold:
Everything's legal in Havana.
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Referenced in "Doctor Who: School Reunion (#2.3)" (2006)
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¿Domitila, dónde vas?
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This is one of Alec Guiness's best performances. The whole film is understated and takes into account the arid wit of the novel. Graham Greene usually buries humor in dark text that deals with one man's coming to grips with some moral or religious crisis. In Our Man in Havana Greene sets aside his usual level of introspection-made-manifest and dwells upon the absurdity of a small man with a small life that is drawn into circumstances that quite outdistance his usual worldly sphere of experience and expectation. A vacuum cleaner salesman is drawn into a vortex of espionage and intrigue. He has to create from whole cloth scenarios to satisfy his spy-master contacts. Due to his agility at fabrication he becomes regarded as an indispensable operative and ultimately draws upon a well of heretofore untapped personal resources in order to save the day. Guiness, alternating between bewilderment and resolve paints a lovable portrait of a man pinned between a bedrock sense of duty and a stomach-emptying realization of being completely out of his depth. It's a sin and a shame that this film is not available in any format in any country.