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April 27, 2025… #movieoftheday is Our Man in Havana (full movie) (1959).
“ Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope , directed and produced by Carol Reed , 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.” - more at Wikipedia
Graham 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 paychecks 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.
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0ovLLAfYw
#OurManInHavana #tangled #Wikipedia
“ Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope , directed and produced by Carol Reed , 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.” - more at Wikipedia
Graham 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 paychecks 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.
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0ovLLAfYw
#OurManInHavana #tangled #Wikipedia
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