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      Our Man in Havana

      Released Jan 27, 1960 1h 47m Mystery & Thriller Comedy List
      95% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 77% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country club membership, which leaves him desperate for money. When Hawthorne (Noel Coward) proposes he become a paid British agent and recruit other spies, he accepts, and haplessly embarks on a new career. Though he's delighted when he meets gorgeous fellow spy Beatrice Severn (Maureen O'Hara), Wormold finds he's now a target. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 21 Buy Now

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      TIME Magazine The mixture of mayhem and heehaw is particularly tricky to handle, and not even the sure hand of Director Reed has always achieved a smooth blend. Aug 2, 2011 Full Review David Parkinson Empire Magazine So much potential in casting, script etc... but the translation from the book didn't quite make sense on screen. Rated: 3/5 Aug 2, 2011 Full Review Variety Staff Variety Polished, diverting entertainment, brilliant in its comedy but falling apart towards the end when undertones of drama, tragedy and message crop up. Aug 27, 2008 Full Review Roger Moore Movie Nation The jokes are sly and winking and put the amusingly “phobic” in homophobic. Rated: 4/4 Jun 2, 2022 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Alec Guinness is aptly cast. Rated: 3/4 Apr 10, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review What begins as another of Reed's acerbic, ironic, and thoroughly readable tales gives way to a shadowy satire in which nationalism presents the greatest danger and intelligence is a generous term. Rated: 4/4 Feb 14, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Alec B A very droll comedy. Some of the commentary isn't fully explored but Guiness' central performance is deeply complex and often hilarious. His interactions with Coward are delightful. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Liam D While it feels like a spoof of Hitchcock Thrillers and Spy Capers but director Carol Reed (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Key) and star Alec Guinness (The Fall of the Roman Empire, Cromwell) adds some gravities Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/27/21 Full Review steve d It is fun and different. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A classic following the novel brilliantly. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review paul d I enjoyed the clever story and dry humor, the images of pre-revolution Havana, and a number of actors who command the screen: Ives, O'Hara, Kovacs and most of all Guiness. The movie has three parts: the opening, which introduces all the characters and themes and is relatively light-hearted; the middle, which is a gentle and droll spy parody; and the final third, which takes on more serious, darker tones about the human costs when life goes off-course. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A real curate's egg. Tonally, neither amusing as a satire of Cold War espionage nor thrilling enough as a spy yarn. Carol Reed has form in this milieu, not least partnering Graham Greene in another double-cross drama, but everyone here seems miscast - Alec Guinness too cool and camp, Burl Ives implausible as a German spy, Noel Coward just wrong as an immediately suspicious-looking intelligence scout. Nicely photographed by Oswald Morris in Havana, it passes the time. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country club membership, which leaves him desperate for money. When Hawthorne (Noel Coward) proposes he become a paid British agent and recruit other spies, he accepts, and haplessly embarks on a new career. Though he's delighted when he meets gorgeous fellow spy Beatrice Severn (Maureen O'Hara), Wormold finds he's now a target.
      Director
      Carol Reed
      Screenwriter
      Graham Greene
      Distributor
      Columbia Pictures
      Production Co
      Columbia Pictures Corporation, Kingsmead productions
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 27, 1960, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 15, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 47m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
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