Our Man in Havana
(1959)
A murderously funny story, magnificently cast....marvelously made !
Stars: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward
Director: Carol Reed
Writer: Graham Greene
Language: English
Studio: Kingsmead Productions
Duration: 111
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. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.
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) |
Joseph P. Mawra | Lopez (as Jose Prieto) |
Joseph G. Prieto | Lopez (as Jose Prieto) |
Duncan Macrae | MacDougal |
Gerik Schjelderup | Svenson |
Hugh Manning | Officer |
Karel Stepanek | Dr. Braun |
Maxine Audley | Teresa |
Elisabeth Welch | Woman |
Yvonne Buckingham | Woman |
Enrique Almirante | Man at the Film Introduction (uncredited) |
Timothy Bateson | Rudy (uncredited) |
René de la Cruz | Man Beaten by Police (uncredited) |
Madeleine Kasket | Black-haired girl (uncredited) |
Reginald Holder | Bartender (uncredited) |
Shan Lawrence | Native Canadian Girl (uncredited) |
Murray Kash | Cuban Policeman |
John Le Mesurier | Louis - Waiter (uncredited) |
Juba Kennerley | Luncheon Guest (uncredited) |
Anne Padwick | Dark-Haired Woman (uncredited) |
Rachel Roberts | Prostitute (uncredited) |
Oswald Morris | Cinematographer |
Bert Bates | Film Editor |
Aileen Lewis | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
John Cox | Sound Department |
Bob Raymond | Barman (uncredited) |
Lionel Murton | American Senator |
Red Law | Sound Department |
Bill Nagy | Man at Blue Moon Club |
Teddy Mason | Sound Department |
John Tatum | Luncheon Guest (uncredited) |
John W. Mitchell | Sound Department |
Frank Deniz | Composer |
Laurence Deniz | Composer |
John Tatham | Luncheon Guest |
John Box | Art Director |
Toke Townley | Street Seller |
Phyllis Dalton | Custome Designer |
Gordon Bond | Hairdresser |
Harry Frampton | Makeup Artist |
Gerry O'Hara | Assistant Director |
Syd Cain | assistant art director |
John Graysmark | Set Designer |
Genre: Drama
Media: DVD
Sound: Mono
IMDb: 0054152