Our Man in Havana

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

1960 1h 51m EN

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6.7

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95%

CERTIFIED FRESH

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7.2

IMDB

★6.7TMDB · 127🍅95%Rotten Tomatoes★7.2IMDB · 6,242

ComedyThriller

Synopsis

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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.

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

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Cast

Alec Guinness
Jim Wormold
Burl Ives
Dr. Hasselbacher
Maureen O'Hara
Beatrice Severn
Ernie Kovacs
Captain Segura
Noël Coward
Hawthorne
Ralph Richardson
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Jo Morrow
Milly Wormold
Grégoire Aslan
Cifuentes

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Carol Reed
Writers: Graham Greene
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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66 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Carol Reed, shot by Oswald Morris. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Frank Deniz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Bert Bates shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Alec Guinness and Burl Ives and Maureen O'Hara carry the top of the cast.

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CAST

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Marketing tagline: "A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0054152 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Carol Reed directs. Oswald Morris behind the camera. Frank Deniz scores. Bert Bates cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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166 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Carol Reed, shot by Oswald Morris. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Frank Deniz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Bert Bates shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Alec Guinness and Burl Ives and Maureen O'Hara carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !".
7IMDB entry: tt0054152 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 10 themes, including "based on novel or book", "cuba", "spy", "salesperson".