
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 th... (Full plot summary below)
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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. 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.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeAt once very much of its time and surprisingly modern and relevant to today. |
| Seanax.comSean Axmaker... a dryly witty satire of the spy game. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherFor those who regard Alec Guinness as the niftiest little con man on the screen, we will guarantee Our Man in Havana to be a source of immeasurable fun. |
| Chicago ReaderDon DrukerGuinness is in above-average form, and Ernie Kovacs is wonderful as the callous but charming government official with a soft spot for Guinness's daughter. |
| VarietyVariety StaffPolished, diverting entertainment, brilliant in its comedy but falling apart towards the end when undertones of drama, tragedy and message crop up. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonSo much potential in casting, script etc... but the translation from the book didn't quite make sense on screen. |
| User ReviewCarolyn FThis film inspired me to travel around South America with a white tuxedo. The best film ever made. |
| User ReviewJaye LFilm made just prior to the Cuban Revolution in a corrupt Havana. Black comedy with top cast. |
| User ReviewJason BThis film was brilliant. I feel that all too often I overlook these old black and white treasures, but this was truly grand. A lovely comedy about duties and deception. |
| User ReviewAnna BA classic -- watch it if not for anything else but the checkers game -- but the whole thing is just great. |