![]() ![]() Against this extraordinary backdrop, we meet James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a British vacuum cleaner salesman who is recruited to spy for the British intelligence agency by a man named Hawthorne (Noël Coward). Here we find a city teeming with excitement and life, which spills over even the film’s widescreen frame. Though it takes place in pre-revolutionary Cuba, Our Man in Havana was shot on location only two months after the fall of the Batista regime by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement (Castro even paid a visit to the film’s set). ![]() This irreverent Cold War spy film was the last in a series of exalted collaborations-including The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949)-between director Carol Reed and author Graham Greene. ![]()
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