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A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made ! - Our Man in Havana
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Title: Our Man in Havana

Release Date: 27 Jan 1960

Runtime: 1h 51m

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Director: Kingsmead Productions, Columbia Pictures

Production Companies: Kingsmead Productions, Columbia Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (105 votes)

Cast

  • Jim Wormold: Alec Guinness
  • Dr. Hasselbacher: Burl Ives
  • Beatrice Severn: Maureen O'Hara
  • Capt. Segura: Ernie Kovacs
  • Hawthorne: Noël Coward
  • 'C': Ralph Richardson
  • Milly Wormold: Jo Morrow
  • Cifuentes: Grégoire Aslan
  • Hubert Carter: Paul Rogers
  • General: Raymond Huntley
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