Our man in Havana [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Carol Reed production ; screenplay by Graham Greene ; produced and directed by Carol Reed.
Title from container. Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow. Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Originally released as a motion picture in 1959 in the United Kingdom. Special features: Original trailer; Martini minutes: "Secrets of seduction" and "How to travel in style."
Summary:
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
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