A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !
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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Classical in form, cool, comic and ironic.
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Cast
- Alec GuinnessJim Wormold
- Burl IvesDr. Hasselbacher
- Maureen O'HaraBeatrice Severn
- Ernie KovacsCaptain Segura
- Noël CowardHawthorne
- Ralph RichardsonC
- Jo MorrowMilly Wormold
- Grégoire AslanCifuentes
- Paul RogersHubert Carter
- Raymond HuntleyGeneral
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- Carol ReedDirector
- Graham GreeneScreenplay
- Graham GreeneNovel
- Oswald MorrisDirector of Photography
- Frank DenizOriginal Music Composer
- Laurence DenizOriginal Music Composer
- Bert BatesEditor
- Carol ReedProducer
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