One of his "agents" is killed, and he is targeted for assassination. However, all of his invented information begins to come true: his cables home are intercepted and believed to be true by enemy agents who then act against his "cell". With their arrival, it becomes much harder for Wormold to maintain his facade. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum cleaner parts to increase his value to the service and to procure more money for himself and his expensive daughter Milly.īecause his importance grows, he is sent a secretary, Beatrice, and a radioman from London to be under his command. In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. The movie marks Reed's third collaboration with Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch. The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.
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