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Our Man in Havana (1959) Rank 2 Reviews
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Like The Third Man, Our Man in Havana was an 'entertainment' picture, consisting of Greene's familiar casserole of sly wit, intricately plotted melodrama and social squalor - all of it lightly topped with a sprinkling of holy water. A snug arrangement ...read the complete Our Man in Havana movie review at Britmovie
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This movie was filmed a few months after Castro came to power but is set before. Some of the negative aspects of pre Castro Cuba are exaggarated, but this film is a spy movie set against the backdrop of the more seedier aspects of life in Havana at the ...
by Russell E. Scott on March 01, 2009
While innuendo and scuttlebutt battle as different sides of the same coin in Our Man From Havana we are presented a dilemma. Is this truly `espionage in an exotic land' or a dark comedy on trials and tribulations of a start up business in a foreign ...
by F. S. L'hoir on February 14, 2009
Collaborating for a third time with director Carol Reed ["Fallen Idol"; "The Third Man"], Graham Greene has written a script, based upon his novel "Our Man in Havana," which effervesces like vintage champagne, its humor, both dry and subtle, radiating a ...
by pwmeek "pwmeek" on February 03, 2009
At last this great Alec Guiness classic is available. Most of his good comedies came out in a multi-pack years ago, but this was inexplicably missing. ...
by Anonymous "Purcha... on January 30, 2009
"Our Man in Havana" is a thoroughly entertaining movie. A masterful mixture of the funny and the disturbingly grim, it is even better than the Graham Greene novel on which it is based. The cast is splendid, and includes the great Alec Guiness as "The ...
by C. O. DeRiemer on January 10, 2009
Our Man in Havana is an excellent, sly black comedy with a screenplay by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. James Wormold (Alec Guinness) is a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana. He's getting by but needs more money to take care of his teen-aged ...
by Richard P. Byrne ... on January 03, 2009
A simply wonderful adaptation by Graham Greene of his book about how an unwitting British expatriate who is having difficulty supporting his daughter's expensive habits as a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited to become a secret agent for the ...
by Hedgman Dent Smit... on March 10, 2009
Classic British comedy and more. Guinness and Ives are wonderful but Ernie Kovacs and Noel Coward are fantastic too. When people would ask me what going to a much less traveled Caribbean in the '70s I would say it was like stepping into a Graham Greene ...
by David Baldwin on September 04, 2009
This flick should have everything going for it. Directed by Carol Reed from a story by Graham Greene who previously collaborated on the greatest British noir, "The Third Man". A top-notch cast led by Alec Guiness and Maureen O'Hara. Alas, it's the ...
by Robert C. Cumbow on April 12, 2009
Guinness, Greene, and Reed, but for all that, this film never seems to find the right tone: not funny enough to be comedy nor dramatic enough to be drama, OUR MAN IN HAVANA is most interesting for the disconcertingly un-typical and out-of-step ...
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