Fresh
Polished, diverting entertainment, brilliant in its comedy but falling apart towards the end when undertones of drama, tragedy and message crop up.
Variety Staff, Variety
Our Man in Havana
A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !
1960 · 1h 51m · Not Rated
Comedy, Thriller
Directed by
Carol Reed
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.
Director and cast
- Carol Reed Director
- Alec Guinness as Jim Wormold
- Burl Ives as Dr. Hasselbacher
- Maureen O'Hara as Beatrice Severn
- Ernie Kovacs as Capt. Segura
- Noël Coward as Hawthorne
- Ralph Richardson as 'C'
- Jo Morrow as Milly Wormold
- Grégoire Aslan as Cifuentes
- Paul Rogers as Hubert Carter
- Raymond Huntley as General
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
For those who regard Alec Guinness as the niftiest little con man on the screen, we will guarantee Our Man in Havana to be a source of immeasurable fun.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Guinness is in above-average form, and Ernie Kovacs is wonderful as the callous but charming government official with a soft spot for Guinness's daughter.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The mixture of mayhem and heehaw is particularly tricky to handle, and not even the sure hand of Director Reed has always achieved a smooth blend.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
A real 'winds of change' film, with traditional values crumbling in the heat of pre-revolutionary Cuba. Guinness is wonderful.
Time Out
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