Directed by:
Carol ReedScreenplay:
Graham GreeneCinematography:
Oswald MorrisCast:
Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers, Jo Morrow, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Karel Štěpánek (more)Plots(1)
Based on the novel by Graham Greene, British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country club membership, which leaves him desperate for money. When Hawthorne (Noel Coward) proposes he become a paid British agent and recruit other spies, he accepts, and haplessly embarks on a new career. (Mediumrare Entertainment)
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Thanks to the fact that Graham Greene was (and still is) considered to be one of the very best writers of serious spy novels, he could get away with writing a lighter version of the same. Although, lighter... In fact this is an absolutely serious spy thriller through and through; just the personable main protagonist and the bureaucratic claptrap lighten the mood. And the humor is sparing and based on the fact that you know how a regular hero of this genre would behave in the situations that Wormold finds himself in.
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