Our Man in Havana

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Our Man in Havana is a 1959 satirical spy film, based on Graham Greene’s novel, about a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Cuba who becomes an accidental British secret agent.

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instanceOf film
authorOfSourceWork Graham Greene NERFINISHED
basedOn Our Man in Havana NERFINISHED
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castMember Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
Burl Ives NERFINISHED
Duncan Macrae NERFINISHED
Ernie Kovacs NERFINISHED
Gregoire Aslan NERFINISHED
Jo Morrow NERFINISHED
John Le Mesurier NERFINISHED
Maureen O’Hara NERFINISHED
Maurice Denham NERFINISHED
Noël Coward NERFINISHED
Paul Rogers NERFINISHED
Rachel Roberts NERFINISHED
Ralph Richardson NERFINISHED
Raymond Huntley NERFINISHED
Ronald Fraser NERFINISHED
Walter Gotell NERFINISHED
cinematographer Oswald Morris NERFINISHED
composer Frank Skinner NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Carol Reed NERFINISHED
distributor Columbia Pictures
editor Bert Bates NERFINISHED
fictionalAgency British Secret Service NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Havana NERFINISHED
London, England
surface form: London
genre black comedy
satire
spy comedy
leadActor Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
mainCharacter James Wormold NERFINISHED
narrativeTheme Cold War espionage
bureaucratic absurdity
satire of intelligence services
originalLanguage English
producer Carol Reed NERFINISHED
protagonistOccupation vacuum-cleaner salesman
publicationYearOfSourceNovel 1958
releaseYear 1959
screenwriter Graham Greene NERFINISHED
settingCountry Cuba NERFINISHED
settingLocation Havana NERFINISHED

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The Quiet American followedBy Our Man in Havana
Alec Guinness notableWork Our Man in Havana
Burl Ives notableWork Our Man in Havana
this entity surface form: Our Man in Havana (1959 film)
Carol Reed notableWork Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene notableWork Our Man in Havana