Our Man in Havana
(1960)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 127 votes
Year: 1960
Runtime: 111 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Алек Гиннесс, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, Ральф Ричардсон, Jo Morrow, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Raymond Huntley
Plot
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.
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. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.