Our Man in Havana

Jan 27, 1960

1h 51m

★ 6.7

A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !

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.

Genres

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

Kingsmead Productions

Columbia Pictures

Our Man in Havana Trailers

Cast

Jim Wormold

Alec Guinness

Dr. Hasselbacher

Burl Ives

Beatrice Severn

Maureen O'Hara

Capt. Segura

Ernie Kovacs

Hawthorne

Noël Coward

'C'

Ralph Richardson

Milly Wormold

Jo Morrow

Cifuentes

Grégoire Aslan

Hubert Carter

Paul Rogers

General

Raymond Huntley

Prof. Sanchez

Ferdy Mayne

Admiral

Maurice Denham

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