“A real ‘winds of change’ film, with traditional values crumbling in the heat of pre-revolutionary Cuba. Guinness is wonderful…the film cleverly captures the confusion of optimism, cynicism, and money-grubbing greed of the ‘never had it so good’ years.”
– Time Out London
“A disarmingly humorous film…slyly impious…all of it sparkling with the drolleries of able actors and the witty sarcasm of Mr. Greene.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
Our Man in Havana (1959) is the great Graham Greene’s saucy adaptation of his own novel, starring the singular Alec Guinness as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in pre-revolutionary Cuba, bizarrely recruited (by Noel Coward, no less) as a British Intelligence spy. As his imagination turns out to be more highly developed than his espionage skills, the plot thickens. An extraordinary cast also includes Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara, Ernie Kovacs, and Ralph Richardson; notably the film, gloriously directed by Carol Reed in his third collaboration with Greene, was shot in Havana just two months after the fall of the Batista regime, with the full permission of Fidel Castro.
LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 2.35:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1959 / B&W
107 MINUTES
NOT RATED
Special Features: Isolated Music & Effects Track / Original Theatrical Trailer
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units