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A novel by Graham Greene about a vacuum cleaner salesman who becomes a spy in Cuba and invents fictitious reports to impress his British handlers. The book satirizes the Cold War and the intelligence services, and was adapted into a film, an opera and a play.
Our Man in Havana. Expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold agrees to work as an agent, and to recruit new agents, for the British Secret Service in Cuba, but he soon realizes that his deceptive ways are going to get him in trouble.
The film is based on Graham Greene's novel and stars Alec Guinness as a vacuum cleaner salesman who invents agents and plans for the British Secret Intelligence Service in pre-revolutionary Cuba. It was directed by Carol Reed and received positive reviews from critics.
Watch a 1959 British spy comedy/drama film based on Graham Greene's novel, starring Alec Guinness as a vacuum cleaner salesman turned spy in pre-revolutionary Cuba. The film is directed by Carol Reed and also features Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.
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 ...
Learn about the plot, setting, and themes of Our Man in Havana, a comic spy story by Graham Greene set in Cuba before the revolution. Find out more about Greene's life, works, and style as a novelist and journalist.
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.
