Carol Reed’s production for Columbia sent Alec Guinness and an all-star cast to film in Castro’s Cuba. For the Cuban-set Our Man in Havana Greene took a personal hand and wrote the screenplay himself. Mankiewicz mangled Greene’s Vietnam-set The Quiet American, inverting the author’s message about C.I.A. Novelist and real-life intelligence operative Graham Greene had a knack for living in exotic locations just before they became international hot spots, whether in Africa or in the Far East. One of the best pre-James Bond spy pictures is this brilliant yet lumpy adventure with an historically unique setting - it was filmed in Castro’s Cuba, just after the revolution and just before relations between Cuba and the U.S. Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Gregoire Aslan. Street Date Ma/ Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95 The filmmakers and stars are all top caliber, and the location is legendary: Castro’s Cuba, immediately after the revolution.ġ959 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 107 min. The pre-Bond espionage genre lights up with cool intrigues and comic absurdities, as a Brit vacuum salesman in Havana is recruited to spy for Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It’s Obi-Wan versus Fidel! Well, not really.
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