OUR MAN IN HAVANA

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_Content Graham Greene's satirical story about the unassuming vacuum cleaner salesman who 'works' as a British agent in pre-Castro Cuba, fabricating reports about wonder weapons and thereby triggering real dangers. Film Service _Context Reed's fascination with the absurdity of espionage from [The Third Man] continues, also in aesthetic terms, with some disturbingly skewed film noir camera angles ('dutch angles'), which are not overused here – and with the ever-reliable Sir Alec Guinness in the lead role. The backdrop of pre-revolutionary Havana serves as the archetypal perception of Havana as a chic, tropical metropolis for the colonial elite. An extremely British, playfully irreverent satire. Mubi Contributors and additional information: GB 1959 103 min. Sw. DCP. E/d Director: Carol Reed Screenplay: Graham Greene Cinematography: Oswald Morris Editing: Bert Bates Music: Frank Deniz, Laurence Deniz Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward