Our Man In Havana Details

FINE CAST, FINE FORM

Don't bother renting any new films, re-discover old classics instead.

You can't go wrong with this cast and Greene's writing.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Fancy a Guinness?

Consumate actor though he was Alec Guinness enjoys, in my view, a somewhat over-inflated reputation. This film provides evidence of both his ability and of his rather irritating theatrical ticks. Guinness plays a Brit running a vacuum cleaner store in Havana who, via a trail of misunderstandings, is considered to be just the right type to carry out spying duties for the paranoid British government. Guinness feeds his masters improbable tidbits in order to keep the expenses rolling in. Based on a Graham Greene novel this ironic tale of politicos and spies is largely (and for me surprisingly) enjoyable.