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Our Man in Havana

1960 · 111 min

A dryly amusing spy caper that balances bureaucratic absurdity with real danger, carried by a wonderfully cast ensemble and a gently tense atmosphere.

Tagline: A murderously funny story, magnificently cast... marvelously made !
Overview: 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.

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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: deception
conspiracy
family
class
identity
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	7
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: comedy, thriller
Directed by: Carol Reed
Written by: Graham Greene
Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Grégoire Aslan
Music: Laurence Deniz, Frank Deniz
Cinematography: Oswald Morris
Runtime: 111 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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