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.
Directed by Carol Reed
based on novel or book
cuba
spy
salesperson
black and white
single father
british secret service
vacuum cleaner
havana, cuba
british intelligence
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Cast
Alec Guinness
Jim Wormold
Burl Ives
Dr. Hasselbacher
Maureen O'Hara
Beatrice Severn
Ernie Kovacs
Capt. Segura
Noël Coward
Hawthorne
Ralph Richardson
'C'
Jo Morrow
Milly Wormold
Grégoire Aslan
Cifuentes
Paul Rogers
Hubert Carter
Raymond Huntley
General
Ferdy Mayne
Prof. Sanchez
Maurice Denham
Admiral
Crew
Carol Reed
Director
Graham Greene
Screenplay
Carol Reed
Producer
Graham Greene
Novel
Gerry O'Hara
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
6 reviews
mimi
6.0★ · 12/30/25
would everything be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
when you accidentally become important at work
would everything be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
