In 1959, a decade on from The Third Man, Carol Reed’s partnership with Graham Greene was revived with Our Man in Havana. Starring a memorable Alec Guinness as James Wormold, a floundering vacuum-cleaner salesman recruited as a spy by the British Secret Service in Cuba under the Batista regime. Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum cleaner parts to increase his value to the service. The fabrications are doubled down upon again when his cables are intercepted by the enemy and, taken at face value, play out with a comedic touch.
Writing for eyeforfilm.co.uk in 2015, reviewer Jeff Robson reckoned on a film that compared favourably with its predecessor, “richly rewarding while undoubtedly lighter in tone, shares many of the same themes and has the same literate worldliness ... And like The Third Man, it looks simply stunning.”
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