The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
127 audience votes
Key crew
- Carol ReedDirector
- Laurence DenizOriginal Music Composer
- Graham GreeneScreenplay
- Frank DenizOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Alec GuinnessJim Wormold
- Burl IvesDr. Hasselbacher
- Maureen O'HaraBeatrice Severn
- Ernie KovacsCaptain Segura
- Noël CowardHawthorne
- Ralph RichardsonC
- Jo MorrowMilly Wormold
- Grégoire AslanCifuentes
- Paul RogersHubert Carter
- Raymond HuntleyGeneral
- Ferdy MayneProfessor Sanchez
- Maurice DenhamAdmiral
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookcubaspysalespersonblack and whitesingle fatherbritish secret servicevacuum cleanerhavana, cubabritish intelligence