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Our Man in Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene. Greene uses the novel to mock intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants. The book predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, but certain aspects of the plot, notably the role of missile ...
English. Box office. $2,000,000 (US/ Canada) [1] Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. [2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.
To research the novel le Carré visited Panama on five occasions. [2] The book was inspired by Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. [3] Le Carré likens the tale to a "Casablanca without heroes," stating that he, "was drawn by the obvious corruption of Panama and the wonderful collection of characters you meet there."
The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 spy thriller film directed by John Boorman from a screenplay he co-wrote with John le Carré and Andrew Davies. Based on le Carré's 1996 novel of the same name, it stars Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush. Rush portrays the title character, a former convict turned tailor who is strong-armed by an amoral MI6 agent ...
The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later, many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it a novel, even though, as a work decidedly comic in tone, it appeared closer to his last two entertainments, Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana , than to any ...
The Quiet American is a 1958 American drama romance thriller war film. It was the first film adaptation of Graham Greene 's bestselling 1955 novel of the same name, [3] and one of the first films to deal with the geo-politics of Indochina. [4] It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and stars Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and ...
The Kingdom of This World (Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction, it tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture, as seen by its central ...
Carlos will end up there, too, and fulfill his mother's dreams by becoming a modern American man- even if his soul remains in the country he left behind. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere." [3]