Our Man in Havana (film)

Our Man in Havana
theatrical poster
Directed byCarol Reed
Written byGraham Greene
Produced byCarol Reed
StarringAlec Guinness
Burl Ives
Ralph Richardson
Noël Coward
Maureen O'Hara
Ernie Kovacs
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byBert Bates
Music byFrank Deniz
Laurence Deniz
Production
company
Kingsmead Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 30 December 1959 (1959-12-30)
(UK)
  • January 27, 1960 (1960-01-27)
(USA)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch. The movie marks Reed's third collaboration with Greene.[5]

  1. ^ "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  2. ^ Variety film review; 13 January 1960, page 7.
  3. ^ Monthly Film Bulletin review; 1960, page 4.
  4. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; 30 January 1960, page 18.
  5. ^ Before was The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949)