What is Our Man in Havana / The Detective about?

OUR MAN IN HAVANA, 1959, Sony Repertory, 111 min. Director Carol Reed’s (THE THIRD MAN) droll soufflé of Graham Greene’s novel. Alec Guinness, a vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-Castro Cuba, agrees to spy for his country, but is inept at recruiting intelligence contacts. Friend, Burl Ives, advises he make them up. Soon pleased UK bosses send secretary, Maureen O’Hara, and Soviet agents start trying to kill him. With Ernie Kovacs. THE DETECTIVE, 1954, Sony Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Robert Hamer. Alec Guinness is G. K. Chesterton’s detective, Father Brown. Pursuing jewel thief, Peter Finch, Brown is as eager to save the man’s soul as recover the loot. Constantly amusing, co-starring Joan Greenwood and Bernard Lee (M in the early Bond films) as a police inspector whose patience is

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What is Our Man in Havana / The Detective about?: OUR MAN IN HAVANA, 1959, Sony Repertory, 111 min. Director Carol Reed’s (THE THIRD MAN) droll soufflé of Graham Greene’s novel. Alec Guinness, a vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-Castro Cuba, agrees to spy for his country, but is inept at recruiting intelligence contacts. Friend, Burl Ives, advises he make them up. Soon pleased UK bosses send secretary, Maureen O’Hara, and Soviet agents start trying to kill him. With Ernie Kovacs.

THE DETECTIVE, 1954, Sony Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Robert Hamer. Alec Guinness is G. K. Chesterton’s detective, Father Brown. Pursuing jewel thief, Peter Finch, Brown is as eager to save the man’s soul as recover the loot. Constantly amusing, co-starring Joan Greenwood and Bernard Lee (M in the early Bond films) as a police inspector whose patience is