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Our man in Havana

Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His life is irrevocably changed when he was recruited and pressed into service as an agent, which he agrees to so he can earn extra money for his daughter. He does not actually engage in any actual espionage. Instead, he invents facts on his reports and recruits fictitious agents. He soon discovers that his imagination is going to take a life of its own when his reports are taken seriously in London.

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  • "Il nostro agente All'Avana"
  • "Nuestro hombre en La Habana"
  • "Unser Mann in Havanna"

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  • "Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His life is irrevocably changed when he was recruited and pressed into service as an agent, which he agrees to so he can earn extra money for his daughter. He does not actually engage in any actual espionage. Instead, he invents facts on his reports and recruits fictitious agents. He soon discovers that his imagination is going to take a life of its own when his reports are taken seriously in London."@en
  • "Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle."@en
  • "Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His daughter Milly, 17, spends a lot of money. So he agrees to work for the Intelligence Service. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and to discover secret installations. Of course, one day all will become much harder."@en
  • "In dieser klassischen Spionageparodie nach Graham Greenes Roman spielt ALEC GUINNESS die Rolle des Jim Wormold, eines Exilbriten, der sich in Havanna seinen Lebensunterhalt als Staubsaugervertreter verdient. Sein Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als er von Hawthorne (NOEL COWARD) als Agent für den Geheimdienst M.I.5 angeworben wird. Widerwillig erklärt er sich einverstanden, um zusätzliches Geld für die Erziehung seiner 17-jährigen Tochter zu verdienen. Wormold nimmt seinen Spionageauftrag jedoch nicht sonderlich ernst. Stattdessen erfindet er Fakten und wirbt imaginäre Agenten an. Doch seine Berichte finden in London große Beachtung, und zwei weitere Agenten - ein Funker und eine Sekretärin (MAUREEN O'HARA) - werden zu Wormolds Unterstützung nach Havanna geschickt. Sehr schnell wird ihm bewusst, dass seine Fantasiegeschichten ein reges Eigenleben entwickelt haben."

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  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Havana (Cuba)"@en
  • "Feature films"@en

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  • "Our man in Havanna"
  • "Our man in Havana = Unser Mann in Havanna = Il nostro agente All'Avana = Nuestro hombre en La Habana"
  • "Our man in Havana"
  • "Our man in Havana"@en
  • "Our man in Havanna Unser Mann in Havanna = Il nostro agente all'Avana"

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