Carol Reed echoes the musical score and, at least latterly, the dynamic compositions of earlier Graham Greene collaboration The Third Man in this 1959 Cuba-set spy outing. Alec Guiness is well cast as Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman covertly recruited by a British Intelligence agent (Noel Coward). In humourous scenes Wormold then clumsily attempts to recruit others in the same manner - notably in a Gent's lavatory.
...After that I'm afraid I lost the thread. Too many spies and their associates to keep track of. But the film is a good watch all the same and you always get the gist of what's going on. The authentic Cuban setting - its people and customs milling around central characters - makes for a refreshing escapism too.
...After that I'm afraid I lost the thread. Too many spies and their associates to keep track of. But the film is a good watch all the same and you always get the gist of what's going on. The authentic Cuban setting - its people and customs milling around central characters - makes for a refreshing escapism too.