When something is wrong with the car, Wormold can rely on his daughter Milly, whereas Beatrice, the secretary sent from London to help out, is the quick-witted one who takes resolute action. The women in his life are altogether more ressourceful. A vague, middle aged man with a limp, no clear purpose in life and limited initiative. He is an antihero, the antithesis to James Bond.
You can’t help sympathising with James Wormold.
Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene actually met in Havana in 1959, but according to, there was no love lost between them.Īlec Guinness & Maureen O’Hara as Wormold and Beatrice Incidentally it is written in the 1950s just as The Old Man and the Sea. Our Man in Havana has a proper Cuba setting and I enjoyed being brought back to the streets of Havana. But now I am trying to make up for it.Įarlier this week I wrote about Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea which primarily takes place on the sea and thus provides limited Cuba flavour. As it has happened with numerous plans during the course of time, this one utterly failed to materialise. However, absurd humour and making fun of authorities – in this case the British Secret Service – has never scared me off.Ī while ago I planned to read some Cuba related literature before going on holiday to Cuba. The premise for Our Man in Havana does sound like a bad joke. Oh, have you heard the one about the vacuum cleaner salesman who accidently became a spy and sent drawings of his vacuum cleaner components to HQ pretending they were military installations?
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