| Edition |
Widescreen. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Martini movies. |
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Martini movies.
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| System Details |
DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital. |
| Cast |
Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow. |
| Credits |
Photographed by Oswald Morris ; editing, Bert Bates. |
| Note |
Based on the novel by Graham Greene. |
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DVD release of the 1959 motion picture. |
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Disc label contains recipe for a "Cuban Martini". |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Special features: original trailer ; Martini minutes: "Secrets of seduction" and "How to travel in style." |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Sales personnel -- England -- Drama.
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Agents provocateurs -- England -- Drama.
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Official secrets -- Cuba -- Havana -- Drama.
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Swindlers and swindling -- Cuba -- Havana -- Drama.
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Criminal behavior -- Cuba -- Havana -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
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Reed, Carol, 1906-1976.
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Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.
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Ives, Burl, 1909-1995.
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O'Hara, Maureen, 1920-2015
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Kovacs, Ernie, 1919-1962.
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
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Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983.
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Morrow, Jo, 1939-
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Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
Our man in Havana.
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Columbia Pictures Corporation.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1435944399 |
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9781435944398 |
| Standard No. |
043396285668 |
| Music No. |
28566 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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