CAST:
Alec Guinness,
Noel Coward,
Burl Ives

SCRIPT:
Graham Green

Synopsis:
Jim Wormold is an English vacuum-cleaner salesman on Cuba, at the time when the revolution is in full swing. Hawthorne, member of the British secret service, in search of information from Cuba, recruits Jim for his spy. Jim has no experience in this line of work, but has a daughter Milly, who is a spendthrift, so he agrees to do it because of the money Hawthorne has offered him. In order to make his new boss happy and ensure a constant income, Jim starts inventing reports on Cuba, recruiting non-existent agents, and finally delivers a master plan for Cuba’s secret new weapon…>An extremely funny satire on the subject of the cold war, that was not very successful at the box-office.

b/w, 111 min