Our Man in Havana

’’Our Man in Havana’’ (1959)

Our Man in Havana (1959) was the second collaboration between director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene (The Third Man). The movie starred Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, and Ralph Richardson and was filmed entirely on location in Havana and London. A ne’er-do-well Hoover vacuum salesman in pre-revolutionary Cuba, Jim Wormold (Guinness) is hand-picked by the British secret service to be “their man in Havana,” with surprising complications for the British, enemy agents, and the Havana Police Department

The following weapons were used in the film Our Man in Havana:

M1911A1

Throughout the film, Havana police Captain Segura (Ernie Kovacs) carries a Colt M1911A1 pistol with a Cuban flag grip.

World War II Colt M1911A1 Pistol - .45 ACP

Segura’s M1911A1 with Cuban flag grip.

The lecherous Segura flirts with a nun .

The checkers game.

Wormold relieves a drunken Segura of his weapon.

Wormold on a mission.

Wormold confronts the enemy agent with the Colt M1911A1.

Colt M1921 Thompson

Throughout the film, Havana police carry a Colt M1921 Thompson submachine gun.

Colt M1921A Thompson with 20-round magazine - .45 ACP

At the Havana country club.

At the crime scene.

Wormold is a suspect.

M1 Garand

Throughout the film, M1 Garands can be seen in the Havana police armory.

M1 Garand semiautomatic Rifle with leather M1917 sling - .30-06

Cifuentes (Grégoire Aslan, as Gregoire Aslan) accuses Wormold.

Wormold contemplates his predicament.

Unidentified Revolvers

The enemy agent returns fire.

Hawthorne (Noël Coward) welcomes a guest.