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[[Image:havana_poster.jpg|thumb|right|300px|’’Our Man in Havana’’ (1959)]] | [[Image:havana_poster.jpg|thumb|right|300px|’’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 | + | '''''Our Man in Havana''''' (1959) was the second collaboration between director [[Carol Reed]] and writer Graham Greene (''[[The Third Man]]''). The cast included [[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. |
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[[Image:havana17_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold on a mission.]] | [[Image:havana17_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold on a mission.]] | ||
[[Image:havana18_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold confronts the enemy agent with the Colt M1911A1.]] | [[Image:havana18_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold confronts the enemy agent with the Colt M1911A1.]] | ||
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==Colt M1921 Thompson== | ==Colt M1921 Thompson== | ||
Throughout the film, Havana police carry a Colt [[M1921 Thompson]] submachine gun. | Throughout the film, Havana police carry a Colt [[M1921 Thompson]] submachine gun. | ||
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[[Image:havana6_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|At the crime scene.]] | [[Image:havana6_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|At the crime scene.]] | ||
[[Image:havana7_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold is a suspect.]] | [[Image:havana7_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold is a suspect.]] | ||
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− | + | == Karabiner 98k == | |
− | [[Image: | + | [[Karabiner 98k]] rifles can be seen in the Havana police armory. |
− | [[Image:havana3_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Cifuentes (Grégoire Aslan, as Gregoire Aslan) accuses Wormold.]] | + | [[Image:Mauser98-Amberg1.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser. The only visual difference between the 98b and 98k is the 98b has a 29.1" barrel and correspondingly longer stock.]] |
− | [[Image:havana4_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Wormold contemplates his predicament.]] | + | [[Image:havana3_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|The rifles are seen in the back as Cifuentes (Grégoire Aslan, as Gregoire Aslan) accuses Wormold.]] |
+ | [[Image:havana4_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|The rifles are seen on the left as Wormold contemplates his predicament.]] | ||
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==Unidentified Revolvers== | ==Unidentified Revolvers== | ||
[[Image:havana19_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|The enemy agent returns fire.]] | [[Image:havana19_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|The enemy agent returns fire.]] | ||
− | [[Image:havana1_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Hawthorne (Noël Coward) welcomes a guest.]] | + | |
+ | ==Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless== | ||
+ | Hawthorne (Noël Coward) welcomes a guest as he holds what appears to be a [[Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless]] revolver. | ||
+ | [[Image:S&Wsafetyhammerless.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless "Lemon Squeezer" - .32 WCF.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:havana1_sm.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Hawthorne (Noël Coward) welcomes a guest as he holds the revolver.]] | ||
[[Category:Movie]] | [[Category:Movie]] |
Revision as of 00:05, 7 April 2013
Our Man in Havana (1959) was the second collaboration between director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene (The Third Man). The cast included 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.
Colt M1921 Thompson
Throughout the film, Havana police carry a Colt M1921 Thompson submachine gun.
Karabiner 98k
Karabiner 98k rifles can be seen in the Havana police armory.
Unidentified Revolvers
Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless
Hawthorne (Noël Coward) welcomes a guest as he holds what appears to be a Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless revolver.