'Our Man in Havana' is
a comic look at international espionage and the role and
unreliability of informants in state affairs and although it shows
its age by some of its inappropriate racial references it is also
ahead of its time in its predictions.
I left London for
Havana, having read Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene, set in
both London and Havana and planning to watch the Alex Guinness black
and white version while there. We watched it noticing we had passed
Sloppy Joes, one of the locations on the film and while we sat eating
sloppy joes at the home of the original sloppy joe, on the TV
appeared Our Man in Havana.
Today the messages
still hold true, whether they are black and white on the page on on
the screen:
'Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?'
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