5/8/2023 0 Comments Our man in havana book review![]() ![]() Above, Hemingway with Alec Guinness and Noel Coward during filming. Describing his work on set the next day, Coward wrote in his diary: “On Monday all I did was walk about the streets very fast watched by thousands of bewildered Cubans and surrounded, for protection only, by hirsute armed policemen.” Greene in Havana during filming. He appeared rigid in a tight-fitting blue woolen suit and stiff white collar, topped with a homburg-the stereotypical and incongruous Englishman in the tropics, with an umbrella to boot.Ĭoward had composed and sung the classic 1930s ditty “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” decrying those expatriates foolhardy enough to emerge under the oppressive midday sun in tropical foreign climes. SIS’s man in the Caribbean Henry Hawthorne (played by Noël Coward) was dressed less fittingly for the ninety-plus-degree-Fahrenheit heat. It added, “Graham Greene stood under a crumbling archway, behind the camera, a Leica dangling from his neck, intently watching and occasionally recording the goings-on.” Meanwhile, Carol Reed directed in a light linen open-necked Cuban guayabera hanging loosely over his trousers. The New York Times described a band of roving musicians and assorted tropical fruits arranged neatly on a corner stand and a cart laden with colorful local flowers. ![]() Shooting of background scenes on Our Man in Havana began on Sunday, Apin Plaza Vieja, a cobblestoned square with chrome yellow façades, and former location for bartering and selling slaves. ![]()
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