![]() ![]() One never tortures ecept by mutual agreement. Seguero: Some people expect to be tortured. Wormwold: Are there class distinctions in torture? Seguero: The engineer is not of the torturable class. It’s very funny.A later exchange with Seguero: It’s repeated with Wormwold and a shocked Cuban engineer. Hawthorne: You go in there and I’ll follow you. Noël Coward as Hawthorne, Alec Guinness as Wormwold ![]() He has to recruit a network of agents and is singularly unsuccessful. Wormwold badly needs the money and agrees. Hawthorne recruits him as an agent … reporting on anything and everything. Jim is approached by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) who is Head of the British Secret service in the Caribbean. Jim’s doctor friend is Dr Hasselbacher, played by Burl Ives with a German accent. Milly: He tortures people … but he never touches me. She is being pursued by the nasty chief of police, Captain Segura (Ernie Kovacs). His daughter Milly (Jo Morrow) is fond of horses and expensive living and attends a Catholic school. The plot: Jim Wormwold (Alec Guinness) is a vacuum cleaner salesman, though being British he unashamedly calls it ‘hoover’ with a small h. ![]() The moody night shots with complex lighting obviously reference The Third Man. I was particularly impressed by the depth and rich detail of the shots – you’re in a room but you see through the open balcony windows across the street to the balcony opposite, with things happening. As well as the moody carefully-lit night scenes, we get the brightly lit gleaming daytime Cuba too. ![]()
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