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...Havana. Graham Greene's novel makes a Britannically amusing film that begins as a good mockery of international spies, ends on the strop of political satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward...
...Havana. Ably abetted by Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, Director Carol Reed has turned out a screen version of Graham Greene's bestseller that starts as a wonderfully silly spoof of a spy thriller and winds up tickling the ribs with the stiletto of political satire...
...Havana. Ably abetted by Alec Guinness, Director Carol Reed has turned out a screen version of Graham Greene's bestseller that starts as a wonderfully silly spoof of a spy thriller and winds up tickling the ribs with the well-sharpened stiletto of political satire...
...Havana (Kingsmead; Columbia), Carol Reed's screen version of Graham Greene's bestselling thriller, starts out like a conventional Alec Guinness comedy, a wonderfully silly spoof of a spy thriller. But before long, the attentive spectator will understand that Greene, Reed, Guinness & Co. are tickling his ribs with the well-sharpened stiletto of political satire, and he may not entirely relish the sensation...
...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...