With such a wonderful cast you would imagine that this would be a wonderful film. But it wasn't what I expected at all. I like Alec Guinness very much but felt there was something distinctly lacking in this film. I felt sort of the same way watching 'The Man in The White Suit.' Guinness plays the owner of a vacuum cleaner shop in Cuba who is roped into recruiting a network of spies by the British Secret Service. He doesn't have a clue what he is doing however which leads to some very interesting situations.
If you compare his acting range in this to him in 'The Ladykillers' you would be forgiven in thinking it was another actor.
Not as much as a masterpiece from the normally excellent Carol Reed as I had hoped.
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