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Spy | Cuba
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Best Motion Picture Comedy | 1961
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1961
Fidel Castro's government gave permission for this movie, which presents the fallen regime of Fulgencio Batista in an unflattering light, and also condemns American and British meddling, to shoot on-location in Havana, only a few months after the revolution. It was completed during the brief period in 1959 before Cuba had aligned itself with the Soviet Union.
Sir Alfred Hitchcock was interested in making a movie based on Graham Greene's novel, and competed for the rights. The writer wasn't keen on Hitchcock, however, after his days as a film critic, so he chose to work instead with Producer and Director Carol Reed.
Ernie Kovacs reportedly smoked twenty-five Cuban cigars every day.
The Cuban scenes were filmed over a period of five weeks, and were frequently interrupted by local Cuban residents getting very excited by all the filming.
Filmed on-location in Havana three months after Fidel Castro's January 1959 revolution, the script had to be submitted to Cuba's Ministry of the Interior, which insisted that thirty-nine changes be made to make it appear that life during the Batista regime was more unfavorable.
"Jim Wormold: Everything's legal in Havana."
"Jim Wormold: Do you remember the day when she set fire to Thomas Earl Parkman Jr. and they had to push him in the fountain to put him out? Dr. Hasselbacher: She was only 13 then. Jim Wormold: She grew up so quickly. Sometimes I wish she'd set fire to someone again. Dr. Hasselbacher: She will. Jim Wormold: And I don't mean in that way."
