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"Hallmark Hall of Fame" The Tenth Man

1988, USA

• Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Brenda Bruce, Timothy Watson, Paul Rogers, Peter Jonfield, Geoffrey Bayldon, Michael Attwell, Jim Carter, Robert Morgan, Patrice Valota, John Bennett, Alan Rossett, Guy Matchord, François Lalande, Sébastien Floche, Eva Schmidt, Brigitte Barilley
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Jack Gold
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel who, while imprisoned by the Germans during the occupation, trades his material possessions to another prisoner in exchange for his life when condemned to the firing squad. At the end of the war, Chavel, posing as one of the other prisoners, returns to his home which is now occupied by Therese, the sister of the prisoner he traded his possessions to, and who bitterly awaits the return of the man who had indirectly caused the death of her brother. His real identity unknown to Therese, Chavel is invited to stay as a caretaker and to identify Chavel should he return to the house. The relationship between Chavel and Therese develops until one night, someone calling himself Chavel turns up at their doorstep.

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Our Man in Havana

1959, UK

• Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Joseph P. Mawra, Duncan Macrae, Gerik Schjelderup, Hugh Manning, Karel Stepanek, Maxine Audley, Elisabeth Welch, Yvonne Buckingham, Enrique Almirante, René de la Cruz, Madeleine Kasket, Shan Lawrence, John Le Mesurier, Anne Padwick, Rachel Roberts
• Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
• Director(s): Carol Reed
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.