Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bonnie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!wjh From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Message-ID: <530@bonnie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:25:50 EDT Article-I.D.: bonnie.530 Posted: Fri Aug 16 10:25:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:04:28 EDT References: <3652@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 22 > > Yes there is a good movie of "Our Man In Havana", but it stars Alec Guiness! > And don't forget Ernie Kovacs as the Cuban policeman and friend/advesary of Alec. BTW, the book by is by Graham Greene, who has written a number of books which are both 'good reads' as well as good literature. He used to spend much of his time as a journalist in various foreign countries, and usually wrote a novel set in each locale where he spent a lot of time--Havana, Mexico, Haitii (under Papa Doc), Vienna (right after WWII--The Third Man), Spain, Africa, and even the US (he's English). One of my favorites is one that was written in the late fifties and takes place in Viet Nam before the French left. When I read it the early 70's, I had to keep checking the copyright date to be sure it was that old-- everything he wrote about the French in the early fifties was just the same as the Americans fifteen years later! I don't recall the name of the book off-hand; Ill post it when I check my library at home. Bill Hery