Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.

Based on the novel by Graham Greene. DVD release of the 1959 motion picture. Special features: original trailer ; Martini minutes: "Secrets of seduction" and "How to travel in style.".