THE FILM
FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Duffell
SCREENWRITER: Desmond Cory, Peter Duffell
FILM STARS: Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, Joss Ackland, Michael Hordern, Tessa Wyatt
COUNTRY: Great Britain
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: Graham Greene
TYPE: Novel
PUBLISHER: Penguin
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1974
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1935 (republished as “The Shipwrecked” in 1953)
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The film title
NOTES
GENRE: Drama
WORDS: Neither seen nor read though I can say that the book’s locale is changed from Stockholm, Sweden to Nazi Germany circa 1935, and the tone of the book is changed from dramatic, comic and satirical to melodramatic (apparently). I note some of the locations were filmed in my father’s neck of the woods, Opatija, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). That has nothing to do with the book.
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