Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler was born in Charlton, South-East London...
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Representatives former member Eric Alterman (born 1960), American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator Eric Ambler (born 1909), English...
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Uncommon Danger (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
writer Eric Ambler, published in 1937. It was published in the United States as Background To Danger. In his autobiography, Here Lies Eric Ambler, Ambler explains...
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The Light of Day is a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler. Arthur Abdel Simpson, the narrator, was born in Egypt to an Egyptian mother and a British soldier father...
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film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and the lingering effects...
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Epitaph for a Spy (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
Epitaph for a Spy is a 1938 spy novel by Eric Ambler. Josef Vadassy is a Hungarian refugee who is effectively stateless. He was born in Szabadka, then...
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gallant preacher a man to be pitied and admired. However, we fear that Eric Ambler, who wrote the script, has let him down toward the end and permitted...
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War drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov. The film stars David Niven, Stanley Holloway and William...
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screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht), based on...
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contemporary John le Carré and his literary antecedents W. Somerset Maugham, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene. Deighton's fictional work is marked by...
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The Levanter (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
The Levanter is a 1972 novel by Eric Ambler. Michael Howell is a "levantine mongrel" who has inherited his family's Middle-Eastern business. He is forced...
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historical disaster film, directed by Roy Ward Baker. Its screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1955 book by Walter Lord, depicting the sinking of the...
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The Mask of Dimitrios (novel) (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
1939 novel by Eric Ambler. In the United States it was published as A Coffin for Dimitrios. The book is sometimes regarded as Ambler's finest, however...
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was originally going to be directed by Ronald Neame, who arranged for Eric Ambler to write and produce. The three stars were to be Ann Todd, Marius Goring...
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Suspicion ("The Eye of Truth" with Joseph Cotten based on a script by Eric Ambler). The Strange One came out in April 1957 but despite some strong reviews...
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Doctor Frigo (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
Doctor Frigo is a 1974 novel by Eric Ambler. Dr. Ernesto Castillo is a young, cynical physician living and practicing on the fictional French-Caribbean...
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is walking in the tracks Bony made 50 years ago." He also mentioned Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and Raymond Chandler as authors who influenced him as...
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Corporation. The film was a project of the Festival of Britain and adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister. This biographical drama...
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Passage of Arms (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
"Thomas Jones on thriller writer Eric Ambler". TheGuardian.com. 5 June 2009. Pace, Eric (24 October 1998). "Eric Ambler, Thriller Writer Who Elevated the...
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film's production and release, O'Neal appeared in a TV movie written by Eric Ambler, Love Hate Love (1971), which received good ratings. He also made a Western...
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Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based on the 1937 novel Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to...
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A Kind of Anger (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
Anger is a novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, first published in 1964. Like many of Ambler's post-war novels the thriller plot is laced with...
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spy film noir directed by Norman Foster, based on the 1940 novel by Eric Ambler . The film broadly follows the plot of the book, but the protagonist...
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The Schirmer Inheritance (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
The Schirmer Inheritance is a 1953 novel by Eric Ambler. It was adapted for television in 1957 by ITV. George Carey is a former WWII bomber pilot and...
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the émigré American film director Jules Dassin. The film is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (1962), adapted as a screenplay by Monja Danischewsky...
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Virginia McKenna, Richard Harris, and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. A phantom...
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to depose the king of Syldavia. Literary critic John Sutherland says Eric Ambler brought the Ruritanian romance to "its highest pitch" with his 1939 novel...
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Bennett. In America, the film was titled The Promoter. It was adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie...
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by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's grimmest moments. The film stars Jack Hawkins...
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by Frank Gruber, based on the 1939 novel of the same title written by Eric Ambler. Scott played the title role, of Dimitrios Makropoulos, in his film debut...
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