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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ann Todd requested her husband David Lean direct the film version. Eric Ambler worked on the script originally but fell ill and withdrew, replaced by...
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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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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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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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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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the film was made as part of the Festival of Britain and adapted by Eric Ambler from a biography by Ray Allister. The film presents a dramatized account...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Dark Frontier (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
nuclear weapons Caterson, Simon (2000). "Eric Ambler's dark frontiers". Quadrant. 44 (1–2): 87–88. "Obituary: Eric Ambler". The Independent. London. 23 October...
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axis...cocked the biggest snook yet at the League of Nations idea" by Eric Ambler in his Cause for Alarm. I've got your nose Mooning Reverse V sign The...
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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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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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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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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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wanted a comeback vehicle and commissioned Eric Ambler to write a film specifically as a vehicle for Lockwood. Ambler had recently specialised in melodramas...
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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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Harrison married thriller novelist Eric Ambler in 1958; the couple remained married until her death in 1994. She and Ambler lived in London for the last 20...
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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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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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