• Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. Ambler was born in Charlton, South-East...
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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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    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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    has two children: Sienna Rose Ambler (born 1 September 2000) India Tani Ambler (born 13 November 2003) James Patrick Ambler (born 10 June 1967 in Oxford)...
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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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Journey into Fear (novel) (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
    Journey into Fear is a 1940 spy thriller novel by Eric Ambler. Film adaptations were released in 1943 and 1975. The novel is set at the beginning of the...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Cecil Parker, 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • on her maiden voyage after she struck an iceberg in 1912. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More as the ship's...
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    of war, attracted quality writers back to spy fiction. British author Eric Ambler brought a new realism to spy fiction. The Dark Frontier (1936), Epitaph...
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    Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John le Carré (1965) Adam Hall (1966) Nicolas Freeling (1967)...
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  • Simpson is a 1967 novel by Eric Ambler. It was also published as This Gun for Hire. The book continues the life of Ambler's anti-hero, petty criminal Arthur...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • for Alarm is a novel by Eric Ambler first published in 1938. Set in Fascist Italy in that year, the book is one of Ambler's classic spy thrillers. Nicholas...
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