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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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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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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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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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 reverse V sign the finger...
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by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's grimmest moments. A voice-over by Lieutenant-Commander...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lot is a 1943 British drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring Eric Ambler, Robert Donat, Kathleen Harrison, Bernard Lee, Raymond Huntley, John...
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American spy film noir directed by Norman Foster, based on the 1940 Eric Ambler novel of the same name. The film broadly follows the plot of the book...
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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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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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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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Cause for Alarm (novel) (redirect from Cause for Alarm (Ambler novel))
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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Judgment on Deltchev (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
Judgment on Deltchev is a 1951 novel by Eric Ambler. It was his first solo novel for eleven years (not counting a novel written with Charles Rodda under...
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be read as literature'". He named Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene as influences. William Cook in the New Statesman considered...
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that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea The Levanter, a novel by Eric Ambler Clé: Levanter, an EP by South Korean boy band Stray Kids Levant (disambiguation)...
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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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Send No More Roses (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
Criminality and Detection in Eric Ambler's The Siege of the Villa Lipp". Connotations. 20 (2/3). Cornwell, Bob. "Screening Eric Ambler – His Work in Films |...
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The Night-Comers (category Novels by Eric Ambler)
The Night-Comers is a 1956 novel by Eric Ambler. In the United States it was published as State of Siege. The cover artist when the book was reprinted...
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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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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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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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Dirty Story (novel) (redirect from Dirty Story (Ambler))
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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