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Graham Greene. In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of ...
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Sep 24, 2011 · THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT. by Graham Greene ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 29, 1939. Though this is straight international-adventure stuff, Greene lifts it from worn ruts by cutting out glamorous trappings and substituting a loyal, conscientious agent who gets pushed around just once too often and turns on the pack. He comes to England to negotiate a ...
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The Confidential Agent (1939) is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fuelled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. [1] To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in a flat below him. He used that apartment in the novel (it's where D. hides for a day) and had an affair with the landlady's ...
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Confidential Agent is one of the better ones. Agents from opposing sides of an unnamed European Civil War - but based on Spain - battle it out in a still-at-peace London. Good characters, plot and London local color.
Confidential Agent is a 1945 American spy film starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall which was a Warner Brothers production. [1] [2] The movie was directed by Herman Shumlin and produced by Robert Buckner, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Robert Buckner, based on the 1939 novel The Confidential Agent by Graham ...
Rent Confidential Agent on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. In this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel, set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer) is a ...
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"The Confidential Agent," (1939) is an early-career British crime drama/thriller by much honored twentieth century English author/screen writer Graham Greene (The Third Man, The End Of The Affair). The book is set in England, a country then close to the start of World War II, whether it was aware of it or not: the so-called "Phony War" would ...
