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2,619 ratings238 reviews. 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.
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Sep 24, 2011 · Kirkus Prize. winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
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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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Reviews 73% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings In this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel, set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer) is a Spanish secret...
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- Herman Shumlin
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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 ...
Confidential Agent: Directed by Herman Shumlin. With Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre. In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.