Oxford-educated author/essayist Graham Greene published his first major novel, Stamboul Train, in 1932; two years later, the novel became the first of a multitude of Greene works to be adapted for the screen. Incredibly prolific, Greene divided his books into two classifications. His "Entertainments" were his bread-and-butter mysteries, espionage thrillers and psychological melodramas, examples of which include This Gun for Hire and Our Man in Havana; and his "Novels" were such deeper and (to him) more meaningful works as The Power and the Glory (filmed by John Ford as The Fugitive in 1948) and Brighton Rock. From 1935 to 1940, he was film critic for The Spectator, gaining fame for championing such "populist" entertainers as Laurel and Hardy. During this period, he also served as literary editor of Night and Day.
While Greene adapted many of his own fictional works for films--with particularly laudable results in the cases of two Carol Reed-directed pictures, The Third Man (1949) and The Fallen Idol (1949), the latter project earning the writer an Academy Award nomination--Greene was generally unhappy with the movie versions; the 1958 filmization of The Quiet American, completely distorted Greene's spin on the tinderbox political situation in Southeast Asia in favor of a flag-waving pro-American stance, and in the TV-series version of The Third Man, the wholly amoral and nihilistic Harry Lime was converted into a grown-up boy scout. In 1972, a collection of Graham Greene's Spectator movie reviews were gathered together in the British anthology The Pleasure Dome (published in the U.S. as Greene and Film); and in 1990, a full-length assessment of his screen work, titled Travels in Greenland: The Cinema of Graham Greene, was written by Quentin Falk. Graham Greene's screen credits should not be confused with those of the Native American character actor of the same name.
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The Man on the Train
Script Supervisor |
2011 | |||
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Brighton Rock
Book Author |
2010 | |||
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The Quiet American
Book Author |
2002 | |||
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Double Take
Book Author |
2001 | |||
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The End of the Affair
Book Author |
1999 | |||
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Monsignor Quixote
Book Author |
1991 | |||
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Strike It Rich
Book Author |
1990 | |||
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This Gun for Hire
Book Author |
1990 | |||
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The Tenth Man
Book Author |
1988 | |||
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Beyond the Limit
Book Author |
1983 | |||
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva
Book Author |
1983 | |||
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Shocking Accident
Book Author |
1983 | |||
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The Human Factor
Book Author |
1979 | |||
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Shades of Greene
Short Story Author |
1975 | |||
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England Made Me
Book Author |
1973 | |||
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Travels with My Aunt
Book Author |
1972 | |||
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The Comedians
Book Author, Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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The Power and the Glory
Book Author |
1961 | |||
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Our Man in Havana
Book Author, Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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The Quiet American
Book Author |
1958 | |||
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Across the Bridge
Short Story Author |
1957 | |||
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Saint Joan
Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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Short Cut to Hell
Book Author |
1957 | |||
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Loser Takes All
Book Author, Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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The End of the Affair
Book Author |
1955 | |||
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The Stranger's Hand
Producer, Short Story Author |
1954 | |||
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The Heart of the Matter
Book Author |
1953 | |||
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The Third Man
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Fallen Idol
Screenwriter, Short Story Author |
1948 | |||
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The Fugitive
Book Author |
1948 | |||
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Brighton Rock
Book Author, Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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The Man Within
Book Author |
1947 | |||
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Confidential Agent
Book Author |
1945 | |||
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Ministry of Fear
Book Author |
1944 | |||
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This Gun for Hire
Book Author |
1942 | |||
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Went the Day Well?
Short Story Author |
1942 | |||
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21 Days
Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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Four Dark Hours
Screenwriter, Short Story Author |
1937 | |||
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The Future's in the Air
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Orient Express
Book Author |
1934 |
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