• 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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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. A voice-over by Lieutenant-Commander...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • sank on her maiden voyage after striking 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. 23 October 1998...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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)
    Award"). "Thomas Jones on thriller writer Eric Ambler". 5 June 2009. Pace, Eric (24 October 1998). "Eric Ambler, Thriller Writer Who Elevated the Genre...
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    to depose the king of Syldavia. Literary critic John Sutherland says Eric Ambler brought the Ruritanian romance to "its highest pitch" with his 1939 novel...
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  • directed by Daniel Mann, and based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Eric Ambler. It stars Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Vincent Price,...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J....
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