Word: ambler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film was put together by one of the best directors on either side of the Atlantic, David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations...
...studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make. He has made two others--Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and Eric Ambler's "Journey Into Fear"--which are still examples for Hollywood to emulate. He has appeared in other pictures from time to time as a salaried employee. But no picture has come out of Hollywood since the advent of sound with the genius of "Citizen Kane...
...Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Lobster on Niki Street. The CBS story had all the drama and color of an Eric Ambler mystery. Tall, blond George Polk, whose pull-no-punches broadcasts had angered the Greek government,† had been trying to reach the hideout headquarters of Leftist General Markos to get the guerrilla side of the story. His "contact man" was apparently an Athens flower vendor, who visited Polk daily for ten days before his death-but in the treacherous climate of Athens, Polk had no way of making sure whether he was dealing with Right or Left...
Near the end of the novel a Jewish terrorist pointlessly murders the most powerful and fervent of the older Zionists-a man who had sworn that Jews would never kill Britons. Arabesque, like the Middle East adventure stories that Eric Ambler spins, is no great shakes as a work of art, but it manages, along with romance, a dispassionate little picture of the way the tide was running toward the recent desperate events in Palestine...