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Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. When he finds himself on a train bound for austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambl. Sultry osa massen passes on some valuable secret papers to raft just before she is killed. Background to danger is about an ordinary civilian, a freelance reporter, caught up in prewar intrigue he does not understand. Buy the paperback book background to danger by eric ambler at indigo. Burnett, although william faulkner and daniel fuchs also contributed. Background to danger by eric ambler, paperback barnes. I recorded the film background to danger on tcm a while ago and i like this movie. Kentons career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of european politics, and his quick judgment. Those two experts at espionage and intrigue, sydney greenstreet and peter lorre, are at it again in the warner film, background to danger, which came to the strand yesterday. Ambler provides a fantastic critique of western capitalisms covert dealings on the international stage. A compelling book on budgetbalancing, past and present.

The plotline is also unique, because he has a british national teaming up with russian spies in precold war europe. Based on the novel uncommon danger by eric ambler and set in politically neutral turkey, the screenplay was credited to w. Background to danger by raoul walsh george raft, brenda. George raft, who always seems miscast, plays an american undercover intelligence agent operating in turkey. It is easy to see how eric ambler came to enjoy so much success in hollywood. Background to danger is a 1943 world war ii spy film starring george raft and featuring brenda marshall, sydney greenstreet, and peter lorre. Eric amblers intriguing novel uncommon danger is brought down to a republic serial level in warner bros. Amblers chapters can easily be broken into scenes and you can practically see the shot as it would appear before the camera. It is amazing that ambler wrote this book before the outcome of the war could be known. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. The film was designed to capitalize on the runaway success of casablanca, which had also featured lorre and greenstreet. Read background to danger by eric ambler available from rakuten kobo. Kentons career as a journalist depended on his facility with. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books.