Dirty tricks and surgical assassinations worked in Central America, so why not here in the Far East? The novel has a dissolute English journalist as a main character and Greene substitute, but it reserves its ire for Alden Pyle, an American CIA agent who ‘works for freedom’ by aiding in secret terror acts. France didn’t relinquish its Indochinese holdings after WW2.
Although his books took readers to other hot spots like colonial Africa, Greene’s most biting critique of the domino-theory mindset was a 1955 novel reflecting his three years’ experience in Vietnam, noting the ways in which foreign agents tried to manipulate the future of that war-torn country. Graham Greene’s prescience about Cold War issues wasn’t always appreciated, as can be seen by his amazingly well timed half-serious look at espionage in Battista’s Cuba ( Our Man in Havana). Mankiewiczįans of author Graham Greene know him for his political sophistication and his adherence to Catholic themes he’s found holy values in a razor-wielding Spiv in Brighton Rock and he examined a ‘personal bargain with God’ in his The End of the Affair. Starring: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll,īruce Cabot, Fred Sadoff, Kerima, Richard Loo. Street Date J/ Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Does a conspiracy theory about a movie still carry any weight, when our daily political life now plays like one giant conspiracy?ġ958 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 122 min. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel about terrorism in French-held Vietnam completely reverses the author’s message. There appear to be no rules governing tricky politics in movies - Joseph L.
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