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opined that the directing work by Thorold Dickinson made the film much better than it otherwise would have been. Greene also pointed out that Fanfare was a newly emerging British film company that was constrained by its budget, and that it still managed to use "lyric imagination" to produce memorable
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scenes well designed to portray the degree of "human crisis" especially at the climax when the General's secret is revealed. Greene described the "glib" review from The Sunday Times as "rather shocking" in light of the production's efforts with their financial limitations.
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wrote of this film: "Its avoidance of reality and its slowness make it a first-class soporific in this sultry weather." Despite the film's faults, the novelist and author
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for chivalrous reasons. Years later, he has risen to the rank of Major-General, and is stationed in
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The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories
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This is the tale of an English officer who murders a man in
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Thorold Dickinson
Katherine Strueby
Val Valentine
Gordon Wellesley
Lionel Atwill
Lucie Mannheim
Otto Heller
Sidney Cole
Ernest Irving
Associated British Film Distributors
drama film
Thorold Dickinson
Lionel Atwill
Lucie Mannheim
James Mason
Ealing Studios
on location
Gold Coast
art director
Holmes Paul
Ireland
West Africa
Lionel Atwill
Lucie Mannheim
Steven Geray
James Mason
Leslie Perrins
Allan Jeayes
Kathleen Gibson

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