Graham Greene — Playwright (16)
Monsignor Quixote (1987) [Movie] Douban
director: Rodney Bennett actor: 亚历克·吉尼斯 / 莱奥·麦凯恩
In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the village's mayor and his car called Rocinante. On their way he has to master the same adventures as his ancestor.
THE STRANGER'S HAND (1954) [Movie] Douban
La Mano dello straniero
director: 马里奥·索达蒂 actor: Trevor Howard / Richard O'Sullivan
other title: 威尼斯间谍战 / La Mano dello straniero
Grande Bretagne, Italie - 1954 - 85’
(La Mano dello straniero)
Avec Trevor Howard, Richard O'Sullivan, Alida Valli.
Un petit garçon mène l'enquête sur la disparition de son père, agent secret qui est séquestré par un médecin douteux. L'enfant est aidé dans sa quête par une jeune femme et son fiancé.
The Fugitive (1947) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fugitive
director: 埃米利奥·费尔南德斯 / 约翰·福特 actor: 亨利·方达 / 朵乐丝·德里奥
other title: 逃亡者 / 烈士血(港)
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. A priest who is The Fugitive is trying to getaway from the authorities who have denounced Christianity and want anyone linked to it dead. The Fugitive finds shelter with an Indian Woman (The Woman), a faithful parishioner, who gives the priest directions to Puerto Grande, where he could then board a ship and sail to freedom in America. On his journey to Puerto Grande, he meets up with a man who says he will protect him. In reality, he is the Police Informer and once The Fugitive realizes this, he is back on the run, but the Police Informer is never far behind along with the authorities.
The Honorary Consul (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Honorary Consul
director: 约翰·麦肯齐 actor: 迈克尔·凯恩 / 理查·基尔
other title: 干柴烈火 / Beyond the Limit
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
The End of the Affair (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
The End of the Affair
director: 爱德华·迪麦特雷克 actor: 黛博拉·蔻儿 / 约翰·米尔斯
other title: 巫山梦断 / 巫山梦断肠
The novel focuses on Maurice Bendrix, a rising writer during the Second World War in London, and Sarah Miles, the wife of an impotent civil servant. Bendrix is based on Greene himself, and he reflects often on the act of writing a novel. Sarah is based on Greene's lover at the time, Catherine Walston, to whom the book is dedicated.
Bendrix and Sarah fall in love quickly, but he soon realises that the affair will end as quickly as it began. The relationship suffers from his overt and admitted jealousy. He is frustrated by her refusal to divorce Henry, her amiable but boring husband. When a bomb blasts Bendrix's flat as he is with Sarah, he is nearly killed. After this, Sarah breaks off the affair with no apparent explanation.
Later, Bendrix is still wracked with jealousy when he sees Henry crossing the Common that separates their flats. Henry has finally started to suspect something, and Bendrix decides to go to a private detective to discover Sarah's new lover. Through her diary, he learns that, when she thought he was dead after the bombing, she made a promise to God not to see Bendrix again if He allowed him to live again. Greene describes Sarah's struggles. After her sudden death from a lung infection brought to a climax by walking on the Common in the rain, several miraculous events occur, advocating for some kind of meaningfulness to Sarah's faith. By the last page of the novel, Bendrix may have come to believe in a God as well, though not to love Him.
The End of the Affair is the fourth and last of Greene's explicitly Catholic novels.
The Quiet American (2002) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Quiet American
6.5 (12 ratings) director: 菲利普·诺伊斯 actor: 迈克尔·凯恩 / 布兰登·费舍
other title: 沉静的美国人 / 沉默的美国人
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Brighton Rock (1948) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Brighton Rock
7.3 (6 ratings) director: 约翰·博尔廷 actor: 理查德·阿滕伯勒
other title: 布赖顿硬糖 / 브라이튼 록
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Ministry of Fear (1944) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ministry of Fear
6.6 (8 ratings) director: 弗里茨·朗 actor: 雷·米兰德 / 玛乔丽·雷诺兹
other title: 恐怖内阁 / 공포의 내각
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
The Third Man (1949) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Third Man
8.2 (270 ratings) director: 卡罗尔·里德 actor: 约瑟夫·科顿 / 阿莉达·瓦莉
other title: 제3의 사나이 / 第三の男
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.