The Stranger's Hand
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Directed by | Mario Soldati |
Produced by |
Angelo Rizzoli Graham Greene Peter Moore John Stafford |
Written by |
Giorgio Bassani Guy Elmes Graham Greene (story) |
Music by |
Nino Rota Alessandro Cicognini |
Cinematography | Enzo Serafin |
Edited by |
Tom Simpson Leslie Hogdson Leo Catozzo |
Distributed by | Titanus |
Release date | 1954 |
The Stranger's Hand (Italian: La mano dello straniero) is a 1954 British-Italianinternational co-production thriller-drama film directed by Mario Soldati. It is based on the draft novel with the same name written by Graham Greene.[1] The plot follows the son of a British MI5 agent kidnapped in Venice by agents of Yugoslavia as he searches for his father.
The first two chapters of The Stranger's Hand had been entered by Greene anonymously under a pseudonym to a competition in the New Statesman to write a book in the style of Graham Greene – a competition in which Greene was amused to win second prize. Soldati had seen the chapters and persuaded Greene to complete the novella to make the basis for a film. Greene expanded it to 30 pages of a "film story", on which Giorgio Bassani and Guy Elmes completed the screenplay.[2]
Cast
- Trevor Howard: Major Roger Court
- Alida Valli: Roberta Gleukovitch
- Richard Basehart: Joe Hamstringer
- Richard O'Sullivan: Roger Court
- Eduardo Ciannelli: Dr. Vivaldi
- Arnoldo Foà: Commissioner
- Stephen Murray: British Consul in Venice
- Guido Celano: Chief Constable
- Nerio Bernardi: Vincenzo
References
- ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
- ↑ The Guardian
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