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Killing a Mouse on Sunday

1961 novel

Killing a Mouse on Sunday is a 1961 thriller novel by the British-Hungarian writer Emeric Pressburger, best known as a film producer. In Francoist Spain a Civil Guard officer attempts to lure a notorious exiled guerilla fighter back across the border from France.

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The anarchist Quico Sabaté's death inspired the book.[1]

Adaptation

In 1964 it was adapted into a Hollywood film Behold a Pale Horse directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Puertas, Emeterio Diez (15 April 2018). Cine y comunicación política en Iberoamérica: Diez estrategias de poder ante el imperio de la imagen. ISBN 9788491801368.
  2. [2]
    Gable p.375

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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