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<i>On the Night of the Fire</i> (novel)

On the Night of the Fire (novel)

1939 novel

On the Night of the Fire is a 1939 crime drama novel by the British writer F. L. Green.[1] It was Green's second published novel and his breakthrough work.

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Film adaptation

The same year it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard.[2] It is considered an early film noir.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Moore p.93
  2. [2]
    Goble p.894
  3. [3]
    Grant p.16

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Grant, Kevin. Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s. McFarland, 2002.
  • Moore, Matthew Dwight. Watching Cosmic Time: The Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 26 Oct 2022.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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