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| Author | F. L. Green |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
| Publication date | 1939 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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On the Night of the Fire is a 1939 crime drama novel by the British writer F. L. Green. It was Green's second published novel and his breakthrough work.
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. It is considered an early film noir.
References
- Moore p.93
- Goble p.894
- 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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