On the Night of the Fire (novel) explained
On the Night of the Fire |
Author: | F. L. Green |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Crime drama |
Publisher: | Michael Joseph |
Release Date: | 1939 |
Media Type: | Print |
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.
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]
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.
Notes and References
- Moore p.93
- Goble p.894
- Grant p.16