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Stream On: Going Greene with ‘Confidential Agent’
Graham Greene only wrote the book for money, but this film adaptation was one of the few of his novels that he enjoyed.
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Stream On: Going Greene—‘This Gun for Hire’
Raven the hitman, in the Graham Greene story ‘This Gun for Hire,’ was the part that earned Alan Ladd a place at the table in Hollywood.
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Stream On: Going Greene in Haiti with ‘The Comedians’
Haiti is unfortunately no stranger to turmoil. Novelist Graham Greene wrote about it in a 1966 novel and a 1967 screenplay.
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Stream On: Going Greene—‘The End of the Affair’
Be careful what you pray for! Two film versions of Graham Greene’s great “Catholic novel.”
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Stream On: Going Greene—‘The Quiet American,’ a very bad dancer
Let’s just look at Phuong, this daughter of a professor, taxi dancer, mistress of an older European man. That pretty much describes Vietnam in 1952.
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Stream On: Going Greene—‘The Third Man.’ First in an occasional series
Holly Martins was broke and Harry Lime had offered him a job. Anyway, there he is, poor chap. Without a cent and happy as a lark—until he hears that…
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Stream On: the rise and fall of Truman Capote
Capote referred to ‘Answered Prayers’ as his “posthumous novel,” explaining, “either I'm going to kill it, or it's going to kill me.”
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Stream On: Weird scenes inside the Golden Age of TV
'Green Acres' and 'The Odd Couple'
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Stream On: ‘Barton Fink,’ a nightmare on Hollywood Boulevard
There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head ... What's going on outside.
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Stream On: A whimsical ‘Gentleman in Moscow’
Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution—in a luxury hotel.
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Stream On: And now for something completely … Canadian—‘The Red Green Show’
Keep your stick on the ice, eh?
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Stream On: Léon, ‘The Professional,’ another—ahem—‘cleaner’
“A perfect assassin. An innocent girl. They have nothing left to lose except each other.”
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