![]() ![]() Reed assembled a splendid cast and made atmospheric use of his Havana locations by reducing the light levels as Wormold's initially harmless deception came to have an increasingly sinister upshot. But Greene had considered him an unnecessarily flamboyant director since his days as a critic, and, so he agreed to collaborate once more with Carol Reed - who had directed The Fallen Idol and The Third Man - and the pair wrote the screenplay in a Brighton hotel room before securing permission to shoot in Castro's Cuba. ![]() However, Greene continued to develop the story, which had been inspired by his own wartime surveillance of Abwehr agents in Portugal, who had been paid per report and not according to results and, thus, submitted rumour as fact to boost their expenses.Īlfred Hitchcock was keen to purchase the rights to the resulting novel. The Brazilian-born director allegedly abandoned the project after being refused government permission to lampoon the Secret Service. ![]() When Alberto Cavalcanti approached Graham Greene about making a film just after the Second World War, the novelist devised an outline about a vacuum cleaner salesman operating as a spy in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in 1938. ![]()
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