Eric Ambler
Author
Language
English
Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New York Times Book Review).
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and...
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head--which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy--does the mild-mannered physicist agree...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect-the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and the German gentleman traveling under at least one assumed name. When the film he drops off at the chemist reveals photographs he has not taken, Vadassy...
9) The levanter
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family's Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager, Teresa, who is also his mistress. One late night at the office, they discover men working overtime--producing unauthorized bombs for the Palestine Action Force. Worse, this guerrilla terrorist group is not deterred by their discovery--rather, they will enlist Howell and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
12) Topkapi
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
15) The magic box
Series
Publisher
Optimum Releasing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister, Magic Box contends that Friese-Greene was the true father of motion pictures, and not such upstarts as W.K.L....
16) The purple plain
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Language
English
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Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, uncommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The freighter Mary Dear is adrift in stormy seas. All have abandoned ship except for one man-- exhausted first officer Gideon Patch who has taken command. Appearances indicate he's a madman, but Patch isn't a man who relies on appearances.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters. But as Leyden zeroes in on the truth about Dimitrios, he finds...
19) The way ahead
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by VCI Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The metamorphosis of a cross-section group of Britons from squabbling individuals into a top fighting unit in the final phase of the African campaign against Rommel.
20) Topkapi
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.