Talk:Eric Ambler

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Footnote reference is an AD and goes no place useful[edit]

Footnote (reference) number 3, that is. I tried to remove it but couln't do so easily. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.237.250.218 (talk) 03:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The October Man?[edit]

What work of Ambler's was this movie based on? There's no work by that name listed. The linked page for the movie says it was based on one of his novels. Which? Or is this an error and all he wrote was the movie? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.231.250.255 (talk) 18:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that this is a phantom title--all the mentions of a novel by this title point back to the film credits, and a search of Alibris yields only a book that seems to be about the film. I wonder whether it was an unpublished novel that he turned into a screenplay. I've been reading Ambler for nearly fifty years and haven't come across this book. RLetson (talk) 06:29, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Later: A brief mention in Chapter 12 of Here Lies confirms that this was an original screenplay. If there was a novel behind it, it was never published, and Ambler does not mention any such. (In the same chapter he does mention an unhappy experience with adapting his own work but does not specify the piece in question.) I will edit the entry to remove the suggestion that October Man was a novel first. RLetson (talk) 18:12, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]