Killing a Mouse on Sunday

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Killing a Mouse on Sunday
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First edition
Author Emeric Pressburger
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher William Collins, Sons
Publication date
1961
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint

Killing a Mouse on Sunday is a 1961 thriller novel by the British-Hungarian writer Emeric Pressburger, best known as a film producer. In Francoist Spain a Civil Guard officer attempts to lure a notorious exiled guerrilla fighter back across the border from France.

Contents

The anarchist Quico Sabaté's death inspired the book. [1]

Adaptation

In 1964 it was adapted into a Hollywood film Behold a Pale Horse directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Puertas, Emeterio Diez (15 April 2018). Cine y comunicación política en Iberoamérica: Diez estrategias de poder ante el imperio de la imagen. ISBN   9788491801368.
  2. ↑ Gable p.375

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