Knight Without Armour (novel)
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Knight Without Armour (published in the USA as Without Armor) is a British thriller novel by James Hilton, first published in 1933. A British secret agent in Russia rescues the daughter of a Tsarist minister from a group of Bolshevik revolutionaries.
Adaptation
The novel was the basis for the 1937 British film Knight Without Armour directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat.[1] It was made at Denham Studios by Alexander Korda's London Films. Hilton's original story was adapted into a screenplay by Frances Marion, Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis.
Bibliography
- Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
References
- ^ "Knight Without Armour". The Times. No. 47708. 11 June 1937. p. 14. Gale CS236007627.
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