The Enemy General
| The Enemy General | |
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| Directed by | George Sherman |
| Screenplay by | Dan Pepper Burt Picard |
| Story by | Dan Pepper |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Starring | Van Johnson |
| Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
| Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant Gordon Pilkington |
| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
Production company | Clover Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Enemy General is a 1960 American drama war film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Johnson.[1][2]
The film was shot on location in Europe.[2]
Plot
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escape. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
Cast
- Van Johnson as Allan Lemaire
- Jean-Pierre Aumont as Lionel Durand
- Dany Carrel as Lisette
- John Van Dreelen as Gen. Bruger
- Françoise Prévost as Nicole
- Hubert Noël as Claude
- Jacques Marin as Marceau
- Gérard Landry as Navarre
- Edward Fleming as Sgt. Allen
- Paul Bonifas as Mayor
- Paul Muller as Maj. Zughoff
Novelization
A novelization of the screenplay was issued by Monarch Books in May, 1960—about two months in advance of the film's release (as was often customary of the era). The by-line was given as Dan Pepper & Max Gareth. Both names were pseudonyms. "Dan Pepper," also credited as co-screenwriter, was a joint pseudonym for Lou Morheim (who would become a noted screenwriter and producer under his own name) and American novelist Stuart James. This somewhat convoluted construction would seem to suggest that Moreheim and James collaborated on a first version of the screenplay and that James did the actual novelizing of that version. ("Max Gareth" was a pseudonym for James as sole author, that he also employed for two original novels that year. James' own byline as sole author also appeared that year and would in future on six more original novels and three additional novelizations.) Add to this that screenwriting attribution on the screenplay suggests further that co-screenwriter Bert Picard—because he is linked to "Pepper" with "and" rather than the collaborative symbol ampersand (&)—was brought on to do rewrites and did not directly collaborate with Moreheim and James.
Cover of the novelization of The Enemy General by Stuart James as "Max Gareth"
References
- ^ "Film review". New York Times.
- ^ a b "Katzman Preparing 'General' in Europe". Los Angeles Times. Sep 19, 1959. p. B2.
External links
- The Enemy General at IMDb
- The Enemy General at the TCM Movie Database
- The Enemy General at AllMovie
- The Enemy General at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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