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The novel was published in the United Kingdom by Boardman and in the United States by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The publishers paid Cockburn an advance of between £200–300 and $750, respectively. Beat the Devil was made into a 1953 film by director John Huston , who paid Cockburn £3,000 for the rights to the book and screenplay.
Beat the Devil may refer to: Beat the Devil, a 1951 thriller written by Claud Cockburn; Beat the Devil, a 1953 film directed by John Huston; Beat the Devil, a 2002 short film in The Hire series, starring James Brown and Gary Oldman; Beat the Devil, a 2020 book, monologue play, and film written by David Hare
Many of their novels were published in the 1980s and 1990s. In later years, he and his wife turned to writing related to the theatre and film. ... Beat the Devil ...
On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.” A decade earlier ...
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, in her American debut, and featuring Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. [5]
Among his novels were Beat the Devil (originally under the pseudonym James Helvick), The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, [19] and Jericho Road. Beat the Devil was made into a film in 1953 by the director John Huston, who paid Cockburn £3,000 for the rights to the book and screenplay.
Janet Maslin in the Books of the Times section of The New York Times called Carter Beats the Devil "an enormously assured first novel...no small feat of legerdemain." [1] A L Kennedy in The Observer stated that "Carter Beats the Devil is a big, mischievous, intelligent read – nice to see a bit of magic in fiction again". [2]
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