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The principal characters of The Power and the Glory all have antecedents in The Lawless Roads, mostly as people Greene encountered directly or, in the most important instance, a legendary character that people told him about, a certain "whisky priest", a fugitive who, as Greene writes in The Lawless Roads, "existed for ten years in the forest ...
The Power and the Glory is a 1961 American TV film based on the 1940 novel The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. It was produced by David Susskind at Talent Associates-Paramount for CBS. The production was shot for American TV but also distributed theatrically overseas. [1]
Greene already had a keen interest in Latin America, as shown in The Power and the Glory and The Honorary Consul. He befriended Torrijos and his bodyguard, José de Jesús Martínez . Travelling through Panama, he visited towns and villages and met Daniel Ortega , who became president of Nicaragua in 1985, and Cayetano Carpio , the ...
Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres: thrillers (mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear, which he described as entertainments, often with notable philosophic edges; and literary works, such as The Power and the Glory, which he described as novels, on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based.
The Lawless Roads (1939) (published as Another Mexico in the United States) is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularization and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Plutarco Elías Calles via the uprisings known as the Cristero War.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief ...
Whisky priest, the unnamed protagonist in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory; Whisky priest, a stock character who shows clear signs of moral weakness while preaching of a higher standard, named after Greene's character "The Whisky Priest", a 1982 episode of Yes Minister; Whiskey Priest, a 2005 novel by Alexander J. Motyl
Helene damaged more than 8,300 power poles and almost 350 transmission structures, downed more than 1,000 miles of power lines, damaged more than 4,500 transformers and toppled thousands of trees ...