The Enemy General

The Enemy General
The Enemy General
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	October 19, 1960;
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[]

The setting is World War II. An Office of Strategic Services agent, working with the French Resistance, ambushes a Nazi convoy with a high-ranking general, who escapes. 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 in 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, which he also employed for two original novels that year. James' own byline as sole author also appeared that year and would later appear 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.
^ Jump up to: ^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 American Film Institute Catalog

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[1] "Film review". New York Times.

[LATimes-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Katzman Preparing 'General' in Europe". Los Angeles Times. Sep 19, 1959. p. B2.

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