The Way to Santiago
Author | Arthur Calder-Marshall |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1940 |
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The Way to Santiago is a 1940 thriller novel by the British writer Arthur Calder-Marshall. It revolves around the shooting of an American newspaperman in Mexico City, leading to the exposure of a Nazi-backed organisation to launch a coup against the Mexican government.
Orson Welles wrote a screenplay based on the novel, and planned to shoot it in Mexico with Dolores del Río in the female lead. However his studio RKO was unwilling to back the project. [1] [2]
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Bibliography[]
- Benamou, Catherine L. It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey. University of California Press, 2007.
- McBride, Joseph. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Categories:
- 1940 British novels
- Novels set in Mexico
- British spy novels
- British thriller novels
- Jonathan Cape books
- 1940s novel stubs