This Gun for Hire
UCLA presents Graham Greene at the movies
To put it another way, the Greene we might intuit from some of his most interesting film vehicles, such as Carol Reed’s adaptation of Greene’s original story for The Third Man, seems less a perennial Nobel Prize also-ran and more a surreal nut-case genre writer, a brother under the skin to such hallucinogenic pulp visionaries as Cornell Woolrich and John Franklin Bardin. In the stylish cloudy nightmare The Ministry of Fear, as filmed in 1943 by German émigré Fritz Lang, a guilt-wracked former mental patient (Ray Milland) stumbles through the crumbled Gothic ruins of London during the Blitz, surrounded by menacing forces that materialize first on the midway at a charity carnival and then at a murmurous upper-crust séance. The eeriness is enhanced by the fact that the plotter’s motives remain obscure almost to the final shot.
That ambiguity, too, is part of "the modern way of telling a story."
"The Nature of Things: Graham Greene on Film" is presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the U.K. Film Council. At the James Bridges Theater, Friday, January 7, through Sunday, January 23. See Film & Video Events in Calendar.
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