Biography
Graham Greene was born in this country.
What is England?
The novella and film are set in this city.
What is Vienna?
Name of the dentist who first meets the Whiskey Priest and also sees him executed.
Who is Tench?
Now called ho Chi Minh City, this city is the setting of the novel.
What is Saigon?
"Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?".
At 22, Greene converted to this religion which would figure in many of his novels.
What is Catholicism?
In the film, the protagonist's name is Holly Martins. In the novella, what is this character's name?
Who is Rollo Martins?
The Whiskey Priest last sees and speaks to his child, Briggita, at this location.
What is the garbage dump?
Besides alcohol, Fowler indulges in this drug usually at the end of the day.
What is opium?
"Everyone else has a father…who works… You’re a priest, aren’t you?".
Who is Brigitta?
Profession Greene worked until he could make a living writing novels.
What is journalism?
Actor Herbert Halbik played this character in Third Man.
Who is Hansel?
Name of the travel book Greene wrote immediatly before The Power and the Glory.
What is The Lawless Road?
Name of the Vietnamese military leader who Pyle supports and hopes can make a liberating Third Force.
Who is General The?
"Seventy pounds a tube. Go back to the hotel. And do keep out of trouble. I'll try and fix things with the Austrian police...".
Who is Calloway?
In the 1920's, Greene lived in London and did this to improve his mental health.
What is psychotherapy?
What is the zither?
Name of the novel when it was first published for the US market in 1940.
What is Labyrinthine Ways?
Name of Pyle’s childhood dog that was runover in CT
What is Prince?
'Your name is Montez. I seem to come across too many people of that name in these days".
Who is the Lieutenant?
Name of the poet who wrote the following:“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist”.
Greene said this line could apply to all his writing.
Who is Robert Browning?
Besides The Lone Rider of Santa Fe, Martins also wrote this book referenced in the novella?
What is Death at Double X Ranch?
Title of the 1937 Shirley Temple film Greene reviewed and was sued for libel necessitating his travel to Mexico.
What is Wee Willie Winkie?
Name of Pyle’s favorite author who wrote Dangers to Democracy?
Who is York Harding?
"Death takes away vanity—even the vanity of the cuckold who mustn’t show his pain".
Who is Fowler?