Charles Robert-Dumas | |
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![]() Robert-Dumas in 1915. | |
Born | 4 January 1875 |
Died | 19 August 1946 Reims, France |
Occupation | Novelist |
Charles Robert-Dumas (1875–1946) was a French novelist, particularly specialising in the crime and spy genres. Several of his works have been adapted for the screen.[1] He is particularly known for his series featuring the French spy Captain Benoît of the Deuxième Bureau, a nemesis of the Germans.[2] The popularity the series enjoyed in the 1930s, with the growing threat of war with Nazi Germany, was analogous to Ian Fleming's later James Bond series of novels.[3]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Second Bureau (1935)
- Second Bureau (1936)
- Wolves Between Them (1936)
- A Man to Kill (1937)
- Captain Benoit (1938)
- Secret Journey (1939)
- Facing Destiny (1940)
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Young, Robert J. France and the Origins of the Second World War. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996.
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