![]() They had no means of comparison and assumed that this was a characteristic of his class, just as the traveller stepping off a liner at a foreign port for luncheon sums up a nation’s character forever in the wily businessman who happens to share the table with him.” ![]() He was the only rich man among them and this was a unique situation. “.they watched him with a kind of shocked pity. In a way, the other prisoners feel sorry for him for being so soft. Among the other unfortunate men who are doomed to die, only Chavel falls apart. When a rich lawyer named Chavel draws one of the marked slips indicating he is to die, he becomes hysterical and offers his entire fortune to any man willing to take his place. They leave it up to the prisoners to determine which three will die, and the prisoners decide to draw lots. In retaliation for the murder of a German officer in town, the guards decree that three men–or every tenth man–will be executed. The story opens in a prison in occupied France during World War II, where 30 Frenchmen are being held by the Germans. When MGM sold the rights in 1983, the buyer allowed Greene to revise and publish the novel, giving us a new modern classic. ![]() The author conceived of The Tenth Man in the 1940s while working for MGM, but nothing happened with the draft for 40 years. Probably his most famous adaptation was for the Orson Welles classic The Third Man, based on Greene’s own novella of the same name. Graham Greene was a prolific English writer who, in addition to writing over 25 novels, wrote movie treatments and screenplays. ![]()
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