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.Goble p.139 He is particularly known for his series featuring the French spy Captain Benoît of the Deuxième Bureau, a nemesis of the Germans.Young p.115 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.Crisp p.181
Selected filmography 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
Bibliography 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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