On the Night of the Fire (novel)

On the Night of the Fire is a 1939 crime drama novel by the British writer F. L. Green.Moore p.93 It was Green's second published novel and his breakthrough work.

Film adaptation The same year it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, and starring Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard.Goble p.894 It is considered an early film noir.Grant p.16

References

Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Grant, Kevin. Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s. McFarland, 2002. Moore, Matthew Dwight. Watching Cosmic Time: The Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 26 Oct 2022. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.