Outlander is a time-traveling romantic fantasy about a World War II nurse and an 18th-century Scottish highlander. Diana Gabaldon’s novels are also historical fiction, as she includes real events and historical figures like Bonnie Prince Charles, King Louis Xv, and George Washington. She even made her male lead a member of Clan Fraser because of something that actually happened at the real Battle of Culloden.
‘Outlander’ star Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser | Starz The ‘Outlander’ author began with a man in a kilt
When Gabaldon decided to write her first novel in the late 1980s, she was a college professor who had two qualifications — she “understood what a sentence was” and she “knew [her] way around a library.”
These talents made it clear to the author that she should write historical fiction because if it turned out she had no imagination, she could at least “steal things from the historical record.
‘Outlander’ star Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser | Starz The ‘Outlander’ author began with a man in a kilt
When Gabaldon decided to write her first novel in the late 1980s, she was a college professor who had two qualifications — she “understood what a sentence was” and she “knew [her] way around a library.”
These talents made it clear to the author that she should write historical fiction because if it turned out she had no imagination, she could at least “steal things from the historical record.
- 3/13/2023
- by Perry Carpenter
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Critics compare this sophisticated spy thriller to Carol Reed’s earlier Triumph set in Vienna with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles — but it’s a different story altogether, not about black-market evil but the perils of moral compromise in a divided Berlin. James Mason and Claire Bloom are stunningly good together, in a moody suspense that’s completely serious — no comic relief or ‘fun’ jeopardy to distract from the fascinating, you-are-there setting, a Berlin trying to rebuild itself. With Hildegard Knef, and an extended, beautifully filmed nighttime chase that seals an unlikely romance.
The Man Between
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1953 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 102 min. / Street Date November 5, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone, Aribert Wäscher, Ernst Schróder, Dieter Krause, Hilde Sessak, Karl John, Ljuba Welitsch, Reinhard Kolldehoff.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Film Editor: Bert Bates
Original Music: John Addison
Written by Harry Kurnitz,...
The Man Between
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1953 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 102 min. / Street Date November 5, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone, Aribert Wäscher, Ernst Schróder, Dieter Krause, Hilde Sessak, Karl John, Ljuba Welitsch, Reinhard Kolldehoff.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Film Editor: Bert Bates
Original Music: John Addison
Written by Harry Kurnitz,...
- 11/9/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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