The Rage of the Vulture
First edition (UK)
AuthorAlan Moorehead
Cover artistBip Pares
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK)
Scribners (US)
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint

The Rage of the Vulture is a 1948 novel by the Australian-British writer Alan Moorehead. It is set in a fictional princely state, modelled on Kashmir, at the time of the Partition of India in 1947. As a war correspondent, Moorehead had himself been present at the time the events depicted.

Film adaptation

The novel was adapted by the Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures into the 1951 film Thunder in the East directed by Charles Vidor and starring Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer and Corinne Calvet.[1]

References

  1. Goble p.332

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • McCamish, Thornton. Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead. Black Inc., 2017.


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