The Rage of the Vulture
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.
 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Bip Pares |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) Scribners (US) |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | |
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
- 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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