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The Way to Santiago

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The Way to Santiago
First edition (US)
AuthorArthur Calder-Marshall
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
Reynal & Hitchcock (US)
Publication date
1940
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Way to Santiago is a 1940 thriller novel by the British writer Arthur Calder-Marshall. It revolves around the shooting of an American newspaperman in Mexico City, leading to the exposure of a Nazi-backed organisation to launch a coup against the Mexican government.

Orson Welles wrote a screenplay based on the novel, and planned to shoot it in Mexico with Dolores del Río in the female lead. However his studio RKO was unwilling to back the project.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ McBride p.33
  2. ^ Benamoup.27

Bibliography

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  • Benamou, Catherine L. It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey. University of California Press, 2007.
  • McBride, Joseph. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.