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.
 First edition (US) | |
| Author | Arthur Calder-Marshall |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape (UK) Reynal & Hitchcock (US) |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
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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edit- 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.
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