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2 unusual facts about Political thriller


Political thriller

A playwright who has embraced the genre is Gary Mitchell, who in the 2000s became "one of the most talked about voices in European theatre ... whose political thrillers have arguably made him Northern Ireland's greatest playwright".

Graham Greene's The Quiet American (1955) tells about the American involvement in Vietnam during the First Indochina War.



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Bellamy Young

In 2011 Shonda Rhimes cast Young in the recurring role of First Lady Mellie Grant on the ABC political thriller television series Scandal opposite Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn.

Black Brigade

The Black Order Brigade, a translation of the French graphic novel political thriller Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir by Pierre Christin

Dimenticare Palermo

Dimenticare Palermo (Forgetting Palermo) is a 1989 Italian political thriller film starring James Belushi, directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal.

Édgar Ramírez

In this high-budgeted Sony Pictures political thriller, Ramírez joined an all-star international cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forrest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega, and Ayelet Zurer.

James Badge Dale

He then was cast as the lead in AMC's political thriller Rubicon which revolves around a secret society that pulls the strings on the world political stage like the alleged Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Josef Haslinger

In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, Opera Ball there.

Loren Singer

Loren Adelson Singer (5 March 1923, Buffalo, New York – 19 December 2009, Valhalla, New York) was an American novelist, best known for his 1970 political thriller, The Parallax View, which was made into a successful 1974 film, of the same name, starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn and William Daniels.

Philip Haas

His feature films include Angels and Insects, set in Victorian England, which was nominated for an Academy Award and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, Up at the Villa, an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas, The Situation, a political thriller set in Iraq, released in 2006, and the highly regarded The Music of Chance (1993).

Send Him Victorious

Send Him Victorious is a political thriller, written in 1968 by Andrew Osmond (a former officer of Gurkha troops and diplomat) and Douglas Hurd (another former diplomat who later became a MP and Cabinet minister.

Stanley Milgram

The French political thriller I... comme Icare includes a key scene where Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority is explained and shown.