Recommended reading - A Gun for Sale, by Graham Greene (1936):

A Gun for Sale

By Graham Greene.

Introduction by Samuel Hynes.

Filmed as This Gun for Hire (1942), directed by Frank Tuttle.

Published by Penguin Publishing Group.

First published 1936.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 014303930X

ISBN-13: 978-0143039303

Description:

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene’s next novel, Brighton Rock. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Samuel Hynes.

On this day in movie history - Dances with Wolves (1990):

Dances with Wolves

directed by Kevin Costner,

written by Michael Blake,

based on the novel by Michael Blake,

was released in the United States on November 21, 1990.
Music by John Barry.

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Tantoo Cardinal, Robert Pastorelli, Charles Rocket, Maury Chaykin, Jimmy Herman, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, Michael Spears, Jason R. Lone Hill, Tony Pierce, Doris Leader Charge, Tom Everett, Larry Joshua, Kirk Baltz, Wayne Grace, Donald Hotton, Annie Costner, Conor Duffy, Elisa Daniel, Percy White Plume, John Tail, Steve Reevis, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Wes Studi, Buffalo Child, Clayton Big Eagle, Richard Leader Charge, Redwing Ted Nez, Marvin Holy, Raymond Newholy, David J. Fuller, Ryan White Bull, Otakuye Conroy, Maretta Big Crow, Steven Chambers, William H. Burton Jr., Bill W. Curry, Nick Thompson, Carter Hanner, Kent Hays, Robert Goldman, Frank P. Costanza, James A. Mitchell, R.L. Curtin, Justin (horse), Teddy (wolf), Buck (wolf), Michael Horton, J. Wesley Adams, Linda Allen, Bill Costner, David Rambow, William Rossman, Jim Wilson.

Born on this day – Graham Greene:

Graham Greene

Writer

October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991

Credits:

Books:

A Burnt-Out Case (1960); A Chance For Mr Lever (1936); A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936); A Sense of Reality (1950); A Sort of Life (1971); A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992); Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1981); Alaska Stories (1995); Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006); Babbling April (1925); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Blood River (2007); Brighton Rock (1938); British Dramatists (1942); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Carving a Statue (1964); Chicago Stories (1993); Child's Ploy (1984); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Collected Essays (1969); Collected Stories (1973); Complete Short Stories (1990); Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971); Crime Never Pays (2001); David Bowie (2016); Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980); England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Fragments of Autobiography (1991); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Friendship (1990); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Getting to Know the General (1984); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Patagonia (1977); In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961); It's a Battlefield (1934); J. D. Salinger (2016); J'Accuse (1982); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Journey Without Maps (1936); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Little Fire Engine (1950); London Stories (2013); Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Loser Takes All (1955); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967); Monsignor Quixote (1982); New Orleans Stories (1992); No Man's Land (2004); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932); Our Man in Havana (1958); Philip K. Dick (2015); Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Reflections (1990); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Rumour at Nightfall (1931); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Shades of Greene (1975); Shadow of the Silk Road (2007); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Bear Fell Free (1935); The Captain and the Enemy (1988); The Collected Plays (1985); The Comedians (1966); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The Confidential Agent (1939); The Destructors (1955); The End of the Affair (1951); The Great Jowett (1981); The Heart of the Matter (1948); The Honorary Consul (1973); The Human Factor (1978); The Killing Spirit (1996); The Last Word and Other Stories (1990); The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939); The Little Fire Engine (1973); The Little Horse Bus (1952); The Little Steamroller (1955); The Little Train (1946); The Living Room (1954); The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951); The Man Within (1929); The Ministry of Fear (1943); The Name of Action (1930); The Old School (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Portable Graham Greene (1973); The Potting Shed (1957); The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940); The Quiet American (1955); The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975); The Rings of Saturn (1995); The Tenth Man (1985); The Third Man (1949); The Third Man and Other Stories (2011); Third Man (1977); Three Entertainments (1952); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Travels with My Aunt (1969); Triple Pursuit! (1971); Twenty-One Stories (1954); Under the Garden (1963); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); Victorian Villainies (1984); Ways of Escape (1980); Why Do I Write? (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991).

Movies and television:

21 Days Together (1940); A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2013); A Shocking Accident (1982); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); About Religion (1964); Across the Bridge (1957); Alta comedia (1971); Arena (1987 / 1993); Au théâtre ce soir (1980); Beyond the Limit (1983); Brighton Rock (1948 / 2010); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confidential Agent (1945); Cüneyt Arkin in Yarali Kurt (1972); Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013); Das Geheimnis (1957); Das Herz aller Dinge (1971); Day for Night (1973); De kamer waarin wij leven (1959); Den føjelige elsker (1963); Den nøysomme elsker (1967); Der letzte raum (1966); Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957); Double Take (2001); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); El teatro (1974); Empire of the Censors (1995); England Made Me (1973); Estudio 1 (1982); François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996); Frontiers of Faith (1955); Great Performances (1986); Günes dogmasin (1961); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Honorární konzul (1991); Il treno per Istanbul (1980–1981); ITV Play of the Week (1956); Jádro veci (1968); La fine dell'avventura (1969); La mano dello straniero (1954); Late Night Story (1978); Lights Out (1951); Los exclusivos del Nueve (1982); Loser Takes All (1956); May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986); Ministerstvo strachu (1966); Ministry of Fear (1944); Neodcudzitelný majetok (1984); Noche de teatro (1974); Novela (1976); Omnibus (1968); Orient Express (1934); Our Man in Havana (1959); Pelon talo (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Primera función (1989); Quinta colonna (1966); Saint Joan (1957); Saturday Review (1986); Secrets of the Content (2010); Shades of Greene (1975–1976); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Ship's Reporter (1950); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Strike It Rich (1990); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1951); Tajný agent (1974); Television Theater (1998); Terror Toons 4 (2022); The Art of Dissent (2021); The Book Programme (1978); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The End of the Affair (1955 / 1999 / 2006); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Fugitive (1947); The Future's in the Air (1937); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Heart of the Matter (1953 / 1983); The Human Factor (1979); The Making of 'Saint Joan' (1957); The New Britain (1940); The Power and the Glory (1957 / 1961); The Quiet American (1958 / 2002); The Smugglers (1947); The Tenth Man (1988); The Third Man (1949–1965); The Unforeseen (1960); This Gun for Hire (1942 / 1991); Thursday Theatre (1965); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Una pistola in vendita (1970); Verschlossene Räume (1958); Went the Day Well? (1942).

Graham Greene, on writing:

A story has no beginning or end:

arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

- Graham Greene.

On this day in movie history - Wind River (2017):

Wind River

directed and written by Taylor Sheridan,

was released in the United States on August 18, 2017.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:

Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Olsen, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Lange, Gil Birmingham, Althea Sam, Tokala Black Elk, Martin Sensmeier, Tyler Laracca, Shayne J. Cullen, Dallin Tusieseina, Austin R. Grant, Ian Bohen, Hugh Dillon, Matthew Del Negro, James Jordan, Gabe Casdorph, Mason D. Davis, Chris Romrell, Jon Bernthal, Blake Robbins, Norman Lehnert, Ian Roylance, Gus Sheridan, Dana Anquoe, Duy Beck, David Cardona, Teresa Duran-Norvick, John Forker, Devin K. Hansen, Tara Karsian, Alex Mincoff.

On this day in movie history - Astronaut (2019):

Astronaut

directed by Shelagh McLeod,

written by Shelagh McLeod, Carolyn Saunders and Maureen Dorey,

was released in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2019.
Music by Virginia Kilbertus.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Colm Feore, Richie Lawrence, Art Hindle, Graham Greene, Judy Marshak, Jennifer Phipps, Joan Gregson, Karen LeBlanc, Paulino Nunes, Mimi Kuzyk, Mike Taylor, Colin Mochrie, Jeff Douglas, Rhona Shekter, Anthony Bekenn, Maria Ricossa, Jason Burke, Alex Hatz, Peter Valdron, Sandra Beech, Jonathan Walton, Lori Hallier, Ryan LaPlante, Rosemary Dunmore, Chris Gleason, Shelagh McLeod, Joanna O’Malley, Brendan Stevenson, Casie Stewart.