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Based on Conan Doyle's own novel, The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898), Fires of Fate was first performed in 1909.
Adaptations
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form
y
Fires of Fate
( dir. Norman Walker
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United Kingdom (UK)
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British International Pictures
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1932
9428837
1932
single work
film/TV
adventure
A group of English tourists travelling along the Nile by boat are kidnapped by locals and ultimately rescued by the Camel Corps.
Very much of its time, Arthur Conan Doyle's original work displayed a mistrust of Islam and a strong favouring of British imperialism: judging from contemporary reviews, Dion Titheradge carried those elements into this adaptation.
Notes
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Fires of Fate is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.
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