''The Way to Santiago'' is a 1940

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by the British writer

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. It revolves around the shooting of an American newspaperman in

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, leading to the exposure of a

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-backed organisation to launch a coup against the Mexican government.

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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

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was unwilling to back the project.Benamoup.27

References

Bibliography

* 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. 1940 British novels Novels set in Mexico British spy novels British thriller novels Jonathan Cape books {{1940s-spy-novel-stub