{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download The Steel Mirror by STEEL MIRROR. Chemist John Emmett quickly learns that his pick-up, Ann Nicholson, with whom he is hitching a ride west, presents an irritating mystery -- for she is either the victim of unrelenting persecution or a treacherous maniac -- and definitely not the companion for a safe drive. Later the question is whether she is a heroine of the French resistance or traitor to it, and the answers to it and all the rest are kept confused by double- trouble caused by deliberate doublecrossing. Wanted by a county sheriff, pursued by a doctor and his hard to handle blonde nurse, tagged by the FBI, Emmett and Ann reach her journey's end where definite identification await her. Even here there is another twist but by now Emmett takes it in his stride. Psycho-thriller, well-paced and produced. SEP serialization. Short stories and serial novels by Donald Hamilton. Most of Donald Hamilton's short fiction and several of his novels were published in weekly magazines during the 1940's and 1950's. This list identifies the magazines. Why bother, some might ask? The serialized novels were all published in hardcover and/or paperback, and reprinted several times. They aren't difficult to find. Hamilton's better known short stories have been collected in several anthologies. Isn't that good enough? Well, no. Hamilton passed away November 2006 and he was much more than the creator of Matt Helm. I'd like to remember him for all of his work. Four of his short stories have never been reprinted. Some of the magazines have spectacular color illustrations. The entire Matt Helm series is back in print and also available in digital formats. Audiobooks are also being released. A pastiche by Keith Wease, Matt Helm: The War Years , was published in 2013. Wease also edited the manuscript of the last Matt Helm novel, The Dominators , with Gordon Hamilton's permission, so perhaps there is hope it can be published someday. You can view a gallery of his book covers, movie memorabilia, and a list of online references. My thanks to Robert Skinner, who suggested I contact Ray Peters, and to Ray, for his help identifying missing stories, providing photocopies to read, and for giving me a treasure trove of Hamilton's books. Thanks also to Mike Leggett and David Keller for providing additional content. Ray maintains US (updated 2010) and UK (updated 2009) publishing chronologies of Hamilton's fiction and shared photos of his visits with Don. If you know where I can find copies of articles written by Donald Hamilton, if you know about any missing articles on writing, if you have book cover scans, movie-related images, or anything else interesting that should be added to this site, please email Mark Martinez, stcomix at mac dot com . Thanks. Last modified: 8 January 2017. Hamilton also wrote many magazine articles, including a few about his work and writing. Some are listed at the UCLA archive of his papers. The contents of the archive are available in a PDF file. Most of his articles are about hunting and boating. Here are a few. Hamilton has been the subject of interviews and articles about his work. Here are a few. The Steel Mirror by Donald Hamilton. DONALD HAMILTON – The Steel Mirror. Rinehart & Co., 1948. Paperback reprints include: Dell #473, 1950; Gold Medal d1617, 1966. FIVE STEPS TO DANGER . Henry S. Kesler Productions/Unoted Artists, 1957. Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Kemperer, Jeanne Cooper and Karl Lindt. Written & directed by Henry S. Kesler, from the novel by Donald Hamilton. A tightly-written post-war mystery with the times reflected in small details and a plot that kept surprising me right to the end. Even without the surprises, this would be a fun piece of nostalgia, but Steel Mirror hooks the reader quickly with John Emmett, vacationing everyman, whose car breaks down somewhere west of nowhere. He gets a ride from Anne Nicholson, an attractive, well-dressed young woman in a new car, driving across the country, and congratulates himself on his good fortune. Until he stows his gear in the trunk and sees no luggage…. Hamilton builds nicely from this. Our hero and the young lady without luggage are being followed… by what turns out to be her Doctor and a nurse. It seems Anne worked with the French Resistance in WWII, got captured and tortured by the Gestapo – and may have betrayed her husband and friends; she can’t remember, and she’s driving across country to meet the one man who can tell her. And oh yes: the good Doctor adds that she’s subject to mental breakdowns, has tried to kill herself, doesn’t trust him (the Doc) and it would be a big help to everyone if Emmett would stay with her and check in when she gets where she’s going. Okay at this point the savvy reader has spotted the Bad Guy, and as the pages turn will guess the truth about the one man we’re after. This is because Donald Hamilton has let us spot and let us guess; this plot has more twists than a box of candy canes — near-arrest by a county sheriff, a visit from the FBI, and a helpful passer-by packing heat—and it soon occurs to Emmett and that savvy reader I mentioned that there are a lot of people who don’t want Anne to get where she’s going. Eventually the journey reaches that point where all thrillers must inevitably arrive — Anne & Emmett on the run from a Murder charge, posing as husband & wife till they can get to the one man who can clear the whole thing up for them — whereupon it simply takes another turn and then another, all predicated on the people acting like grown-ups and not like characters in a paperback. Even when the chips are down and guns drawn there’s none of the “Very clever, Mr. Bond!” stuff, just everyone playing their cards close to the vest and me trying to figure out who’s got the Joker. But what I shall remember from The Steel Mirror is an underlying theme of characters trying to define themselves. Emmett spent the War in a vital civilian job and he’s always wondered if he did it from convenience or cowardice. Anne is trying to find out if she’s a heroine or a traitor. And The Steel Mirror resolves both issues by letting the characters grow and understand each other. I only started reading Donald Hamilton in the last few years. I was always put off by the Matt Helm thing, but he did some decent stuff. Like the novel basis of The Big Country and The Violent Men , and in between those two fine Westerns, Henry S. Kesler made a modest little film from this. Kesler is hardly a name to conjure with, but he worked on some memorable films ( 5 Graves to Cairo , In a Lonely Place , Lured …) and Five Steps to Danger is competently done. Even quite good at times. Stars Ruth Roman and Sterling Hayden play well off each other, and the bad guys (Werner Klemperer and Richard Gaines) strike just the right note of stuffy disdain: not so much evil as arrogant, and it works well here. If you ever met a doctor too interested in himself to listen to you, then you know Klemperer’s character. And Richard Gaines (the Insurance Executive in Double Indemnity ) as a duplicitous dean is so politely unhelpful as to seem maddeningly sinister. That’s director Kesler. Writer Kesler simplifies and updates Hamilton’s book. Maybe too much so. No more Gestapo. Now Anne has (or had) a brother in East Germany working against the communists who died trying to get valuable information to a German Rocket Scientist, now working for the U.S., who was an old friend of the family before the war, and it’s up to Anne to complete the mission. Rocket Science. I wonder how long it took to think that one up? Kesler treats it more seriously than it deserves, and maybe I’m being too hard on him. If I hadn’t read the book first, I might have thought more highly of this. But I remembered the human element in the book, and I missed it in the movie. 4 Responses to “A Book! Movie!! Review by Dan Stumpf: DONALD HAMILTON – The Steel Mirror / FIVE STEPS TO DANGER (1957).” Mike Doran Says: August 26th, 2019 at 1:13 pm. I remember Henry S. Kesler from many ZIV TV series of the ’50s, in particular Science Fiction Theatre and I Led Three Lives . I’ll make the guess that the anti-Communist thread in this film is not entirely coincidental. I read this one decades ago, when Hamilton’s Fawcett Gold Medal novels were on every drug store, newsstand, and bus station paperback rack. The first half-dozen or so Matt Helm books were as tight and closely plotted as anything Hamilton wrote, and although I stuck with the series for several years, the entries became more and more padded and predictable. You could rest assured that at some point in the narrative, Helm would complain about women wearing slacks. My opinion of the Helm series as well. I don’t know exactly when the tipping point occurred, but padded and predictable certainly describes the books sometime well before the series ended. But the early ones — when they were good, which was often — they were very good indeed. The movie convinced me to read the book and I discovered there was more to Hamilton than Matt Helm who I have limited appreciation of. For that I owe the movie gratitude, without it and THE VIOLENT MEN I would never have read Hamilton’s Westerns or non series suspense novels and discovered how good he was. Writers similar to or like Donald Hamilton. American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Wikipedia. American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers. Prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. Wikipedia. American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo Award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel . 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(director/writer: Henry Kesler ; screenwriters: from a Saturday Evening Post story by Donald Hamilton & Turnley Walker/based on the novel “The Steel Mirror” by Donald Hamilton; cinematographer: Kenneth Peach; editor: Aaron Stell; music: Paul Sawtel/Burt Shefter; cast: Ruth Roman (Ann Nicholson), Sterling Hayden (John Emmett), Werner Klemperer ( Dr. Frederick Simmons ), Richard Gaines (Dean Brant), Charles Davis ( Kirkpatrick), Jeanne Cooper ( Helen Bethke), (Karl), Karl Lindt (Dr. Reinhardt Kissel), John Merrick (Sheriff) , John Mitchum (Deputy), Ken Curtis ( FBI Agent Jim Anderson); Runtime: 80; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Henry Kesler ; United Artists ; 1957 ) “ An engaging Cold War spy story that’s still chilling despite being ridiculous and unevenly directed.” Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. An engaging Cold War spy story that’s still chilling despite being ridiculous and unevenly directed by Henry Kesler (“Three Russian Girls”). It’s based on on the novel “The Steel Mirror” by Donald Hamilton, and on the story that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post by Hamilton & Turnley Walker . Kesler wrote the twisty screenplay. While nice guy businessman John Emmett ( Sterling Hayden ) ventures from California to Texas on a fishing holiday, his car breaks down in rural California and is towed. John sells his car for $400 rather than wait a week for repairs. At the auto repair shop, he meets the anxious motorist Ann Nicholson (Ruth Roman) and accepts her invitation to share the driving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. At a rest stop John, when alone, is approached by Helen Bethke ( Jeanne Cooper ), a nurse who has been following Ann. She tells John that Ann is under the care of her psychiatrist boss, Dr. Frederick Simmons ( Werner Klemperer, son of musical conductor Otto ), also following in the car, after her nervous breakdown in LA. John agrees that they meet in Santa Fe so Ann can receive the treatment she might need. Things drastically change when the duo is back on the road again, and Ann is arrested by local lawmen for murdering a CIA agent in LA. While both are handcuffed, they escape. Ann then tells her story of being a former German citizen and that she recently learned her brother, the only surviving member of her family, was imprisoned by the Communists in East Berlin. Returning to Germany, she meets her brother’s prison mate, Karl ( Peter Hansen ), who escaped with her brother. Unfortunately her brother was killed escaping but told Karl to have sis deliver in person to the physicist Dr. Kissel, a family friend, a steel mirror that has etched in it the secret code transcripts to the latest Soviet missile system. The story of the innocents trying to reach the genius scientist, working for the Americans at the secret Numa Test Center , is wracked with danger and absurdity. They are pursued by the evil Communist shrink and his henchmen. But their adventure hardly seemed credible. 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