When the subject of novels by C.S. Forester pops up at cocktail parties, film adaptations of them that immediately come to mind are "The African Queen" (script by James Agee and John Huston) and "Sink the Bismark!" (script by Edmund H. North). I wasn't familiar with Forester's 1955 book "The Good Shepherd," another one about both a world war and sailing vessels.
Neither was Tom Hanks, who picked up a copy of it seven or eight years ago because he liked the cover, fell under its spell, and eventually turned it into a screenplay that has become the film "Greyhound."
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