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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Beat_the_Devil_(novel)Beat the Devil (novel) - Wikipedia

    Beat the Devil is a 1951 thriller written by Claud Cockburn under the pseudonym James Helvick. Cockburn used the pseudonym, though he had left the British Communist Party in 1947, he was still considered a "Red" during the early years of the Cold War, which was rife with anti-communist sentiment.

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    • 1951

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Claud_CockburnClaud Cockburn - Wikipedia

    Among his novels were Beat the Devil (originally under the pseudonym James Helvick), The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, and Jericho Road. Beat the Devil was made into a film in 1953 by the director John Huston, who paid Cockburn £3,000 for the rights to the book and screenplay.

  4. www.acappellabooks.com › pages › booksBeat The Devil | James Helvick | First Edition - A Cappella Books

    James Helvick was the pseudonym of the great Claud Cockburn (1904-1981), patriarch of an extended family of journalist/writers. One of his grandfathers was a judge. His father was a British Consul General, and Evelyn Waugh was a cousin.

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  5. www.qbbooks.com › pages › booksBEAT THE DEVIL | James Helvick - Quill & Brush, Inc

    BEAT THE DEVIL. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist.

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  6. www.goodreads.com › book › showBeat the Devil by Claud Cockburn | Goodreads

    Beat the Devil by Claud Cockburn, publishing under the pseudonym James Helvick, because in the McCarthy years publishers avoided writers with previous communist activity, and Claud Cockburn had been an agitator

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Beat_the_Devil_(film)Beat the Devil (film) - Wikipedia

    Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick.

  8. www.filmcomment.com › blog › beat-the-devilBeat the Devil (1953) - Film Comment

    Feb 24, 2017 · The movie is based on a novel by left-wing journalist Claud Cockburn, who’d been blacklisted and wrote under the synonym James Helvick. First attempts at a screenplay had been tossed out by Huston, who found himself in Italy with a stellar cast and no script.