Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

Written by Geoff Goodfellow
Published January 12, 2004

Easily in my Top 10 is Graham Greene's chilling psychological thriller and savage sarcastic satire on capitalism: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party. You See, Dr. Fischer has a Most Unusual hobby: to expose human greed. He does this in a most cynical and dark manner: by inviting his "friends" over for parties. What Happens at These Parties is best left for The Reader or, better yet, The Viewer in The Australian made for TV video/film that just happened to be James Mason's last screen role (as Doctor Fischer). i remember seeing it on PBS in the US once. i have seen copies of The Video for sale on eBay and elsewhere from time-to-time. it wasn't till "recently" that i got and read the book, which, of course, has more detail/story line to it than the video/film... but, i must say, James Mason's Doctor Fischer is superb, dour, seriousity.

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