Smith, a US Presidential candidate who ran on the vegetarian ticket in the 1948 United States presidential election he and Mrs. Brown, returning from an unsuccessful trip to the United States to sell his hotel, located in the capital. The main characters travel to Haiti on the Medea, a Dutch ship serving the capital Port-au-Prince and the Dominican Republic. The novel was adapted as a feature film of the same name, released in 1967 and starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Paul Ford and Lillian Gish. The setting for much of the novel, the Hotel Trianon, was inspired by the Hotel Oloffson in central Port-au-Prince. Complications include Brown's friendship with a rebel leader, politically charged hotel guests and an affair with Martha Pineda, the wife of a South American ambassador. Brown, Smith, and Jones, their names suggesting a curious facelessness, are the "comedians" of Greene's title. Jones, a confidence man, meet on a ship bound for Haiti. The story begins as three men, Brown, Smith, an "innocent" American, and Major H. Set in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, the novel explores political repression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene.
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