The Prize (1963) on Netflix
Approved19632h 14mCrimeDramaMystery
In Stockholm for the Nobel awards, novelist Andrew Craig, known for drinking rather than writing, meets the physicist Dr. Max Stratman. At their second meeting Stratman does not know him.
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Stockholm fills with this year's Nobel laureates, and the literature prize goes to Andrew Craig, an American novelist whose six books sold poorly and who has not written in five years, earning a living instead with pulp detective stories under a pseudonym. The Swedish foreign office assigns Inger Lisa Andersson to keep him from embarrassing the prize. The physics laureate, Dr. Max Stratman, arrives with his niece Emily. Stratman is friendly at their first meeting. At their second he does not recognize Craig at all. Craig, distrusted by his hosts because of his drinking, sets out to learn why the physicist he met has changed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Prize (1963)
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- Mark Robson planned to shoot The Prize on location at Stockholm's Grand Hôtel and Concert Hall, but as Irving Wallace's novel grew popular, Swedes became wary of the production and he settled for sending a crew to film exteriors only.
