The Comedians

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoutes, his sinister secret police. Brown, the hotelier, Smith, the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man -- these are the comedians of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actor's masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...