New Adaptation

MarcWatson-Gray

To be shown on BBC1 Boxing Day.......Fingers crossed !!!

Griselda

i wonder if it will be eerie and frightening, or if they'll play up or invent lots of romances.

Griselda

I've just realised why this book is different, and why it hasn't been done on tv or film very often: there's nobody sympathetic in it. You can't have a love interest between two heartless murderers. Cards on the Table was different. There were human foibles,so it seemed, not this out and out bad.

MarcWatson-Gray

You quite right Griselda... I don't think any of them had any redeeming factors

tudes

Griselda said:

I've just realised why this book is different, and why it hasn't been done on tv or film very often: there's nobody sympathetic in it. You can't have a love interest between two heartless murderers. Cards on the Table was different. There were human foibles,so it seemed, not this out and out bad.

I agree with you. In fact, nobody shows any sight of remorse. Most of them would do the same thing again.

I have to say that Miss Brent is a really scary woman!

Still, I think it's her best book!

Griselda

I think it probably is her best. I read it when I was a teenager and was engrossed. As an older adult, I've become more impressionable and recoil from characters like that and such a dark concept of retribution. But, gosh, the atmosphere.

Tommy_A_Jones

It has been done about 9 times, 2 are either Russian or Indian I can't remember, I have 3 of the others 2 in Black and White and one in Colour with Charles Aznavour, Elke Sommer, Oliver Reed and Richard Attenborough, Herbert Lom has been in 2 of the Films and Stanley Holloway and Shirley Eaton and Fabian have all been in the same one.