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The Human Factor (1979)
Typical Greene subject matter, ineptly adapted
13 November 2002 - 8 out of 17 users found this review helpful.
I was really surprised to see that Tom Stoppard had done the screenplay for this film, as the narrative structure seemed very clumsy and inarticulate.
The plot itself was interesting enough, even if the storyline was pretty obvious from fairly early on.
Robert Morley - despite being an utterly improbable character - is worth the price of admission alone. And Jacobi's 'innocent' brings a certain pathos to events.
The ending, whilst superficially weak, was all that you might expect from a Graham Greene book - i.e. morally amiguous and unresolved.
Whilst somehat clumsy, I think that this film is worth seeing and holds the attention well enough.
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