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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Three old films, from novels by Nevil Shute:
"A Town Like Alice", "No Highway" and "On the Beach". *
For me, Shute was a very pedestrian writer, but he told great stories, so his books worked really well as films.
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+1 I especially hated the narrator in
Alice. We're supposed to believe that Jean shared the most intimate details of her reunion with Joe with Mr. Strachan?
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Originally Posted by elemenoP
I saw/read it many years ago (and I was young), but how about Out of Africa? I remember falling in love with the movie, and then trying to read the book and getting bogged down in too many details about how to run a plantation in Africa. I would like to try both again. As I understand it, the movie takes details/story from several of her books, not just the eponymous one.
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Gack. I know Dinesen took some liberties with the truth, but not as many as the film did. Robert Redford was ridiculously miscast. Denys Finch Hatton was younger than Dinesen and bald as a proverbial billiard ball, as well as not having an American accent!
I haven't seen anyone mention
Gone with the Wind, which is a far better film than book, even though I prefer the story told in the book.