The Human Factor
1979VOTE NOW
| J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: December 18, 1979 |
Starring:
Ann Todd, Derek Jacobi, Iman, John Gielgud, Joop Doderer, Keith Marsh, Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Richard Vernon, Robert Morley
Summary:
When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
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Graham Greene's low-keyed, highly absorbing 1978 novel of an aging English double agent finding himself trapped into defecting to Moscow and leaving his family behind may have seemed like ideal material for Otto Preminger's style of dispassionate ambiguity, but helmer doesn't seem up to the occasion, bringing little atmosphere or feeling to the delicate ticks of the story.
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Exquistely written but treacherously threadbare Greene. The author's style doesn't emerge through the filters of Tom Stoppard's foreshortened screenplay and Preminger's monotonous direction, which keeps the exposition at such a low energy level that the scenes feel instantly depleted. [18 Apr 1980, p.E1]
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