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The making of the film: The Good Soldier

May. 25th, 2015 at 10:23 PM
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It is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ford Madox Ford’s pre-First World War novel, The Good Soldier, a seminal book of the 20th century. It opens with this sentence: “This is the saddest story I ever heard,”–spoken by the narrator, John Dowell—my part, in the Granada TV adaptation filmed in 1980.

Read further: http://robin-ellis.net/2015/05/25/the-making-of-the-film-the-good-soldier/
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Jun. 12th, 2015 11:57 pm (UTC)
Yeah, the book (and hence the film) isn't a happy story...
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