--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William Ahearn
<williamahearn@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- shadowkobun <shadowkobun@...>
wrote:
>
> > Hi. Have any of you read,The Secret Agent by
Joseph
> > Conrad?
>
> It's a very funny and very astute look at
terrorists.
> Hitchcock totally changed it as the basis for
his
> Sabotage film. The book is wonderful,
Excellent movie, though. Not long ago I saw a restored
version of it
(on a French DVD), very fine. What the book has is the voice
of Conrad, which you can't really use much in a movie.
Hitchcock was wise in making it very different.
Best,
mrt
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