Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jul 20, 2021 14:46:11 GMT
I am afraid I simply could not get into it. Part of it is because it did not thrill me enough and part of it is because I found Robert Donat's smugness to be intolerable.
I consider the colour remake with Kenneth More to be better, simply because I found More to be a lot more likeable than Donat.
The 70s version with Robert Powell and David Warner is also enjoyable. It is much closer to Buchan's novel, set just before the World War One and even the steps in the title refer to an actual staircase, not some memorized formula. It has got a nail-biting climax at the Big Ben.