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Not a bad first adaptation!


I caught this movie on TCM a week or so ago, and immediately re-read "The Man of Property," to refresh my memory of the book. You know, even though the BBC versions are better known, I like this one very much. The biggest thing that struck me was that in the novel, there isn't a single scene told from either Irene's or Bosinney's point of view. We ONLY see them through the eyes of various Forsytes. Given this HUGE limitation, I think the screenwriters did quite well at filling in the specifics of their affair, even when forced to edit the original story to meet Code requirements.

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Kind of an unusual choice for M-G-M in the 1940s: although this was very much a story about "family," it was hardly "family" material, dealing as it did with adultery and marital relations (or the lack thereof).

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This movie makes me SICK! Especially the old Forsytes are so terrible acted!

As the saying goes... the time to make up your mind about people is never

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Not at all--Henry Davenport is sublime and the old ladies are as silly and affected as their characters would be.

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This movie makes me SICK! Especially the old Forsytes are so terrible acted!



I agree with you. In both the mini series versions they were old dears. In this they were positively poisonous.
And any resemblance to the novel was purely coincidental.

Irene didn't come across as the heartless bitch we know she was from the other versions. And she was too old.



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Just saw this on TCM.
Robert Young is horribly miscast. Irene is suddenly in love with him. And there's not one shred of reason why she would be.
He's just totally unbelievable.
Worthwhile imo for Flynn's performance.

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Despite Errol Flynn,this was dreadful.

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