I've heard about this movie for years, I finally watched it last night. A great classic movei dealing with taboo subjects of that era. I loved the theme song sung by Harry B. The location shots of Barbados were gorgeous.
shareI reckon Alec Waugh would have pleased his story got such an expensive treatment but it has so many characters that some of them only get a few minutes on screen. A TV mini series might have been preferable.
shareI read the book when I was 12 years old, in a Reader's Digest Condensation. And even then, I was cynical enough to say, so contrived. Alec Waugh's Maxwell Fleury was frankly a character I did not like, especially as he was so obsessed with his younger wife, Sylvia. His role in the Movie is frankly horrible, especially his violent, suspicious and possessive nature.And Here are Two spoiler dialogues, which I still remember – Tarbrush, I will teach you And Daddy is not your father.The real father is of course 100% white.Or something just like that, so that Jocelyn who has a suspicion of the tar brush in her Genetic white background can marry the White Templeton Heir. So, soap opera-ish, do not you think.That was when I was confronted with racism, but even at that time I knew that East or West, black or white, never the Twain shall meet. This was in the 70s!
I considered it Plenty of sissy stuff at the age of 12, and I remember putting out my tongue and saying Yaaayyaaayyaaay To that particular dialogue in a thoroughly disgusted tone!
Nevertheless, the book is much better than the movie.
I read the book and, and as much as I like the movie, the book was far better.
"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"