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Six Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On
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Tinker Tailor is not better than the book. The Alec Guinness version comes close but the book really stands above.
I think my view of the English came from a cross between Monty Python and the Alec Guiness in both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Bridge Over the River Kwai -- maybe with an unrelated bit of The Man Who Would Be King thrown in for good measure. Anyway, I only have the best things to say about the TV version, and I'm only now realizing that nere in the U.S., we missed 25 minutes of it to editing.
Really? Got both series on DVD at a thrift store and not sure which I have