Title: Read the book instead, please
Review: Waugh's Handful of Dust is a terrific and dark novel, with funny sharp dialogue. For reasons known best to the writers of this movie, precious little of this amazing dialogue appears in the film. The direction makes the film sappy where the story is not, and loses all of the black comedy until the ending where, mercifully, the great Alec Guinness appears.
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