Cinema: Gray Greene

THE HUMAN FACTOR Directed by Otto Preminger Screenplay by Tom Stoppard

This is at least a faithful adaptation.

Perhaps deliberately underemploying his gift for mercurial language, Playwright Tom Stoppard has delivered a careful script based on Graham Greene's fine novel about a man forced to choose be tween betraying his love and betraying his country. The work is translated to the screen with scene-for-scene, almost line-for-line fidelity to the original. In the central role of a bureaucrat in the English espionage apparatus, whose debt to the Communists for helping to spirit his black, politically...

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