Posted by Mike Field on October 26, 2013 at 05:16:37 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Favourites posted by Peter Ceresole on October 26, 2013 at 02:31:42:
Okay Peter, next question -- which film? The Robert Donat version (closest), or Kenneth More (rather distant), or Robert Powell (even more so), or the TV version with Rupert Penry-Jones?
The 'Thirty-Nine steps' has been just about done to death in my view, film-wise -- and it's by no means Buchan's best shocker anyway.
Don't let me start ranting....
(But do the English not like Buchan so much because he was in fact a Borderer, and so not really one of them? It always fascinates me that the English applaud Andy Murray only as long as he's winning, when of course he's a Brit -- but when he's not winning, he's just a Scot....)