Posted by Roger Wardale on December 16, 2013 at 10:49:48 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Britain and the Sea & the Dimbleby's posted by Peter Roche on December 16, 2013 at 03:58:15:
I completely agree about Flint in the 1974 film.
What, I think is important to remember is the large input that Evgenia had in 1973, working closely with David Wood on the adaptions necessary in a screenplay for a 90 minute film. Generally, the producers tried to take on board her suggestions, but her rejection of Sten Grendon on the grounds that Roger should be fair-haired was overruled! Her comment on viewing the film that the camp kettle was the wrong sort, suggests that she was not too displeased with it. The film makers of the new version will not have the advantage of their predecessors in 1973.
'if one is to disregard everything but the originals we could miss so much', Peter says, and this is clearly true. There will always be the purists and those who delight in the illustrations in the foreign editions, for example. A broad church.