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Sword of Honour

  • Film per la TV
  • 2001
  • 3h 28min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,2/10
988
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Sword of Honour (2001)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaGuy Crouchback, heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family, returns to England from Italy at the start of World War II, and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers along with various ecc... Leggi tuttoGuy Crouchback, heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family, returns to England from Italy at the start of World War II, and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers along with various eccentrics, though his attempts to get back with his wife Virginia, from whom he is separated... Leggi tuttoGuy Crouchback, heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family, returns to England from Italy at the start of World War II, and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers along with various eccentrics, though his attempts to get back with his wife Virginia, from whom he is separated, fail. After being implicated in a colleague's death, he is sent to train a commando brig... Leggi tutto

  • Regia
    • Bill Anderson
  • Sceneggiatura
    • William Boyd
    • Evelyn Waugh
  • Star
    • Will Adamsdale
    • Nick Bartlett
    • Christopher Benjamin
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,2/10
    988
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Bill Anderson
    • Sceneggiatura
      • William Boyd
      • Evelyn Waugh
    • Star
      • Will Adamsdale
      • Nick Bartlett
      • Christopher Benjamin
    • 18Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Will Adamsdale
    Will Adamsdale
    • HOO headquarters officer
    Nick Bartlett
    Nick Bartlett
    • Popforce soldier
    Christopher Benjamin
    Christopher Benjamin
    • Doctor
    Jane Bertish
    • Mme Kanyi
    Peter Blythe
    Peter Blythe
    • Gen. Graves
    Nicholas Boulton
    Nicholas Boulton
    • Bertie
    Monica Brady
    • Hotel receptionist
    Tim Briggs
    • Sgt. Glass
    Selina Cadell
    Selina Cadell
    • Angela Crouchback
    Rebecca Cardinale
    • Italian woman
    Katrin Cartlidge
    Katrin Cartlidge
    • Julia Stitch
    Simon Chandler
    Simon Chandler
    • Maj. Irvine
    Josh Cole
    • Sapper Capt. Beech
    Richard Coyle
    Richard Coyle
    • Trimmer McTavish
    Daniel Craig
    Daniel Craig
    • Guy Crouchback
    Graham Crammond
    • Bellamy's barman
    Abigail Cruttenden
    Abigail Cruttenden
    • Kerstie Kilbannock
    Robert Daws
    Robert Daws
    • Maj. Hound
    • Regia
      • Bill Anderson
    • Sceneggiatura
      • William Boyd
      • Evelyn Waugh
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    6donita51

    Somewhat of a letdown

    Having savoured Evelyn Waugh's magnificent trilogy, I approached this filmic adaptation fearlessly. The expectation of seeing Daniel Craig, a favourite actor of mine, added to the enticement. Finally, being a WW2 films buff, I believed I was in for a treat.

    What a letdown...

    It's not that this mini-series is badly made, that Craig does not act well or that the dialogue is stilted. It is just soooooooo sloooooooooooow (except for some (too few) battle scenes) that it borders on boring. The one notable exception was the depiction of the battle for Crete, which looks as if was filmed on location. It had the flavour of the real thing, conveyed through the bright photography. Also, Robert Daws as brigade major Hound was fantastic.

    To me (no prude) the love angle was over-emphasized, with Megan Dodds annoyingly bad. Altogether, it took up too much screen time at the expense of other, more important aspects like the War, character development or Guy's Catholic dilemmas.

    Also, watching Richard Coyle acting in the same mode as he did in Coupling made me realize what a limited actor he is although again, I stress that in Coupling he was the heart of the show.

    Some reviewers have already noted that this film does not compare well with the books it is based on. I will add that while most films indeed don't, this one was an extremely painful example of how not to make a TV series based on a book, especially a masterpiece.
    8Chinesevil

    Wise, varied, complete, exciting, realistic.

    This movie has all the qualities to be an entertaining and teaching film. There is a beautiful story of an honest and courageous man in a difficult and troubled world that revolves around. The actors and the sets, at certain moments, have some problems but the plot, the ideas, and the completeness of the life of man during the war, make us understand many useful things.
    8the red duchess

    Much, much better than we'd any right to expect.

    'Sword of Honour' can be seen as an update of the Boultings' 'Pilgrim's Progress' - an anachronistic idealist fights in World War Two for reasons of chivalric honour, only to see the world overrun by liars, cheats, murderers, cowards and lunatics; where decency is pointless, even dangerous.

    William Boyd's restructuring of Waugh's war trilogy is a miracle of adaptation - his leavening of verbal humour with slapstick; his capturing of Waugh's elliptical tone; his creation of haunting visual patterns acting as counterpoint to the horrific satire that is the war. There is one haunting sequence amid so much disintegration, the false bomb warning during Virginia's post-natal party, that magically hints at forces beyond man's self-defeating endeavour, while also rescuing a character Waugh was rather hard on. In the moral sense.
    7NicolaiLevin

    Well done with minor flaws

    Just watched this with my better half on DVD. I had read the books before, she hadn't.

    I was positively surprised that the writers did not change much of Waugh's novels for dramatic condensation; they just omitted lots of peripheral characters and events of minor meaning to the overall plot.

    The main characters are well cast and the acting is excellent. In contrast to some other reviewers, I am convinced that Daniel Craig is the perfect fit for his appearing neutral in the crucial point of class. Guy does not represent a specific class in the novels either: He's too catholic and too old for being a "chap" among the officers, he is too introverted and serious to succeed in society, and too rich and educated and considering to be a role model for the ordinary men. No, he remains an outsider to all worlds - which gives him the best position for observing and documenting all the others.

    My better half liked the acting and thought the film gave her two good evenings of entertainment. Yet she was confused with the abrupt changes of locations and times (I had no problems with that with all the background knowledge of the novels and the dozens of Wikipedia pages I consulted to understand the novel's story while reading it).

    I can understand her: If you are not really into WWII (and even more: if you are non-British), you really get lost if those sandy rocks now represent mock Crete in Scotland, Egypt or real Crete and what the heck were the British doing in Greece anyway? I don't think it was a good choice to split the story in two parts, while the book is made of three. The story lacks a stringent climactic structure anyway (life seldomly follows the rules scriptwriters have set for entertaining plots), and stopping in the midst of volume 2 does not really make things better. Maybe a 3 or 4 part miniseries with a run-time of 7 or 8 hours total would have been more fitting with the Crete and Yugoslavia episodes deserving a full leg of attention.

    What I missed was the mentioning of Stalin. In the novel, two of Stalin's moves are main triggers for Guy's decisions: The Hitler-Stalin-pact of '39 convinces Guy to go back to England, join the army and fight the forces of evil. Germany's invasion of the USSR in '41 causes Stalin to change sides which makes Guy doubt his cause. The co-operation of the Allies with Stalin's Soviet Untion forms the quintessence of his conviction of the overall senselessness of his efforts. I can see that it is hard to make this fit into a movie version, but not to mention it at all? I also missed Stalin's sword mentioned although it is the name-giver to Waugh's trilogy.

    What became clear to me after watching it is that the material is still well suited for movie or series adaptations. So, Netflix, Amazon - anyone?
    Philby-3

    A gloomy war for Waugh

    Once again a substantial literary work (3 novels) has been shoehorned into 200 minutes or so of television but this time without the gross omissions that usually occur in exercises of this kind. Partly this is because of the fair amount of action which takes up a lot of literary space but which can be economically depicted on the screen.

    Evelyn Waugh had a pretty scrappy Second World War, but he used his illegally kept diary to good effect. His semi-autobiographical hero, Guy Crouchback goes into what he thinks is a God - ordained crusade against evil, only to discover that the war is the ideal environment for liars, cheats, cowards and phonies of all varieties. His egregious acquaintance Trimmer becomes a war hero by accident and is promoted to Colonel. The evil Corporal Ludovic who murders his C O gets commissioned while good men die everywhere. Every attempted noble act by Guy misfires, and only at the end does he finally achieve some nobility as the putative father of Trimmer's child.

    Guy's position is not helped by the fact that his once and later wife Virginia (Megan Dodds) is a vain little tramp who uses men so obviously it's a wonder they are taken in. Guy's emotional IQ is so low he manages to fall for her twice. Well, perhaps the second time around he was after some nice redeeming suffering - he did have some insight - but in retrospect Virginia's demise seems a blessed relief.

    Generally though, this was a decent effort. Highlights included the Crete and Croatian sequences and the great portrayals of Ludovic, Major Hound and Brigadier Ritchie-Hook the truly crazy brave military idiot, who was at least able to admit that he enjoyed all that killing'n stuff. Daniel Craig's Guy is also a very measured performance. He has a face on which one can read inner suffering like one reads a weather dial. It was also nice to see that perennial lightweight Leslie Phillips (of 'Carry On' fame) bringing some gravitas to the role of Guy's aristocratic father.

    I haven't read the books in this case, but if the portrayal of Mrs Stitch, the society grand dame in the production is anything like that in the trilogy it's a wonder Lady Diana Cooper, who was still alive when they were published, didn't sue. Lady Diana is thought to be the real-life model for the character, who cheats on her absent husband with a young war hero, destroys Guy's mail and pulls strings to get him transferred back to England so he can't blow the gaff on what her 'hero' really did in Crete (desertion).

    Anyway, I am now inspired to read the books, which on previous experience should be no hardship. Evelyn Waugh was an intriguing character who started out as an angry young literary man in the 1920s and finished up a reactionary old fart in the 1960s, his time long gone. Yet he was one of the greatest English literary stylists of the 20th century, equally adept at satire ('Decline and Fall', 'Scoop') and serious work ('Brideshead Revisited', Sword of Honour'). This production suitably honours his memory and isn't a bad bit of television in its own right.

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      Julian Rhind-Tutt worked with Bond Actor Daniel Craig in The Trench and Sword of Honor.
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      When Crouchback meets Iver in the hospital early in Segment 1, he notices Mrs. Stitche's large red hat on the hospital bed and sees them kissing. She later departs with Crouchback for a lunch party and is wearing a white hat with a red rose on it.
    • Connessioni
      Version of Sword of Honour (1967)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 2 gennaio 2001 (Regno Unito)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Soldado de honor
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Dougarie, Isle of Arran, Scozia, Regno Unito
    • Azienda produttrice
      • TalkBack Productions
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