Another fascinating (and, in this instance, tortured) performance from Anthony Hopkins highlights this slow-moving but nonetheless absorbing adaptation of a Graham Greene novel. Writer Lee Langley intelligently underlines the thriller aspects of Greene's story in her teleplay, making it more accessible than the sombre drama it might have been. Hopkins, despite playing a man who has given away all his wealth and worldly goods in wartime to escape execution, has one's sympathy all the way. The film looks good under Alan Hume's glowing photography, although the art direction is somewhat over the top, especially with a country kitchen that could have sprung straight from the pages of 'Good Housekeeping'.


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