Errol Flynn, on loan from Warners, was a far from ideal, almost bizarre, choice as the dour Soames Forsyte in this MGM version of John Galsworthy's Victorian family saga. But it was Flynn's choice to play the cuckolded Soames because he was anxious to expand his image away from swashbuckling heroes. However, he did his best and with such doughty support as Greer Garson as his ill-matched wife Irene and Walter Pidgeon as his gentle cousin Jolyon he was in good company. Too condensed to to be an authentic representation of Galsworthy's work (this is based on the first section of the Forsyte trilogy A Man of Property), the film isn't in the same league as the BBC TV series from the late Sixties.


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