Boldly Adapted
HE title of Richard '- Pape’s book Boldness Be My Friend is also applicable to the BBC production, which minces neither words nor effects in bringing the book to the microphone. There is little time for conversation in the serial, little time for looking twice at characters other than the main protagonists. Energy is kept for action, not for talk, so that such conversation as there is comes with _ startling dramatic effect, like Pape’s shout of "Achtung" in the German restaurant. But one could wish that the adaptation had been aq little fuller, especially in the middle episodes, where it seemed we were hurried from one disaster to the next, the series merely forming a stair-
fe SUIne pinnacie OF suspense from which we are to hang as best we can till next week. But one is grateful for a pace that means only a sentence can he snared for
weeks in a Gestapo prison.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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158Boldly Adapted New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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