Viewed the new BBC
adaptation of the JB Priestley classic tonight with interest but felt the
insertion of on-location flashbacks to supplement the characters’ testimonies
added little drama and reduced the ambiguities and uncertainties that are such
an important feature of the original; definitely third place behind the 1954
film version that had the incomparable Alastair Sim as the inspector and which
better avoided the temptation to expand the setting, and the brilliant Stephen
Daldry directed stage version we saw three years ago at Newcastle’s Theatre
Royal.
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