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by oxmont

...remakes of classic novels, and some of them deserve a new movie interpretation. Some have been done on film numerous times, i.e. "Tale of Two Cities", "Christmas Carol", "Les Miserables" and it is a pleasure oftentimes to view the various interpretations. One important work has been neglected for reasons I do not understand---Graham Greene's "Power and the Glory" which showed up in such a watered down form in the 1940s due to heavy censorship that the heart of the story was not recognizable. At least one version has been done for TV but I have not seen it and reviews of it are not very good anyway. For a long time I have "known" that Robin Williams should portray the whiskey priest in a movie version. One can almost "see" Williams's face when reading the story of the tormented priest. Why doesn't someone turn this masterpiece into a filmed masterpiece. It is long overdue.

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