Adaptation To The Screen

Back on 9 December in the long forgotten year of 2023 I reviewed the screen adaptation of An Inspector Calls and made the unoriginal observation that such adaptations can suffer for the opening-up from stage to screen. So you might think it would be with the 1948 version of The Winslow Boy, as it happens another play in which I have appeared. Not so.

I suggest that The Winslow Boy is a lesser piece of theatre than An Inspector Calls, the closetedness of the latter making it an arresting morality tale. Curiously The Winslow Boy makes a better movie and the opened-out parts of the narrative serve better than the mildly clumsy flashbacks deployed in An Inspector Calls. 67/100.