Posted by sean penguin on 09/10/06 14:41

dwickford@yahoo.com wrote:
> Last year I bought DVDs: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People;
> A Perfect Spy. I don't think anyone has made The Honourable Schoolboy.
> If not, why not?


My guess would be that the BBC missed it out from in between 'Tinker'
and 'Smiley's' for two, possibly three reasons.

- the complexity of the plot, length of the novel. Scriptwriters
nightmare, I should think.
- the expense of location shooting or complex sets (lots of it occurs
in the far east)
- it features Smiley, but in a rather incidental role. Would Guiness
have taken it on?

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