Not a bad first adaptation!
I caught this movie on TCM a week or so ago, and immediately re-read "The Man of Property," to refresh my memory of the book. You know, even though the BBC versions are better known, I like this one very much. The biggest thing that struck me was that in the novel, there isn't a single scene told from either Irene's or Bosinney's point of view. We ONLY see them through the eyes of various Forsytes. Given this HUGE limitation, I think the screenwriters did quite well at filling in the specifics of their affair, even when forced to edit the original story to meet Code requirements.
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