![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No actual writers were on hand or were harmed or were paid. They spent plenty of bucks on fabulous location shooting, gorgeous fifty’s vintage sets, cars, and wardrobes. It’s not like the BBC can’t afford schmucks with Underwoods to write coherent narratives. Three or four more rewrites of the script and this adaptation could have worked. Those times felt few and far between because the in-betweens were Godawful. There were times when the movie genuinely came to life and we laughed where we were supposed to. On the other hand, that means there’s nowhere to go from here but up.Īs with The Secret Adversary, N 0r M? needed a working script. We sat through a terrible, inept adaptation of one of Agatha’s more underrated novels with her underrated detectives, Tommy and Tuppence. Thank God I had some wine left over from when my sister visited. We laughed often, sometimes when the script called for it! All the other laughs came from the lame and inane script. The sets were outstanding as were the wardrobes. Quality of movie on its own: One and 1/2 guns. Everything else, large and small, was altered and nearly always for the worse. As in the previous Partners in Crime adaptation (The Secret Adversary), the names matched. ![]()
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