Monday, March 17, 2014

IMDb. Message Board. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935.



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Movie VS Book
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IMDb member since November 2005
I am sure that very few people now living have read the book that this movie was allegedly based on. I have. When they made the movie, they literaly threw away everything but the title.


Re: Movie VS Book
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IMDb member since April 2010
I started watching movies about 63 years ago and started reading books somewhat later. My experience would dictate the following advice:

If you have read a book and liked it, don't watch the movie version. If you have watched a movie and liked it, don't read the book it was based upon.

He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45

Re: Movie VS Book
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IMDb member since February 2008
Yes In the autobiographical book I don't think Yeats-brown ever fires a shot at anything except perhaps at a polo ball. The book is simply a travelogue of Yeats-Brown life as a soldier/tourist. Lots of interesting anecdotes of life in far away places but no action. Even his WW1 service is only 4 pages long.

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