![]() Guy's emotional IQ is so low he manages to fall for her twice. Guy's position is not helped by the fact that his once and later wife Virginia (Megan Dodds) is a vain little tramp who uses men so obviously it's a wonder they are taken in. Every attempted noble act by Guy misfires, and only at the end does he finally achieve some nobility as the putative father of Trimmer's child. The evil Corporal Ludovic who murders his C O gets commissioned while good men die everywhere. His egregious acquaintance Trimmer becomes a war hero by accident and is promoted to Colonel. His semi-autobiographical hero, Guy Crouchback goes into what he thinks is a God - ordained crusade against evil, only to discover that the war is the ideal environment for liars, cheats, cowards and phonies of all varieties. ![]() ![]() Evelyn Waugh had a pretty scrappy Second World War, but he used his illegally kept diary to good effect. Partly this is because of the fair amount of action which takes up a lot of literary space but which can be economically depicted on the screen. Once again a substantial literary work (3 novels) has been shoehorned into 200 minutes or so of television but this time without the gross omissions that usually occur in exercises of this kind.
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