Though I can't find the words to express it in turn

[sovay]

skygiants has just finished reading Audrey Erskine Lindop's The Singer Not the Song (1953) and I recommend everyone read her review.

I had mostly heard of the book as the source material for the 1961 film, which I have not seen. It co-stars John Mills, but I've mostly heard about it in context of Dirk Bogarde, specifically in black leather pants. I went looking for photographic evidence.



Nothing I have ever read suggests the film is any good, but I see why people don't care.

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[poliphilo]

I read somewhere that Bogarde had been led to believe the film would be edgy and European and he'd be playing opposite someone edgy and cool like Marlon Brando- and was really rather cross when he found the guy he was supposed to be in this super-heated relationship with was being played by reliable but unsexy John Mills.