Director Preminger was handed his first project in five years, a great cast, and good material (based on a Graham Greene novel), and he came up with this anemic little thriller.
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10/23/07
The Human Factor (1979)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:1
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Solid, convincing adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about a leak in the African section of the British Secret
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Robert Morley
Director: Otto Preminger
Reviews for The Human Factor
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07/05/05
The film is a triumph of missed opportunities, miscasting and misdirection, excused, if at all, by the fact that money ran out and Otto had to hock some paintings to finish it.
05/24/03
The film has all the spy details of an intriguing chess game being played, but it has no soul.
12/06/01
This rigorous, compelling, radically stylized film represents the end point in a line of development that Otto Preminger had been pursuing since the late 60s.
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