Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

18 August 2019

Helden (Heroes) (1958)

Helden is very funny. It's based on Shaw's play Arms and the Man and works very well. It has much of Shaw's moralism, but is way more fun than his usually talky comedies. Franz Peter Wirth's adaptation is filmic through and through - there are almost no traces of staginess.

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