Good adventure tape Handsome Gesture 1966, in my opinion, is more than a curious adaptation of Percival Wren’s novel The Viking Funeral. It is curious that it is far from the original and thus turns into a full-fledged self-sufficient work.
Douglas Hayes singled out an exclusively adventurous and adventure line from the literary source, added a detective line to it, and partly (if you take the initial scene with dead soldiers on the fort wall) even a mystical one. All this was well mixed and received the most worthy “colonial” film, which even benefited from amateur directorship in contrast to the book. Special thanks I want to say to the producers of film Technicolor, because bright postcard colors give a great aesthetic pleasure to any viewer and especially to such an inveterate moviegoer as me.
As a result, contrary to the popular opinion that “the book is better”, I can conclude that the film looks even more interesting than the literary source.