Really great story, specially from a critical-historic point of view, but turns out to be just a normal movie.
Book is brilliant, well I read it in my 20s and thought everything was brilliant then. Caine is great, Fraser holds his own. I wanted to like this more than I did. Still glad it was a story that was told on the big screen nonetheless.
Should have won a raft of awards for director and stars. The kind of film Hollywood used to excell at