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I just read the book by Nicholas Sparks, then watched the film to compare both.

To be honest, I prefer the film by far. Most of all it has a lovely filming location (Popham Beach near Bath in Maine), a beautiful soundtrack, a riveting plot and convincing actors.

In the film the deceased Catherine was a gifted artist and her paintings are important for the plot.

In the book she didn't do anything special.

In the book Theresa and Garrett spent much more time together, flying back and forth between Boston, MA, and Wilmington, NC. In the film they only met a few times.

In the book Garrett teaches Theresa and Kevin how to dive, in the movie he meets Kevin only once in Boston.

The movie touched me much more than the book did.

I enjoyed the first (1966) and second part (1986) more than this third part. Fortunately it had French subtitles (French movies often come without subtitles on DVD's), so I was able to follow the plot.

Anouk Aimée still looks amazing in her eighties!

The most rewarding scene comes after ca. 75 minutes when Claude Lelouch shows a fast driving car early in the morning racing through Paris. We see l'Arc de Triomphe, then Champs Elysées, the Luxor obelisk, downtown Paris and it finally ends up some 3 or 4 minutes later at Sacré-Coeur This was so beautifully done that I showed it to my husband who also loves Paris.

After having watched the more famous French adaptation with Mathilda May (which was disappointing), I had no high hopes for this version and was pleasantly surprised.

Matthias Habich is great in every single role I've watched him so far.

Hans Christian Blech had a small, but impressive role as a doctor.

Jacques Breuer must have been at the beginning of his acting career.

Gernot Endemann was famous in the Inge Meysel mini TV series "Die Unverbesserlichen" as her son Rudi Scholz.

I've read the Patricia Highsmith novel decades ago, so I don't remember if there was this much happening. In any case it's a lot more suspenseful and action-laden than the Mathilda May version which is rather dull.

I'm glad I found this relatively unknown German TV movie. It's about a love story between a girl from West Berlin and a young guy from East Germany. They meet by chance when she is on a class trip in Potsdam. This starts in the mid 1980's.

Some 15 years later she's involved with a computer program that fits all shredded Stasi files and makes them readable again. She sees his photo and her memories keep flooding back...

Regina Ziegler is known for producing lots of excellent TV movies about WW II and the post war years in Germany.

This little gem is very well-done and deserves 9 stars in the IMDb as I haven't found many other German productions as innovative and hilarious, at the same time showing how hard times were in 1947 two years after the war was over.

Three sisters played by wonderful actress Barbara Rudnik (Nora) who died way too young, Karoline Eichhorn (Freya) and Mavie Hoerbiger (Gudrun) live in a small German town which is occupied by the Americans. They sing in the choir at church and mind their own business.

The second sister (Eichhorn) plans her marriage to US Colonel Bellmont played by Horst Buchholz' son Christopher Buchholz. The wedding is supposed to take place on the next day. The oldest is in love with a Jewish man who plans to immigrate to Israel and the youngest has one night stands. She's the rebel in the family (the parents are dead).

ATTENTION!!! SPOILER!!!

The wedding dress gets wrecked, the Nora has to find a replacement and while she is out, a man enters the house to blackmail Freya with photos he has taken that show her in a rather embarrassing situation way back in 1944.

Pay attention to the wedding details, it's getting very hilarious.

Fortunately this CFF movie is (combined with "Trouble at Townsend" (1946)) available on DVD and also still available as a book by Malcolm Saville who wrote the story for CFF (Children's Film Foundation).

"Treasure at the Mill" was filmed in the summer of 1956 at the Ardleigh Mill near Colchester, Essex, UK. The owners at the time, the Harry Pettit family, participated as actors in the movie. The main character John Adams was played by Richard Palmer (who played Julian Kirrin in the 1957 CFF movie "Five on a Treasure Island" based on Enid Blyton's Famous Five series of books, also available on DVD). Hilda Fenemore who played his mother also participated in several other CFF movies.

It's a suspenseful story which moves along fast and is lots of fun to watch for any child over 7 years or those like me who grew up watching CFF films on TV. Definitely 9 stars worth compared with many other CFF movies from the same era.

There are two French movies based on Highsmith novels with Maurice Ronet. René Clément's 1960 thriller "Plein soleil" aka "Purple Noon" (based on "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is one of them. For me that's the best French thriller from the 1960's. Definitely a 10 stars movie. "Le meurtrier" aka "Enough Rope" mise en scène by Claude Autant-Lara is the other one and for me it comes close, 9 stars. This suspenseful crime story was filmed in 1963 in Nice, Côte d'azur, France. The soundtrack/score is very engaging and adds to the suspense.

The remake "A Kind of Murder" with Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biehl was released in 2016. As much as it creates atmosphere and has beautiful winter scenes and overall beautiful cinematography, the suspense which is so evident in "Le meurtrier" is missing in the remake. But the remake is still worth being watched.

I wish Criterion who releases so many French master pieces in their collection would finally add "Enough Rope" with a nice booklet...it's about time.

I rated it 6 from 10 stars as it was not as bad as the previous reviewers made it look like. But obviously I'm the only one in this reviewer group who watched the original Blunderer movie from France called "Le meurtrier" aka "Enough Rope" (1963) and THAT was a 10 star movie IMHO. It's such a shame that Criterion still has not released it in the US.

Being very familiar with "Le meurtrier" and with Patricia Highsmith' novel "The Blunderer", I could compare and recognize scene after scene and can tell that this is a very close remake to the old French film. Then we watched the bonus material and actually kept waiting for the movie director or the stars to mention the older French version, but nobody did (?).

Anyway, it's not a bad remake, because it keeps very close to the novel plot and to the French original movie. I just wish somebody who was interviewed for the bonus material would have mentioned/honored "Le meurtrier" in which Gert "Goldfinger" Froebe plays the book seller Kimmel, Maurice Ronet is Walter, beautiful Russian-French actress Marina Vlady impersonates Ellie, a musician (not a singer) and Yvonne Furneaux is Clara, Walter's Wife. Robert Hossein plays the detective.

Spoiler: Instead of going to a jazz bar, Maurice Ronet goes to a music festival in the last scene. The original was mise en scene by Claude Autant-Lara in Nice at the Côte d'azur/French Riviera. The remake was filmed in New York City, also taking place in early 1960 with very beautiful colors. The cinematographer alone deserves 6 stars for this remake, but I also think that the actors were quite good. Check this out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057303/?ref_=nv_sr_3

This suspenseful gem was made for French TV in 1985. I watched it in the late 1980's on German TV and am waiting ever since for it to be released on DVD. Aurore Clément plays the successful American photographer Dora Stern who lost her memory as a teenager in an accident and who is fascinated by mirrors. Edward Meeks plays her friend at the US newspaper in Paris, Bruno Crémer helps her find out who she really is. Jean-Pierre Aumont (Lili) plays a mysterious part linked to the past.

What I liked about it was not only the thrilling plot (the French sure know how to make suspenseful movies!), the good cast and the beautiful locations (among them Paris, Etretat in Normandy and Antibes, Côte d'azur), but also the very engaging soundtrack which adds to the tension.