i have always want to see the movie because i love the novel and but be warn away because i would hear that the movie be a stinker . it be . fowles write the script and i could follow it fine and despite the fact that i read the novel over thirty year ago . the soundtrack be execrable jarring and jangling and and utterly inappropriate breaking any attempt at mystery or mood in the movie . i suspect that the director must take a lot of the blame a even michael caine be terrible in it and he be already do excellent work in alfie a couple of year earlier . the mystery evoke by the book be not well translate onto the screen . i would love to see someone remake this one .