this be a tedious movie . the real villain be the clunky adaptation ( it embarrassingly easy to tell that the source material be a novel ) and witless screenplay . on the credit side and consider the budget be tight due to wartime austerity and the look of the film isn not at all bad . and the performance be and by and large and ok and except for phyllis calvert and who be terrific a miracle consider the potential for winsomeness and a pit into which she most definitely do not fall . m calvert and with a lot less to go on and be as accomplish a olivia de havilland in go with the wind . the one absolutely unbearable aspect of the man in grey be the dreadfully conceived depiction of a black serving boy . no matter that he mean to be a sympathetic character . play badly by a white boy in black face make up and it be impossible to by pas this example of condescend racism . grim .