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- 1979
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 55 m
- 1979
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 55 m
Summary When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
Directed By: Otto Preminger
Written By: Graham Greene, Tom Stoppard
- 1979
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 55 m
- 1979
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 55 m
The Human Factor
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Summary When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
Directed By: Otto Preminger
Written By: Graham Greene, Tom Stoppard
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
62
45% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A fascinating, slightly chilly picture — as well as one of the best Preminger films in years.
The Human Factor, a spy saga and Preminger’s final film, is an overlooked gem.
Sometimes flat, The Human Factor is nonetheless a lucidly impressive return to form for the 73-year-old director. It's not really a thriller at all, but an understated, uncompromising dissection of an event: an anatomy of the murder of a soul. [11 Feb 1980, p.82]
The whole thing badly lacks any sort of central thematic focus, and the strangely obsessive Englishness of Greene's world is altogether missing. Craftsmanlike rather than inspired, it's watchable thanks largely to its solid performances.
A cerebral approach to espionage and defection, often suspenseful but sometimes dull. [26 Jan 1980]
Graham Greene's low-keyed, highly absorbing 1978 novel of an aging English double agent finding himself trapped into defecting to Moscow and leaving his family behind may have seemed like ideal material for Otto Preminger's style of dispassionate ambiguity, but helmer doesn't seem up to the occasion, bringing little atmosphere or feeling to the delicate ticks of the story.
Exquistely written but treacherously threadbare Greene. The author's style doesn't emerge through the filters of Tom Stoppard's foreshortened screenplay and Preminger's monotonous direction, which keeps the exposition at such a low energy level that the scenes feel instantly depleted. [18 Apr 1980, p.E1]
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