Our Mutual Friend

For its time this one was really good. The pacing was excellent and it presented a very full and interwoven story with clarity and precision. I watch a lot of adaptations, even the ones more difficult to get hold of now like this one. Many of the older ones have their merits compared to modern ones, they are often longer and more thorough and more respectful to the source material, however they can be slow and low budget and not as pretty or entertaining to watch. I think in this instance however, because the 1998 version of Our Mutual Friend is one of the very best Dickens adaptations as well as being even more thorough than this version, it is difficult to say why anyone should watch this one now. It has been almost entirely supplanted by the better more modern version. I presume that this this is the reason why this version is no longer that easy to come by and not available on streaming. I had to find a used DVD. Fans of this are probably going to be those who saw it first time round in the 70s. And at this time it would have been an excellent adaptation. But I'm not sure who I would recommend it to now except strange enthusiasts like me who seem to be on a mission to watch all of the Dickens adaptations that survive today.