Difference From The Novel
The differences between novel and film are many, but principally:
- The novel does not reveal that Mrs. Rainier and Paula are the same person until the last line of the narrative. Of course it could not have been filmed that way, since the actress playing Paula would be seen to be Mrs. Rainier as well.
- The film does not have Kitty die; she simply leaves to join her mother in travelling abroad.
- Parson Blampied does not appear in the film.
- Melbury, a quiet north London outer suburb, becomes Melbridge, a booming industrial town in the Midlands.
- In the film, Charles inherits the family house and a substantial portion of the family wealth. He completes university and graduates; in the novel, he does not do so, neither does he inherit anything, save what the family donate to him.
- Smithy and Paula live in Blampied's London parsonage, not a small Devon village.
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