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"Loving and killing: the two great adventures in life': Maurice Tourneur's 1919 screen version of Joseph Conrad's victory.
From: Conradiana
Date: 20030922
Author:Hand, Richard J.
It is suitably ironic that Maurice Tourneur should direct the screen version of Joseph Conrad's Victory for Lasky-Famous Players in 1919. The year before, Tourneur had produced The Blue Bird based on Maurice Maeterlinck's stage play, a text Conrad ridiculed as the "Pink Goose" in 1911 (Letters 4, 427). One can imagine Conrad's exasperation that a man who rated the Belgian Symbolist's work so highly should be attracted to his 1915 novel. Regardless of the merits of Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, Tourneur's film holds, according to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, a ...
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