can not separate the fate of the novel by the reduction (in this case the term is most appropriate) film. The film based on the book by Charles Williams, despite a good pace and a dignified setting, simplified so obvious, since many of the protagonists, the plot, focusing, as was logical, on the more spectacular. Charles Williams's novel the story is more complicated, and much more evolved: calm is claustrophobic even if it is set right in the middle of the ocean to outer space, landscape perfect for that overlap of appearances, deceptions and dilemmas which are structured on the history and its natural course. The plot follows a trail of events that have a succession of almost mathematical: John and Rae Ingram, a couple on their honeymoon on a sailboat that picks up a castaway, he said, is the sole survivor of another vessel, now adrift. Hughie Warriner, this is the name of the young man saved from the waves, is terrified of water and lied. He moved, on the other boat, John discovers that there are, still alive, two people. I am the wife of Hughie and Bellew grumpy: They too hide qualcosae John realizes immediately that the boat, the Orpheus, the reason is gone for quite a while. A luxury that we can not afford to live in the sea, but then Hughie took command of the Saracen, the boat of Ingram and running away. The ocean turns out to be a cul de sac and tension remains high throughout the novel, we read his anguish that calm distributed among the various parties. The size of human relationships, by their very nature in the bankruptcy case of the sailors of Orfeo, the hostility of the ocean (from calm to the storm, his moody surface reveals a deadly trap) serve only to aggravate the features of the rough edges personality that brings out Charles Williams method with dexterity. The only one who seems to be free is just John Ingram knows quite well the laws and customs of the sea for the sailors lost in the controversy between Orfeo and concentrate all efforts in trying to save the boat. At first try in every way to keep it afloat, pumping and flushing with jerky shots dried water filters through the rotten planking. Then, when it is clear that Orfeo has no more hope, the fire to give a reference to his wife. The destruction of Orfeo is a sacrifice that offers more than a metaphor: that a desperate fire lights up in the middle of nowhere, a catharsis of flames on the vertical calm and horizontal water. The effect, in itself spectacular, has the power to bring the end of the novel that will explode with the same effectiveness: Charles Williams will not be a sophisticated connoisseur of language and style, although he still got to manage the property dialogs and the silence of his characters stuck in dead calm. Its focus is more on the psychological implications, conflicts between the personalities and, at least in a few cases (spouses Warriner) to the elements, latent or explicit, of dissociation to weave a sequence of nooses that cling to the reader truly original thriller.
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