POISON PEN
(A.B.P.) Flora Robson’s name appears above the title of this one. She is good, but not so impressive as the dozen or so characters lined up by Paul L. Stein to make a convincing display of the effects of scandal-mongering on village life. Sam, you will notice, comes close to perfection as one of the yokels affected by the anonymous letters showered on the village from the poisoned pen of someone the Vicar believes to be insane. The Vicar is right, but it will be a long time before you guess who. " Poison Pen" is an interesting picture. Stein has done for the villagers what Pen Tennyson did for Londoners in "’There Ain’t No Justice."
There are some faults, mainly in a lack of conviction in the work of the leading players, and partly in the photography, which is generally good but marred here by too much sky in an outdoor shot, there by the omission of a focal point in an interior. But this examination is not intended to decry the film; rather to point out that its many good points earned it a right to a little more polish,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 34
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193POISON PEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 34
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