"49th PARALLEL"
»sir,-I am a regular reader of G.M.'s film criticisms and would like to correct him on a point in his review of the comedy (?) Tanks a Million. He writes that the brutal sergeant was played by Noah Beery, junr. If he takes the trouble to examine the cast list he will fiad that this part was really taken by a gentle. man who goes by the name of Joe Sawyer and who has appeared in a few other unimportant films recently. In the same issue of The Listener, ‘G.M. answers a letter by " Londoner," and challenges her to deny " that she felt any compassion for that ‘cornered rat of a Nazi who wanted to join the Hutterites and was shot as a result." He misses the point completely here. It is only natural to feel compassion for an enemy who has seen the wrongness of his creed and therefore defies his commanding officer. G.M. will have to be more ingenious to answer " Londoner’s " letter effectively.
COLLEGIAN
(Wanganui).
{G.M. thanks the correspondent fur his correction about Tanks a Million, and p.ints out that even Homer sometimes nods. Put it was not G.M. who suggested that it was unnatural to feel compassion: it was "Londoner" who said that "one has to quench that feeling’’---pre-sumably even for the Nazi’ who wanted to join the Hutterites.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 3
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