BRAINS FROM OUTSIDE
Sir,-The cinema is showing signs of growing up, and the men who are making the transformation, or rather giving the industry a brain, are outsiders. The cause of my excitement is two films which were screening in Christchurch the other week, namely Noel Coward’s In Which We Serve and Orson Welles’s Journey Into Fear. The former, to my way of thinking, is the best war film to date, It is a brilliant piece of work from start to finish. Unlike Mrs. Miniver, this film does show all England at war. The other cause of my writing this letter, Journey Into Fear, was screening at a B-class cinema, and I had to sit through 90 minutes of "tripe" before the "Fear" was screened, but I was more than recompensed. Welles is no longer a boy wonder, but a mature artist with a style that makes the screen burst into life. In Journey Into Fear, he takes a typical Hitchcock or Lang plot-‘"the chase" (this time by sea)and introduces new approaches to familiar situations; every turn and twist of the plot is exploited to the hilt. I thought it interesting that the brains behind these two films were nurtured in an atmosphere of stage and radio, and yet both have grasped the essentials of cinema-action and a
sense of reality.-
ROY A.
EVANS
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 19
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225BRAINS FROM OUTSIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 19
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