EDGE OF DARKNESS
(Warner Bros.)
AVING said nearly everything I wanted to say last week, in my review of The North Stat, on the subject of Hollywood atrocity stories and
the Cowboys and Injuns formula applied to films about Occupied Europe, I need only state that Edge of Darkness is exactly the pfescription as before. This time it is put up in a Norwegian bottle, and contains that athletic but uncommonly wooden young man, Errol Flynn, as the infallible leader of the Norwegian cowboys, Anne Sheridan as his unlikely heroine, a particularly sadistic tribe of Nazi Indians, and an assorted band of camp-followers and Quislings. The mixture takes two hours to consume, in alternate gulps of bloodshed and romance, with frequent pauses for simple Hollywood statements of political ideology. Guaranteed to cause a feeling of fullness and frustration in all but the most unsophisticated stomachs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 22
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145EDGE OF DARKNESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 22
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