THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
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{tz is not only the mills of God that grind slowly. So does The Mill on the Floss.’ At least it does in this funeral- | paced English version of
George Eliot’s stary, and in the process it crushes out any life that was left in the novel. Although they do, in fact, make one incomprehensible variation in the ending, I think that on the whole the director and players were too jolly impressed by the fact that they were handling a classic. A little healthy disrespect, even a Hollywood touch here and there, would for once have been a great improvement. The cast, of course, is Very Notable-Geraldine Fitzgerald as Maggie Tulliver, James Mason (a younger edition of Laurence Olivier) as the blackvisaged ‘Tom, Victoria Hopper, Frank Lawton, Fay Compton, etc. Their accents are impeccably English; and, as I say, almost no liberties have been taken with the original story. To some people these few oats among the ‘chaff produced by the, Mill may make the job seem worth while; and if that is so I would not want to put them off the picture. But my own impression is that the chief thing The Mill on the Floss does is to make George Eliot, in this day and age, seém even more monumentally dull than she really is.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 17
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228THE MILL ON THE FLOSS New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 17
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