Sir,-I am surprised you let R. Evans get away with so much pure nonsense, For instance, you could have told him that if he hasn’t seen a British film without any swearing in it, he hasn't seen enough to qualify him to compare them with American ,films. And you allowed him to try and tell us that it was the British films that went in for overdone melodrama. What a laugh that orie was. However-such is freedom of speech, I suppose It is true enough that American films show some technical superiority over British productions. That is a natural result of the comparative scale and experience of the industry in the two countries. But to make disparaging comparisons of British and American actors to the discredit of the former is to ignore the large proportion of British actors among the stars of the American films. What about Greer Garson, Ronald Coleman, Charles Laughton, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Robert Donat, and Walter Pidgeon, to select a few?
E. G.
RIDLEY
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 333, 9 November 1945, Page 5
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