THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Sir,-As a rule I adhere to the criticisms of G.M., but his recent attack upon the miglity De Millian epic "The Sign of the Cross" was both ill-judged and a reproach upon his critical faculty; the one reasonable thing he did say, however, was against the modernised beginning and ending. This of course was quite uncalled. for, but as this was only a recent innovation, it is to be looked
upon in the future as merely an inopportune blunder. For the rest G.M.’s assault was unfounded bosh; he attacks the film on the grounds that it is an antiquated. museum piece, but I have seen few films of late whose photography could equal this one’s, and few spectacles that could do the same, Much could be learnt even to-day from this old-time masterpiece. And because De Mille presents a faithful and accurate interpretation of the persecution of the Christians by Nero, and of the gladiotorial combats of Ancient Rome in all their stark reality, G.M. lets loose upon him a bigoted arrow and as much as dubs him a sadist and cynic, revelling with unsustained delight in scenes of the utmost gore and butchery. AVE DE MILLE (Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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203THE SIGN OF THE CROSS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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