"Gorgonblast"
A SUCCESSION of psychological films has . apparently ‘had its efféct on William Whitebait, critic’ of "‘The New Statesman," causing the more irresponsible side of his nature to come fo the surface. Ina recent issue he treated his readers to a preview of his own script for a film to be entitled ""Gorgonblast,"" which he described as a new kind of thriller, tender and maniacal, to last 287 minutes. With my own inhibitions weakened by pictures like ‘‘Spellbound," I cannot resist the temptation to quote him here: GLOVE falling from a high storey on Fifth Avenue; down it drops, to be picked up by an aristocrat stepping from his Rolls into the sunshine. No ordinary glove, either, but a cobraskin. gauntlet, picked out with. bloodstones. "Whose?" asks Gregory,: sniffing it. He must find the other glove. He drives like fury to New York’s smartest night-club. Not till weeks. later, in the room with the piano and the broken glasses at the end of the corridor, does he discover Petunia-Petunia, married at one time to a society columnist, who disappeared, and now to a fashionable portrait painter, who shows every sign of hydrocyanic poisoning. She is‘a_hus-band-killer, though only her mother knows ' this. She growls a blues. She
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 33
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206"Gorgonblast" New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 33
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