SAN ANTONIO
(Warner Bros.)
HE only real difference between this film and almost every other Western that has ever been made is that in San Antonio every-
thing is just a little bit bigger, a little bit more expensive, a little bit more drawn out, ‘and a little bit sillier. On all counts except the last, the film is therefore likely to be even more than usually popular with
the average small boy. But he is the! only type of picturegoer to whom I could conscientiously recommend itunless, of course, you happen to be attracted by such incidental information as that’ Errol Flynn plays the hero (this doesn’t attract me at all, but then, tastes do differ); thae Alexis Smith is the girl who sings in the saloon, as all Western heroines apparently must; that S. Z. Sakall is there for "comic relief," as the expression goes; that the story is bad men v. good men in Old Texas; and that the whole shooting-works is in Glorious (inglorious?) Technicolour. And when I say shooting-works I mean |, it. The six-shooters scarcely cease firing for a moment. (Small boys, please note.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 33
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189SAN ANTONIO New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 33
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