"MY DARLING CLEMENTINE"
Sir,-After having seen My Darling Clementine I think that G.M. was mistaken in awarding it a stand-up clap. With a real live town like Tombstone (I have just been browsing through a book called Tombstone, an Epic of the South West, by Walter Noble Burns), 20th Century-Fox had the chance to give us something a bit different, but instead they hashed up the same old story employing the stock characters of a hundred B-grade Westerns. The "little man’ has reacted enthusiastically to some unforgettable films, The Moon is Down, Lifeboat, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Story of G.I. Joe to name but four. Some years ago G.M. wrote a memorable review of a truly great Western, The Ox-bow Incident. Should not the highest award of The Listener film critic be kept for those studios which are courageous enough to break new ground and which give us masterpieces such as the five just mentioned? My Darling Clementine cannot hold a candle to any one
of them.
L
Na
(Frankton Junction).
(It?s largely a matter of opinion.-Ed.),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 13
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180"MY DARLING CLEMENTINE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 13
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