"THE OUTLAW"
Sir,-Many of us, it is said, have sore points which, if touched, make us less balanced and less rational in our judgments and statements than we usually are. I am wondering if that is the explanation of your criticism of The Outlaw. When the film first arrived in Wellington I did not give it much more) than a passing thought. Then came G.M.’s review in your issug of August 8. After read. ‘fing that’ review and noting the very wide divergence of opinion between G.M. on the one hand and the Hay’s Gffice, and British and | New Zealand censors on the other, I decided the film was something I must see. I was ‘curious to form my own opinion as to who. was right. Now having seen the film, I must confess I side with the censors and wonder what all the fuss and bother was about. The film was no worse than many I have seen and better than some. The story was fair enough as film plots go and it was not without several spots of humour. Certainly’ what G.M. refers to as the heroine’s only two points of interest were more prominently dis- played than is usually the case, but if that is the focal cause of the trouble and I cannot help suspecting it is, surely it is not enough to damn the film with such a slaughtering review and at such length unless my first sentence is the explanation. As the local censor : said in reply to a complaint about the posters of the film, they are no worse than ‘much of what we see in women’s apparel acvertisements. Do not the newspapers, magazines, radio, shop windows, etc., tell us ad nauseam that the emphasis to-day is on curves.
C.
THOMPSON
(Wellington )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 25
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299"THE OUTLAW" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 25
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