CRY WOLF
(Warner Bros.) APDICTS of the mystery-thriller type of film fall* roughly into two classes. There are the initiates-exacting and critical types for the-most part-who, being by long acquaintance privy to all the mysteries, know a hawk from a handsaw whatever quarter the wind is blowing from. They can also tell you within the first hundred feet or so who the villain is-and they frequently do, In contrast to these cognoscenti are the crypto-masochists who- derive 4 perverse pleasure simply from being hazed, bamboozled and led up the garden path -and who wouldn't recognise a clue if they met it in their porridge-plate. For the latter Cry Wolf will no doubt have its charm-and the more uncritical admirers of Errol Flynn and Miss Barbara Stanwyck will, I suppose, find pleasure in the simple contemplation of their favourites. The experts, who will have no scent to follow except the pungent odour of red herrings, will be infuriated’ Ordinary listeners like you and me, who don’t mind a modicum of mystery so long as it is ultimately (and logically) qlucidated, will simply be bored.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 24
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183CRY WOLF New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 24
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