THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE
(Warner Bros.) HAT it is an advantage in film criticism to be familiar with the source-material of a screen story is not universally conceded by the experts. Some, in fact, contend that it is wholly disadvantageous, that it inhibits consideration of a film on its own merits. Generally speaking, I feel happier if I have some prior knowledge of what a film is about, but it is quite possible that in the case of The Voice of the Turtle ignorance was bliss. In this adaptation of John van Druten’s stage-play (the adapting has been done by van Druten himself) there is enough wise-cracking, enough farce, and enough tendency-wit to satisfy most filmgoers who are in search of nothing more than an evening’s entertainment. So far as one can gather from the, sets it is simply a film representation of the play, but I’m told that the original story has been bowdlerized almost out of recognition. Filmgoers who don’t mind a soupcon of mock-turtle, however, could fare worse. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 25
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172THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 25
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