"DUEL IN THE SUN"
Sir,-Congratulations on» your Film Critic’s masterly review of Duel in the Sun. I had only been two hours from the theatre when I read the ‘article and it expressed my feelings absolutely. If Hollywood spent six million dollars on that film it is time the moguls of the film world found some other channel for their surplus cash (and energy). The sooner "Imperial Preference" is exercised on Hollywood films the better. Give us bigger and brighter British
films.
BRITANNIA
(Johnsonville).
Sir,-I went to Duel in the Sun with an open mind. My women-folk refused to go, which made me all the more curious. The Press advertised it as the most controversial picture of all time. I thought the acting was most convincing. I expect that in the years before the railways crossed the prairies in America some pretty crude and primitive people lived there. I found it all rather entertaining though a bit too virile and lusty pethaps in places. I found it hard to fit in Joseph Cotten; he didn’t seem to ring true. In other words he was rather an improbable character. But I thought Jennifer Jones as the half-breed did‘a very clever bit of acting. Her type would have been susceptible to whatever man -was on the scene, at the moment. Barrymore, too, was well cast. I like
Gregory Peck at any time, I like’ his voice and his bearing. He’s certainly no "ciss," if he could master a stallion as he did, or was it a "stand in"? The last scene was certainly gruesome and in bad taste. But taking the picture all round I enjoyed it. The old humbug of a cheap and nasty evangelist may have given offence to some. That was all too true to type, I thought. This generation wouldn’t stand for such charlatans. In any case I’m sceptical of people who make the most show of religion. . Has your critic become too "refained’’? The sessions were packed every evening and afternoon, which speaks for itself. I think the general public like a bit of reality.
THE COMMON MAN
(Bell Block).
(We have no space for further letters on this subject.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 5
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