FILM REVIEWS
Sir-Why does your critic "Jno." invariably review British films ag though he has’a grouch against everything British?: His review of Meet :Me Tonight is the latest case in point. Perhaps the whole film does not bear comparison with any of Somerset Maugham’s, but Noel Coward is not disgraced. | Admittedly, the first playlet, "The Red Peppers," was weak except for the supporting actors. As for "Jno.’s" cheap comment on "Fumed Oak" I have yet to speak to anyone who saw the film who did not enjoy Stanley Holloway’s handling of his part, and also that of his supports. If "Jno." is a member of. the local repertory and can act as well, he is wasting his time writing film reviews. If, in the opinion of "Jno.," "Ways and Means" does not bear comparison with "The Facts of Life" or "The Ant and the Grasshopper," I venture to state that it does in the opinion of the majority. : Might I suggest that "Jno." forget Shakespeare as a space-filler when writing reviews and concentrate on the film itself? His quotation was in very poor
taste.
C.
F.
(Wellington)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 5
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187FILM REVIEWS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 5
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