"THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT"
Sir,-Why no reference in "P.J.W.’s" review to the Wellington-Manawatu Railway? The paralle] may not seem obvious at first sight, but fundamentally there is the same set-up, the enthusiasts who step in when authority falls down on its jgb, and the intense local patriotism, Think what the National Film Unit could do with Palmer and his K-van dining-car,; the stampede from the Paekakariki Hotel when the engine whistles, the record-breaking run of No. 9, and those heroes of my youth, the drivers with their sweeping moustaches.
It would havé to be done in the local idiom, the dry documentary approachI am not suggesting an attempt to transplant the English whimsy. But what a film it would make!
W.M.
R.
(Havelock North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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123"THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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