Cine protection
Sir: You people had better sharpen yourselves up in regard to your film reviews: twice I have wasted money through watching films inadequately reviewed in The Spectator.
Take Music Lovers for instance. You know as well as I do that if you and I had been on that train with Tchaikovsky we would have both been huddled in the corner with him quaking before the unclothed form of Miss Jackson, which, with its violent overall
shaking (apparently caused by the train having lost a wheel), would have frightened the daylights out of anyone. It was the duty of your reviewer to warn the less robustminded among us against such things.
And how do you think your readers felt when, unprepared through the fault of your reviewer, they sat aghast at the sight of yet another grown American man in tears, in Soldier Blue?
bet if you persuaded someone of the stature of Auberon Waugh to see Soldier Blue he would, by the time he came to the bit where the hero does his crying rendition of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade,' agree that there may well be a case for better Spectator protection for readers in need of a guide to good cinema. Tom Gillis
18/7 Leichhardt St, Waverley 2024, NSW, Australia
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