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Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 9. Wednesday, November 9, 1960

The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence

Some films to watch out for in the immediate future include The Angry Silence and Sergeant Rutledge. Scripted by Bryan Forbes, The Angry Silence would seem to be a vitriolic comment on the British social scene; it stars Richard Attenborough in his best performance to date. Sergeant Rutledge is yet another western from John Ford. It is the story of a Negro regiment in America, soon after the Civil War. Woody Strode plays Sergeant Rutledge, the man indicted of raping and murdering a white woman. Two other movies worth looking out for are Fellini's La Strada and the British The Entertainer. Of The Entertainer, which stars Laurence Olivier, Roger Manvell said, "an actor's picture and another triumphant sign of renaissance in the realistic British cinema."

—M.W.

"I was once mightily impressed by a remark of Eric Warman's in this connection. We were meeting some high official in one of the film companies. At least, Eric was; I was merely present as an underling. All these big shots go about with underlings in attendance, and I used to go along to give Eric the proper status. Well, this important chap shook Eric warmly by the hand, nodded very civilly to me, and said "Eric Warman? I've heard the name before somewhere." To which Eric magnificently replied, "You may have done. I've published a couple of novels."

I went home and practised that: "I've published a couple of novels." Or better perhaps, "I've publisheda couple of novels." I found there were nearly as many ways of saying this as of saying the third line of Gray's Elegy. But unfortunately, the couple of novels remained Eric's and not mine.

—Kenneth Hopkins.