BRITISH FILMS.
American characteristics are" totally diffet- . ent from English, and the wretched, foolish,'-; immoral features in British films are chiefly the influence of a directorship foreign to. the English nature. I saw one English film that was screened in England-some seven or eight years ago, and it will always remain in my memory. It was an all-English college film called. "The Fifth Form at St. Dominies," and I have yet to see the American film, regardless of length, to approach it as a film in the eyes of critics to whom immoral, sensational films .are a violation of * the very purpose of .life.: T. STANSFIELD.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 8
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