Film should be shown—M.P.

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32966, 12 July 1972, Page 3

Film should be shown—M.P.

(A'cu- Zealand Press Association > HASTINGS, July 11. The film, "A Clockwork Orange,” ought to be shown if it represented the message the book set out. Dr A. M. Finlay, Labour spokesman for law and order, said in Hastings this afternoon.

Dr Finlay said he had not (seen the film, but he considered he was as able to comment on it as anyone else, because no-one in New Zealand (except the Film Censor) had yet seen it. He said the book was one of violence, but it used the aversion technique in that it was against violence. It was rather a revolting book, but it did have an object. Some Labour members of

i Parliament, including himJself, were invited to see the [film, but they declined because they considered there [was a danger of substituting political judgment for legal judgment, he said. MEMBERSHIP OF BOARD The Cinematograph Films Censorship Board of Appeal, which may be called on to review the censor’s decision to release “A Clockwork Orange” with an R2O classification, has Mr W. H. Carson. S.M.. of Wellington, as , chairman. The other members are Miss M. J. Clark, a former, principal of Wellington Girls'. College and a Wellington city councillor, and Mr W. N. Sheat. a solicitor and chairman of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. Most of the board’s hearings are of appeals by film distributors against decisions of the censor (Mr D. C. McIntosh ).