"The Wild Geese’’
Sir, — Barry Took, cinema critic, “Punch,” July 12: “The principals. . . have little to do but look tough and fire vast quantities of blank ammunition. . . The whites are officers, n.c.o.s, and heroes — the blacks are either loyal. . . (or) frightful rotters. . ~ or in the case of the occasional peaceful tribespeople you catch glimpse of, village idiots . . The film could be and perhaps should be regarded as propaganda: the Republic of South Africa’s 'Triumph of the Will’ . . . Slick, cynical, mechanical.” It saddens me, as a serving territorial soldier, that our own colourblind citizens’ army should have accepted the job, for money, of helping this film rise from obscurity. — Yours, etc.,
C 769076 McAllister, ken November 3, 1978.
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