Norway sees Thomas film
The Arthur Thomas affair became a prominent discussion subject in Norway this month after "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" was shown on national television as the popular Monday night film on January 31. writes Ross Brown from Oslo. Consequently Norway's largest daily, the tabloid •VG," published an interview with Mr Thomas in its Saturday edition, which sells 350.000 copies in a population of 4.000.000. A picture of Mr Thomas holding his baby daughter Bridgette Mary-Anne filled half of “VG's" front' page, while a fuli-page article appeared inside.
This was written by an Auckland journalist. Graeme Kennedy, who had visited Mr Thomas on his Orini farm. "I'm glad that my story is being told." Mr Thomas told Kennedy. "It shows that what happened to me can happen to anyone, even in Norway." The film provoked a negative view of New Zealand amongst many Norwegians, who now see the distant country as a place of conspiring policemen and indifferent authority l . Meanwhile the question: “Who really killed the Crewes?" is now being asked in Norway's fiord hamlets and snowbound rural villages.
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