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2. A good, bleak movie with a great zither soundtrack

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:35 PM

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I read quite a few of Greene's books in my younger days, but there's one thing in his background I didn't know until quite a few years later -- his controversial review of Shirley Temple's movie Wee Willie Winkie.

https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/02/25/graham-greenes-infamous-review-of-wee-willie-winkie-1937-starring-shirley-temple/

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