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...your Oct. 9 review of Devil's Doorway, you say that it is "an old-fashioned western at heart, disguised with an unhappy ending and an Indian dubbed in as the hero." For your information, substantially the same story (Indian hero returns home after winning thanks of white man in battle, is later driven out of home by federal troops) happened at least once in real life...
...business with Darlan to minimize bloodshed and get on with the war . . . He did the job. If I had it to do over again, I would choose again to deal with the man who could do the job-whether it turned out to be Darlan or the Devil himself...
...crumbling mansion on the other side of any town, a happy family of unmitigated fiends. They are poor as cemetery mice, but honest as the night is long, and like true soldiers of the great Damnation Army, they darken their corner of town with all the vices that the Devil-with some help from a man named Charles Addams-can conceive...
When Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet started teaching Latin and Greek at Columbia University in 1937, he was struck with one persistent thought: "My students were always coming up to me after class and saying, 'Goodness, this is fascinating stuff. But why the devil wasn't it taught us before?' And I'd say, 'It probably was.' And then they'd admit, 'Well, I guess...
...Devil's Doorway (M-G-M), like Broken Arrow (TIME, July 31), takes sides with the Indian victims of the white barbarians who won the West. Unlike Arrow, which treated the idea with a fresh story, Doorway is an old-fashioned western at heart, disguised with an unhappy ending and an Indian dubbed in as the hero...