Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketedby an organization called the Sons of Liberty (an insurgent Jewish group renounced by both U.S. and British Zionists) and a delegation from the Irish Republican Prisoners' Release Association, who came up from New York.
Was there to be a real boycott of British films? No, said Sir Alexander Korda's U.S. representative, but some U.S. distributors were using the threat of boycotts and pickets as an excuse not to show British pictures. He thought that it was "retaliation, perhaps only subconscious,"...
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