CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Directed by CHARLES A. NICHOLS and IWAO TAKAMOTO
Screenplay by EARL HAMMER JR.
Sirs: I must explain at the outset that this full-length cartoon version of the book in which I first found fame was of great interest to me. As the presumed villain of the piecealthough, I always thought, a heartily personable oneI was eager to see what Hollywood had done to my image and that of my old friends. Even a rat hears stories of the mangling of classics, and certainly Mr. E.B. White's narrative is a work of such stature.
Well, it has been tampered with a little, and...