Here Come the British

Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketed--by 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," for British restrictions on Hollywood films. "Until the trouble blows over," Korda announced last week, he will not release in the U.S. four films already scheduled for showing: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fallen Idol, The Winslow Boy and The Small Back 'Room.

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