14/20 In the hands of prophet-wizards it will be a higher form of vision-seeing. Take, for instance, the large Italian film that attempts to popularize Dante. It is full of apparitions worked out with mechanical skill, yet Dante's soul is not back of the fires and swords of light. It gives to the uninitiated an outline of the stage paraphernalia of the Inferno. It has an encyclopaedic value. |