Painted ‘Stagecoach’

Kevin Thomas, give it a rest about colorization. Of course John Ford never expected “Stagecoach” to be colorized (TV Times, Nov. 29). Ford never expected any of his films to be shrunk to TV size, cut for time, commercialized in the middle or, yes, colorized.

But is colorization the evil that deserves the overwhelming vilification of so many reviewers in the media? Colorization can bring new life to films that people, especially teen-agers, won’t watch. Perhaps a colorized showing of a classic like “Stagecoach” might squeeze out another showing of something like “The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island.”

Thomas W. Graham, Bellflower