Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, July 1, 1960 F PatheLahs. FORTHCOMING RELEASES ABBREVIATIONS: AA, Allied Artists; AIP, American International Pictures; BV, Buena Vista; Col, Columbia; MGM, MetroGoldwyn-Mayer; Par, Paramount; 20-Fox, 20th Century-Fox; UA, United Artists; Uni, Universal; WB, Warner Bros.; c, color; cs, CinemaScope, te, Techirama; w, VistaVision; rs, Regalscope. ► JULY AIP— HOUSE OF USHER, c. cs: Vincent Price, Mark Damon BV— POLLYANNA, c: Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman COL— SONG WITHOUT END, c, cs: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine (special handling) COL— STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET, c, cs: Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas COL— STOP! LOOK! AND LAUGH!: Three Stooges COL— THIRTEEN GHOSTS: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow MGM— BELLS ARE RINGING, c, cs: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin MGM— THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND: Aldo Ray PAR— THE BELLBOY: Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet PAR— THE RAT RACE, c: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds PAR — TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT, c: Gordon Scott, Betta St. John 20-FOX— THE STORY OF RUTH, c, cs: Elana Eden, Stuart Whitman 20-FOX— THE LOST WORLD, c, cs: David Hedison, Jill St. John 20-FOX— FROM THE TERRACE, c, cs: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward 20-FOX— MURDER, INC., cs: Stuart Whitman, May Britt 20-FOX— TRAPPED IN TANGIERS, cs: Edmund Purdom, Genevieve Page UA — THE APARTMENT: Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine UA— CAGE OF EVIL: Ronald Forster, Pat Blair UA— THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, c: Steve Reeves UNI— DINOSAURUS, c, cs: Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson UNI— PORTRAIT IN BLACK, c: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn WB — ICE PALACE, c: Richard Burton, Robert Ryan WB— HERCULES UNCHAINED, c: Steve Reeves ► AUGUST AA— HELL TO ETERNITY: Jeffrey Hunter, Joan O'Brien AIP— KONGA, c: Michael Gough, Jess Conrad COL— THE NIGHTS OF LUCREZIA BORGIA, c: Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas MGM— ALL THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner PAR— PSYCHO: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles PAR— IT STARTED IN NAPLES, c: Clark Gable, Sophia Loren 20-FOX— ONE FOOT IN HELL, c, cs: Alan Ladd, Don Murray 20-FOX— FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE: Richard Baseheart, Rex Allen 20-FOX— THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS: Kenneth More, Taina Elg 20-FOX— YOUNG JESSE JAMES, cs: Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker 20-FOX— SONS AND LOVERS, cs: Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller 20-FOX— THE IDIOT: Russian Film UA— ELMER GANTRY, c: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons UA— HE RAN FOR HIS LIFE: Steve Kandel, Ron Foster UNI— COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL: Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows UNI— CHARTROOSE CABOOSE, c: Molly Bee, Ben Cooper WB— OCEAN'S ELEVEN, c: Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson ► SEPTEMBER AIP— MALE AND FEMALE: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton COL— AS THE SEA RAGES: Maria Schell, Clift Robertson COL— FAST AND SEXY, c: Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson COL— ALL THE YOUNG MEN: Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier COL— THE ENEMY GENERAL: Van Johnson, Jean Pierre Aumont MGM— THE TIME MACHINE: Rod Taylor, Allan Young 20-FOX— LET'S MAKE LOVE, c, cs: Marilyn Monroe, Yes Montand 20-FOX— HIGH TIME, c, cs: Bing Crosby, Fabian 20-FOX — APHRODITE, c: Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas 20-FOX— HIGH POWERED RIFLE, cs: Willard Parker and Allison Hayes UA — STUDS LONIGAN: Christopher Knight, Venetia Stevenson UA— THE NIGHTFIGHTERS: Robert Mirchum, Anne Heyward WB— THE CROWDED SKY, c: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming PEOPLE David Supowitz, theatre architect, has been elected the first honorary president of the T-Square Club of Philadelphia, an organization consisting entirely of architects. □ Claude Schlanger has purchased from Cumberland Amusement Co. the Landis Theatre, Vineland, N. J., and the adjoining office building. He will continue operation of the Landis, with Herb Lubin remaining as house manager. □ Cecil Felt, for many years an exhibitor, has opened a real estate office on Film Row in Philadelphia. □ N. H. Waters, president of Waters Theatres, Birmingham, Ala., has received from Athens College the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. . □ James W. Bradford of New Orleans, a newcomer to the field of exhibition, has acquired his second operation, the Anne, a de luxe neighborhood house in Baton Rouge, La. His first was the Rex, in Chauvin, La. □ John V. Ward, a veteran of 42 years in the industry, most recently as manager of the Seneca Theatre, Niagara Falls, Ont., has retired. He will be succeeded at the Seneca by Douglas Walker, of Collingwood. □ Ed Story has been named manager of the new Tony Theatre, Crescent Amusement Co. operation in Nashville. MTOA Endorses ( Continued from page 1 ) board commended American International Pictures for its efforts in "increasing releases and helping to relieve today's product shortage." Plans for the new producing-distributing company had been presented to the convention by S. H. Fabian, chairman of the American Congress, in a speech read for him by Philip Hailing. Fabian had been unable to attend. While not attempting directly to solicit funds for the new company, Fabian had urged exhibitors to give financial support to bolster the $2,000,000 already subscribed by five circuits— American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres; RKO Theatres; Stanley-Warner; National Theatres & Television; and Loew's Theatres. Fabian gave next Jan. 1 as the deadline for raising funds for the company. Convention speakers today included Mori Krushen, United Artists national exploitation manager; Mort McGill, Eastern division manager for Buena Vista; and Harold Saltz, sales manager for Universal at Washington, D.C. (Continued from page 1) owners here that about two weeks ago he received a call from James S. Burkett, Pathe Lab sales manager, and a member of the SPG, who requested a meeting with TOA officials to discuss a new idea. Pickus, accompanied by George G. Kerasotes, TOA board chairman, and Walter Reade, Jr., former TOA president, met last week with Burket and Gordon K. Greenfield, president of American Corp., Pathe Lab's parent company, and heard the plan for the new production program. Additional Conferences Planned Further meetings will be held, Pickus indicated, to work out details as to a practical number of pictures to be included in the program, their approximate budgets, probable stories, casts and producers, as well as particulars of the extent of exhibitor cooperation and how it will be achieved. Observers here pointed out that in addition to possible profits on the play-off of films in the program, Pathe Lab will benefit from the laboratory work which the program will create. It is generally assumed in trade circles that the cut-down of Hollywood production has disturbed the labs as much as it has exhibitors. Pickus made it clear that the new development would not affect either the TOA, committee's further meetings with the SPG on mutual production-exhibition exchanges of viewpoints, or TOA's support of the exhibitor-sponsored plan for formation of a new production-distribution company, for which the former affiliated circuits have posted $2,000,000 and additional sums are being pledged by independent circuits. Pickus said he has "great hopes for the future if the Pathe Lab program, the exhibitor sponsored production plan, or any exhibitor picture-making company gets to work." Sees 'Snow-balling Effect' "The additional films these sources would produce," Pickus said, "would, I am confident, create a snow-balling effect that will result in 300 to 350 pictures a year for us. I feel the moment the film companies see exhibition is really in the picture-making business, they are going to step up their own production to try and save their markets. And, as we stay in business, they will continue their increased production and will be surprised to learn the truth of something we have been trying to tell them for years— that the market needs and will support more pictures, and will be profitable for all." "As it becomes increasingly apparent that exhibitors are dead serious in their determination to cause more pictures to be made," Pickus continued, "many statements can be expected to come from high film executives which will cast doubts on the need for such exhibitor effort. I say this not cynically nor as a critic of the film companies, but only to urge exhibition not to be deterred from its goal of causing more pictures to be made." Pickus said he was gratified that TOA had been selected by Pathe Lab to help launch the new program. "TOA's consistent efforts and business-like approach to our industry's problems, and our constructive conduct, are paying off," he commented. The TOA head said that as the product shortage not only continues, but worsens, it becomes increasingly apparent that it is up to exhibitors to act if any relief is to be obtained. "The film companies," he said, "are all operating profitably on their present total output of about 200 pictures a year. They have no theatres of their own to stock. They are enjoying a seller's market. They are making money. They have no reason, in my opinion, to rock their own comfortable boat by increasing their production and releasing schedules materially. We cannot expect the relief we seek from them,"