Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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4 Motion Picture Daily Monday, October 3, i960 seeS $1,000,000 cross FORTHCOMING RELEASES For Commercial Jbilms | 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, co/or; cs, CinemaScope, te, Techirama; vv, VistaVision; rs, Regalscope. ► OCTOBER AA — TIME BOMB: Curt Jurgens, Mylene Demongeot AA— BLOODY BROOD: Barbara Lord, Jack Bett AA— SEREGENTI SHALL NOT DIE, c: Documentary AIP— THE ROUGH AND THE SMOOTH: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton AIP— JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY, c: Debra Paget, Paul Christian BV— JUNGLE CAT, c: True-Life Adventure BV— TEN WHO DARED, c: John Beal, Brian Keith COL— I AIM AT THE STARS: Curt Jurgens, Victoria Shaw COL— LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters COL— I'M ALL RIGHT JACK: Peter Sellers MGM— KEY WITNESS: Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley MGM— WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS: Gina Lollobrigida, Yves Montand PAR— THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS, c, te: Anthcny Quinn, Yoko Tani 20-FOX— THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, c, cs: Leslie Caron, Rossano Brazzi 20-FOX— DESIRE IN THE DUST, cs: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer 20-FOX— SECRETS OF THE PURPLE REEF, c, cs: Peter Folk UA— THE ALAMO, c, todd-AO: John Wayne, Richard Widmark WB— SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO, c: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson WB— THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, c: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire WB— GIRL OF THE NIGHT: Anne Francis, John Kerr ► NOVEMBER AA— HEROES DIE YOUNG: Erika Peters, Robert Getz AA— THE UNFAITHFULS: Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt AA— THE PLUNDERERS: Jeff Chandler, John Saxon AIP — KONGA, c: Michael Gough, Jess Conrad COL— SURPRISE PACKAGE: Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor COL— HELL IS A CITY: Stanley Baker, Maxine Audley COL — JAZZ BOAT, cs: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey MGM— BUTTERFIELD EIGHT, c, cs: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey MGM— GORGO, c: William Travers, William Sylvester PAR — G.I. BLUES, c: Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse 20-FOX— CIRCLE OF DECEPTION cs: Bradford Dillman, Suzy Parker 20-FOX— NORTH TO ALASKA, cs, c: John Wayne, Capucine 20-FOX— DOUBLE TROUBLE, cs: Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall 20-FOX— TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY, c, cs: Diane Baker, Lee Philips UA — INHERIT THE WIND: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March (special dates) UA— THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, c: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallaeh UNI— MIDNIGHT LACE, c: Doris Day, Rex Harrison WB— THE SUNDOWNERS, c: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum ► DECEMBER AA— HEROD THE GREAT, c: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez AA — DONDI: David Janssen, Patti Page AIP— GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON, c: Mark Forest, Brodrick Crawford BV— SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, c: Dorothy McGuire, John Mills COL— THE THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER, c: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow COL— THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY, c: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson COL— PLEASE TURN OVER: Ted Ray, Jean Kent MGM— CIMARRON, c, cs: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell MGM— MAGIC BOY, c: feature-length cartoon PAR— THE WORLD OF SUSIE WONG, c: William Holden, Nancy Kwan PAR— CINDERFELLA, c: Jerry Lewis, Judith Anderson PAR— A BREATH OF SCANDAL, c: Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier 20-FOX— FLAMING STAR, c, cs: Elvis Presley 20-FOX— ESTHER AND THE KING, c, cs: Joan Collins, Richard Egan 20-FOX— THE WIZARD OF BAGDAD, c, cs: Dick Shawn, Diane Baker UA — EXODUS, c, Panavision 70: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint (special dates) UA— FACTS OF LIFE: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball PEOPLE Doris Day will be honored by Universal at a press luncheon at the Plaza Hotel here on Thursday in connection with the mid-October opening of her latest film, "Midnight Lace," at Radio City Music Hall. □ Glenn Norris, 20th Century-Fox general sales manager, will hold a press conference at the home office this morning to discuss forthcoming product with trade press representatives. □ Louis Nizer, prominent attorney and author, has been named guest of honor for the 1960 "Health for Peace" dinner to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here, Dec. 14, on behalf of the Children's Asthma Institute for Research, Max E. Youngstein, honorary chairman for the dinner, announced. Maxwell Rabb, attorney, will be chairman. □ Dan Peterson of Rrookings, S. D., was winner of the grand prize in the Theatre Owners of America treasure chest at the recent convention in Los Angeles. He received a color television set donated by APCO, Inc. □ The Westrex Corporation, a division of Litton Industries, has created two key executive positions in its international department and will expand the number of products it represents for distribution and servicing. George T. Scharffenberger, Westrex president, announced the appointment of Anthony Easton to the new position of director of international sales. At the same time he announced that Harry M. Rich has been named manager of the newly created import department. Award for 'Song9 BONN, Germany, Oct. 2.-William Goetz' "Song Without End," the story of Franz Liszt, has obtained the Praedikat Wertvoll award, it was announced here. The honor is awarded to films of unusual merit and carries various monetary advantages. 'Apu' Bows Tonight A special invitational premiere for the Ambassadors to the United Nations, sponsored by UNICEF, will be held tonight at the Fifth Avenue Cinema, for the Indian film, "The World of Apu," and the UNICEF cartoon, "Children of the Sun." Both are released by Edward Harrison. Rita Moreno Signed HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2.-Rita Moreno, currently before the cameras in a co-starring role in Mirisch Pictures "West Side Story," has been signed to a three-year contract by the independent company, it was announced by Harold J. Mirisch. From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2. The industrial and commercial film division of Paramount Pictures will reach a gross of $1,000,000 in its initial year of operation, Walter Bien, operating head and Paramount partner in the division through his company SIB Productions, Inc., said at a luncheon interview in the Hollywood Roosevelt. Bien, a youthful veteran in the commercial film field, who instituted similar departments for U-I, Warners and Four Star Films, forecast a sharp increase next year in income for that division on the Paramount lot. Bien, who has made a number of films for such accounts as U.S. Steel, du Pont and Dow Chemical among others, and is currently preparing a special film for the stock exchange, said, "Entertainment is the keynote to obtaining the desired impact of sales appeal or public relations efforts on the part of commercial and industrial sponsors." Hail Editorial {Continued from page 1) commenting on a recent Motion Picture Daily editorial by Martin Quigley, Jr. "The Evangelist," official weekly of the Albany Catholic diocese, in the issue out that day, carried a National Catholic Welfare Conference news service story on the editorial. The syndicated report set forth that "a leading movie industry trade paper has warned a continued flood of 'sick' films from Hollywood will have 'one inevitable result— a dead industry'." The N.C.W.C. article added: "Mr. Quigley said that the movie Production Code and its administration are 'sick' too, being unable to deal with their problem." Dr. Flick agreed with the editorial in its stand on the present ineffectiveness of the industry's self-regulating machinery. Flick believes that only a great force and a sustained effort, which the major producing companies would have to support unequivocally, can restore the Production Code to its former level as a restraining force on the production and presentation of objectionable films. The educator doubts this reversal will take place "while the present trend continues." This trend, Flick commented, takes two courses: "The production of an increasing number of pictures with 'borderline' themes, and the release of many films, foreign and domestic, made by producers who are not signatories to the Production Code." Dr. Flick questioned the assertion by Paul N. Lazarus, Jr., Columbia Pictures vice-president, at the first of two meetings in New York between the broadcasting and film commission of the National Council of Churches and representatives of the motion picture industry— namely that "self-regulation is still effective." Flick believes that the motion picture industry is "unwise" in attacking the constitutionality of a state licensing law like New York's and also that "the industry fails to realize a good deal when it has one, things could be far rougher for the industry." He predicted that support for a film classification bill, similar to the one which the Assembly last March overwhelmingly approved but which was bottled up in the Senate rules committee and did not come to a vote before adjournment, will unquestionably be manifested at the 1961 legislative session. The Younglove-Duffy bill, which authorized the motion picture division to classify films as "suitable for patronage by children attending elementary and secondary schools in the state," and which permitted exhibitors, producers and distributors to advertise a film so rated, was strongly opposed by the industry.