Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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PEOPLE Deems Taylor, who from 1942 to 1948 served as president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and who at the present time is secretary of the organization, will be presented a watch at the conclusion of the Society's board meeting today. The gift will honor his 75th birthday, which falls on Dec. 22. Presentation will be made by Stanley Adams, ASCAP president □ H. P. "Dusty" Rhodes, Georgia drive-in theatre owner, tomorrow will hold his annual Christmas party at the Atlanta Variety Club for bookers in the exchanges of the major distributors. □ Douglas Walker, booker for Columbia Pictures in Jacksonville, has been elected president of Local B-67, IATSE. Douglas Tidwell, projectionist, has been renamed business agent. Coast Theatre Firm Set LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. Alex Cooperman, independent film distributor, has formed Paris Theatre Corp., with associate Shan Sayles, and will take over the Carmel Theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard, Crescent Heights, renaming it the Paris, to inaugurate an art house policy. if You Are Invited to § A.M.P.A.'S j 44th Annual I CHRISTMAS 1 LUNCHEON I PARTY j Tuesday, Dec. 20th | At 12:15 P.M. 1 Georgian Room % Hotel Piccadilly f 227 West 45th St. For Reservations: HANS BARNSTYN PLaza 3-2434 Motion Picture Daily REVIEW: The Angry Silence Harris & Shore — Valiant Thursday, December 15, lU HIT TUi Variety Club NewsM — This first production of Beaver Films, a British company formed by Richard Attenborough, who also co-stars in the film, and Brvan Forbes who wrote the original screen play, is a most noteworthy' offering in all departments. This Joseph Harris-Sig Shore presentation for distribution through Valiant Films has been directed bv Guy Green in a taut crisp manner and is filled with many imaginative touches in both the direction and editing. The story itself is of provocative nature dealing as it does with a labor situation in a machine and tool works in a small British town The him s title is derived from the fact that Attenborough, whose wife Pier Angeli, is expecting their third child, is put into Coventry and accorded the silent treatment by his co-workers when he refuses 'to join an unofficial walkout at the plant. The walkout, called by Bernard Lee, as the spokesman for the workers is really engineered behind the scenes by a sinister character played by Alfred Burke, whose motives, while not made entirely clear, seem to be as a troublemaking representative of a rival firm. When the men return to work as management accedes to their demands, Attenborough suffers through his ostracization as best he can. Even Michael Craig, his boarder and friend, falls in with the workers and maintains a silence both at work and at home. The press and television plav up the predicament of Attenborough and his family, and in so doing reveal that the workers really don't know why they had been striking, or why they decided to impose the silent treatment upon Attenborough. The latter's reasons for not following the herd are twofold: he doesn't believe in the strike which is unorhcial, and he also reacted to the thinly veiled threats of Lee When Attenborough is attacked one night and loses an eve, his friend Craig tracks down the culprit and in a speech before the workers at the plant points out the injustice of their actions. The men react with silence this time m shame instead of anger. The acting chores in this production are of outstanding caliber in every instance. All roles have been exceptionally well cast and wellacted. Attenborough's outburst in the plant commissary telling his coworkers that he can take their silence, but to "leave his family alone" (his boy had been tarred by some older boys at school) is a compelling scene. Miss Ange i also contributes a top drawer performance as Attenborough s Italian-born wife who, despite her fears for their future and the children, backs up her husband all the way. Other performances worthy of special note are those of Craig as the confused friend, Brian Bedford as the attacker of Attenborough and Geoffrey Keen, as the works manager of the plant, who is sympathetic to the workers, but suspects the reasons for Lee's calling the strike. There is some gutter slang delivered in the picture, particularly in an episode when Attenborough refers to his wife's pregnancy. It is deivered so rapidly and with the British accent, however, that it most likely will be missed by most audiences. While the picture gets across its point of the unreasonable cruelty of mob-like actions, the ending seems unsatisfactorily resolved insofar as moral values are concerned. The men don't end the wildcat strike or withdraw their imposed silence upon Attenborough because of a lealization of the wrong" committed, but only because they have gone too tar m seriously injuring him to "teach him' a lesson " Running time, 95 minutes. Release, in January. Sidney Rechetnik LAS VEGAS The Variety Cl of Las Vegas has received a sp.l grant of $50,000 from the Da j Runyon Fund, which will be ifl for the purchase of medical eqi ment for the club's new wing at Sunrise Hospital. The first ins j ment was made by John Teeter, ecutive director of the Runyon F at a special luncheon in Las Vt attended by 125 Variety Club m bers and local officials. The new v of the Sunrise Hospital is a free p atrics center for children, and will designated the Variety Club Tent —Damon Runyon Memorial F Wing. Hartford Case ( Continued from page 1 ) the parties to the case to file additi al briefs within 10 days from time its order is formally issued, is assumed that all parties will do The FCC, in another action, den the Connecticut committee's mot to correct a statement made in record by Charles H. Tower, vr president for television of the I tional Association of Broadcast. Commissioner Hyde did not part pate in this action. The issue ci cerned Tower's response to a qui tion by Chairman Ford dealing w1 the possible impact of a pay-tv s tion on free tv in Hartford. King Gives Text Commissioner Charles H. Ki told Motion Picture Daily that statement in the matter of allowi additional oral argument reads follows: "In a matter as important as p tv to the theatre and broadcasting dustries and perhaps to the way life of the American people, I b lieve the commission should give t parties to this proceeding every o portunity possible to support th^ respective positions. The odds al that there is nothing more that tht can say which they have not alrea< said, but on the odd chance th there is, I am willing to listen, would not, however, permit the a guments to cover the subject of p; television generally, but would r strict them to the merits of the pa ticular application involved in th proceeding." : Gregory Ratojf Dead 'Blackhawk' Acquired Dallas WOMPI's Show* For Handicapped Youn Gregory Ratoff, actor, writer, producer, director, died yesterday at the age of 63 in the Moeschlin clinic, Solothurn, Switzerland, where he had been under treatment for a blood disease. Born and educated in Russia, he went to Hollywood following successful association with the Broadway stage. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14. Following the announcement of the Film Group's new policy of a larger budget for 1961, president Roger Corman today revealed that his company has acquired "Captain Blackhawk," CinemaScope Technicolor adventure spectacle for distribution in the United States. Special to THE DAILY DALLAS, Dec. 14.-The Dalk WOMPI's second Christmas theatr party for handicapped and underprh ileged children will be held Saturda morning at the Esquire Theatre hen The children will see "The Thre Worlds of Gulliver." Last Saturday the WOMPI's youn guests saw "Swiss Family Robinson at the Esquire. ■ v t