Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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Motion Picture Daily Monday, December 19, 1] SAG Pact Details Mailed to Members REVIEW: From, THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18. Detailed summary of new Screen Actors Guild commercials contract was mailed today with a letter containing the ballot to all 14,000 members of the guild, in a nation-wide referendum for approval of the agreement with the networks, advertising agencies and producers. Ballots will be tabulated following the Jan. 16 due date. Flaming Star 20th Century-Fox — CinemaScope MGM Pulling All Stops For 'The Boys' Premiere Headed by President-elect John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, a group of prominent national figures, newspaper correspondents and motion picture stars have been invited to the gala world premiere of MetroGoldwyn-Mayer's "Where the Boys Are," Dec. 21, at the Gateway Theatre in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Together with the Kennedy's, the invitations include Pierre Salinger, press secretary, and key members of the press corps, covering the President-elect in Palm Beach. Among them are Merriman Smith, A. P.; the N.Y. Times' William H. Lawrence; the N.Y. Herald Tribune's David Wise; and UPI correspondents Marvin Arrowsmith and Helen Thomas. Producer and Stars to Attend Joe Pasternak, producer of "Where the Boys Are," and three of the film's stars, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss and Maggie Pierce, who have been on a two-week cross-country tour on behalf of the picture, arrived in New York, over the weekend and were scheduled to leave for Fort Lauderdale yesterday. Others connected with the film who will be present include Chill Wills, Frank Gorshin and George Wells, who wrote the screen play. They will fly there from Hollywood. Herman Ripps, assistant general sales manager; Lious Formato, Southern division sales manager; Fred Hull, Jacksonville branch manager; Si Seadler, Eastern advertising manager, and field press representatives Jack Foxe and Judson Moses, will also be on hand for the event. Motorcade Yesterday The arrival on Sunday noon at the Miami Airport included coverage by Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood papers and a full television and radio turnout. The entire group, together with city and exhibitor representatives formed a motorcade to Fort Lauderdale in bannered cars. At five P.M., a press conference and cocktail party was held for city officials and local press representatives. This will spearhead a series of events to take place during the following three days, leading up to the gala premiere. "Flaming Star," the second Elvis Presley film since his release from the Army, falls more into the category of melodrama than a musical and requires Presley to do more acting than singing, which may be a disappointment to his many teenage fans. But audiences who like frontier action with Indian raids and brutal hand-to-hand fist fights should find the 20th Century-Fox production to their liking. The screenplay by Clair Huffaker and Nunnallv Johnson tells the story of the Burton family, happily settled in ranching on the lonely western plains, until a sudden Indian uprising separates them from their former friends. The father, John Mclntire, and one son, Steve Forest, are whitethe mother, Dolores Del Rio, is a Kiowa, and the youngest son Presley' is a half-breed. The leader of the Indian war, Rudolph Acosta, fears that the white man will eventually steal all the Kiowan land and asks Presley to join the band in the uprising or cause shame to his mother. Presley refuses even though the white community has turned against the Burtons because they believe the mother's Indian blood has influenced the family on the part of the Kiowans. Presley and Miss Del Rio travel to the Indian camp in hopes of stopping the bloodshed, but find they are no more welcome there than at the white town. While returning to the ranch accompanied by a boyhood friend, the trio is attacked by Douglas Dick, a survivor of an Indian massacre. Miss Del Rio and the young brave are mortally wounded and rieslev, in a fit of revenge, joins the Kiowan party after receiving a promise of safety for his father and brother. A group of renegade Indians, however, murders Mclntire and seriously wounds Forest and Presley, in order to get Forest into town where he can be cared for, distracts the attackers and in an ensuing battle is badly wounded. Presley rides into town the next morning to check on his brother, who will recover as a result of Presley's sacrifice. When his brother tries to care for his wounds, Presley savs that it is too late for he has seen the flaming star, the Kiowans' sign that death is near Presley, as the half-breed torn between loyalty to his white father's heritage and a deep love for his Indian mother, comes off better than m his earlier dramatic roles and Mclntire and Forest give convincing performances in the pioneer tradition. The best news in the "Flaming ->ar casting is that it marks the return to the American screen of Miss Star' Del Rio, stifi an attractive woman and a capabirrcVress. Dnector Don Siegel has done well with his supporting players especially in the complicated action scenes and producer David Weisbart has dressed-up Flaming Star" with CinemaScope and color bv DeLuxe Running time, 91 minutes. Release, in December. William Werneth Skelton, Abed, Views Tape Facilities Debut From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18. Red Skelton was able to observe the inaugural ceremonies for his completed color tape facilities and completely modernized stages at the Skelton Studios by a closed circuit hookup monitored to his bedside at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where he is recuperating from surgery for a ruptured diaphragm. Charles Luftig, Skelton's associate, hosted a cocktail party and demonstration yesterday featuring innovations in stage lighting, air-conditioning, drapery and background effects on two massive connecting stages, which will enable Skelton's organization to tape the most lavish productions. Skelton's Red-EO-Tape mobile units were also on display for the gathering. Pay-TV in U.K. ( Continued from page 1 ) government's Pilkington Committee which has been set-up to decide the future of sound and tv broadcasting in Britain. They were: the adoption of toll-tv and the introduction of a quota for British tv films. The British Film Producers Association memorandum on the subject is not to be published but it is understood to be in line with the FBFM's submission. At least two prominent members of the BFPA have already announced plans for participation in toll-tv if and when it is permitted here. British Lion has a stake in British Telemeter Home Viewing and Ranks have a tie-up with Rediffusion, the leading company here in the wired radio and television field. But a government decision authorizing toll-tv will await the Pilkington TENT TALK Variety Club News LONDON-Irving Allen has b,' elected chief barker of the Varii Club of Great Britain for the y 1961. Jack Goodlatte, who rejoii) the crew this year and served as prr erty master, was named first assist' chief barker. Jack Klein, newcon to the crew, will succeed Goodla as property master. A ALBANY, N. Y.-The Variety Cjj of Albany will hold its annual me, ing and elect a new crew tonight the State Street headquarters. lj meeting will be preceded by cocktt and a buffet. G. Brandon Donah; present assistant chief barker and!, vice-president of the First Trust C is considered a likely choice for ch barker to succeed Jack OlshansJ incumbent, who will not be a cano date for reelection. i .1 i Big Magazine Drive to Launch 'Swiss Family Walt Disney's "Swiss Family Ro inson," to premiere nationally durii the Christmas holidays, will 1 launched with a big national mag zine publicity campaign. Headlinir the roster of major publications fe turing the $5,000,000 Buena Vis release are Life, Look and The Sa urday Evening Post. For the first time in the histoi of The Post, a motion picture loci ' tion is top featured in an importai f headline and eight-page story b Pete Martin entitled "Disney Shoo The Works" in the Dec. 10 issui 10 The feature recounts Martin's advei tures on the film's Tobago locatio and spotlights two pages of cole photos. Look will devote three pages t the Panavision-Technicolor attrac tion in its December 20th issue fea turing scenes from die film's uniqu animal race. An important pictorial story on th film will spotlight behind-the-scene! activity encountered in the film's pro duction. Other major publications carrying important stories on "Swiss Famih Robinson" are Seventeen, Cosmo politan, This week (featuring twe layouts in two separate issues), Par ents, Cosmopolitan, This Weel (featuring two layouts in two sep, arate issues), Family Weekly, Fam\ ily Circle, Women's Day, Jack andl Jill and both the New York Mirroi and Sunday News magazine sections if? Committee's findings and these are not expected before 1962. In the meantime, the committee is being bombarded with memoranda for and against toll-tv a diird tv network and commercial radio, from all sections of the entertainment business and numerous public bodies. It will take two years to sift the evidence.