Canadian Film Digest Year Book (1971)

Vivien Merchant, Bernard Cribbins and Alec McCowan, all English stars. Screenplay by Anthony Shaffer based on the novel by Arthur La Bern. Warner Bros. is readying two for Fall release. WHAT’S UP DOC? §sstarring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, with Peter Bogdanovich producing-directing, and CANCEL MY RESERVATION (tentative title) starring Bob Hope. Gordon Oliver is producing and Paul Bogart directing from a screenplay by Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher based on the novel by Louis L/Amour. Walt Disney’s animated cartoon feature ROBIN HOOD is nearing the final stages of production. Wolfgang Reitherman is producer-director, and music is by Roger Miller. Voices belong to Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas, Andy Devine and Brian Bedford. M.G.M. has SITTING TARGET on tap, starring Oliver Reed. Carter De Haven is executive producer and Barry Kilick is producing from a screenplay by Alex Jacobs. Cliff Robertson stars in ACE ELI AND RODGER OF THE SKIES for Twentieth Century-Fox, a Robert Fryer production with John Erman directing from a screenplay by Claudia Salter based on an original story by Steven Speilberg. The Fanfare Corporation is releasing a Grenadier Films production TOWER OF EVIL from an original screenplay by George Baxt. Richard Gordon is producing and Jim O’Connolly directing. IN THE CAN AND READY FOR DATING M.G.M. has two ready to go. OPEN SHADOW starring Warren Oates, Leslie Caron and Alex Dreier, from an original screenplay by Magwood and John Sacret Young, also GOING HOME which stars Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro and Jan-Michael Vincent from an_ original screenplay by Lawrence Marcus. Their third offering is THE GANG THAT COULDN’T SHOOT STRAIGHT based on the best-seller by Jimmy Breslin, and starring Jo Van Vleet, Jerry Orbach and Leigh Taylor-Young. 102 Bros. are ready with THE GREAT SKI CAPER, sstarring JeanClaude Killy and ‘directed by George Englund. Also THE COWBOYS starring John Wayne from a novel by William Dale Jennings. Produced and directed by Mark Rydell. A Richard-Helmick production WE POINTED ‘EM NORTH, starring Gary Grimes is being released by Twentieth Century-Fox. Screenplay is by Eric Bercovici from an original story by director Dick Richards. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS is now in release by Universal, and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Howard. Produced by Hal B. Wallis and directed by Charles Jarrott. A new company, Scotia International Films Inc. is releasing CAPTAIN APACHE, starring Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker and Stuart Whitman. Produced by Milton Sperling and Philip Yordan and directed by Alexander Singer. 16MM. FILM FEST FOR MONTREAL The Montreal Independent Filmmakers’ Cooperative, in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada is organizing an International Festival of Cinema in 16mm. An annual, non-competitive event this year the Festival will be held from October 26th to 31st at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The Festival, administered by a sevenmember board of directors aims to seek out and promote the artistic, cultural and social values of the 16mm. film, and expose its advantages and importance. It will be a forum of exchange, encounter, and discussion among representatives of the medium and the public, aiding the further diffusion and distribution of such films. Expected to take an active part are members of the press, television, repre sentatives of commercial and educational distribution and numerous filmmakers. ANDY AND JOAN ROUSE PROUD PARENTS General Manager of G.T.I. Drive-In Services Ltd., Andy Rouse and wife Joan became the parents of a baby girl on August 19th. The new tax exemption has been named Catharine Lois. Warner The Canadian Gry Production Scene eee (By Harriet Bernstein Scary pictures (a division of lvan Reitman Productions), has completed shooting on CANNIBAL GIRLS, a _ horror-comedy. Filming was done on a farm in Aurora, Ontario, and on various locations around Toronto. Dan Goldberg produced, and Ivan Reitman was executive producer and director. The original screenplay was by Robert Sandler. Cinematographer of this 35 mm. colour film was Bob Saad. The twenty-member cast are all Ontario people, with Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy starring. Lab work is being handled at Bellevue-Pathe, with Goldberg and Reitman editing. Music has not yet been scored. Financing for CANNIBAL GIRLS was private, with a budget based at approximately $125 thousand. * +e Another Smith Productions Limited’s ANOTHER SMITH FOR PARADISE has completed shooting in Vancouver, under the direction of Thomas Shandel, who also wrote the original screenplay. The producer is James Margellos. Director of photography is Mike Lente, and Evelyn Roth is costume designer. The budget has been set at $200 thousand, with financing from Slocan Productions Ltd., Astral Films Ltd., and the Canadian Film Development Corporation. Included in the cast are Henry Ramer, Frances Hyland, Pia Shandel, Roger Dressler, and Harry Saunders. The plot, set in present-day Vancouver, concerns a powerful wheelerdealer, his wife and her lover, and their radical daughter. ANOTHER SMITH FOR PARADISE will be released in Canada by Astral Films Limited. FIRST ARTIST PROD. ROLLING IN LONDON A WARM DECEMBER, starring Sidney Poitier is now in production in London. This is the first English-located pic under National General’s global distribution pact with First Artist Productions consortium of Poitier, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Barbra Streisand. The first picture to be completed under the pact is the Newman Lee Marvin comedy western POCKET MONEY. In addition to the Poitier pic, McQueen is scheduled to do GETAWAY in October, and Miss Streisand is set for MASQUERADE later this year.