Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 1, 1954)

| : : Page 4 11 FROM REPUBLIC (Continued from Page 1) den. Magic Fire, the story of Richard Wagner based on the biography by Bertita Harding and top-lining Yvonne De Carlo, Rhonda Fleming, Carlos Thompson, Rita Gam and Alan Badel as Wagner. This will be filmed in Trucolor in Munich, Germany by William Dieterle. An untiled production to be directed by John Ford as a sequel to his successful The Quiet Man. The production will possibly be filmed in Ireland and in Trucolor. Rebel Island, an action romance in Trucolor in the colorful background of the Bahamas. The Admiral Hoskins Story, heroic drama featuring the exploits of Rear Admiral Hoskins, in cooperation with the USN. An historic epoch of Texas, as yet untitled, to be directed by three-time ‘Academy Award winner Frank Lloyd. Newly completed on the new program and awaiting late summer or fall release are The Atomic Kid, a topical comedy feature starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss and introducing Elaine Davis (Mrs. Mickey Rooney); The Shanghai Story, suspense drama, starring Ruth Roman and Edmond O’Brien and directed by Frank Lloyd; Hell’s Outpost, starring Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, Chill Wills and John Russell; Trouble in the Glen, a Herbert J. Yates and Herbert Wilcox presentation in Trucolor starring Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen and John McCallum; and Tobor, a_sciencefiction thriller. Plans for additional top budget production to complete the 54-55 program are now being developed, Yates announced. AA's 'The Annapolis Story’ Richard Jaeckel will star with John Derek in AA’s The Annapolis Story. MGM's ‘The Scarlet Coat’ John Sturges directs MGM’s The Scarlet Coat, to star Michael Wilding and Cornel Wilde. F GIR ee ar ce OUR BUSINESS (Continued from Page 3) and brighter to stay and survive in our business. This is a fact, not peculiar to our business, which applies to many others because of the overall changing economic picture. There are prosperous days ahead but only for those on the beam. The easygoing days are gone in our business. Yes, the business is changing and will continue to change. There is no longer any doubt in financial circles about the survival of the .motion picture theatre— the only question is who will survive. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short Throws PARAMOUNT Pictures Corporation and its consolidated and domestic and Canadian subsidiaries, which include Famous Players Canadian Corporation and Paramount Film Service, reported an estimated net income of $2,558,000 in the quarter ended July 3, compared with $1,617,000 for the corresponding period last year. BARRIE, Ontario may have Canada’s 21st privately-owned TV station if the application for a licence by Ralph T. Snelgrove, CKBB owner, is favored by the CBC Board of Governors in Ottawa on September 21. THE CHARGE that Hollywood films picture old people as foolish drew an angry denial from the Motion Picture Association of America, which sent out a list of 21 features with warm and sympathetic portrayals of senior citizens. “Senator Desmond, in a desperate play for publicity, obviously failed to ‘check the long respected list of ‘Hollywood’s own senior citizens, still going strong after many years of entertaining millions of people, young and old, around the world.” HUGH FLICK, chief film censor of NY State, overruled the ban on the scene in Walt Disney’s The Vanishing Prairie which shows the birth of a Buffalo calf. Flick’s aide, Mrs. Helen H. Kellog, ordered the cut and a controversy followed. Motion picture censorship is within the jurisdiction of the Department of Education. ITALIAN Films Export expects to do $35,000,000 next year, E. R. Zorgniotti, executive vicepresident, and Bernard Jacon, sales v-p, told a press luncheon at Toots Shor’s in NY. Zorgniotti, who screened eight films recently, said that he expects IFE, which dubs its films in English in its own plant in NY, to have its biggest season. TOM O’BRIEN, head of the UK’s equivalent organization to the IATSE in the studio field and an MP, warned the Hollywood AFL Flim Council not to go too far with its opposition to the use of British-made films in the USA. O’Brien pointed out that Hollywood gets many millions of dollars out of the UK and without this “gravy” salaries in the Cinema City would go down the best seat in the house... 4 HEYWOOD-WAKEFIELD Whatever your angle a good theatre chair should fit your curves. Heywood-Wakefield Chairs feature ‘‘contour forming’’—your patrons sit in not on these richly-upholstered chairs. Ask us about the new “CONTOUR” Formed Rubber and “‘SIT-IN”’ Coil Spring Cushions. They’re made for real comfort during the entire showing of the longest movie program. DOMINION SOUND EQUIPMENTS LIMITED HEAD OFFICE: 4040 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal. BRANCHES AT: Halifax, Saint John, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, North Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver. September 1, 1954 drastically. British workers, he said, attended American movies and helped create the present prosperity, so they were entitled to a little of it. A boycott of the USA movie industry could come about very easily, he suggested. CANADIANS visiting the USA and other countries last year spent $365,000,000, while visitors here during the same period left $302,000,000. The Canadian figure is seven per cent higher than that of the previous year, while the other figure is nine per cent higher. BRITISH circuits which turned down The Stratford Adventure, 40-minute National Film Board subject in color, as ‘too highbrow” for their audiences were criticized by Sir Beverly Baxter, Canadian-born critic and MP, who disagreed with them. Archway Films is the UK distributor. GROSS INCOME of Columbia for the 1954 fiscal year, which ended last June, will reach $75,000,000 according to an estimate of Harry Cohn, its president. Previous record high year was $60,274,000. Each year since 1934 has been a profitable one for the company, he said. UNESCO report on film production shows that from 1950 to 1952 inclusive Hong Kong was the third largest producer of feature films in the world. In 1952 Hong Kong produced 259, compared with 368 for the USA and 233 for India. Britain produced 117, France 114, both German republics 82 and Italy 148. Argentina dropped from 57 in 1950 to 35 in 1952. ADULT Entertainment classification in Ontario recently went to Peerless’ Daughters of Darkness, Paramount’s About Mrs. Leslie, Cardinal’s Big Chase, Columbia’s On the Waterfront, Astral’s Once a _ Sinner, Columbia’s Mad Magician and Warner’s Ring of Fear. UA's 'Night Of The Hunter’ Lillian Gish, silent screen star, has been signed by Paul Gregory to star in UA’s Night of the Hunter. Strong Cast Set For Fox' 'The Racers’ Caesar Romero, Bella Darvi and Katy Jurado have joined the cast of The Racers, 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope drama which will be directed by Henry Hathaway. The Julian Blaustein production earlier assigned Kirk Douglas, Gilbert Roland, Charles Goldner and Lee J. Cobb to prominent roles in the modern thriller of European road _ racing, backgrounds for which were filmed abroad earlier this year. | | | : |