Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 10, 1957)

TOR SE I TRE — EE NEE — Page 6 NACKIMSON, GARFIN (Continued from Page 1) to the sales staff and served four years before being transferred to the Toronto sales staff. Five years later, in September, 1946, he was promoted to manager of the Winnipeg Branch. Another promotion, in February, 1954, brought him back to the Queen City as Toronto JOE GARFIN branch manager, a position he held until the closing of the RKO offices last month. ‘Garfin’s career in the film industry is by no means an unbroken one’ but the time he spent in the distribution end has been for the one company, Empire-Universal. He joined that firm in 1936 and left the following year to operate the Midway Theatre in_ Rosedale, Alberta. In 1939 he returned to Empire-Universal, leaving again in 1943 to join his brother in the operation of a business in Dawson Creek, BC, coming back to the company later that year. In 1942 he was made manager of the Calgary branch and, except for a year’s leave of absence due to illness, remained in that position until promoted to Toronto branch manager in July, 1955. Six months later he resigned from the company and for the last year has been operating a partnership booking firm on the West Coast. With more than 34 years in the film industry, Smith has had a variety of positions and experiences in the motion picture business. He started in 1922 with Canadian Educational Films, moving on to positions with First National, Universal and: Warners. In August, 1947 he joined RKO. He was Vancouver ‘branch manager when he left that company in August of 1956 to become Canadian sales manager for the 16 Mm. Division of International Film Distributors Limited, the company he now leaves to return to Empire-Universal. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short “/hrows CHARGING that Loew’s Inc. had refused to licence feature movies to TV stations on a picture-by-picture basis and by block booking had forced compulsory sale or licencing of features for TV exhibition, the USA Government has entered a civil anti-trust suit against the company in New York. Joseph R. Vogel, Loew’s president, denied the allegations, stating that the company “has never engaged in this practice.” LETTERS patent of incorporation have been issued by Ontario to two firms. The first is to Contemporary Productions of Canada Limited ‘‘To promote interest in, and the study of, the arts generally and literature and drama_ in particular.’’ Other was to Studio 4 Limited, in which Clifford Oldroyd, manager, has an interest, ‘To carry on the business of motion picture producers, to operate motion picture studios, to compose and produce original musical lyrics, scores and compositions, to photograph, produce, develop and otherwise create photographic pictures, moving and still pictures, photographic supplies and equipment and to distribute, buy, sell, rent, barter, import, export and otherwise generally trade in moving and still pictures, photographic supplies and equipment.” OTTAWA Day by Day, Arthur Blakely’s column in The Montreal Gazette and other papers, said last week: “‘The Fowler Report is being awaited on Parliament Hill with keen interest. Prevailing view is that it may well touch off the last big controversy of this 22nd Parliament. There’s not the slightest doubt that sweeping changes will be recommended and _ that many of the changes won’t be palatable to the CBC itself. General expectation is that the monopoly system, under which the CBC gets Canada’s larger centres as exclusive TV preserves, will go by the board — something that has long been urged.” MEMBER of the Sudbury projectionists local, IATSE and a projectionist for over 40 years, Harold Babcock, 61, boothman at the Odeon in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, passed away recently in the hospital in that community from a heart attack. An active member of the Canadian Picture Pioneers and the Masonic lodge, he kept up his interest in fishing and hunting, many times acting as host and guide for film industry groups from Toronto. Para Buys ‘The Transfer’ Frank Gilroy’s The Transfer has been acquired by Paramount. a3 Westrex Managers Visit National Film Board The managers of Westrex Corporation branches, meeting in New York, came to Belleville, Ontario last week for a look at the plant of Northern Electric, its Canadian associate. They stopped off in Montreal on the return trip to take a look at the new headquarters of the National Film Board. They are shown here with NFB executives. Front row, left to right, are A. C. Lenoel, Westrex, Algeria; H. V. Zeppelin, Westrex, Philippines; L. C. Pearson, general sales manager, Dominion Sound Equipments, Montreal; R. W. Wright, manager, Hollywood Division, Westrex; R. E. Warm, Westrex v-p, NY; F. E. Peters, v-p and general manager, Dominion Sound; and Gerald G. Graham, director of the NFB’s Technical Operations Branch, Montreal. Centre row are J. E. Mastine, export sales manager, Northern Electric, Belleville; J. E. Deboer, Westrex, Panama; Miles Storm II, Westrex, Caracas, Venezuela; J. Cuevas, Westrex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; H. S$. Walker, district manager, Dominion Sound; and Chester Beachell, Technical Research Section, NFB. Back row are W. E. Brossok, equipment engineer, Westrex, NY; W. E. Kollmyer, Westrex, Australia; H. B. Allinsmith, v-p of Foreign Operation, Westrex, NY; H. P. Bechtold, assistant manager of Communications Equipment Sales, Westrex, NY; D. L. Smith, Westrex, Colombia; U. B. Ross, manager of Foreign Operations, Westrex, NY; and Ray Payne, chief technical officer, NFB. April 10, 1957 Review THE WRONG MAN (From The Film Daily, NY) with Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle. Warners 105 Mins. STRONG, GRIPPING DRAMA OF REAL MISTAKEN IDENTITY CASE MASTERFULLY STAGED BY HITCHCOCK. SHOULD INTEREST A WIDE VARIETY OF AUDIENCES, As producer director Alfred Hitchcock explains in the first few moments of The Wrong Man, it’s a first for him; the first film he’s made based on actual fact. Because so many people already know how the strange mistaken-identity case ended, a certain element of Hitchcock’s usual suspense is absent. It is apparent, however, as the film unfolds, that the techniques employed by Hitchcock to build the case for and against the wrongly identified bass fiddle player, have served their purpose well. His is a strong story that spells near-tragedy for the musician, ably portrayed by Henry Fonda, as he masterfully re-creates the circumstances preceding and following the arrest. He has also told, in poignant and sympathetic terms, the tragic aftermath which affected the lives of those nearest and dearest to the protagonist. With a New York background, and boasting many scenes shot in and around the famed Stork Club, the picture has an element of glamor that should enhance its boxoffice calibre. Coupled with outstanding performances by Fonda and Miss Miles, who portrays his wife, and the Hitchcock label, the film is one that should sell easily and well to a wide variety of audiences. CAST: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper, John Heldabrand, Esther Minciotti. CREDITS: Director, Associate producer, Screenplay, Maxwell MacPhail; Story, Maxwell Photography, Robert Burks. DIRECTION: Tops. PHOTOGRAPHY: Arthur O'Connell Cast Arthur O’Connell has been signed by Columbia to star with Jack Lemmon in The Mad Ball. Rock Hudson To Star In Selznick Film Rock Hudson will co-star with Jennifer Jones in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, it was announced by David O. Selznick. producer, after negotiations for the loan of the actor were completed between the Selznick Company and Universal-International, his home studio. The film, to be produced in CinemaScope and color, will be released by 20th-Century-Fox. Hudson will enact the role of the ambulance driver who falls in love with the English nurse, portrayed by Miss Jones, in the multi-million-dollar production to be filmed on Iccation in Italy. Alfred Hitchcock; Herbert Coleman; Anderson, Angus Anderson; Fine.