Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 24, 1957)

April 24, 1957 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 3 Incorporating the Canedian Moving Picture Digest (Founded 1915) Vol. 22, No. 16 April 24, 1957 HYE BOSSIN, Editor Assistant Editor Ben Halter Office Manager Esther Silver CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Canada Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published by Film Publications of Canada, Limited 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada — Phone WAlnut 4-3707 Price $5.00 per year. CCP NOT OVER (Continued from Page 1) tising Company Limited, Toronto. His statement was made in answer to an enquiry about information in an article, Hollywood Plugs Visits to Canada, which was written by Bob Willett for Saturday Night. Willett, writing about Canada’s new Consul General in California, D. Leo Doland, pointed out that he was formerly head of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau and that its Los Angeles branch is one of his responsibilities. This branch has been under the direction of Marion Remington, an American, for 17 years. Wrote Willett: “Although the trend toward global motion picture production has reduced Canada’s importance in this regard, Marion Remington and her staff still work closely with the movie-makers, encouraging filming in Canada. They’ve taken over the work of the Canadian Cooperative Group, which ceased to function a little over a year ago, in providing liaison for producers looking for actual Canadian _locales.”’ The Canadian Cooperation Project was created shortly after the war by the Motion Picture Association of America to stimulate tourism from the USA through the inclusion of Canadian scenes and dialogue references in Hollywoodmade features. It grew out of the Canadian shortage of USA dollars at the time and has been maintained since, although the shortage no longer exists. Each year Taylor Mills of the MPAA reports on its progress after meeting with representatives of various Canadian government departments. Basehart Added To "Brothers Karamazov’ Richard Basehart, who contributed an outstanding performance to the Academy Award-winning La Strada, has been signed by MGM for the role of Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov, filmization of the well-known classic novel by Dostoevski. Yul Brynner and Lee J. Cobb head the cast of the new picture, which will be adapted to the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, with Pandro S. Berman producing. 36 MGM Features (Continued from Page 1) said after being introduced by Reagan. The appointment of Jack Byrne and Robert Mochrie, the latter widely known and popular in Canada, as assistant sales managers indicates a closer relationship between the head office and the field. Heading the list of 15 productions completed and ready for release is Raintree County, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, which will get special handling and record promotional campaigns this Fall. Also included are Designing Woman (Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray), The Vintage (Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michele Morgan), The Little Hut (Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven), This Could Be the Night (Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa), Something of Value (Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier), The Seventh Sin (Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sanders, Jean Pierre Aumont). Also Man on Fire (Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens, Mary Fickett), Silk Stockings (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre), Gun Glory (Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming), House of Numbers (Jack Palance, Barbara Lang), The Happy Road (Gene Kelly), Action of the Tiger (Van Johnson, Martine Carol), The Living Idol (Liliane Montevecchi, Steve Forrest) and Tarzan and the Lost Safari. Five major films now in production are Les Girls (Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg), Don’t Go Near the Water (Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards), Tip on a Dead Jockey (Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala), Until They Sail (Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Sandra Dee) and Captain Dreyfus (Jose Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams, Viveca Lindfors). Films in preparation include The Brothers Karamazov (Yul Brynner), Some Came Running, Gigi (Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier), Jailhouse Kid (Elvis Presley), Merry Andrew (Danny Kaye), The Wreck of the Mary Deare, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Three Guns (Robert Taylor), Never So Few, Reluctant Debutante (Debbie Reynolds), Company of Cowards, The Law and Jake Wade (Robert Taylor), Imitation General, Guided Missile, Prisoner in Paradise and Bay of the Moon. Also Boy Friend (Glenn Ford), Valiant Strain, Party Girl, Spectacular, The Scapegoat, Infamy at Sea, Third Rail, The Journey (Yul Brynner), Seven Hills of Rome (Mario Lanza), The Invisible Boy, King Kelly (Kirk Douglas), Man Against Himself, Willy Gordon Story (Ray Milland), Tunnel of Love, and the gigantic remake of Ben Hur, which was the costliest picture ever made when it was first filmed in 1924 and which will be the most ambitious production ever undertaken by MGM, scheduled to get under way the first of the year after more than two years of preparation. 20th-Fox' "The Young Lions’ Marlon Brando will star in 20thFox’ The Young Lions. BAILIFF'S SALE NOTICE is hereby given that the Goods and Chattels distrained for Rent on the 13th day of March, A.D, 1957 by me as Bailiff to the Corporation of the Town of Palmerston, the Landlord, of the premises occupied by Foto-Nite Amateur Shows Limited in the Town of Palmerston will be sold by Public Auction in one (1) parcel subject to a reserve bid on the 27th day of April, A.D. 1957 at two (2) o’clock in the afternoon at the Norgan Theatre, Palmerston, Ontario, which Goods and Chattels are as follows, that is to say: 1 pr. Motiograph S. Pedestals; 1 pr. Ashcraft D Suprex Are Lamps com plete with 14” reflectors; 1 pr. Electric changeovers cn projectors; upper magazines; Century C Projectors; 1 pr. bor. 1 pr. lower magazines; 1 RCA PC 215 Sound System with diphonic back stage horns and M 1-9508 exciter lamp supply; 1 331/3 RPM Philco record player; 1-78 RPM only player Dominion Sound Z24 BX; 1 spare parts cabinet in rewind room; 1 Golde Stereopticon with stand; Electric Specialty Co. Are Motor Generator (motor) 72 HP Motor, 550 Volts, 60 Cycle, 3 phase, (Gener ator) 42 Volts, 50/100 amps. resistors and control panel; 1 Booth Table 60” long; 2-5 1 Booth Stool; speakers in baffles; This Are supply complete with ballast Wenzel NS! Manual rewind; section film cabinets; 1 Northern Electric PA Amplifier 20 Watts with 2-10’ 2 Automatic Devices Curtain Machine each with 1 Dominion 14 aluminum reels; about 25° curtain track; 1 Hilux screen 23’6” x 14’ high approximately Screen frame; pop corn machine; 1 Pyrene fire extinguishers; acid extinguisher; 413 Theatre seats; 2 rugs 7’ x 8’ each; 1 “Everfrost’’ Soda Bar; 1 1 at. 22 gal. soda and “Manley” Vacuum Cleaner and size; attachments; 1 pencil sharpener; 2 Waste paper baskets; 3 small tables; 5 floor brushes; 2 round mirrors; 1 Step ladder; 6 odd chairs; 3 venetian blinds; 6 garbage cans; 1 snowscraper; 1 snow shovel; 1 scrub pail and wringer, Terms cash or as arranged. Dated this 10th day of April, A.D. 1957. (sgd) William Roberts Bailiff LISTOWEL, Ontario. Our Business N increasing segment of the public is becoming aware of the motion picture theatre as a fine source of entertainment. In talking to people in many different places and from » various walks of _ life one finds an increasing awareness of the i i between timewaster and first= Class entertainment. This is one of the reasons that poor or carbon copy motion pictures have little place in our economy today. Indeed, only the motion picture with good word-of-mouth potential can hope to achieve any heartening gross. People are talking more about the movies and today are more likely to tell you about the good motion pictures they have recently seen rather than to brag that they have not been to the movies for the longest time. An interesting observation is contained in a recent editorial in the Ottawa Citizen: “A really good movie can be less inhibited than the stage and, of course, of infinitely greater depth than even the most faithful of TV’s cameos.” It may take years to arrive at a conclusion of what is presently a moot point: Does the showing of good old movies on TV have a derogatory effect on movie attendance or does it generate in viewers a desire to return to the motion picture theatre for their entertainment? It seems already to have been established that a good old motion picture will attract more viewers than run-of-themill TV entertainment and, certainly, the masters of the TV webs are consuming bottles of aspirins because of headaches caused by the programming problems they face in the coming season. The drawing power of old movies adds just a little more to that. For many years we entertained the hope that the so-called majors would withhold the selling of their backlogs to TV. The dam has now been broken and almost completely swept away. Therefore, we must learn to live in our business with the assumption that at sometime or other most good films will find their way to the TV screens. Can we hope to exist in an economy where someone else is giving away at most convenient locations what we are trying to sell at places (Continued on Page 4)