Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 17, 1957)

Page 4 MEDIOCRITY PAST (Continued from Page 1) pany, the gathering was told, will tight to retain what Warner called its ‘‘entertainment leadership” and this was emphasized Roy Haines, general sales manager, Bob Taplinger, advertising and publicity vp, and his aides, Gil Golden, Meyer M. Hutner and W. W. Brumberg. Their ammunition has among it this forthcoming product: Band of Angels, WarnerColor, starring Clark Gable, Yvonne DeCarlo, Sidney Poitier and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., directed by Raoul Walsh; The Pajama Game, WarnerColor, starring Doris Day John Raitt, Carol Haney and Eddie Foy, Jr., produced and directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen; John Ford’s The Rising of the Moon, introduced by Tyrone Power; The James Dean Story, unusual screen story of the dramatic life of the amazing young actor, co-produced and co-directed by George W. George and Robert Altman; The Curse of Frankenstein, WarnerColor, starring Peter Cushing, Hazel Court and Christopher Lee; X the Unknown, starring Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman and Leo McKer; The Story of Mankind, based on Hendrik Van Loon’s international classic, which stars Ronlad Colman, Hedy Lamarr, the Marx Brothers and more than 50 other name personalities, produced and directed in Technicolor by Irwin Allen; Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando, filmed in Technirama and Technicolor, produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan from James Michener’s bestselling novel and also starring Red Buttons, Patricia Owens, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki and Ricardo Montalban; The Helen Morgan Story, CinemaScope, starring Ann Blyth as the famed blues singer, with Paul Newman and Richard Carlson co-starring, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Martin Rackin; With You in My Arms, starring Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau, directed by William Wellman; Darby’s Rangers, in which Miss Choureau stars opposite James Garner, directed by Wellman and produced by Rackin; No Sleep Till Dawn, CinemaScope-WarnerColor, starring Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Richard Whorf; Black Patch, George Montgomery’s initial Independent production for Warners; and The Black Scorpion, produced by Frank Melford and Jack Dietz, directed by Edward Ludwig. To Direct ‘Return To Warbow' Ray Nazarro will direct Columbia’s Return to Warbow. Inger Stevens In ‘Cry Terror’ Inger Stevens has been signed by MGM to star in its forthcoming production, Cry Terror, previously titled The Third Rail. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short “Shrows (Continued from Page 1) be directed by Ralph Habib and the second by Lee Robinson. Paul Edmund Ducharme will be executive producer for the French version and Chips Rafferty for the English one. The film will be made in Tahiti. An Australian film, Smiley, is enjoying international success right now. MGM will distribute the English version of The Stowaway. RECORD budget of $250,000 has been allocated by Columbia Pictures for the preparation and _distribution of a special promotion film for Horizon Pictures’ The Bridge on the River Kwai, which was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean on location in Ceylon. During the ten months the CinemaScope-Technicolor film was in production more than 40,000 feet of documentary film was shot and this will be converted into shorts and featurettes for worldwide use in theatres, on TV, in schools and colleges and as part of a special campaign aimed at clubs, social groups and organizations. VETERAN of 24 years as cashier of Leslie Sprague’s Gaiety Theatre in Lancaster, NB before her retirement in 1947, Mrs. Clara Graham passed away recently at her home in that community. Requiem High Mass was conducted in St. Rose’s Church and interment took place in Holy Cross Cemetery. She is survived by one son. RCA International Limited has been issued Letters Patent of Incorporation by Ottawa as a new Canadian company with head office in Montreal. Authorized capital is 10,000 shares of the par value of $100 each and one of those connected with the incorporation is Ernest William Mockridge, manager. Also incorporated recently is NBC International Limited, which had announced previously that it would open a Canadian office in Montreal for world-wide TV sales. Authorized capital of the new NBC subsidiary is 10,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. CAST of the NFB’s Perspective subject, Staff of Life, has Sammy Sales, Phyllis Carter, Marty Lavut, Lew Davidson, Ed Murch and Jack Duffy in it right now. Written by Allen Wargon, the film is the first directorial effort for Don Ginsberg, formerly a film editor. Shooting locations are near Brampton, Ontario. AVAILABLE now for showing is God’s River, a 20-minute documentary dealing with speckled trout and produced by Canadian Schenley Ltd. In natural color, the short depicts amazing fishing sequences, as well as the life and habits of several Northern Manitoba Indian tribes. Inquiries for the 16 mm. film can be made to Don Dawson, public relations manager, Canadian Schenley Ltd., 550 Sherbooke St. W., Montreal. NFB'S "BRIDGE UNDER THE OCEAN' Newest film in the National Film Board’s Canada Carries On series of theatrical films is Bridge Under the Ocean. It tells the story in color of the first transAtlantic telephone cable from Oban, Scotland to Clarenville, Newfoundland. British, American and Canadian officials spoke over the ocean-floor cable in September, 1955 to mark its completion. It was christened with a bottle of sea water by D. F. Bowie, president of the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation. Manufactured in Scotland, the cable was strung by the telegraph ship HMS Monarch with pinpoint navigation, so that points needing repair could be easily located. After six month in theatres Bridge Under the Ocean will be avail able for community showings. SECOND EASTMAN HONOR AWARDS Voting will soon take place in the George Eastman House Second Festival of Film Artists, of which the chairman is Rouben Mamoulian. On his committee are Jesse L. Lasky, Walter Pidgeon, Bosley Crowther, Burnett Guffey, General Oscar N. Solbert, director of the George Eastman House, and its two curators, James Card and Richard Griffith. The names of five persons who made outstanding contributions to the art of American motion pictures from 1926 to 1930 as actresses, actors, directors and cameramen will result from the balloting and these will be invited to appear in Rochester for the October award ceremonies, at which they will be presented with the “George” Medal of Honor. The world’s only retrospective awards, the first of them were made in 1955 for the 1915-25 period and went to Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, Mae Marsh, Richard Barthelmess, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Ronald Colman among others. Among the eligibles this time are Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Ramon Novarro and Fredric March. July 17, 1957 TOURISM HERE (Continued from Page 1) 000 people. Encouraged by the National Film Board, the Tourist Film Program involves the active participation of groups on the community, provincial, and national levels. Films about Canada are presented at fairs, in parks, open-air theatres, on trains and ships, and in every conceivable location where potential tourists may be. Types of showings range from those at Gander International Airport to the Kiwanis Park in Saskatoon, where several thousand people gather on Sunday evenings to view films about Canada and her attractions. Throughout the summer there are regular film presentations on the Bluenose as it plies the Northumberland Straits off Nova Scotia. Daily continuous screenings are featured at the Pacific National Exhibition. The Summer Tourist Film Program involves community film councils and libraries, provincial tourist bureaus and departments of education, staffs of almost all parks, Chambers of Commerce, and a host of other groups who contribute films, equipment, personnel and other facilities. There is much evidence of the favorable influence which film presentations are having on the travel habits of Canadians and our American neighbors. At many showings the projectionists are asked for more information about certain parks after seeing films. Offices of travel bureaus have many letters on file from tourists expressing gratitude for the film presentations. A tourist in Nova Scotia cancelled a deep-sea fishing excursion in favor of a trip to Lunenburg after he had viewed the film, Men of Lunenburg. Because of encouraging results, the National Film Board’s summer tourist film program is growing in scope each successive year. There is hardly a nook in Canada where the travel season doesn’t include the showing of films which encourage visitors to this country. AA's ‘Looking For Danger’ Lili Kardell has been signed by Allied Artists to star in Looking for Danger, Bowery Boys comedy with Huntz Hall and Stanley Clements. FREE SPACE FOR TV (Continued from Page 1) urday Star devotes great space to programming and comment, There is a tremendous emphasis on TV, most of which grows out of the fact that the medium has Canadian stars, while motion pictures have not. The record industry also has a picnic in the press, since it, like TV, yields very little advertising income. Classical records are reviewed, as are popular ones, and the papers carry a full page about hit discs on a Saturday. Presumably the emphasis on TY and record news sells papers, even if it doesn’t provide ad revenue, the bulk of that from amusements being provided by the motion picture business.