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film could be made here! Ironically Popeye has not yet been shown in Malta ~wouldn't you think Paramount would have arranged a special preview? It should do well here.
Elsewhere on the island -Cinema admission prices are low, around $1, 50 Canadian, but mostly old films such as The Doberman Gang and Justice For All.
If you saw a poster headed The Greatest Love Story Ever Written -The Greatest Movie Ever Made, would you think they were referring to Madame X? Such was the advertising in one cinema in Malta, After all that, it was no surprise to learn that this starred "Lana Turner In Her Greatest Role, " Ross Hunter's epic has been running for four weeks, would you believe?
In one of the smaller villages I saw a film called Little Mo, which I suspect may have been a TV movie, starring Anne Baxter, also Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen (memories of Forbidden Planet). The show, which only consisted of the one film, was halted half-way through for a 15minute intermission -God knows why, as most of the predominantly young audience seemed to be visiting the john from start to finish. This made me more than ever determined not to drink the water. This show cost 20 cents -around 75 Canadian -and well worth every penny.
I bought two books in a local shop -I hadn't seen either before, but they were both on sale. The first was The Great Superman Book, published in 1978 and something of an encyclopedia of our hero, Great stuff -my favourite character being Bizarro, The other book -Cowboy Collectibles, itself something of a collector's item.
END OF THE TRAIL: Fred Harman, creator of Red Ryder, one of the most authentic -and certainly the most popular -of western comic strips, died recently in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 79. Raised on a ranch in Colorado, Harman worked as a cowboy before becoming an artist in Kansas City, where he, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks were fellow employees at an animation studio, In 1934 Harman created a western comic strip called Bronc Peeler, but gave it up after four meagre years. Later in 1938 the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) syndicate asked him to create another western strip and the result was Red Ryder, a name which has outlived both its creator and its existence as a comic strip, No small part of Red Ryder's fame is due to Republic's respectful treatment of the character, first in the 1940 serial, Adventures of Red Ryder, with Don (Red) Barry and then in 23 features made between 1944 and 1947 with first Wild Bill Elliott and then Allan (Rocky) Lane as Red. Bobby Blake was Little Beaver in all 23 films, Among the titles were Cheyenne Wildcat, California Gold Rush, Santa Fe Uprising, Vigilantes of Boomtown and Marshal of Cripple Creek. There was also a Red Ryder radio series in the 1940s and 50s -at one time it had higher ratings than The Lone Ranger radio show -and among those who played the title role was Reed Hadley.