The Exhibitor (1953)

EXHIBITOR 13 22 Productions In 3-D, Jack Warner Says Wide-Screen , 3-D, 2-D, Stereo. Sound All On Columbia Feature List New York — Columbia last week re¬ vealed a production program that included wide-screen, 3-D, and stereophonic sound, in addition to the regular 2-D product, among the 34 features, as well as two 3-D shorts during the nine-month period. Columbia’s new program assures ex¬ hibitors that: All of the company’s future releases are being prepared so that they may be shown on wide screens up to an aspect ratio of 1.85 to 1, Stereophonic sound will be used in all current and future releases in which it will add to the dramatic effect, Columbia will con¬ tinue its 3-D productions in addition to “Man In The Dark” and “Fort Ti”; eight 3-D pictures will be released by the com¬ pany in the next 12 months, and all of the company’s films until further notice, may be used on standard screens and with present sound equipment. All 34 features will be available for both standard and wide-screen projec¬ tion; all are equipped with conventional sound tracks, including 26 which will be available with stereophonic sound as well; there will be seven 3-D productions, all in Technicolor and equipped with stereophonic sound, and of the 34 produc¬ tions, 21 will be in Technicolor, including the 3-D films. The company is also offer¬ ing two 3-D short subjects in the same nine-month period, one of which will be in Technicolor. Those to be released in standard, wide¬ screen, and 3-D, all in Technicolor and equipped with stereophonic sound, are: “Fort Ti”, starring George Montgomery, with Joan Vohs, directed by William Castle and produced by Sam Katzman; “Miss Sadie Thompson”, starring Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, and Aldo Ray, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and pro¬ duced by Jerry Wald; “Gun Fury”, star¬ ing Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Roberta Haynes, and Jed Carey, directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Lewis J. Rachmil; “The Stranger Wore A Gun”, starring Randolph Scott and co-starring Claire Trevor, directed by Andre de Toth and produced by Harry Joe Brown; “The Nebraskan”, to be directed by Fred F. Sears, and produced by Wallace Mac¬ Donald; “Drums Of Tahiti”, to be filmed in Hawaii with a cast headed by Patricia Medina, which William Castle will direct for producer Sam Katzman, and “Fifty Fathoms Deep”, to be produced by the Robert Cohn unit. Technicolor productions, available for projection on wide-screen and with stereophonic sound, are: “The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T.”, a Stanley Kramer production, starring Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, and directed by Roy Rowland; “Let’s Do It Again”, starring Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, and Aldo Ray, directed by Alexander Hall, and produced by Oscar Saul; “Cruisin’ Down The River”, starring Billy Daniels, Dick Haymes, and Audrey Totter, directed by Richard Quine, and produced by Jonie Taps; “Conquest Of Cochise”, starring John Hodiak, Robert Independent Group , Fighting Censor Fees NEW YORK — Film censorship was attacked on a new front last week as the recently organized Independent Motion Picture Association of America challenged the constitutionality of license fees imposed by states and municipalities. The group decided at a board meeting on advice of counsel, Ephraim S. London, to advise its members to pay all such fees under protest in the future, and it was added that action to recover these fees will be instituted at a later date. The Association expressed the hope that MPAA, fighting censorship in Ohio, and other groups will advise members to take similar action. Stack, and Joy Page, directed by William Castle, and produced by Sam Katzman; “The Big Jump”, starring Alan Ladd and Leo Genn, directed by Terence Young, and produced for Warwick Pictures by Irving Allen and Cubby Broccoli; “Slaves Of Babylon”, starring Richard Conte and Linda Christian, directed by Wiliam Castle, and produced by Sam Katzman; “Prison¬ ers Of The Casbah”, starring Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero, and Turhan Bey, directed by Richard Bare, and produced by Sam Katzman; “Charge Of The Lanc¬ ers”, starring Paulette Goddard and Jean Pierre Aumont, directed by Mark Robson, and produced by Irving Allen and Cubby Broccoli, and “Hell Below Zero”, starring Alan Ladd with Joan Tetzel, a Warwick picture directed by Mark Robson and pro¬ duced by Irving Allen and Cubby Broccoli. Technicolor productions for standard or wide-screen, with conventional sound tracks, are: “Serpent Of The Nile”, star¬ ring Rhonda Fleming and William Lundigan, directed by William Castle, and pro¬ duced by Sam Katzman; “Ambush At Tomahawk Gap”, starring John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, and Maria Elena Marques, directed by Fred F. Sears, and produced by Wallace MacDonald; “Siren Of Bagdad”, starring Paul Henreid and Patricia Medina, directed by Richard Quine, and produced by Sam Katzman, and “Flame Of Calcutta”, star¬ ring Denise Darcel and Patric Knowles, directed by Seymour Friedman, and pro¬ duced by Sam Katzman. Black-and-white productions, standard or wide-screen, and equipped with stereo¬ phonic sound, are: “Mission Over Korea”, starring John Hodiak, John Derek, Audrey Totter, and Maureen O’Sullivan, directed by Fred F. Sears, and produced by Robert Cohn; “From Here To Eternity”, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deb¬ orah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, and Donna Reed, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and produced by Buddy Adler; “Sky Com¬ mando”, starring Dan Duryea, and costarring Frances Gifford and Touch Con¬ ners, directed by Fred F. Sears, and pro¬ duced by Sam Katzman; “China Venture”, starring Edmond O’Brien and Barry Sulli WarnerColor, WarnerPhonic Sound, WarnerScope To Be Utilized As Well In Future Activities By Company New York — Executive producer Jack L. Warner last week announced that War¬ ners plan to make 22 additional pictures in the 3-D process. These will combine 3-D with WarnerColor and WarnerPhonic sound, and will utilize the wide-screen WarnerScope process as best suited to the individual story. The studio’s second all 3-D production, “The Charge At Feather River”, will be released in July. Productions immediately scheduled to follow “The Charge At Feather River” will be: “Lucky Me”, WarnerColor musical, star¬ ring Doris Day, and directed by Jack Donohue; “Dial ‘M’ For Murder”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ray Milland, with John Williams in the role he created in the Broadway production; “The Phantom Ape”, by Jack Webb and Harold Medford; “Hondo”, starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page, directed by John Farrow, a Wayne-Fellows Produc¬ tion; “The Moonlighter”, starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, pro¬ duced by Joseph Bernhard, and directed by Roy Rowland, and “Them”, a sciencefiction. Warner also listed a number of addi¬ tional productions being readied for early shooting in 3-D, WarnerColor, Warner¬ Phonic sound, and wide-screen Warner¬ Scope: “A Star Is Born”, starring Judy Gar¬ land, beloved singing star, with Sid Luft producing, directed by George Cukor; “Helen Of Troy”; “Mr. Roberts”, from the Joshua Logan -Leland Hayward New York stage hit; “The High And The Mighty”, to be produced by Wayne-Fellows Pro¬ ductions, with William Wellman direct¬ ing; “Mississippi Woman”, to be directed by Elia Kazan; “The Last Train West”, to star Alan Ladd; “Man O’ War”, to be pro¬ duced by Sid Luft; “East Of Eden”; “Under The Big Top”, to star Burt Lan¬ caster, produced by Harold Hecht; “The Knights Of The Crusades”; “Rear Guard”; “Quietly My Captain Waits”; “Bluebeard And His Seven Wives”; “Gown Of Glory”, and Victor Herbert’s “Mademoiselle Mod¬ iste”, starring Kathryn Grayson and Gor¬ don MacRae. van, with Jocelyn Brando, directed by Dan Siegal, and produced by Anson Bond; “A Name For Herself”, starring Judy Holliday and Peter Lawford and intro¬ ducing Jack Lemmon, directed by George Cukor, and produced by Fred Kohlmar; “Scalpel”, starring Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, and Dianne Foster, directed by Irving Rapper, with William J. Fadiman as associate producer; “The Wild One”, Stanley Kramer’s production starring Marlon Brandon with Mary Murphy, di¬ rected by Laslo Benedek; “The Big Heat”, starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, with Jocelyn Brando, directed by Fritz Lang, and produced by Robert Arthur; “El Alamein”, starring Scott Brady, di¬ rected by Fred F. Sears, and produced by Wallace MacDonald, and “Paris Model”, with a cast headed by Marilyn Maxwell and Eva Gabor. ( Continued on page 17) June 3, 1953