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SUMMER PRODUCT SURVEY
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The magic of the Walt Disney name is legend in movie business, and can be counted upon to entice millions of Americans into theatres exhibiting his films. This summer the master of family entertainment has two new films to offer through his Buena Vita distribution organization; one emphasizes elements of rousing action, the other that intrinsic Disney ingredient, sentiment.
A few years back, Disney scored a smashing success with "Old Yeller", and this season he is again presenting a story in which a dog is a protagonist. However, our advance report is that "Savage Sam" misses the goal of being another "Old Yeller". "Sam" is an "amalgamated Texas pothound" who directs the rescue of three youngsters captured by Indians, and while the action elements are there, it lacks the heart-warming facets that made "Old Yeller" something unique. Nonetheless, as a Technicolored summer release, backed by Disney's full-scale television promotion, "Savage Sam" is likely to give a good enough account of itself at the boxoffice. The kids will turn out
en masse.
The July offering is "Summer Magic" (a wonderful title), dealing with youngsters and their
SUMMER MAGIC
elders in a small town. Based on the children's classic "Mother Carey's Chickens ", this stars the delightful Hayley Mills, with a first-rate supporting cast including Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Una Merkel, Eddie Hodges and Deborah Walley. The tale of the widow Carey and three children facing a future without home or funds has, as you might suspect, its full share of tears and laughs, ending in a bath of sunshine. It's in color, of course.
Buena Vista will offer two re-releases for September: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Fantasia".
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of D-Day, the film is documentary in approach, employing the starkness of black and white photography to highlight the drama of that historic day. Its general release will bring the film to many who have not yet seen it and to the many others who will want to see it again.
A third offering for June is the unique "Marilyn", a full-length picture biography of the late Marilyn Monroe narrated "on the screen" by Rock Hudson. The film is comprised, in the main, of scenes from 15 pictures Miss Monroe made for 20th-Fox, including scenes never shown from "Something's Got to Give", the movie she never finished. This unusual attraction is being backed by a strong promotion campaign and might prove to be a summer "sleeper".
Also set for June release is "The Stripper" starring Joanne Woodward. Based on a William Inge play, "A Loss of Roses", this black-and-white Cinemascope film will need maximum of push to get off the ground, in spite of a fine performance by Miss Woodward and the appearance of Gypsy Rose Lee.
20th-Fox has no releases firmed in now for July, but comes on solidly again in August with special pre-release engagements of "The Leopard". Direc
ted by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale, this Titanus production will be strongly abetted by the publicity7 attendant to its winning of the Cannes award. An historical film set at the time of Garibaldi, the picture is the story of the disintegration of a proud aristocratic family in a changing world. It shapes up as a solid attraction for the class market.
The August slate finds "Of Love and Desire", described as "a romantic suspense drama, an adult story dealing with the dark recesses the mind, with the way erotic passions — normal and abnormal — control and direct actions from the subconscious." Filmed in color in the natural Mexican locales, it features Merle Oberon, Curt Jurgens and Steve Cochran. It must be labeled a question mark.
One of the hottest director-star teams combines its talents again in "The Condemned of Altona", set for September release. Sophia Loren and director Vittorio De Sica are the personalities of this Titanus film, to be distributed by Fox. It reunites the winning team of "Two Women". By her own admission, Miss Loren gives her best performances when working with De Sica. Producer Carlo Ponti has secured the services of Academy award winner Maximilian Schell, Robert Wagner and Fredric March for this film adaptation of the Jean Paul Sartre play.
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Film BULLETIN May 27, 1943 Paqe 35