Harrison's Reports (1961)

76 HARRISON'S REPORTS May 13, 1961 Reviewed Recently (The previous review index appeared in the "blue paper" section of the April 15 issue.) Reviewed on Page Amazing Transparent Man, The — American Int'l (60 min.) 58 Atlantis, the Lost Continent — M-G-M (90 min.) 62 Bimbo the Great — Warner Bros. (96 min.) 72 Blast of Silence — Universal-Int'l (77 min.) 59 Curse of the Werewolf, The — Universal-Int'l (91 min.) 68 Fabulous World of Jules Verne, The — Warner Bros. (95 min.) 72 Heym Hayu Assara — Geo. Schwartz €s? A. Sachson (105 min.) 62 Hippodrome — Continental (96 min.) 59 La Dolce Vita — Astor (175 min.) 63 Master of the World — American Int'l (104 min.) 71 Mein Kampf — Columbia (121 min.) 67 Minotaur, The — The Wild Beast of Crete — UA (92 min.) 70 Modigliani of Montparnasse — Continental (110 min.) 63 Parent Trap, The— Buena Vista (124 min.) 70 Pharoah's Woman, The — Univ. -Int'l (88 min.) 63 Return to Peyton Place — 20th-Fox (122 min.) 70 Ring of Fire — M-G-M (91 min.) 66 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning — Cont. (90 min.) 58 Shadow of the Cat, The— Univ.-Int'l (79 min.) 67 They Were Ten — Geo. Schwartz & A. Sachson (105 min.) 62 Young Savages, The — United Artists (100 min.) 66 "Mad-Dog Coll" {Continued from Page 75) Chandler's men who happens to be wearing his boss' coat. Brooke is now in love with Orbach. Kay wants Chandler to quit the rackets, marry her. He won't. In a gunbattle between Chandler and some of Schultz' men, two children are fatally shot. The public is enraged. Schultz keeps knocking off Chandler's men. Dubbed the Mad Dog, Chandler goes into hiding. Detective Savelas calls in Orbach and Brooke, asks their cooperation in getting Chandler. It is Orbach, finally seeing how insane Chandler is, who tells Savelas where to find Chandler. The Mad Dog is gunned down in a drug store phone booth. A Thalia Film. Produced by Edward Schreiber and directed by Burt Balaban from Schreiberis screenplay. Based on material by Leo Lieberman. Adult fare. Brief Reviews 'The Big Show" (20th-Fox) Good. Romantic melodrama about the private lives of a divided circus family. Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson and David Nelson star in the suspenseful, CinemaScope-color picture. Partially dubbed into English, it was filmed in Europe. Much circus footage, romance. Time: 113 min. Adult fare. "The Steel Claw" (WB) Good. A World War II melodrama centering about a one-handed U.S. Marine captain, George Montgomery, who volunteers to take a Yank general off a Jap-held isle. Filmed in Technicolor in the Philippines with fine local talent, including pretty Charito Luna. A sold action programmer. Time: 96 min. Unobjectitonable for all. Full reviews of the above will appear next week. BLIND BIDS AND HOLIDAY TIME (Continued from Front Page) — cannot find a single attraction at his local theatres that he believes is worth seeing. In the case of children's pictures, it is best that they are released during school vacation periods. This is especially true because there are so few of this type of entertainment today. Of course, with stiff competition for the vacation time, conflicts arise in this area also. But the vacatitoning child usually has more opportunities to attend a theatre than an adult. However, a good adult attraction, given a strong promotional campaign, can be very successful in nonholiday playdates. In many cases, because of the lack of the extraordinary holiday competition, it can fare even better. Films receiving thte Marcus Plan treatment are proving this dramattically. Harrison's Reports commends the Northern California Theatre Owners Associattion for its position that no exhibitor should bid on a picture prior to screening availability. If the film company is not ready to screen its product, it isn't ready to sell it. Rather than rush a just-completed picture into the market, it should release it in a non-holiday period if necessary, back it with a powerful campaign, and see if it doesn't make a fine profit for all concerned. SAVE TIME! Stop wasting precious minutes hunting for scattered copies of Harrison's Reports. Keep them in a binder. Special ones which clamp copies in place on the wide margin, making hole-punching unnecessary, may be purchased by writing to this paper at 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. The cost to subscribers in the U.S.A. is $2.25 per binder, postpaid. The cost to Canadian subscribers is $2.50, postpaid. The cost to all other foreign subscribers is $2.00, plus postage. 3 Levine Productions Yearly Joseph E. Levine, Embassy Pictures president, re vealed to some 300 leading West Coast exhibitors in Hollywood that he will produce "three major motion pictures a year in the United States beginning this summer." Levine's first, "Boys Night Out," will go before the cameras in July in Hollywood and New York. Second Trans-Lux Sidewalk Cafe The sidewalk cafe at the Trans-Lux 85th Street Theatre in New York has proven successful and the circuit is planning to install one in its Detroit theatre, if that city allows it. Gary Grant, Doris Day To Co-Star A forthcoming orginal romantic comedy, to be released through Universal, will team for the first time Cary Grant and Doris Day. Scheduled for a mid-summer start, it is tentatively called 'Touch of Mink."