Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1948)

Page scan 000394 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1948
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000394
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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6 Motion Picture daily Tuesday, March 301.1948 Reviews "To The Victor" (Warner) INTENSIVE and informative exploitation figures to pay off for this peculiarly constituted story of post-war France which owes a good deal of its interest to the fact that much of it was filmed in that country, with Omaha Beach and Paris streets, landmarks and institutions as background. So compulsive is the appeal of this expertly photographed setting that it overshadows at times that of the somberly melodramatic story of black market and collaborationist activities which engages the talents of Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Bruce Bennet and other able players. It's a decidedly unpretty ■ story , but forceful. Jerry Wald produced the pic ture , and Lelmer Daves directed it, from a story and screenplay by Richard Brooks. Running time, 99 minutes.. Adul-t audience classification. Release date not set. Will tarn R. Weaver "Man From Texas" (Eagle-Lion) THE ADVENTURES of a highwayman have been made into an interesting variant of a standard Western, though at times the film follows stereotyped lines. As merchandise, it should get the usual Western devotees plus customers who like a measure of plot complexity . James Craig is a Western-type Robin Hood whose evil exploits for moral ends get him into all sorts of narrow escapes, until the law eventual ly catches up with him. Lynn Bart is the wife and Una Merkel the widowindistress. Joseph Fields produced from a screenplay by himself and Jerome Chodorov. Leigh Jason directed. Running time, 71 minutes. General audience classificat ion. Release in March. r Mandel Herbstman "Money Madness" (Film Classics) A TAUT, convincing picture has been turned out on a minimum budget by^veteran producer Sigmund Neufeld, Story is unusual in its convolutions, and the treatment, utilizing actual streets and a minimum of sets, is almost documentary. Story has Hugh Beaumont as the attractive young man who comes to town, marries Frances Rafferty, kills her aunt, then tells Miss Rafferty the truth, that he is a bank robber with $200,000 of "hot money". As his wife, she is implicated. Miss Rafferty reluctantly aids him in further murde\ % but he overplays his shrewdness ari&police kill him. Film opens with sentencing of the girl to 10 years in prison; rest of the story is flashback. Running time, 73 minutes. Adult classification. Release date, April 15. Short Subject "20 YEARS OF ACADEMY AWARDS" (RKO Radio) Motion picture "greats" from 1927 through 1947 are brought back to the screen in this two-reel subject, produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for release by RKO Radio. The subject makes a particularly interesting and t.imely one as glimpses of the "Oscar" winners, stars and pictures pass in historical . review. Proceeds of the short will go to the Academy .Running time, 18 minutes. Production Up To 29 HOLLYWOOD, March 29-Product ion tally rose to 26 against last week's 2J ♦ Shooting started on "Babe Ruth Story" (Allied Artists), "Partners of the Sunset, " "Michael O'Halloran, " "Smuggler's Cove," Monogram; "Blue Lady," "Eyes of Texas," Re pub 1 ic; "Burlesque , " "Road House, " "Checkered Coat, " 20thFox. Finished were: "Texas Sandman," Columbia; "Let 's Live a Little," EagleLion; "Streets of San Francisco, " Republic; "Fighting Back, ""Gay Intruder," 20th-Fox; "One Touch of Venus, " U-I. WARREN HYMER FUNERAL ON COAST HOLLYWOOD, March 23 — Funeral services for Warren Hymer, actor, h2, were held here this morning, Hymer , who died of a stomach ailment, had been in pictures for 20 years.