Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

Page scan 00032 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1948
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00032
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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Tuesday, April 6, 1948 Motion Picture Daily 4 Reviews "Berlin Express7' (rko Radio) AS A documentary-styled spy thriller, "Berlin Express" turns out to be a first-rate melodrama, made all the more enjoyable by superb touches of realism and on-the-spot background photography. However, in attempting to infuse into the story overtones of world security and significance, it becomes impaired by an uneasy dependence on incidents that lack credence. Scenes of Paris, Berlin and Frankfurt are used to fortunate effect as the Harold Medford screenplay lets loose an absorbing manhunt for a German statesman, kidnapped .by a Nazi underground group because he was a vital figure in an Allied plan to unify the country, A cast of splendid performers includes Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas, Jacques Tourneur has done a creditable job of direction, Bert Granet produced. Running time, 86 minutes. General audience classification. Release in Block 3. Handel Herbs tman "Silent Conflict" (United Artists) WILLIAM (HOP ALONG CASSIDY) BOYD and his saddle pals, Andy Clyde and Rand Brooks, are the intended victims of an herb-peddling swindler in a Western that leans heavily on conversation and offers only a bare minimum of ridin' and shoo tin'. Swindler Earle Hodgins kidnaps Brooks, fogs up his mind with repeated doses of "herb tea," hypnotizes him into making an attempt on the lives of Boyd and Clyde so he can make away with the trio's money, Lewis Rachmil produced and George Archainbaud directed from a Charles Belden screenplay . Running time, 61 minutes. General audience classification. Release in April, "Old LOS Angeles" (Republic) LAWLESSNESS in the early California days supplies the material for a lusty and colorful western in which villainy has a Roman holiday, Joseph Schildkraut heads a gang intent on taking over Lower California, John Carroll is a killer who^eventually double-crosses ^the boss, William Elliott is the one who upsets the evil-doers.Catherine McLeod, Andy Devine and Estelita Rodriquez also are in the cast. Joe Kane served as associate producer and director. Running time, 87 minutes. General audience classification. Release date, April 25, P.E.L. ''Ruthless" (Eagle-Lion) AN UNUSUAL if not too believable a story with many dramatic moments has been elaborately mounted by Producer Arthur S. Lyons and capably directed by Edgar G. Ulmer from a screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Gordon Kahn.The film's main boxoffice worth rests in the value of its cast names, upon which the exhibitor should be able to capitalize with ease in exploiting* Based on Dayton Stoddart * s novM* "Prelude to Night" and unfolding in a series of flashbacks, the film focuses i upon a man's ruthless push toward fame and fortune, Zachary Scott plays an unscrupulous financial operator who ultimately is killed by one of his victims, Sydney Greenstreet, Other players include Diana Lynn, Lucille Bremer, Louis Hayward, Martha Vickers&unning time, 104 minutes, General audience classification. Release date: April 3, Ontario's Ticket Tax Plan Stands TORONTO, April 5 A motion by the \l two Communist members of the Ontario legislature to shelve the bill for a 20 per cent admission tax whenever the Federal tax is abolished has been rejected by the provincial Assembly by a 68 to two vote. Security Loan Performance Apr. 14 Donald 0 ' Connor , star of UniversalInternational ' s "Are You With It?"y)ill head the all-star show at the Winter j Garden Theatre here April 14, launching | the New York State drive in the U. S. Treasury 's Security Loan, Admissionwill be by purchase of savings bond and tickets will be available at the Winter Garden starting Wednesday , Equity Preparing Video Show Actors'Equity is preparing to offer to prospective sponsors its own "Television Theatre of the Air" program, which has been directed by Bert Ly tell . Music Corporation of America is acting as agent and profits will go to the actors' fund, 1 | Video Stations for Midwest , CHICAGO, April 5 With a $1,000,000 investment for equipment, programs and staff, the Tribune 's WGN-TV opened here tonight as the city's second television station, I u CINCINNATI, April 5 — Contract has been signed by Crosley Broadcasting, operators of station WLW here, for telecasting of film recordings of National Broadcasting network video programs.