Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1951
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000503
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:
November 10, 2022
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"SKIP ALONG ROSENBLOOM" The Cast Skipcdong Rosenbloom . "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom Butcher Baer Max Baer Buck James Jackie Coogan Sneaky Pete Fuzzy Knight Square Deal Sal Hillary Brook Caroline Jacqueline Fontaine The Credits Wally Kline Enterprises Inc. presents "Skipalong Rosenbloom", co-starring Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer. Screen play by Dean Reisner and Eddie Forman. Produced by Wally Kline. Directed by Sam Newfield. An Eagle Lion Classics release. The Story The town of Buttonhole Bend is in the clutches of the Butcher Baer gang who have killed every sheriff and robbed every bank in the territory. Brains of the gang is Square Deal Sal. Skipalong Rosenbloom comes to town and is tricked into becoming sheriff. He falls in love with Miss Caroline, the village schoolmarm. Skipalong finally corners Butcher Baer in Square Deal Sal's saloon, beats him up and corrals the gang. He then leaves Miss Caroline and rides off into the sunset in quest of new adventures. Rosenbloom, Baer Fight Over Billing "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer would be one of the greatest nightclub comedy acts in show business save for one unfortunate difficulty — they keep breaking the act up because they can't decide who should get top billing. The pair of former champion boxers have now transferred their clowning to the screen in "Skipalong Rosenbloom," a hilarious satire on the conventional Hollywood Western which opens .... at the Theatre. Producer Wally Kline found that their feud had come along to Hollywood with them when he started work on "Skipalong Rosenbloom." 'Skipalong' Battle Uses Ex-Champs When two ex-champions of the world tangle in a barroom brawl with no holds barred the goingson should be plenty exciting — and they were even though the brawl was staged as a climax to a motion picture. The motion picture is "Skipalong Rosenbloom," opening at the Theatre, a spoof of Hollywood's standard Western plot and the fighters are Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer, who co-star in the Wally Kline production for Eagle Lion Classics release. Result of the scrap is some of the most exciting footage ever filmed according to Director Sam Newfield. Mat 1A Still SR-55 "Slaps;e" Maxie Rosenbloom is the hero of the comedy Western, "Skipalong Rosenbloom," which opens at the Theatre. Mat IB Still SR-41 Max Baer co-stars with Maxie Rosenbloom in "Skipalong Rosenbloom," which opens at the Theatre. Western Movies Spoofed In 'Skipalong Rosenbloom' All the hokum and "corn" which have marked the screen Western since the early silent days are present in "Skipalong Rosenbloom," co-starring Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer, which opens at the Theatre — but this time it's all done for laughs. Producer Wally Kline, who made the picture for Eagle Lion Classics release, screened more than 40 old Westerns along with Dean Reisner and Eddie Forman who wrote "Skipalong Rosenbloom." From these they have distilled dozens of standbys of Western producers and kidded them. In "Skipalong Rosenbloom" are the historic line "we'll cut 'em off at Eagle Rock," the gun battle where thousands of rounds and rounds are fired and no one gets hurt, the torrid chase, etc., etc. "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, for whom the picture is titled, plays a cowboy called back to town to help his old uncle resist the crooked gang which is taking up a mortgage on the uncle's land which includes an old gold mine. He is drafted by a crooked judge into becoming the sheriff of the town. No local men will take the job because "Butcher Baer" and his gang have wiped out scores of previous lawmakers. Max Baer is the "Butcher" and S quare Shooter A unique "prop" — a revolver which is actually a "square j shooter" is used in "Skipalong Rosenbloom," burlesque on Western films co-starring Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer, which opens at the Theatre. Instead of being designed in the conventional round shape, the barrell of "Square-shootin' Sheriff" Rosenbloom's gun is a perfect square. Hillary Brook plays the lady saloon keeper who is the "brains" of the mob. Rosenbloom follows a gopher and discovers the lost mine. He is captured by the gang and tied up in a room filled with gunpowder. "Butcher Baer" laughs fiendishly as he lights a slow fuse and leaves the mine. But Rosenbloom escapes and corners the "Butcher" in the saloon which sets the stage for the film's climactic fisticuffs. Rosenbloom gives up his girl to an upright local citizen, played by erstwhile child star Jackie Coogan and rides off to new adventures. Sam Newfield directed. Champs ! "Skipalong Rosenbloom" should be a championship picture. For Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom are the costars of this comedy burlesque of the standard Hollywood Western which opens at the Theatre. Baer is a former heavyweight champion of the world and Rosenbloom was light heavyweight champion of the world for five years. The pair tangle in a barroom brawl as the climax of the picture. Eagle Lion Section "SKIPALONG ROSENBLOOM" Page Seven