Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 24, 19 Columbia Meet (Continued from page 1) sion managers, including the Canadian sales manager, will be present. The division managers are: Nat Cohn, New York; Sam A. Galanty, mideast, from Washington; Ben C. Marcus, midwest, Kansas City; I. Harry Rogovin, New England, Boston; Robert J. Ingram, southeast, Atlanta; Jack B. Underwood, southwest, Dallas; Harry E. Weiner, Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia; L. E. Tillman, northwest, San Francisco; Wayne Ball, Southern California and Rocky Mountain, Los Angeles; Ben Lourie, Chicago; Harvey Harnick, Canadian sales manager, Toronto. Home office executives attending in addition to Montague and Jackter, are: Louis Astor, George Josephs and Vincent Borrelli, circuit account executives; H. C. Kaufman, exchange operations manager; Joseph Freiberg, sales accounting manager; Seth Raisler, sales contract manager; Sydney Singerman and George Berman, assistant exchange operations managers; Milton Goodman, assistant circuit account executive, and Maurice Grad, short subjects sales manager. Tent 7 Garden Party BUFFALO, July 23. The annual garden party of the Women's League of Tent 7, Variety Club of Buffalo will be held Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Samuel Ostrow in Bay Beach, Ont. A dessert luncheon at 1 P.M. will be followed by cards and other games. Mrs. Max Strovroff, chairman, has appointed Mrs. Harry Wallens and Mrs. Ostrow, cochair FEATURE REVIEWS Apache Warrior Regal Films — 20th-Fox — Regalscope Hollywood, July 23. Keith Larsen and Jim Davis, portraying Indian and white Cavalry Scouts, respectively, play out here the key roles in a frontier story based on one of the conflicts between Indian law and white law that made life on the great plains hazardous in the latter decades of the 19th century. It is a picture that contains most of the indispensable ingredients of IndianCavalry melodrama but follows none of the ruts worn deep by writers of Westerns over the long and prosperous record of mounted melodrama. The screenplay by Carroll Young, Kurt Neumann and Eric Norden, from a story by the first two, opens on a mountainside, where an Apache leader played by Rodolfo Acosta slays two sleeping men to obtain their whiskey. Cavalry Scouts Larsen and Davis apprehend the marauding group, placing them under arrest, and Larsen shoots and kills one of his tribal brethren who undertakes to escape. Back at the Cavalry post, the Indian scout is praised for his work and presently promoted. Returning to his tribe to ask the hand of his Indian sweetheart in marriage, Larsen witnesses the killing of his brother by a jealous rival and is ordered by the Apache chief to pursue, capture and kill the killer. This he does, and is arrested by the Cavalry for it, thus setting the scene for the chief (John Miljan) to point out to the Cavalry Commandant that the Army promoted Larsen for killing an Indian who broke white law but now is punishing him for killing one who broke Indian law. This basis of conflict underlies the fights, flights, raids and skirmishes that make up the remainder of the picture. Plato Skouras produced the picture, with Elmo Williams directing. Running time, 73 minutes. General classification. Release, in August. William R. Weaver The Vampire Gardner-Levy — UA Hartford, Conn., July 23. John Beal, Coleen Gray and Kenneth Tobey contribute good performances to create suspense in "The Vampire," an Arthur Gardner-Jules V. Levy horror film being released under the UA banner. Paul Landres has directed from a story and screenplay by Pat Fielder. Playing a medico, Beal happens to swallow experimental tablets that regress the brain. He learns from scientific researchers that these units are habit-forming, but scoffs the suggestion off and resumes normal pursuits. It's not long before he's murdered one of the researchers and an elderly woman and he recognizes signs that he is slowly turning into a human vampire. From here, the Fielder treatment follows a familiar pattern, that of chase and hide, until the now-thoroughly demented Beal, about to attack his nurse (Miss Gray) is shot and killed by the pursuing gendarmes headed by Tobey. As life ebbs, Beal is transformed again into a human being. Tobey and his girl, Miss Gray, are reunited. Running time, 74 minutes. General classification. Release, in May. A. M. W. That Night RKO Radio— U-l It is likely that almost everyone at one time or another has had the dread feeling that he will be stricken by a heart attack. Some months ago, Life Magazine offered, in story and pictures, just such an experience, written first hand by Robert Wallace, to whom it had occurred. Now the material has been brought to the screen, described as a Galahad production for RKO Radio, and now released by Universal. Wallace, with the collaboration of Jack Rowles, has fashioned a screenplay from his own story, and the result is a simple, straightforward, poignant experience, almost documentary in its delineation, and extremely effective at all times. Its salability as an entertainment motion picture naturally is open to some question, and it should require care and thought in the selling. Himan Brown, known for his economically budgeted productions of simple persuasiveness, produced in New York, and John Newland directed, quite ef Drive-InSoun< ( Continued from page 1 ) poration. Levy was head of the Sign Corps patent department duri: World War II. The Dover Drive-in will be locat in the center of the city of Dovt The parking lot of the shopping ce ter is double-decked and the theat is being built on the upper level. Du ing the day it will be used as a parki: area for shoppers. A fully equipp modern restaurant will be built in tl center of the upper deck to sen shoppers during the day and tl drive-in patrons at night. The san building will house the project! booth. Use of the wireless sound sy tern will facilitate the use of the arc as a parking space because of tl elimination of the speaker posts. Futter Points to Savings According to Walter Futter, pre!dent of Vido-Sound, use of the ne system would save from $40,000 $60,000 on the original cost of drive-in theatre and would represei substantial savings in case of expar sion of a present theatre. The systei could be used, according to Futter, i connection with present equipmer with the addition only of the altere speakers. Present per unit cost of the receiv er-speaker is about $25, considerabl higher than ordinary speakers but th is more than offset by the savings i wiring and in setting the speak posts. The receiving apparatus, en cased in a capsule, is small enough t< be inserted in present speaker case Futter said. Speakers will be issued to each ca upon entering the theatre and will b collected at the exits. In the case ( drive-ins incorporating the new sy: tern as part of their operation, th company has developed an apparatu for detecting the presence of one the speakers in a car. Vido-Sound is producing the equip ment in a plant just completed at As bury Park, N. J. fectively, and with a clear sense o values. John Beal, an excellent player, of fers an unglamorous, keenly sensitive, performance as the writer of televisio commercials, living in Connecticu above his means, straining mightily U make things go, neglecting his wif (played by Augusta Dabney), and three children. He is stricken en route home one evening. The detailed recording of the at tack and its immediate effect make for an intensely dramatic motion pic ture, and Beal does very well with it His fight for life in the hospital i of the same effective caliber. Finalh the critical, stage is passed, and th way is clear to restored health. Bu the ordeal has caused Beal and hi wife to see life in a more intelligent and healthier perspective, and the fu ture holds a new promise as a result Running time, 88 minutes. General classification. Release, in Septembe Charles S. Aaronson