Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1958)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Vl'L. 84, NO. 84 NEW YORK, U.S.A., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958 TEN CENTS Johnston Backs Moves to Replenish Mid-November Meet Child Film Library; Cites Soviet Work Inhibitors in Plea panada Group Moves Against ill Toll-TV I ges Withholding Films horn Air for Five Years Special to THE DAILY jjORONTO, Oct. '28.-Suppliers of ■iion picture films released theatri■y will be asked by Canadian exUitors to keep their pictures off free I vision, toll-TV or by cable for a Miod of five years. II resolution to this effect was mpted unanimously here yesterday ■he annual meeting of the National Bnmittee of Motion Picture Exhibi■ Associations of Canada. A simm resolution was adopted last year wthe body, but it lacked a time pe (Continued on page 3) 'lyccaneer' Bow Here (j> Aid Cancer Fund paramount Pictures' "The Bucca■ r" will have a gala New York pjmiere the evening of December 1 at the Capitol Theatre for the b|tefit of the New York Chapter of fl American Cancer Society, marking |J| first time that the Society's fund(Continued on page 2) |CA Will Open to All TV, Radio Patents Special to THE DAILY VASHINGTON, Oct. 28. Radio 'p. of America today ended the /eminent anti trust complaint inst it by agreeing to open its io and television patents for licensto practically all comers on a alty-free basis. A consent judg( Continued on page 6) television Today Page The Motion Picture Association will continue its efforts to revive a Children's Film Library, which has been virtually obliterated by the sale of pre-1948 film backlogs to television, Eric Johnston, MPAA president, said yesterday. Mrs. Margaret Twyman has been assigned to the project, Johnston recalled, and said she is working on it regularly. He endorsed the project strongly and said it should be made effective, if only for reasons of self-interest. Johnston, who returned last week from Russia and eastern European (Continued on page 6) Johnston to Spend More Time Abroad New and recurring crises in the foreign markets, with problems multiplying in widely separated areas, probably will take Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Assn., out of the country more frequently than heretofore, he said at a news conference here yesterday. Johnston will leave for Japan in late November or early December, he said, where negotiations for a new re( Continued on page 3 ) Loew's Board Takes Up Divorce Plans Today The Loew's board of directors is scheduled to receive reports and recommendations today on plans for separating the company's theatre operations from production-distribution as required by its Federal consent decree. Two plans have been proposed, one bv management headed by Joseph R. Vogel, which follows along the lines adopted by other theatre(Continued on page 3) Finance Leaders Honor Management of UA The management of United Artists, headed by Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin, was acclaimed for their record of achievement in business growth by the 500 members of the National Commercial Finance Conference at (Continued on page 2) Radio, TV Promotions For 'Oscar' Presented Ideas to promote the upcoming Academy Awards telecast on both network and local radio and television were presented by industry TV and radio contact men at the first of a series of meetings on the "Oscar" (Continued on page 2) REVIEW: In Love and War Wold — 20th-Fox — CinemaScope With broad strokes and on a wide canvas producer Jerry Wald and director Philip Dunne have painted what may be the definitive picture on the war in the Pacific. With a versatile cast of new and younger people and with slick and polished production values, it tells with new values and emphasis the by now twice told tale of the U.S. Marine assaults on the Japanese beachheads through the eyes of three widely diverse young men in terms of their own reactions of confusion, doubt, cowardice and heroism. Though it is a war picture— and war in the strongest and goriest scenes yet filmed— the emphasis is on the love lives of the three Marines and of the ties which they carry into battle with them. New names, including Mort Sahl, comedian of new and rising fame, are prominent and praiseworthy in the cast but among the leads Hope (Continued on page 3) Theatre Help On Soviet Films Sought Johnston Tells of Moscow Negotiations; Sees Benefits (Picture on Page 7) The State Department tentatively plans to call exhibitor leaders to a meeting in Washington during the second week in November to explain the significance it attaches to a successful culmination of the motion picture phase of its cultural exchange agreement with the Soviet and the importance of exhibitor cooperation in the program. Secretary Dulles is expected to attend if he is in Washington at the time. This was disclosed by Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Assn., at a press conference here yesterday. Johnston later reported to the MPEA ( Continued on page 7 ) Mexico Festival Lauds 'Defiant1 and 'Mouth' Special to THE DAILY MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28. Two American films, "The Defiant Ones" and "The Horse's Mouth," drew particularly high praise today as diplomas were awarded at the International Film Festival. "The Defiant Ones" was lauded for "its brilliant presentation of the human brotherhood theme, an intense (Continued on page 3) MPAA Votes $50,000 To Will Rogers Hospital The Motion Picture Association board of directors at its meeting here yesterday voted a contribution of $50,000 to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and Research Laboratories at Saranac Lake, N. Y., after listening to an appeal by Richard Walsh, IATSE president, in behalf of support for the hospital. The MPAA contribution is in the same amount as one made by it last year.