Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

lav, February 5, 1959 Motion Picture Daily 9 tional e Selling ;)IO City Music Hall used the 'view of "Some Came Running" appeared in the Feb. 17 issue pok," to sell this new MGM it was a wise choice, because eading this article, we believe eaders will want to see this Sol production starring Frank SiShirley MacLaine and Dean . Shirley MacLaine says "The olayed has a great capacity for iind is more of a woman than omen. I loved this girl so much 1 have played the scenes any >irector MinneUi wanted— even ig on my head." • I Boone, star of "Mardi Gras," off the full color of "Life's" issue to their 32 million read s the great-great-great grandson iel Boone. The editors of "Life" lied seven additional pages of •ssue depicting the spiritual of this teen-age idol. Pat has ds successful career on his spirlinking. He was graduated from }ia University magna cum laude ar. His book "Twixt Twelve ,venty" is rapidly becoming a Her and the proceeds of it go Northeastern Institute for Chrislucation. • ■ Journey," the story of a violent od a beautiful woman, that the stars of "The King and I" ih Kerr and Yul Brynner is ad1 on the table of contents page le Saturday's Evening Post's" I issue. • Bridge on the River Kwai," iumbia film starring Alec Guin'id William Holden, has been Picture of the Year by "Sevls" teen-age readers. Runners "This Happy Feeling" and "A j o Love and a Time to Die." ] the third annual Seventeen j's Award. • Collins starring in "Rally The Flag Boys," in De Luxe s spotlighted in a Lustre Creme earing in the February issue of on Brando, who is the prodirector and writer of "One acks" is on the color cover of :'s" Jan. 25 issue with his leadly— a Mexican beauty named llicer. Lloyd Shearer has writocation story which appears in pe issue. • Lollobrigida plays Queen iin "Solomon and Sheba." She in attractive Biblical dress on ver of "This Week's" Feb. 1 [n a pictorial cover story Yul r is seen as King Solomon with laying his queen. The photos lade on location in Spain. Walter Haas FEATURE REVIEWS Forbidden Island Columbia Hartford, Feb. 4 Triple threat Charles B. Griffith ( he produced, directed and wrote this Columbia presentation) provides some taut moments. The Jon Hall starring film has appeal in those action theatres that demand and play the chaseand-suspense element. Filmed with obviously well-intended cooperation of Polynesian Productions, Inc., with underwater sequences shot at Florida's famed Silver Springs, the Columbia color production tells of skin diver Hall, hired to find a priceless emerald, lost in a sunken ship in the South Pacific by John Farrow, who travels with Nan Adams, voluptuous blonde forced to pose as his wife. Eventually, one of Hail's aides is killed underwater after he discovers that prim-and-proper Farrow is a murderer. Farrow pins the blame on Hall, and from this point out, more killings occur before Hall and Miss Adams uncover the truth and head together for Manda. Lamar Boren was underwater cameraman. One song, "Forbidden Island," is heard. Bart Carre served as production manager. Running time, 66 minutes. General classification. Release in March. A. M. W. The Cosmic Man Terry-Allied Artists Hartford, Feb. 4 The redoubtable Bruce Bennett, who's escorted his share of voluptuous leading women over the decades, is principal player in this Robert A. Terry production, w ritten and enacted primarily for that burgeoning audience of science-fiction aficionados wherever they gather around the globe. Boxoffice-wise, it figures to take as good care of itself as its predecessors. The time is now, the setting initally the perimeter of an American Air Force base, Col. Paul Langton, General Herbert Lytton and Dr. Bruce Bennett, astro-physics scientist, discover a huge, mysterious ball-shaped object. At the outset the threesome, despite their knowledge and limitless resources, are unable to move the heavy sphere. Later, civilian and military populace alike shows signs of panic, as evidence of a phantom man destroying vital elements continues to mount. Matters start automatically resolving themselves, however, as a strange-appearing man (John Carradine, a horror-maker from way back) checks into Angela Greene's adjacent motel. When the electricity fails the following evening, Carradine is heard pleading with the authorities not to be alarmed. He urges closer understanding between peoples of the earth and outer space. Next morning, Miss Greene's crippled son ( Scotty Morrow ) is found miraculously cured, and the sudden invader from space, the sphere with its sometimes human cargo, slowly disappearing into the outer vastness. Miss Greene clinches with Dr. Bennett. Herbert Greene directed from an original story and screenplay by Arthur C. Pierce, and Harry Marsh is listed as associate producer. Charles Duncan was responsible for special effects, increasingly important in these sciencefiction treatments. Running time, 72 minutes. General classification. Release, in January. A. M. W. The Young Captives Paramount A concise, modest melodrama, "The Young Captives" tells the harrowing and often suspenseful tale of two eloping teenagers who fall into the clutches of a disturbed young man who gives even less thought to killing than he does to combing his hair. Producer Andrew J. Fenady, who also wrote the screenplay, has put together a taut little film that features a particularly colorful and malignant villain. Newcomer Steven Mario is seen as the villain and Tom Seldon and Luana Patten as the unlucky young lovers. The film opens with Mario, an itinerant California oil field worker, murdering his boss in a fit of rage and immediately taking off for Mexico. En route he teams up with the unknowing Miss Patten and Seldon, who are driving to Tiajuana to get married. Mario's conversation and his strange enthusiaasms do not particularly endear him to the young couple. However, they don't object to having him along because it throws the police off their trail. Later, when the kids try to drop Mario, he reveals himself to be the killer he is and, at knife point, forces them to drive him into Mexico. How the kids eventually outwit and overpower the maniac provides the climactic action and suspense. It also provides something of a moral because the kids decide that unlike Mario, who has advocated living in the present for the immediate kicks, they shall put off their marriage until they are older and wiser. Mario handles his colorful role quite effectively and Miss Patten and Seldon are appealing as the teenagers. Irvin Kershner directed and Gordon Hunt and Al Burton wrote the original story. Others in the cast include Joan Graville, Ed Nelson, Dan Sheridan and Jim Chandler. Running time, 61 minutes. General classification. Release, in February. Vincent Canby V.C. to Use S-W House ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 4. Stanley Warner Corp. has donated use of the Ritz Theatre to the "Albany TimesUnion" for the premiere of "South Pacific" on the night of Feb. 19 when Variety Club's Camp Thacher will be the beneficiary. Gene Robb, publisher of the paper and a barker of the club, made the arrangements with Tent No. 9 officers and S-W district manager Alfred G. Swett. Philadelphia House Sold PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4. Great Films, Inc., which operates art houses in Washington, Baltimore and Cleveland, has taken over operation of the Ambassador Theatre here, neighborhood house converted to an art film policy. DICK CLARK GOES FOR GIDGET!. IDOL OF AMERICA'S MAJOR MOVIEGOING AUDIENCE (ages 12-26) USES ALL MEDIA TO SELL COLUMRIA'S t 'NEW FACES' PRESENTATION! Sandra Dee • cliff Robertson • james Darren i-JNE Four Preps ' ARTHUR O'MNEIl "' ' icreenplay by GABRIELLE UPTON . Based on the f Produced by LEWIS J. RACHMIL • Directed CinemaScopE EASTMAN COLOR The industry goes for GIDGET for Easter!