Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Monday, April 27, National Pre ^Selling T?OR a few fleeting moments Marilyn * Monroe helps you forget the pressures of present day living as she mischievously peers off the April 20 issue of "Life." The alluring cover leads into a pictorial story of Marilyn's new film "Some Like It Hot." In this article Billy Wilder, the director, shows Marilyn how to walk along a station platform. But "Life's" photo illustrates that Marilyn adds a little something of her own as she strolls down the platform. • A Kapralik caricature of James Stewart and Lee Remick, stars of Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder," will appear on the front cover of "Pictorial Review's" June 7 issue. "Porgy and Bess," directed by Otto Preminger for Samuel Goldwyn, will be released on June 24. • George Stevens's "The Diary of Anne Frank" has been selected as the picture of the month for May by "Seventeen." • "Go, Johnny, Go!" the Hal Roach teen-age musical starring Jimmy Clanton and Alan Freed is being exploited by the promotional departments of eight records companies. The cast of this film is made up of 10 record stars. More than a million records of five of the film's stars have been sold. All the printed promotional material and the lithographs have been created for "Go, Johnny, Go!" by the Ben Adler Advertising Service. • "Some Like It Hot," starring Marilyn Monroe, receives a laudatory review by Ruth Harbert in the May issue of "Good Housekeeping." She says "If you enjoy a laugh, a deep down guffaw, this farce should provide it. Set in Chicago in the roaring Twenties, it has all the exaggerated excitement of the era." • "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," the new Walt Disney film, will have the promotional aid of a Sunday Color Comic series which begins on May 3. These Disney comics will be seen in 55 principal cities reaching a readership of 40 million. « Ingrid Bergman is quoted in the April 20 issue of "Look" as saying "I don't believe in anger, hate, or revenge. They are such exhausting emotions." The front cover of "Argosy's ' May issue and a sLx-page cover story is devoted to "John Paul Jones," the Warner film produced by Samuel Bronston. • In the May issue of "Esquire," Kingsley Amis reviews "He Who Must Die," "The Mistress," "Embezzled Heaven," and "Tempest." Walter Haas REVIEW: Face of a Fugitive Morningside Prod. — Columbia Two well-staged action sequences— one placed at the beginning, the other at the end— are the best things about "Face of a Fugitive," an otherwise modest and somewhat placid western film. The picture begins with a bang as a convicted bank robber being taken to jail bv train in the company of a marshal makes a sudden escape. The criminal is aided bv his brother who shoots the marshal in the process and is also wounded himself. The two outlaws then trv to get aboard a fast-moving freight train to make good their escape, and director Paul Wendkos builds up quite a suspenseful scene in depicting the wav they do it. At the end there is also some real excitement in a gun duel that takes place in a unique setting— the bar room of a ghost town. The hero has three opponents in this battle, each of which dies gorilv in the dusty, cobweb-covered saloon. Wendkos spins this episode out with skillful technique. In between these two highpoints of violence, screenplay writers David T. Chantler and Daniel B. Ullman have told a story about a fugitive from the law who comes to a western town and turns over a new leaf, aligning himself with the forces of good against a villainous rancher who has fenced in public land. The fugitive makes friends with all the townspeople, falls in love with an attractive widow, and finally routs the rancher and his cohorts by himself. This is a twice-told tale, obviouslv, but it is well acted bv Fred MacMurray as the fugitive, Alan Baxter as the rancher, and Lin McCarthy as the sheriff. Dorothy Green is the widow, and Myrna Fahey the girl friend of the sheriff. A Morningside Production for Columbia release, "Face of a Fugitive" was produced by Charles H. Schneer. Photography is in Eastman Color. Running time, 81 minutes. General classification. Release, in May. Richard Gertner Bachman Named ( Continued from page 1 ) death of Richard Mealand, is currently in Hollywood for talks with Sol C. Siegel, studio chief, regarding pictures to be made abroad. The first film to go, starting next month, will be David Rose's production, "House of Seven Hawks," starring Robert Taylor and directed by Richard Thorpe. Artists' Tax Easement Is Sought in India Special to THE DAILY BOMBAY, April 20 (By Air Mail). —Representatives of the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, testifying before the Direct Taxation Inquiry Committee here, have pleaded for a new tax scale for creative artists, similar to the one in Japan. J. B. Roongta, IMPPA president, also urged amendment of the income tax authority's practice of disallowing traveling and conveyance expenses, entertainment expenses and general charges, even though properly vouchered. It was suggested that, up to an annual income of 30,000 rupees ($6,225), 25 per cent should be allowed for expenses, excluding depreciation on motor cars; between 30,001 rupees and 65,000 rupees ($13,487.50) 35 per cent; and 65,000 rupees and upwards, 50 per cent. International Film Week Is Planned in Holland Special to THE DAILY AMSTERDAM, April 22 (By Air Mail).— An International Filmweek will be organized in Arnhem, Holland, June 19 through 24. It will be conducted in cooperation with the yearly Holland Festival committee and the Dutch trade organization, the Nederlandse Bioscoop Bond. Motion pictures will be shown in the Rembrandt Theatre, with the program including features as well as documentaries, educational and scientific short subjects. A number of performances will be given outdoors. This is the third such filmweek in Holland. The first, also in Amhem, was in 1955, and the second, at the Hague, in 1957. U.K. Circuits Return to Sunday-Monday Change From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, April 26. After a two months experiment with a Friday program change, the major circuit houses in four suburban situations are to revert, next month, to the customary change on a Sunday or Monday. The chosen areas were Hounslow (ABC, CMA, Granada), Staines (ABC, CMA), Romford (ABC, CMA) and Woking (ABC, CMA). In all four, results and reactions have been closely studied but, it is stated, no factors of real significance have emerged. Oscar' Sho ( Continued from page 1 ) event on WBAI-FM here last Lewis pointed out that the sive front-page newspaper and zine coverage given the Award sentation was immeasureable in of orienting the public tow; greater awareness of outstandin tion pictures being offered. Hi dieted that the publicity and ment attending the Oscar cerei would reflect handsomely at t boxoffices throughout the count Feels Goal Achieved "We are most pleased with t suits of the show," Lewis said, goal was to reach the broades sible audience and make then scious of the film entertainment able to them all over the world very large extent, we feel wej succeeded." The WBAI program, carried ; 8 to 8:45 P.M. yesterday, wa of series titled "The Film conducted by Gideon Bachmam tor of Cinemages Magazine. French Film Industi (Continued from page 1) went up only eight per cent, further emphasized by the fac, the price of cinema seats rose per cent, as against a rise o 12.5 per cent for the general statistic. A breakdown of amusement try figures show that the gramophones and records inc by 15 per cent in 1958, the | television sets by 25 per cen demand for books and periodic mained static. It has also been ed that TV has now reached eight per cent of France's hon about 1,000,000 viewers. The li of new TV sets sold in 1958 ex> 300,000. 'South Pacific' (Continued from page 1) the Dominion Theatre, Lone year ago, followed a week later opening at the Gaumont, Mane Now starting their second year two engagements have netted rental of $500,000 and $300,0' spectively, according to L( who estimates that the secon*' run of these two situations wil a film rental to Magna olj $1,250,000. Leonard said further that Pacific" is doing "phenomenal ness in Denmark, France, Ven Australia and New Zealand, a RKO Managers (Continued from page 1} gan, from the Hamilton to t ham bra. Also, Warren Rodenbach fr< Marble Hill to Hamilton; and Mann from assistant manager Castle Hill to manager of the Hill. All theatres are in th< York metropolitan area.