Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, November 3, I960 IRS Requests ( Continued from page 1 ) make reports for firms which they, in turn, control. The data required is to include, for taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1960: (1) The name and address of the corporation. (2) The principal place of business of the corporation. (3) The date of incorporation and the country under whose laws incorporated. (4) The nature of the corporation's business. (5) A statement of the corporation's accumulated profits as of the beginning and as of the end of its annual accounting period, with an itemized reconciliation. (6) A balance sheet, in detail. (7) A detailed list of transactions, itemized as to type, number, amount, and the parties thereto, which took place betwen the foreign and domestic firms, other controlled corporations, and sizable shareholders. If IRS adopts this regulation finally, returns will have to be filed in duplicate on Form 2952 on or before the 15th of the third month following the close of the corporation's taxable year. IRS proposes to penalize willful failure to file a return by reducing the allowable foreign tax credit by 10 per cent. Persistent failure to file will result in periodic disallowances by additional steps of five per cent. Directors Guild Mulls Opening Midwest Office From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2. The Directors Guild of America is giving serious consideration to opening a Midwest office to provide headquarters facilities for 200 of its members in that area, it has been disclosed by national executive secretary Joseph C. Youngerman, who returned yesterday from the New York meeting of the national board of DGA. Youngerman and eastern executive secretary Newman Burnett will meet in Detroit next month with E. Shields Dierkes, Midwest national board member, for a preliminary survey. As previously reported, the chief reason for the New York meeting was to give the national board an opportunity for personal discussions with Eastern members, including associate director and stage manager councils, who were called into the meetings, before the formulation of the guild's demands at the forthcoming television network negotiations. 'Dondi Goes to Moon' Planned by Zugsmith From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2. "Dondi Goes to the Moon" will be the second "Dondi" picture, it has been announced by Albert Zugsmith, who produced and directed "Dondi" star FEATURE REVIEWS Walk Tall 20th-Fox — CinemaScope Hartford, Nov. 2 Willard Parker, Joyce Meadows, Kent Taylor and other faces and names readily recognized by the actiton and wide-open-spaces screen aficionados people this fast-moving CinemaScope-DeLuxe color vehicle produced and directed by Maury Dexter for Associated Producers, Inc. Aggressively sold, it can hold up as well if not better than like-patterned attractions emerging from Hollywood over the years. Cavalry Captain Willard Parker is sent by his commanding officer on a lone mission to capture renegade Kent Taylor and bring him back to the fort for trial. Taylor, a one-time Army officer, has, with three henchman, been killing and scalping Indians for the bounty money. After the U. S. made a treaty with the Indians, Kent arrogantly continued raiding, in the process killing the bride of a powerful young chief, and now the chief and several aides have also set out to find and kill Taylor. It is Parker's mission to get to Taylor before the Indians. Before Parker captures Taylor, the latter surreptitiously hides $4,000 in bounty money. Parker then sets out on the desperate trek to the fort, realizing that both the Indians and Taylor's henchmen are still scouring the plains looking for the wary Tavlor and his captor. Enroute back, the duo find Joyce Meadows, survivor of a vicious Indian attack. Meanwhile, Taylor's henchmen are closing in. Bitten by a rattle snake, Taylor Reigns convulsions. When Parker tries to help him, Taylor winds his handcuff chains around Parker's throat and forces Miss Meadows to release him. A fight develops in which Parker whips Taylor, but latter is rescued by arrival of his wandering henchmen, and Parker's left for dead. The renegades now take Miss Meadows and head for Taylor's money cache. True to screen Western tradition, Parker quickly revives and follows the gunmen, eventually killing two and scaring the third off. Just as Taylor gets the drop on Parker, the aforementioned Indian chief arrives on the scene with the body of the third gunman. The Indian's honor is satisfied as Taylor meets his sudden demise. Parker and a now romantically-inclined Miss Meadows leave for the relative tranquility of the Army fort. Running time, 60 minutes. Release, in October. A. M. W. ring David Janssen, Patti Page and introducing six-year-old David Kory. Zugsmith will endeavor to sign Janssen and Miss Page for "Dondi Goes to the Moon," which he will make following completion of "Confessions of an Opium Eater," also for Allied Artists. Legions of the Nile Alexandra — 20th Century-Fox (CinemaScope) "Legions of the Nile" follows the currently successful format in adventure pictures. Produced in Europe by Alexandra Productions, a FrenchSpanish-Italian combine, the film will be attractive to the neighborhood audiences because of its story location and the CinemaScope and De Luxe Color processes with all the emphasis on action. The screenplay by Vittorio Cottafavi, Giorgio Cristallini, Arnaldo Marrosu and Enndo De Concini as directed by Cottfavi, is a retelling of the Cleopatra-Mark Antony affair which is strictly family fare, although at times it comes close to being unnecessarily violent. The 20th Century-Fox release tells of Curridius (Ettore Manni), a Roman soldier and friend of Antony, who travels to Alexandria prior to that city's fall in an attempt to persuade his former companion to return to Rome before it is too late. While trying to convince Antony (Georges Marchal), Manni becomes involved in local intrigues and falls in love with a mysterious maid who appears in the night. When the lady turns out to be Cleopatra, played by beautiful Argentine-born Linda Cristal, who kisses him merely to ^ feel the "jealousy and passion" of ordinary women, Manni returns to the army of Caesar Augustus, to help bring about the destruction of the Egyptian kingdom. Giorgio Ubaldy, who directed tire battle scene, deserves mention for giving the film its most impressive sequence and Vittorio Rossi's costumes are not only detailed and colorful, but consistently in keeping with the period. The dubbing here is better than some recent products received from abroad. Running time, 91 minutes. Release, in December. William Wernetii S.F. Short Subjects (Continued from page 1) "Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun" (Yugoslavia). Best art film: "Immortality" (Hungary). Best creative experimental film: "Pow Wow" (United States). Best documentary short: "Deraeinements" (France). Best fiction short: "Revenge" (Russia) and "Day of the Painter" (United States). Best industrial film: "Roughnecks" (Canada). 'Exodus9 to Kansas City Otto Preminger's "Exodus" will have its Kansas City premiere at the Empire Theatre there on Dec. 21, starting an exclusive, reserved-seat engagement. The United Artists release will play 10 performances weekly, with 14 scheduled for Christmas Week. ■ Pa the -Alpha (Continued from page 1) year, as a means of easing the current product shortage. TOA's committee will review each script, approving those it considers would be playable in any commercial theatre, and ha? the ingredients to make it successfu at the boxoffice. Pathe-Alpha wif wholly finance and produce each approved film; and TOA will urge it; members to play the approved films Rogers said the director, othei members of the cast and the production staff will be announced shortly 'Deadly Companions" was approved as Pathe-Alpha's first production under the TOA-cooperative program, by a TOA committee whicl consists of George G. Kerasotes oi Springfield, 111.; Samuel Pinanski o Boston; E. D. Martin of Columbus Ga., and Walter Reade, Jr., of Oak hurst, N. J., all past presidents o TOA, and M. Spencer Leve an as sistant to the president of TOA, o Los Angeles. Pickus is serving ex-of ficio. At TOA's 13th annual convention , in Los Angeles last September, Pathe; [ Alpha announced a production pro, ■ gram containing 14 possible pictures one of which was "Deadly Compan, ions." Rogers said TOA's committee is currently reviewing additional sug gested scripts, and that as each picture is approved, it will be added a: quickly as possible to Pathe-Alpha's , production program. Theatres, Retailers ( Continued from page 1 ) agement in the field of show business; [ itself, can do a lot toward helping L business men in the shopping center reap the ultimate in traffic. The basics of good show business are of value) to the retail business man. By the I same token, we also now have proof that retail business men can aid the,™ basics of good showmanship— and, both fields can profit from the merf chandising knowledge that each pos-; sesses! 'Ben-Hur' Dates ( Continued from page 1 ) where the film will celebrate its firsl anniversary Nov. 18, the box office gross has exceeded $2,300,000. Three, other U. S. cities have topped the million-dollar mark— the Boyd Thea-; tre, Philadelphia; Egyptian, Los An geles; and the Michael Todd, Chicago. "Lace' Heads for Record Universal-International's "Midnight Lace," which opened in key situations across the country at the weekend, is rolling up the best U-I business since "Operation Petticoat" and "Pillow Talk," according to the company. Openings include the Arcadia, Philadelphia; Hippodrome, Cleveland; United Artists, Chicago; Loew's Uptown, Toronto, and the Palace, Albany. It is in its third week at Radio City Music Hall, New York. i«r.