Pendulum (Columbia Pictures) (1969)

Mat IC; Still No. 4 George Peppard plays a Washington, D. C., homicide detective suspected of murder in "Pendulum," new Columbia Pictures release also starring Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in Technicolor. Stanley Niss wrote and produced the thriller. Jean Seberg Most American stars travel from Hollywood to various parts of the world, to make films. Jean Seberg travels from Paris to Hollywood. Currently starred with George Peppard and Richard Kiley at i ee os: Theatre in “Pendulum,” a Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, Jean Seberg is the erstwhile Marshalltown, Iowa, girl who at 17 was chosen by Otto Preminger to star in his screen version of George Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” and, later, in his “Bonjour Tristesse.” In both, she played French girls—the one, saintly; the other, a considerably sophisticated and unhappy “modern.” Now, in “Pendulum,” Jean plays a modern American wife whose infidelities embitter her husband, a homicide detective who winds up suspected of murdering both the girl and her paramour. Jean, who has lived in Paris for years, has made a number of films in America, including “Moment to Moment” and “Lilith,” in which she starred with Warren Beatty. In England, she made “The Mouse That Roared,” with Peter Sellers. In France, she made “Breathless,” a film which won international fame for co-star Jean-Paul Belmondo and director Jean-Luc Godard; “Breathless” also sparked the French “new wave” screen cycle, with Miss Seberg as one of its most important stars. Prior to her casting as “St. Joan,” Jean had had dramatic training in her native Iowa, winning several awards for monologues and performances in plays which ranged from “Our Town” to a 19th Century farce called “Fireman Save My Child.” She also played summer stock. Stewart Moss In “Pendulum,” which stars George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley at the...... Theatre in Technicolor, Stewart Moss plays a young attorney who, as Kiley’s associate, challenges the full force of the Washington, D. C., police in behalf of their client. The client is Peppard, playing a tough captain of homicide police suspected in the Columbia Pictures release of murdering his own unfaithful wife and her paramour. Oddly enough, Moss proudly boasts of his family which, he claims, is the largest police family in the world. His late grandfather was a Chicago police officer; his father is a captain of Chicago police, and he numbers amongst his other police relatives four uncles, a kid brother and several cousins. “Pendulum” was written and produced by Stanley Niss and directed by George Schaefer. The music is by Walter Scharf. Mat ID; Still No. 14 Jean Seberg stars with George Peppard and Richard Kiley in "Pendulum," drama of a police captain suspected of murdering his wife and her paramour. The Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, was written and produced by Stanley Niss. Richard Kiley VQQO LLL LLL OQLOQLQLLL QOL On Broadway, the name of Richard Kiley usually is among the first to be recommended during a casting conference, and it doesn’t matter whether the production being cast is a George Bernard Shaw classic like ‘“Mesalliance,” or a song-and-dance musical like “Redhead” or “Kismet,” a drama like “Advise and Consent” or even that most unusual and exciting of all recent theatricals, “Man of La Mancha.” Kiley’s done them all, along with an occasional film and a considerable amount of television. Currently, Kiley plays a dramatic role at the...... Theatre in “Pendulum,” which also stars George Peppard and Jean Seberg. In the Columbia Pictures release he appears as a Washington, D. C. lawyer, whom the Supreme Court upholds on a point of constitutional law to help him free his self-confessed murder-rapist client; he later becomes the attorney for the arresting homicide officer when that embittered sleuth is suspected of murdering his own unfaithful wife. Kiley studied at the University of Loyola in his native Chicago, where he first became interested in the drama, appearing in “The Mikado” and, when only 17, portraying a 75-year-old priest in “Father Malachy’s Miracle.” Not waiting to graduate, Kiley worked in radio soap operas in Chicago, for two years. A stint in the Navy followed. When he again turned to acting, this time in New York, he became understudy to Anthony Quinn in the touring company of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Kiley’s real training came with live television in New York. Mat 2A; Still No. 76 Murder suspect George Peppard, a tough Washington, D. C. homicide sleuth, discusses his situation with civil liberties lawyer Richard Kiley and Marj Dusay, Kiley's secretary. It's a scene from “Pendulum,'' new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor with Peppard, Kiley and Jean Seberg starred. George Peppard OOOO NOLO OHHH LSS: If there is such a thing as a “road” to stardom, then it is full of detours. And tall, blonde George Peppard, currently starred at the .:...... Theatre with Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in Technicolor, probably has taken every single one of them. He’s been a construction laborer, taxi driver, football player, bank clerk, building contractor, student engineer. He was a disc jockey and a fencing instructor and a United States Marine. Currently, in the new Columbia Pictures release, Peppard plays a tough homicide detective accused of murdering his own unfaithful wife. Most of Peppard’s “detours” occurred while he was studying to be an actor and when he was looking for the traditional “break.” A high school football and track star in Dearborn, Michigan, he enlisted in the Marines after graduating and before entering Purdue University to major in civil engineering. At Purdue, he discovered the thea Tech, where he graduated with a fine arts degree. While at Carnegie, George served Sundays as a dise jockey and station engineer on a small Pennsylvania radio station. But he also worked in Shakespearean and Greek dramas, and acted at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. He spent two seasons at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival at Ashland, and then took off for New York. There, he entered the Actor’s Studio but he endured a long, cold and hungry interval before his first part, a major role in Sam Spiegel’s “The Strange One.” Peppard has starred in such major films as “Pork Chop Hill,” “Operation Crossbow,” “The Carpetbaggers,” “How the West Was Won,” “The Victors,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “The Blue Max” and “Tobruk.” Most recently, prior to “Pendulum,” he appeared in “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” which tre, wrote sketches and perfollowed “P. J.,” “House of formed at the Purdue Playshop. Cards,” and “Rough Night in Later he transferred to Carnegie Jericho.” Column Items <7 While a reporter on the now-defunct New York Daily Mirror, Stanley Niss, writer-producer of ''Pendulum,"' the Columbia Pictures release starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in Technicolor, was assigned to do a feature story on the cigarette shortage during World War II. The story he wrote intrigued Philip H. Lord, radio mastermind of '"Gangbusters,"' ''We, the People" and "'Mr. District Attorney." Ford offered the $1 10-a-week reporter $250 to become a script writer. ''My editor,"’ Niss recalls, ''the famous Jack Lait, told me to take it, my old job would always be waiting." That's how the young reporter was plunged into show business as a writer and eventually a producer for TV and motion pictures. * * * Madeleine Sherwood, who is best-known to American audiences as the Mother Superior in Screen Gems’ TV series, ''The Flying Nun,"' is currently appearing in a role of another stripe in support of stars George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in ''Pendulum," the Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. She plays the troubled mother of a young killer-rapist. Miss Sherwood felt right at home in her ''Pendulum" role. Before playing Mother Superior she had considerable experience with the Tennessee Williams’ brand of neurotics, having been prominently cast in both the stage and screen versions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and ''Sweet Bird of Youth." * * * Paul McGrath, who appears as a United States Senator in support of stars George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in "Pendulum," the Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, has been a fixture in the theatre, motion pictures and TV for many years. He is a video pioneer going back to the industry's infancy. In 1938, McGrath and the late Gertrude Lawrence did the very first telecast of a play, and he has since appeared on virtually all of the better TV shows. * * * Television's most prestigious producer-director, George Schaefer, directs his first feature motion picture, ''Pendulum," the Columbia Pictures release starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in Technicolor. Among Schaefer's award-winning TV vehicles have been ‘Teahouse of the August Moon," which he co-produced, and "'Macbeth,"' which garnered five TV Emmys, of which he was producer-director. His other award-winning video productions include ''Victoria Regina,"' "Pygmalion," “Inherit the Wind" and "Green Pastures," all of which Schaefer did for the “Hallmark Hall of Fame'' series on NBC. Films are Fun VQQOQLQ OO coe Handsome and talented, Harry Lewis stopped trying to become a star some 20 years ago, in order to become a millionaire. Now, in “Pendulum,” starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley at the ...... Theatre in Technicolor, Lewis has returned to acting. He plays Miss Seberg’s paramour, and his acting return involved “three days in bed with Jean making violent love. Of course I got killed for my trouble, but what a way to return to movies!” Films can be fun. Lewis hung up his makeup kit in 1948 to concentrate on the first of what he called a Hamburger Hamlet. He now has 14 in this country and two in London. Last year alone, they grossed six million dollars. “Pendulum” was written and produced by Stanley Nigs. George Schaefer directed and Walter Scharf wrote the music. Mat IA; Still No. 34 George Peppard and Jean Seberg star with Richard Kiley in Pendulum,'' Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. George Schaefer directed the suspense thriller of a Washington, D. C. homicide sleuth who is suspected of murder. Still No. 34 (above) also is available as 2 Col. Publicity Mat 2B Mat IB; Still No. 72 Homicide sleuth George Peppard is badly injured when he tangles with Robert F. Lyons, playing a killer-rapist in "Pendulum,'' new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. Starred with Peppard are Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley. Capital Tour OQ OOOO QO OOOO Some of the most famous landmarks in Washington, D. C., background the action of “Pendulum,” starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley at the Theatre in Technicolor. A Columbia Pictures release, “Pendulum” was written and produced by Stanley Niss and directed by George Schaefer. The suspense drama unfolds against such famous _ backgrounds as the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Union Station, National Airport, Lafayette Square, the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology, the Municipal Center, Senate buildings and the U. S. District Courthouse. Advance Notice DOLL QQ LQ QQ QDI DOO OI “Pendulum,” a suspense thriller starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley in Technicolor opens ........ at the 5 ke Theatre. The Columbia Pictures release, story of a police detective who finds himself suspected of murder, was written and produced by Stanley Niss and directed by George Schaefer. Walter Scharf wrote the music. Page 7