The Happening (Columbia Pictures) (1967)

nicolor. (Mat IA; Still No. 18) A pajama-clad Anthony Quinn challenges his four young Miami Beach partners-in-crime—a $3,000,000 caper—in this scene from "The Happening,’ new Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation in TechAlso starred are Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker, Martha Hyer and screen newcomer Faye Dunaway. The Horizon picture costars Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle. (Mat 2C; Still No. 37) Michael Parks and Faye Dunaway, making her screen action bow in "The Happening," play young partners-in-crime to Anthony Quinn, who tops the cast of the Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation. George Maharis, Robert Walker and Martha Hyer also star, in Technicolor. Directed by Elliot Silverstein, who made "Cat Ballou,"" and produced by Jud Kinberg, co-producer of ''The Collector," "The Happening" is about a $3,000,000 caper. Anthony Quinn Onlookers in Miami Beach were enthralled recently when they saw actor Anthony Quinn pick up a garbage can and hurl it violently through the glass door of a telephone booth and, later, when he shattered the glass of another curbside phone booth with the telephone receiver. This was the Anthony Quinn they knew and recognized from the screen, the rough, tough he-man of more than a hundred films. Quinn’s display of violence, however, was for the new Columbia PicturesSam Spiegel presentation, “The Happening, at-the= a... Theatre in Technicolor. Starred with Quinn in the action-drama directed by Elliot Silverstein and produced by Jud Kinberg are Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker, Martha Hyer and Faye Dunaway. Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle as Fred are costarred. Quinn plays a Miami Beach mobster involved in a $3,000,000 caper which boomerang's when he takes over the operation and the youngsters handling: it. Quinn’s on-screen violence in “The Happening” was in direct contrast to his off-stage gentleness. When he is not before the cameras, he plays chess or writes. He loves to sail or go mountain climbing, and he does not hunt or fish. “T have too much respect for life to kill,” he explains. One of the screen’s truly international stars, Quinn has some highly individualistic views on acting. “Acting,” he says, “is a profession, not a competition.” Quinn was referring to Hollywood’s Academy Awards —of which he has won two—but which he does not regard as a true criterion of fine acting. “Competitive acting has never interested me. With me the story comes first. “That is the only criterion — how good a job the actor does, not what he is. Take the great composer, Wagner. In private life he was cruel, sadistic, a petty tyrant. But you don’t think of that when you hear his music. Many of the world’s greatest writers and artists, in private life, were monsters. But we don’t judge them by what they were, but by what they accomplished. A man should be judged by his work.” Quinn has equally strong views on directors. “The actor,” he expounds, “is like a horse. The moment the jockey—in this case the director—is on your back , you know from the way he handles you if you’re going to run a good race, or a bad race.” In the case of “The Happening” Quinn soon discovered that he was Page 10 happy with his “jockey,” director Elliot Silverstein. He rehearsed the first scene. Then it was filmed. Quinn went to the side-lines, face beaming, and crew members heard him mutter, “This is it!” Silverstein, apparently, had passed the test, and would not fall into that eategory of certain film directors whom Quinn declares “should be directing traffic!’ Silverstein, incidentally, was the director of “Cat Ballou” and Kinberg, co-producer of “The Collector.” “The Happening” was written for the screen by Frank R. Pierson, James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin from a story by Buchanan and Austin. Music for the Horizon film is by De Vol. Michael Parks Blonde, young and handsome Michael Parks recently played Adam, the father of us all, in “The Bible.” Now, at thes ses aes Theatre, Parks plays a modern, groovy action role as different from his Adam portrayal as it is possible to get, in “The Happening,” the Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation in Technicolor at the Relaetetyes Theatre. Parks plays a Miami Beach trouble-maker who becomes involved in a $3,000,000 caper. Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Robert Walker, Martha Hyer and Faye Dunaway are also starred. Parks was born in Corona, Calif., and graduated from high school in Sacramento. He tried out for the Pittsburgh Pirates ball team, but turned down a recruit job with its San Jose, Calif., farm club because of the pay. In spite of a wide variety of jobs, including one as a casket upholsterer, Parks never stopped performing in front of audiences. He read coffee house poetry, prose and Shakespeare, and was a little theatre trouper. While appearing in the play, “Compulsion,” at Hermosa Beach, Calif., he was seen by a talent agent, who found Parks a role in the daytime TV series, “A Day in Court.” This led, in turn, to other television work and, in time, to motion pictures. In addition to “The Happening” and “The Bible,” Parks has also starred in “Wild Seed,” “Bus Riley’s Back in Town” and “The Idol.” Co-starred in “The Happening” are Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle as Fred. Jud Kinberg, one of the producers of “The Collector,” produced “The Happening” and Elliot Silverstein who directed “Cat Ballou,” directed the Horizon picture. De Vol wrote the music. nicolor. Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway is a beautiful, and brilliantly-talented, young woman now making her film action bow with Anthony Quinn in the Columbia PicturesSam Spiegel presentation, “The Happening,” at the...... Theatre in Technicolor. Miss Dunaway is a girl who always knew what she wanted—and had an abiding determination to get it. As a small girl in Bascom, Florida, and during a succession of Army schools at various posts where her father was serving, Miss Dunaway knew she wanted to be an actress. She took part in every possible school tableau, play or pageant. Later she majored in drama at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts and two days after she graduated, was signed for the Broadway run of “A Man For All Seasons,” Robert Bolt’s prize-winning play. She stayed with that show for a year and then spent the next three years with the Lincoln Cener theatre group. Her show-stopping performance in the offBroadway show, “Hogan’s Goat,” won her a multi-film contract with Columbia Pictures and her role in “The Happening” as a young partner-incrime in a $3,000,000 caper engineered by big-time racketeer Quinn. “The Happening” was produced by Jud Kinberg, one of the producers of “The Collector,” and directed by Elliot Silverstein, who also directed “Cat Ballou.” Also starred are Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker and Martha Hyer. Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle as Fred are co-starred. Instant Extras Taking advantage of a_ baseball game, director Elliot Silverstein scheduled filming of a sequence for “The Happening,” the Columbia PicturesSam Spiegel presentation in Technieolor-at the<....... Theatre, the night the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Baltimore Orioles, in Miami Beach. The scene, set in the Miami Stadium parking lot, centered around telephone booths with principals Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks and Faye Dunaway. The action called for a mass exodus from the ball park, with fans oblivious of the dramatic action being: filmed. An estimated crowd of 10,000 exited the ball park, driving away in literally hundreds of cars, all recorded by cameraman Phil Lathrop. The majority of the exiting ball park fans completely ignored the set-up of camera and lights. (Mat 2D; Still No. 26) Anthony Quinn struggles with George Maharis as Faye Dunaway and Martha Hyer, right, look on, in this scene from the Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation in Technicolor, ''The Happening.’ Also starred in the action-drama are Michael Parks and Robert Walker. "The Happening’ was directed by Elliot Silverstein, who did ‘Cat Ballou,'' and produced by Jud Kinberg, co-producer of "The Collector." (Mat IC; Still No. 30) Anthony Quinn is threatened by George Maharis and his gun, in this scene from "The Happening," a Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation in TechAlso starred in the action-drama are Michael Parks, Robert Walker, Martha Hyer and screen newcomer Faye Dunaway. Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle as Fred are costarred. ''The Happening" is a Horizon picture directed by Elliot Silverstein, who made "Cat Ballou." Advance Notice “The Happening,” the Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker, Martha Hyer and newcomer Faye Dunaway in Technicolor, opens ........ at dg = ahr it Theatre. Oscar Homolka, Jack Kruschen and Milton Berle as Fred are co-starred. Elliot Silverstein, who directed “Cat Ballou,” directed “The Happening,’ which was _ produced by Jud Kinberg, co-producer of “The Collector.”” A Horizon picture, “The Happening” was written for the screen by Frank R. Pierson, James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin from a story by Buchanan and Austin. De Vol wrote the music. Robert Walker Every movie critic, every magazine or newspaper writer who has interviewed Robert Walker, declares he is shy, sensitive, intelligent, talented and a brilliant young actor. He is all of that, and a Miami Beach partner-incrime to Anthony Quinn, in the Columbia Pictures-Sam Spiegel presentation, “The Happening,” now at the. ..Theatre. “The Happening” was directed in Technicolor by Elliot Silverstein, who made “Cat Ballou,” and produced by Jud Kinberg, co-producer of “The Collector.” The entire film was shot on location in Florida. And thereby hangs a tail. The word is “tail,” as in the tail of a fish, in this case a famous fish named Flipper. One Sunday, Walker wondered down to the Seaquarium, where Flipper cavorts when not working in that television series. Attendants were aghast, then delighted, when the young Hollywood star dived into the tank and proceeded to swim and play with Flipper, riding his back, being towed by Flipper, and generally putting on a show which would have delighted every photographer in the world. Other members of “The Happening” cast—Michael Parks, George Maharis, Martha Hyer and newcomer Faye Dunaway — began to worry about Walker when, at day’s end, he would return to his hotel room, pull the shades and never be seen until the next morning for work. Walker, apparently, was completely happy, holed up with his hi-fi set, writing poetry or pulverizing fresh fruits for his all fruit-vegetable diet. Or, as he did with Flipper, emerging on occasion to spend an entire day off indulging his hobby of underwater photography.