Mister Moses (United Artists) (1965)

Still MM-49 Mat 2B Carroll Baker, who has had a phenomenal rise to stardom, is co-starred with Robert Mitchum in the hilarious story of a con man in Africa, ‘Mister Moses,” Panavision and Technicolor. which will open Theatre. The United Artists release was filmed in at the ese er eee e From Magician's Stooge to Stardom For Carroll Baker Johnstown, Pennsylvania used to be famous for its great flood. No more, though. It is now famous as the birthplace of Carroll Baker, the screen actress whose rise to stardom in a few recent years is regarded as something of a major phenomenon. Just a short time ago she was only the assistant to a magician. Look at her now—a top star of stage, screen and television. Co-starred with Robert Mitchum in Frank Ross’ three-million-dollar Panavision-Technicolor treatment of Max Catto’s great novel “Mister Moses,” which opens under United Artists release ............ at the da cotn cee Theatre, Carroll stands today as one of the screen’s first and most versatile ladies. She showed early promise back in those Johnstown days and she joined the Kemp Time touring company as a dancer. This made her a trouper of the first order. When a magician offered her a job as his stooge she was ready for it. But she didn’t remain with him long. The bright lights of New York beckoned and Carroll was off to conquer them. She got some television and stagework as a dancer, but that’s not what she wanted. She wanted to be a great actress. She haunted the famous Actors Studio conducted by Lee Strasberg until she was permitted to enroll. Strasberg claimed it was an act of self-defense. The Studio has never regretted it, however. Neither has motion picture director Jack Garfein who was also attending the school at the time. Carroll now signs contracts as Mrs. Jack Gar on Still MM-50 Mat 1B Alexander Knox is cast as a missionary whose daughter (Carroll Baker) falls in love with Mister Moses (Robert Mitchum) in the picture of the same name. It was filmed in Panavision and Technicolor. The United Artists release opens ....... . at the Theatre. fein. Her first screen appearance was as James Dean’s girl in “Giant,” and she did so well with it that the great Elia Kazan signed her on the spot for the controversial role in “Baby Doll” which made her internationally famous overnight. “The Big Country,” “But Not For Me,” “The Miracle” and “Bridge to the Sun” followed. Then came “Something Wild,” in which she was directed by her husband, and Carroll was established as a dramatic actress of the first order. She has since appeared in “How The West Was Won,” “Station Six, Sahara,” “The Carpetbaggers,” “Cheyenne Autumn,’ and now, “Mister Moses.” Kenya Strong Man Kenyatta Visited ‘Mister Moses’ Set Thirty years ago United Artists made a rather important picture called “Sanders of the River.” It featured two young African players who have since become quite famous—one in motion pictures and the other on the international scene. The first is Orlando Martins, and he plays the pivotal role of a Masai warrior chief in Frank Ross’ Panavision-Technicolor treatment of the famous Max Catto novel “Mister Moses,” which opens ......... at the zac ste vel Theatre with Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker in the top stellar roles. Martins is now famous as a performer in Africa and in Europe. He hasn’t been seen much in America since “Sanders.” He is also a great stage favorite in London, where he lives. The other happens to be a fellow called Jomo Kenyatta. And who is this Jomo Kenyatta? Kenyatta happens to be Prime Minister of the new independent Kenya, and special permission had to be obtained from him to shoot the picture, particularly those sequences taken in Kenya’s famous Amboselli Game Preserve, the world’s largest wild game sanctuary. Prime Minister Kenyatta came out to see how the picture was doing one day and there he met— Martins, whom he hadn’t seen in many years. There was a most happy re-union. Robert Neame directed “Mister Moses,” which is a United Artists release prepared for the screen by Charles Beaumont and Monja Danischewsky. Its music was composed and conducted by John Barry. 500 Real Warriors In ‘Mister Moses’ Special permission from the Kenyan government had to be obtained by Film Producer Frank Ross to obtain the services of the 500 Masai warriors who play an important part in his three-million-dollar Panavision-Technicolor production “Mister Moses,” which opens..... Alte ais<tstie Theatre. Tale, made in its entirety in Kenya, Africa, and from the Max Catto best-seller of the same name, is a United Artists release co-starring Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker. It was directed by Ronald Neame. ‘Mister Moses’ Directed By Versatile Ronald Neame England’s great motion picture director Ronald Neame is said to be one of the most versatile directors in a business which is full of versatile directors. He won fame for his treatment of films made from Charles Dickens novels, and numbers among his successes such diverse films as “The Horse’s Mouth” and “Tunes of Glory.” Now he has achieved a new fame in an entirely different direction. It’s with the Frank Ross _threemillion-dollar production of the motion picture treatment of Max Catto’s best-seller “Mister Moses,” in Panavision and Technicolor. It opens here at the Theatre with Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker in the starring roles, and under United Artists release. “Mister Moses” is a unique action-adventure romance filmed in its entirety in Equatorial Africa. Neame, a Londoner by birth, began his career as a messenger and call boy at the Elstree Studios. A call boy calls the actors when the cameras are ready for them. What he really wanted to be, and considered the acme of human ambition at the time, was to be a motion picture cameraman. He made it. In fact it was he who ground the cameras for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Blackmail,” which was England’s first talking picture. In short order he became a “lighting” cameraman and was entrusted with the crank at the cameras which eeeseceece AL LID geeoeae photographed such film triumphs as Noel Coward’s “In Which We Serve” and “This Breed.” Some of the most famous pictures in the film yearbooks have come from his cameras since. From the camera, Neame went into production and direction and his triumphs include such titles as “Great Expectations,” “Oliver Twist,” “I Could Go On Singing” (with Judy Garland), “The Golden Salamander” and “The Card,” not to mention “Horse’s Mouth” and “Tunes of Glory.” Obedient While many of the fierce Masai tribesmen of Kenya, East Africa, have seen motion pictures, few, if any, have any idea as to how they are made. This created quite a problem for Director Ronald Neame, who used 500 of them in pivotal action scenes in the Frank Ross Panavision-Technicolor Production “Mister Moses,” from the best-seller by Max Catto which opens ........ at LW Gh er cccphe ves els Theatre. Most of these fellows had no idea as to what was going on around them. However, understand or not, the Masai were most co-operative. They did as they were told, even though convinced they were dealing with madmen. Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker are co-starred in the United Artists release. (This art restricted to publicity only. Use in paid advertising is forbidden.) Oy | Mat 3A Al Hirschfeld depicts Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker astride Emily (called Susie off-screen) while Alexander Knox, Ian Bannen and a group of curious African natives look on askance. Inspiration for above scene is the Technicolor-Panavision film, “‘Mister Moses,” a United Artists release which opens .......... Filming of ‘Mister Moses’ On African Location . at the Theatre. A Production Job of Mammoth Proportions! (General Production Story ) One of the most mammoth motion picture productions ever undertaken, was the one of transferring Max Catto’s great novel “Mister Moses” from the pages of a book to the Panavision-Technicolor screen. It took three years of planning and another full one for execution. The Frank Ross Production, co-starring Robert Mitchum as the fascinating Joe Moses, and lovely Carroll Baker as the strange, idyllic beauty who loves him, opens at theses nee Theatre. It’s a United Artists release directed by Ronald Neame. Filmed in its entirety just where the book called for it—on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, more than 500 Masai fighting men were recruited for the picture’s action sequences. A faithful reproduction of a Masai village, covering 40 acres of land which had to be started from scratch, was built by a team of 160 Masai, and a production crew of 150 was flown in from London. “Mister Moses” is described as “a big picture—a fine adventure story full of warmth and humanity —set against incomparable scenic backgrounds.” Nature provided the backgrounds but the business of providing food and lodgings for the more than 500 players was a major problem in logistics. An enormous camp — carefully and scrupulously supervised by Kenya government agents—was set up, and a field kitchen ample enough to take care of a small army, was installed to take care of the food and lodging problem. Hotel accommodations for those from Hollywood and elsewhere who were not accustomed to sleeping in the jungle at night, had to be arranged for in the nearest city—Nairobi, ceeeece Filmed in Africa Frank Ross’ Panavision-Technicolor production of the Max Catto novel “Mister Moses,” co-starring Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker and opening ........ Btthe suche Theatre, was filmed in its entirety in the new republic of Kenya, East Africa. Ronald Neame directed the three-million-dollar United Artists release. over a hundred miles away, and these people had to commute to work daily by plane. One of the unbilled “stars” of “Mister Moses,” who plays a large part in its fascinating plot, is the elephant Emily. Emily was chosen from a host of trained and intelligent behemoths brought to the location by eager trainers, because of her unusual intelligence and playfulness. She is also said to be beautiful enough, as elephants go, to merit star billing on her own. There are other animals in “Mister Moses,” most of them photographed in their native splendor in the world-famous Amboselli Game Preserve. Special permission to enter this great animal sanctuary had to be obtained through highlevel government negotiation. The Kenyans take the business of preserving their animals very seriously. The motion picture “Mister Moses” was prepared for the screen from Catto’s novel by Screenwriters Charles Beaumont and Monja Danischewsky. It’s exceptionally beautiful music was written and conducted by John Barry. ‘Mister Moses’ Coming Soon Frank Ross’ three-million-dollar “Mister Moses,” in Panavision and Technicolor and co-starring Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker, opens Sosa at the’ #....... Lneatre. Prepared for the screen by Charles Beaumont and Monja Danischewsky from the famous Max Catto best-seller, the United Artists release was directed by Ronald Neame. Its music was composed and conducted by John Barry. Mitchum, Baker Co-star ‘Mr. Moses’ Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker are the co-stars of the Frank Ross Panavision-Technicolor Production “Mister Moses,” from the Max Catto best-seller, which opens AGCUMC MT: cusvenass= 3 Theatre. Filmed in its entirety in Kenya, Africa, the three-million-dollar United Artists release was directed by Ronald Neame. Charles Beaumont and Monja Danischewsky were the screenwriters and John Barry wrote and conducted its music. Canoe Still MM-52 Mat 1A Ian Bannen is Robert Mitchum’s rival for the hand of Carroll Baker in ‘‘Mister Moses,” Technicolor Panavision comedy opening at the Theatre. Film is a United Artists release. eee e eo GL TIC se ee oe PAGE 9