TV Guide (July 23, 1955)

Page scan 0003 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
July 23, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - New York (July 23, 1955)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Jftdc Wefcb'j'BW He Hopes A Million-Dollar 'Pilot Film’ Will Free Him Of 'Dragnet' Shackles It’s no great secret at this late date that Jack Webb wants out. He also wants in. And in order to ride his horse in both directions, he has placed a good deal of his time and money and all of his reputation on the line. With an enthusiastic assist from Warner Brothers, which hardly stands to lose a dime on the deal, Webb is making the most expensive “pilot film” ever attempted for a projected TV film series. (Production cost: $1,- 100,000.) Actually, it is a full-length feature picture, done up in all the trimmings of CinemaScope and full color, called “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” It will hit the theaters late this month. What with the names of Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien and Peggy Lee on the marquee, Warners is bound to turn a profit on the pic¬ ture, as is Webb himself. He owns a percentage of it. What Webb stands to lose, however, is his drawing power as a TV star. The question he wants answered is very simple: will the viewer, after three years of knowing Webb only as Sgt. Friday in Dragnet, accept him in the entirely different characteriza¬ tion of Pete Kelly, a Kansas City cornet player of the Prohibition era? If the movie-going public (which obviously includes a large majority of Director Webb shows two cast^ members how to play a scene. 4