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Make the scene? For the first time since The Wild One (1954), Hollywood has moved in for a closeup of the big barbaric motorcycle gangs of Southern California. Directed by Laslo Benedek, The Wild One was a sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
...multimillion-dollar project to build Brooklyn's big 2,496-unit Farragut Gardens, since renamed Vandeveer Estates. After convincing the Federal Housing Administration that the housing project would cost $24 million, Builders Morris Kavy, Martin and Louis Benedek and Alexander and Henry Hirsch got a mortgage guarantee for $21.7 million, spent $18.1 million and pocketed all but $500,000 of the remaining $3.6 million as windfall profits. Settling out of court last week, they agreed to pay back $2,000,000. In return, the Government will return control of the project to the owners...
...holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...
...that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
With the exception of March, Kramer cast his movie well. The actors do the best job possible, but Laslo Benedek's direction fails to catch the whole meaning of the play...