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...impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important ambitious costly above all sincerely patriotic film" -a sentiment which, Einfeld pointedly went on to say, took no regard of "extensive advertising campaign...
...Nazi, now a formally denazified member of Bonn's Bundestag. Hedler's denazification is skin-deep. A reactionary Deutsche Partei man, he believes that Hitler's defeat was no failure of fascism; it sprang from the "treason and sabotage of the resistance movement." Last November in Einfeld Hedler boldly harangued a crowd of refugees, disgruntled farmers, ex-officers and soldiers...
...Many Universal production heads will roll. Such Universal executives as J. Cheever Cowdin and Nate Blumberg will retain their rank in what remains of their old company. Their job will be to distribute each year 25 U-I pictures, twelve hard-to-sell Rank pictures, and five of Charlie Einfeld's Enterprise Pictures Inc., U-I's foundling affiliate...
...baited the hook with capital gains more skillfully than bald, smart Charlie Einfeld, onetime exploitation "genius" at Warner Brothers. In less than six months he had formed Enterprise Productions, signed up enough big name stars for six super epics. Typical was his deal to make Eric Remarque's Arch of Triumph. He landed Actress Ingrid Bergman with a promise of $175,000 in salary, plus half the profits; he promised Remarque 15% of the profits, Director Lewis Milestone and Producer Davis Lewis 10% each...
...Hollywood, cinemakers first gasped, then gulped. The general feeling was that the terms were fantastic, and if accepted would create a dangerous precedent. Warner's Charles Einfeld came closest to a favorable reaction about Father: "It's a tough deal but ... a terrific property." Most other people think that Serlin & Co. may have overreached themselves...