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...Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the story whipped up. His march to the electric chair was the windup of the thing. Jolly, what...
...Kate Hepburn's 24 years on stage and screen, her detractors have been many. Yet most of them have had to eat their words. The most damning thing ever said of her was in 1938, when Harry Brandt, a movie exhibitor, labeled Kate "boxoffice poison." But this year Kate is stronger than she ever was: her last two films, The African Queen and Pat and Mike, are top box-office hits of the season...
...told the Customs man and two of his superiors what I thought. I insisted the posters were superior art by a great painter whose work is displayed by all the major museums of the world." After two days of negotiation with the dogged man of Customs, dogged Exhibitor Perls marched happily back to his shop, posters under his arm, duty free. "It's the principle of the thing," he said...
...premiere Aug. i. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin's French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine Selective Pictures) is slated for its U.S. opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses. Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice's box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise...
Goldenson is keeping mum about future plans,but his deal has some obvious possibilities. He is already installing big-screen TV facilities in 27 Paramount theaters, could tie them in with ABC programs. With his potent bargaining force as the country's biggest exhibitor, he might also break the movie-producing industry's blockade against new films for TV. A likely solution: use TV for "second-run" showings of new pictures after first-run showings at Paramount theaters...