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...roads are expected to approve the merger at the annual meetings in May. Approval from the sympathetic Interstate Commerce Commission will come-if ever-only after tedious deliberations in which town after town will object to losing tax revenues from consolidation of Pennsy and Central terminals. Still another hur dle lies in the attitude of Justice Department trustbusters, who have taken no position so far but who might argue that the sheer bigness of the merged railroad would outweigh the fierce competition it would face from trucks, airlines and cars. Even if everyone else approves, the roads will certainly face...
...extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines of medieval war, and four of the noblest old castles in Spain: Ampudia, Belmonte, Peñiscola and Torrelobaton. Surprisingly, the picture is good-maybe not as good as Ben-Hur, but anyway better than any spectacle since Spartacus (TIME...
...riding hour after hour in a chariot in the vicinity of Rome." But many of the films cited by the complaining unions "couldn't have been made at all if they had not been made abroad." In fact, the runaways were helping Hollywood stay in business. Ben-Hur, he argued, saved M-G-M from bankruptcy. But if it had been made in Hollywood, it would have cost prohibitively more than the $14.5 million it cost to make in Rome...
...collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas release at fancy prices ($1.50-$3.50 on Broadway), the film will soon be playing in 26 cities from Los Angeles to Rome, has rung up an advance sale of about $600,000-bigger than Ben Hur...
...movie market is between the ages of 12 and 26. He decided that he should gear his films for the "weekly market"--not for the people "who decided to go to a movie once every three months, study the listings very carefully, and then go to something like Ben-Hur." Then he "took three steps backward, and analyzed. Some of the biggest pictures were horror classics; I added the teenage element for today's audience. Now it's tough for me to shake the kick...