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Hollywood Magic. Like Greene's naive hero himself, few Americans are capable of understanding the devious ramifications of Cao Dai, and it is doubtful if their number includes Hollywood Producer Joe Mankiewicz. On location in South Viet Nam to film the Greene novel, his concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope...
...Saigon last week to make a film of Greene's book, Hollywood Director Joe Mankiewicz was having trouble. He searched all the roads for miles around Saigon, could find not a single guard tower. Most towers have been dismantled; the rest have fallen into dilapidated ruins (Mankiewicz had to order one built). Greene's scruffy waterfront slum had also disappeared; Mankiewicz had to rebuild its shacks and dirty up the streets before he could begin filming...
...true war-time espionage tale by the German military attache in Ankara, could have been an important study of how a little man from the lower class becomes a big man from the upper class. As the movie develops, however, it is evident that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted to produce merely an amusing little spy thriller, and that's exactly what he's done...
...well as promote, the films of independent producers. The producers are the owners of their products, and in return for United Artist assistance, share their profits with the company. Among those who have taken advantage of the United Artist idea: Rita Hayworth, Hecht-Lancaster, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Cary Grant. Reasons for liking the U.A. formula: i) U.A. does not interfere in production, 2) the artist can make a lot of money, 3) because of capital gains, he can keep...
...another move toward closer ties between movies and TV, the National Broadcasting Co. bought 50% ownership of Joseph L. (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz' independent Figaro Holding Co. NBC will finance future Figaro productions...