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...these gentle frauds are in town this week. The cheaper is Arthur Dreifuss's The Young Runaways, produced by Sam Katzman, a second-rate Albert Zugsmith whose films are usually acted by racing cars. Inadvertantly, Runaways does more toward creating a semi-mythic subculture than Alice B. Toklas, in its strict adherence to the plot premise: everybody in The Young Runaways has runaways on their mind. It is as if Chicago, the film's location, were a vast playground given over to hide-and-seek...
...lack of inhibitions has made possible other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale are such lurid Z pictures as Albert Zugsmith's The Beat Generation, and Sexpot Goes to College. The point is that these are no longer drastically different from many quality productions...
...Writer Rod Serling recalls: "Zugsmith called me into his office once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors...
...Angeles County Courthouse at times seemed like a Hollywood set. Recruited to provide reportorial bylines and sidelights on the murder trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his well-molded mistress, Carole Tregoff, both accused of slaying Finch's wife, were portly Producer Al (High School Confidential) Zugsmith, Novelist-Scenarist Irving (I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf) Shulman, Actresses Pamela (The Upturned Glass) Mason and Terry (Mighty Joe Young) Moore. Explained Terry Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row-and by the way, the girl is innocent." Against such amateurs...
This week in Manhattan, a Motion Picture Association committee was busily trying to unsnarl the whole gog-awful mess. If they fail, according to one Hollywoodian, there are only two courses open. Zugsmith and Tors will be forced to 1) join forces and shoot Og Meets Gog, or 2) forget the monsters altogether, since shooting may be too good for them...