Safecracker Hired as Technical Adviser for film
Los Angeles AP reports that H Don Waller, a 64-year-old former professional safecracker turned lecturer and drug-treatment expert in Atlanta, was hired by Columbia Pictures to advise on the film Harry and Walter Go to New York. Waller details his life of crime, his prison terms, and his stance on realistic safecracking methods.
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Broadway Investors Shift Funds From Shows to Films
New York report notes a rise in small individual investors backing motion pictures as Broadway profits wane. Industry sources say blockbusters like Grease and Same Time Next Year still pay off, while tax shelters attract angels to film ventures amid a recovering industry and rising box office.
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Movie Theater Showings Listed for Monday
Theaters present a mix of features and screenings from Paramount to Cinemax. Highlights include Let's Do It Again at 7:30 and 9:30, Jaws at 7 and 9:15, Rooster Cogburn at 7:30 and 9:30, and The Apple Dumpling Gang at 7:15 and 9:20, with several other titles across venues.
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TV movie season buzz on real life heroes and legends
Hollywood column notes NBC developing a Medgar Evers biography film and a Call of the Wild teleplay by James Dickey with Brian Keith or Jeff Bridges as star. CBS hires Alan Arkin as Einstein for a Reginald Rose study while Wilbur and Orville Wright get a TV treatment. Fries foresees possible weekly series if pilots test well, noting public taste and potential long running dramas.
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