Horror Movie Craze Persists, Producers Say
New York reports that James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures defend horror films as a enduring industry staple. They cite postwar reissues, rising production quality, and teen appeal as drivers, with forthcoming Tales of Terror and X-The Man With the X Ray Eyes on the slate.
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Plans Revealed for Billy Budd and Other Horror Sci Fi Films
Harold Wirthwein presided at a Denver branch managers conference where Allied Artists outlined release plans for Billy Budd starring Robert Ryan Peter Ustinov Melvyn Douglas introducing Terence Stamp The Day of the Triffids in color CinemaScope Confessions of an Opium Eater star Vincent Price Linda Ho and Richard Leo Arkoff noted horror and sci fi appeal Poe plots enrich monster led films and actors sometimes play second fiddle to the creature
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Production Of Two Big Films Set
United Artists and Cinerama announce a royalty based deal to produce two films in Cinerama. George Stevens directs The Greatest Story Told about Jesus and Stanley Kramer produces It’s Mad Mad World. Kramer’s comedy arrives next year while The Greatest Story Ever Told is planned for spring 1964 production begins in the Pacific Southwest next month.
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Cinerama
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Stanley Kramer
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Fulton Oursler
Pacific Southwest
Wanger reflects on Cleopatra costs and star power
Walter Wanger discusses the Cleopatra production, detailing lavish set pieces and high actor salaries, the Rome to Hollywood move, and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s public romance. He defends the project’s scale, the studio’s troubles, and plans for a future Justine with Taylor and Burton in Paris.
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Bulletin of showbiz rumors and oddities from fading press
A collage of Hollywood gossip and world happenings includes Eichmann sentence booth at a Kibbutz museum, Jayne Mensfield doubting divorce from Mickey Hargitay, MCA artists letters, a Buenos Aires diplomat’s mock constitutional military democracy, a Lolita line inciting laughs, Red Skelton buying Leeds, Tunney with Dempsey, Powell stock rumors, a Christmas Eve party for Griffin O'Brien and Gabor, Lena Horne's daughter in USIA, Tommy Harmon with Garbo mansion, Khrushchev stamp theory, an AM travel note from Golfe Juan, a censoring remark in the UN zone, Aga Khan eyeing a major U.S. newspaper, Chateau disclaimer, Burton gifting Taylor scent, and Natalie Wood denying separate pools in marriage.
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