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FEATURE REVIEWS
Story Synopsis; Exploits; Adiines for Newspapers and Programs
THE STORY: "A View From the Bridge" (Confl)
Raf Vallone, a rugged Italian longshoreman on the Brooklyn
waterfront, has brought up his motherless niece, Carol
Lawrence, with the help of his devoted wife, Maureen ^ong,
Stapleton. Vallone is overly protective of the 18-year-old °^^^'
Carol and, when his wife's two cousins, Jean Sorel and Raymond
Pellegrin, arrive illegally from Italy, he becomes jealous
of the younger Sorel's attentions to the girl. All fhree men
now work on the docks and despite Vallone's warnings, Carol
and Sorel talk of marriage. The enraged Vallone first
ridicules the boy in front of Carol and then secretly informs
the authorities that Sorel and Pellegrin are illegal immigrants.
Although both are arrested, Pellegrin is released on bail and
Sorel wins citizenship by marrying Carol. On the day of the
wedding, Pellegrin beats and kills the humiliated Vallone
EXPLOITIPS:
Arthur Miller's tame as playwright of "Death of a Salesman,"
"All My Sons, ' etc., is greater than the players. He is
also noted as former husband of Marilyn Monroe and author
of her "The Misfits." Carol Lawrence is currently starring on
Broadway in "Subways Are for Sleeping" and Raf Vallone
is one of Italy's top film stars.
CATCHLINES:
A Startling Tale of Violence on the Brooklyn Waterfront . . .
Arthur Miller's Stage Hit Vividly Brought to the Screen,
Actually Filmed Where It Took Place—on the Brooklyn
Docks and Streets.
THE STORY: "Make Mine a Double" (Ellis Films)
During World War II a buzz bomb drops, explodes, on a
farm in England. Wing Commander Brian Rix decides to
go to enemy-occupied France to investigate the new weapon.
He suggests that the War Office send an exact "double"
of him to North Africa to divert German intelligence from his
own presence on the Continent. A "double" (Rix in dual
role here) is found—he's a washhouse orderly. After vigorous
training, he is finally ready for the stint. But on the night
of the mission, orders are mixed, and the real Rix finds himself
in North Africa, and the "double" is sent to France.
The "double" hides in what he thinks is a cubby-hole;
actually, it's the inside of a buzz bomb. Pulling wires and .less
knobs, the "double" lands in an English field, is feted, 5°t.
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given a knighthood. Deciding the attention is most welcome,
the "double" continues the pretense for remainder of the war.
Now an air marshal, the "double" prepares to march in the
London Victbry Parade. He's also thinking of ways and
means of escaping matrimony with singer Liz Eraser. In
a washroom, he comes upon the real Rix, hastily changes
clothes. The real Rix goes off, resplendent in uniform, while
the "double" happily resumes washroom duties
EXPLOITIPS:
Stress comedy values here. Get the most "look-alike" twins
—and even triplets!—on stage for opening night contest
CATCHLINES:
Rollicking Fun .
Misses! And Missiles!
THE STORY: "Some Like It Cool" (Janus)
Thalia Vickers likes to sunbathe on a lonely beach near
her home, but after an. embarrassing encounter with an
American tourist, she's persuaded by naturist friend Julie
Wilson and others to join their club, despite strong disapproval
of her fiance Mark Roland. She likes the practice of
swimming and sunbathing at the camp, and hopes to get
Roland to join 'her after they're married. The American
tourist puts up at a hotel owned by Thalia's parents and is
invited to Thalia's wedding. There he meets one of Thalia's
friends and is invited to visit the club. With careful misdirection,
Thalia gets Roland to head for the club during
the last week of their honeymoon; Roland is converted to
naturism. Later, Thalia's parents, su-re their daughter has
been led into a den of iniquity, visit, only to be persuaded
their fears are unfounded. Peppery old Col. Douglas Muir,
owner of a prominent country club, decides to give up
his place because of competition from the naturist camp.
The American tourist
on—as a naturist!
decides to buy Muir's house and stay
EXPLOITIPS:
Activity should be determined on local acceptance of jis,
nudi.-^m. This was filmed with cooperation of the British e Tk
Sun-Bathing Ass'n, Thames Sun Club, Bristol Solorians Sun "* *
Club, Minerva Sun Club and South Devon Naturist Hotel
CATCHLINES:
You May Like It Hot—But .
Like It Cool.
THE STORY:
"Walk on the Wild Side" (Col)
In the 1930s, Laurence Harvey, a Texas farmer thumbing
his way to New Orleans to seek his form'er girl friend,
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Capucine, picks up Jane Fonda, a trampish youngster. En
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route, they slop at a roadside cafe run by Anne Baxter and
the latter offers him a job after Jane gets jealous and steals
some jewelry. Through an ad in the newspaper, Harvey gets
word of Capucine's present life as an occupant in Barbara
Stanwyck's plush bordello. When Harvey tries to persuade
Capucine to come back to him and get married, Barbara
uses her influence to have Jane, now also in Barbara's bordello,
testify that she was transported across the state line
for "immoral purposes." Harvey is beaten up by Barbara's
henchmen and, when Capucine goes back to him, she is
killed in a melee between the police and the bordello owner.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the star cast, particularly Barbara Stan-wyck, who
has been the star of last season's weekly drama series on TV
since her last film, "Forty Guns," nearly five years ago;
Laurence Harvey, currently in "Summer and Smoke," and
Anne Baxter. Mention that Jane Fonda is Henry's talented
daughter. Bookstores will cooperate with window displays
of Nelson Algren's novel.
CATCHLINES:
A Side of Life You Never Expected to See on the Screen
... A Startling Portrait of the Notorious Garden District of
New Orleans in the 1930s.
THE STORY: "Sergeants 3" (UA)
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford ore inseparable
U. S. Army sergeants in Indian territory in 1870.
During a bar-room brawl, a recently-freed slave, Sammy
Davis jr., attaches himself to them and, after they are ordered
to track a tribe of fanatical Indians to their mountain hideout,
the little Negro follows them. Meanwhile, Lawford plans to
leave the Army when his enlistment is up to marry Ruta Lee.
The Indian track-down will be his last assignment but Sinatra
and Martin trick him into signing a re-enlistment paper. At
the Indians' cave hideout, Martin is captured and tortured
but, when Sinatra, Lawford and Davis come to his rescue,
jndy the four of them manage to outwit the Indians. As the U. S.
r: Cc Cavalry is riding toward the Indian cave, with 1,000 warriors
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ready to ambush them, Davis manages to blow his bugle
warning them off. The sergeants are decorcrted for bravery
and, as Lawford rides away to meet Ruta, Sinatra, with the
re-enlistment paper, tells the Army he is a deserter.
EXPLOITIPS:
Base the entire selling campaign on Sinatra and the four
members of his famous "clan," with stress on Lawford to
attract the ladies and Davis jr. to pull in the teenage record
fans and followers of his nightclub appearances.
CATCHLINES:
It's the Maddest and Merriest Ring-a-Ding Western Ever
Filmed . . . Frank, Dean, Peter and Sammy Fight the Wild
Indians and Never Get Hit by Arrows.
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THE STORY:
"Deadly Duo" (UA)
When a wealthy playboy is killed in a racing cor crash,
his mother, Irene Tedrow, hires Craig Hill, a young lawyer,
to contact the widow in Acapulco and pay her $500,000 to
give up her little son so the grandmother can raise him in
luxury. Hill meets the young widow, Marcia Henderson, who
refuses to give up the boy even though her mercenary twin
sister, (also played by Marcia) and the latter's husband,
Robert Lowery, are anxious for the money and conceive a
plot to kill the mother and thus get a fortune. Meanwhile,
Hill has taken a liking to Marcia but he is fooled when the
sister dons a dark v/ig and agrees to sign away the boy.
Lowery plans that the young mother will have an automobile
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"accident the Acapulco police learn of the plot in time.
The plotters are arrested. Miss Tedrow finally meets her
daughter-in-law and agrees to let her keep her son while
Hill gets a promise of future happiness with the mother.
EXPLOITIPS:
Use contrasting photos of Marcia Henderson, as a sympathetic-looking
brunette and as a hard-faced blonde, to tie in
with the title. A contest, with free tickets for twins, one
blonde, the other brunette, will get attention.
CATCHLINES:
A Double-Identity Double Cross . . . Beautiful Look-Alikes,
One Evil, the Other Sympathetic, in a Fight to Win the
Custody of a Small Boy.
BOXOFFICE BookinGujde Feb. 5, 1962