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'Brink's' Heist Booty<br />
Considered Worthless<br />
BOSTON—The robbers who cracked the<br />
Brink's production offices here and made<br />
off with 14 reels of film July 28, demanding<br />
S600.000 ransom, won't get a dime for<br />
ihfir trouble.<br />
It seems the stolen film is considered<br />
worthless. John Doyle. Boston police superintendent,<br />
said. "The only thing they have<br />
are ouftakes and work copies of the Scollay<br />
Square scenes of the film. The original negatives<br />
were safely locked in a vault in California<br />
at the time of the robbery, and the<br />
gunmen thought they had the original<br />
film."<br />
Doyle revealed the behind the scenes<br />
manipulations as the company filming the<br />
Brink's robbery in Boston have left town.<br />
He said that both the police and the film<br />
comp;uiy. headed by director William Friedkin<br />
in Boston and producer Dino DeLaurentiis<br />
in Hollywood, decided to deal with<br />
the robbers anyway.<br />
"We asked the film company to string<br />
the robbers along at our request, and make<br />
a counter offer of $20,000 to try to flush<br />
them out," Doyle said. But last week Friedkin<br />
said in Washington that the stolen films<br />
were worthless, so there's really no sense in<br />
pretending otherwise now. Especially since<br />
the film company has left Boston.<br />
Doyle said the demands for the ransom<br />
money were received by the film company<br />
two days after the armed robbery in which<br />
several film editors were handcuffed and<br />
locked in the film room. Doyle, who headed<br />
th; investigation, said the FBI also participated<br />
in the case, and that the original demand<br />
phoned to the production company<br />
was later cut to S500.000.<br />
"The film company told us the robbers<br />
were apparently given bum information before<br />
pulling off the robbery." Doyle continued.<br />
"The original negatives were safely<br />
locked in a vault in California, but the<br />
gunmen didn't know that."<br />
Actor Reduced to Last 38<br />
Cents Before Lcmding Job<br />
TORONTO— Matt Cravenn says he was<br />
down to his last 38 cents when he learned<br />
that his first movie audition had landed<br />
him the featured role of Hardware in the<br />
Cinepix film "Summer Camp," which began<br />
shooting in Haliburton. Ont.. August 10.<br />
The 21-year-old Niagara Falls. Ont.. native<br />
called it "the old Cinderella story."<br />
He will be earning $700 a week during<br />
the si.x weeks it takes to shoot the film.<br />
Cravenn said that in 1976 he decided to<br />
make acting his career and enrolled in a<br />
downtown acting school.<br />
"I had just paid off the last of my bank<br />
loans, had only 38 cents to my name, and<br />
was wondering what was ahead, when the<br />
phone rang," starting him on his acting<br />
career.<br />
10 Etrog Nominations<br />
Won by 'Older Women'<br />
TORONTO—The Robert Lantos-Siephen<br />
J. Roth presentation, "In Praise of Older<br />
Women," has received ten 1978 Canadian<br />
Film Awards nominations. The Htreg> will<br />
be presented in Toronto Thursday (21).<br />
Invited to open the Toronto Film Festival<br />
Thursday (14). "In Praise of Older Women"<br />
will compete for best picture honors and<br />
has earned two nominations for director<br />
George Kaczender for best director and.<br />
with Peter Winlonick, in the editing category.<br />
Helen Shaver has been nominated for<br />
best actress, while Marilyn Lightstone and<br />
Alberta Watson were chosen in the best<br />
supporting actress category.<br />
Other nominations went to Miklos Lente<br />
for cinematography: Wolf Kroeger for art<br />
direction; Henri Blondeau for sound recording,<br />
and Joe Grimaldi for rerecording.<br />
Based on Stephen Vizinczey's international<br />
best seller. "In Praise of Older Women"<br />
stars Karen Black. Tom Berenger, Susan<br />
Strasberg. Helen Shaver. Marilyn Lightstone<br />
and Alexandra Stewart.<br />
An .Astral Bellevue Pathe and RSL Films<br />
production, "In Praise of Older Women"<br />
opens Friday (22) in theatres in Toronto<br />
and Montreal following its festival premiere.<br />
The picture is being distributed in Canada<br />
by Astral Films, with world sales handled<br />
by Caroico, a Los Angeles company.<br />
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