FILM REVIEWS UTti&Efr Wednesday,, OctobeUctoberr y9, 196i9»33 Under The Yum Yum over into the areas of production duction has enough of both to give '••••^••••••••••••••••••••••••4T»TT»••••••••«••• Tree design (Dale Hennesy) and set UA an exploitable natural. decoration (William Kiernan). Hav­ The heavy accent on violence (COLOR) ing Lemrnon's apartment fully and murder—and the only "way !: New York Sound Track ;| equipped for romantic pursuits is out" this one overlooks is old age Jack Lemmon's tour-de-farce one thing, but some of the props, —should please those filmgoers »••••• f••••••••••••••«•••«••••«•••••»••••••••••• i highlights one-joke sex story. notably a pair Of pop-up, mechani­ who dote on destruction, whereas Content meagre but has enough cal violins, strain credulity more Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy will be on the dais at Joe more critical viewers may wish Levine's Americana Hotel bash during the upcoming Theatre Owners bait to insure b.o. success. than the sight gags are worth, and that a bit more care had been are resorted to too frequently. of America convention, presumably to say a few words to gathered exercised in casting and writing. exhibs . . . UA v.p. James R. Velde and the company's midwestern Hollywood, Sept. 26. "Johnny Cool" is not the type of Columbia Pictures release of Frederick For Lemmon, the role ot the division manager Al Fitter will hold a two-day sales meeting in Dallas Brisson production. Stars Jack Lemmon, amorous landlord is a tour-de- man that children (and a lot of today (Wed.) and tomorrow . . . John Downing:, Embassy exchange Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams; farce, and he plays it to the hilt, adults) should meet—but they operations manager, in Los Angeles on biz . . . Eugene Lourie inked features Imofiene Coca, Paul Lynde, Rob- probably will. j ert Lansing. Directed b« David Swift. but after awhile -the character be­ as art director for "Iron Kiss". . . Penny Singleton signed for "Best | Screenplay, Lawrence Roman, Swift, gins to get a bit tedious in spite Henry Silva, as a Sicilian-born Man." based on Roman's play; camera (Eastman), of Lemmon's comic exuberance. assassin, is at home as the "deliv­ J Joseph Biroc; editor, Charles Nelson; Success of John Osborne's legit "Luther" has apparently stimulated music, Frank DeVol; asst. director, Carter Miss Lynley is a visual asset and ery boy of death" for deported interest in a revival of the Louis de Rochemont Associates film produc­ I t>e Haven. Reviewed at Westwood Village does a satisfactory job as the some­ underworld kingpin Marc Lawr­ tion, "Martin Luther," which has been booked by two Reade-Sterling 1 Theatre, Sept. 26, '63. Running time, 110 what ingenuous ingenue. Jones, ence. While his escapades would MINS. houses, the Little Neck, in Little Neck, and the Continental, in who played the rather gullible boy probably fall apart if analyzed, he Forest Hills. Pic is now being distributed by Barney Pitkin Associates Hogan Jack Lemmon friend on Broadway, effectively puts such driving force into them Robin Carol Lynley in conjunction with Lutheran Film Associates. repeats his characterization on that the viewer becomes too in­ Gordon Hitchens, the film buff turned producer, was stricken in David Dean Jones screen. volved to dispute his actions. It's Irene - Edie Adams Africa with a case of meningitis just as he was about to fly baek to a pleasure to watch this actor U.S. after shooting a USIA film there. Resultantly he spent time first Dorkus Imogene Coca Imogene Coca and Paul Lynde move. Murphy Paul Lynd* register in comedy support, and in a native hospital and then in New York Hospital and was delayed Charles Robert Lansing Edie Adams and Robert Lansing Elizabeth Montgomery, how­ on his editing of the African footage. He is now at work again and Thin Man James Millhollin in straighter assignments. Balance ever, plays the emotionally and leaves later this week for the shorts fest at Mannheim, Germany, to ' Dolores Pamela Curran of support is adequate. Perhaps morally mixed-up heroine like a which he is a U.S. delegate. Cheryl Asa Mavnor the best performance in the film high school drama teacher dem­ Dino De Laurentiis opened an office on Fifth Ave., with Ralph Serpe U» Jane Wald is contributed by the curious and onstrating to her class how to play as his rep and Arthur Manson as ad-pub director. Not yet firmed is Boy Track Team Bill Bixby acrobatic feline that follows Lem­ a nymphomaniac—10% sex, 90% the De Laurentiis deal with Columbia for "The Bible" multi-million There are apt to be two basic self-consciousness. dollar special. Col and the Italian producer have seen eye to eye so J typeGirl isn clasof s reaction to Columbia'Vera Stoughs mon around. This cat should win Teacher Bill Edwin the PATSY, paws down. Joseph Landon's script has more far, and have gotten along together in past . . . But, isn't it so, that screen version of "Under the Yum holes in it than a Swiss cheese but Woman in Bus Maryesther Denver Joseph Biroc's camera work is Col, while contributing to the financing, would like to have a stronger I Yum Tree." To the filmgoer who he stuffs most of them with action hold on the costs? There's been no genuine rhubarb because of the approaches the theatre as an emo­ proficient, as is Charles Nelson's and director William Asher cuts editing. There is a sprightly score mutual respect angles. Latest wrinkle is that De Laurentiis wants to tional escape valve, it should seem the action in thick slices. Plot place the entire project in the hands of John Huston, as director, j an easy to enjoy and comfortably by Frank DeVol and a rather con­ centers on Silva's doing a job for ventional but serviceable title ditty working from the Christopher Fry screenplay. There was a time when glamorous diversion. Sophisticated Lawrence which takes him from Dino thought the project good for three features, and a multiplicity pick-and-choosers, on the other by Sammy Cahn and James Van Sicily to Rome, then to N. Y., L. A. Heusen that, sung by James Dar­ of directors. , hand, are likely to regard it as an and Las Vegas before he's finished. Robert Morse left the cast of "How to Succeed in Business Without overextended and exaggerated one- ren over the main titles, has to When a doll comes into his life vie for the audience's attention Really Trying" and reports to Culver City (MGM) today (Wed.) for joke farce obsessed with sex not as and gets worked over by some "His and His." Robert Goulet also at the same unit . . . Michael Havas, it is but in its ersatz screen state— with a bit of sexy choreography hoods, he adds revenge to his conceived by Robert Tucker. MGM studio managing director in Britain, who had been visiting here, where everyone talks about it and baser reasons for wiping out his went to the studio in the west with Red Silverstein, MGM Interna­ frets over it but no one is ever Tube. assorted victims. They include tional prez. Havas and his wife will return to London via Mexico grown-up enough to do anything Jim Backus, John McGiver. Mort following the studio onceover . . . James Garner in N.Y. for "Wheeler about it. Sahl, Brad Dexter and Telly Sa­ .1 oh ii n v Cool Dealer" promotion talkabout. Although this mixed response valas, plus a pair of hoods who Joseph E. Levine, Leonard Lightstone and Bill Zimmerman all in won't bentfit, the Frederick Bris­ raped Miss Montgomery. Ironi­ Europe working on deals for Embassy, the former two having left son production appears to be en­ Gang butcher drama. Killing cally, she's the one who puts the today (Wed.) and the latter having planed out yesterday (Tues.). Light­ dowed with sufficient commercial in variety of styles. Should finger on him and pic ends with house, incidentally, just returned from a few weeks of business and horsepower to survive any nega­ get heavy play in action situa­ Savalas' gang making plans for pleasure abroad . . . Carlo Ponti also back to Rome late last week tive onslaught and emerge a suc­ tions. Not for kids. Silva's future. But that's another after Gotham huddles with Embassy execs. cessful enterprise. story. A United Artists release of a Chrislaw James E. Perkins, prez of Paramount International Films; Charles Excellent performances are Boasberg, Par Film Distributing Corp. prez, and ad-pub v.p. Martin The Lawrence Roman-David Production (Peter Lawford). Produced turned in by Savalas, Gregory Swift screen version of Roman's and directed by William Asher. Stars Davis planed to London yesterday (Tues.) to meet with Hal Wallis Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery; Morton, Lawrence and Backus. hit stage play is concerned with an guest stars Jim Backus. Joey Bishop. and partner Joseph H. Hazen for a screening and discussion re the Sammy Davis Jr. has a first-rate plans for "Becket". . . Fred Wiseman, who recently completed "Cool experiment wherein two young Brad Dexter, Hank Henry, Marc Lawr­ vignette during a crap game se­ people in love (Carol Lynley and ence, John McGiver, Gregory Morton, World," has purchased the rights to Alan Harrington's novel "The Mort Sahl, Telly Savalas, Sammy Davis quence in which he throws some Dean Jones) agree to determine Jr.; Screenplay by Joseph Landon, based Revelations of Dr. Modesto," with production slated to begin in April, remarkable points with Silva's 1964. their "character compatibility" on John- McPartiand's book, "The King­ gun against his head. Joey Bishop prior to. marriage by living to­ dom of Johnny Cool"; camera, Sam The Spanish language theatres here have all the luck. Number Levitt; editor. Otto Ludwig; music. Billy eases the tension in a quick scene gether platonically. The project is May; asst. directors, Maxwell O'Henry, One Argentine sexpot Isabel Sarli has just wound a New York p.a. as a used-car salesman. and returned (with producer Armando Bo) to Buenos Aires. This week complicated by the intrusion of the John Gaudioso. Reviewed at Samuel Sam Levitt's b & w photography lecherous landlord (Jack Lemmon) Goldwvn Studio, Sept. 24, '63. Running Libertad Leblanc, who is fast giving Miss Sarli a run for her bikini, time, 103 MINS. does a good job of catching the arrives to tubthump, as they say en espanol . . . Meanwhile, Orestes of the apartment building in which many story backgrounds and uni­ they have chosen to reside. Virtue Johnny Cool Henry Silva Trucco, head of the local Argentine Film Enterprises and who produced Dare Guiness .... Elizabeth Montgomery fying them. Otto Ludwig's intelli­ Miss Leblanc's latest pic, is planning a second film with the blonde triumphs after a rather repetitious gent editing is a big help in keep­ series of incidents in which the Correspondent Richard Anderson star which goes into production in B.A. next month. Just back from Louis Murphy Jim Backus ing the tale of vendetta sharp and Argentina, Trucco brought with him a print of Fernando Birri's landlord, in hopes of eventually exciting. The one big drawback in seducing his new female tenant Used Car Salesman Joey Bishop praised "Los Inundados" for showing to local distribs. Lennart Crandall Brad Dexter attracting the general market is just as he has her predecessors, the pic's high mortality rate and Former 20th-Fox veep S- Charles Einfeld in San Francisco this pretends to aid her boy friend in Miss Connolly ...... Wanda Hendrix week at the invitation of the San Francisco Arts Commission and Bus Driver Hank Henry gruesome detailed violence. his feverish attempts to keep the Billy May's music has a pleas­ Frisco film fest director Irv Levine, for talks re the fest which get intimate relationship platonic. Johnny Colini Marc Lawrence underway at the end of the month . . . Munio Podhorzer, head of Oby Hinds John McGiver ant, urbane style. Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's title Casino Films and United Film Enterprises, off on a three-week trip As engineered by director Swift, Jerry March ...... Gregory Morton to Munich, Paris and Madrid. the film's cardinal error is its lack tune, sung by Davis, Is a swinging Ben Mono Mort Sahl Industry vet Arthur L. Mayer, who has another pungent piece in of restraint. There is a tendency Mr. Santangelo Telly Savalas narrative of the "High Noon" school. Robe. the current Saturday Review, and Mrs. Mayer off to Europe ... A to embellish, out of all proportion, Suzy Joan Staley major company is reportedly trying to interest Ernie Pintoff in creating devices and situations that, kept "Educated" Sammy Davis Jr. a new series of animated shorts for theatrical release. At the same simple, would have served the Mrs. Crandall Katherine Bard time, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is negotiating for the rights comic purposes far more effec­ Kromlein Steve Peek to Pintoff's past'and present shorts, including "The Old Man and Thg tively. For example, having every F.B.I. Man Douglas Henderson U.S. Legion-Type Flower," "Violinist," etc. apartment in the building occu­ Bill"Johnn y Cool" shoulFrandk bAlbertsoe a hont Margaret Huntington Mary Scott Times Film sales director Irving Sochin back from San Juan where pied by sexpots taxes the plausi­ property in the "butcher" market, he set plans for the Oct. 16 day-date preem there of the English and bility of Lemmon's preoccupation Undertakewhere zippr y action anElishd a beaucouCook Jrp. "Cripple" John Dierkes Spanish language versions of "Mondo Cane" This is the first Times with his conquest of Miss Lynley. mayhem are the first require­ Cinema 'Pledges' Film release to be sold directly to the Puerto Rican market from the Exaggeration has also spilled ments. Peter Lawford's indie pro- U. S. . . . The boys at the Bleecker Street Cinema are setting something of a precedent with their current triple bill of Phillipe de Broca pix, "The Love Game," "The Joker" and "The Five-Day Lover"—the first 10/9 Kayoed by Irish time the three films have shared the same bill. Dublin, Oct. 8. Mervin LeRoy's newest film, Warners' "Mary, Mary," will be his Proposed pledge to be exacted 18th pic to play Radio City Music Hall . . . Kanawha's Polish import, of parishioners here on lines of "Knife in The Water," goes into the Beekman following "The Suitor." IL S. Legion of Decency pledge Arthur L. Mayer, at the AMPA lunch last week, was reminiscing has been dropped. Project on the lunch last May in honor of his and Lilly's 50th anniversary. started in Limerick, spearheaded The lunch had run overtime, said Mayer, because Max Youngstein Subscription Order Form by priest, and pledged forms were (then prez of the now-defunct Entertainment Corp. of America) had prepared but the scheme has been insisted on explaining "how-to-fail-safely." ECA, added Mayer, who quietly dropped without explana­ was board chairman of the company, stood for "End Came Abruptly." Enclosed find check for $ ." tion. Peter Sellers back to England last week after completing his N.Y. O One Year Pledge would have bound sig­ chores in "World of Henry Orient". . . Jim Mauceri, Embassy -Pix natories to abide by National Film trade press contact, off for two weeks of holiday in Europe . . . John Please send VARIETY for F| Two Years Institute ratings although Insti­ Mills and daughter Hayleji Mills will costar in "Miss Jude," produced tute's name was not mentioned. for Universal by Alan Brown, a former Spanish associate of Samuel • Three Years Bronston, based on a novel by H. DeVere Stacpoole, set for filming next Institute's ratings have sparked spring. off a row in Clonmel, County Tip- To perary, whe*re the town's cinemas, a»lease Print Name) New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner will present the Variety Club owned by Amalgamated Cinemas Sunshine Club Coach for handicapped children next Monday (14), with (Ireland), have withdrawn advertis­ acceptance to be made by Dr. Howard A. Rusk of N.Y.U.'s Institute of Street ing from local newspaper "The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation . . . Ross Hunter's "Chalk Gar­ Nationalist" because paper pub­ den" (U) will be the first pic to be preemed under the auspices of the lishes ratings of current screen­ Women's Committee of the Hollywood Museum, sometime in midVApril. City ..... Zone State ings each week. Newspaper has Sam Fuller will roll his "Iron Kiss" next Monday (14) at Samuel published exchange of correspond­ Goldwyn Studio and the Columbia Ranch . . . Title of Universal's Mar­ ence with cinema owners and an­ lon Brando-David Niven-Shirley Jones starrer "King of the Mountain" Regular Subscription Rates nounced its intention of contin­ has been changed to "Bedtime Story". . . Baruch Lumet, father of di­ uing to published ratings when rector Sidney Lumet, set for a "featured role in "The Pawnbroker" One Year—$15.00 Two Years—$28.00 available. Cinemas have also with­ which the junior Lumet is directing for the Landau Co., with photog­ drawn orders for display bills raphy having begun last Monday (7) in Greenwich, Conn. Also inked Three Years—$39.00 from printinghouee associated for the pic is legit-tv actress Marianne Kanter. with "The Nationalist." Canada and Foreign—$1 Additional Per Year Stanley Kramer back on the Coast after huddles in New York last week with UA execs re plans for release of his "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Jack L. Warner, named "Man Mad World". . . Arthur Peterson and Charles Thompson into Kramer's Pft&lETY h»c of the Year" by the Beverly Hills "Invitation to a Gunfighter," along with Clifton James and Gertrude 154 West 46th Street New York 36. N. Y. B'nai B'rith lodge, will receive Flynn . . . ABC-TV news commentator Howard K. Smith will play the award in January at a testi­ himself in "Best Man". . . Walter Shenson planed to England over the monial dinner-dance. ' weekend after Gotham meetings with UA execs over his next project.