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Show By INEZ GERHARD EMERIC PRESSBURGER. Michael Mich-ael Powell and Hein Heckroth might well have rested on their laurels whan they finished ''Red Shoes", but they went on to bigger and better things, by screening "Tales of Hoffman". The complete opera was filmed in beautiful sets designed by Mr. Heckroth, with a I star-studded cast which Includes I-, n , L 4 Uifll M iv" '. f v I in isf f llf.vfi in t W rFf HEIN HECKROTH stars of both opera and the Sadlers Wells ballet and chorus. Sir Thomas Beecham was the film's musical director. di-rector. Mr. Pressburger says he thinks this is the only picture ever filmed around a sound track; the entire score was recorded and the action fitted to it, and never has sound been more successfully dubbed dub-bed in. "Tales of Hoffman" should be seen by everyone who likes exceptional ex-ceptional films. Harry Cohn, president of Colombia Col-ombia Pictures, said "This la the most Important deal we have ever made", when Stanley Kramer signed on the dotted line to deliver 30 top bracket picture during the next five years. In return he'll get $25,-000,000. $25,-000,000. Kramer makes only successful suc-cessful pictures, the latest being "Cyrano de Bergerac", has 12 big properties on his list. The board of directors of the Motion Mo-tion Picture Association has made some fine new rulings. "Neither the illegal drug traffic, nor drug addiction, addic-tion, must ever be presented"; suicide sui-cide is to be discouraged unless absolutely necessary to the plot, and "There must be no scenes at any time showing law-enforcing officers of-ficers dying at the hands of the criminals," unless the plot demands it. |
