Movies: Keeping up with what the illusionists out in Hollywood are up to in their labors is hard, but we note the following and fall back aghast. For Taras Bulba, United Artists has built the wooden-walled, wooden Polish city of Dubno in the pampas of treeless Argentina, and hired 10,000 gauchos to assault it. . . . Advance stills from Sodom and Gomorrah show a) two armies clashing swords, b) Stewart Granger kissing a blonde, c) what appears to be an oil-field fire in an Erector Set, d) Stanley Baker kissing a brunette. O buttered popcorn! . . . Mr. Holbrook Gordon, bird specialist to the SPCA, on hand at all times for Bird Man of Alcatraz and The Birds, has just spent three months hovering over The Care-takers, a movie with yet more birds. . . The African scenes for Bob Hope’s Call Me Bwana are being filmed in Buckinghamshire. . . . The Greatest Story Ever Told is to be filmed in Utah, and we remember that Oklahoma was shot in Wyoming.
The French movie Candide, banned from export for the past two years, is now on view in New York (at the Baronet). . . . We note in Variety that movie houses can now buy a two-minute “non-sectarian prayer” (prayed against the Manhattan skyline, Statue of Liberty, Supreme Court, etc.), if they want to brace their audiences for the worst.
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