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Filmmakers listed ten productions going<br />
before the cameras in August, a gain of<br />
five over the previous month. August 1974<br />
looked brighter with 15 scheduled for filming.<br />
The current month shows seven features<br />
lined up by the majors and three are starting<br />
by independents.<br />
COLUMBIA<br />
Harry and Walter Go to New York.<br />
A turn-of-the-century comedy escapade<br />
about two fading vaudevillians who are<br />
down on their luck and turn to safecracking.<br />
Stars James Caan and Michael Caine.<br />
Produced by Don Devlin and Harry Gittes,<br />
a Mark Rydell film directed by Rydell,<br />
with Tony Bill the executive producer.<br />
Screenplay by Robert Kaufman and John<br />
Byrum, based on an original story by<br />
Byrum and Devlin. Shooting at the end<br />
of the month on locations in the East and<br />
the Burbank Studios.<br />
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER<br />
The All-American Girl. A contemporary<br />
comedy-drama about a free-spirited<br />
girl who has developed her talent for stealing<br />
cars into a fun and fine art. Stars<br />
Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston.<br />
Shooting begins Monday (11) in Tacoma,<br />
Wash., with Jerry Schatzberg directing and<br />
producing. The screenplay was written by<br />
B. J. Perla.<br />
PARAMOUNT<br />
The Bad News Bears. Shooting began<br />
Friday (1) at the studio and Los Angeles<br />
locations on this contemporary comedy<br />
written by Bill Lancaster, about a group of<br />
young neighborhood misfits who are molded<br />
into a winning little league-type baseball<br />
team. Waiter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal<br />
are starred with a cast of youthful newcomers<br />
directed by Michael Ritchie. Produced<br />
by Stanley Jaffe.<br />
Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved<br />
Hollywood. This farce-comedy tells the<br />
story of a superstar movie dog and his<br />
friends who saved a studio from bankruptcy<br />
in the silent flicker days. David V. Picker<br />
is producer and Michael Winner is director.<br />
Stars are Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn,<br />
Shecky Greene and Ron Liebman. Shooting<br />
starts Monday (25) at the studio.<br />
UNITED ARTISTS<br />
Bound for Glory. The biography of<br />
bailadccr Woody Guthrie with David Carradinc<br />
in the Guthrie role. Shooting starts<br />
Monday (18) on the screenplay by Robert<br />
Getcheli, with Hal Ashby directing. Producers<br />
arc Robert Blumofe and Harold<br />
Leventhal.<br />
Burnt Offerings. Deals with the terrifying<br />
experiences faced by a family with<br />
a young son and an aunt who go away on<br />
a summer vacation. Shooting began Monday<br />
(4) in Oakland, Calif., with a cast<br />
headed by Karen Black, Oliver Reed,<br />
Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Eileen<br />
Heckart and Lee Montgomery. Produced<br />
and directed by Dan Curtis with Robert<br />
Singer as associate producer. Screenplay<br />
by William F. Nolan.<br />
WARNER BROS.<br />
Bogart Slept Here. Shooting starts<br />
late<br />
this month on this original comedy written<br />
by Neil Simon about an off-Broadway<br />
actor who hits it lucky and becomes a<br />
Hollywood star. Robert DeNiro and Marsha<br />
Mason star. Mike Nichols will produce and<br />
direct with Howard W. Koch jr. as executive<br />
producer.<br />
INDEPENDENTS<br />
Hikmar Productions<br />
Race With Death. Formerly titled "The<br />
Young Merchants," the story deals with a<br />
young woman narcotics agent who infiltrates<br />
a drug-smuggling gang. Shooting<br />
commences Monday (25). Producer-director<br />
is Hikmet Avedis and executive producer<br />
is Marlene Schmidt.<br />
Max Baer Productions<br />
Ode to Billy Joe. Based on the song<br />
by Bobbie Gentry, with a cast of unknowns,<br />
to be produced and directed by Max Baer.<br />
Shooting began Wednesday (6) in Greenwood,<br />
Miss., with a screenplay by Herman<br />
Rancher ("Summer of '42").<br />
Steckler Enterprises<br />
Le Jour. Shooting started Thursday (7)<br />
in Nevada with a cast consisting of Art<br />
Bourdon, Carolyn Brandt, Corrine Broskette.<br />
Herb Eden, Hitch Huber, Susan Jackson,<br />
Liberty Jones, Will Long, Ed Sher and<br />
Suzanne Vegas. Producer-director is Ray<br />
Dennis Steckler: associate producer is Jerry<br />
O'Farrell.<br />
Universal Film Production<br />
Reaches Industry High<br />
Film production at Universal Studios has<br />
reached an industry high with 24 production<br />
units simultaneously at work, represented<br />
by 19 television shows and five<br />
theatrical motion pictures, it was announced<br />
by Sid Sheinberg, president and<br />
chief operating officer of MCA, Inc., parent<br />
company of Universal Studios. At the same<br />
time the company projects a new record<br />
total of 442 film shooting days for July,<br />
which compares to the studio's previous<br />
high of 400 shooting days reached October<br />
1974. Employment at Universal has also<br />
peaked with 7,000 employees on the payroll.<br />
The studio's 34 stages are at capacity<br />
production. In addition. Universal has 121<br />
show units at work in various stages of post<br />
production. Never before in the 63-year<br />
history of Universal Studios has there been<br />
such a level of film production and employment.<br />
Represented in the five theatrical<br />
motion pictures at work are "Family Plot,"<br />
"Midway," "Lombard and Gable." "W. C.<br />
I'iclds and Me" and "The Bingo Long<br />
Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings'<br />
(filming in Georgia but with daily film<br />
production activity involved from the<br />
studio).<br />
Use Ship Built at $1.5 Million<br />
For 'S'washbuckler' Scenes<br />
Universal Studios has taken a two-month's<br />
rental on the Golden Hinde, the 102-foot<br />
replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, as a<br />
location for seagoing sequences of "Swashbuckler."<br />
The ship, built in England at a<br />
cost of $1.5 million, is now berthed in San<br />
Francisco after a five-month voyage from<br />
England through the Panama Canal. Universal<br />
will alter and refit the Golden Hinde<br />
to conform to the appearance of early 18th<br />
Century buccaneer vessels. Plans call for<br />
two weeks of sea filming aboard the ship<br />
on a North American west coastline location.<br />
Additional shooting also will take<br />
place at a berth still to be selected.<br />
James Goldstone is directing the costume<br />
adventure drama set in 1718 against backgrounds<br />
of Kingston, Jamaica and the<br />
Caribbean. Elliott Kastner is the producer<br />
and Jennings Lang is executive producer.<br />
Burton Miller has been signed to design the<br />
lavish period costumes.<br />
Frankovich and Self Start<br />
'From Noon Till Three'<br />
"From Noon Till Three," starring Charles<br />
Bronson and Jill Ireland, is being produced<br />
by M.J. Frankovich and William Self for<br />
United Artists release. Filming is now under<br />
way in California. Pulitzer Prize-winner<br />
author Frank D. Gilroy is directing from<br />
his original screenplay. Gilroy is the author<br />
of "The Subject Was Roses," which won<br />
the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for drama. "From<br />
Noon Till Three," a western with an unusual<br />
twist, is the second successive film for UA<br />
by Bronson and his actress wife Jill Ireland.<br />
They recently completed "Breakheart<br />
Pass," on which Elliott Kastner was the<br />
executive producer and Jerry Gershwin the<br />
producer . . . James Clavel has been set to<br />
write, produce and direct two full-length features,<br />
"Richard Sahib" to be filmed in India,<br />
and "Naked Country," based on the novel<br />
by Morris West, to be filmed in Australia.<br />
Eileen Brerman, Jas. Murtaugh,<br />
David Arkin Among Castings<br />
Eileen Brennan has been cast in "Murder<br />
by Death," produced by Ray Stark for<br />
Columbia and starring Peter Falk and David<br />
Niven . . . James Murtaugh will portray the<br />
Library of Congress librarian: John Randolph<br />
will be former U. S. Atty. Gen. John<br />
Mitchell, and Richard Herd will play James<br />
McCord, security officer for the Committee<br />
to Re-elect the President, in Warners' "All<br />
the President's Men." David Arkin has been<br />
signed to portray Washington Post police<br />
reporter Eugene Bachinski—Cara Duff-Mc-<br />
Cormick has been assigned to the role of<br />
Jane Monahan . . . Casting for principal<br />
roles in the Reader's Digest production of<br />
"Sarah," which will star Glenda Jackson as<br />
Sarah Bernhardt, is under way in London<br />
with producer Helen Strauss participating.<br />
10 August 11, 1975