THE New York Herald Tribune acclaims Warner Bros. "The Sundowners," which opened in New York on December 8, as "certainly one of the finest pictures to show up this year! " The Fred Zinnemann production has been doing excellent box-office business. This week Jack Warner cabled W

e committee has adopted the proceedn„ e he finance and management committee •riously the same morning at which, amo ng other matters, it was agreed to renew t he A iciation's contribution to the London Chaint r of Commerce. he committee has received the report of t h e jo . comm

NEW YORK.—MGM has signed a contract with Australian television stations for the use of pictures from the company's pre-1949 library of features for a sum of 2,600,000 dollars over a five-year period. This action is the result of exploration by the MGM markt ling departments in a

HENRI CLOUZOTS picture " Verite. - starring Brigitte Bardot. world-:de ieleae by Cc:ambia has won douhk distinction being sekcted as France's on:y entry in the American Academy Awards " Oscar race for 1961. and by being chosen as the official French entry in the Mar del P:ata Fe

Starring LEE REMICK • YVES MONTAND • BRADFORD DILLMAN One of the boldest pictures ever to come from Hollywood

EASTMAN COLOUR Starring JAYNE MANSFIELD • TRAX COLTON • NICO MINARDOS and XENIA DEL MAR All the thrills and tragedy of the Olympic Games honours

There was a &cline in the screening of programmes of U.S origin, neither ITV nor the BBC used up their full quota entitlement. This was due partly to Parliamentary criticism and partly because many of American programmes distributed this year were of poor quality. The ITV compan

DENNIS HOPTON has been appointed branch manager at Cardiff for Dyro Films, the joint selling organisation for Walt Disney Productions and Renown Pictures. Mr. Hopton previousl y represented Dyro at Leeds. Sydney Phipps, formerly with United Artists. has been engaged as salesman

N :WS HIGHLIGHTS a . . C3 -production agreement near IE JOINT BFPA-FI3FM co-product!on committee is to meet the FFU on January 5 to .sum negotiations in connection with an Anglo-French co-production treaty. I, is hoped this meeting will be the last between the producers and the u

W. AND W. DREDGE, of 12 Manette Street, London. was registered as a film distribution and production company on November 23 with a nominal capital of £5OO in £1 shares. Directors are William and Winifred Dredge. Other film companies registered last month were: George Fowler Prod