CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
“Vodka-Drinking” Jury Criticised
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(Rec. 8 p.m.) PARIS, May 12. The Cannes Film Festival ended last night with the inevitable “international incident,” the “Daily Mail” reported today.
The French producer, Michael Safra, requested that his picture, “Le Dossier Noir” be withdrawn from competition.
He alleged that some of the jury went to a vodka party which the Soviet delegation gave and arrived after his film began running. Therefore they were unable to give the picture the attention it deserved, he claimed.
The “Daily Express” reported that the festival president ruled the film could not be withdrawn without a protest from the French Government, which entered it.
Jury members denied that the vodka had in any way affected their judgment and “Le Dossier Noir” (“Black Record”)—a grim story of police injustice—was considered along with all other films. But it did not get an award. The American, film “Marty” took the Grand Prix.
“Marty” is the tale of how a fat man, whom nobody loves, finds romance in the dingy streets of New York.
Spencer Tracy won a prize for his acting in “Bad Day at Black Rock.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 6
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