Kate Webb story to be filmed

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32707, 9 September 1971, Page 17

Kate Webb story to be filmed

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LOS ANGELES, September 7. The actress, Yvette Mimieux, has purchased the screen rights to the story of the United Press International reporter, Miss Kate Webb, as a prisoner of the Viet Cong in Cambodia. Miss Mimieux will write, produce and star in the film. “This won’t be a glossy adventure story of an attractive girl surrounded by an enemy who speaks English. ‘

“We hope to shoot the film in Thailand. The topography there is very much like Cambodia, and we’re striving for a semi-documentary effect. We need the faces of those Indo-Chinese people—not Hollywood extras. “Kate told me that none of her captors spoke English. Neither will the characters in the picture; I’ll use sub-titles. Possibly I’ll hire a Japanese director, too.” New projects are nothing new to Miss Mimieux. She founded a textile company in Haiti and will produce her own film “Counterpoint” soon. “Monza Productions will

make the picture. It’s a love story about a ‘hit girl’ (killer) for the Mafia.” She was resting between scenes of “Death takes a holiday”, a 90-minute television .film co-starring Monte Markham and Melvyn Douglas. The original—starring Frederick March, Evelyn Venable and Gail Partick —was a minor film classic. "As far as I’m concerned they’re a good thing. These 90-minute pictures reach millions and millions of people who don’t take the trouble ’ to go out to the theatres.” “Small, low-budget pictures by independent produ-

cers are just coming into their own. In fact, that’s what I’m doing with ‘Counterpoint’ and the Kate Webb picture. “Audiences who want to see something unusual or controversial will have more and more movies to see. They won’t be churned out by .the large studios on a production line.”