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Youth In Crisis (March of Time) and Children of Mars (RKO-Radio) are two unusually vivid, powerful, short films about wartime juvenile delinquency.* Both films cover the same ground, but they are so different in approach and emphasis that they supplement each other...
...gave Author Ziemer's agent $250 for a month's option on the film rights. Next day he started making the rounds of Hollywood's Manhattan story editors. He got nowhere, renewed his option twice, was $750 in the hole and all but broke when RKO's then-President George Schaefer decided to chance it. Golden closed the deal with Ziemer's agent for $5,000-which Ziemer graciously accepted in lOUs. From the Guaranty Trust Co. Golden got a verbal commitment for financing...
...that moment President Schaefer was ousted in one of RKO's then-frequent studio shuffles, and Golden had to start from scratch with pro tem President Ned Depinet. Mr. Depinet assigned an obscure script writer, Emmet Lavery, an equally obscure director, Edward Dmytryk, to make Hitler's Children, and the picture went into production with RKO's and Golden's money in partnership. After two days' shooting Golden was informed that the Guaranty Trust had decided not to make the loan after all: the war might end and leave the bank high & dry. "What," screamed...
What More Do You Want? RKO's newly installed President Charles Koerner saved the day. At considerable risk he scraped the bottom of the RKO barrel to finance the film. But the box-office response immediately vindicated Ed Golden's original hunch which he used in his sales talk with uninterested Hollywood: "Here's a picture that's got real exploitation value. It's got sterilization. It's got a lethal chamber. It's got kids. What more do you want...
Golden's Goslings. Currently Golden has an office in the Producers' Building and is hatching (in partnership with RKO) another Golden egg of which, like a man holding a second winning ticket in the sweepstakes, he says, over & over: "I got another! I got another!" Out of Louis Lochner's What About Germany? Golden is making a picture called The Master Race...