All-Canadian Film Set Here
"Forbidden Journey" Premiere at Princess
The world-premiere of the new Canadian film. "Forbidden Journey," made in Montreal, will be
held at the Princess Theatre here on the evening of September 22, it was announced today by Selkirk Productions, Limited, the company which made the film, and the premiere will be open to the general public.
"Forbidden Journey" is a film of a young refugee from behind the Iron Curtain who arrives in Montreal as a stowaway on a ship
and is hunted for two tense, exciting days through local streets by both immigration police and Communist agents. Scores of Montrealers were caught in the camera lenses during the filming of the location scenes around the harbor, Bonsecours Market, Dominion Square, Sherbrooke Street, McGill campus, the University of Montreal, Pine Avenue and Mount Royal.
Stars of the movie are Jan Rubes, a newcomer to Canada from Czechoslavakia, and Susan Douglas, also Czech-born and the only Hollywood representative in the
picture. The story was written by a Montrealer, Cecil Maiden, who produced the picture with Dick
Jarvis, the director. The camera crews were under Roger Racine, formerly with the National Film Board.
The capital for the modest budget of $150,000 was raised in Montreal, and all the technicians were Montrealers. The interior scenes and editing were done by arrangement at the Renaissance studios on Cote des Neiges. The music for the film was written and directed
by Oskar Morawetz, of Toronto.
"Forbidden Journey" will be released through United Artists Corporation.
