VIKING THEATRE CORP. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORP.

Civ. A. No. 28805.

245 F.Supp. 404 (1965)

VIKING THEATRE CORPORATION v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION et al.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, by Hugh G. Moulton, Philadelphia, Pa., Halperin, Shivitz, Scholer & Steingut, by David I. Shivitz, and Harry M. Pimstein, New York City, for plaintiff.

W. Bradley Ward, Philadelphia, Pa., for Paramount Film Distributing Corp., Columbia Pictures Corp., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., United Artists Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Louis J. Goffman, Philadelphia, Pa., for Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp., Stanley Warner Management Corp. and Stanley Co. of America.

Edwin P. Rome, Philadelphia, Pa., for William Goldman Theatres, Inc.

Ralph Earle, II, Philadelphia, Pa., and Charles F. Young, New York City, for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. and Fox Philadelphia Building, Inc.


JOHN W. LORD, Jr., District Judge.

This is an action under the antitrust laws by plaintiff, Viking Theatre Corporation, against seven distributors of motion pictures and three exhibitors operating theatres in Philadelphia, alleging a conspiracy to deprive plaintiff of first-run motion pictures during the period November 13, 1956 to November 2, 1960.

The pleadings have been closed for some time. Although the case has been the subject of several calls of the...

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