Boxoffice (Jan-Mar 1962)

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Warner Bros. BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE (Technicolor Reissues) 8301 . Room and Bird . . (7) Sept. 1 0, '60 8302 Crocked Quack. .(7) Oct. 1, '60 8303. His Hare Raising Tale. .(7) Oct. 22, '60 8304 Gift Wrapped (7) Nov. 19, '60 8305 ..Little Beau Pepe..(7) Dec. 10, '60 8306 . Tweet Tweet Tweety. .(7) Dec. 31, '60 8307 Bunny Hugged . (7) Jan. 28 8308 The Wearing of the Grin. .(7) Feb. 18 8309 . . Beep Beep . (7) Mar. 11 8310. Rabbit Fire.. (7) Apr. 8 8311.. Feed the Kitty.. (7) Apr. 29 8312 The Lion's Busy. (7) May 13 8313. Thumb Fun . . (7) June 10 8314 Corn Plastered .. (7) July 1 8315. Kiddin' the Kitty. (7) Aug. 5 8316 Ballot Box Bunny . . (7) Aug. 26 BUGS BUNNY SPECIALS (Technicolor) 8721 From Hare to Heir. . (7) Sept. 3, '60 8722. Lighter Than Hare (7) Dec. 17, '60 8723 The Abominable Snow Rabbit. (7). May 20 8724 . Compressed Hare . (7) July 29 MERRIE MELODIES-LOONEY TUNES (Technicolor Cartoons) 8701 . The Dixie Fryer. .(7) Sept. 24, '60 (Foghorn Leghorn) 8702 Hopalong Casualty . . (7) Oct. 8, '60 (Roadrunner and Coyote) 8703 Trip For Tat. (7) Oct. 29, '60 (Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 8704 . Doggone People . (7) Nov. 12, '60 (Elmer Fudd) 8705 High Note .(7) Dec. 3, '60 8706 .. Cannery Woe.. (7) Jan. 7 (Speedy Gonzales) 0707 . Zip 'n Snort.. (7) Jan. 21 (Roadrunner and Coyote) 8708 Hoppy Daze . (7) Feb. 11 (Sylvester Cat) 8709 The Mouse on 57th Street . (7) Feb. 25 8710 Strangled Eggs . (7) Mar. 18 (Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk) 8711 Birds of a Father.. (7) Apr. 1 (Sylvester Cat) 8712 D' Fightin' Ones . . (7) Apr. 22 (Sylvester Cat) 8713. . Liekety-Splat. (7) June 3 (Roadrunner and Coyote) 8714. A Scent of the Matterhorn. .(7) June 24 (Pepe Le Pew) 8715 The Rebel Without Claws. (7) July 15 (Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 8716 . The Pied Piper of Guadalupe .. (7) . . Aug. 19 (Sylvester Cat and Speedy Gonzales) WORLD-WIDE ADVENTURE SPECIALS (Technicolor Reissues) (TWO REELS) 8001 . .Enchanted Islands. .(20) Oct. 15, '60 The island of Hawaii, featuring its folk songs and dances, modern forming methods, native arts and crafts, water sports, and its traditional festivities. 8002. The Man From New Orleans. .(20). . . .Mar. 4 A Louisiana professor, William Spratling, realizes his dream of exploring Mexico, and finally settles in Taxco, a beautiful, quaint Mexican village, where he revives the ancient folk art of jewelry making. 8003 . Winter Wonders .. (1 8) July 22 A camera tour of winter playgrounds around the world, slanted on various types of winter sports, including skiing, mountain climbing, ice skating and the game of curling. (ONE REEL) 8501 .. Riviera Days.. (10) Nov. 26, '60 The French Riviera, international playground of beauty and sports, the latter highlighted by a water jousting contest and an aquatic greased-pig chase. 8502 . Alpine Champions .. (1 0) Feb. 4 Mount Blanc, highest Alpine peak in Europe, provides a challenge for mountain-climbing daredevils. Highlights the daring rescue of an injured man down the hazardous mountain slopes. 8503 .. Kings of the Rockies .. (1 0) Apr. 15 The breeding and cross-breeding of fine horses, highlights of the film taking place at a Nederland, Colorado, ranch in the Rocky Mountains. 8504 Grandad of Races.. (10) May 27 Highlights of the traditional Palio festival in Siena, Italy, where one of the most unusual competitive horse races takes place each year. 8505.. Snow Frolics. . (10) June 17 Highlights favorite winter sports at the annual snow carnival in the village of Ste. Agathe, in Canada, which is climaxed by the selection of a beauty queen. 8506 .. Hawaiian Sports.. (9) Aug. 12 A camera tour of Hawaii, playground of vacationers and the sportsmen's paradise. Miscellaneous A Bowl of Cherries .. (24) Kingsley Int'l Comedy Featurette. Photographed in the style of the old Mack Sennett silent comedies, with title cords, a jazzy musical score, and players representing Greenwich Village beatniks and artists. Cast includes Elmarie Wendel and other off-Broadway players. Director: William Kronick. George Edgar Production. Canyon River.. (20) Gene Blakely Featurette. (World of Adventure series.) Deals with an off-beat expedition by fiberglass rowboat over the rapids of the Colorado river in Arizona. (Released through states rights distributors.) Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn, The (25) Kingsley Int'l Comedy Featurette. British-made. A satire on Scotland Yard, dealing with the breaking up of a dangerous gang of international Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers. Stars Peter Sellers. ©Conquest of lzalco..(20) Gene Blakely Eastman Color Featurette. (World of Adventure series.) Story of a man who climbs a live volcano in El Salvador to photograph a volcanic eruption from the beginning. (Released through states rights distributors.) ©Creation of Woman, The. (14) Allied Artists Color Featurette. (With English narration.) Recreates an early Hindu legend and features Indian dancing and music in the ancient tradition, showing India's unusual dance art form. Narrated by Saed Jeffrey, young Indian actor. Produced by Charles F. Schwep and Ismail Merchant. ©Day of the Painter. .(15) Kingsley Int'l Eastman Color Comedy. A spoof on abstract art, in which a painter splashes various colored paints over a huge canvas, cuts up the canvas into smaller squares, and o museum collector buys one of them. Stars Ezra Reuben Baker. Director: Robert P. Davis. Produced by Ezra Reuben Baker. Highway.. (7) Edward Harrison Novelty. Presents a study in fast movement and is a visual excursion in color of the vast New York network of auto highways. Interview, The . (7) Kingsley Int'l Animated Cartoon. Based on Henry Jacob's satirical recorded interview of a "hep" musician by a "square" announcer. Shorty Pedderstein, famea San Francisco character, makes his film debut. Producer-Director: Ernest Pintoff. Night in a Pet Shop . (12) George K. Arthur Novelty Live-Action. No narration, music or human dialog, only animal sounds for background, with closeups of inquisitive monkeys and other goingson in a New York pet shop after closing time. Patterson-Johansson Championship Fight (20) United Artist] The heavyweight championship fight which took place Mar. 13, 1961, in Florida, between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. Shows the sensational sixth-round knockout of Johansson. ©Violinist, The . (7) Kingsley Int'l Eastman Color Animated Cartoon. A happy but terrible street musician is told he must suffer in order to play well. He suffers and plays beautifully, but is so miserable that he goes back to his lousy violin playing and contented life. Voice of Carl Reiner for the various characters. Producer-Director: Ernest Pintoff. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page Allen, Irwin 29 Allied Artists Corp 125 Altec Service Company 148 American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc 57 American International Pictures 122 Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, Ltd 109 Associated British-Pathe, Ltd.. 108 Avalon, Frankie 127 Blanke, Henry 53 Brcnston Productions, Samuel . . 50 Bryanston Films, Ltd 104 Clover Productions 55 Columbia Pictures Corp 12, 13 Commonwealth Theatres 148 Day, Doris 88 DeLuxe Laboratories, Inc 75 Douglas, Kirk 27 Engel, Samuel G 54 Evergreen State Amusement Corp 58 Page Fabian 116 Foreman, Carl 14 Fox Intermountain Theatres, Inc 58 Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc 58 Fox West Coast Theatres Corp. 58 German, Inc., W. J 77 Gordon, Richard 53 Grant, Cary 80 Green, Miitzi 56 Hammer Film Productions, Ltd. 107 Hitchcock, Alfred 76 Holden, William 129 Hope, Bob 90 Hudson, Rock 89 IATSE 150 Independent Artists 110 Lantz, Walter 56 Lemmion, Jack 42 Lewis, Jerry 44, 45 Page Lion International Films 104 Lippert, Robert L 28 Loew's Theatres, Inc 138 Magna Theatre Corp 115 Mann, Daniel 54 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 2, 3 Metropolitan Playhouse, Inc... 115 Miitehum, Robert 119 National Screen Service .. 3rd Cover National General Corp 58 Pacific Drive-In Theatres, Inc. 57 Paramount Pictures 43 Peck, Gregory 49 Pevney, Joseph 56 R KO Theatres 145 Radio City Music Hall 143 Rank Organization 106 Regal Films International 110 Page Rogers & Cowan 41 Rosenberg, Aaron 55 Schine Circuit, Inc %. .... 145 Schneer Productions, Charles H. 17 Siegel, Sol C 85 Sinatra, Frank 81 Skouras Theatres Corp 115 Spiegel, Sam 15 Stanley Warner Corp 58 Stewart, J ames 118 Sturges, John 33 Technicolor Corp 47 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Carp.. 10 and Back Cover United Artists 38, 39 United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc 1)5 Universal-International Pictures 34, 35 Warner Bros. Pictures. . .5, 6, 7, 8 Wayne, John 84 154 BAROMETER Section