Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

1 f Thursday, October 1, 1959 Motion Picture Daily 7 FORTHCOMING RELEASES ABBREVIATIONS: AA, A///ed Arf/'sfs; AIP, Amer/can /nferna//'ona/ Pictures; BV, Buena Vista; Col, Columbia; MGM, MetroGoldwyn-Mayer; Par, Paramount; 20-Fox, 20th Century-Fox; UA, United Artists; Uni, Universal; WB, Warner Bros.; c, co/or; cs, CinemaScope, te, Techirama; vv, VistaVision; rs, Regalscope. ► OCTOBER AIP — THE* BUCKET OF BLOOD: Barbara Morris, Dick Miller AIP — THE LEECHES: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers BV— THE BIG FISHERMAN, c, 70mm: Howard Keel, Susan Kohner COL— THE TINGLER: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn COL— THEY CAME TO CORDURA: c, cs: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth COL — THE CRIMSON KIMONO: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett MGM — GIRLS' TOWN: Mamie Van Doren, Paul Anka MGM — LIBEL: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Haviland PAR— BUT NOT FOR ME, vv: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker 20-FOX— THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, c, cs: Hope Lange, Joan Crawford 20-FOX— FIVE GATES TO HELL, cs: Dolores Michaels, Patricia Owens UA — THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY, c: Robert Mitchum, Julie London DA— TIMBUCTU: Victor Mature, Yvonne DeCarlo UA— COUNTERPLOT: Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes UNI — PILLOW TALK, c, cs: Rock Hudson, Doris Day WB — THE FBI STORY, c: James Stewart, Vera Miles ► NOVEMBER AIP— GOLIATH AND THE GOLDEN HORDE, c, cs: Steve Reeves BV— THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN, c: James MacArthur, Janet Munro COL— YESTERDAY'S ENEMY: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe COL— THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, c: Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers COL— THE LAST ANGRY MAN: Paul Muni, Betsy Palmer COL— THE WARRIOR AND THE SLAVE GIRL, c, cs: Gianna Maria Canale, George Marchal COL— BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA: Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala COL— EDGE Of ETERNITY, c, cs: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw MGM— HOUSE OF SEVEN HAWKS: Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey MGM— WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston PAR — CAREER: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine PAR— THE JAYHAWKERS, c: Jeff Chandler, Nicole Maurey 20-FOX— THE HOUND DOG MAN, c, cs: Fabian, Stuart Whitman 20-FOX— JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, c, cs: Pat Boone UA— ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan UA— SUBWAY IN THE SKY: Van Johnson, Hildegarde Neff WB— A SUMMER PLACE, c: Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan WB— "30": Jack Webb ► DECEMBER COL— THOUSAND AND ONE ARABIAN NIGHTS, c: Mr. Magoo feature cartoon COL— THE FLYING FONTAINES: Michael Callan, Evy Norlund MGM— LAST VOYAGE: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone MGM— NEVER SO FEW, c, cs: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida PAR — LI'L ABNER, c: Peter Palmer, Julie Newmar 20-FOX — CONDEMNED PATROL, rs: John Lupton, Ziva Rodann 20-FOX— BELOVED INFIDEL, c, cs: Deborah Kerr, Gregory Peck 20-FOX — DOG OF FLANDERS: David Ladd, Theodore Bikel UA — HAPPY ANNIVERSARY— ^David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor UA — SOLOMON AND SHEBA, c, te70: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida UA — ON THE BEACH: Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck UA— THE PUSHER: Kathy Carlisle, Felice Orlandi UNI— OPERATION PETTICOAT, c: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis WB— THE MIRACLE, c: Carroll Baker, Walter Slezak Kohn on 'Porgy' Unit To Form Own Ad Firm Howard E. Kohn II has been named national road show manager for the department handling roadshow engagements of Samuel Goldwyn's "Porgy and Bess," it was announced by Jonas Rosenfield, Jr., executive in charge of advertising-publicity and exploitation for Columbia Pictures. Kohn will be working under the supervision of Ralph Wheelwright, director of the "Porgy and Bess" special publicity unit. DENVER, Sept. 30. Arthur 'Jack' Woddell, Jr., managing director for the Wolfberg Circuit's Paramount Theatre here, has resigned to establish his own advertising agency. Taking over the post of managing director of the Paramount will be Ralph Roe. Roe is an industry veteran having been associated with Fox Intermountain Theatres for 12 years as city manager in a number of the Fox situations. REVIEW: Girls Town M-G-M This fast-moving Alfred Zugsmith production for and about teen-agers boasts a cast list aimed directly at that market. Starring Mamie Van Doren as an incredibly hip-swinging hipster, it features Paul Anka, latest sensation of the rock and roll world, in a substantial part, including singing; Mel Torme in a sinister and dramatic role; and a long list of other names calculated to impress the teen-age world. Among these are Ray Anthony, Cathy Crosby, Gigi Perreau, Jim Mitchum, Dick Contino, Harold Lloyd, Jr., Charles Chaplin, Jr. and the Singing Platters. Also, playing the part of a nun in a home for wayward and homeless girls, is columnist-actress Sheilah Graham. The story is of drag racers and their girls, gang fights and the delinquency that comes from boys with too much money or girls with not enough home life. Miss Van Doren is Silver Morgan, bitter and tough girl friend of Harold Lloyd, Jr., one of the Jaguar set. When she stands him up to go out with a member of a rival gang, Lloyd meets and dates her younger sister, Elinor Donahue. When the latter repulses his advances, Lloyd falls over a cliff and is killed. Miss Van Doren, suspected by both the police and Mel Torme, friend of the deceased, is sent to Girls Town, reform school conducted by nuns with Maggie Hayes as the Mother Superior. Under the influence of the nuns, and with an assist in the form of hazing by the permanent residents, Silver's tough exterior melts, and the lonely frustrated girl shows through. The other girls, suspicious of her at first, come to her help when Torme kidnaps her vounger sister and threatens to send her to Tia Juana to keep her from testifying about the party on which Lloyd was killed and a suspenseful drag race in which he forced her to ride. The girls, helped in the end by the nuns, rescue Miss Donahue in a wild gang melee and all turns out happily. A prime aid to exploitation are the songs sung by Paul Anka throughout the picture and the appearance of the Platters in a night club song act. The music score was composed and conducted by Van Alexander with one song, "Wish It Were Me" bv Buck Ram. Charles Haas directed with a sure eye for the feeling of the screenplay by Robert Smith from a story by Robert Hardv Andrews. Running time, 92 minutes. General classification. October release. James D. Ivers Am-Par Record ( Continued from page 1 ) ganizer of Grand Award, will continue to conduct the recording schedules and much of the administrative details of Grand Award as an executive staff member of that company. The acquisition is said to greatly enhance the Am-Par position in the record field. The AB-PT record subsidiary was formed four years ago. Mrs. Wallerstein (Continued from page 1 ) include Mrs. James Coston, Mrs. Lester Grand, Mrs. Duncan R. Kennedy, Mrs. Kerasotes, Mrs. Spiro J. Papas, Mrs. Nate Piatt, Mrs John Semedalas, and Mrs. Ralph Smitha. 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