Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1963)

rector: Anotole Litvok. Screenplay: Peter Viertel, Hugh Wheeler. • Fimed in Paris. An American concocts a fantastic scheme with his reluctant wife to defraud an insurance company. FLIGHT FROM ASHIYA (Drama). Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker, Shirley Knight. Producers: Harold Hecht, Masaichi Nagata (Hecht-Daiei Co-prod). Director: Michael Anderson. Original (novel): Elliot Arnold. • Filmed in Japan, Tangier and Rome. A story of the Air Rescue Command in World War II and its global exploits. The main story revolves around the survivors of a Japanese freighter. In Color. GREAT ESCAPE, THE (Drama). Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn. Producer-Director: John Sturges (Mirisch-Aloha Presentation). Original (book): Paul Brickhill. Screenplay: W. R. Burnett, James Clavell. • Filmed in the Austrian Alps and in Germany. From the non-fiction book by Paul Brickhill dealing with the mammoth breakout of Allied airmen held captive during World War II in German Stalag Luff III. The men constructed three tunnels out of the German prison camp and co-named them Tom, Dick and Harry. Brickhill was one of the British airmen in the group. In Panavision and Color. GREAT VAN ROBBERY, THE (Action Drama). Stars: Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Tony Quinn, Philip Saville. Producers: Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger. Director: Max Varnel. Screenplay: Brian Clemens, Eldon Howard. • British-made. Scotland Yard asks Interpol for aid in tracing a half-million dollars in stolen banknotes. The chase takes Interpol from London to Rio de Janeiro to Rome and Paris, then back to London, where they close in on a seemingly honest coffee importer and his girl friend as they are about to make a getaway with the money. I COULD GO ON SINGING (Drama). Stars: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde. Producers: Stuart Millar, Lawrence Turman. Director: Ronald Neame. Original: Robert Dozier. Screenplay: Mayo Simon. • Filmed in England. A world-famous singer devotes her life to her career. As a young woman she has a love affair with an English doctor and has a son by him. Her career comes first and she gives the child up to the doctor to be brought up in England. Later in life, the singer realizes what she has lost and tries to recapture the doctor's love and the child. In Panavision and Color. IRMA LA DOUCE (Comedy With Music). Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi, Herschel Bernardi. Producer-Director: Billy Wilder (Mirsich-AI person Presentation). Original (book and Ivrics): Alexander Breffort. Screenplay: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. • Filmed partly in Paris. Based on the Broadway musical about a romance between a Parisian tart and her jobless lover. In Panavision and Color. IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (Comedv). Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shown, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters. Producer-Director: Stanley Kramer (Stanley Kramer Prod). Screenplay: William Rose, Tania Rose. • Story involves a mad, mad, mad. mad chase across southern California to dig up $350,000 in buried treasure. In Ultra-Panavision, Cinerama and Color. LOVE IS A BALL (Comedy). Stars: Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas, Ulla Jacobsson. Producer: Martin Poll (Oxford-Gold Medal Prod). Director: David Swift. Original (novel): Lindsav Hardv. Screenplay: David Swift, Tom Waldman, Frank Waldman. • Filmed on the French Riviera. A poor but proud American adventurer becomes involved in a plot by a suave matchmaker to marry off a grand duke to a spoiled, pampered and autocratic American heiress. In Panavision and Color. MeLINTOCK (Western). Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne de Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen, Chill Wills. Producer: Michael Wayne (Batjac Prod). Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Original Screenplay: James Edward Grant. • The brawling, romantic story of a tough, harddrinking cattle baron of the western town bearing his name. He is deeply embroiled in marital woes, but refuses to divorce his wife, who is anxious to end their stormy marriage. At the same time, wars rage between cattlemen and homesteaders and Indians, and when fighting breaks out, he opposes his fellow ranchers on both issues. In Panavision and Color. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S "TWICE TOLD TALES" (Terror-Suspense). Stars: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey. Producer: Robert E. Kent (Admiral Pictures). Director: Richard LaSalle. Screenplay: Robert E. Kent. • Based on a group of classic stories of terror and suspense by Hawthorne, the famed New England writer. In Color. PINK PANTHER, THE (Comedy Adventure). Stars: David Niven, Capucine, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale. Producer: Martin Jurow (Mirisch-Blake Edwards Prod). Director: Blake Edwards. Original Screenplay: Maurice Richlin, Blake Edwards. • Filmed in Europe. A jewel thief is sought among the international jet set and royalty of European resorts. In Super-Technirama 70 and Color. STOLEN HOURS (Drama). Stars: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd. Producers: Stuart Millar, Lawrence Turman (Mirisch-Barbican with Carrollton of Panama Corp. Prod). Director: Daniel Petrie. Screenplay: Jessamyn West. • Filmed in England. A love story centering around the love of a beautiful, vivacious, weathy woman for two men — one a racing driver in whom she finds a vicarious danger; the other a doctor from whom she learns the value of life only when it is about to be taken from her. In Color. TARAS BULBA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Brad Dexter, Sam Wanamaker, Guy Rolfe, Perry Lopez. Producer: Harold Hecht. Director: J. Lee Thompson. Original (novel): Nikolai Gogol. Screenplay: Waldo Salt, Karl Tunberg. • Filmed partly in Argentina. Based on a classic story of the Cossacks and depicts their fight for freedom in the 16th century from Poland's domination. In Panavision and Color. TITANS, THE (Action Spectacle). Stars: Pedro Armendariz, Antonella Lualdi, Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard. Producer: Alexander Mouchkine (Ariane Films of Paris, Vides Films of Rome). Director: Duccio Tessari. Screenplay: Duccio Tessari, Ennio de Concini. • Filmed in Spain. Based on the mythology of ancient Crete, the story depicts the fall from power of the island's evil king. The gods of Olympus, to thwart him, call on the youngest of the eleven Titans, Crios. In Color. TOYS IN THE ATTIC (Drama). Stars: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney, Yvette Mimieux. Producer: Walter Mirisch (Mirisch Co. Presentation). Director: George Roy Hill. Original (play): Lillian Heilman. Screenplay: James Poe. • Based on Lillian Heilman's hit Broadway play, an emotional drama set against a background of modern New Orleans and dealing with the corrosive effect of overly possessive love on a closeknit family. Universal (October through December, 1962) FREUD (Drama). Stars: Montaomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eric Portman. Producer: Wolfgang Reinhardt. Director: John Huston. Original Story: Charles Kaufman. Screenplay: Wolfgang Reinhardt, Charles Kaufman. • Filmed in Vienna and Munich, the story deals with the struggles of Freud as a vounq man to establish his theories regardina man's subconscious. It covers the period from his abandonment of a career in neurology in 1885 through his marriage to Martha Bernays in Vienna in 1886 and concluding with his speech introducing his theories on infantile sexuality before the Vienna Medical Society in 1890. Dec. 1962 (Prerelease). IF A MAN ANSWERS (Comedy). Stars: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund, Cesar Romero, Stefanie Powers. Producer: Ross Hunter (Ross Hunter Prod). Director: Henry Levin. Original (novel): Winifred Wolfe. Screenplay: Richard Morris. • A modern romantic comedy set against a New York background in which a free-lance photographer marries one of his models and runs into trouble as he works with his other beautiful models. In Color. Nov. 1962. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND (Drama). Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Barbara Perez, Marshall Thompson. ProducersDirectors: Richard Goldstone, John Mrnks jr. (Gold Coast Prod). Screenplay: Richard Goldstone, John Monks jr. • Filmed in the Philippines. The story of U S. Navy radioman, George Tweed, the only American to survive on Guam during 34 months of Jaoanese occupation in World War II. In Color. Oct. 1962. STAGECOACH TO DANCERS' ROCK (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Warren Stevens, Martin Landau, Jody Lawrance, Don Wilbanks, Del Moore. Producer-Director: Earl Bellamy (Gray-Mac Prod). Original Screenplay: Kenneth Darling. • Six persons board a stagecoach for a long trip in 1873. One passenger develops chicken pox and at a stop, the drivers, fearing smallpox, whip the horses and abandon the passengers, who then become involved in killings; another stagecoach with its driver dead from an Indian arrow; a stagecoach crash. Two passengers survive and make their way together on coach horses back to civilization. Nov 1962. Coming BIRDS, THE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock (Shamley Prods). Original (novella): Daphne Du Maurier. Screenplay: Evan Hunter. • Based on the Daphne Du Maurier novella, "The Birds," the story of massive bird attacks on people involves special effects with thousands of birds. In Color. CHARADE (Mystery Comedy). Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn. ProducerDirector: Stanley Donen. Original: Marc Behan, Peter Stone. Screenplay: Peter Stone. • Filmed in Paris. Story of a young widow in a jam because of difficulties and problems left by her late husband. In Panavision and Color. FOR LOVE OR MONEY (Comedy). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar, William Bendix, Leslie Parrish. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Michael Gordon. Original Screenplay: Larry Marks, Michael Morris. • Story of a mother in search of eligible husbands for her daughters. In Color. 40 POUNDS OF TROUBLE (Comedy). Stars: Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette, Larry Storch, Karen Steele, Stubby Kaye. Producer: Stan Margulies (Curtis Enterprises Prod). Director: Norman Jewison. Original Screenplay: Marion Hargrove. • A Nevada gambling casino operator finds himself with a small child on his hands after the little girl's father is killed. The father, sent on an errand, had left the child with the casino operator. In Panavision and Color. GATHERING OF EAGLES, A (Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan. Producer: Sy Bartlett. Director: Delbert Mann. Original Story: Sy Bartlett, Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay: Robert Pirosh. • A love triangle set against a U.S. Air Force background which tells the story of the Strategic Air Command. In Color. KISS OF THE VAMPIRE, THE (Horror). Stars: Clifford Evans, Edward De Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Noel William. Producer: Anthony Hinds (Hammer Film Prod). Director: Don Sharpe. • British-made. In Color. LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE (Spectacle Drama). Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, Ian Gregory, Michael Meacham. Producers: Cornel Wilde, Bernard Luber (Emblem Films Prod). Director: Cornel Wilde. Original Screenplay: Richard Scheyer, Jefferson Pascal. • Produced in Europe from the late Richard Scheyer's book, "Knights of the Round Tcble." In Panavision and Color. LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, THE (Mystery Melodrama). Stars: George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Herbert Marshall. Producer: Edward Lewis (Joel Prod). Director: John Huston. Original (novel): Philip MacDonald. Screenplay: Charles Schnee. • Partly filmed in Ireland. A wealthy Englishman makes a list of people, including himself, who he believes are marked for murder. An English socialite unknowingly furnishes a clue to the mysterious killer's identity. MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? (Comedy Farce). Stars: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy. ProducerDirector: Howard Hawks (Gibraltar-Laurel Prod). Screenplay: Howard Hawks, John Fenton Murray, Steve McNeil. • A modern-day comedy about a playboy sportsman and a public relations girl. In Color. MYSTERY SUBMARINE (Action Drama). Stars: Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice, Laurence Payne. Producer: Bertram Ostrer. Director: C. M. Pennington Richards. Original (play): J. Manchip White. Screenplay: Hugh Woodhouse, Bertram Ostrer, J. Manchip White. ® British-made. Set in World War II, the British Navy, using a captured German submarine with a British crew, sets out to destroy the wolf pack. PARANOIAC (Suspense Drama). Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham. Producer: Anthony Hinds (Hammer Film Prod). Director: Freddie Francis. Screenplay: Jimmy Songster. • British-made. The study of a mentally deranged person with delusions of grandeur and persecution, in which an adventurer brilliantly impersonates the heir to a fortune. In Color. SHOWDOWN (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake. Producer: Gordon Kay. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Screenplay: Bronson Howitzer. • A cowboy and his friend are mistakenly shackled in a chain gang and are forced to help the prisoners in an escape, during which th» friend steals some securities to buy their release from the prisoners. The securities are sent to a girl, and the cowboy tracks her down. The friend sacrifices his life for the cowboy and the girl, and the cowboy finally kills the outlaw gang leader. TAMMY AND THE DOCTOR (Comedy). Stars: Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Beulah Bondi, Margaret Lindsay. Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: Harry Keller. Screenplay: Oscar Brodney. • Third in the Tammy series, continuing the adventures of the young Louisiana riverboat girl in the big city. Tammy befriends an elderly woman whom she accompanies to Los Angeles for an operation. Tammy falls in love with a young doctor at the hospital. In Color. THRILL OF IT ALL, THE (Comedy). Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews. Producers: Ross Hunter, Martin Melcher. Director: Norman Jewison. Original Story: Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart. Screenplay: Carl Reiner. • A television "pitch" girl, wife of a doctor, becomes New York's most popular TV commercial salesgirl, which leads to various domestic problems. In Color. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck, 130 BAROMETER Section