Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1963)

SMASHING OF THE REICH, THE (Documentary). Produced and written by: Perry Wolff. Distributor: Brigadier Film Associates — States Rights. • (Combo with "Kamikaze.") A compilation of footaae from Allied and enemy films showing the infamous Hitler's Third Reich and the inevitable reckoning with the fates. Seen are shots of the Allied invasion from the Normandy Beach landings to the Rhine-— and final victory for the Allies. SPARROWS CAN'T SING (Comedy). Stars: James Booth, Barbara Windsor. Producer: Donald Taylor (Carthage Production). Director: Joan Littlewood. Original (play): Stephen Lewis. Screenplay: Stephen Lewis, Joan Littlewood. Distributor: Janus Films. • British co-production. Set in London's East End where a group of uninhibited people live, love and fight. Basic plot is about a homecoming sailor who arrives to find his wife living with another man. STARFIGHTERS, THE (Drama). Stars: Robert Dornan, Richard Jordahl, Shirley Olmsted. Producer-Director: Will Zens. Screenplay: Will Zens. Distributor: Riviera Productions. • Three fledgling Air Force pilots are assigned to fly the FI 04 "Starfighter" jet. Flight sequences complete with love interests, and a disgruntled father tries to dissuade his son from the jet fighters. In Color. STARK FEAR (Drama). Stars: Beverly Garland, Skip Homeier, Kenneth Tobey. Producer: Joe E. Burke, for Hockman-Swain Productions. Distributor: Ellis Films. • Made in Norman, Okla., this is a first production for Joe E. Burke. Two Oklahoma City Dlayers have feoiured roles in the film — Hannah Stone and George Clow. STRONG ROOM (Suspense Drama). Stars: Darren Nesbitt, Ann Lvnn. Keith Faulkner. Producer: Guido Coen. Director: Victor Saville. Original Story: Richard Harris. Screenolay: Richard Harris, Max Marquis. Distributor: Union Film Distributors. • British-made. A Milquetoast bank manager and his secretary are locked in the strong room of a bank by three holdup men and wait desperately for help as the minutes tick away and the oxygen starts dwindling Susnense mounts as one delay after another occurs before police are alerted. SWINGIN' AFFAIR, A (Drama With Music). Stars: Arl:ne Judae, Bill Wellman jr., Dick Dale and the DelTones. Producer: Gunther Collins (Bengal International Pictures!. Director: Jay O. Lawrence. Distributor: Emerson Film Enterprises. • A young man attending college has a secret boxing career on the side. TAMAHINE (British-made) — see Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer TERM OF TRIAL (British-made) — see Warner Bros. THIS SPORTING LIFE (British-made) — see Continental Distributing TRAVELING LIGHT (Documentary). Producer-Director: Michael Keatering (Victoria Films). Distributor: Times Film. • A naturist documentary. In Color. TRAVELING SALESMAN (Comedy). Stars: Tommy Holden. Marilyn Mannina, William Watters. Producer: Arch Hall sr. Original Story: Nicholas Merriwether. Screenplay: Robert O. Wehling. Distributor: FairwayInternational Films. • A racy exploitation comedy about a small-town Dots-and-oans salesman who becomes the nation's Number One bra salesman. In Color. TURKISH CUCUMBER, THE (Comedv). Stars: International Cast. Producer: Bavaria Films. Distributor: K. Gordon Murray. • Germon-made; English-dubbed. A fruit merchant on the 50th anniversary of his business is sent a harem as a gift from his suDDlier, the sheik. He keeps the harem and tries to hide it from his wife and family. TWO BEFORE ZERO (Documentary Drama). Narrators: Basil Rathbone, Marv Murphy. Producer: Fred Niles, for Motion Picture Com. of America. Director: Williom D Faralla. Screenplay: Bruce Henry. Distributor: Ellis Films. • Produced in Chicago, with "visual narration" by Rathbone and Miss Murphy, who aopear frequently to oresent arguments pro n”d con The film is a stepbv-steo picture of the rise of Communism, beginning with Karl Marx, throuah the backaround and causes of the Russian Revolution and into World War I, the Spanish Civil War, invasion of Hungary, cunning of Red China and Castro's Cuba. TWO NIGHTS WITH CLEOPATRA (Drama). Stars: Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi. Distributor: Ultra Pictures. • Italian-made; English-dubbed. In Color. VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA, THE (Italian-made; English-dubbed) — see United Artists VENGEANCE OF THE MUSKETEERS (Adventure Drama). Stars: Gerord Barry, Mylene Demongeot. Distributor: Colorama. • Filmed in Europe. In Color. VICE AND VIRTUE (French-made; English dubbed) — see Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer VICTORS, THE (British-made) — see Columbia VIOLATED PARADISE (Drama). Producer-Director: Marion Gering (Victoria Films). Distributor: Times Film. • In Color. VIOLENT MIDNIGHT (Drama). Stars: Lee Phillips, Shepard Strudwick, Lorraine Rogers. Producer: Del Tenney. Director: Richard Hilliard. Distributor: Times Film. WE SHALL RETURN! (Drama). Stars: Cesar Romero, Linda Libera, Anthony Ray, Michael O'Brien. Producer: Robert M. Carson (United Int'l Piets). Director: Philip Goodman. Original Screenplay: Pat Frank. Distributor: Cari Releasing Co. • A drama of the Cuban refugee problem and their desire to liberate their homeland from Castro's control. WILD IS MY LOVE (Drama). Stars: Paul Hampton, Elizabeth MacCrae, Ray Fulmer, Bob Alexander, Geene Courtney. Producer-Director: Richard Hilliard (General Films). Screenplay: Otto Lemming. Dis tributor: William Mishkin. • Filmed in and around an eastern college, the story dealing with three bored college youths, one of whom persuades a burlesque queen to spend a weekend at the college while students and faculty are on vacation. A game of Russian roulette played by the three youths is the film's high spot. WONDERFUL TO BE YOUNG (British-made)— see Paramount WORLD WITHOUT SHAME (Nudist Film). Stars: Yvonne Martell, Diane Valeri, Laurel Grey. Producer: Russell Gay. Director: Donavan Winter. Screenplay: Donavan Winter. Distributor: Galaxy Films. • British-made. Upon winning a football pool, an advertising executive and his wife decide to use the money to establish a nudist camp with three other couoles on a Mediterranean island. Word reaches civilization of this camD and every day the island swells in numbers. In Color. WRONG ARM OF THE LAW, THE (British-made)— see Continental Distributing YOUNG GO WILD THE (Melodrama). Stars: Heidi Bruhl, Peter Van Eyck, Christian Wolff. Director: Alfred Vohrer. Screenplay: H. G. Patterson. Distributor: Manson Distributing — States Rights. • German-made; English-dubbed. A false charge of theft causes a teenager to be expelled from school, which sets off a chain of violent circumstances leading to a false murder charge and prison. The kindly prison doctor's belief in the boy's innocence leads to an investigation and thence to the real killer. YOUNG, WILLING AND EAGER (Melodrama). Stars: Jess Conrad. Christina Gregq, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith. Producer: Tom Blakeley. Director: Lance Comfort. Original Story: Brock Williams. Screenplay: Brock Williams, Derry Quinn. Distributor: Manson Distributing — States Rights. • British-made. A 17-year-old girl leaves home, is befriended by a kind-hearted fortune-teller, who gets her a job at a cafe, and she falls in love with an ospiring crooner who marries her when she becomes pregnant. Unable to get a singing job, the crooner is forced into crime and eventual murder. YOUR SHADOW IS MINE (British-made) — see Continental Distributing Foreign Language ADORABLE SINNER (Romantic Comedv). Stars: Romy Schneider, Curt Jurgens. Director: Robert Siodmak. Distribtuor: Film-Mart. • French-language; English titles. English-dubbed version also available. In Color. ANTIGONE (Drama). Stars: Irene Papas, Manos Ka trakis, Nikos Kazis. Producer: Demetrios Paris (Norma Films). Director: George Tzavellas. Screenplay: George Tzavellas. Distributor: Ellis Films. • Greek-language; English titles. Filmed in Greece. Based on the SoDhocles classic Greek tragedy about the unhappy Antigone who was doomed to death for defying an edict of Oreon, King of Thebes. Ordered to be buried alive by Oreon, despite her being his son's fiancee, Antigone hangs herself. Oreon then witnesses his son's suicide and his grieving wife takes her own life, also. APARTMENT IN MOSCOW (Comedy Drama). Stars: E. Burenkov N. Doroshina, S. Lykhin. Producer: Gorky Film Studios. Director: Victor Eisimont. Screenplay: G. Mdivani. Distributor: Artkino Pictures. • Russian-language; English titles. A story of the romance between a construction worker and a young, unwed mother, set against a background of the Soviet's rising housing projects. BALTIC EXPRESS (Suspense Drama). Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemozyk, Teresa Szmigielowna. Producer-Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Distributor: Telepix Corp. • Polish-language; English titles. Story of a man on the run, the action taking place on an over-night train from a large central European station to the seashore. BEDROOM VENDETTA (formerly "The Green Mare")— (Comedy). Stars: Bourvil, Sandra Milo, Valerie Laarange, Francis Blanche. Producer-Director: Claude Autant-Lara. Original (novel): Marcel Ayme. Screenplay: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost. Distributor: Zenith International — States Rights. • French-language; English titles. A bawdy account of a fierce feud between two French peasant families, fought primarily in the bedrooms of each household. In Color. BIRD OF PARADISE ("L'Oiseou De Paradis") — (Drama). Stars: Narie Hem, Sam El, Nop Nem, Little Skarine, Princess Bopha Devi. Producers: Michael Safra, Serge Silberman. Director: Marcel Camus. Original Screenplay: Jacques Viot, Marcel Camus. Distributor: Lopert Pictures. • French-language; English titles. A romantic love story. In Color. CANDIDE (Satirical Comedy). Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dahlia Levi, Michel Simon, Nadia Gray, Pierre Brasseur. Producer: Clement Duhour. Director: Norbert Carbonnaux. Original (novel): Voltaire. Screenplay: Norbert Carbonnaux. Distributor: Union Film Distrs. • French-language; English titles. Produced in 1960 and deemed unsuitable for export until now, the comedy is a survey of contemporary civilization as seen by a naive young Frenchman on his journey through Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union. CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (Drama). Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blank. Producers: Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti, for Rome-Paris Films. Director: Agnes Varda. Screenplay: Agnes Varda. Distributor: Zenith International — States Rights. • French-language; English titles. An intimate account of the adventures of a beautiful, distraught French star between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m., as she whiles away the moments awaiting the doctor's result of a biopsy. COP, THE (Comedy). Stars: Alberto Sordi, Sylva Koscina, Vittorio de Sica, Marisa Merlini. Producer: Guido Giambartolomei (Royal Film Production). Director: Luigi Zampa. Distributor: Parallel Film Distrs. — States Rights. • Italian-language; English titles. An egomaniac becomes a policeman and makes many mistakes, getting into all sorts of difficulties. CRIME DOES NOT PAY ("Le Crime Ne Paie Pas") — (French) — see Embassy DER ROSEN KAVALIER (Full Operetta). Stars: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Otto Edelmann. ProducerDirector: Dr. Paul Czinner. Distributor: J. Arthur Rank Organization. • Austrian-made; English titles. Based on Richard Strauss' romantic masterpiece. Photographed in its entirety from the stage of the Salzburg Festspielhaus, and centers around the bittersweet romance of a princess who falls in love with a dashing cavalier who is in love with someone else. In Color. DEVI ("The Goddess") — (Folklore Drama). Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore. Producer-Director: Satyajit Ray. Screenplay: Satyajit Ray. Distributor: Edward Harrison. • Indian-language; English titles. Produced in In dia. A story of superstition and religious fanaticism in India a century ago, in which a young bride, whose father-in-law believes she is the reincarnation of the exalted Kali, is accepted and worshipped as a goddess. She eventually goes insane and plunges her family into doom. ECLIPSE (Drama). Stars: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti. Producers: Robert and Raymond Hakim. Director: Michel angelo Antonioni. Distributor: Times Film. • Italian-language; English titles. Italo-French co production, by Interopa Film-Cineriz, Rome, and Paris Film. Set in the actual Stock Exchange (Bourse) in Rome, where the daughter of a speculator falls in love with an overly ambitious youthful stock broker. ELECTRA (Drama). Stars: Irene Papas. Producer-Di rector: Michael Cacoyannis. Original (play): Euripides. Screenplay: Michael Cacoyannis. Distributor: Lopert Pictures. • Greek-language; English titles. Classic Greek tragedy of adultery, murder and vengeance, in which a brother and sister plot to slay their stepfather, then their mother. EVERYBODY GO HOME ("Tutti a Casa") — (War Drama). Stars: Alberto Sordi, Martin Balsam, Serge Reggiani, Alex Nicol. Producer: Dino De Laurentiis. Director: Luigi Comencini. Distributor: Davis-Royal Films. • Italian-language; English titles. The grim story of the reign of terror that followed Italy's surrender in World War II, which shows the ironies and tragedies of war. FIASCO IN MILAN (Comedy). Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale. Producer: Franco Cristaldi (Ti tanus Prod). Director: Nanni Loy. Distributor: AvionTrans-Universe Pictures. • Italian-language; English titles. Also available in English-dubbed version. Five small-time operators, who do everything wrong, pull a successful robbery and get away with millions. Conscience finally takes over and the money is returned. FOLLOWING THE SUN (Drama). Stars: Niku Krimnus. Producer: Moldova Films. Director: Mikhail Kalik. Screenplay: Valeriu Gazhiu, Mikhail Kalik. Distributor: Artkino Pictures. • Russian-language; English titles. A five-year-old bov learns much about the ways of the world by following the sun and viewing it through a colored glass. In Color. GAME FOR SIX LOVERS, A (Comedy Melodrama). Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Francoise Brion, Alexandre Stewart. Producer: Pierre Braunberger. Director: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. Distributor: Brigadier Film Associates — States Rights. • French-language; English titles. Against the setting of a baroque French chateau, three parallel and simultaneous stories are played out by three young couples, initially strangers to each other. 134 BAROMETER Section