Boxoffice barometer (1959)

TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER (Science-Fiction). Stars: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. • A science-fiction drama in which animated cartoons and iive action wiii be combined. To be fiimed in CinemaScope and coior. TANK COMMANDOS (War Drama). Stars: Waily Compo, Maggie Lawrence, Robert Barron. Producer: Burt Topper. Director: Burt Topper. Originai Screenpiay: Burt Topper. • The tanks are coming in this one. WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Science-Fiction). Stars: Not set. Producer: Burt Topper. Director: Burt Topper. Screenpiay: Not set. • The sequei to "End of the Worid," to be piayed as doubie biil. One of the women characters in the first picture surviives with seven men. The story deais with their struggie to iive in a devastated worid. Buena Vista (September through December 1958) TONKA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Soi Mineo, Phiiip Carey, Jerome Courtiand, Rafaei Campos. Producer: James Pratt for Wait Disney Productions. Director: Lewis R. Foster. Original: David Appel. • This deals with an Indian boy and his horse set against the events leading up to and including Custer's last stand. In Technicalor. Dee. 1958. WHITE WILDERNESS (Wildlife Drama). Narrated by Winston Hibler. Producer: Ben Sharpsteen for Walt Disney Productions. Director: James Algar. Original: James Algar. • It depicts the wild life at the top of the world. A True-Life Adventure, in color. Oct. 1958. Coming GIG FISHERMAN, THE (Religious Drama). Stars: Howard Keel, Beulah Bondi, Susan Kohner. Producer: Rowland V. Lee, independent. Director: Frank Borzage. • Anent the early days of Christianity and the disciple, Peter. In Eastman Color. DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Comedy Fantasy). Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea. Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Robert Stevenson. • An imaginative tale of an Irish sfory-teller and his adventures with leprechauns. In Technicolor. JUNGLE CAT, THE (Wildlife Feature). Director: James Algor for Walt Disney Productions. • Another True-Life Advenfure feature, depicting the life and living pafterns of the jaguar, king of the Amazon jungle, and other wild animals inhabiting the Brazilian region. In Technicolor. PETE'S DRAGON AND THE U.S.A. (Comedy Drama). Stars: Kevin Corcoran. Producer: Walt Disney. Original: Seton I. Miller, S. S. Field. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller. • An imaginative orphan and a children-loving dragon, only visible to youngsters, wreck havoc on schools, towns — and almost an entire nation. RAINBOW ROAD TO OZ, THE (Musical Fantasy). Stars: The Mouseketeers, including Tommy Kirk, Kevin Coircoran. Producer: Bill Walsh (Walt Disney Productions). Director: Sidney Miller. Original: L. Frank Baum. Screenplay: Dorothy Cooper. • Disney's first live-action musical fantasy based on one of the famous "Oz" stories by Baum. SHAGGY DOG, THE (Comedy Fantasy). Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funcielle. Producer: Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. Director: Charles Barton. Original: Felix Salten. Screenplay: Bill Walsh and Lillie Hayward. • A live-action yarn about a teenager who is magically changed into a part-time, Bratislavian sheep dog. SLEEPING BEAUTY (Cartoon Feature). Producer: Walt Disney. • All-cartoon feature based on the fairy tale, the first to be lensed in the new Technirama-TO, with six-channel high fidelity stereophonic sound. In Technicolor. THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN (Adventure Drama). Stars: Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald. Producer: William H. Anderson for Walt Disney Productions. Director: Ken Annokin. Screenplay: Eleanore Griffin. • Based on the story of the initial conquest of the Matterhorn. In color. Columbia (July through December 1958) APACHE TERRITORY (Western). Stars: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, John Dehner, Carolyn Craig. Producers: Rory Calhoun and Victor Orsatti for Rorvic Productions. Director: Ray Nazarro. Original: Louis L'Amour. Screenplay: Charles Morion and George W. George from an adapfation by Frank Moss. • A young drifter finds meaning in his life after he manages to rout o band of Apaches who are besieging a group of travelers taking refuge of a desert oasis. In color. Oct. 1958. CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND, THE (Melodrama). Stars: Carl Mohner, Andre Morell, Edward Underdown, Walter Fitzgerald. Producer: Anthony Hinds. Executive Producer: Michael Carreras for Hammer Films. Direcfor: Vol Guest. Screenplay: Jon Manchip White and Val Guest. • The prisoners on Blood Island, Malayan prison camp, know that the sadistic commandant will murder them all when he learns of his country's defeat and succeed in arm'ing themselves for battle. In Megascope. July 1958. CURSE OF THE DEMON (Horror). Stars: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis. Producer: Hoi E. Chester for his own independent comprany. D^irector: Jacques Tourneur. Original: M. R. James. Screenplay: Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester. • A psychologist refuses to believe that a man has been killed by black magic. However, gradually convinced of the powers of the devil cult, he turns the tables on its leader who becomes the fiend's victim. July 1958. GHOST OF THE CHINA SEA (Mystery). Stars: David Brian, Lynn Bernay. Producer: Charles Griffith. Director: Fred F. Sears. Original Screenplay: Charles Griffith. • Set in post-World War II era, it tells of fhe war's effect on some Philippine land owners. Sept. 1958. GUNMAN'S WALK (Western). Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shoughnessy. Producer: Fred Kohimar for his independent company. Director: Phil Karlson. Original: Ric Hardman. Screenplay: Frank Nugent. Oi Frontier settler teaches his sons to be quick on the trigger, only to find one of them has grown up to be a killer. In CinemaScope and color. July 1958. KEY, THE (Drama). Stars: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka. Producer: Carl Foreman for Highroad Productions. Director: Sir Carol Reed. Original: Jan de Hortog. Screenplay: Carl Foreman. • A lonely Swiss girl .in World War II London gives womanly comfort to a succession of fug boaf captains whose duty is of the high-hazard type. In CinemaScope. July 1958. KILL HER GENTLY (Crime Drama). Stars: Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell, Marc Lawrence. Producer: Guido Coen for Fortress Films. Director: Charles Saunders. Original Screenplay: 'Paul Erickson. • Prisoners escape and create further havoc until they double cross each other. Oct. 1958. LAST HURRAH, THE (Drama). Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster. Producer-Director: John Ford. Original: Frank O'Connor. Screenplay: Frank Nugent. • Adaptation of O'Connor's best seller, based on the last campaign of a political boss, unofficially identified in many sources as the late mayor of Boston, James Curley. Nov. 1958. MAN INSIDE, THE (Drama). Stars: Jack Balance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick. Producer: Irving Allen and Albert Broccoli (Warwick Productions). Director: John Gilling. Original: M. E. Chaber. Screenplay: David Shaw. • An inconspicuous accountant turns thief and there follows an exciting infernationol chase, with every professional jewel thief after him, and the $700,000 gem he has stoJen. In CinemaScope. Dec. 1958. ME AND THE COLONEL (Comedy). Stars: Danny Kaye, Curt Jurgens, Nicole Maurey. Producer: William Goetz, independent. Director: Peter Glenville. Original: Franz Werfei. Screenplay: S. N. Behrman and George Froesc’hel. » Two men — one a mild-mannered Polish Jew and the other an antisemetic Polish aristocrat colonel — ^find themselves companions during the war years in the '40s. Oct. 1958. MURDER BY CONTRACT (Mystery Drama). Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Fine. Producer: Leon Chooluck. Director: Irving Lerner. Original Screenplay: Ben Simcoe. • An ambitious young man in search of a job winds up as a paid killer. Dec. 1958. MURDER REPORTED (Mysfery Drama). Sfars: Paul Carpenter, Melissa Stribling. Producer: Guido Coen. Director: Charles Saunders. Original: Robert Chapman. Screenplay: Doreen Montgomery. • A newspaper reporter gets involved in a murder story and runs into competition for the scoop on it from his girl friend. Nov. 1958. REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (Horror). Stars: Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn. Producer: Anthony Hinds for Hammer Films. Director: Terence Fisher. Screenplay: Jimmy Songster, with additional dialog by H. Hurford Janes. • Baron Frankenstein transplants a dwarf's brain into a body with superhuman strength, but the creation is a cannabalistic killer. Almost killed by an angry mob, the baron escapes to another country. In Technicolor. July 1958. 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, THE (Fantasy). Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer. Producer: Charles H. Schneer for Morningside Prods. Director: Nathan Juran. Original Screenploy: Kenneth Kolb. • The experiences and adventures of Sinbad, prince of Bagdad, his lady love and the genie with the magic lamp, in Columbia's new Dynamation process. Dec. 1958. SHE PLAYED WITH FIRE (Drama). Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl. Producer: Frank Launder, Sidney Gllliat. Director: Sidney Gilliat. Original: Winston Graham. Screenplay: Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. • An insurance assessar works on a mysterious fire and doesn'f realize it will affect his whole life. Sept. 1958. SNORKEL, THE (Mystery). Stars: Peter Van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller. Producer: Michael Carreras for Hammer Films. Director: Guy Green. Original: Anthony Dowson. Screenplay: Peter Myers and Jimmy Sangster. • A little girl must find o way to prove that her stepfather murdered her mother by means of an ingenious device. Filmed on the Italian Riviera. July 1958. TARAWA BEACHHEAD (War Drama). Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton. Producer: Charles H. Schneer for Morningside Productions. Director: Paul Wendkos. Original Screenplav: Richard Alan Simmons. • Two so'Idiers, with different views on life, fall in love with sisters and try to destroy each other. Nov. 1958. WHOLE TRUTH, THE (Mystery). Stars: Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders. Producer: Jack Clayton for Romulus Films. Direcfor: John Guillermin. Original: Philip Mackie. Screenplay: Jonathan Latimer. • A handsome American film producer, making o picture in Italy, has an affair with an actress and, to keep his wife from finding out, becomes enmeshed in a murder. Sept. 1958. Coming ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Murder Mystery). Stars: Not set. Producer: Otto Preminger for Carlyle Prods. Direcfor: Ofto Preminger. Original: Robert Travers. Screenplay: Wendell Mayes. • Based on the novel by Judge John D. Voelker who writes under the penname of Robert Travers. An examination of a murder case which has won wide recognition. BABETTE GOES TO WAR (Comedy). Stars: Brigitte Bardot. Producer: Raoul Levy, for Levy-Ray Ventura. Director: Not set. Original: Raoul Levy. Screenplay: Michael Audiart, Jean Laborde. • Story of a young girl who is evocuated wifh the Allies, joins the Free French forces, learns the technique of espionage, and is porachufed back into France as a spy. BAMBOO KID, THE (Comedy with Music). Stars: Danny Kaye. Producer-Director-Writer: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. • Filmed in Japan, this is the story of a movie star on location in the Far East who becomes involved with smugglers, counterfeiters and spies. BANDIT OF ZHOBE (Drama). Stars: Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, Norman Wooland. Producer: Irving Allen, A. R. Broccoli for Warwick. Director: John Gilling. Screenplay: Anthony Began. • Filmed in Spain in CinemaScope and colar. BEACH BOYS, THE (Comedy Drama). Stars: Tab Hunter, (incomplete). Producer: Roger Edens. Director: Charles Vidor. Original: Julian Halevy, Raymond Marcus. Screenplay: Gabrielle Upton. • Against an Acapulco background, this story revolves around a young American who makes a precarious, catch-as-cotch-can living at the resort, and finds himself faced wifh a future — when he fails in love with an American girl. BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (Comedy-Drama). Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Jock Lemmon. Producer: Julian Blaustein. Director: Richard Quine. Originai: John Van Druten. Screenplay: Daniel Taradash. • A beautiful witch bewitches a man but loses her powers when she falls in love wifh him. Adaptation of hit Broadway play. In Technicolor. CITY OF FEAR (Dramo). Stars: Vince Edwards, Patricia Blair, Steven Ritch. Producer: Leon Chooiuck. Director: Irving Lerner. Original Screenplay: Steven Ritch and Robert Dillon. • Prisoners escape from San Quentin with what they believe is heroin and are eventually trapped with the discovery that it is not heroin but radioactive material. DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK, THE (Drama). Stars: Spencer Tracy, (incomplete). Producer: Fred Kohimar. Director: Not set. Original: Max Catto. Screenplay: Richard Murphy. • The story of a priest and three convicts who risk their lives to sove a colony of leper children from a volcano eruption. FACE OF A FUGITIVE (Western). Stars: Fred MacMurray, Myrna Fahey, Paul Berns, James Gavin. Producer: David Heilweil for Morningside Prods. Director: Paul Wendkos. Original: Peter Dawson. Screenplay: David T. Chantler, Dan Ullman. • An outdoor drama, filmed in color. FORBIDDEN ISLAND (Melodramo). Stars: Jon Hall. Producer-Director: Charles Griffith. Originol Screenplay: Charles Griffith. • Filmed in Hawaii. Divers go to on island in the Pacific and encounter murder instead of pearls. In Technicolor. 92 BAROMETER Section