Boxoffice barometer (1959)

tion of the beloved fairy tale about a boy who ■is only a few inches high. In color. Dee. 1958. TORPEDO RUN (Drama). Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster. Producer: Edmund Grainger. Director: Joseph Pevney. Screenplay: Richard Sale, William Wister Haines. • A submarine commander, whose wife and daughter are Japanese prisoners, moves into Nipponese waters seeking a ship which attacked Pearl Harbor, only to discover his famity members are aboard a prisoner ship between his sub and the aircraft carrier. In CinemaScope and Metrocolor. Oct. 1958. TUNNEL OF LOVE, THE (Comedy). Stars: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala. Producer: Joseph Fields, Martin Melcher. Director: Gene Kelly. Original: Joseph Fields and Peter De Vries. Screenplay: Joseph Fields. • Based on the 'hit play about a young married couple who attempt to adopt a baby and believe for a time that the child given them is the husband's illegitimate child. In CinemaScope. Nov. 1958. Coming ANGRY HILLS, THE (Drama). Stars: Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Mueller, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala. Producer: Raymond Stress for Cinemon Prod. Direcfor: Robert Aldrich. Original: Leon Uris. Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides. • Story of the heroic Greek resistance during World War II, from the novel by Leon Uris. Filmed 'in Greece and England. In CinemaScope. ASK ANY GIRL (Romantic Drama). Stars: Dovid Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young. Producer: Joe Pasternak for Euterpe Prod. Director: Charles Walters. Original: Winifred Wolfe. Screenplay: George Welles. • An old-fashioned girl in a modern world comes to Manhattan in search of a career — and a husband. In CinemaScope and Metrocolor. BEAT GENERATION, THE (Teenage Drama). Stars: Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Danton, Fay Spain. Producer: Albert Zugsmith, independent. Director: Charles Haas. Original: Barry Roman. Screenplay: Louis Meltzer, Richard Matheson. • A drama about a housewife who becomes involved with a gang of young thugs. Music by Louie Armstrong, Ray Anthony, Dick Contino. BELLS ARE RINGING, THE (Comedy). Stars: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original and Screenplay: Betty Comden, Adolph Green. • Based on the hit Broadway musicaL comedy about a hotel telephone operator who merrily mixes up the lives and conversations of the hotel guests, with Judy Holliday in her Broadway role. In color. BEN-HUR (Historicol Drama). Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Sam Jaffe, Stephen Boyd. Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: William Wyler. Original: Lew Wallace. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson. • A remake of the famous General Wallace classic novel of pagan Rome in the early days of Christianity. In color. BIG OPERATOR, THE (Crime Drama). Stars: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran. Producer: Albert Zugsmith. Director: Charles Haas. Original Screenplay: Robert Smith. • Topical story of life in the U.S., revolving around a labor boss being investigated by the government. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS (Drama). Stars: Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier. Producer: Karl Tunberg. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original: Nancy Mitford. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg. • A romantic comedy set in Hollywood, London and Paris, in Cinema^ope and color. DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, THE (Drama). Stars: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Morley. Producer: Anatole De Grunwald. Director: Anthony Asquith. Original: George Bernard Shaw. Screenplay: Anatole De Grunwald. • Filmization in Eastman Color of the famed play by George Bernard Shaw, in which the "dilemma" is whether the doctor should save the life of a brilliant, gifted scoundrel or a humble practitioner— he can't save both. FOR THE FIRST TIME (Romantic Drama). Stars: Mario Lanza, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar. Producer: Alexander Gruter. Director: Rudy Mate. • A festival of music and romance lensed in Germany, Austria and Italy. Story: An American tenor on a European tour falls in love with a deaf girl. In Technirama and Technicolor. GREEN MANSIONS (Drama). Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Tony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakowa. Producer: Edmund Grainger. Director: Mel Ferrer. Original: W. H. Hudson. Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley. • A young political fugitive takes refuge in the remote South American jungles and falls in love with a beautiful native girl. In CinemaScope and Metrocolor. JOURNEY, THE (Drama). Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Robert Morley, E. G. Marshall, ProducerDirector: Anatole Litvak. Originol Screenplay: George Tabori. • The story of the Hungarian uprising against Communism provides the background for o love story. In Metrocolor. MATING GAME, THE (Comedy). Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Fred Clork. Producer: Philip Barry jr. Director: George Marshall. Original: H. E. Bates. Screenplay: William Roberts. • An off-beat comedy about a zany family, based on the novel "Darling Buds of May." In CinemaScope and color. NEVER SO FEW (Drama). Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Jones, Haya Haroreet. Producer: Edmund Grainger. Director: John Sturges. Original: Tom Chamales. Screenplay: Millard Kaufman. • Concerns the Burma campaign of World War II, and revolves around the friendship of an American and British officer and the men they lead. NIGHT OF THE QUARTER MOON, THE (Drama). Stars: Julie London, John Drew Borrymore, Not King Cole, Anna Kashfi. Producer: Albert Zugsmith. Director: Hugo Haas. Screenplay: Frank Davis, Franklin Coen. • A dramatic story of miscegenation which, besides the above stars, also offers music by Cathy Crosby, Ray Anthony, Billy Daniels. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Crime Drama). Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. • A suspense yarn with a Central Intelligence Agency background. It deals with a man innocently involved in a dangerous international intrigue. In VistaVision and Metrocolor. SCAPEGOAT, THE (Drama). Stars: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Mourey. Producer: Michael Balcon. Director: Robert Hamer. Original: Daphne DuMaurier. Screenplay: Gore Vidal. • A suspense drama involving a man's uncanny resemblance to another man. SOME CAME RUNNING (Drama). Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original: James Jones. Screenplay: John Patrick. • Life in a small town, and what happens when an embittered ex-GI returns home to become involved in two romances, an association with a gambler and with an unfriendly brother. In CinemaScope and color. WATUSI (Adventure Drama). Stars: George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar. Producer: Al Zimbalist. Director: Kurt Neumann. Originol: H. Rider Haggard. Screenplay: James Clavell. • Filmization in Technicolor of the new adventures in Africa revolving around the son, now adult, of the white hunter of "King Solomon's Mines." In color. WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, THE (Drama). Stars: Harry Belofonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. Producer: George Englund. Director: Ranald MacDougall. Original Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall. • Set in 1962, the film tells what happens to three people who survive on atomic blast in Manhattan. In CinemaScope. Paramount (September through December 1958) AS YOUNG AS WE ARE (Teenage Drama). Stars: Robert Harland, Pippa Scott. Proiducer: William Ailand. Director: Bernard Girard. Screenplay: Wllliom Alland, Meyer Dolinsky. • Highlights romantic frustrations and follies of today's teenagers and tells what hoppens when a teacher becomes involved with a young man — and then discovers he's one of her students. Sept. 1958. BLOB, THE (Science-Fiction). Stars: Steven McQueen, Aneta Corseout, EanI Rowe. Prcducer: Jack H. Harris for Tonlyn Prod. Director: Ira S. Yeaworth jr. Original Screenplay: Irvine H. Mlllgate. • A gelantious "'blob" attocks a voriety of earthly targets, and is repressed only by icy blasts from a fire extinguisher. In color. Oct. 1958. GEI5HA BOY, THE (Comedy). Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa. Producer: Jerry Lewis. Director: Frank Tashiin. Original: Rudy Makoul. Screenplay: Frank Tashiin. • A small-time magician joins a USO unit in Japan with hilarious results. In VistaVision and Technicolor. Dee. 1958. HOT ANGEL, THE (Teenage Drama). Stars: Jackie Loughery, Edward Kemmer, Mason Alan Dinehort. Producer: Stanley Koliis for Paragon Prod. Director: Joe Parker. Original Screenplay: Stanley Kallis. • A teenage motorcycle gang clashes with some hot plane pilots. Dec. 1958. HOUSEBOAT (Comedy). Stars: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduordo Ciannelli. Producer: Jock Rose. Director; Melville Shavelson. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose. • A widower and his three children, and what hoppens after the father hires a glamorous housekeeper and sets up living quarters on a houseboat. In VistaVision and cfolor. Nov. 1958. I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (Science-Fiction). Stars: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch. Producer: Gene Fowler jr. Director; Gene Fowler jr. Original Screenplay: Louis Vittes. • This deals with monsters from a distant planet who enter the bodies of menfolk without others on earth being aware of it. Ocf. 1958. PARTY CRASHERS, THE (Teenage Drama). Stars: Connie Stevens, Robert Driscoll, Mark Damon. Producer: William Ailand. Director: Bernord Girard. Original: William Ailand and Dan Lundberg. Screenplay: Bernard Girard and Dan Lundberg. • A couple of kids become party crashers, including one at which the mother of the boy is injured in a drunk sequence. All of which points up that delinquent youngsters are often victims of delinquent parents. Sept. 1958. WHEN HELL BROKE LOOSE (Drama). Stars: Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel. Producer: Oscar Brodney and Sol Dolgin. Director: Kenneth Crane. Screenplay: Oscar Brodney. • Based on counter intelligence reports, the story deals with werewolves and a Nazi attempt to ossassinote General Eisenhower. Nov. 1958. Coming BAY OF NAPLES (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Clark Gable, others not set. Producer: Jack Rose. Director: Melville Shavelson, for Scribe Prod. Original: Michael Pertwee, Jack Davies. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose. • An American lawyer goes to Italy to get his orphaned nephew and falls in love with the child's governess, as well as Itolian way of life. BLACK ORCHID, THE (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Ina Bolin. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Marcello Girosi. Director; Martin Ritt. Origi nal Screenplay: Joseph Stefano. • A gangster's widow and a businessman fall in love only to have their romance threotened by their children. Filmed in Italy in VistaVision. BLAZE OF THE SUN (Drama). Stars: Sophia Loren, others not set. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Marcello Girosi. Original: Jean Hougran. • A doctor murders wife, escapes to fight Communists, but is captured, put in prison camp and eventually meets death. Based on warfare in IndoChina. BUCCANEER, THE (Historical Drama). Stars: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens, Charles Boyer. Producer: Henry W.ilcoxon. Director: Anthony Quinn. Original: Lyle Saxon. Screenplay: Jesse L. Lasky jr., Berenice Mosk, based on a screenplay 'by Harold Lamb, Edwin Mayer and C. Gardiner Sullivan. • The high adventures of the pirate Jeon Lafitte, who roomed the seas, the bayous and sundry establishments in the New Orleans area. In VistaVision and Technicolor. BUT NOT FOR ME (Comedy). Stars: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lili Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Kurt Kaznar. Producers: George Seaton, William Perlberg, Director: Walter Lang. Original Screenplay: John Michael Hayes. • A Broadway producer discovers young love is not for him. CAREER (Drama). Stars: Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa, Carolyn Jones, Shirley MacLaine. Producer: Hal Wallis. Original: James Lee. Screenplay; Not set. • Concerns a man obsessed by an ambition to be a great acting success and what hoppens to him and those drawn into the battle. Based on offBroadway play by Jomes Lee. COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR, THE (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: William Perlberg. Director: George Seaton. Original; Alexander Klein. Screenplay: George Seaton. • A true-life story telling of adventures in Nazi Germany of Eric Erickson, American who joined forces with Sweden's Prince Carl Bernadotte at the suggestion of Laurence Steinhordt, then our Ambassador to Russia. They posed as converted Nazis to help the U.S. win the war. DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP (Comedy). Stars: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Mickey Shaughnessy. Producer; Hal Woliis. Director: Norman Taurog. Original: Ellis Catison. Screenplay: Herbert Baker. • The zany adventures of a Navy Lieutenant who "loses" a destroyer escort and hunts for it during his honeymoon. FIVE PENNIES, THE (Comedy Drama). Stars: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Bob Crosby. Producer: Jack Rose, a Dena Picture. Director; Melville Shavelson. Original: Robert Smith. Screenplay; Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose. • Life story of jazz musician Red Nichols, who blamed himself for his daughter's polio and forsook his career until she recovered. A cavolcade of jazz music. In VistaVision and Technicolor. GIRLS OF SUMMER, THE (Drama). Stars: Dolores Hort, others not set. Producer: Hal Woliis. Director: Not set. Original: N. Richard Nash. • Concerns two sisters who find themselves in conflict over o man who falls in love with them both. HANGMAN, THE (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Robert Taylor, Fess Parker, Tina Louise. Producer: Frank Freeman jr. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Luke Short. Screenplay; Dudley Nichols, W. R. Burnett. • Story of a U. S. morshal determined to track down a man wanted far murder, only to discover that the whole town is out to protect the susp)ect. HELLER WITH A GUN (Western). Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Marcello 100 BAROMETER Section