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©BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, THE. .813. .(146) Mar. 7 Drama. From Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel set in the days of czorist Russia, and is a psychological study of three brothers. One brother, falsely accused of patricide, is defended by the other two. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Albert Salmi, Richard Basehart. Director: Richard Brooks. Avon Production. CRY TERROR!. .820 . .(96) May 2 Suspense Drama. A TV repoirmon is duped into assembling a bomb for a wartime pal, unaware until too late that it is to be used as part of an extortion plot against an airline. James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson. Director; Andrew L. Stone. Virginia and Andrew L. Stone Production. ©DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER 808 (107) Dee. '57 Comedy. From William Brinkley's novel about the hilarious activities of a bored Navy public relations staff of officers and men who are forced to sit out World War II on an isolated South Pacific island. Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Jeff Richards. Director: Charles Walters. Avon Production. (Cinemascope.) FIEND WITHOUT A FACE . 823 . . (77) June 6 Horror Melodrama. British-made. A series of mysterious murders by invisible objects plague a U. S.Canad'ian air base and is traced to a scientist experimenting in thought materialization who had created an invisible being which turned into a monster and started multiplying. Marshall Thompson, Terence Kilburn, Michael Bolfour. Director: Arthur Crabtree. Amalgamated Production. ©GIGI. 825. (115) July 4 — Special Musical Comedy. From Colette's play which later became a Broadway musical hit. Story of an innocent sprite whose natural charms attract Paris's most eligible bachelor. Who develops a change of heart about making her his miistress and winds up proposing marriage. LesHe Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermtone Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Arthur Freed Production. (Cinemascope.) HANDLE WITH CARE 819. (82) Apr. 18 Drama. Law students get into hot water when they conduct a mock jury investigation of murticipal management in their town and uncover evidence of financial irregularities against leading city officials. Dean Jones, Joan O'Brien, Thomas Mitchell, John Smith, Walter Abel. Director: David Freldkin. HAUNTED STRANGLER, THE . . 822 . (81 ) June 6 Horror Melodrama. British-mode. A cultured, justice-seeking novelist who believes an innocent man was hanged 20 years ago, sets out to prove it and undergoes a transformation that turns him into a mad killer. Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson. Director: Robert Day. Amalgamated Production. HIGH COST OF LOVING, THE 814 (87) . Mar. 14 Comedy Drama. Concerns the problems of a married man of 40 who learns his wife is expecting their first baby. At the same time his firm changes hands, and he mistakenly believes he is being fired. Jose Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Bobby Troup. Director: Jose Ferrer. (Cinemascope.) HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. .826. (85) June 13 Melodrama. Story touches on drug addiction problems among a group of high school students. Tells how authorities set a trap to learn who is behind the vice-ring supplying the narcotics. Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, and guest stars Mamie Van Doren, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Anthony, Jackie Coogan, Charles Chaplin jr., Diane Jergens. Director: Jack Arnold. Albert Zugsmith Production. (CinemaScope.) HIRED GUN, THE 803 (64) Sept. 20, '57 Western. Texas gunslinger agrees for $5,000 to bring bock an escaped woman prisoner, sentenced to hang for murdering her husband. Finally convinced of her innocence, he finds a witness to the murder and helps to clear her. Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, Chuck Connors, John Lite). Director: Ray Nazarro. (CinemaScope.) HOUSE OF NUMBERS. 802. (92) Sept. 6, '57 Melodrama. Based on the Cosmopolitan magazine novel by Jack Finney. Tells of the step-by-step procedure in a carefully planned prison break from San Quentin that almrost proved successful. Jack Balance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt. Director: Russell Rouse. (CinemaScope.) I ACCUSE!. .817. (99) Feb. 28 Drama. Produced in England. New film version of the world-famous case of Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, who in 1894 was falsely accused of treason and exiled to Devil's Island. Jose Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Anton Walbrook, Leo Genn, David Farrar, Emiyn Williams, Herbert Lorn. Director; Jose Ferrer, (CinemaScope.) IMITATION GENERAL, .830 . (87) July 18 Comedy Drama. An American sergeant takes over when the general is killed and saves his unit from destruction. The romantic angle develops when he falls in love with a beautiful French girl. on whose form he and his men seek refuge. Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Toina Elg, Dean Jones. Director: George Marshall. (CinemaScope.) INVISIBLE BOY, THE . . 805 , . (89) Oct. 18, '57 Science-Fiction Drama. A scientist develops a supercomputer which exercises a sinister influence on his son in order to force the father to divulge secret information. The boy is saved by his playmate, Robby the Robot. Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone, Robert H. Harris. Director: Herman Hoffman. Pan Production. JAILHOUSE ROCK. .806 . (96) Nov. '57 Drama. A prison inmate's appearance on a TV show marks the start of a successful singing career following his release. His inflated ego creates problems, but he learns true humility when faced with the loss of his voice. Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler Mickey Shaughnessy, Dean Jones, Jennifer Holden. Director: Richard Thorpe. Avon Production. (CinemaScope.) ©LAW AND JAKE WADE, THE 824 (86). June 20 Western Drama. A respected marshal, once a gunfighter, risks his life and future to repay a debt to an outlaw who once saved bis life, only to have the latter turn out to be the meanest killer in the west. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton, Henry Silva. Director: John Sturges. (CinemaScope.) fJ©LES GIRLS. .807. .(114) Nov. '57 Musical Comedy. A slander suit is filed against a woman author in a London court of law. Four different versions as to what actually happened are told in flashback by the three ex-Paris showgirls involved and a mole dance partner. Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Key Kendall, Taina Elg, Jacques Bergerac, Leslie Phillips. Director: George Cukor. Sol C. Siegel Production. (CinemaScope.) ©MERRY ANDREW. .818. (102) Apr. 4 Comedy With Music. British-made. Shy English schoolteacher accidentally gets mixed up with a traveling circus while digging for an ancient Roman statue he hopes to find for the British Museum, and fails in love with a beautiful aerialist. Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Baccaloni, Noel Purcell, Robert Coote, Patricia Cutts. Director: Michael Kidd. Sol C. Siegel Production. (CinemaScope.) ©RAINTREE COUNTY. .809 (166) . . . Dec. '57 — Special Historical Drama. (Roadshow engagements originally ran 185 miinutes, but running time was cut to 166 minutes.) Based on the Ross Lockridge jr. novel, this tells the love story of a man and the two girls in his life, and is set against a background story of America in the period during and after the Civil War. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigei Patrick, Lee Marvin. Director: Edward Dmytryk. (Mode in MGM Camera 65; reduced to CinemaScope.) ©RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE, THE . 829 (98) Aug. 8 Comedy Drama. Filmed in London. An Americanborn girl is "lounched" in London society by her parents, who seek a suitable husband for her. She foils in love with a drummer in a band who wins parental approval when he inherits a title and a fortune. Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Avon Production. (CinemaScope.) ©SADDLE THE WIND . . 81 5 . . (84) Mar. 21 Western Drama. Story of two brothers, one an exgunfighter turned rancher, the other a triggerhappy young fighter who turns killer. The brothers face each other in a final showdown. Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes, Donald Crisp, Charles McGraw. Director: Robert Parrish. (CinemaScope.) SAFECRACKER, THE .810. (96) Jan. 10 Melodrama. British-made. A celebrated criminal safecracker is released from a prisoner-of-war camp to perform a dangerous mission for British Intelligence during World War II. Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeannette Sterke, Ernest Clark, Melissa Stribling, Victor Maddern. Director: Ray Milland. David E. Rose Production. ©SEVEN HILLS OF ROME 81 1 . . (1 04) Jan. 24 Comedy With Songs. Filmed in Italy. The adventures of a temperamental American singer in Rome and his madcap romance with a piquant Italian beauty he befriends. Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel, Marisa Allasio, Peggie Castle. Director: Roy Rowland. Le Cloud Production. (Technirama.) ©SHEEPMAN, THE. .821 . .(85) May 16 Western Comedy Drama. A sheepherder settles in a hostile community controlled by an unscrupulous cattle boron. The newcomer's undaunting courage wins the town's respect and his standing is established when he exposes the crooked cattleman. Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLoine, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan. Director: George Marshall. (CinemaScope.) ©TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE . . 831 .. (86) . . July 11 Jungle Melodrama. Filmed in Africa. A research scientist with Tarzan's oid fights against the evil ways of the witch doctors. They finally succeed in convincing the Nagasu natives that the white man's cure is best. Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jll Jarmyn, Carl Benton Reid. Director: Bruce Humberstone. Sol Lesser Production. UNDERWATER WARRIOR . . 81 2 . . (91 ) Feb. 14 Action Drama. Filmed in the South Pacific. The underwater demolition exploits of Commander Francis Douglas Fane, the Navy's greatest frogman, who is credited with performing some of the most difficult and dangerous underwater feats of warfare. Dan Oalley, Claire Kelly, James Gregory, Ross Martin, Raymond Bailey. Director: Andrew Morton. Underwater Production. (CinemaScope.) UNTIL THEY SAIL . . 804 . , (95) Oct. 4, '57 Drama. Filmed in New Zealand. From a story by James A. Michener. Four sisters in New Zealand find their romantic lives complicated by World War II, resulting in loneliness and confusion, happiness and heartbreak. Jeon Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Charles Drake, Sandra Dee. Director; Robert Wise. (CinemaScope.) Paramount (September, 1957 through August, 1958) ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE . 5719 (95) May Drama. British-made. Set in London during World War II, story concerns a female war correspondent who Is engaged to the head of the American newspaper she represents. She becomes emotionally involved with a romantic young Englishman and finds he has a wife. Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Terence Longdon. Director: Lewis Allen. Lanturn Production. (VistaVision.) COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK, THE . . 5733 . . (70) . . June Science-Fiction Melodrama. A brain surgeon, following his scientist son's death, transfers the latter's brain into the body of a mechanical man. The monster runs wild in New York, its eyes raining death and destruction. Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton, John Baragrey, Director: Eugene Lourie. COUNTRY MUSIC HOLIDAY . . 5714. . (80) Mar. Comedy With Music. A young hillbilly singer from the Tennessee mountains is brought to New York to compete on TV with an established hillbilly star from his home town. Ferlln Husky, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rocky Graziano, Foron Young, June Carter. Director: Alvin Ganzer. Aurora Production. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS . . 571 2 . . (1 1 1 ) Mar. Drama. Based on Eugene O'Neill's play about a strange triangle involving three persons on a New England farm — a patriarchal father, his third wife and his son — ond the conflict between them for ownership of the prosperous land, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Anne Seymour, Frank Overton. Director: Delbert Mann. Don Hartman Production. (VlstaVision.) ©DEVIL'S HAIRPIN, THE . . 5704 . . (82) Oct. '57 Racing Drama. A retired world Champion sports car racer, blamed for a racing accident which injured his brother, is goaded into making a comeback. Hated by the other drivers, he rides to victory against al'l obstacles and regoins their respect. Cornel Wilde, Jean Walloce, Arthur Franz, Mary Aster, Ross Bagdasarian, Larry Pennell. Director: Cornel Wilde. (VlstaVision.) HEAR ME GOOD .5706. (80) Oct. '57 Comedy. Two small-time swindlers "rig" a beauty contest in Brooklyn, with a gangster's moll as their entry. They mix in a little race horse betting on the side, but a hitch in their plans creates hilarious complications. Hal March, Joe E. Ross, Merry Anders, Jean Willes. Director: Don McGuire. (VistaVision.) HIGH HELL. .5711 . .(87) Mar. Melodrama. Filmed in England and the Swiss Alps. From novel, "High Cage," by Steve Frazee. A woman is trapped in a snowbound mining cabin atop a treacherous mountain peak with her husband and four other miners who covet her. John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Patrick Allen, Rodney Burke, Director: Burt Balabon. Princess Production. HOT SPELL. .5718 . .(86) June Drama. A tale of frustration and famiily squabbles that build up to a dramatic climax during 1-wo hot days in a small southern town. Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holllmon, Eileen Heckart. Director: Daniel Mann. Hal Wallis Production. (VistoVlsion.) JOKER IS WILD, THE. 5705. (126) Oct. '57 Biographical Drama. Screen version of Art Cohn's book on comedian Joe E. Lewis, widely known nightclub entertainer. Tells of his crippling attack by mobsters for whom he refused to work, and his tragic personal life. Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland. Director: Charles Vidor. (VistoVlsion.) KING CREOLE . .5734 . (115) July Musical Drama. Based on book, "A Stone for Danny Fisher," by Harold Robbins. A rebellious young singer in New Orleans, who is at odds with bis father, becomes involved with cheap gangsters. At the end, he gets his big singing chance and is reunited with his father. Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hdft, Dean Jogger, Li Hone Montevecchi, Vic Morrow. Director: Michael Curtiz. Hal Wallis Production. ©MARACAIBO. .5717. .(88) May Adventure Drama. Filmed in Venezuela. Story tells 130 BAROMETER Section