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dier's romance with a German girl while on a three-week furlough from the eastern front. John Gavin, Lilo Pulver, Don DeFore, Jock Mahoney, Keenan Wynn. Director: Douglas Sirk. (CinemaScope.) TOUCH OF EVIL. .5815 . (95) Feb. Melodrama. A tale of violence, murder and vengeance involving a Mexican investigator, a murderous American cop in cahoots with the narcotics underworld, and the investigator's wife who becomes the terrified prisoner of the evil cop in his threat for revenge. Ohorlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tam'iroff, and guest stars Marlene Dietrich and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Director: Orson Welles. ©TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS . . 5833 . . (1 19) Aug. Adventure Drama. A Mexico-bound brigantine develops a leak during a South Seas storm. Ensuing efforts by the drunken captain and motley passengers to save the ship until ft can reach land provide the dramatic suspense. Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw, Ernest Truex. Director: Joseph Pevney. VIOLATORS, THE. .5808. .(76) Dee. '57 Drama. Story of a kindly probation officer in New York City courts whose personal interest in his parole charges creates conflicts with his superiors. He reaches a crisis when his own daughter becomes involved with a parole violator. Arthur O'Connell, Nancy Malone, Fred Beir, Clarice Blackburn. Director: John Newland. Galahad Production for RKO Radio. VOICE IN THE MIRROR. .5835. (102) Aug. Drama. Sfory of how efforts of a young alcoholic to rehobil'itate himself lead to the association of several alcoholics who help each other fight desire for drink. Apparently based on experiences of the unmentioned Alcoholics Anonymous. Richard Egan, Julie London, Walter Matthau, Arthur O'Connell. Director: Harry Keller. (CinemaScope.) ©WILD HERITAGE. .5834. .(78) Aug. Western. The father of a family frekking west in a covered wagon is killed but the widow and four children establish claim to land, become cattle ranchers and successfully carve out their careers Jn the frontier region. Will Rogers jr., Maureen O'Sullivan, Rod McKuen, Casey Tibbs. Director: Charles Haas. (CinemaScope.) (REISSUES) ORISS CROSS. .5826. .(88) May Melodrama. Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally. Director: Robert Siodmak. WINCHESTER '73. .5825. (92) May Western. James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally. Director: Anthony Mann. Warner Bros, (August 31, 1957 through August 9, 1958) BADMAN'S COUNTRY. .726. (68) Aug. 2 Western. An ace Abilene lawman becomes embroiled with a gang planning a big train holdup. He gets oid from Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp and Bat Mosterson just before the gang comes into town for a final showdown that results in the gang's capture. George Montgomery, Buster Crabbe, Karin Booth, Neville Brand. Director: Fred F. Sears. Peerless Production. BLACK PATCH. .702. (83) Sept. 14, '57 Western. Set in post-CSivil War New Mexico, a marshal, unjustly accused of murder, sets a teenager straight after the latter, egged on by sinister forces, attempts to kill him. George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon, House Peters jr., Sebastian Cabot. Director: Allen H. Miner. BLACK SCORPION, THE . . 705 . . (88) Oct. 19, '57 Science-Fktion Melodrama. Filmed in Mexico. Geologists investigating a volcanic eruption in Mexico discover giant scorpions are being released on the village. Dangerous battles ensue before the scorpions are all killed and the reign of terror ended. Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro. Director: Edward Ludwig. ©BOMBERS B-S2. .708, (106) Nov. 30, '57 Drama. Dramatizes the Air Force and offtimes thankless jobs of the men who service the giant B-52 bombers. Tells how the lives of a sergeant, his wife and their romantic teenage daughter are affected. Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist jr. Director: Gordon Douglas. (CinemaScope.) CHASE A CROOKED SHADOW 71 5 . . (87) . . Apr. 19 Melodrama. Filmed in Spain. Story with a surprise ending about a woman exposed to mental torture by a gang of supposed crooks after her diamonds, and a man claiming to be her dead brother, whom she knows is not. Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lorn, Alexander Knox, Faith Brook. Director: Michoel Anderson. Douglas Fairbanks jr. Producduction; Associated Dragon Films. DANGEROUS YOUTH . . 723 . . (98) June 7 Action Drama. (British-made; released in England as "These Dangerous Years.") A Liverpool juvenile gang leader is drafted for army service but soon is accused unjustly of the murder of a fellow soldier. He seeks refuge on the Liverpool waterfront under protection of his gang until cleared of the murder charge. Frankie Vaughan, George Baker, Carole Lesley, Jackie Lane. Director: Herbert Wilcox. DARBY'S RANGERS. .714 . .(121) Feb. 22 War Drama. Based on the exploits of Col. Wm. O. Darby, World War II hero, ond his famed Rangers in the Dieppe, North African ond Italian campaigns. Those who survive return to their sweethearts. James Garner, Etchika Choureou, Jack Warden, Edward Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson, Torin Thatcher. Director: William A. Wellman. ©DEEP SIX, THE. .712. (108) Jan. 18 Drama. World War II story about a gunnery officer on a destroyer whose Quaker background prevents him from fighting. He volunteers for a hazardous rescue mission on a Japanese-held island and winds up a hero. Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, James Whitmore, Keenan Wynn, Wilkam Bendix, Efrem Zimbalist jr. Director: Rudolph Mate. Jaguar Production. ©FORBIDDEN DESERT . . 591 0 . . (45) ... Dec. 21, '57 Travelog-Adventure Featurette. Based on an 1812 exploration by a Swiss adventurer, disguised as an Arab, who was the first westerner to penetrate the "forbidden" Biblical cities of Arabia. Rafik Shommas and a cast of Arabs. Narrafed by Marvin Miller. Direcfor: Jackson Winter. FORT DOBBS. .713 . .(90) Feb. 8 Western. After successfully eluding a posse, on accused murderer befriends a widow and her young son. Suspected also of having killed the husbond and father, he is able fo clear himself on both counts. Clint Waiker, Virginia Mayo, Brian Keith, Richard Eyer, Russ Conway. Director: Gordon Douglas. GREEN-EYED BLONDE, THE. .710 (73). Dec. 14, '57 Drama. Depicts the drama behind the scenes of a corrective institution for wayward girls. Plot centers around the attempts of the giirls to hide a stolen infant from the house mother and the tragedy that befalls an escapee. Susan Oliver, Linda Plowman, Beverly Long, Norma Jean Nilsson, Tommie Moore, Carlo Merey. Director: Bernard Girord. Arwin Production. HELEN MORGAN STORY, THE . 704 (118) Oct. 5, '57 Biographical Drama With Music. Story of fhe famous blues singer of the Prohibition Era who became the toast of New York and Europre. Beset by personal tragedies, she turns to drink and ruins her career, but later makes a comeback. Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans, lAlan King, Cora Williams. Director: Michael Curtiz. (CinemaScope.) ©INDISCREET. .725. .(100) July 26 Comedy. Filmed in England. An English actress falls in love with an American who pretends to be married. She leorns he really isn't; countertricks him by having her butler pretend to be her husband. Both ruses exposed, the American proposes marriage. Cory Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff. Director: Stanley Donen. Grandon Production. JAMBOREE. .709. (86) Dee. 7, '57 Musical. Two budding platter singers team up as a romarntic duo and become an instant hit. The rivalry between their respective agents creates temporary problems, but all ends hoppily. Robert Pastine, Kay Medford, Paul Carr, Freda Holloway, Count Basie and His Band, "Fats" Domino, ond 17 popular recording artists. Director: Roy Lockwood. JOHNNY TROUBLE. .703. .(80) Sept. 21, '57 Drama. Elderly, wealthy widow, confined to a wheel chair, finds her home being converted into a college dormitory for boys. She finds contentment in her new role as "house mother" and confidante to the 150 undergraduates. Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Carolyn Jones, Stuart Whitman, Jack Larson, Jesse White. Director: John H. Auer. Clarion Production. LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE . . 71 6 . . (93) Mar. 22 War Drama. The heroic exploits of America's first volunteer combat pilots who served with the French Lafayette Escodrille in World War I, flying under two flags in the world's first aerial war. Tab Hunter, Etchiko Choureou, Bill Wellman jr., Jody McCrea, Dennis Devine. Director: William A. Wellman. LEFT HANDED GUN, THE. .720. .(102) May 17 Western Drama. A cowboy, befriended by a New Mexican rancher shortly before the latter is murdered by a crooked sheriff, goes gunning for the sheriff and his deputies, finally getting them and becoming known os Billy the Kid. Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield. Director: Arthur Penn. Haroll Production. ©MANHUNT IN THE JUNGLE . . 721 . . (79) . . May 24 Adventure Drama. Made in the Amazon country. Story of the 1928 George Dyott expedition in search of the lost Amazon explorer, P. H. Fawcett. The Oyott group is unsuccessful, neorly perishes in Indian attacks but gets bock to oivilization. Robin Hughes, Luis Alvarez, James Wilson, Jorge Montoro. Director: Tom McGowan. ©MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR. .717. (123). . Apr. 5 Drama. From novel by Herman Wouk. The story follows a young Jewish girl from ber 1 8ith birthdoy through her turbulent years of a long, hopeless love affair with a man who keeps coming into and going out of her life. Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Ed Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloone, Marty Milner. Director: Irving Rapper. Beachwold Piets. Production. ©NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE. .727. .(131). Aug. 9 War Drama. Norman Mailer's story of the invasion by American soldiers of a Japanese-held South iPooific island, with action centering on a platoon leader, his platoon sergeant, and the general commanding the operation. Aldo Ray, Raymond Massey, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Nichols, Lili St. Cyr. Director; Raoul Walsh. RKO Teleradio Piets. Production. (WornerScope.) t|NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS . . 724 .. (1 19) . . July 5 Comedy Farce. A backwoods youth, drafted into the Air Force, treats sergeants and officers as friends, confuses the psychiatrist, gets put in charge of latrine duty and ends up happily transferred, with his sergeant, to the infontry, Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. ||©PAJAMA GAME, THE. .701 (101) Aug. 31, '57 Musical Comedy. From Broadway play of some name, and novel "7'/2 Cents." The new monager of a pajama foctory and the woman head of the employes greivance committee have a stormy romance complicated by lobor-monagement problems which ore all happily resolved. Doris Day, John Roitt, Corol Haney, Eddie Foy jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara N'ichols. Direotors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen. CJS©SAYONARA. .711 . (147) Dec. 28, '57 Drama. Filmed in Japan. From James A. Michener's novel set in Korean War days, about an American jet pilot who foils in love with a beautiful Japanese dancer, and fights family traditions and miilitory regulations to win her. Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Mortha Scott, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka, Mlyoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner. Director; Joshua Logan. (Technirama.) STAKEOUT ON DOPE STREET. .718 .. (83) . . May 3 Acfloti Drama. Three teenagers run afoul of the law when they find a fortune In uncut heroin, and in attempting to sell the dope, become involved with brutal gangsters. Yale Wexler, Jonathan Haze, Morris Miller, Abby Dalton, Allen Kramer. Director: Irvin Kershner. ©STORY OF MANKIND, THE. .706 (100) Nov. 9, '57 Historical Comedy Drama. From Hendrik van Loon's classic. The Spirit of Man and the Devil argue before the Heavenly Tribunal over whether Man should be destroyed by the H-bomb. Each side presents its case through a series of vignettes showing both good and evil events in history. Allstar cast including Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Virginia Moyo, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre. Director: Irwin Allen. Cambridge Production, TOO MUCH, TOO SOON .. 722 .. (121 ) May 31 Biographical Drama. Diana Barrymore's autobiography is the basis for this film, which traces her from the age of 1 7 through three marriages and her rehabilitation after being committed to a sanatorium as an alcoholic. Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist jr., Ray Danton. Director; Art Napoleon. VIOLENT ROAD. .719. .(86) May 10 Action Drama. Six men are hired to take three trucks loaded with nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine over on unpaved route to a new plant, each man to get $5,000 on completion of the mission. Brian Keith, Dick Foren, Efrem Zimbalist jr.. Merry Anders. Director: Howard W. Koch. WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN.. 707 (93) Nov. 23, '57 Drama. British-made. Domestic story of a slovenly but well-meaning wife whose hit-and-miss housekeeping almost leads to divorce when her exasperated husband falls in love with a young, neot and attractive secretary. Yvonne Mitchell, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Andrew Ray, Carole Lesley. Director: J. Lee-Thompson. Miscellaneous (English-Language Films) ©ADAM AND EVE . (76) William M. Horne Biblical Drama. (English narration.) A re-enactment of the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve who are happy in the Garden of Eden, until the serpent tempts Eve with the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Christine Martel, Carlos Baena. Director: Albert Gout. ©ATTILA. . (83) Joseph E. Levine Spectacle Drama. (Italian-made with Englishdubbed dialog.) Attlla and his Huns sweep over the weakened Roman empire, but as he approaches Rome, he is met by Pope Leo I and an unarmed band carrying crosses, aryj turns away. Attila, "the scourge of God," was halfed by the Cross. Anthony 146 BAROMETER Section