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garet O'Brien. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Marcello Girosi, Director: George Cukor. Original: Louis L'Amour. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. • The story of a traveling theatrical troupe in the Wyoming and Montana of the 1870s. In Technicolor. JACK THE RIPPER (Murder Mystery). Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon. Producers-Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman (Joseph E. Levine Presentation and a Mid-Century Film Production). Original Story: Peter Hammond, Colin Craig. Screenplay: Jimmy Sangster. • British-made. Set in East London at the turn of the century, the story deals with a series of baffling murders, with clues leading to suspects connected with a nearby hospital. JOVANKA AND THE OTHERS (Drama). Stars; Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau. Producer: Dino De Laurentiis. Director: Martin Ritt. Original Story: Ugo Pirro. Screenplay: John Michael, Peter Achilles. • Five Jugoslav girls who are shorn of their hair and turned out of their village for consorting with the Nazi occupying forces turn savage to survive. NIGHT WITHOUT END (Suspense Drama). Stars; William Holden, Debbie Reynolds. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: George Seaton. Original: Alistair MacLean. Screenplay; Eric Ambler. • A mysterious crash of a Brifish airliner near a geological station on the Greenland Ice Cap sets off a series of evenfs. In VistaVision and Technicolor. NO BAIL FOR THE JUDGE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Laurence Harvey. Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original (novel): Henry Cecil. Screenplay: Samuel Taylor. • When a high court London judge is charged with the murder of a prostitute, his daughter seeks the aid of a "gentleman thief" to prove his innocence. In VistaVision and Technicolor. ONE-EYED JACKS (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg, for Pennebaker Productions. Director: Marlon Brando. Original (novel): Charles Neider. Screenplay: Guy Trosper, Carlo Fiore, Colder Willingham. • Two outlaws rob a bank and one is imprisoned because the other abandons him in a moment of cowardice. They meet five years later when the ex-inmate intends to rob another bank and finds his former parfner is the sheriff of fhe town. In VistaVision and Technicolor. PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY, THE (Comedy). Stars: Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter, Lilli Palmer, Gary Merrill, Charles Ruggles. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director; George Seaton. Original (play): Samuel Taylor, Cornelia Otis Skinner. Screenplay: Samuel Taylor. • Based on the Broadway stage success, this is the story of an international playboy who tries to spirit his daughter away from her slightly stodgy San Francisco background. In VistaVision and Technicolor. PRISONER OF THE VOLGA (Spectacle). Stars: John Derek, Elsa Martinelli, Dawn Addams, Gert Froebe. A Franco-ltalian co-production. Director: V. Tourjansky. • An historical spectacle filmed in the grand European tradition. In color. PSYCHO (Suspense Drama). Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh. Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original (novel): Robert Bloch. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano. • The story of Alfred Hitchcock's latest shocker is a closely guarded secret. RAT RACE, THE (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jock Oakie, Kay Medford, Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: Robert Mulligan. Original (play): Garson Kanin. Screenplay: John Michael Hayes, Garson Kanin. • Set against a jazz music background in Manhattan, a career-seeking saxophone player and a disillusioned showgirl seek happiness. In VistaVision and Technicolor. SAVAGE INNOCENTS, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars; Anthony Quinn, Yoko Toni. Producer: Maleno Malenotti. Director: Nicholas Ray, Original (book): Hans Reusch. Screenplay; Nicholas Ray. • Filmed in the Arctic wastes of Canada, this is the story of the conflict arising out of an Eskimo couple's contacf with the civilization of white men. In Technirama and Technicolor. TOUCH OF LARCENY, A (Suspense Comedy). Stars: James Mason, Vera Miles, George Sanders. Producer: Ivan Foxwell. Director: Guy Hamilton. Original (book): Andrew Garve, Screenplay: Roger MacDougall. • A quick-witted naval commander plots an elaborate scheme to win a beautiful American away from her stuffy British fiance. UNDER TEN FLAGS (Drama). Stars: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylene Demongeot, Eleonora Rossi Drago. Producer; Dino De Laurentiis. Directors: Duilio Coletti, Silvio Narizzano. Original (book): Bernhardt Rogge. • Set during World War II, this is fhe story of a German captain who sailed the British shipping routes preying on Allied vessels. Filmed in Italy. VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (Comedy). Stars: Jerry Lewis, Earl Holliman, Joan Blackman. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: Norman Taurog. Original (play): Gore Vidal. Screenplay: Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson. • Kreton, a mischievous inhabitant of another planet, goes AWOL from outer space to make a flying visit to the earth. WALK LIKE A DRAGON (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta, Mel Torme. Producer-Director: James Clavell. Original (book): James Clavell. Screenplay: James Clavell, Daniel Mainwaring. • A tense action drama centering around two men in a California town of the Old West, an American and a Chinese, both in love with an Oriental slave girl. WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, THE (Drama). Stars: William Holden, Michael Wilding. Producer: Ray Stark. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original (novel): Richard Mason. Screenplay: John Patrick. • Based on the best-selling novel and the Broadway stage success, this is the story of a beautiful Hong Kong hostess and her love for a struggling artist. In Technicolor. 20th Century-Fox (October through December, 1959) BELOVED INFIDEL (Drama). Stars; Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Henry King. Original (book): Sheilah Graham, Gerold Frank. Screenplay: Sy Bartlett. • From Sheilah Graham's autobiography which highlights her relationship with the late novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story details her coming to New York from England, with a fake aristocratic background, getting a job on a New York paper and then going on to do a Hollywood column. There she meets and foils in love with Fitzgerald but is too late to save him from his dissipations which result in his early death. In CinemScope and De Luxe Color. Nov. 1959. BEST OF EVERYTHING, THE (Drama). Stars: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Robert Evans, Louis Jourdan, Joan Crawford. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original (novel): Rona Jaffe. Screenplay: Edith Sommer, Monn Rubin. • The story of career girls, their lives and loves, and how they handle the situations in which they become involved. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. Oct. 1959. BLOOD AND STEEL (War Drama). Stars: John Lupton, Ziva Rodann, Brett Halsey, James Edwards, John Brinkley. Producer: Gene Corman, for Associated Producers. Director: Bernard L. Kowalski. Original Screenplay: Joseph C. Gillette. • The story of the first advancing and islandhopping Seabees on Gizo island in the South Pacific during World War II, and fhe part they took in actual combat. In CinemaScope. Dec. 1959. FIVE GATES TO HELL (Drama). Stars; Neville Brand, Dolores Michaels, Patricia Owens. Producer-Director-Original Screenplay: James Clavell, for Associated Producers. • This deals with the treatment of mental and emotional illnesses under modern methods of mental hygiene in an international field hospital operating in the Viet-Nom area. In CinemaScope. Oct. 1959. HOUND-DOG MAN (Drama). Stars: Fabian, Carol Lynley, Stuart Whitman, Arthur O'Connell, Dodie Stevens. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director; Don Siegel. Original (novel): Fred Gipson. Screenplay: Fred Gipson, Winston Miller. • A backwoods idyll of a happy-go-lucky, ne'erdo-well who becomes the hero of two young boys who follow him around on coon hunts and fishing expeditions. A dramatic incident wakes both he and fhe boys to a more responsible outlook on life, at which he proposes to a girl and is accepted. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. Nov. 1959. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (ScienceFiction Drama). Stars: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diana Baker. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Henry Levin. Original (classic); Jules Verne. Screenplay: Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett. • This tells of the efforts of a professor and his helper to follow a 100-year-old directive on how to reach the center of fhe earth, and of what they find when they arrive via innumerable caverns. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. Dec. 1959. MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN, THE (Drama). Stars: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova. Producer-Director: Nunnally Johnson. Original (novel, "The Colors of the Day"): Remain Gary. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. • An Award-winning producer-director-writer, fired because his pictures are losing money, persuades the studio to hire a young starlet to work with him. Their unconsummated marriage almost goes on the rocks, but they are reunited. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. Oct. 1959. Coming ALASKANS, THE (Melodrama). Stars: John Wayne, Gary Crosby. Producers: John Lee Mahin, Martin Rackin. Director: Henry Hathaway. Original and Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Martin Rackin. • Alaska in the 1900s and the activities after the Nome gold strike sent adventurers pouring into the land. In CinemaScope. BOBBIKINS (Comedy). Stars; Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Steven Stocker. Producer: Oscar Brodney. Director: Robert Day. Original Screenplay: Oscar Brodney. • British-made. A "talking" baby, 1 8-months-old, gives his dad stock market tips that make him rich. The wealth only brings about a rift between the baby's folks, but he succeeds in reuniting them, then goes back to being a normal little boy again. In CinemaScope. CAN-CAN (Musical). Stars: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse. Producer; Jack Cummings. Director: Walter Lang. Original (stage hit): Cole Porter, Abe Burrows. Screenplay; Dorothy Kingsley, Charles Lederer. • This is an extravaganza of fhe Broadway hit, and is scheduled for roadshow engagements. In Todd-AO and Technicolor. CAPTAIN'S TABLE, THE (Comedy). Stars: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray. Producer: Joseph Janni, for the J. Arthur Rank Organization. Director: Jack Lee. Original (novel): Richard Gordon. • British-made. The hilarious adventures of the captain of a dirty old tramp steamer, who is put in command of a luxury liner, with a different kind of crew than formerly and a different class of passengers. In Eastman Color. CLEOPATRA (Drama). Stars: Elizabeth Taylor. Producer: Walter Wanger. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Original (novel, "The Life and Times of Cleopatra"): Maria Franzero. Screenplay; Nigel Balchin, Dale Wasserman. • To be filmed in Europe. This is to be a spectacle, a dramatic portrayal of the famed historic Queen of the Nile. In Todd-AO and De Luxe Color. CRACK IN THE MIRROR (Drama). Stars: Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Director; Richard Fleischer. Original (French novel); Marcel Haedrich. Screenplay: Michael Bern. • A courtroom drama about two love triangles involving six people from opposite walks of life. In CinemaScope. DOG OF FLANDERS, A (Drama). Stars; David Ladd, Donald Crisp, Theodore Bikel. Producer: Robert Radnitz, for Associated Producers. Director: James B. Clark. Original (novel): Ouida. Screenplay: Ted Sherdeman. • The story of a young boy and his grandfather who live outside Antwerp in Belgium. During deliveries on the grandfather's milk route, they find a sick, stray dog and nurse it back to health. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. FERRY TO HONG KONG (War Drama). Stars: Curt Jurgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms. Producer: George Maynard, for the J. Arthur Rank Organization. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Screenplay: Lewis Gilbert, Vernon Harris. • British-made; filmed in Hong Kong. Deals with the shipboard feud between a man no port will admit and the ferryboat captain who is forced to accept the responsibility for him. The man's heroism during a crisis wins the captain's friendship. In CinemaScope and Eastman Color. FLAME OVER INDIA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall. Producer: Marcel Hellman, for the J. Arthur Rank Organization, Director: J. Lee-Thompson. Original Screenplay: Frank Nugent. • British-made; filmed in India. British title is "North West Frontier." The story of a British Army sergeant who meets the governess of an Indian prince while fleeing before a rebellion in India in 1908. In CinemaScope and Eastman Color. FROM THE TERRACE (Drama). Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Shirley Jones. Myrna Loy. Producer-Director: Mark Robson. Original (novel); John O'Hara. • Built around a family of individualists, members of a third-generation mainline family, it traces their heights and depths through wealth, politics, industry and other giant activities. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. HELL RAISERS, THE (Drama). Stars: Stuart Whitman. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Don Siegel. Original (book): Barre Lyndon. Screenplay: Frank Fenton. • Concerns the Boxer Rebellion and the reign of the Dowager Empress of China, involving her conflict with legations from 10 countries. Set in 1900 when 1,000 members of the international colony were besieged in Peking by barbaric hordes. In CinemaScope and color. HIGH TIME (Comedy With Music). Stars: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Carol Lynley. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Blake Edwards. Original Screenplay; Garson Kanin, • A man of 50 decides that what is lacking in his -life is the absence of a formal education. He goes to college and finds himself surrounded by young people of both sexes, thus paving the way for amusing comedy episodes with music. In CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. INSTANT PRINCE, THE (Biographical Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Charles Brackett. Directar: Not 152 BAROMETER Section