Boxoffice barometer (1960)

TRIAL OF SERGEANT RUTLEDGE, THE (Drama). Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Carlton Young, Juano Hernandez. Producers: Willis Goldbeck, Pat ford. Director: John Ford. Original Screenplay: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck. • This is a post-Civil War story about a regiment of newly-freed Negro soldiers under the command of white officers. In Technicolor. Miscellaneous AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN, THE (Science-Ficfion). Sfars: Marguerife Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffifh. Producer: Lesfer Guthrie. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Distributor: MCP. • A Russian scientist follows a Soviet dignitary to the U. S. and divulges a fantastic plan to use a transparent man in warfare. AUSTERLITZ (War Drama). Stars: Jack Palance, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron, Martine Carol: Producer: Alex Salkind. Director: Abel Gance. Distributor: Not set. • A war drama based on the famous Battle of Austerlitz in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1805. BEATNIKS, THE (Drama). Stars: Tony Travis, Peter Breck, Karen Kadler. Producer: Kenneth Herts. Director: Paul Frees. Screenplay: Paul Frees. Distributor: Barjul-International. • A crooner who leads a beatnik gang, given to terrorizing the community, is encouraged to lead a more exemplary life by a talent scout and a girl friend. BEHIND THE GREAT WALL (Travel Documentary). Producer: Leonardo Bonzi. Director: Carlo LIzzoni. Screenplay: Ennio De Concini. Distributor: Continental Distributing. • This is the AromaRama production which wafts a variety of fragrances into the theatre auditorium. The picture itself is a prize-winning travelog of China today. TV personality Chet Huntley does the narration. In Totalscope and color. BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (Science-Fiction). Stars: Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins. Producer: Robert Cork. Director: Edgar Ulmer. Distributor: MCP. • One of the MCP roadshow productions due in April. BLACKOUT IN ROME (War Drama). Stars: Anna Mognani, Peter Baldwin, Leo Genn. Producer: Louis de Rochemont. Director: Roberto Rossellini. Distributor: Not set. • Story of three prisoners of war during the German occupation of Italy. BREAKOUT (Drama). Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough. Producer: Colin Lesslie. Distributor: Continental Distributing. • A prisoner-of-war story based on an actual incident, dealing with the mass escape of every prisoner from a supposedly escape-proof prison in Ifaly. BRIDAL PATH, THE (Comedy Drama). Stars: Bill Travers, Alex Mackenzie, Fiona Clyne. Producers: Frank Lauder, Sidney Gilliat. Director: Frank Launder. Original (novel): Nigel Tranter. Screenplay: Frank Launder, Geaffrey Williams. Distributor: Kingsiey-Union. • A young man from the island of Beigg is sent by his elders to the mainland to get himself a wife, and in a three-day stay manages ta have his share of comic, though hair-raising adventures, with a wide array of women and police. BROTH OF A BOY (Drama). Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Abbey Theatre Players. Producer: Emmet Dalton. Director: George Pollock. Distributor: KingsieyUnion. • A simple village celebration of their patriarch's noth birthday becomes a comedy of errors when a London TV producer appears, loot in hand. CARRY ON SERGEANT (Comedy). Stars: William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Dora Bryan. Producer: Peter Rogers. Director: Gerald thomas. Original: R. F. Selderfield. Screenplay: Norman Hudis. Distributor: Governor Films. • A half-dozen ill-assorted civilians are drafted into the British army and bumble their way through camp maneuvers, but eventually make a good showing for their platoon sergeant. CHAPLIN REVUE, THE (Comedy). Stars: Charles Chaplin. Distributor: Lopert Films. • Three of Chaplin's films, "Shoulder Arms," "The Pilgrim" and "A Dog's Life" are combined for a single feature, with a musical score and narration added. CHASE ME CHARLIE (Comedy). Stars: Charlie Chaplain, Chester Conklin, Broncho Billy Anderson, Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin. Distributor: Citation Films. • An old classic with some of fhe top comedy stars of yesferday, with soundtrack and narration added. Chaplin plays the role of the homeless hobo who goes to work to win the hand of his love, and plays, in succession, a bank guard, sfagehand, prizefighfer, house painter and actor. CRY FREEDOM (Drama). Stars: Poncho Magalona, Rosa Rosol. Producer: Edith Perez de Tagle. Director: Lamberto Avellana. Distributor: MCP. • Story of Philippine jungle fighters, filmed in the Philippines. CUBAN REBEL GIRLS (Drama). Sfars: Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland. Producer: Barry Mahon. Direcfor: Barry Mahon. Disfribufor: Joseph Brenner Associates. • The Castro rebellion in Cuba, with Flynn playing the role of a correspondent covering the revolution. Includes some actual footage from the fighting area. DANGEROUS AGE, A (Teenage Drama). Stars: Ben Piazza, Anne Pearson, Lloyd Jones. ProducerDirector: Sidney J. Furie. Screenplay: Sidney J. Furie. Distributor: Modern Film Distributors (States Rights). • The trials of a young college coupile, seeking ways of getting married, by forging birth certificates, and finally, after many misadventures, discovering that true love will keep. ENTERTAINER, THE (Drama). Stars: Sir Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie. Distributor: Continental. Distributing. • Sir Olivier portrays on the screen the role he made famous on Broadway and in London, in which he plays the part of a song-and-dance man. EXPRESSO BONGO (Musical Comedy). Stars: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms. Producer-Director: Val Guest. Distributor: Continental Distributing. • A penniless agent discovers and builds up a teenage pop singer, sees her schemed away by an unfriendly actress, turns in his dispair to successfully building-up his girl friend as a movie star. In Dyaliscope. FAN TAN (Drama). Stars: Miss Korea and Chinese, Japanese cast. Producer: J. Raymond Freidgen. Distributor: MCP. • A story of Oriental intrigue filmed on location in Hong Kong. FEMALE FIENDS (Melodrama). Stars: Lex Barker, Carole Mathews, Lisa Gastoni, Nora Swinburne. Producer: Alec C. Snowden. Director: Montgomery Tully. Original (novel, "Puzzle for Fiends"): Patrick Quentin. Screenplay: J. MacLaren Ross. Distributor: States Rights. • British-made. A young American in France is found unconscious by the roadside. The accident and his subsequent loss of memory are seized upon by three unscrupulous women and a man who try to use him to gain an inheritance. FIEND OF DOPE ISLAND (Melodrama). Stars: Bruce Bennett, Robert Bray, Tania Velio. Producer: Jack Odell (J. Harold Odell Productions). Director: Nate Watt. Original Story: Nate Watt. Screenplay: Bruce Bennett, Mark Corabel. Distributor: States Rights. • Set in the Caribbean, this tells the story of an island king who terrorizes and exploits the natives while carrying on an illegal traffic in marihuana. FIVE BOLD WOMEN (Drama). Stars: Jeff Morrow, Merry Anders, Irish McCalla, Guinn Williams. Producer: James D. Ross. Director: Jorge LopezPortillo. Distributor: Clinton Films. • Five women convicts of the 1870s and the adventures in transporting them to a Houston jail. GANGSTER STORY (Crime Drama). Stars: Walter Matthau, Carol Grace. Producer: Jonathan Daniels. Director: Walter Matthau. Screenplay: V. J. Rhems, Richard Grey. Distributor: RCIP (States Rights). • A gangster romances a librarian while hiding out from police, and is eventually wiped out when his gang invades the territory of a rival syndicate. The librarian learns the sad truth over the radio. GET OUTTA TOWN (Drama). Stars: Doug Wilson, Jeanne Baird. Director: Charles Davis. Distributor: MCP. • Melodrama roadshown as package with "The Amazing Transparent Man." JET OVER THE ATLANTIC (Action Drama). Stars: Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Anna Lee. Producer: Benedict Bogeaus. Director: Byron Haskin. Screenplay: Irving H. Cooper. Distributor: Inter-Continent (States Rights). • A convicted murderer is being returned to the U. S. aboard a jet liner. A psychopathic killer meanwhile has contrived to place a bomb aboard the plane which will spread deadly fumes. When the crew is overcome, the extradited killer takes over the plane and brings it in safely. JUST MY LUCK (Comedy). Stars: Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon, Margaret Rhodes, Leslie Philips. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Distributor: Lopert. • A slapstick plot concerning a jeweler's apprentice, his romance with a shopgirl, and a series of misadventures with slick bookies which surprisingly lead him to winning a six-horse parlay — and the girl. KILLER'S CAGE (Drama). Stars: Terry Becker, Jeanne Jonson. Director: Mel Welles. Producers: Allan King, Berj Hogopian. Distributor: Barjul Int'l. • Filmed in Mexico. A writer hides out in a Mexican village while doing an expose on narcotic and gambling rings. LOVE SPECIALIST, THE (Comedy Drama). Stars: Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Bruce Cabot. Producer: Maleno Malenotti. Director: Luigi Zampa. Distributor. Medallion Pictures. • The daughter of a Texas service stafion owner wins a quiz show trip to Italy, and finds romance with a prince whose mother is trying to marry him off to a wealthy girl. In Technirama and Technicolor. MODEL FOR MURDER (Melodrama). Stars: Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Michael Gough. Producer: Robert Dunbar. Director: Terry Bishop. Distributor: States Rights. • British-made. A young girl employe of an expensive dress salon and her Navy officer boy friend help to solve the murder of a model and the theft of expensive jewelry, on loan to the shop, which is worn by the models. MONSTER OF THE PIEDRAS BLANCAS (Horror Drama). Stars: Forrest Lewis, Les Tremayne. Producer: Jack Kevan. Director: Irwin Berwick. Screenplay: Haile Chase. Distributor: Filmservice Distributing (States Rights). • A seven-foot beast, driven to drinking blood because of hunger, does away wifh two fishermen and fhreafens a lighthouse keeper's daughfer until the sheriff and posse meef the creature in its lair and kill it. NATCHEZ TRACE (Melodrama). Stars: Zachary Scott, William Campbell, Marcia Henderson, Irene James. Producers: Lloyd Royal, Tom Garroway. Director: Alan Cresland jr. Distributor: Lloyd Royal (States Rights). • The "gentleman bandit of fhe Natchez Trace" murders a new acquaintance and attacks his wife, moves in on a nearby plantation seeking to steal the slaves, and is finally overcome when his gang of 400 runs into an irate posse of townsfolk. NUDE IN A WHITE CAR (Suspense Drama). Sfars: Roberf Hossein, Marina Vlady, Odile Versois. Direcfor: Roberf Hossein. Disfribufor: Trans-Lux. • French-made. A suspense thriller in fhe style of the French "Diabolique," and filmed in Paris. OKEFENOKEE (Drama). Stars: Peter Coe, Peggy Maley, Henry Brandon. Producer: Aaron Danches. Director: Roul Haig. Screenplay: Jess Abbott. Distributor: Filmservice Distributing (States Rights). • Dope smugglers, operating planes in the Florida swamplands, try to use young Seminoles in their underworld activities, but when they attempt to do away with some of their aides, 50 young braves take after them, help capture the leader. PRETTY BOY FLOYD (Crime Drama). Stars: John Ericson, Joan Harvey. Producer: Monroe Sachson. Director: Herbert Leder. Distributor: Continental Distributing. • Based on the career of the notorious gangster of the 1930s. SCENT OF MYSTERY (Comedy Drama). Stars: Denholm Elliott, Beverly Bentley, Peter Lorre, Paul Ludkas. Producer: Mike Todd jr. Director: Jack Cardiff. Original: Kelley Roos. Screenplay: William Roos. Disfribufor: Michael Todd jr. • In Smell-O-Vision, requiring special equipment. An Englishman on a holiday in Spain has his reasons to believe that the life of an American woman is in danger, with the only clue to her identity a perfume known as fhe Scent of Mystery. Turns out to be Elizabeth Taylor. In ToddAO, Smell-O-Vision and color. STREET FIGHTER (Teenage Drama). Stars: Vic Savage, Ann Armor. Producers: Bradley Nichols, Karl Kappel for Vic Savage. Director: Vic Savage. Screenplay: Vic Savage. Distributor: Joseph Brenner Associates. • A semi-documentary on juvenile delinquency. A youthful gang leader learns the hard way that violence does not pay, and emotions must be controlled. SWORD AND THE DRAGON, THE (Fantasy). Stars: Boris Andreyev. Producer-Director: Alexander Ptushko. Distributor: Vitalite Films. • Soviet-made, with English-dubbed dialog. A fantasy based on the legendary Russian character, Muromets, who is somewhat like our own Paul Bunyan, and his heroic exploits. In color. TIGER BAY (Thriller). Stars: John Mills, Hayly Mills, Horst Budhholz. Producers: Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn. Director: J. L. Thompson. Distributor: Continental Distributing. • British-made. A 12-year-old girl witnesses a murder, is pursued by the murderer who gains her confidence but who eventually is so won over by her charm that he is tricked into capture by the police. TORPEDO ZONE (Naval Drama). Stars: Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini. Director: Duilio Coletti. Screenplay: Oreste Biancoli, M. A. Bragadin, Ennio de Concini, D. Coletti. Distributor: Budd Rogers (States Rights). • Italian-made. Drama of unusual submarine actions in World War II, based on hitherto undisclosed intelligence reports taken from the enemy. TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER (Suspense Drama). Stars: Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan. Producer: Dennis O'Dell. Director: Gordon Parry. Screenplay: George Mintern, Dennis O'Dell. Distributor: Bentley Films (States Rights). • British-made. A Londoner, trying to evade paying his bookie, hides out in a steel-mill town where his brother is a bookkeeper, joins with him In trying for the perfect crime in robbing the payroll, commits a murder and is finally apprehended. VIRGIN SACRIFICE (Jungle Drama). Stars; David DaLie, Antonio Gutierrez, Angelica Morales. Pro BOXOFFICE 161