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captain, bringing supplies to the island, rescues the remaining members. James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, Gordon McLendon, Baruch Lumet, Al- fredo DeSoto. Director: Ray Kellogg. McLendon Radio Piets. Production. (Dual package release with "The Giant Gila Monster.") ©SIGN OF THE GLADIATOR 403. (84) Sept. 23, '59 Spectacle Drome. (Italian-made, with English- dubbed dialog.) Queen Zenobia of Palmyra suc- cessfully resists the rule of Rome, but ultimately is defeated by Roman legions in a spectacular and bloody battle, led by a Roman warrior. Because of his love, she is spared, and the two are reunited. Anita Ekberg, Chelo Alonso, Georges Marchal, Jac- ques Sernas, Folco Lulli. Director: Vittorio Musy Glori. Glomer Film Production. (CinemaScope.) WHY MUST I DIE?. .504 (86) June 22 Melodrama. Portrays the lives of two girls, one a singer, the other a safe cracker, and details their tragic paths to the electric chair, though one girl is innocent. Debra Paget, Terry Moore, Bert Freed, Juli Reding, Lionel Ames. Director: Roy Del Ruth. Viscount-Terry Moore Production. (REISSUES) ©APACHE WOMAN 107 .(83) Aug. 24 Outdoor Drama. Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller. Director: Roger Corman. ©THUNDER OVER HAWAII (Formerly "Naked Paradise"). 121 . . (68) May 11 Melodrama. Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie Bradley, Jonathan Haze. Direc- tor; Roger Cormon. Buena Vista (November, 1959 through October, 1960) ©JUNGLE CAT. 0092 (70) Oct. True-Life Adventure. Filmed in the Amazon jun- gles of Brazil. Depicts wild animal and bird life there, focusing attention on the jaguar, lord beast of the area, with sequences showing jaguars fighting crocodiles, a deadly boa constrictor and capture of a wild peccary. Narrator: Winston Hib- ler. Director: James Algar. Walt Disney Production. ©KIDNAPPED .108 .(97) Apr. Adventure Drama. Filmed in Scotland and England. From Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of on 1 8th century Scots youth who is kidnapped by a scheming uncle and sent into potential slavery aboard a brigantine to keep him from claiming a rightful inheritance. Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie. Direc- tor: Robert Stevenson. Walt Disney Presentation. ©©POLLYANNA 111 (134) July Comedy Drama. From Eleanor H. Porter's classic book series for young girls, set in the early 1900s, revolving around a 13-year-old orphan girl whose "glad" ideas accomplish wonders for herself and those around her. Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Hayley Mills, Adolphe Menjou, Kevin Corcoron. Director: David Swift. Walt Disney Production. SIGN OF ZORRO, THE 0090 .. (90) June Adventure Drama. Story of the masked avenger, Zorro, legendary character of Johnston McCulley's stories of early California days, who rode and fought only to protect his helpless neighbors against the savage tryanny of a military com- mandant. Guy Williams, Henry Calvin, Gene Shel- don, Romney Brent, Britt Lomond, John Dehner. Directors: Norman Foster, Lewis R. Foster. Walt Disney Production. ©THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN . 0091 (105) Nov. '59 Adventure Drama. Filmed in Switzerland. From James Ramsey Ullman's novel, "Banner in the Sky," which tells of the initial conquest of the famous Motterhorn by a young man with a burn- ing desire to fulfill the dream of his father before him. Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lorn, Laurence Naismith. Director: Ken Annakin. Walt Disney Produciton. 4 ©TOBY TYLER. 104 .(96) Feb. Circus Comedy. Story of a runaway orphan boy who joins a traveling circus caravan, and his adventures among the canvas-topped world of performers, animals and roustabouts. Kevin Cor- coran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Bob Sweeney, Richard Easthom, "Mr. Stubbs" (the chimpanzee). Director: Charles Barton. Walt Disney Production. Columbia (July, 1959 through June, 1960) ANATOMY OF A MURDER 401 (161) . July '59 Drama. Small town attorney brilliantly defends an army lieutenant accused of killing a man who allegedly had attacked his wife. He wins an ac- quittal for his client, a thorough-going heel, who then runs out on his fee. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, Joseph N. Welch. Director: Otto Preminger. ©BABETTE GOES TO WAR 423. .(103) Apr. Comedy. (French-made, with English-dubbed dialog.) A French farm girl gets mixed up with the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk, and somehow finds herself involved in espionage with the French underground in England. She is troined and returned to France to help kidnap a German general wanted by the British. Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Hannes Messemer, Yves Vincent, Ronald Howard, Francis Blanche. Director: Christian-Jaque. Raoul J. Levy Production. (CinemaScope)—{Also available in French-language version with English titles.) ©BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE. 430 . (90) June Science-Fiction Drama. (Japanese-made, with Eng- lish-dubbed dialog.) World scientists gather in Tokyo to unite against an interplanetary attack by outer-space creatures who use the moon as their advance base. Earthmen counter-attack with fighter-rockets and finally succeed in repulsing the enemy spacemen. Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Leonard Stanford, Harold Conway, George Whyman, Elise Richter. Director: Inoshiro Honda. Toho Pro- duction. (Tohoscope.) BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA . . 411 (87). . Nov. '59 War Drama. The story is more directly concerned with the mission that paved the way for the eventual success of the World War II historic U.S. naval battle against the Japanese, than with the actual battle itself. Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala, Teru Shimada, Patricia Cutts, Rian Garrick. Direc- tor: Paul Wendkos. Morningside Production. BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG . 424 .. (102) Apr. Comedy Drama. From John Farris' novel, "Harrison High," about a new high school teacher whose penchant for going overboard to help students with their personal problems, causes him to fall into temporary disfavor with the principal. Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Tuesday Weld, Victoria Shaw, Warren Berlinger, Roberta Shore. Director: Paul Wendkos. Drexel Production. ©COMANCHE STATION . . 422 . . (74) Mar. Outdoor Drama. While searching for his long-lost wife, a prisoner of the Comanches, a man rescues another white woman and has some narrow es- capes with a reward-hungry gunslinger as he es- corts her back to her blind, disabled husband. Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Skip Homeier, Claude Akins, Richard Rust. Director: Budd Boetticher. Renown Production. (CinemaScope.) CRIMSON KIMONO, THE. . 407 . . (82) Oct. '59 Drama. Two Korean wartime buddies, one a Nisei, are a detective team on the Los Angeles police department. They are assigned to a murder case, which leads them into L.A.'s Little Tokyo, a triangular romantic situation and an inter-racial issue. Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee, Paul Dubov. Director: Samuel Fuller, Globe Enterprises Production. ©EDGE OF ETERNITY. 414 (80) Dec. '59 Outdoor Drama. Several mysterious murders near the Grand Canyon stir a western town and its deputy sheriff to action. Discovery of a gold mine theft plan leads to a solution of vhe murders. Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Rian Garrick. Director: Donald Siegel. Thunderbird Production. (CinemaScope.) ELECTRONIC MONSTER, THE 428 (72) May Horror Melodrama. Based on novel, "The Man Who Couldn't Sleep," by Charles Eric Maine. An Ameri- can insurance investigator, checking into the death of a handsome film star, finds clues leading to a psychiatric clinic run by two quack doctors who use an electrical brain wave-controlling device to transmit "prefabricated" dreams. Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter tiling. Director: Montgomery Tully. ©FLYING FONTAINES, THE. 416 .(84). Dec. '59 Drama. A star aerialist, in love with his beautiful assistant, mokes himself unpopular with the girl and his co-workers because of his attitude. A near tragedy on the high wire brings him to his senses, and wins him his girl. Michael Callan, Evy Norlund, Joan Evans, Rian Garrick, Joe de Santis, Jeanne Manet. Director: George Sherman. Clover Produc- tion. GENE KRUPA STORY, THE. 419 (101) Jan. Drama With Music. Biopic of the famous jazz drummer of the 1930s who, at the height of his career, was arrested for possession of marijuana and blacklisted by the top bands, but ultimately made a successful comeback. Sal Mineo, Susan Kahner, James Darren, Susan Oliver, Red Nichols, Bobby Troup. Director: Don Weis. Philip A. Wax- man Production. HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL 404 (76) Aug. '59 Comedy. The zany adventures of three handymen at a missile plant who find themselves unwilling passengers in an unwitting flight to the planet Venus in a rocket, and are hailed as heroes on their return. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita, Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Bob Colbert. Director: David Lowell Rich. ©KILLERS OF KILIMANJARO 425 .. (91) May Adventure Drama. British-made; filmed in Africa. Depicts the struggles of an engineer to complete the first railroad in Eastern Africa, in the face of opposition by a powerful Arab slave trader who wants to build a competing road for transporting the slaves. Robert Taylor, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, Gregoire Aslan, Allan Cuthbertson. Direc- tor: Richard Thorpe. Warwick Production. (Cinema- Scope.) ©LAST ANGRY MAN, THE . 410 . (100) . . Nov. '59 Drama. From Gerald Green's novel of a dedicated doctor who for 45 years had served both poor families and hoodlums in the Brooklyn tenement section, then suddenly finds himself in the lime- light when his work becomes the subject of a national TV series. Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Claudia McNeil, Joby Baker. Director: Daniel Mann. Fred Kohlmar Production. LEGEND OF TOM DOOLEY, THE. 403. .(79). July '59 Outdoor Drama. Confederate officer Tom Dooley stages an ambush, unaware the war has ended, which makes him a murderer. His sweetheart flees with him, after he has escaped, but in a fight with another suitor who intercepts them, the girl is killed and Dooley recaptured. Michael London, Jo Morrow, Jack Honan, Ken Lynch. Director: Ted Post. Shpetner Production. MAN ON A STRING. .426. .(92) May Drama. Based on the espionage experiences of Boris Morros, American film producer, as told in his book, "My Ten Years as a Counterspy." The film depicts how Morros risked his life to ferret out Soviet secrets for the U.S. while posing as a Russian spy. Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby, Glenn Cor- bett. Director: Andre de Toth. Louis de Rochemont Production, for RD-DR Prods. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. . 402 . . (118) July '59 Drama. A middle-aged widower and successful business man falls in love with a young divorcee. Their respective families object to a marriage, but after several estrangements, they decide to marry and face the future together. Kim Novak, Fredric March, Albert Dekker, Glenda Farrell, Martin Bal- sam, Lee Grant, Lee Phillips. Director: Delbert Mann. Sudan Production. MOUNTAIN ROAD, THE. 429 (102) June Drama. Set in China during World War II, and concerns the hardships encountered by eight American demolition experts and their leader, who are charged with thwarting the advance of the Japanese by blowing up bridges, roads and vil- lages. James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Henry Morgan, Frank Silvera, James Best. Director: Daniel Mann. William Goetz Production. ©MOUSE THAT ROARED, THE. 409 . (85) Nov. '59 Comedy. British-made. A tiny, mythical principal- ity, the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, declares war on the U.S., hoping to lose as a means of solving its economic plight—and unexpectedly wins. Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, Leo McKern, David Kossoff, MacDonald Parke. Director: Jack Arnold. Highroad Production. ©ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING. . 421 .. (92) .... Feb. Comedy Drama. The beautiful, long-suffering wife of a tempermental concert conductor becomes fed up with placating her husband's orchestra sponsors and walks out on him. A series of madcap merri- ment follows as he attempts to win her back. Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff, Geoffrey Toone, Maxwell Shaw, Mervyn Johns. Director: Stanley Donen. Stanley Donen Production. ©1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS . . 415 . . (76) Dec. '59 Animated Cartoon Fantasy. Mr. Magoo, the near- sighted cartoon star of many Columbia shorts, is transported, via a daydream, to the colorful realms of Arabian Nights fantasy, and meets up with Aladdin and his magic lamp and the Wicked Wazir. Voices of: Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman, Hans Conried. Director: Jack Kinney. UPA Production. OUR MAN IN HAVANA .420 (112) Mar. Comedy Drama. 6-ritish-made. The undercover ac- tivities of a vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba, who serves as a British agent. He concocts false reports to impress his superiors, and has the secret service, the Cuban police and agents of other powers, completely confused. Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow. Director: Carol Reed. (CinemaScope.) ©PORGY AND BESS. .6666 (138) Feb. Musical Drama. (For special roadshow engage- ments only; pre-released Dec. '59.) With music by George Gershwin, this depicts the loves and lives of Negro inhabitants of Catfish Row in a poor section of the South in the early 1900s, centering around a cripple's love affair with an easily swayed woman. Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis jr., Pearl Bailey. Director: Otto Preminger. Samuel Goldwyn Production. (Todd-AO) STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY, THE 427 (81 ). . May Melodrama. British-made. A wave of mass murders sweeps British East India in the early 19th century, the work of a secret religious cult called Thuggees, who murdered by strangulation more than a mil- lion people in the name of Kali, goddess of de- struction. Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell, Jan Holden. Director: Terence Fisher. Hammer Film Production. (Cinema- Scope.) SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER . 417 .. (114) Jan. Drama. From Tennessee Williams’ play about a mother's efforts to preserve her dead son's good name at the expense of her niece who was sent to a mental institution to keep the true facts of the son's death hidden. A kindly surgeon helps the girl and proves her "hallucinations" are fact. Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge, Albert Dekker. Di- rector: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Sam Spiegel Pro- duction. ©SWAN LAKE . 470 . (81 ) Feb. Ballet Film. (Russian-made, with English narration.) 136 BAROMETER Section