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others. Norroted by Dwight Weist. Produced and written by Robert Youngson. ©WILD RIVER. .009-1 . .(110) June Drama. Set in the initial days of the Tennessee Valley Authority, story centers around the heart- breaking job of a young government official in evicting an 80-year-old Southern matriarch from her beloved Tennessee home to make way for the TVA dam project. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen. Direc- tor: Elia Kazan. (CinemaScope.) ©WIND CANNOT READ, THE 014-1 . . (107). . Mar. Drama. British-made. The tragic love story of a British pilot and a Japanese girl who meet and marry in India. Ordered back to the front, the pilot is captured and tortured by the Japanese, but escapes and returns to find his wife dying from a brain operation. The title is from a Japa- nese poem. Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, John Fraser, Ronald Lewis. Director: Ralph Thomas. J. Arthur Rank Production. YOUNG JESSE JAMES. 033-1 .(73) Aug. Western Drama. Set at close of Civil War, the film starts off with Jesse James as a teenager witnessing the hanging of his stepfather by Union soldiers. He joins Quantrill's raiders and begins his life of crime and violence as a trigger-happy out- law. Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix, Emile Meyer. Director: William Clax- ton. Associated Producers Production. (Cinema- Scope.) (REISSUES) ©DAVID AND BATHSHEBA. 024-0 .(116) May Biblical Drama. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore. Director: Henry F. King. Darryl F. Zanuck Production. United Artists (October, 1959 through September, 1960) ©AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON Russion (107) June Drama. (Russian-language, with English titles.) Based on novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and tells the story of illicit romance and cuckoldry, cen- tered around a young Cossack caught up in the stirring events of Russia just prior to and immedi- ately following World War I. Ellina Bystritskaya, Pyotr Glebov, Zinaida Kirienko, Danilo Ilchenko. Director: Sergei Gerasimov. (Soxexport Film under the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cultural Film Exchange Agree- ment.) APARTMENT, THE 6017 . . (125) July Comedy Drama. The hilarious events that unfold when an ambitious young insurance clerk, secretly in love with the elevator girl, lets his philandering superiors use his bachelor apartment as a trysting place to meet their respective girl friends, then learns the elevator girl is one of the back-street sweethearts. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams. Director: Billy Wilder. Mirisch Co. Presentation. (Panavision.) ©BOY AND THE PIRATES, THE. .6011 .(82). . Apr. Adventure Comedy. Re-enacts the dream of an 11-year-old youngster about his adventures as a cabin boy on Blackboard's pirate ship, his friend- ship with a little girl he rescues from a Dutch ship, and tells how the two children outwit the pirates with a fake treasure map. Charles Herbert, Susan Gordon, Murvyn Vye, Joseph Turkel, Paul Guilfoyle. Director: Bert I. Gordon. Bert I. Gordon Production. (Perceptovision.) CAGE OF EVIL 6018 (70) July Melodrama. An embittered cop, assigned to a jewel-robbery case, falls for the thief's girl friend, and goes along with her in a plot to murder the crook and flee the country with the gems. Ron Foster, Pat Blair, Harp McGuire. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Zenith Piets. Presentation. COUNTERPLOT 5934 .(76) Oct. '59 Melodrama. An American fugitive from justice conducts a feverish search for a murderer in Puerto Rico to clear himself of the false charge, and finds his efforts temporarily blocked by a crooked lawyer and the murderer himself. Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton, Jackie Wayne, Richard Vernie. Director: Kurt Neumann. J. Harold Odell Production. DOG'S BEST FRIEND, A .5937 . (70) Jan. Drama. A lonely, unhappy boy cares for an in- jured dog he finds with a pistol by its side, unaware that the gun is evidence in a murder case. The sheriff thinks the dog is the killer but the real killer is caught when he tries to get the gun, and all ends happily. Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Charles Cooper, Dean Stanton. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Premium Piets. Presentation. ©ELMER GANTRY. .6023. .(145) Aug. Drama. Based on Sinclair Lewis's controversial novel of the late '20s, which exposes the private life and morals of a religious charlatan. Burt Lan- caster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Ken- nedy, Shirley Jones, Patti Page. Director: Richard Brooks. FUGITIVE KIND, THE 6012. (119) May Drama. Based on Tennessee Williams' play, "Or- pheus Descending." The wife of an ailing Missis- sippi storekeeper falls in love with an itinerant musician, a man much younger than herself, then finds she has to compete with a young girl for his love. Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victory Jory. Direc- tor: Sidney Lumet. Jurow-Shepherd-Pennebaker Production. GALLANT HOURS, THE . 6014 . (115) May Biographical Drama. Story of the famed U. S. Naval hero of World War II, Admiral William F. Halsey, and his historic role in the bitter fighting on Guadacanal in 1942. James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tre- mayne, Robert Burton. Director: Robert Montgom- ery. Cagney-Montgomery Production. GUNFIGHTERS OF ABILENE 6004 (67) Jan. Western Drama. A man sets out to find his miss- ing brother, accused of absconding with $68,000 and learns the brother was murdered. He tracks down the killer, proves he also had stolen the money, and clears his brother's name. Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Judith Ames, Eugenia Paul. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Vogue Piets. Presentation. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 6001 (81) Dec. '59 Comedy. The domestic complications that develop when a slightly tipsy husband, celebrating his 13th wedding anniversary, reveals that he and his wife had had pre-marital relations. The situation wor- sens when their daughter innocently blabs the family scandal on a children's panel show. David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner, Loring Smith, Monique Van Vooren. Director. David Miller. Fields Production. ©LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, THE 6020 . . (103). . July Spectacle Drama. (Italian-made, with English- dubbed dialog.) Set against the destruction of the wicked city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the story centers around a Roman Cen- turion, in love with a Christian girl, who fights gladiators and lions to win her. Steve Reeves, Anne Marie Baumann, Cristina Kauffman, Barbara Carroll, Fernando Rey. Director: Mario Bonnard. Cineproduzioni - Procusa - Transocean Production. (Supertotalscope.) ©MACUMBA LOVE.6016 (86) June Horror Melodrama. Made in Brazil. An author writing a book exposing voodoo practices in the Brazilian jungle, becomes dangerously involved with the high priestess of a murderous voodoo cult, and is rescued in nick of time by native police. Walter Reed, Ziva Rodann, William Well- man jr., June Wilkinson. Director: Douglas Fowley. MUSIC BOX KID, THE 6015 (74) June Melodrama. Depicts the criminal career of a 21- year-old hoodlum of the '20s, from his rise as a small-time crook to a power-mad underworld execu- tioner. Hated and feared even by the gangsters themselves, his life ends in a volley of police bullets. Ronald Foster, Luana Patten, Grant Rich- ards, Johnny Seevn. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Premium Piets. Presentation. NIGHT FIGHTERS, THE 6025 (88) Sept. Drama. Filmed in Ireland. Set in Ireland in 1940, when Nazi Germany began invadinq Europe and Irish patriots were trying to expell the British from northern Ireland. Depicts the upheaval and terror- ism that followed. Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy, Cyril Cusack. Richard Harris. Direc- tor: Toy Garnett. D.R.M.-Raymond Stross Produc- tion. NOOSE FOR A GUNMAN .. 6013 . . (69) May Western. How a reformed gunslinger wins over a hostile town when he saves the townspeople from an infamous bandit gang and exposes the unsus- pected land baron who is in league with the crooks. Jim Davis, Barton MacLane. Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia. Leo Gordon Harrv Carev jr. Director: Ed- ward L. Cahn. Premium Piets. Presentation. ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW 5938 (95) Nov. '59 Drama. An ex-policeman masterminds a bank rob- bery with two accomplices, a white man and a Negro, which misfires because of racial antagon- ism by one of the trio, culminating in a tragic explosion and an ironical climax. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryon, Shelley Winters. Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame. Director: Robert Wise. Harbel Produc- tion. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. 6007. .(67) Mar. Outdoor Drama. In which a prosecuting attorney who had convicted an Indian chief for murder, reopens the case after public pressure and learns the chief was framed by a conniving railroad agent. Turning defense attorney, he unmasks the real culprits and clears the innocent chief. Bill Williams. Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia, Walter Sande, Grant Richards. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Premium Piets. Presentation. OON THE BEACH. 6003 (133) Feb. Drama. Largely filmed in Australia, From Nevil Shute's novel, set in Australia, which tells of the reactions of a small group of nuclear war sur- vivors, who know they are doomed to die by an approaching radioactive cloud which has already depopulated the rest of the world's inhabitants. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson. Director: Stanley Kramer. Stanley Kramer Production. PUSHER, THE. .6006. .(81).. Jan. Melodrama. An underworld narcotics pusher operat- ing in the Harlem district of Manhattan ultimately is exposed following a pair of murders, with the trail leading to the killer when a cop on the case learns his daughter is a dope addict and traces her source of supplies. Kathy Carlyle, Douglas F. Rodgers, Felice Orlandi, Robert Lansing, Sara Aman, Sloan Simpson. Director: Gene Milford. Gene Milford-Sidney Katz Production. ©SOLOMON AND SHEBA 6005 (139) Jan. Biblical Spectacle. Filmed in Spain. Sheba visits Israel to destroy King Solomon but, instead, they fall in love and though at first rejected by the Israelites following the Egyptian raid on Israel and destruction of the Temple, Sheba is later accepted as Solomon's Queen. Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar. Director: King Vidor. Edward Small Pre- sentation, and a King Vidor Production. (Super Technirama 70.) STUDS LONIGAN. 6019 (95) Sept. Drama. Based on James T. Farrell's novel about the emotional problems of an Irish-American boy growing up in Chicago during the roaring '20s, who straightens out his problems when he finally faces up to his responsibilities in life. Christopher Knight, Dick Foran, Venetia Stevenson, Jay C. Flippen, Frank Gorshin. Director: Irving Lerner. Longridge Enterprises Production. SUBWAY IN THE SKY .5929 (85) Nov. '59 Melodrama. British-made. Set in post-war Germany during the American occupation, plot deals with an American, accused of murder and narcotics peddling, who hides from police in an attempt to gain evidence to clear himself. He is captured but eventually the real murderer is unmasked. Van Johnson, Hildegarde Neff, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder. Director: Muriel Box. TAKE A GIANT STEP 6008 .. (100) Feb. Drama. From the Broadway stage play by Louis Peterson, which tells the story of a Negro youth's first struggles with adolescence and his place in a white man's world. Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Frederick O'Neal, Ruby Dee. Director: Philip Lea- cock. Sheila Production for Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. THREE CAME TO KILL. 6009. (70) Apr. Melodrama. The story of an attempted political assassination of a visiting premier in Los Angeles, and how the plot is thwarted by Secret Service agents and by a man whose family is being held hostage by the killers. Cameron Mitchell, John Lupton, Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas. Director: Ed- ward L. Cahn. Premium Piets. Presentation. TIMBUKTU 5912. (91) Oct. '59 Drama. A World War II story of intrigue and violence, set in the French Sudan. An American gun-runner acts as a go-between to the French commandant, the independence-seeking Emir, and the peace-loving Arab leader. Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz, John Dehner, Marcia Henderson, Robert Clarke. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Imperial Piets. Presentation. ©UNFORGIVEN, THE 6010 (120) Apr. Western Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Set in post- Civil War days, and is the story of two closely united families who become involved in a feud and with savage Kiowa Indians who seek to re- claim as their own the adopted daughter of one of the families. Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lil- lian Gish, Albert Salmi. Director: John Huston. James Production, for Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. (Pana- vision.) VICE RAID 6002 .(71) Jan. Melodrama. Tells how a determined police ser- geant on the vice squad who, with the help of an embittered call girl, ultimately smashes a vicious syndicate of party girl racketeers. Mamie Van Doren, Richard Coogan, Brad Dexter, Barry At- water, Carol Nugent. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Imperial Piets. Presentation. ©WONDERFUL COUNTRY, THE. .5936. (96) Oct. '59 Outdoor Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Based on Tom Lea's novel of an American soldier-of-fortune who becomes involved in a Mexico-Texas border dis- pute at the turn of the century, finds romance with a beautiful widow, and eventually returns to the U.S. to clear his name. Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendariz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker, Charles McGraw. Director: Robert Parrish. D.R.M. Production. Universal-International (November, 1959 through October, 1960) ©BETWEEN TIME AND ETERNITY. .6021 .(85).Sept. Drama. (German-made, with English-dubbed dia- log.) Story concerns the wife of a doctor who learns she has an incurable disease and decides to take a final fling at happiness, and a handsome fisherman who plans to swindle the wealthy woman but falls in love with her. Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Willy Birgel, Ellen Schwiers. Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt. New Terra Production. ©BRIDES OF DRACULA, THE. . 6013 .. (85). .. .June ~ Horror Melodrama. British-made. A woman un- knowingly frees a young vampire from his chains, and he terrorizes the district with his "brides," girls he has bitten and turned into vampires. A scientist finally corners the vampire in an old mill and destroys him. Peter Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, David Peel. Direc- tor: Terence Fisher. Hammer Film Production. ©CHARTROOSE CABOOSE. .6019 (76) Aug. Comedy. The tale of a retired railroad conductor living in a painted caboose and several people who suddenly come into his life whom he helps and who later help him. They include an eloping young couple, a runaway boy, and a hobo who is really an eccentric millionaire. Molly Bee, Ben Cooper, Edgar Buchanan, Slim Pickens, Mike Mc- Greevey. Director: William "Red" Reynolds. Red- Bill Production. (Panavision.) BOXOFFICE 143