Boxoffice barometer (1961)

PORTRAIT OF A SINNER (Droma). Stars: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry. Producer: George Minter. Director: Robert Siodmak. Original (novel): Robin Maugham. Screen- ploy: Audrey Erskine Lindop, Dudley Leslie. • A mysterious young woman destroys one man, loses the love of another—all for a love which will eventually destroy her. OPERATION CAMEL (Comedy): Stars: Nora Hayden, Carl Ottosen, Louis Renard. Producer: Henrik Dandberg. Director: Sven Methlin. Screenplay: Bob Methling. • Treats with the misadventures of a group of Danish recruits during their basic training and eventual duties as part of the United Nations Patrol on the Gaza Strip. REPTILICUS (Science-Fiction). Stars: Carl Ottosen, Anne Smyrner, Bodi Miller. Producer-Direcor: Sidney Pink. Original: Sidney Pink. Screenplay: lb Melchoir, Sidney Pink. • A prehistoric monster is discovered and re- turns to life to terrorize Denmark. TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL (Drama). Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addoms, Christopher Lee. Producer: Michael Carreras. Director: Terence Fisher. Original (story): Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay: Wolf Mankowitz. • British-made. Dr. Jekyll works on separating the two natures of man and succeeds in his experi- ments, creating Mr. Hyde, who eventually destroys them both. In Megascope and Color. Buena Vista (November through December 1960) SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (Adventure Drama). Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Parker. Producer: Wil- liam Anderson. Director: Ken Annakin. Original (novel): Johann Wyss. Screenplay: Lowell S. Hawley. • Filmed in the British West Indies, this is the classic story of a Swiss family which devises a plan for survival after being marooned in the South Seas. In Color. Dec. 1960. TEN WHO DARED (Adventure Drama). Stars: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R. G. Armstrong. Producer: Walt Disney. Associate Producer: James Algar. Director: William Beaudine. Original (per- sonal journal): Major John Wesley Powell. • The saga of the conquest of the Colorado, based on the journals of Major John Wesley Powell, the one-armed scientist who guided an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River in 1869 In Color. Nov. 1960. Coming ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR, THE (Comedy). Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk. Producer: Walt Disney. Associate Producer: Bill Walsh. Director: Robert Stevenson. Original (story): Sornuel W. Taylor. Screenplay: Bill Walsh. • The wacky experiments of a college science teacher lead to his discovery of an antigravitational substance. He replaces the engine in his ancient Model-T with the gravity-defying material and flies off to Washington, D. C., causing a national crisis. BABES IN TOYLAND (Musical). Stars: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sonds, Ed Wynn, Henry Colvin, Gene Shel- don. Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Jack Dono- hue. Original (operetta): Victor Herbert. Screenplay: Not set. • First live-action musical by Disney, this is an updated version of the Victor Hrebert operetta, using the original score plus addition of new orchestrations, lyrics and libretto, and featuring hundreds of mechanical and animated toys appear- ing with the humans. In Color. BON VOYAGE (Comedy Droma). Stars: Fred Mac- Murray. Producer: Wolt Disney. Director: James Neilson. Original (novel): Joseph Hayes. Screen- play: Bill Walsh. • The sophisticated story of a typical family which saves for years to make a European trip, where mother meets a Paris dandy, and is swept off her feet; daughter and son find teenage lovers, and the son is involved in mischief. They finally turn homeward, much wiser and content with normalcy. CASTAWAYS, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars: Hayley Mills. Producer: Walt Disney. Associate Producer: Hugh Attwooll. Director: Robert Stevenson. Original (book, Jules Ve r ne. Screenplay: Lowell S. Hawley. • Based on the novel "Captain John's Children." Earthquakes, floods, mountain-climbing and storms mark the path across the continents of a young girl and her brother in their search for their cast- away father, after finding a bottle containing virtually illegible information about his where- abouts. In Color. MOON PILOT (Space Drama). Stars: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith. Producers: Walt Disney, Bill Anderson. Associate Producer: Ron Miller. Director: James Neilson. Original (story): Robert Buckner. Screen- play: Maurice Tombragel. • The story of what happened to an Air Force captain chosen to be our pioneer in outer space, and his experiments and adventures which blaze the way to re-entry and pave the way for space travel. A girl sent by the moon people reveals to him the secrets of the solar system. In Color. NIKKI, WILD DOG OF THE NORTH (Wilderness Drama). Stars: Jean Coutu, Emile Genest, Uriel Luff, Robert Rivard, wonder dog Nikki and bear cub Neewa. Producer: Winston Hibler (for Walt Disney Prods.). Directors: Don Haldane, Jack Couf- fer. Original (novel): Oliver Curwood. Screenplay: Not set. • Filmed in the Canadian Rockies country, this is the story of a lost Malemute in a wilderness ruled by rugged trappers by day and wolf packs by night, the dog's bitter battle for survival and final reuniting with its master. In Color. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (Cartoon Feature). Producer: Walt Disney. Production Super- visor: Ken Peterson. Directors: Wolfgang Reither- man, Hamilton S. Luske, Clyde Geronimi. Original (novel): Dodie Smith. Screenplay: Bill Peet. • A tale about two dogs that track down and vanquish a woman who kidnaps Dalmatians for the fur coats they make. The climax comes in a countryside chase as all free dogs rally to the rescue of 101 captured Dalmatians. In Color. PARENT TRAP (Comedy). Stars: Hayley Mills, Mau- reen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Joanna Barnes, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel. Producer: Walt Disney. Asso- ciate Producer: George Golitzin. Director: David Swift. Original (novel): Erich Kastner. Screenplay: David Swift. • Based on the novel "Das Doppelte Lottchen." Identical teenage twin girls meet for the first time at a camp and hatch a plot to bring their father and mother together again. Each has been brought up by one of the parents. They trade places and eventually bring about a permanent reunion. In Color. Columbia (July through December 1960) ALL THE YOUNG MEN (Droma). Stars: Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Mart Sahl. Producer- Director-Original Screenploy: Hall Bartlett. • A platoon of Marines is ambushed during the Korean War, and the dying commanding officer puts a Negro sergeant in charge, over a white officer—creating problems of prejudice as well as military. Sept. 1960. AS THE SEA RAGES (Drama). Maria Schell, Cliff Robertson, Cameron Mitchell. Producer: Carl Szo- koll (With Michael Arthur Film Prods.). Director: Horst Haechler. Original (novel): Werner Helwig. Screenplay: Jeffrey Dell, Jo Eisinger. • Filmed in Greece. Based on the bitter rivalry ■between the net fishermen of Kalymnos and the dynamiters of nearby Kuluri, ruled by a one-eyed tyrant, and the love of a fisherman and a young girl in the opposite comps. Sept. 1960. ENEMY GENERAL, THE (Drama). Stars: Van Johnson, Jean Pierre Aumont, Dany Carrel. Producer: Sam Katzman (Clover Prods.). Director: George Sher- man. Original and Screenplay: Lou Morheim, Oliver Crawford. • An OSS officer in occupied France, working with the resistance movement, is faced with the decision of whether to kill a German general to avenge the death of his girl or smuggle him out of the country and take him to England for interrogation. Sept. 1960. FAST AND SEXY (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson, Vittorio de Sica. Pro- ducer: Milko Skofic. Director: Reginald Denham. Original (story): E. M. Margadonna, Dino Risi. Screenplay: E. M. Margadonna, Luciana Corda, Joseph Stefano. • Filmed in Italy. A wealthy widow returns to her native Italian village, and immediately be- comes the object of attention of every eligible bachelor, except the local Don Juan, a blacksmith. In Technicolor and Technirama. Sept. 1960. HELL IS A CITY (Action Drama). Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw. Producer: Michael Carreras (Hammer Films). Director: Val Guest. Original (novel): Maurice Procter. Screen- play: Val Guest. • British-made. A detective inspector moves after a notorious jewel thief, wanted for both robbery and murder, and nabs him but only after a battle-to-death atop a gabled roof in the heart of Manchester. Nov. 1960. I AIM AT THE STARS (Drama). Stars: Curt Jurgens, Gia Scala, Victoria Shaw, James Daley, Herbert Lorn. Producer: Charles H. Schneer (Morningside Prods.). Director: J. Lee Thompson. Original Screen- play: Jay Dratler. • Based on the career of the rocket scientist von Braun, his role within the Nazi war machine ond his decision, along with other scientists, to go with the Americans in preference to the Russians. Oct. 1960. I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK (Comedy). Stars: Ian Car- michael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Attenborough. Producer: Roy Boulting. Director: John Boulting. Screenplay: John Boulting. • British-made. A son of wealth, a flop in man- agement, is installed as an incognito "worker" in an uncle's factory. His eagerness for hard work ires the shop steward, and the plant strikes—thus upsetting a scheme between two industrialists to share in an illegal contract. Oct. 1960. JAZZ BOAT (Drama With Music). Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters. Producer: Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli (Warwick). Direc- tor: Ken Hughes. Screenplay: Ken Hughes, John Antrobus. • British-made. In an effort to be a big shot, a young man lets himself be known as "The Cat," gets mixed up with a gang of petty criminals and, in escaping from a robbery, hides out on jazz boat filled with teenagers. Dee. 1960. LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH (Drama). Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ella Fitzgerald, Ricardo Montalban. Pro- ducer: Boris D. Kaplan. Director: Philip Leacock. Original (novel): Willard Motley. Screenplay: Robert Presnell jr. • A youth, product of Chicago's seamy district, is helped to escape his sordid surroundings by a mother who becomes a prostitute to care for him, a whisky-soaked ex-judge and other neighborhood derelicts. The boy is on the way to concert star- dom when he sets out to avenge a dope pusher who hooked his mother. Nov. 1960. MY DOG, BUDDY (Drama). Stars: Travis Lemmond, Ken Curtis, London. Producer: Ken Curtis. A.R.B.-McLendon Prods. Director: Ray Kellogg. Screenplay: Ray Kellogg. • A 10-year-old boy and his dog are in an ac- cident, and separated. The 'boy is taken to a hospital and the dog searches through the country- side looking for him, is mistaken for a show dog and entered in competition, and finally is re- united with the young master. Aug. 1960. NIGHTS OF LUCRETIA BORGIA, THE (Drama). Stars. Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas, Michele Mercier, Franco Fabrizi. Director: Sergia Grieco. Screenplay: Mario Caiano, Aldo Segri. • Italian-made. A young swordsman rescues the daughter of a warrior leading a revolt against the Borgias, and Lucretia Borgia makes every jealous effort to wreck the romance. As one of her lovers and the swordsman meet in a duel to the death, she turns to another romance. In Total- scope and Color. Aug. 1960. PLEASE TURN OVER (Comedy). Stars: Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips. Producer: Peter Rogers. Direc- tor: Gerald Thomas. Original (play): Basil Thomas. Screenplay: Norman Hudis. • British-made. Based on a hit London play, "Book-of-the-Month," this deals with a teenage girl who writes a best-seller in which she presents her father as having an affair with his secretary, her mother in love with a bachelor and her maiden aunt as a drunkard, and they begin to believe what they read. Dec. 1960. SONG WITHOUT END (Drama With Music). Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Patricia Mori- son. Producer: William Goetz. Directors: Charles Vidor, George Cukor. Screenplay: Oscar Millard. • Based on the life of Franz Liszt, the famous composer-pianist, and his love for a Russian prin- cess married to a nobleman who refuses to give her a divorce unless she turns over her wealth. The Vatican eventually refuses to sanction the divorce, and Liszt enters a monastery. In Cinema- Scope and Color. Oct. 1960. STOP! LOOK! AND LAUGH! (Comedy). The Three Stooges, Paul Winohell. Producer: Harry Romm. • Paul Winohell, ventriloquist, and two of his dummy characters engage in some horseplay to introduce bits and pieces of a dozen or so of top two-reelers made by The Three Stooges. July 1960. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET (Drama). Stars: Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau. Producer: Richard Quine. Direc- tor: Richard Quine. Original (novel) and Screenplay: Evan Hunter. • A -lonely housewife and a staid and conven- tional neighbor fall in love and hold many clandes- tine meetings. When another neighbor attempts to force his attentions on the man's wife, there is a sorry realization of the unpleasantness which arises out of infidelity. In Color. July 1960. SURPRISE PACKAGE (Comedy). Stars: Yul Brynner, Noel Coward, Mitzi Gaynor. Producer: Stanley 156 BAROMETER Section