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Dr. Robert Knox in 19th Century England, a man who headed a gang of grove robbers selling bodies to medical schools, and who finally was forced to murder to insure his supply. SWORD AND THE DRAGON, THE (Fantasy). Stars: Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Nina Medve- deva. Producer: Alexander Ptushko. Director: Alex- ander Ptushko. • Russian-made. Based on Russian legends, this deals with the repeated attacks on a village by the vicious Tugar hordes commanded by the evil Kalin, and the eventual destruction of the invaders by Ilya Murometz, after he receives the Magic Sword of Invinsor. In Color. YOUNG ONE, THE (Drama). Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman. Producer: George F. Werker. Director: Luis Bunuel. Screenplay: Luis Bunuel, H. B. Addis. • Mexican-made. A young Negro, fleeing from a false charge of raping a white woman, lands on a lonely island inhabited only by a game warden and a 14-year-old girl, and becomes involved in a growing friendship with the girl, the rape of the girl by the warden and intervention of a friendly preacher. Warner Bros. (September through December 1960) CROWDED SKY, THE (Drama). Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist jr., John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn. Producer: Michael Garrison. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original (novel): Hank Searls. Screenplay: Charles Schnee. • A Navy pilot and an airliner pilot crash in midair. One is killed immediately. The airliner is miraculously brought to the ground, but in the flight the backgrounds of many of the passengers, as well as the pilots, are revealed in flashback technique. Sept. 1960. DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, THE (Drama). Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Ar- den, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight. Producer: Michael Garrison. Director: Delbert Mann. Origi- nal (play): William Inge. Screenplay: Irving Rovetch, Harriet Frank jr. • Family life in Oklahoma in the early 1920s, in- volving a husband who is unhappy about his wife's frigidity and her over-attachment to her chil- dren, and the conflicts which arise through his in- terest in a neighboring widow. In Color. Oct. 1960. GIRL OF THE NIGHT (Drama). Stars: Anne Francis, Lloyd Nolan, John Kerr, Kay Medford. Producer: Max J. Rosenberg. Director: Joseph Cates. Origi- nal (book): Dr. Harold Greenwald. Screenplay: Ted Berkman, Raphael Blau. • Based on a social and psychoanalytical study, this drama examines the life and problems of a lady of the evening Oct. 1960. SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (Biographical Drama). Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker. Producer: Dore Schary. Director: Dore Schary. Original (play): Dore Schary. Screenplay: Dore Schary. • The life of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the at- tack of polio which felled him in 1921 until the day he discarded his crutches and walked the few steps to the platform to nominate Alfred E. Smith for the presidency in 1924. In Color. Nov. 1960. SUNDOWNERS, THE (Drama). Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns. Dina Merrill. Producer: T. L. Blattner (Highland Prods.). Director: Fred Zinnemann. Original (novel): Jon Cleary. Screenplay: Isabel Lennart. • Filmed in Australia. The story of a family in the “out-back" country in Australia in the early 1920s, built around the sheep raisers and their trials, the fighting and feuding and the strength of one woman in building her family. In Color Dec. 1960. Coming ACT ONE (Biographical Drama). Stars: Not set. Pro- ducer: Joshua Logan. Director: Joshua Logan. Or- iginal (book): Moss Hart. Screenplay: George Axel- rod. • Based on the early career of the noted play- wright Moss Hart, his struggles to become a writer and his orrivol as a top dramatist. CLAUDELLE INGUSH (Drama). Stars: Diane McBaine, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, Will Hutchins. Producer: Leonard Freeman. Director: Gordon Douglas. Original (novel): Erskine Caldwell. Screen- play: Mel Dinelli. • The odvenfures of a promiscuous Georgia farm girl. COUCH, THE (Drama). Stars: Grant Williams, Shirley Knight. Producer: Owen Crump. Director: Owen Crump. Original (story): Owen Crump, Blake Ed- wards. Screenplay: Robert Bloch. • A thrill drama dealing with a psychopathic killer who terrorizes a city. DEVIL IN BUCKS COUNTY, THE (Drama). Stars: Si- mone Signoret. Producer: James Woolf. Director: Peter Glenville. Original (novel): Edmund Schiddel. Screenplay: James Poe. • A story set in suburbia— dealing with tangled passions in wealthy Bucks county. DISTANT TRUMPET, A (Drama). Stars: Laurence Horvey. Producer: James Woolf. Director: Jack Clayton. Original (novel): Paul Horgan. Screenplay: Alan LeMay. • A panoramic story of the Arizona country, shortly after the Civil War. FANNY (Drama). Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Cheva- lier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Baccaloni. Pro- ducer: Joshua Logan (Mansfield Prod.). Director: Joshua Logan. Original (stories): Marcel Pagnol, (play): S. N. Behrman, Joshua Logan. Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein. • filmed in France. A trio of short stories, which formed the basis of a hit New York musical drama, provide the substance for the plot. A Marseilles waterfront cafe proprietor objects to his daughter's affection for a young man of the city, and picks an older man to play the role of the lover, after the younger fellow goes to sea and the girl finds herself in difficulty. In Color. FEVER IN THE BLOOD, A (Drama). Stars: Efrem Zimbalist jr., Angie Dickinson, Don Ameche, Her- bert Marshall, Jack Kelly, Ray Danton. Producer: Roy Huggins. Director: Vincent Sherman. Original (novel): William Pearson. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner, Roy Huggins. • Political corruption and judicial conniving in- volving an ambitious district attorney, a senator with an eye on the presidency, and an incor- ruptable judge, all of whom try to make capital out of a murder. GOLD OF THE SEVEN SAINTS (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Clint Walker, Roger Moore, Leticia Roman, Chill Wills, Robert Middleton. Producer: Leonard Freeman. Director: Gordon Douglas. Original (novel): Steve Frazee. Screenplay: Leigh Brackett, Leonard Freeman. • An adventure drama of hard-fighting men who find gold. Two young fur trappers strike gold, struggle to keep it on a trip through the desert while being pursued by thieves. In Warnerscope and Color. GYPSY (Musical). Stars: Rosalind Russell. Producer: Mervyn LeRoy. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original (musical): Arthur Laurents, based on a book by Gypsy Rose Lee. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass. • A showbusiness story of a backstage mother and her on-stage daughters, Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc. In 70mm and Color. LAS VEGAS FILE (Crime Drama). Stars: Not set. Pro- ducer: Jules Schermer. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Robert Shaw. • Based on files of the sheriff's and police offi- ces in Las Vegas, this is an expansion of the ABC network series "Las Vegas File" which War- ner Bros, has been producing for television. MAJORITY OF ONE, A (Comedy Drama). Stars: Rosa- lind Russell, Alec Guinness. Producer: Mervyn Le- Roy. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original (play): Leonard Spigelgass. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass. • From the stage success based on the unlikely romance of an elderly Jewish lady and a Japanese industrialist and the even more unlikely premise that what they do involves the relationship of the United States and Japan. MAY THIS HOUSE BE SAFE FROM TIGERS (Comedy Drama.) Stars: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Frank Tashlin. Original (book): Alexander King. Screenplay: Frank Tashlin. • The reminiscences of the noted artist-racon- teur, Alex King, who is best known for his appear- ances on the Jack Paar show. MUSIC MAN, THE (Musical). Stars: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Hermione Gingold. Producer: Morton Da Costa. Director: Morton Da Costa. Original (musical): Meredith Will- son. Screenplay: Marion Hargrove, Meredith Will- son. ! • From Meredith Willson's big Broadway hit, about a traveling music man who brings music and romance to a small Iowa town, circa 1912. In 70mm and 35mm and Color. PARRISH (Drama). Stars: Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane Mc- Bain, Troy Donahue. Producer: Delmer Daves. Di- rector: Delmer Daves. Original (novel): Mildred Savage. Screenplay: Delmer Daves. • Based on a best-selling novel about Connecticut tobacco farmers and the tobacco industry in that state. In Technicolor. PORTRAIT OF A MOBSTER (Action Drama). Stars: Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Ray Danton, Joe Galli- son, Peter Breck. Producer: Don Weiss. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original Screenplay: Howard Browne. • A biography of Dutch Schultz, notorious gang- ster of the prohibition era, and his fight for gang control involving Legs Diamond and Mad Dog Coll. ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, THE (Droma). Stars: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Jill St. John. Producer: Louis de Rochemont (Seven Arts Prod.). Director: Jose Quintero. Original (novel): Tennessee Williams. Screenplay: Gavin Lambert. • Filmed in England. A not-too-successful actress gives up her career for romance with a succession of young gigolos in Rome. Based on Tennessee Williams' only novel. In Color. SAMAR (Adventure Drama). Stars: George Mont- gomery, Gilbert Roland, Ziva Rodann. Producer: George Montgomery. Director: George Montgomery. • Filmed in the Philippines. An action drama. SINS OF RACHEL CADE (Drama). Stars: Peter Finch, Angie Dickinson, Roger Moore, Juano Hernandez, Errol John, Woody Strode. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Gordon Douglas. Original (novel): Charles Mercer. Screenplay: Edward Anhalt, e The adventures of a pretty young nurse in the Belgian Congo, set in pre-World War I Africa. In Color. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (Drama). Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie. Producer: Elia Kazan. Director: Elia Kazan. Original Screenplay: William Inge. • A drama of young love in the midwest, carry- ing the romance of a young couple from the early 1920s into the depression years. In Color. STEEL CLAW, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars: George Montgomery, Charito Luna, Carmen Austen, Ben Perez. Producer: George Montgomery (Ponderay Prod.). Director: George Montgomery. Screenplay: George Montgomery, Ferde Grofe jr., Malvin Wald. • Filmed in the Philippines. A Marine captain carries out a dangerous mission with the aid of Philippine gaerrillas. In Color. SUSAN SLADE (Drama). Stars: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Brian Aherne. Producer: Delmer Daves. Director: Delmer Daves. Original (novel): Doris Hume. Screenplay: Delmer Daves. • Deals with a crisis in the life of a young college girl who is romantically involved with three men, and her unfortunate first real love affair. In Color. WHITE WARRIOR, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars: Steve Reeves, Georgia Moll. Director: Richard Freda. Original (novel): Leo Tolstoy. Screenplay: Gino DeSanctis, Akos Tolney. • Italian-made. A great warrior leads the wild Caucasian tribes against subjugation by the Rus- sian Czar. In Color. Miscellaneous A DOG, A MOUSE AND A SPUTNIK (Comedy). Stars: Noel Noel, Denise Grey, Darry Cowl, Mischa Auer. Producer: Louise De Masure. Director: Jean Dre- ville. Distributor: Films-Around-the-World. « French-made, with English-dubbed dialog. A Frenchman refuses to give up a dog and a white mouse which fall from a Russian sputnik into his garden, and involves his and the Soviet govern- ment in a series of unlikely diplomatic sequences. AMAZING MR. CALLAGHAN, THE (Mystery Comedy). Stars: Tony Wright, Lysiane Rey, Colette Ripert, Yorick Rayon. Producer: Willy Rozier. Director: Willy Rozier. Distributor: Atlantis Films-States Rights. • Filmed in France. A private investigator for a London insurance company clears up a boat sabo- tage and murder mystery on the French Riviera. ANNA'S SIN (Drama). Stars: Ben E. Johnson, Anna Vita, Paul Muller. Producer: Giaguaro Film. Di- rector: Camillo Mastrocinque. Distributor: Atlantis Films-States Rights. • Italian^made. A distinguished Negro American actor and an Italian girl fall in love in Rome. The girl's unscrupulous guardian tries to break up the affair by blackmailing the actor and resorting to murder. ANOTHER SKY (Melodrama). Stars: Victoria Grayson, Catherine Lacey, Lee Montague. Producer: Aymer Maxwell, for Minotaur Productions. Director: Ga- vin Lambert. Screenplay: Gavin Lambert. Dis- tributor: Edward Harrison. • British-made. A young girl working as a com- panion to an older woman in North Africa falls in love with a worthless musician, is deserted by him, runs out of money, finally allows herself to be taken as a wife by a village man. BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (Drama). Russian, with Eng- lish-dubbed dialog—See Foreign Language 176 BAROMETER Section