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©RING OF FIRE. 119..(91) June 15 Outdoor Dromo. A young deputy sheriff, held hos- tage by three teenage hoodlums, one of them a girl, ultimately affects his escope in a spectacular forest fire and heroically rescues a trainload of fleeing townsfolk trapped on a burning bridge. David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin, James Johnson, Joel Marston. Producer-Director: Andrew L Stone. Andrew and Virginia Stone Production. ©SECRET OF MONTE CRISTO, THE 121 1 80) June 22 Adventure Melodrama. British-made. Set in Italy, with 19th century intrigue and swordplay, this re- counts the adventures of a group of people who meet for a treasure hunt on the island of Monte Cristo, each holding part of a map to the buried treasure, and are captured by invading pirates. Rory Calhoun, Patricia Bredin, John Gregson, Peter Arne, Gianna Maria Canale. Producers-Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman (Dyaliscope) SECRET PARTNER, THE 115 (91) Mar. 2 Mystery Melodrama. British-made. In which Scot- land Yard, attempting to solve the mysterious, big-time robbery of a London shipping company, runs into intrigue and blackmail as it traces the mastermind behind the seemingly perfect crime. Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden, Lee Montague, Norman Bird. Direc- tor: Basil Dearden. ©SUBTERRANEANS, THE 102 (90) Sept. 22, '60 Musical Drama. Based on Jack Kerouac's novel about San Francisco's beat generation of jazz- happy Bohemians. A free-loving French girl falls in love with the poet-saint of the beatniks, and becomes pregnant before she decides to settle down. Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Andre Previn, Gerry Mulligan, Carmen McRae. Director: Ronald MacDougall. Ar- thur Freed Production. (CinemoScope) ©THIEF OF BAGHDAD 123 (89) Aug. 10 Adventure Fantasy. ( Italian-made, with English- dubbed dialog.) The fabulous adventures of the legendary thief of ancient Baghdad, who must cross through seven gotes fraught with many dangers to obtain a blue rose that will cure the princess he loves of her strange malady. He is aided by an old man with magic powers. Steve Reeves, Georgia Moll, Arturo Dominici, Edy Vessel, Georges Chomarat. Director: Arthur Lubin. Joseph E Levine Presentation and a Titanus Production. (CinemaScope) ©TWO LOVES. .117 . .(100) May 18 Drama. Filmed in New Zealand. From a first novel, "The Spinster," by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, which recounts the experiences of a beloved American kindergarten teacher in a primitive section of New Zealand and the two loves in her life. Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Nobu McCarthy. Director: Charles Walters. Julian Blau- stein Production. (CinemaScope) VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 109 (77) Jan. 12 Science-Fiction Drama. British-made. Based on John Wyndham's novel, "The Midwich Cuckoos," and is the fantastic story of beautiful, golden-haired children, born to the female inhabitants of a small village following a mysterious blackout, who grow up with supernatural powers of mental teiepathy but with evil intent. The little monsters plot to annihilate the entire village and almost succeed. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, Martin Stephens. Di- rector: Wolf Rilla. ©WHERE THE BOYS ARE . . 110 . (99). . Dec. 29, '60 Comedy. The story of college students who each year invade Florida during spring vacation. Plot revolves around the activities of four girls who make the trip to be "where the boys are," and what they encounter at the end of the trail. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss. Director: Henry Levin. Euterpe Production. (CinemaScope) WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS 104 (113) Nov. 10, '60 Melodramc. (Franco-ltalian made, with English- dubbed dialog.) Based on Roger Vaillond's novel, "The Law." The story mixes violence, passion and intrigue in presenting a tale centered on the effects of a cruel Sicilian game, la loi (the law), on several inhabitants of a small fishing village dominated by a ruthless gang leader. Gina Lollo- brigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Paolo Stoppa. Director: Jules Dassin. Joseph E. Levine Presenta- tion. (REISSUES) ©GONE WITH THE WIND . . 114 . . (222) . . Apr. 6 Historical Drama. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland. Director: Victor Fleming. David O. Selznick Production. Paramount (September, 1960 through August, 1961) ©ALL IN A NIGHT'S WORK 6010 (94) Apr. Comedy. Wealthy publisher dies suddenly and leaves his mogazine empire to his playboy nephew, who discovers the uncle was victim of a blackmail plot. Suspecting o pretty research assistant in the firm, he sets a trap, finds she is innocent and thot he is in love with her Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Charlie Ruggles, Norma Crane, Jerome Cowan, Gale Gordon. Director: Joseph Anthony. Hal Wallis Production. BLUEPRINT FOR ROBBERY. 6009 (87) Jon. Crime Drama. The step-by-step planning of a daring $2,000,000 holdup of an armored car carrying payroll collections. The successful heist, masterminded by an ex-convict, has poliee and public baffled for three years, until a double- cross causes an ex-convict to turn state's evidence and tell the whole story. Jay Barney, Robert Wilkie, J. Pat ©'Malley, Robert Gist, Romo Vincent, Marion Ross. Director: Jerry Hopper. Bryan Foy Production. BOY WHO STOLE A MILLION, THE 6001 (64) Sept. '60 Melodrama. Filmed in Spain. A 12-year-old bank messenger "borrows" a million pesetas to help his financially pressed father. A pursuit takes place through the crowded streets and along the water- front, with the frantic father, the police and a group of underworld thugs after the boy. Virgilio Texera, Marianne Benet, Maurice Reyna, Harold Kasket. Director: Charles Crichton. George H. Brown Presentation. ©BREATH OF SCANDAL, A 6006 (98). . . Oct. '60 Comedy Drama. Filmed in Europe. Based on Ferenc Molnar's play, "Olympia." Set in pre- World War I Vienna, and concerns a gay Austrian princess who upsets the court of Emperor Franz Joseph with her daring escapades, including a romantic caprice with a handsome, young visiting American. Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury, Milly Vitale, Isabel Jeans. Director: Michael Curtiz. Ponti-Girosi Production. Q©CINDERFELLA 6007 (88) Dee. '60 Comedy. A modern comedy version of the classic fairy tale, supplanting several key female charac- ters with males The stepsisters become step- brothers, Cinderella is CinderFella, the prince is a princess seeking an American husband, and the fairy godmother is replaced by a fairy godfather. Jerry Lewis, Judith Anderson, Ed Wynn, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton, Count Basie. Director: Frank Toshlin. Jerry Lewis Production. FOXHOLE IN CAIRO 6013. .(68) Jan. Melodrama. British-made. Set in World War II during Field Marshal Rommel's North African campaigns, this tells the true story of how British Naval Intelligence foiled a plot by German espionage agents, which subsequently turned the tide in favor of the British in the Battle of El Alamein. James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, N i a 11 MacGinnis, Peter Van Eyck, Robert Urgu- hart, Albert Lieven. Director: John Moxey. Omnia Films Production. (Running time was cut from 79 minutes to 68 minutes.) ©G. I. BLUES. .6005 (104) Nov. '60 Musical. Filmed in Germany. A Gl tank gunner makes a bet that he can persuade a pretty night club singer to spend a night with him. They fall in love with each other—until she finds out that she has been the tool in a wager. Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers, Leticia Roman, James Douglas. Director. Norman Taurog. Hal Wallis Production. ©LADIES MAN, THE. 6015. (96) June Comedy. Disillusioned by a thwarted romance, a young man turns woman-hater, then winds up as houseboy—and the only male employe—in a Hollywood rooming house full of beautiful young girls who keep pursuing him and he keeps on the run. Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Pat Stanley, Kathleen Freeman, Hope Holiday, Lynn Ross. Producer-Director: Jerry Lewis. (Running time was cut from 106 minutes to 96 minutes.) ©LOVE IN A GOLDFISH BOWL 6018 . (88)... June Comedy. A teenage coed and her college boy friend, unbeknown to their parents, spend a holiday (purely platonic) together at the boy's Balboa beach house, where they move about in a beatnik environment with a group of other young moderns. Tommy Sands, Fobian, Jan Ster- ling, Toby Michaels, Edward Andrews, John Mc- Giver. Director: Jack Sher. Martin Jurow-Richard Shepherd Production. (Panavision) ©ON THE DOUBLE 6016.(92) July Comedy With Music. Filmed in England. Set in World War II, American Gl impersonates a top British general for British Intelligence, is kidnaped by Nazi agents and shipped to Berlin, mokes a daring getaway during which he switches to several identities and escapes to England where he un- masks the Nazi spy chief there. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde White, Margaret Ruth- erford, Diana Dors. Director: Melville Shavelson. Dena-Capri Production. (Panavision) ©ONE-EYED JACKS 6014 (141) May Oudoor Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Based on Charles Neider's novel, "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones." A convict escapes after five years in prison, and meets his former partner who had betrayed him. The latter, now a small town sheriff, frames outlaw for a bank robbery, and in a showdown between the two, sheriff is mortally wounded. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Pina Pellicer. Director: Marlon Brando. Pennebaker Production. (VistaVision) i>©PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY, THE 6017 (114) Aug. Comedy. From the Broadway stoge hit, in which an international playboy, divorced for 20 years, appears unannounced at his ex-wife's home as their daughter's wedding day approaches, and virtually takes over the household and nuptial plans, nearly wrecking his ex-mate's second mar- riage and his daughter's forthcoming marriage. Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill, Charlie Ruggles. Director: George Seaton. Perlberg-Seaton Production. ©SAVAGE INNOCENTS, THE. 6004 (89) Mor. Adventure Drama. Filmed in the Arctic wastes of Canada. From novel, "Top of the World," by Hans Ruesch, depicting life among the Polar Eskimos. Stoiy tells of the conflict arising out of on Eskimo couple's contact with the white man's civilization, revealing many of the Eskimos' strange customs and morals. Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Peter O'Toole, Marie Young. Director: Nicho- las Ray. Magic Film Co-production. (Technirama)— (Running time was cut from 110 minutes to 89 minutes.) UNDER TEN FLAGS 6002 (92) Sept. '60 War Drama. Filmed in Italy. Based on the true and astounding story of Admiral Bernhard Rogge, the humane commander of a German surface raider, the Atlantis, which sank 22 Allied ships during World War II, but never sank a ship before crew and passengers were first rescued. Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylene Demongeot, Eleonora Rossi Drago, John Ericson, Alex Nicol. Director: Duilio Coletti. Dino De Laurentiis Pro- duction. ©WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, THE 6008. (126). Feb. Drama. Filmed in Hong Kong. An American artist in Hong Kong meets and falls in love with an Oriental "yum-yum" girl. Depicts the problems which face them and adjustments that must be made. Williom Holden, Nancy Kwan, Michael Wilding, Sylvia Syms, Laurence Naismith. Direc- tor: Richard Quine. World Enterprises-Worldfilm Limited Co-production. (REISSUES) ©ELEPHANT WALK R6011 . (103) Jan. Drama. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch. Director: William Dieterle. ©NAKED JUNGLE, THE. . R6012. (95) Jan. Drama. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker. Director Byron Haskin. 20th Century-Fox (October, 1960 through September, 1961) ©ALL HANDS ON DECK .112-3 (98) Apr. Comedy Farce. A stowaway girl reporter disguised as a gob aboard a Navy LST brings both romance and chaos into the life of a young noval officer. A Chickasaw Indian sailor and his pet turkey add to the confusion for all hands on deck. Pat Boone, Buddy Hoekett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden. Director: Norman Taurog. (CinemaScope) BATTLE AT BLOODY BEACH 128-9 (83) June War Drama. Set in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, plot centers around a busi- ness man who is trapped on the island and joins an underground group to fight the enemy invaders. He and his wife, a partisan of the guerrillas and romantically involved with their leader, are ulti- mately reunited. Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels, Alejandro Rey. Director: Herbert Coleman. (CinemaScope) ©BIG GAMBLE, THE 134-7 (100) Aug. Adventure Drama. Filmed largely in Africa. The adventures of a young Irishman and his French bride as they set out on a dangerous trek through Africa in a 10-ton truck, accompanied by a male cousin and a crafty German guide, to start a trucking business on the Ivory Coast of Africa. Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Gregory Ratoff. Director: Richard Fleischer. African sequences directed by Elmo Wil- liams. Darryl F. Zanuck Production. (Cinema- Scope) ©BIG SHOW, THE 123-0 (113) May Drama. Filmed in Europe. Story of a German circus family headed by a dominating father whose tyranny affects the lives of his children, leading to intrigues and deceits which almost destroy them. Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, David Nelson, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Carol Christensen. Director: James B. Clark. (CinemaScope) ©CANADIANS, THE 105-7 (85) Feb. Outdoor Drama. Filmed in Canada. A rugged Canadian Mountie, together with his two aides, goes after and captures an American rancher and his henchmen who have massacred an Indian village and carried off a white girl held by the Indians, in retaliation for the loss of some horses. Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Teresa Stratas. Director: Burt Kennedy. Associated Pro- ducers Production. (CinemaScope) ©CAN-CAN .103-2..(131) Jan. Musical. (CinemoScope version.) From the Cole Porter-Abe Burrows Broadway hit musical. Story concerns the attempts of 19th century Parisian reformers to ban the can-can dance in a Mont- martre cafe, and a romantic triangle that develops between the pretty cafe owner, her lawyer boy friend and the ban-wielding judge. Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jour- dan, Juliet Prowse, Marcel Dalio. Director: Walter Lang. Suffolk-Cummings Production. (Pre-released as a special for 1959-60 in Todd-AO version.) ©CAPTAIN'S TABLE, THE 040-6 (90) Oct. '60 Comedy. British-made. The hilarious adventures of 128 BAROMETER Section