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dueer-Di rector: Joshua Logan. Original (book): Moss Hart. Screenplay: George Axelrod. • The early career of the noted playwright and director. Moss Hart, his struggles to become a writer and his arrival as a top dramatist. In Color. BLACK GOLD (Drama). Stars: Philip Carey, Diane McBain, Fay Spain, James Best. Producer: Jim Barnett. Director: Leslie H. Martinson. Original S‘ory: Harry Whittington. Screenplay: Robert and Wanda Duncan. • A drama of the oil-boom days in Oklahoma in the 1920s. CHAPMAN REPORT, THE (Drama). Stars: Efrem Zimbalist jr., Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Glynis Johns. Producer: Richard Zanuck. Director: George Cukor. Original (novel): Irving Wallace. Screenplay: Don Mtrnkiewicz, Wyatt Cooper. • A doctor and his staff invade a suburban area of Southern California to gather informa- tion on the marital lives of a group of "typical" Americon women, with explosive results. In Color. COUCH, THE (Drama). Stars: Grant Williams, Shirley Knight, Onslow Stevens. Producer-Director: Owen Crump (Project III Enterprises). Original Story: Owen Crump, Blake Edwards. Screenplay: Robert Bloch. • Deals with a psychopathic killer who terrorizes a city. CRITIC'S CHOICE (Comedy). Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: Don Weis. Original (play): Ira Levin. Screenplay: William Bowers. • From the Broadway hit. A critic is faced with a delicate dilemma when he is assigned to review a play written by his wife. DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (Droma). Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick. Producer: Martin Manulis. Director: Blake Edwards. Original Story: J. P. Miller. Screenplay: J. P. Miller. • The dramatic story of a couple battling against the ravages of alcoholism. DEATHMAKERS, THE (Wor Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Stephen B. Trilling. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original (novel): Glen Sire. Screenplay: Halsted Welles. • Filmed in Germany. Based on the actions of a tank battalion during its invasion of France and the battle romances of the crew members of one of the tanks. DISTANT TRUMPET, A (Drama). Stars: Laurence Harvey. Producer: James Woolf. Director: Jack Clayton. Original (novel): Poul Horgan. Screen- play: Alan LeMay. • A panoramic story of the Arizona country shortly after the Civil War. In Color. GAY PURR-EE (Musical Comedy in Animation). Stars: The voices of Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Hermione Gingold. Producer: Henry G. Saperstein (UPA Pictures). Director: Abe Lev- itow. • Set in France in 1890, the film deals with Mewsette and a group of cats who leave the farm and go to Paris, where they have a series of romantic adventures. In Color. GYPSY (Musical). Stars: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden. Producer-Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original (book): Gypsy Rose Lee; (play): Arthur Laurents. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass. • A show-business story of a backstage mother and her on-stage daughters, one of them becom- ing Gypsy Rose Lee, the other actress June Havoc. In Technirama and Color. HOUSE OF WOMEN (Drama). Stars: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nich- ols. Producer: Bryan Foy. Director: Walter Doniger. Screenplay: Crane Wilbur. • A young girl in a California prison for women becomes romantically involved with the warden and triggers a riot. LAD: A DOG (Drama). Stars: Peter Breck, Peggy McCay, Lad the dog. Producer: Max J. Rosen- berg (Vanguard Prods). Directors: Aram Avakian, Leslie H. Martinson. Original (novel): Albert Pay- son Terhune. Screenplay: Lillie Hayward, Roberta O. Hodes. • Lad, a prize collie, saves the life of a crip- pled girl and helps her learn to walk again. In Color. LOVE AND MRS. SARGENT (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Not set. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: Not set. Original (book): Patrick Dennis under pseudonym of Virginia Rowans. Screen- ploy: Jack Sher. • A glamorous widow writes an advice-to-the- lovelorn column but has her own problems with her romantic-oged son and daughter. MAJORITY OF ONE, A (Comedy). Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue. Producer-Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original (play): Leonard Spigelgass. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass. • From the Broadway success in which a Jewish Brooklyn widow and a Japanese industrialist find eoch other and hilariously learn each other's ways. In Color. MALAGA (Drama). Stars: Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dandridge, Edmund Purdom. Producer: Thomas Clyde (Cavalcade Prods). Director: Laslo Benedek. Original (novel): Donald Mackenzie. Screenplay: David Osborn. • British-mode. Two jewel thieves and a des- perate young girl struggle over the loot in an escapade in Malaga. MERRILL'S MARAUDERS (Wor Drama). Stars: Jeff Chondler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Andrew Dug- gan, Will Hutchins, Claude Akins. Producer: Mil- ton Sperling (United States Piets). Director: Sam- uel Fuller. Original (book): Charlton Ogburn jr. Screenplay: Milton Sperling, Samuel Fuller. • Filmed in the Philippines. A dramatic account of the Burma jungle adventures of Merrill's Ma- rauders in World War II, under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Frank D. Merrill. Deals with 2,600 American soldiers who fought behind Japanese lines in the Burma jungles in 1944. In Color. MUSIC MAN, THE (Musical). Stars: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford. ProducemDi rector: Morton DaCosta. Original (musical): Meredith Willson. Screenplay: Marion Hargrove. • From the stage production in which a spell- binding con man brings new life to an Iowa town in 1912 when he arrives to sell band instruments and stays to fall in love. In Technirama and Color. RAISING HELLAS (Comedy). Stars: Not set. Pro- ducer-Director: Morton DaCosta. Original (story): Leo Katcher. Screenplay: David Schwartz. • Comic adventures in Greece, to be filmed there on location. ROME ADVENTURE (Comedy). Stars: Troy Don- ahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson, Ros- sano Brazzi. Producer-Director: Delmer Daves. Original (novel): Irving Fineman. Screenplay: Del- mer Oaves. • Filmed in Italy. A love story backgrounded in Italy about an American girl who rebels against conventions, but learns from on American suitor to respect them. In Color. SAMAR (Adventure Drama). Stars: George Montgom- ery, Gilbert Roland, Ziva Rodann, Joan O'Brien, Nico Minardos. Producer-Director: George Mont- gomery (Ponderey Prods). Screenplay: Ferde Grofe jr., George Montgomery. • Filmed in the Philippines. A soldier of fortune leads the battle to win freedom for the oppressed inmates of a Philippine island prison colony in the 19th century. In Color. SINGER NOT THE SONG, THE (Drama). Stars: Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylerve Demongeot. Pro- ducer-Director: Roy Baker (Rank Prods). Original (novel): Audrey Erskine Lindop. Screenplay: Nigel Baldhin. • British-made. A priest battles on armed gang and the temptations of a beautiful woman for the soul of a small Latin town. In CinemaScope and Color. TERM OF TRIAL (Drama). Stars: Laurence Olivier, Sarah Miles, Terence Stomp, Simone Signoret. Pro- ducer: James Woolf. Director: Peter Glenville. Original (novel): James Barlow. Screenplay: Gavin Lambert. • British-made. When a high school teacher's home life is made miserable by a nagging wife, he finds romance and solace with a middle-aged French woman. In Color. Miscellaneous ANATOMIST, THE (Melodrama). Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Adrienne Corri, Jill Bennett. Producer: Vincent Johnston. Director: Leonard William. Orig- inal (play): James Bridie. Screenplay: Leonard Wil- liam. Distributor: Richard Gordon—States Rights. • British-made. Deals with actual events in Edin- burgh in 1828, in which a famous professor of anatomy, forced to buy bodies for his research from two Irish ruffians, is not aware that they are committing murder to obtain the corpses. An an- gry mob of townspeople gathers when the body- snatchers ore exposed, but all ends happily when the truth comes out. ASSIGNMENT — OUTER SPACE (Science-Fiction). Stars: Rik Van Nutter, Gaby Farinon, Archie Savage. Producer: Hugo Grimaldi. Director: Antony Daisies. Distributor: Four Crown Releasing Co. • A newspaper reporter is sent aboard a rocket to be stationed on a space station that rotates oround the world. The atmosphere of the colony of space proves itself hostile to the newcomer. In Color. ATLANTIC ADVENTURE (Documentary). Producer: Inter TV Films. Distributor: Schoenfeld Film Dist. Carp. <* Canadian-made. The documentary record of the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on a primitive raft by Henri Beaudot and his two hardy compan- ions. After 88 days of exposure, privation and hunger, they reached England, becoming the first men in recorded history to span the North Atlan- tic waters on a log raft. Narrated by Fred Maness BLACK TIGHTS (Ballet Musical). Stars: Cyd Cha- risse, Moira Shearer, Zizi Jeanmaire, Roland Petit, Maurice Chevalier. Producer: Joseph Kaufman. Director: Terence Young. Distributor: Magna Piets. —States Rights. • British-made; filmed in France. Four approaches to love told through dance and music, with narra- tion by Maurice Chevalier. In Super Technirama 70 and Color. BUS TO BATAAN (War Drama). Stars: Ronald Remy, Paul Edwards, Sylvia Lawrence, Lisa Romey. Pro- ducer: George L. Joseph. Director: Lamberto V. Avellona. Original Screenplay: Rolf Bayer. Distrib- utor: Parallel Film Disfrs. • Filmed in the Philippines. World War II guer- rillas transport a busload of children through the enemy lines. CENTURION, THE (Spectacle Drama). Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Mitchell Gordon, Jacques Sernas, Genevieve Grad. Producer: Europa Cinematogra- fica. Director: Mario Costa. Distributor: Producers International Pictures—States Rights. • Set in the year 146 A. D. in the Grecian town of Corinth, this is the story of Greeks who seek freedom from Roman domination, the ensuing defeat by the Romans and the sacking of the town. Against this backdrop is woven a story of love, jealousy and intrigue. In Euroscope and Color. CRIMINAL AT LARGE (Drama). Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker. Producer: Jack Greenwood. Di- rector: Joseph Losey. Distributor: Fanfare Films. • British-made. The story of a prisoner who in three years in jail plans the biggest robbery of his career, how he is trapped and returned to prison. DANGEROUS CHARTER (Adventure Drama). Chris Warfield, Sally Frazier. Producers: Richard Moore, Bob Gottschalk. Director: Bob Gottschalk. Screen- play: Paul Strait. Distributor: Crown International— States Rights. • A story of adventure and action on the high seas. In Panavision and Color. DEVIL'S HAND, THE (Horror Melodrama). Stars: Lin- da Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton. Producer: Alvin K. Bubis. Director: William J. Hole jr. Screen- play: Jo Heims. Distributor: Crown International— States Rights. • A modern-day stoiy of voodoo sorcery, in which a young man and his girl friend come under the influence of a she-devil and a high priest who are members of a vobdoo-worshipping cult which uses a small shop as a front for their activities. DOUBLE BUNK (Comedy Farce). Stars: Ian Carmi- chael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Dennis Price. Producer: George H. Brown. Director: C. M. Pen- nington-Richards. Screenplay: C. M. Pennington- Richards. Distributor: Showcorporation. • British-made. A pair of newlyweds, forced to find living quarters on a run-down houseboat on the Thames, run into hilarious mishaps with rot- ting gangplanks, rusty machinery, a faulty com- pass which misdirects the boat through a fog across the channel into France, plus an assortment of characters who wander into their lives. EAST OF KILIMANJARO (Adventure Drama). Stars: Marshall Thompson, Gaby Andre, Fausto Tezzi. Producer: Carl Dudley (Dudley Piets. Int'l). Direc- tor: Arnold Belgard. Original Story: Richard Gold- stone, Daniel Mainwaring. Screenplay: Arnold Bel- gard. Distributor: Parade Releasing Organization. • Filmed in British East Africa. A roving reporter on assignment and a medical research doctor vie for the love of the same woman during a strange mission into the hunting lands of Kilimanjaro. In Vistarama and Color. FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS (Comedy). Stars: Arthur Askey. Producer: Bertram Ostrer. Director: Gordon Parry. Original Screenplay: Val Valentine. Distrib- utor: Schoenfeld Film Dist. Corp. ® British-made. The hilarious adventures of a group of Russian social workers who spend a few days studying the British working class. HEAD, THE (Horror Melodrama). Stars: Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke, Korin Kernke, Helmut Schmid. Producer: Wolfgang Hartwig. Director: Victor Trivas. Distributor: Trans-Lux. e German-made; English-dubbed. A mad surgeon uses human bodies for his experiments in keeping severed parts alive. When he ottoches the head of a beautiful, crippled girl to the body of a young dancer, the latter's former boy friend be- comes suspicious and alerts police. HUNS, THE (Spectacle Drama). Stars: Jacques Ser- nas, Chelo Alonso, Folco Lulli. Producer: Film Co- lumbus. Director: Sergio Greco. Distributor: Pro- ducers International Pictures—States Rights. • Italo-French co-production. Two medieval war- ring Tartar tribes battle for supremacy, in which a warrior queen plays both a rousing battle leader and the romantic interest of the leader of the opposition. In Tofalscope and Color. I BOMBED PEARL HARBOR (War Drama). Stars: Yosuke Natsuki, Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Koji Tsuruta. Producer: Toho Co. Director: Shue Matsubayashi. Distributor: Parade Releasing Or- ganization. • Japanese-made; English-dubbed. Beginning with Dec. 1, 1941, just prior to the Pearl Harbor sneak attack that threw the U. S. into World War II, the story is told from the Japanese angle, and carries on through the battle of Midway, when the enemy received devastating blows from U. S. forces. In Widescope and Color. JUMP TO GLORY (War Drama). Stors: Not set. Pro- ducer: Not set. Distributor: Producers Internation- al Pictures—States Rights. • A war-action drama concerning a battling regi- ment of paratroopers known as the "Battling Bastards of Bastogne." KITCHEN, THE (Drama). Stars: Corl Mohner, Mary Yeomans, Brian Phelan, Eric Pohlmann. Producer: A.C.T. Films. Director: James Hill. Original (play): Arnold Wesker. Screenplay: Sidney Cole. Distrib- utor: Kingsley International. • British-^made. Based on a London stage hit, the entire action is confined to a behind-the-scenes dramatization of a day in and around the ovens, steam tables and serving boards in the kitchen of a busy restaurant where a group of assorted Irish, German, Greek and Jewish-speaking workers toil, sweat and quarrel. LADY DOCTOR (Comedy). Stars: Vittorio de Sica, Abbe Lane, Toto. Director: C. Mastrocinque. Dis- tributor: Governor Films. • Italian-made; English-dubbed version. (Also available in Italian-language with English titles.) A pretty German woman doctor marries an Ital- ian lawyer and discovers that in Italy she is oourt- 150 BAROMETER Section