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nou, Poola Stoppa, Claudia Cardinale. Director: Luchino Visconti. • Italian-language: English-dubbed. The tragic story of an uprooted Italian family comprising a widowed mother and her five sons and the dramatic events that shape their lives and characters. While four sons finally find the right road, the fifth one winds up as a crime figure in newspaper headlines. (Italian- language version with English titles released by Astor in 1960-61 season.) Nov. 1962. Coming BLACK FOX, THE (Documentary). Narrator: Marlene Dietrich. Producer-Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen. Screenplay: Louis Clyde Stoumen. • Marlene Dietrich tells the true story of Adolf Hitler. OUT OF THE TIGER'S MOUTH (Drama). Stars: Loretta Han-Yi Hwong, David Fang. Producer: Wesley Rug- gles jr. Director: Tim Whelan jr. Original Screenplay: Wesley Ruggles jr., Tim Whelan jr. • Filmed in Hong Kong and Macao. Two Chinese children are smuggled from the mainland to an uncle in Hong Kong. An unscrupulous smuggler de- livers them instead to a Macao house of prostitution from which they escape to Hong Kong only to find their uncle is dead. Alone, friendless, without family or money, they trudge off into a bleak future. TRIAL, THE (Drama). Stars: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, Romy Schnei- der. Producers: Alexandre and Michel Salkind. Di- rector: Orson Welles. Original (novel): Frank Kafka. Screenplay: Orson Welles. • Filmed in Paris. The story of a man victimized by the impersonal hostility of a bureaucratic world he never made. Buena Vista (October through December, 1962) ALMOST ANGELS (Drama With Music). Stars: Peter Week, Sean Scully, Vincent Winter, Vienna Boys' Choir. Producer: Walt Disney Production. Director: Steve Previn. Original (idea): R. A. Stemmle. Screen- play: Vernon Harris. • Filmed in Vienna at the palace home of the famed Vienna Choir Boys, and depicts the daily activities of the boys, their hopes, dreams and am- bitions as they live and work together so that they will be able to go on tour the following season. In Color. Oct. 1962. IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS (Adventure Drama). Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George San- ders, Wilfrid Hyde White, Michael Anderson jr., Keith Hamshere, Wilfrid Brambell, Antonio Cifariello. Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Robert Stevenson. Original (novel): Jules Verne. Screenplay: Lowell Haw- ley. • Teenager Mary Grant and her brother Robert convince wealthy shipping line owner Lord Glenarvan he must lead an expedition to find their lost sea captain father. A barely legible note, found in a floating bottle by French professor Jacques Paganel leads the party halfway around the earth at the 37th parallel before they find and rescue the captain from the hands of man-eating Maoris. In Color Dec. 1962. Coming INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, THE (Outdoor Animal Story). Stars: Emile Genest, John Drainie, a Labrador retriever, a bull terrier, a Siamese cat. Producers: Walt Dis- ney, James Algar. Directors: Fletcher Markle, Jack Couffer. Original: Sheila Burnford. Screenplay: James Algar. • Believing they have been abandoned by a tem- porary overseer, an English bull terrier, a golden Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat start a 250- mile trek to their Canadian home. They meet many dangers and adventures, but leave some good where- ever they have been. Given up for lost by their human owners, they eventually make it home, tired, ragged and happy. In Color. MIRACLE OF THE WHITE STALLIONS (Romantic Dramo). Stars: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curt Jur- gens, Eddie Albert, James Fronciscus. Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Arthur Hiller. Screenplay: A. J Carothers. • The real-life story of Alois Podhajsky, German cavalry officer who saved the dancing Lipizzan stallions during World War II, first from Allied bomb- ings, then from capture by the advancing Russians. Podhojsky's 250-mile trek with the horses and the massive Army protection given by General George Patton in a final escape, highlight the story. In Color. SAVAGE SAM (Adventure Drama). Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Dewey Martin, Kevin Corcoran, Jeff York, Marta Kristen. Producers: Walt Disney, Bill Anderson. Director: Norman Tokar. Original (novel)- Fred Gipson. Screenplay: Fred Gipson, William Tun- berg, Ronald Alexander. • A party of Apache braves kidnaps 16-year-old Travis Coates, his 12-year-old brother Arliss and Lis- beth Searcy, 15, but in a fight with the U.S. cavalry contingent, Travis escapes. The soldiers give up the bottle when the Indians scatter. Travis and his dog, Savage Sam, continue the chase and soon are joined by the boy's uncle and five Texans, who ride down the renegades and win back the youngsters. In Color. SON OF FLUBBER (Comedy Drama). Stars: Fred Mac- Murray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Elliott Reid, Joanna Moore, Tommy Kirk. Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Robert Stevenson. Original: Bill Walsh. Screenplay: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi. • Sequel to ''The Absent-Minded Professor," in which Ned Brainerd tries to perfect a rain-making device using a residue found in the bottom of his flubber barrel. His experiments fail and he becomes the laughing stock of the town. His wife Betsy leaves him when an old flame re-enters his life. He finally becomes the town hero by accidentally revitalizing the countryside with "dry rain" and winning the pennant for the home town team with a flubbergassed football suit. SUMMER MAGIC (Comedy Drama). Stars: Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Peter Brown, Eddie Hodges. Producer: Walt Disney. Di- rector: James Neilson. Original (novel): Kate Doug- las Wiggin. Screenplay: Sally Benson. • When the death of Nancy Carey's father forces the family to give up the big Boston home, she writes a sob letter to Osh Popham, postmaster of Beulah, Maine, about renting a big yellow house the Careys have seen in happier days. Osh falls for her pleas and the Careys move in rent-free, then set about improving the house and the town. Nancy walks off with Tom Hamilton, owner of the house and the best catch in town. In Color. SWORD IN THE STONE, THE (Animated Cartoon Fea- ture). Producer: Walt Disney. Director: Wolfgang Reitherman. Original:- T. H. White. Screenplay: Bill Peet. • Finding themselves without a king, the knights of England ascertain that the next monarch will be the one who can pull a great sword from its bed of stone. Candidates include Kay, the knothead son of blustering Sir Ector, in whose castle Arthur, a flunky, is striving with all his might to become Kay's squire. With the guidance of Merlin the magician and a sidekick owl, the Wart, as he is disdainfully called, proves destined for the monarchy. In Color. Columbia (July through December, 1962) BARABBAS (Biblical Drama). Stars: Anthony Quinn, SiI- vana Mangano, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine, Vit- torio Gassman, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy. Pro- ducer: Dino De Laurentiis. Director: Richard Fleischer. Original (novel): Par Lagerkvist. Screenplay: Christo- pher Fry. • Italian co-production with English dialog. Based on the Biblical character who was set free by Pontius Pilate just prior to his sentenced crucifixion, the story tells of the murderer's exploits following his escape from death as narrated in the Nobel Prize- winning novel. In Technirama and Color. Dee. 1962. BEST OF ENEMIES, THE (Comedy). Stars: David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Michael Wilding, Harry Andrews, David Opatoshu. Producer Dino De Laurentiis. (Dino De Laurentiis Prod). Director: Guy Hamilton. Screenplay: Jack Pulman. • Filmed in the Middle East. Two World War II officers, one British and the other Italian, alter- nately become each other's prisoner. Their ani- mosity for each other and their respective countries turns into mutual admiration and respect. In Tech- nirama and Color. Sept. 1962. DAMN THE DEFIANT! (Sea Adventure). Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle. Producer: John Brabourne. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Original (novel): Frank Tilsley. Screenplay: Nigel Kneale, Ed- mund H. North. • British-made; released in England as "H.M.S. De- fiant." Based on the novel, "Mutiny," the story of a mutinous crew aboard a British ship in the days of sailing ships and the wars with France. In Cine- mascope and Color. Sept. 1962. INTERNS, THE (Drama). Stars: Michael Callen, James MacArthur, Cliff Robertson, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker, Haya Harareet, Anne Helm. Producer: Robert Cohn. Director: David Swift. Original (novel): Richard Frede. Screenplay: Walter Newman, David Swift. • The stories of the private and professional lives of four young doctors during their frenzied year of in- terning. Each pursues his own goals through the year, climaxed with a party to celebrate the end of their internship. Misunderstandings then are worked out, romances are completed and the various characters go their own ways into the world. Aug. 1962. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif. Producer: Sam Spiegel. Director: David Lean. Original: T. E. Lawrence. Screen- play: Robert Bolt. • Based on many works dealing with T. E. Law- rence including his own, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," this is the story of Lawrence and his exploits in the Arabian desert beginning in the early days of World War I when he requested and gained a transfer to Arabia. In Super-Panavision 70 and Color. Dec. 1962. (Special Pre-release). NOTORIOUS LANDLADY, THE (Comedy Melodrama). Stars: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood. Producer: Fred Kohlmar (Kohlmar-Quine Prod). Director: Richard Quine. 0- riginal (short story): Margery Sharp. Screenplay: Larry Gelbart, Blake Edwards. • A young American embassy official rents a Lon- don apartment from an English girl whose husband has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He encounters some strange experiences. July 1962. PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi. Producer: Anthony Nelson-Keyes (Hammer Film Prod). Director: John Gilling. Original Story: Jimmy Songster. Screenplay: John Hunter, John Gilling. • British-made. Pirates invade an island settlement in the 18th century in search of treasure, only to be defeated, after many intrigues and skirmishes, by the Huguenot refugees who first established the settlement. In Hammerscope and Color. Nov. 1962. REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT (Drama). Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris. Producer: David Susskind. Director: Ralph Nel- son. Original Teleplay and Screenplay: Rod Serling. • Filmed in New York locales, action takes place outside the ring and deals with the effect of greedy promoters on the career of an honest man. A heavy- weight fighter, told he can never fight again, finds his manager has been betting against him and has gotten into difficulties with gamblers. The heavy- weight turns to wrestling to save the manager. Oct. 1962. RING-A-DING RHYTHM (Comedy With Music). Stars: Craig Douglas, Chubby Checker, Del Shannon, Gary Bonds, Gene McDaniels. Producer: Milton Subotsky (Amicus Prod). Director: Dick Lester. Original Screen- play: Milton Subotsky. • Filmed in England. The Mayor of an English town objects to jukebox and television entertainment, but is met with opposition by local young people who succeed in putting on a jam session that finally has even the mayor doing the Twist with the rest. Sept. 1962. THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT, THE (Comedy). Stars: The Three Stooges, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll, Emil Sitka, Peter Dawson. Producer: Norman Maurer (Nor- mandy Prods). Director: Edward Bernds. Original Story: Norman Maurer. Screenplay: Elwood Ullman. • The Stooges rent a room in a gloomy old castle owned by an eccentric inventor who has contrived a submarine-helicopter-tank that has attracted the in- terest of Martians planning to invade earth. A test run is arranged for the U.S., and the Stooges make a shambles of the demonstration. When Martians cap- ture the machine, the Stooges finally succeed in destroying both the machine and its passengers while making their own wild escape. Aug. 1962. TWO TICKETS TO PARIS (Musical). Stars: Gary Crosby, Kay Medford, Joey Dee, Jeri Lynne Fraser, Lisa James, Charles Nelson Reilly. Producer: Harry Romm (Harry Romm Prod). Director: Greg Garrison. Original Screenplay: Hal Hackady. • A young entertainer is engaged by a Paris night club on the condition that he remain a bachelor. He and his fiancee agree to go to Paris, then be married on their return home. Her mother insists upon a proper chaperone, a job undertaken by a hat check girl. Many romantic complications result on ship- board with the hat check girl as referee. Oct. 1962. WAR LOVER, THE (War Drama). Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell. Producer: Arthur Hornblow jr. Director: Philip Lea- cock. Original (novel): John Hersey. Screenplay: How- ard Koch. • Filmed in England. An American Flying Fortress pilot who loves war, endangers the lives of his crew members as he attempts to live up to his reputation as an ace, taking tremendous risks. He and his co- pilot become romantically involved with the same girl. When his Flying Fortress is badly damaged, he orders the crew to bail out, then crashes the plane into the cliffs of Dover. The copilot and the girl then are reunited. Nov. 1962. WE'LL BURY YOU! (Documentary). Narration: William Woodson. Producers: Jack Leewood, Jack Thomas (Contempora Prods). Screenplay: Jack Thomas. • This documentary traces the rise of Communism ir Russia from the time of Karl Marx to the present day and utilizes rare film clips of such Red leaders as Lenin and Trotsky as well as footage of mass executions during political purges; sinking of a Rus- sian warship during the Russo-Japanese War and recent shots of escapes over the Berlin Wall. Nov. 1962. ZOTZ! (Comedy). Stars: Tom Poston, Julia Meade, James Backus, Fred Clark, Cecil Kellaway. Producer-Director: William Castle (William Castle Prod). Original (novel): Walter Karig. Screenplay: Ray Russell. • A professor of ancient languages obtains an old coin with magical powers, making people move in slow motion, causing sudden pain and even caus- ing death if the owner points his finger and says, "Zotz!" The professor has many adventures, in- cluding capture by a foreign agent until the coin finally is lost down a sewer. He then is promoted to dean of languages and marries the new and lovely addition to the university teaching staff. July 1962. Coming BYE BYE BIRDIE (Musical). Stars: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydel. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: George Sid- ney. Original (play): Mike Stewart. Screenplay: Irving Brecher. • A musical satire, from the Broadway hit about the "sideburns" set, dealing with rock and roll sing- ers. 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