Boxoffice barometer (1963)

( ) t » CANDY WEB, THE (Suspense Satire). Stars: Kathy Dunn, Hugh Marlowe, Murray Hamilton. Producer-Director: William Castle (William Castle Prod). Original Story: Otis Guernsey jr. Screenplay: Robert Dillon. • A story of international intrigue and danger set against the background of a girl's boarding school. CARDINAL, THE (Drama). Stars: Tom Tryon, Carol Lyn- ley, John Saxon, Romy Schneider. Producer-Director: Otto Preminger. Original (novel): Henry Morton Rob- inson. Screenplay: Not set. • The story of a young Boston priest who rose to the eminence of Cardinal. In Panavision and Color. COCOA BEACH (Drama). Stars (incomplete): Warren Beatty. Producer-Director: Robert Rossen (Rossen En- terprises Prod). Screenplay: Gerald Greene. • A story of the missile age based on a David Brinkley television report on the new town which suddenly developed around the Cape Canaveral mis- sile base. CONGO VIVO (Drama). Stars: Jean Seberg, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bachir Toure. Producer: Carmine Bologna (Dino De Laurentiis Prod). Director: Giuseppe Ber- natti. • Italian-made; English dialog. Filmed in the Bel- gian Congo, a topical drama set against the cur- rent turbulence and political strife in that area. DIAMOND HEAD (Drama). Stars: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren. Producer: Jerry Bresler (Jerry Bresler Prod). Director: Guy Green. Original (novel): Peter Gil- man. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts. • Filmed in Hawaii. A story set in modern-day Ha- waii dealing with a dynastic family, the Howland clan. In Panavision and Color. DR. STRANGELOVE: Or How I Learned to Stop Worry- ing and Love the Bomb (Satirical Drama). Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn. Producer: James B. Harris (Polaris Prod). Di- rector: Stanley Kubrick. Original (novel): Peter George. Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick. • Based on the novel, "Red Alert," originally pub- lished in England in 1958 under title of "Two Hours to Doom." A psychotic Air Force general triggers an ingenious scheme, unleashing his wing of B-25 H- Bombers to attack Russia. The U.S. President, unable to recall the aircraft, is forced to cooperate with Soviet premier in a bizarre attempt to save the world. EX-WIFE (Romantic Comedy). Stars (incomplete): Doris Day. Producer: Martin Melcher (Arwin-Swift Prod). Di- rector: David Swift. Original story: David Swift. Screen- play: David Swift, Bill Manhoff. • The former husband of a young divorcee appears and begins to court her just as she is about to be married into a wealthy family. The ex-husband's at- tentions are brought on by a $5,000,000 estate which she has inherited but about which she has not yet been informed. GIDGET GOES TO ROME (Romance). Stars: Cindy Carol, James Darren. Producer: Jerry Bresler (Jerry Bresler Prod). Director: Paul Wendkos. Screenplay: Katherine and Dale Eunson. • The further adventures of Gidget and her pals, this time set in the Eternal City. In Color. GOOD LORD, YOU'RE UPSIDE DOWN! (Comedy). Stars: Jack Lemmon. Producer-Director: Richard Quine. Or- iginal (novel): Clair Huffaker. Screenplay: Not set. • Based on the adventures of a fashion photogra- pher. HANNO'S DOLL (Suspense Drama). Stars (incomplete): Jane Fonda. Producers: Elliot Kastner, Stan Shpetner (International Cinema Prods). Director: Not set. O- riginal (novel): Evelyn Piper. Screenplay: B. Hutton. HOLIDAY, THE (Comedy). Stars (incomplete): Jane Fonda. Producer-Director: Carl Foreman. Original (novel): Constantine Fitzgibbon. Screenplay: Not set. • British-made; to be filmed in Greece. Story of a small fishing village that is thrown into turmoil when a sexy female arrives in the community. IN THE FRENCH STYLE (Romance Drama). Stars: Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, James Leo Herlihy. Producer: Irwin Shaw (Casanna Prods). Director: Robert Par- rish. Original (short stories): Irwin Shaw. Screenplay: Irwin Shaw. • Filmed in France. The plot centers around a young American girl who goes to Paris to study painting and a young American doctor who becomes romanti- cally involved with her. IRON MAIDEN, THE (Comedy). Stars: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Connell, Alan Hale jr., Cecil Parker, Noel Purcell. Producer: Peter Rogers (Anglo Amalga- mated Prod). Director: Gerald Thomas. • British-made. An American businessman is ac- companied by his family on a trip to England to visit a brilliant jet plane designer. Things soon go haywire because of the designer's passion for tinker- ing with old fairground steam-traction engines. JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (Classic Drama). Stars: Nancy Kovack, Todd Armstrong, Gary Ray- mond, Laurence Naismith. Producer: Charles H. Schneer. Director: Don Chaffey. Screenplay: Jan Read, Beverly Cross. • Filmed in southern Europe. The classic Greek myth- ological tale of Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece. In SuperDynamation 90 and Color. LILITH (Drama). Stars: Warren Beatty. Producer-Director: Robert Rossen. Original (novel): J. R. Salamanca. Screenplay: Robert Rossen. • A young man, after being discharged from the army, becomes a male nurse in a mental institution and falls in love with a beautiful inmate suffering from schizophrenia. LONG SHIPS, THE (Adventure Drama). Stars: Richard Widmark, Leslie Parrish, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tam- blyn. Producer: Irving Allen. Director: Jack Cardiff. Original (novel): Frank G. Bengtsson. Screenplay: Robert Ardrey. • British-made; to be filmed in Yugoslavia. The travel and adventures of a Danish Viking who fought successfully under pagan, Mohammedan and Christian banners, surviving privation and spectacular battles to win great fortune. In Technirama and Color. LORD JIM (Adventure Drama). Stars: Peter O'Toole. Pro- ducer-director: Richard Brooks. Original (novel): Jos- eph Conrad. Screenplay: Richard Brooks. • To be filmed in the Malay Archipelago. The classic tale of cowardice and redemption that has established the Joseph Conrad novel, "Lord Jim," as a master- piece of English literature. In Panavision. MAN FROM THE DINERS' CLUB, THE (Comedy). Stars: Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer. Pro- ducer: William Bloom (Dena-Ampersand Prod). Di- rector: Frank Tashlin. Original Story: Bill Blatty, John Fenton Murray. Screenplay: Bill Blatty. • Based on the operations of the international credit card organization. A blundering Diners' Club em- ployee inadvertently issues a credit card to a mob- ster who plans to use it to buy a plane ticket and flee the country. The employee runs into hilarious complications as he tries to get the card back before the error is discovered. MANIAC, THE (Shock Drama). Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Liliane Brousse, Donald Houston, George Pastell. Producer: Jimmy Songster (Hammer Film Prod). Director: Michael Carreras. Original Story and Screenplay: Jimmy Songster. • British-made. Set in the sinister Camargue dis- trict in the south of France, story deals with mur- der and intrigue. OLD DARK HOUSE, THE (Suspense Satire). Stars: Tom Poston, Robert Morley Joyce Grenfell. Producer-Di- rector: William Castle (William Castle-Hammer Film co-prod). Original (novel): J. B. Priestley. Screenplay: Robert Dillon. • Filmed in England. A bizarre millionaire builds a huge arc outside the family's ancestral mansion in readiness of another great flood, while members of his family are mysteriously done away with. In Color. PLAYBOY (Romantic Comedy). Stars (incomplete): Tony Curtis. Producer: Stanley Margulies. Director: Bud Yorkin. Original Screenplay: Bud Yorkin, Norman Lear. • Based on the men's magazine, "Playboy," and its publisher Hugh Hefner. Only partially biographi- cal, will tell how Hefner, starting with an investment of $600, built it up to $6,000,000 in less than seven years. In Color. REACH FOR GLORY (Drama). Stars: Kay Walsh, Harry Andrews. Producer: John Kohn, Jud Kinberg. Director: Philip Leacock. Original (novel): John Rae. Screen- play: John Kohn, Jud Kinberg, John Rae. • British-made. Based on the controversial first novel, "The Custard Boys," about the effect of war upon people too young to fight it. Tells of a group of tough, amoral school boys evacuated from the bombed cities during World War II and who, bored by country life routines, try the dangerous game of simulating the excitement of combat in their day-to- day play. RUNNING MAN, THE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Lau- rence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates. Producer- Director: Sir Carol Reed. Original (novel): Shelley Smith. Screenplay: John Mortimer. • Filmed in Spain and Ireland. A modern-day yarn about a man who fakes his own death so that he and his wife can collect insurance. SAINT — WITH RED HANDS? (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Charles H. Schneer. Director: Peter Coe. Original (novel): Yseult Bridges. Screenplay: Not set. • British-made. Based on Yseult Bridges book de- tailing one of the most controversial murder crimes in legal history. SHIP OF FOOLS (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer-Di- rector: Stanley Kramer. Original (novel): Katherine Anne Porter. Screenplay: Not set. • Set in 1931 on a passenger ship en route from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. While not dealing di- rectly with the Nazi problem, it provides a basis for understanding of the madness which swept the Reich. TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR, THE (Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn. Producer-Director: Fred Zinne- mann. (Highland Films-Antone Co-prod). Original (novel): Emeric Pressburger. Screenplay: JP Miller. • The story of a Spanish refugee living in France with a price on his head as a result of repeated raids over the border. UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams. Producer: Frederick Brisson. Director: David Swift. Original (play): Lawrence Roman. Screenplay: Lawrence Roman, David Swift. • A modern-day comedy about a universal prob- lem of all teenagers—what to do about sex. VICTORS, THE (Drama). Stars: Vincent Edwards, Melina Mercouri, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Jeanne Moreau, Rosanna Schiaffino, Eli Wallach, Michael Callan. Producer-Director; Carl Foreman (Highroad Prods). Original (novel): Alexander Baron. Screen- play: Carl Foreman. • British-made. Based on the novel, "The Human Kind," the story chronicles the progress of a squad of American GIs through World War II to the tense post-war days in divided Berlin. In Panavision. Continental Distributing (October through December, 1962) LOVERS OF TERUEL, THE (Ballet Drama). Stars: Lud- milla Tcherina, Milko Sparemblek, Milenko Bano- vitch. Director. Raymond Rouleau. Screenplay: Ray- mond Rouleau. • French-language; English titles. The theme is taken from the ancient Spanish and deals with a traveling carnival troupe which enacts the tragedy of the ill-starred lovers who die and are buried to- gether in the same grave. In Color. Dec. 1962. OPERATION SNATCH (Comedy). Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Sanders, Lionel Jeffries, Jackie Lane. Pro- ducer: Jules Buck. (Associated British-Continental Co-prod). Director: Robert Day. Original: Paul Mills. Screenplay: Alan Hackney. • British-made. Centered on the Rock of Gibraltar during World War II, the film tells the story of the efforts of the British, on orders from Winston Churchill, to keep alive the famous Barbary apes when the sole male member of the colony dies. Legend has it that if the apes leave the Rock, the Rock would leave the British Empire. Oct. 1962. Coming BALCONY, THE (Drama). Stars: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Kent Smith, Joyce Jameson. Pro- ducers: Ben Maddow, Joseph Strick. Director: Joseph Strick. Original (play): Jean Genet. Screenplay: Ben Maddow. • The story takes place in an unusual brothel, where the madam caters to her clientele's frustrations and compulsions. Among the customers are the chief of police, a bishop and other dignitaries. DAVID AND LISA (Drama). Stars: Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard da Silva, Neva Patterson, Clifton James. Producer: Paul M. Heller. Director: Frank Perry. Original (book): Dr. Theodore Rubin. Screenplay: Eleanor Perry. • The film delves into the study of emotionally disturbed teenagers in a private school. It centers on the case of a sensitive boy with a phobia about being touched and his friendship with a girl who has a split personality — the problems they face and the progress they make by helping each other. HANDS OF A STRANGLER, THE (Drama). Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Christopher Lee, Lucille Saint Simon. Producers: Steven Pallos, Donald Taylor (Pendennis Films Prod). Director: Edmond Greville. Original (novel): Maurice Reynard. Screenplay: John Baines, Edmond Greville. • Anglo-French co-production, English-dubbed. A psychological drama based on Maurice Reynard's novel, "Orlac," this is the story of a pianist whose hands, ruined in an accident, are replaced by those of a dead killer. A remake of a silent film made in Germany in 1923 and an MGM version made in 1937. LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, THE (Drama). Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, James Bolan, Dervis Ward. Producer- Director: Tony Richardson (Bryanston-Seven Arts Co- prod). Original and Screenplay: Alan Sillitoe. • British-made. The story of a youth in a British reformatory, who is trained for participation in a long-distance race. His past history is shown through a series of flashbacks during the loneliness of his training. While he outdistances the other runners, he diliberately pauses at the finish line to express his contempt for the autocratic authority of the re- formatory head. THIS SPORTING LIFE (Drama). Stars: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts. Producer: Karel Reisz. Director: Lindsay Anderson. Screenplay: David Storey. • Filmed in England. Story deals with a coal miner whose athletic prowess makes him wealthy but his life has little meaning until he meets a lonely widow and is able to dominate her. WRONG ARM OF THE LAW, THE (Comedy). Stars: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, Nanette Newman. Producer: Robert Velaise. Director: Cliff Owen. Screenplay: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, John Antrobus. • British-made. Monsieur Jules runs a smart London dress salon as a front for his real activity as Pearly Gates, leader of an underworld of Cockney crooks. When Australian crooks muscle in on his territory, he makes a deal with Scotland Yard to trap the "enemy," at the same time planning a double-cross to make away with the loot. YOUR SHADOW IS MINE (Drama). Stars: Jill Haworth, Michel Ruhl. • Filmed in England. In Color. Crown-International (October through December, 1962) FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (Science-Fiction Drama). BOXOFFICE 125