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Stars: Yoko Tani, Oldrick Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Michael Postnikow. Producers: Newton P. Jacobs, Paul Shreibman, Edmund Goldman (Central Prod). Director: Kurt Maetzig. Screenplay: J. Fethke, W. Kohlhaase, G. Reisch, G. Rucker, A. Stenbock-Fermor. • In the year 1985, researchers aboard a spaceship to Venus decode a magnetic spool and discover that Venusians plan to annihilate Earth. When they reach Venus they find total disorder and discover the Venusians have destroyed themselves with their owr. weapons. The spaceship returns to Earth to report that life does not exist on Venus. In Totalvision and Color. Oct. 1962. STAKEOUT (Action Drama). Stars: Bing Russell, Bill Hale, Eve Brent, Billy Hughes, Jack Harris, Bernie Thomas. Producers: Robert Hughes, William Hughes, Joe R. Gentile. Director: James Landis. • An ex-convict widower and his ten-year-old son hit the road, but find the going tough. The man is fired when the wife of his employer falsely accuses him of getting fresh. Finally, he contacts some old gang members and plots a kidnapping. He is killed in the final police battle, but the boy is told his father was a hero. Oct. 1962. VARAN, THE UNBELIEVABLE (Sciece-Fiction Drama). Stars: Myron Healy, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Ka- wada. Producer-Director: Jerry A. Baerwitz. Screen- play: Sid Harris. • A Navy commander and his wife live on a small Japanese island where he is conducting experiments with salt water. Natives warn that disaster will come if he tampers with the sea. He goes ahead with his work and a giant prehistoric monster appears, cre- ating terror and havoc until forced back where he came from. The commander then moves on to an- other hunting ground. Oct. 1962. Coming AS NATURE INTENDED (Nudist film). Stars: Pamela Green, Jackie Salt, Petrina Forsyth, Bridget Leonard, Angela Jones. Producer-Director: Harrison Marks. Screenplay: Lilian Lea. • Filmed in England. Concerns the nature girls' vaca- tion at a summer camp in England. In Color. TERRIFIED (Horror Drama). Stars: Rod Lauren, Steve Drexel, Tracy Olsen. Producer: Richard Bernstein (Bern-Field Prod). Director: Lew Landers. Screenplay: Richard Bernstein. • Psychological horror picture about a student who is frightened to death when placed in a casket in a graveyard. Embassy (October through December, 1962) BOCCACCIO '70 (English-dubbed version). See Feature Index, Embassy. Oct. 1962. CONSTANTINE AND THE CROSS (Religious Drama). Stars: Cornel Wilde, Christine Kaufmann, Belinda Lee. Producer. Ferdinando Felicioni. Director: Lionello de Felice. • Italian-made; English-dubbed. Constantine, vic- torious in battle, starts for Rome, but is ambushed by violent opponents of Christianity. When Con- stantine is victorious against the barbarians, he pro- claims tolerance for the Christians, but his enemies continue to persecute and imprison them. Eventually, with a sign from heaven, Constantine proceeds against the barbarians and defeats them. In Totalscope and Color. Dec. 1962. CRIME DOES NOT PAY ("Le Crime Ne Paie Pas") (Drama). Stars: Richard Todd, Michele Morgan, Annie Girardot, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur. Producers: Gilbert Bokanowski, Ever Haggiag. Director: Gerard Oury. Screenplay: Gerard Oury, Jean Charles Tac- chella, Paul Gordeaux. • French-made; English titles. An anthology based on three famous French crimes, tied together with a fictional fourth incident. A man goes to a movie theatre to see a three-part "Crime Does Not Pay" and leaves at the conclusion to become a victim of a fourth murder. In Dyaliscope. Nov. 1962. DEVIL'S WANTON (English-dubbed version). See Feature Index, Embassy. Nov. 1962. DIVORCE—ITALIAN STYLE (English-dubbed version). See Feature Index, Embassy. Dee. 1962. LA VIACCIA (English-dubbed version). See Feature Index, Embassy. Nov. 1962. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Drama). Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards jr.. Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr. Producer: Ely Lan- dau. Director: Sidney Lumet. Original (play): Eugene O'Neill. • The autobiographical play of Eugene O'Neill and his family tragedies, heightened by his mother's de- pendence on narcotics, his father's bitter frustration and miserliness, his brother's decline into alcoholism which eventually took his life and O'Neill's own struggle for survival against tuberculosis. Nov. 1962. Coming CARPETBAGGERS, THE —see Paramount. LANDRU (Drama). Stars: Michele Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegarde Neff, Charles Denner, Fran- coise Sagan, Juliette Mayniel. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Georges de Beauregard (Carlo Ponti-Georges de Beauregard Prod). Director: Claude Chabrol. Screenplay: Francoise Sagan. • French-language; English titles. Filmed in Paris and based on the infamous French Bluebeard, who in 1921 was executed for murdering 10 wives. In Color. LOVE AT TWENTY (Drama). Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Barbara Frey, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Doermer. Producers: Ulysse Prods., Cinesecolo, Unitec France, Toho Film, Towa Film. Directors: Francois Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Shintaro lshtara, Marcel Ophuls. Andrzej Wajda. • Foreign languages; English titles. Filmed in France, Poland, Italy, Japan and Germany. A view of young love in each of the individual countries. MADAME (Comedy Drama). Stars: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Marina Berti, Carlo Guiffre. Producer: Maleno Malenotti. Director: Christian-Jaque. Original (play): Victorien Sardou, cmile Moreau. Screenplay: Henry Jeanson, Jean Ferry, Ennio de Concini, Franco Solinas, Christian- Jaque. • European-made; English-dubbed. Filmed in France, Italy, Spain, the story, based on a famous French play, "Madame Sans Gene," tells of a washerwoman who rises, under Napoleon's aegis, to become a princess in the days of the French Revolution. In Technirama 70 and Color. Also available in 35mm. NIGHT IS MY FUTURE (Drama). Stars: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten. Producer: Lorens Marmstedt. Di- rector: Ingmar Bergman. Original (novel): Dagmar Edqvist. • Swedish-language; English titles. A 1947-48 film not previously released in the U.S. Based on the novel, "Music in the Dark," the story of a young man, blinded in a shooting accident in the army, who is befriended by a girl who helps him over- come his incapacity and eventually marries him. 7 CAPITAL SINS (7-Episode Drama Comedy). Stars: Dany Saval, Nicole Mirel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eddie Constantine. Producers: Les Films Gibe, Franco London Film, Titanus. Directors: Sylvain Dhomme, Edouard Molinaro, Philippe de Broca, Jacques Demy, Jean-Lux Godard, Roger Vadim, Claude Chabrol. Screenplay: Eugene Ionesco, Claude Mauriac, Daniel Boulanger, Jacques Demy, Jean-Lux Godard, Roger Vadim. • French-language; English titles. Episodes deal with the classic sins of anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust, laziness and pride, each presented with a modern French twist. In Dyaliscope. STRANGERS IN THE CITY (Drama). Stars: Robert Gentile, Camilo Delgado, Rosita De Triana, Crete Margos, Robert Corso, Kenny Delmar. Producer-Di- rector: Rick Carrier. Screenplay: Rick Carrier. • The tragic story of a Puerto Rican immigrant family which settles in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, and their struggles to survive the hostile environment in which they are forced to live. THREEPENNY OPERA (Dramatic Musical). Stars: Curt Jurgens, Hildegarde Neff, Sammy Davis jr., Gert Frobe. Producer: Kurt Ulrich (Gloria Films). Director: Wolfgang Staudte. Original (Musical Drama): Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weill. • Filmed in West Germany. Comic operetta based on the play, "The Begger's Opera," dealing with a group of beggars, thieves and industrialists in the Limehouse district of London. In Cinemascope and Color. YOUNG GIRLS OF GOOD FAMILIES (Dramatic Comedy). Stars: Marie-France Pisier, Lilo, Fred Clark, Ziva Rodann, Christian Marquand. Producer: Gilbert Bokanowski (Trans-World-Embassy Co-prod). Director: Pierre Montazel. Screenplay: Richard Balducci, Mario Brun, Pierre Montazel. • French-language; English titles. A story of the night life of the wealthy and sophisticated younger social set on the French Riviera. In Color. Herts-Lion International (December, 1962) DAUGHTER OF THE SUN GOD (Jungle Adventure). Stars: Bill Holmes, Lisa Montell. Producer: Edward Biery. Director: Kenneth Herts. Screenplay: Ken- neth Herts. • Filmed in Peru. The story of an American writer on a pleasure trip in Peru, who gets involved with lost Inca treasure, a beautiful girl and wild animals. In Color. Dec. 1962. Coming DON'T CRY WOLF (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer-Director: Mell Marshall (Ensign Pictures). Screenplay: Mel Marshall. • Described as a "new wave" science-fiction drama, to be produced in the U.S. ESCAPE TO BERLIN (Suspense Drama). Stars: Christian Doermer, Suzanne Korda. Producer: Stun Pictures. Director: Not Set. Screenplay: Not Set. • Filmed in Germany. Deals with the flight of Easl German refugees to West Berlin. GORILLA (Jungle Adventure). Stars: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. • To be filmed in Africa; English-dubbed. Concerns a white hunter, his safari and a beautiful Swedish magazine photographer who joins him in his search for a rogue gorilla which has been killing and ter- rorizing the natives. In CinemaScope and Color. LIQUOR ALWAYS HELPS (Comedy). Stars (incomplete): O. W. Fisher. Producer: Sascha-Film Produktionsges Ellschaft MBH. Original (novel): Johannes Mario Sim- mel. Screenplay: Hans Jacoby, Willibald Eser. • German-made; English titles. From the novel based on the autobiography of Marcel L. Baron, this is the flashback story of a high official and the devious and hilarious schemes he promoted to get there. MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (Horror Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Alex Gordon Prods. Director: Not Set. Original (novel): Edgar Allan Poe. Screenplay: Mildred and Gordon Gordon. • The Poe classic dealing with a mad prince who seals himself and 1,000 guests off in a castle to avoid the plague. In CinemaScope and Color. ROOMMATES (Comedy). Stars: James Robertson Justice, Liz Fraser, Leslie Phillips. Producer: Peter Rogers (Anglo Amalgamated Prod). Director: Gerald Thomas. Screenplay: Bruce Montgomery. • British-made. Released in England as "Raising the Wind." Set in a London music school, the story con- cerns the struggle by music students to gain gradua- tion, certain prizes and position, while dealing with the ferociously tempered dean of the faculty. In Color. SLIME PEOPLE, THE (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton. Pro- ducer: Joseph F. Robertson. Director: Robert Hut- ton. Screenplay: Vance Skarsteadt, Blair Robertson. • Huge, prehistoric monsters invade Los Angeles. TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN (Science-Fiction Drama). Robert Burton, Barbara Wilson. Producer: Gustaf Unger (Unger Films of Hollywood and AB Fortunafilm of Sweden Co-prod). Director: Virgil Vogel. • Filmed in Sweden. Concerns an outer space ship and the people and their terrifying monster that ar- rive with it. The creatures wreak havoc and death among the citizens as well as the American scientists who go down to Sweden to investigate the incident. TOMORROW YOU DIE (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: Kent Taylor, Peter Breck, Richard Arlen, Alan Hale jr.. Rod Lauren, Arline Judge. Producer: Joseph F. Robertson. Director: Herbert L. Strock. Original Screenplay: Herbert Strock. • An astronaut, blown up in space, comes down to earth via his arm, the only thing left of him. The arm has a life of its own and it terrorizes and mur- ders and even threatens to take over a boy's mind. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (September through December, 1962) BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO (Musical). Stars: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye. Pro- ducer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Charles Walters. Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon. • Based on the musical play produced by Billy Rose, this is the story of a traveling circus owner and his daughter who fight against a rival's determination to liquidate their circus, with the daughter falling in in love with the rival's son. In Panavision and Color Dec. 1962. ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN (Suspense Drama). Stars: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Ingrid Van Bergen. Producer: Walter Wood. Director: Robert Siodmak. Screenplay: Gabrielle Upton, Peter Berneis, Millard Lampell. • Filmed in Germany. Following the death of o young German attempting to escape from East Berlin, his sister and his close friend begin tunneling from the basement of their home toward freedom in the Western sector. As escape nears, the East Germans arrive only to have the tunnel collapse in their faces as the family makes good its escape. Nov. 1962. I THANK A FOOL (Drama). Stars: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore. Producer: Anatole de Grunwald. Director: Robert Stevens. Original (novel): Audrey Erskine Lindop. Screenplay: John Mortimer. • Filmed in England and Ireland. A young doctor, convicted of the mercy killing of her lover, upon release from prison acts as companion-nurse to the wife of the prosecuting counsel. Becoming suspicious of the counsel, she takes the wife back to Ireland, where the wife's mind is so damaged that she runs away from home and is badly injured. When she is found dead from an overdose of sedative, the doctor again is suspected of mercy killing, but a surprise denouement clears her. In CinemaScope and Color. Sept. 1962. KILL OR CURE (Comedy). Stars: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Moira Redmond, Lionel Jeffries. Producer: George Brown. Director: George Pollock. Screenplay: David Pursall, Jack Seddon. • British-made. A private detective, investigating happenings at a health-cure hotel, finds a wealthy widow murdered and becomes a guest to track down the murderer. A woman who had hoped to marry the widow's nephew and get her money is exposed as the culprit. The widow's will is read and she has left all her money to her pet dog. Nov. 1962. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (Drama). Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Grif- fith, Richard Haydn, Tarita, Percy Herbert. Pro- ducer: Aaron Rosenberg (Areola Prods). Director: Lewis Milestone. Original (novels): Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall. Screenplay: Charles Lederer. • Filmed in South Seas locations. The story of the famous mutiny against Captain Bligh aboard the 126 BAROMETER Section