Boxoffice barometer (1963)

t ) H.M.S. Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, and telling of what happened to the mutineers in Tahiti. In Panavision 70 and Color. Nov. 1962. PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT (Comedy). Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver. Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Di- rector: George Roy Hill. Original: Tennessee Williams. Screenplay: Isobel Lennart. • A Korean War veteran marries his nurse, who becomes disenchanted after her wedding trip starts in a hearse and a night in a cheap motel. They drive to Tennessee where an Army buddy's marriage is on the rocks due to in-law trouble. After a fight with the in-laws, all land in jail, but both marriages are saved and the two couples decide to go to Texas and raise cattle for television westerns. Nov. 1962. SAVAGE GUNS, THE (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Richard Basehart, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor. Producers: Jimmy Songster, Jose Maesso (Capricorn-Tecisa of Madrid Co-prod). Director: Michael Carreras. Original Screen- play: Edmund Morris. • Produced in Europe. Story is set on the Arizona- Mexico border in the 1870s. An ex-Confederate of- ficer in search of peace after the Civil War blood battles, settles in a quiet Mexican valley, but is forced to make a decision about taking up arms when terrorists attempt to take over the valley, killing all who refuse to sign over their land. In Metroscope and Color. Oct. 1962. SWORDSMAN OF SIENA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Stewart Granger, Sylva Koscina, Christine Kaufmann, Fausto Tozzi. Producer: Jacques Bar, for Monica- CCM-CIPRA. Director: Etienne Perier. Screenplay: Michael and Fay Kanin. • Filmed in Italy. Swashbuckling adventure drama of a mercenary who becomes involved in a daring plot of Italian patriots to free the city of Siena from Spanish occupation in the 16th century. In Cinema- Scope and Color. Dec. 1962. TRIAL AND ERROR (Comedy). Stars: Peter Sellers, Rich- ard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge. Pro- ducer: Dimitri de Grunwald. Director: James Hill. Original (play): John Mortimer. Screenplay: Pierre Rouve. • Filmed in England. Based on the London stage success, "The Dock Brief." An ineffectual lawyer de- fends a murderer who has killed his wife because she laughs too much. Also involved is a boarder in the household with an equally offensive sense of humor. The lawyer is a brilliant barrister at "rehearsals" of the trial, but the actual trial proves something else again. Dec. 1962. VERY PRIVATE AFFAIR, A (Drama). Stars: Brigitte Bar- dot, Marcello Mastroianni, Dirk Sanders, Eleanor Hart. Producer: Christine Gouze-Renal (Cipra-Progefi Co-production). Director: Louis Malle. Original Screen- play: Jean-Paul Rappenau. • English-dubbed; also available in French-language with Enqlish titles. Filmed in Paris, Geneva and SDoleto during the Arts Festival, the story follows some of the facts of Brigitte Bardot's life from ballet dancer through modeling to screen fame as France's sex symbol. She has a succession of love affairs, climaxed with her passion for a married theatre director. After a quarrel with him, she climbs on a roof to watch a performance, becomes startled and plunges to her death. In Color. Sept. 1962. Coming ARTURO'S ISLAND (Drama). Stars: Reginald Kernan, Key Meersman, Vanni De Maigret. Producer: Carlo Ponti. Director: Damiano Damiani. Original (novel): Elsa Morante. Screenplay: Damiano Damiani, Ugo Li- beratore, Enrico Ribulzi. • Filmed on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. Story of a young boy who idolizes his wan- dering father, and his relationship with the young girl whom the father brings home as his second wife. BIG GRAB, THE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon. Producer: Jacques Bar. Director: Henri Verneuil. • Story of a daring plot to rob the bank of a Cannes gambling casino. CAIRO (Suspense Drama). Stars: George Sanders, Rich- ard Johnson. Producer: Ronald Kinnoch. Director: Wolfe Rilla. Original (novel): W. R. Burnett. Screen- play: Joanne Court. • British-made; filmed in Egypt. Story of a gang of thieves who attempt to rdb the Cairo Museum of its priceless antiquities. CAPTAIN SINDBAD (Adventure Fantasy). Stars: Guy Williams, Heidi Bruehl, Pedro Armendariz, Abraham Sofaer. Producers: Frank and Maurice King. Di- rector: Byron Haskin. Screenplay: Samuel B. West. • European-made; English-dubbed. Featuring many special effects, this was inspired by the Arabian Nights tales. In Color. CARNIVAL (Musical). Stars: Not set. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Gower Champion. Screenplay: Julius Epstein. • Film version of the Broadway stage success, in- volving the romance of a girl with a carnival star. CATTLE KING (Drama). Stars: Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield. Producer: Nat Holt. Director: Tay Garnett. Screenplay: Thomas Thompson. • Romantic adventure concerning the West, and set in Wyoming in 1883. In Color. COME FLY WITH ME (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Do- lores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Pamela Tiffin, Karl Boehm, Lois Nettleton, Dawn Addams, Karl Malden. Pro- ducer: Anatole de Grunwald. Director: Henry Levin. Original (novel): Bernard Glemser. Screenplay: Wil- liam Roberts. • Based on the book, "Girls on a Wing," the story of three airline stewardesses and the men they meet on their flights from New York to Europe. In Pana- vision and Color. COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS, THE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Fran- coise Rosay. Producer: Jacques Bar. Director: Gilles Grangier. Original (novel): Albert Simonen, Screen- play: Albert Simonen, Michel Audiard, Gilles Grangier. • Sophisticated crime thriller concerning a group of counterfeiters who try to doublecross their leader with unexpected results. COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER, THE (Romantic Com- edy). Stars: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Roberta Sherwood, Ronny Howard, Jerry Van Dyke. Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original (novel): Mark Toby. Screenplay: John Gay. • The son of a young widower tries to marry off his father, but has a difficult time choosing from the prospective brides. In Panavision and Color. DAY AND THE HOUR, THE (Drama). Stars: Simone Sig- noret, Stuart Whitman. Producer: Jacques Bar, for Cipra Prods. Director: Rene Clement. Screenplay: Andre Barret. o Filmed in France. Story of a Frenchwoman who aids an American paratrooper in escaping from the Nazis during the occupation of France. DIME WITH A HALO (Drama). Stars: Barbara Luna, Paul Langton. Producers: Laslo Vadnay, Hans Wil- helm. Director: Boris Sagal. Screenplay: Laslo Vadnay, Hans Wilhelm. • Five street urchins in Tijuana, Mexico, win a for- tune at the Caliente race track, then discover they can't cash the ticket. DRUMS OF AFRICA (Drama). Stars: Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher. Producers: Al Zimbalist, Philip Krasne. Director: James B. Clark. Screenplay: Robin Estridge. • Drama of slave-runners in Africa at the turn of the century. In Panavision and Color. ELSIE JANIS STORY, THE (Biographical Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Not set. Screenplay: George Wells. • Based on the life of Elsie Janis, the "Sweetheart of the AEF" of World War I and one of the most colorful show business headliners of her day. FAMILY DIARY (Drama). Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Valeria Ciangottini. Director: Valerio Zurlini (Titanus-MGM Prod). Original (novel): Vasco Pratolini. Screenplay: Valerio Zurlini, Mario Missiroli. • Italian-made; English-dubbed. Based on the novel "Two Brothers," the story of a youth catapulted from poverty to the fringes of wealth, then faced with being plunged back into poverty. In Color. FLIPPER (Story of a Dolphin). Stars: Chuck Connors. Producer: Ivan Tors. Director: James B. Clark. Orig- inal Story: Ricou Browning, Jack Cowden. Screen- play: Arthur Weiss. • Filmed in Florida, the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands. Based on the believed fabulous intelligence of dolphins as told through a moving relationship and communication between a dolphin and the young son of a Florida fisherman. In Color. FOLLOW THE BOYS (Comedy Romance). Stars: Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Ron Randell, Russ Tamblyn, Janis Paige. Producer: Lawrence Bachmann. Director: Richard Thorpe. Screenplay: David T. Chantler, David Osborn. • Filmed on the French Riviera, a comedy about sweethearts and wives who follow the U.S. fleet in the Mediterranean area. In Panavision and Color. GOLD FOR THE CAESARS (Adventure Drama). Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Mylene Demongeot. Producer: Joseph Fryd. Director: Andre de Toth. Original (novel): Flor- ence A. Seward. Screenplay: Not set. • A Roman slave leads the search for a lost gold mine. In CinemaScope and Color. GOLDEN ARROW, THE (Adventure Fantasy). Stars: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podesta. Producer: Goffredo Lom- bardo. Director: Antonio Margheriti. Screenplay: Giorgio Prosperi. • Italian-made. With many special effects, this is the story of an intrepid hero who rids Damascus of a tyrant and wins a beautiful princess. In Technirama and Color. HAUNTING, THE (Drama). Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Lois Maxwell. Producer-Director: Robert Wise. Original (novel): Shirley Jackson. Screenplay: Nelson Gidding. • Filmed in England. Based on the novel, "The Haunting of Hill House," the supernatural tale of an evil residence around which a legend of terror has grown. In Color. HOOK, THE (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Wal- ker, Nick Adams, Nehemiah Persoff, Enrique Mag- alona. Producer: William Perlberg. Director: George Seaton. Original (novel): Vahe Katcha. Screenplay: Henry Denker. • Based on the novel, "L'Hamecon," dealing with BOXOFFICE the inner feelings of men at war, set against a back- drop of the Korean conflict. In Panavision. HOW THE WEST WAS WON (Drama). Stars: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wal- lach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Henry (Harry) Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickev Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn. Narrated by Spencer Tracy. Producer: Bernard Smith. Directors: John Ford, George Marshall, Henry Hath- away. Screenplay: James R. Webb. • Drama dealing with America's expansion west- ward in the 1800s as seen through the eyes of three aenerotions of pioneers. In Cinerama and Color. Special. IN THE COOL OF THE DAY (Romantic Drama). Stars: Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill. Producer: John Houseman. Director: Robert Stevens. Original (novel): Susan Ertz. Screenplay: Meade Roberts. • Filmed on locations in Greece. The story of a young girl who falls in love with a married man during a trip to Greece. In Panavision and Color. INTERNATIONAL HOTEL (Drama). Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli. Producer: Anatole de Grunwald. Di- rector: Anthony Asquith. Original Screenplay: Terence Rattigan. • British-made. Story of a group of persons who find their lives dramatically altered when their plane is delayed at the London Airport by a heavy fog. IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR (Comedy With Music). Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lock- wood, Vickey Tiu, Yvonne Craig, Sandra Giles. Pro- ducer: Ted Richmond. Director: Norman Taurog. Screenplay: Si Rose, Seaman Jacobs, John T. Kelly. • A bush pilot and his sidekick, broke and with their plane grounded, hitchhike to the Seattle World's Fair, where one falls in love with a nurse. Their ad- ventures include foiling a gang of fur smugglers. In Panavision and Color. MAIN ATTRACTION, THE (Drama). Stars: Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling, Yvonne Mitchell, Kieron Moore, John Le Mesurier. Producer: John Patrick. (Seven Arts Prods). Director: Daniel Petrie. Screen- play: John Patrick, Marguerite Roberts. • British-made. The story of emotional conflict among members of a small traveling European circus. In Color. MONKEY IN WINTER (Comedy Drama). Stars: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo. Producer: Jacques Bar. (Cipra Prods). Director: Henri Verneuil. Original (novel): Antoine Blondin. • French-made; English-dubbed. Two Frenchmen who long for a life of action and excitement, one a re- formed alcoholic who runs a tavern and the other a drifter who imagines himself as a bull-fighter, meet and find thev are birds of a feather. The alcoholic goes "off the wagon," and the duo turns a quiet Normandy town upside down in a night of escapades. OF HUMAN BONDAGE (Drama). Stars: Laurence Harvey, Kim Novak. Producer: James Woolf. (Seven Arts Prod). Director: Henrv Hathaway. Original (novel): Somerset Maugham. Screenplay: Bryan Forbes. • British-made; filmed in Dublin. A cultured medical student becomes infatuated with a cheap waitress. PASSWORD IS COURAGE, THE (Drama). Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy. Alfred Lynch. Producers: Andrew and Virginia Stone. Director: Andrew L. Stone. Original: John Castle. Screeplay: Andrew L. Stone. • Filmed in Europe. Based on the biography of Charles Coward. British war hero, and his one-man battle against the Nazis in World War II. PRIVATE POTTER (Drama). Stars: Tom Courtenay, James Maxwell, Eric Thompson, John Graham. Pro- ducer: Ben Arbeid. Director: Casper Wrede. Screen- play: Casper Wrede, Ronald Harwood. • British-made. Psychological drama involving a soldier serving with a British unit in anti-terrorist operations on a Mediterranean island. PRIZE, THE (Drama). Stars: Paul Newman, Elke Som- mer. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Not set. Original (novel): Irving Wallace. Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. • Story of the emotional conflicts of a group of Nobel Prize winners in Stockholm, in the tradition of "Grand Hotel." RIFIFI IN TOKYO (Suspense Drama). Stars: Karl Boehm, Barbara Lass, Charles Vanel. Producer: Jacques Bar. Director: Jacques Demy. Screenplay: August Lebreton. • Filmed in Japan. A foreign gang plots a bank vault robbery in Tokyo. SAN FRANCISCANS, THE (Drama). Stars: Not set. Pro- ducer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Not set. Original (novel): Niven Busch. Screenplay: Charles Schnee. • A modern San Francisco dynasty is taken over by an attractive young widow as the sole heir of her husband's vast fortune. SEVEN SEAS TO CALAIS (Drama). Stars: Rod Taylor, Keith Michell. Irene Worth. Producer: Paolo Moffa. Director: Rudolph Mate. Screenplay: Filippo San- just. • Filmed in Europe. Adventure-drama based on the 127