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exploits of Sir Francis Drake and his piracy of Spanish gold ships under the encouragement of England's first Queen Elizabeth. In CinemaScope and Color. SMOG (Drama). Stars: Annie Girardot, Renato Salva- tore Enrico Maria Salerno. Producer-Director: Franco Rossi (Titanus-Metro Prod). Screenplay: Pier Maria Pasinetti, Franco Rossi, Gian Domenico Giagni. • Filmed in Los Angeles by Italian motion picture company, S.P.I.C. Most of the dialog is in Italian. An Italian in America has many adventures with Americanized Italians who have become thoroughly acclimated to Los Angeles. SUNDAY IN NEW YORK (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson. Producer: Everett Free- man (Seven Arts Associated Prod). Director: Peter Tewksbury. Original (stage play): Norman Krasna. Screenplay: Norman Krasna. • A story of four young New York people and their romantic adventures. In CinemaScope and Color. TAMAHINE (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price, John Fraser. Producer: John Bryan (Seven Arts Prod). Director: Philip Leacock. Original (novel): Thelma Nicklaus. Screenplay: Denis Cannan. • British-made. An uninhibited Tahitian girl at- tending a British public school makes a remarkable impact on both the faculty and student body. In CinemaScope and Color. TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES (Adventure Drama). Stars: Jock Mahoney. Producer: Sy Weintraub. Di- rector: Robert Day. Screenplay: Berne Giler. • Filmed on locations in Thailand, Japan and the Philippines. TICKLISH AFFAIR, A (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Carolyn Jones, Red Buttons. Pro- ducer: Joe Pasternak. Director: George Sidney. Screen- play: Ruth Brooks Flippen. • A Navy commander woos an attractive young widow and wins her after rescuing her young son in a breath-taking balloon chase. In Panavision and Color. TWILIGHT OF HONOR (Drama). Stars: Richard Chamber- lain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams, Joan Blackman. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: Boris Sagal. Original (novel): Al Dewlen. Screenplay: Henry Denker. • Courtroom drama in which a young lawyer falls victim to the bigoted wrath of a small twon when he defends a man accused of murdering the town's leading citizen. TWO ARE GUILTY (Drama). Stars: Anthony Perkins, Jean-Claude Brialy. Producer: Alain Poire (Gaumont Prod). Director: Andre Cayatte. Screenplay: Charles Spaak. • French-made. Three persons are suspects in a child kidnapping and murder trial. In Dyaliscope. UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, THE (Musical). Stars: Not set. Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Charles Walters. Screenplay: Helen Deutsch. • Based on the New York musical hit, the Cin- derella story of Molly Brown, a dishwasher in the gold camp of Leadville, Colo., who becomes the toast of European high society. VICE AND VIRTUE (Drama). Stars: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve. Producer: Alain Poire (Gaumont Films). Director: Roger Vadim. Original (novel): Marquis De Sade. Screenplay: Roger Vailland, Roger Vadim. • French-language; English-dubbed. Filmed in France. The story of how two sisters, one worldly and the other virtuous, meet the crisis of an invading army in France. In Dyaliscope. YOUNG AND THE BRAVE, THE (War Drama). Stars: Rory Calhoun, William Bendix, John Agar, Richard Jaeckel, Manuel Padilla. Producer: A. C. Lyles. Di- rector: Francis D. Lyon. Screenplay: Beirne Lay jr. • An action story with a Korean war setting, cen- tering around a town called Attong, and the story of a Korean orphan boy who proves himself a hero when he becomes friends with American GIs who rescued him from the enemy. Paramount (September through December, 1962) GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! (Comedy Drama With Music). Stars: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Benson Fong. Producer: Hal Wallis (Hal Wallis Prod). Director: Norman Taurog. Original Story: Allan Weiss. Screenplay: Allan Weiss, Edward Anhalt. • A young boat hand wishes to buy a sailboat from his employer, who is forced to sell his fleet. He hasn't the money, so the fleet is sold to another man. The boat hand's girl friend tries to help him by buying the boats, but, the young man works out his problems by working for the new owner and paying for the boat. In Color. Nov. 1962. IT'S ONLY MONEY (Farce Comedy). Stars: Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien, Jesse White, Mae Ques- tel. Producer: Paul Jones. Director: Frank Tashlin. Originol: John Fenton Murray. • A hard-working TV repair man with a yen to be- come a private eye, encounters many zany ad- ventures before being established as the long-lost heir to the fortune of an electronics genius. Dec. 1962. PIGEON THAT TOOK ROME, THE (War Comedy). Stars: Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino, Baccaloni, Brian Donlevy. Producer-Director: Mel- ville Shavelson. Original (novel): Donald Downes. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson. • Filmed in Rome. An American Army officer and his radioman, in Nazi-occupied Italy, send out secret messages by carrier pigeon. When the Italian family with whom they stay eat all except one of the pigeons, the Italian father replaces them with Ger- man carrier pigeons who take messages to the enemy. In Panavision. Oct. 1962. WONDERFUL TO BE YOUNG (Musical). Stars: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Grey, Richard O'Sul- livan, Melvyn Hayes. Producer: Kenneth Harper (As- sociated British Prod). Director: Sidney J. Furie. Or- iginal Story and Screenplay: Peter Myers, Ronald Cass. • British-made. (Released in England as "The Young Ones.") The leader of a London Youth Club has difficulties with his millionaire father over quarters for the club. Club members kidnap the father and the youth admits he is the man's son. They fight off the kidnappers and all ends happily when the father decides to build a new Youth Club. In CinemaScope and Color. Dec. 1962. Coming ALL THE WAY HOME (Drama). Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle. Producer: David Susskind. Director: Alex Segal. Original (play): Tad Mosel. Screenplay: Phillip Reisman jr. • Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, itself adapted from James Agee's Pulitzer Prize novel, "A Death in the Family," the story involves the sudden awakening to the realities of life by a young boy whose father is killed in an automobile accident. BECKET (Historical Drama). Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole. Producer: Hal Wallis (Hal Wallis Prod). Di- rector: Peter Glenville. Original (play): Jean Anouilh. Screenplay: Edward Anhalt. • Filmed in England. England's lusty King Henry II, as a jest, installs his roistering comrade Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, only to have his friend take the lofty office seriously and threaten his throne. In Color. BOEING-BOEING (Comedy). Stars (incomplete): Dean Martin. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Not set. Original (play): Marc Camoletti. Screenplay: Not set. • A young architect discovers a wonderful solution for maintaining, all at the same time, three girl friends who will never meet. Based on time zones, he becomes engaged to French, German and American air hostesses, but introduction of highspeed Boeing jet planes presents some problems. In Color. BOY WITH TWO HEADS, THE (Comedy). Stars (incom- plete): Jerry Lewis. Producer: Paul Jones. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Harry Tugend. • Set in a big-city department store, before the shenanigans are over, Jerry finds he has. to have two heads to work in every department in the store. CARPETBAGGERS, THE (Drama). Stars: Not set. Pro- ducer: Joseph E. Levine (Embassy Pictures Co-prod). Director: Edward Dmytryk. Original (novel): Harold Robbins. Screenplay: John Michael Hayes. • Based on the best-selling novel, with its principal setting in Hollywood, this is the story of men and women in the motion picture industry and their business and social mores. In Super-Panavision 70 and Color. CIRCUS (Spectacle). Stars: John Wayne, David Niven. Claudia Cardinale. Producer: Samuel Bronston (Samuel Bronston Prod). Director: Frank Capra. Original Screenplay: Philip Yordan, James Edward Grant. • To be filmed around the world, this story of the big top will incorporate the world's most famous cir- cus acts. In Color. COME BLOW YOUR HORN (Comedy). Stars: Frank Si- natra, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Rush, Molly Picon, Jill St. John, Tony Bill. Executive Producer: Howard W. Koch. Producer: Norman Lear (Tandem-Essex Co- prod). Director: Bud Yorkin. Original (play): Neil Si- mon. Screenplay: Norman Lear. • This sophisticated New York comedy concerns two brothers who live in one of the fanciest' pent- houses in the city, have beautiful women at their beck and call, and, because of this, are in constant trouble with their disapnroving, old-fashioned par- ents. In Panavision and Color. DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN (Biblical Spectacle). Stars: Not set. Producer: Samuel Bronston (Samuel Bronston Prod). Director: Frank Capra. Original (novel): Taylor Caldwell. Screenplay: Henry Denker. • From the novel about the life and times of Saint Luke, author of the Third Book of the New Test- ament, this tells of St. Luke's early life as one of the ancient world's greatest physicians and of his love for the beautiful daughter of his wealthy patron. In Color. DECISION AT DELPHI (Suspense Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Hal B. Wallis (Hal Wallis Prod). Director: Not set. Original (novel): Helen Maclnnes. Screen- play: Edward Anhalt. • To be filmed in Greece. Baffled by the mysterious disappearance of an old friend and colleague, on American artist-journalist on assignment in Greece finds himself involved with an attractive girl, several people of assorted nationalities and a strange strug- gle against a terrifying conspiracy nearly as ancient as Greece itself. In Color. DONOVAN'S REEF (Comedy-Adventure). Stars: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour. Producer-Director: John Ford (John Ford Prod). Original Story: James Michener. Screenplay: James Edward Grant. • Filmed in Hawaii. Two World War II shipmates op- erate a bar and night club known as Donovan's Reef on a South Pacific island. Trouble comes with the arrival of a beautiful Boston socialite seeking the father who abandoned her and the rest of her family during the war. In Color. DUEL OF THE TITANS (Spectacle). Stars: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi. Producer: Alessandro Ja- covoni. Director: Sergio Corbucci. Screenplay: Not set. • The story of the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who are credited with the founding of the city of Rome. In CinemaScope and Color. FUN IN ACAPULCO (Musical). Stars: Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cardenas, Paul Lukas. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Richard Thorpe. Screenplay: Not set. • Elvis sings and woos the girls in Mexico. In Color. GIRL NAMED TAMIKO, A (Romantic Drama). Stars: Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen, Martha Hyer, Miyoshi Umeki, Gary Merrill, Michael Wilding. Pro- ducer: Hal B. Wallis (Hal Wallis Prod). Director: John Sturges. Original (novel): Ronald Kirkbride. Screenplay: Edward Anhalt. • Filmed in Japan, this is the story of an ambitious Eurasian photographer who courts an American secretary to win U.S. citizenship. He does not reckon with his deep love for a Japanese girl named Tamikc In Panavision and Color. HEART OF THE LION, THE (Biographical Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Hugh French. Director: Not sel Original (autobiography): Sir Winston Churchill. Screenplay: Bryan Forbes. • To be filmed in England and other countries, this is the story of Sir Winston Churchill's adventures as a soldier and man of affairs prior to his marriage in 1908. In Color. HUD (Western Drama). Stars: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde. Producers: Martin Ritt, Irving Ravetch. Director: Martin Riff. Original (novel): Larry McMurtry. Screenplay: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank jr. • Based on a first novel, "Horseman, Pass By," by TCU English professor Larry McMurtry, concerning a contemporary Texas cattleman, his wild and re- bellious son, his idealistic grandson and their attractive kindly housekeeper, all caught in the surging bit- terness of a family conflict. In Panavision. MY SIX LOVES (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Debbie Rey- nolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen, Eileen Heckart. Producer: Gant Gaither. Director: Gower Champion. Original (novelette): Peter V. K. Funk. Screenplay: John Fante, Joseph Calvelli, William Wood. • A Broadway and Hollywood musical comedy star, forced by her doctor to take a rest in the country, finds herself "adopting" six lonely waifs. In Color. NEW KIND OF LOVE, A (Comedy). Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias, Maurice Chevalier. Producer-Director: Mel- ville Shavelson. Original Screenplay: Melville Shavei- son. • Set in New York, Hollywood and Paris, this is a satirical comedy about sex and the fashion industry and concerns one Samantha Blake, known to her friends as Sam. In Color. NO BAIL FOR THE JUDGE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original (novel): Henry Cecil. Screenplay: Hagar Wilde. • To be filmed in England. A famous judge becomes the principal suspect in the brutal murder of a prosti- tute. His daughter seeks the aid of a "genleman thief" to find evidence to clear her father. In Color. NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (Comedy). Stars Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens. Producer: Ernest D. Glucksman. Di- rector: Jerry Lewis. Original Screenplay: Bill Rich- mond, Jerry Lewis. • A straight-laced and proper professor in the day- time, becomes a Jekyll and Hyde character by night, living it up in riotous fashion with wine, women and song. In Color. PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION (Comedy). Stars: Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Laurel Goodwin, Charlie Rug- gles, Linda Bruhl. Producer: Jack Rose (Amro Prod). Director: Georqe Marshall. Original (memoirs): Cor- inne Griffith. Screenplay: Jack Rose. • Silent screen star Corinne Griffith recalls her happy childhood days in Texas and her father, a warm-hearted eccentric. In Color. PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES (Comedy). Stars: William Hol- den, Audrey Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward. Producers: George Axelrod, Richard Quine. Director: Richard Quine. Original Screenplay: George Axelrod. • Filmed in Paris. Based on the French film, "Holi- day for Henrietta." In Color. PORT FURY (Adventure Drama). Stars (incomplete): John Wayne. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original Story. Frederick Holger. Screenplay: James Edward Grant. • A world-cruising freighter is impounded by a 128 BAROMETER Section