Boxoffice (Jan-Mar 1961)

Benito Malasommo. Originol (novel): Cardinal Wiseman. Screenplay: Daniel Mainworing. • Filming in Italy. Based on the classic novel, Fcbiola," and is a spectacle drama set in ancient Rome. SEASON OF PASSION (Formerly "Summer of the 17th Doll"). (Drama)). Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Boxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury, Vincent Ball. Producer-Director: Leslie Norman. Original (play): Ray Lawler. Screenplay: John Dighton. • Filmed in Australia. From Ray Lawler's Broadway and London play, and story of two migratory cane workers who for 1 6 years have gone to Sydney, Australia, during their layoff months to v sit illicitly with two women. During the fateful 17th summer, the foursome begins to disintegrate when one of the girls, meanwhile, has married, and the pressures of age, finances and personal guilt begin to mar the once-happy quartet. SOMETHING WILD (Drama). Stars: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock. Producer: George Justin, for Prometheus Enterprises. Director: Jack Garfein. Original (novel): Alex Karmel. Screenplay: Jack Garfein, Alex Karmel. • The story of a girl overcome by violence and loneliness in the city, who ultimately finds love. TOWN WITHOUT PITY (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Christina Kaufmann. Producer-Director: Gottfried Reinhardt (Mirisch Co. -Gloria Films Co-production). Original (novel): Manfred Gregor. Screenplay: Monfred Gregor. • Filming in Germany and France. Story of an army lawyer assigned to defend four GIs accused of raping a young German girl. WEST SIDE STORY (Musical Drama). Stars: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Producer: Robert Wise, for Mirisch Co.-Seven Arts. Directors: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins. Original (play): Arthur Laurents. Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. • Based on the Broadway musical hit. A modern Romeo and Juliet tale, with the opposing two families seen as white and Puerto Rican races on New York's West Side. In Panavision and Eastman Color. YOUNG DOCTORS, THE (Drama). Stars: Fredric March, Dick Clark, Ben Gazzara, Eddie Albert, Ina Balin. Producers: Stuart Millar, Lawrence Turman (Drexel-Miller-Turman Productions). Director: Phil Karlson. Original (novel): Arthur Hailey. Screenplay: Joseph Hayes. • Based on novel, "Final Diagnosis," by Arthur Hailey. Romance and drama unfold in a big city hospital where two generations of doctors, with two different schools of thought, clash with each other over conflicting opinions. YOUNG SAVAGES, THE (Drama). Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Dina Merrill. Producer: Pat Duggan, for Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions. Director: Jchn Frankenheimer. Original (novel): Evan Hunter. • A slum-born dstrict attorney battles street gang, in a quest for justice, following a murder involving juvenile gangs on New York's East Side. Universal-International (November through December 1960) MIDNIGHT LACE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall. Producers: Ross Hunter, Martin Melcher. Director: David Miller. Original (play): Janet Green. Screenplay: Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff. • A beautiful, carefree American heiress, happily married to an Englishman, is driven to near insanity by a series of mysterious filth-laden telephone calls threatening her life. Subsequent events show that the threats are more than the machinations of a moronic crank. In Color. Nov. 1960. PRIVATE LIVES Or ADAM AND EVE, THE (FarceFantasy). Stars: Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Fay Spain, Mel Torme, Tuesday Weld, Cecil Kellaway, Paul Anka, Marty Milner. Producer: Red Doff. (Red Doff Prods.). Directors: Albert Zugsmith., Mickey Rooney. Screenplay: Robert Hill. • A group of young disturbed romantics, on the way to Reno, is stranded in a church by a flash flood, where the young people proceed to dream about the Garden of Eden and the drama of the first couple, the serpent and the apple. In Black and White and Color. Dec. 1960. Coming BACK STREET (Drama). Stars: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virgina Grey, Reginald Gardiner, Tammy Morihugh. Producer: Ross Hunter (Ross Hunter-Carrollton Prod.). Director: David Miller. Original (novel): Fanny Hurst. Screenplay: Eleanore Griffin, William Ludwig. • The second remake of a classic American novel which first came to the screen in 1932, about a woman in love with a married man, forced to live in the "back street" of his life. In Color. CAPE FEAR (Suspense Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen. Producer: Sy Bartlett. (Melville Prods.). Director: J. Lee Thompson. Original (novel): Jchn B. MacDonald. Screenplay: James Webb. • The story of a man's revenge on another who had helped convict him on a rape charge. In Color. COME SEPTEMBER (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin. Producer: Robert Arthur (Seven Piets. Corp. Prod.). Director: Robert Mulligan. Original Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin. • Filmed in Italy. An American playboy discovers one of his palatial Continental homes has been used as a tourist hotel during his absence — and he finds an attractive and sultry beauty on the premises to keep him interested. In Color. CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (Horror Drama). Stars: Clifford Evans, Yvonne Romaine, Oliver Reed. Producer: Anthony Hinds (Hammer Film Prod.). Director: Terence Fisher. Screenplay: John Elder. • British-made. A male child is born under a curse and grows up into a creature half man and half wolf. DAY OF THE GUN (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand. Producers: Eugene Frenke, Edward Lewis (Bryna Prod. S. A Prod.). Director: Robert Aldrich. Original (novel): Vechel Howard. • Filmed in Mexico. Based on the fierce rivalry of three men for the love of a woman — her mucholder husband, a lawman with whom she once had been in love and a man wanted for murder — during a difficult journey through Mexico to Texas. In Color. FLOWER DRUM SONG (Musical). Stars: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta. Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: Henry Koster. Original (book): C. Y. Lee, (musical): Rodgers and Ham-merstein, Joseph Fields. Screenplay: Joseph Fields. • A cinema version of a story which was a success both as a novel and musical comedy, set in San Francisco's Chinatown and dealing with the conflicts between old traditions and the new, especially as they concern young love. GRASS IS GREENER, THE (Comedy). Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons. Producer: Stanley Donen. Director: Stanley Donen (Grandon Prods.). Original (play): Hugh and Margaret Williams. Screenplay: Hugh and Margaret Williams. • An earl and his lady turn their ancestral home into a tourist attraction, and when an American oilman visits the place he falls in love with the countess and she with him. Into this scene comes an old flame of the earl and she seeks to console him. In Technirama and Technicolor. GREAT IMPOSTOR, The (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Gary Merrill, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden, Joan Blackman. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Robert Mulligan. Original (book): Robert Crichton. Screenplay: Liam O'Brien. • Based on the incredible real-life impersonations of Ferdinand Demara jr., who, among other misadventures, successfully posed as a surgeon, Latin instructor, prison warden and a Trappist monk. LOVER, COME BACK (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie. Producers: Robert Arthur, Martin Melcher, Stanley Shapiro (Seven Pictures-Nob H i 1 1 Arwin Prod.). Director: Delbert Mann. Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning. • The tale of two people in the advertising business who engage in a feud which eventually turns into a romance. In Color. PHARAOH'S WOMAN (Historical Spectacle). Stars: Linda Cristal, John Drew Barrymore. Producer: W. Tourjanski (Vanguard Films of Rome Prod.). Director: Giorgio Rivalta. • Italian-made. Love, adventure and historical spectacle in ancient Egypt. In Color. POSSE FROM HELL (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert, Ward Ramsey. Producer: Gordon Kay. Director: Herbert Coleman. Original (book): Clair Huffaker. Screenplay: Clair Huffaker. • Story of a fighting U. S. marshal who tracks down four escaped murderers who have kidnapped a woman and hold her as a hostage. In Color. ROMANOFF AND JULIET (Romantic Drama). Stars: Sandra Dee, John Govin, Peter Ustinov, Akim Tamiroff. Producer: Peter Ustinov. Director: Peter Ustinov. Original (play): Peter Ustinov. Screenplay: Peter Ustinov. • Filmed in Italy. A love story dealing with the son of the Russian ambassador and the daughter of an American in a tiny kingdom tucked away somewhere on the European continent. In Color. SECRET WAYS, THE (Spy Thriller). Stors: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann. Producer: Richard Widmark. Director: Phil Karlson. Original (book): Alistair MacLean. Screenplay: Jean Hazelwood. • Filmed in Europe. An American adventurer stays on in Europe after World War II and becomes a spy for hire behind the Iron Curtain. In Cinemascope. SHADOW OF THE CAT (Horror Drama). Stars: Andrew Morell, Barbara Shelley, Conrad Phillips. Producer: John Pennington. Director: John Gilling. • A British-made horror tale. SHAKEDOWN, THE (Drama). Stars: Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasance, Bill Owen, Robert Beatty. Producer: Norman Williams (Ethiro Prod.). Director: John Lemont. Screenplay: Leigh Vance. • British-made. A vice king, just out of jail, turns to a new racket of blackmailing amateur photographers seeking models. A police woman in disguise wins the blackmailer's confidence, then exposes him. SIXTH MAN, THE (War Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett, Edmund Hashim, Gregory Walcott. Producer: Sy Bartlett. Director: Delbert Mann. Original (book): William Bradford Huie. Screenplay: Stewart Stern. • The story of Ira Hayes, the Indian who was one of the six men who hoisted the American flag on Iwo Jima, and his eventual failure to cope with his position as a hero. SPARTACUS (Historical Spectacle). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin. Producer: Edward Lewis (Bryna Prod.). Director Stanley Kubrick. Original (novel): Howard Fast. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. • A story based on the great gladiator Spartacus who led a revolt of the slaves against the Roman Legions in the century before the birth of Christ, and of his love for one of the slave girls. In Technirama 70 and Color. Special. TAMMY TELL ME TRUE (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Sandra Dee, John Gavin. Producer: Ross Hunter (Ross Hunter Prod.). Director: Harry Keller. Original (book): Cid Ricketts. Screenplay: Oscar Brodney. • A sequel to "Tammy and the Bachelor," in which Tammy goes to college and falls in love with a young college instructor. In Color. TOMBOY AND THE CHAMP (Drama). Stars: Candy Moore, Jess Kilpatrick, Jesse White, Champy, the Angus. Producers: Tommy Reynolds, William Lightfoot. Director: Francis D. Lyon. Original (story): Tommy Reynolds, William Lightfoot. Screenplay: Virginia Huffaker. • A little ranch girl, after winning a calf at the county fair, enters it in the state fair. She doesn't win, later contacts polio but recovers and learns to walk by walking her calf to prepare for the next show. In Color. TROUBLE IN THE SKY (Drama). Stars: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders, Andre Morell. Producer: Aubrey Baring, for Bryanston Prods. Director: Charles Frend. Original (novel): David Beaty. Screenplay: Robert Westerby. • British-made. Released in England as "Cone of Silence." Story of an investigation that is made following the airline crash of a jet transport plane, in which the pilot was killed and posthumously charged with negligence. The dead flyer's daughter never gives up until she gets the evidence needed to clear her father's name. Valiant ANGRY SILENCE, THE (Drama). Stors: Pier Angeli, Richard Attenborough, Michael Craig. Producers: Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes (Beaver Films). Director: Guy Green. Original (story): Richard Gregson. Screenplay: Bryan Forbes. • British-made. A union agitator arrives at on industrial plant and stirs up trouble. The lone holdout is given the silent treatment, and it is only after hoodlums do bodily harm to his son that wrongs are righted. IT TAKES A THIEF (Crime Drama). Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Mohner, Barbara Mullen. Producer: John Temple-Smith. Director: John Gilling. • British-made. A glamorous female leader of a crime gang in London is the brains behind a series of daring robberies. MANIA (Horror Film). Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasance, George Rose, Billie Whitelaw. Producers: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman. Director: John Gilling. Original Screenplay: John Gilling. • British-made. Based on the real-life story of 174 BAROMETER Section