20th Century-Fox Dynamo (February 1960)

OTHER FEATURE ATTRACTIONS PLATARLE NOW Re-issue combinations are proving, generally, exceptionally popular offerings in the United States. “Bernardine” and “Love Me Tender”, in which Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, respectively, made their screen dehuts, is a combination that has met with widespread public patronage. “Violent Saturday” and “Teenage Rebel” is another that has been gaining in exhibitor and patronage favor. These re-issue combinations have become standard box office bonanzas: “Love Is A Many Splendored Thing” with William Holden and Jennifer Jones, and “Three Coins In The Fountain”; “Tobacco Road” and “Banjo On My Knee”, the latter co-starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan and Barbara Stanwyck; “I’d Climb The Highest Mountain”, with Susan Hayward and William Lundigan, and “Man Called Peter” with Richard Todd and Jean Peters, and “Tobacco Road” with John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes Of Wrath”, co-starring Henry Fonda and others. Other bookable CinemaScope feature attractions in the 1959 backlog, but not pictured on these pages, are “The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness” with Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat; “The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw” with Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield and Henry Hull; “Rally ’Round The Flag, Boys” with Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Joan Collins and Jack Carson; “I, Mobster” with Steve Cochran, Lita Milan and Robert Strauss; “These Thousand Hills” with Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick and Patricia Owens; “The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker” with Clifton Webb, Dorothy Mc- Guire, Charles Coburn, Jill St. John and Ron Ely; “The Sound And The Fury” with Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman and Ethel Waters, and “Warlock” with Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Qumn and Dorothy Malone. Also bookable are “Smiley Gets A Gun”, “Intent To Kill”, “Alaska Passage”, “The Lone Texan”, “The Sad Horse”, “The Little Savage”, “Here Come The Jets”, “Miracle Of The Hills”, “Alligator People”, “Return Of The Fly” and “Blood And Steel”. COMPULSION: One of the widely praised pic- tures of last year. Based on Meyer Levin’s novel about two young, wealthy Chicago “thrill-killers”. Co-starring Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the murderers, Orson Welles as their attorney and Diane Varsi, with E. G. Marshall and Martin Milner. Richard Zanuck, producer. Richard Flei- scher, director. CinemaScope, black and white. BLUE DENIM: One of the more successful and a widely discussed screenplays, based on a play about a teenage girl and boy faced with the prob- lem of pregnancy. Co-starring Carol Lynley, Bran- don de Wilde, Warren Berringer, MacDonald Carey and Marsha Hunt. Charles Brackett, producer. Philip Dunne, director. 89 minutes. In Cinema- Scope and black and white. WOMAN OBSESSED: Dramatic story of a young, widowed mother, her son and their involvement with a lonely backwoodsman. Based on a story by Sydney Boehm. Co-starring Academy Award win- ner, Susan Hayward; Stephen Boyd and Barbara Nichols, with Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, Ken Scott and others. Sydney Boehm, produced. Henry Hathaway, director. CinemaScope. De Luxe Color. FIVE GATES TO HELL: Melodramatic story of five United Nations Army nurses who bravely, but futilely resist the sadistic attacks of a blood- thirsty group of enemy soldiers. Co-starring Patricia Owens, Dolores Michaels, Neville Brand and others. Produced and directed by James Clavell. 98 minutes. In CinemaScope and black and white. HOUND DOG MAN: Rural romantic story about a young farm hand who comes to the con- clusion that the time has come when he must learn life’s values on his own. Co-starring Stuart Whit- man, Carol Lynley, Arthur O’Connell and Dodie Stevens, and introducing Fabian. Jerry Wald, pro- ducer. Don Siegel, director. With songs. 87 minutes. CinemaScope. De Luxe Color. BELOVED INFIDEL: Autobiographical ro- mantic screenplay concerning the love affair of newspaper Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham and the famed American novelist, F. Scott Fitz- gerald. Co-starring Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr and Eddie Albert. With Philip Ober, Ken Scott and others. A Jerry Wald production. Henry King, di- rector. 123 minutes. In CinemaScope, with De Luxe Color. HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS: Comedy about the adventures and pitfalls a Massachusetts family en- counters in trying to stop a suspected wedding of their daughter to a much older South American architect. Co-starring Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby and Nico Minardos. David Weisbart, pro- ducer. Henry Levin, director. CinemaScope. De Luxe Color. BLUE ANGEL: Dramatic story about an erst- while respected professor, who, after reprimanding his students for patronizing a dive featuring a cheap singer, succumbs to her wiles and almost wrecks his life when he marries her. Co-starring Curt Jur- gens, May Britt and Theodore Bikel. Jack Cum- mings, producer. Edward Dymtryk, director. 107 minutes. CinemaScope. De Luxe Color. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: A spectacular and fabulous science-fiction story based on a story by Jules Verne about four people who successfully fight their way to the center of the earth. Co-starring Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker and Peter Ronson. A Jerry Wald production. Henry Levin, director. In CinemaScope, with De Luxe Color. 87