Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1956)

JUNE SUMMARY The number of features scheduled for June release totals 24, three under the May tally. United Artists is the leading supplier with five films on the roster. Columbia and Warner Brothers will offer three each, while Allied Artists, MGM, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Universal each have two set. Two-thirds of the June product, 16, will be in color. Eight features will be in CinemaScope and two in VistaVision. The breakdown for June: 13 Dramas 1 Comedy 1 Western 1 Documentary 6 Adventures 2 Melodramas INDEPENDENTS (Continued) WAGES OF FEAR IDCA) Yves Monrand, Charles Vanel, Vera Clouzot. Producer-director H. G. Clouiot. Drama. Four men set out on dangerous journey to transport nitroglycerine over infamous mountain trail. 1 WILD DAKOTAS, THE I AFRO Bill Williams, Coleen jGray, Jim Davis. Producer Sigmund Neufield. Director Sam Newfield. Western. Frontiersman prevents Indian I uprising against white settlers. March BALLET OF ROMEO AND JULIET, THE ITohan PicturesI Color. A Mosfilm Production. Directors Lev Arnstam, Leonid Lavrovsky. Musical Based on the scores by Sergi Prokofief and the love story by William Shakespeare. DON JUAN lAkkordl Agfa Color. Cesare Danova, Josef Meinrad, Evelyne Cormand. Director H. W. KolmVeltee. Musical. Filmiiation of Mozart's famous opera, "Den Giovanni". Features Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. JEDDA. THE UNCIVILIZED IDCA) Eastman Color. Narla Kunogh, Robert Tudewaldi, Betty Suttor. Producer-director Charles Chauvel. Drama. Based upon true happenings in the Aborigine territory in Northern Australia. RETURN OF DON CAMILLO IIFE) Fernandel, Gino Cervi. Italo-French co-production. Director Julien Duvivier. Comedy. The human comedy of a village priest and a communist mayor. 115 min. A pril BLONDE BAIT AFRCI Beverly Michaels, Jim Davis, Joan Rice, Richard Travis. Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Elmo Williams. Melodrama. State Department investigator traps murderous traitor by using blonde singer as bait. 71 min. LADYKILLERS, THE (Continental ) Technicolor. Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lorn. A Michael Balcon Production. Director A. Mackendrick. Comedy. A satire on American gangster films. 93 min. LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS (Trans-Lux I Lori March. Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn, William Ward. Produced and directed by Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. Comedy. The courtship of a widow and her 7-year old daughter. 80 min. LUM AND ABNER ABROAD (Howco) Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Jill Alis. Producer-director James Kern. Comdey. Travels of Lum and Abner to Europe. 3 TV films joined together to make I feature film. 72 min. MADAME BUTTERFLY IIFE) Technicolor. Kaoru Yachiguss, Nicola Filacuridi. Musical. Director Carmine Gallone. Puccini's famous opera transferred to the screen. RICHARD THE THIRD ILopertl VistaVision, Technicolor. Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom. Producer-director Laurence Olivier. Drama. The machinations of a twisted nobleman that changed the course of England's history. I5S min. 3/19. SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD (Stanley WarnerCinerama) Technicolor, Cinerama. A Lowell Thomas Production. Travelog around the world utilizing the Cinerama big screen process. 120 min. SINS OF THE BORGIAS (Aidart Pictures) Technicolor. Martine Carol, Pedro Armendariz. A Ariane-FilmsonorFrancinex-Rizzolo Production. Drama. The life of Lucretia Borgia during Italian Renaissance. 97 min. 4/30 May FEMALE JUNGLE, THE (American International I Jayne Mansfield, Lawrence Tierney, John Carradine. Producer Burt Kaiser. Melodrama. Blonde bombshell is involved with group of gangsters. GUNSLINGER, THE (American International I Eastman Color. John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes. Producer-director Roger Corman. Western. A saloon queen rules her town until an outlaw gunfighter takes over. ROSANNA (Jacon) Rossana Podesta, Crox Alvarado, Armando Silvestre. Producer Salvador Ellzendo. Director Emilio Fernandez. Drama. The romance of a beautiful girl and a fugitive from justice. 72 min. SWAMP WOMEN (Woolner Brothersl Pathe Color. Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor, Carole Matthews. Producer Bernard Woolner. Director Roger Corman. Drama. Swamp women run amok in Bayou country. 75 min. June GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE, THE (Buena Vista) CinemaScope. Technicolor. Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter. A Walt Disney Production. Adventure. A band of Union spies attempt to sever the South's military rail lines during the Civil War. Coming GIRLS IN PRISON (American International I Richard Denning. Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller. Producer Alex Gordon. Director Edward Cahn. Drama. A girl robber finds that prison is a living hell until reformed by chaplain. HOT ROD GIRL (American International I Lori Nelson, Chuck Conners. John Smith. A Nacirema Production. Drama. A story of today's youth and the excitement of hot rod racing. IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (American International) Peter Graves, Beverly Garland. Producer-director Roger Corman. Science-fiction. A monster from outer space takes control of the world until a scientist gives his life to save humanity. LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL ITohan Pictures) Robert Vattier, Henri Vilbert, Rene Sarvil. Produced and directed by Marcel Pagnol. Drama. Based on three tales from Daudet's collection of stories. LOST CONTINENT IIFEI CinemaScope, Ferranicolor. Producer-director Leonardo Bonzi. An excursion into the wilds of Borneo and the Maylayan Archepelago. English commentary. 86 min. NEAPOLITAN CAROUSEL 1 1 FE) (Lux Film, Romel Pathecolor. Print by Technicolor. Sophia Loren, Leonide Massine. Director Ettore Giannini. Musical. The history of Naples traced from 1600 to date in song and dance. OKLAHOMA WOMAN (American Releasing Corp.) Superscope. Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Cathy Downs. Producer-director Roger Corman. Western. A ruthless woman rules the badlands ur.t'1 a reformed outlaw brings her to justice. 80 min. SMOLDERING SEA, THE Superscope. Producer Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the tyrannical captain and crew of an American merchant ship reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal WEAPON, THE Superscope. Nicole Maurey. Producer Hal E. Chester. Drama. An unsolved murder involving a bitter U. S. war veteran, a German war bride and a killer is resolved after a child finds a loaded gun in bomb rubble. METRO-GO LDWYN -MAYER February FOREVER DARLING Eastman Color, Wide Screen. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Louis Calhern. Producer Desi Arnaz. Director Alexander Hall. Comedy. A story of married bliss set in Yosemite National Park. 100 min. 2/6. LAST HUNT. THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget. Western. Based on the novel by Milton Lott. The wild adventure of a buffalo hunt in 1883. 108 min. 2/20. March FORBIDDEN PLANET CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielson. Producer Nicholas Nayfack. Director Fred Wilcox. Sciencefiction adventure. A scientist is forced to choose between mankind and the terrible knowledge he has secretly uncovered. 98 min. MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Lillian Montevecchi. Producer Joe Pasternack. Director Roy Rowland. Musical. A gambler meets a ballerina only to find its love, not the roulette wheel, that makes the world go round. 112 min. 2/20. A pril SWAN, THE Eastman Color, CinemaScope. Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Brian Aherne. Director Charles Vidor. Comedy. Based on Molnar's outstanding play, this is a tale of a princess who falls in love and becomes a woman. 112 min. 4/16. TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN CinemaScope, Eastman Color. James Cagney, Stephen McNally, Don Dubbins. Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director Robert Wise. Drama. The story of a man who took the law into his own hands. 95 min. 4/16. May GABY CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Producer Edwin H. Knoph. Director Curtis Bernhardt. Drama. The romance of an American paratrooper and a French ballerina during the London bliz. 97 min. 4/16. INVITATION TO THE DANCE Teennieotor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kay*. Prodoe-er Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kaiiy. B«H«t Four episodes dealing in romance, drama comedy and pathos told entirely through the medium of the dance. 94 min. RACK. THE Paul Newman. Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director Arnold Laven. Drama. A war hero faces his accusers in courtmartial proceedings. 100 min. 4/16. June BHOWANI JUNCTION CinemaScope. Technicolor. Ava Gardner Stewart Granger, Bill Travers. Producer Pandro Berman. Director George Cukor. Drama. Based on the novel by John Masters. 110 min. 5/14. CATERED AFFAIR, THE Bette Davis. Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer Sam Zymbalist. Director Richard Brooks. Comedy. Love and marriage in a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. 93 min. 5/14. Coming FASTEST GUN ALIVE Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain. Producer Clarence Greene. Director Russell Rouse. Western. The reputation of a storekeeper with a "fast gun" brings three strangers to a sleepy Western town. HIGH SOCIETY CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Bing Crosby. Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra. Producer Sol Siegel. Director Charles Walters. Musical. A beautiful girl gets involved with a fun-loving millionaire and a serious minded reporter. LIVING IDOL, THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Steve Forrest, Lilliane Montevecchi. Producer-director Al Lewin. Drama. LUST FOR LIFE Eastman Color, CinemaScope. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Ou'nn. James Donald, Pamela Brown. Producer John Houseman. Director Vincente Minnelli. Film dramatization of the life and works of the famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh. OPPOSITE SEX, THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. June Alyyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director David Miller. Comedy. The perfect wife is unaware of flaws in her marriage until a gossip-minded friend broadcasts the news. SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME Paul Newman, Pier Angelli, Sal Mineo. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Robert Wise. Drama. Story of boxer Rocky Graziano. SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND HIM James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon. Producer Jules Schermer. Director Roy Rowland. Drama. A millionaire's search for his son. February ROSE TATTOO, THE VistaVision. Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster. Producer Hal B. Wallis. Director Daniel Mann. Drama. Worshipping dead husband's memory woman almost loses her own chance for new love and her daughter until she learns he had been unfaithful. 117 min. 11/14. March COURT JESTER. THE VistaVision. Technicolor. Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury. Producer-director Norman Panama and Melvin Frank. Comedy drama. Masquerading as court clown member of patriot group branded outlaws aids in restoring crown to rightful king. 101 min. 2/6. A pril ANYTHING GOES VistaVision. Technicolor. Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jeanmarie. Producer Robert Emmett Dolan. Director Robert Lewis. Musical. Two girls chosen for one role in Broadway show creates many humorous complications before problem is solved. 105 min. 1/23. SCARLET HOUR. THE VistaVision. Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, James Gregory. Melodrama. Unhappily married wife creates triangle, becomes involved in hijacking and murder. 95 min. 4/30 May BIRDS AND THE BEES. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Comedy. The vegetarian son of a multi-millionaire meat packer meets up with some card-sharks, one of whom traps him into marriage. 94 min. 4/16. June LEATHER SAINT. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Paul Douglas, John Derek. Jody Lawrence, Cesar Romero. Producer Norman Retchin. Director Alvin Ganzer. Drama. Clergyman turns prizefighter to raise money to buy iron lung and build swimming pool. 86 min. MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE VistaVision. Technicolor. James Stewart, Doris Day. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Drama. Political assassination plot leads to kidnapping of young boy to keep parents from talking. 120 min. 5/14. Coming MOUNTAIN. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Spencer Tracy, Bob Wagner, Claire Trevor. Producer-director Edward Dmytryk. Adventure. Two brothers climb to a distant snowcapped peak where an airplane has crashed to discover a critically injured woman in the wreckage. 105 min. PARDNERS VistaVision, Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Comedy. Sheriff thwarts masked raiders who terrorize Arizona ranch area. PROUD AND PROFANE, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Dewey Martin, Thelma Ritter. Producer William Pearlberg. Director George Seton. Drama. A hard-bitten Marine and a society-bred Red Cross girl fall in love during the critical islandinvasion phase of WWII. 113 min. TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE VistaVision. Technicolor. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Bax*e'. "roducerdirector Cecil B. DeMille. Religious drama. Life story of Moses as told >n the Bible and Koran. THAT CERTAIN FEELING VistaVision, Technicolor. Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey. A Norman Panama-Melvin Frank Production. Comedy. The story of a cartoonist who achieves success as a homespun philosopher. 103 min. VAGABOND KING, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno. Producer Pat Duggan. Director Michael Curtiz. Musical drama. Vagabond band helps French King rout nobles who would overthrow him. 88 min. WAR AND PEACE VistaVisioi, Technicolor. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer. Producers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis. Director King Vidor. Drama. Based on Tolstoy's novel of the Napoleonic era. 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