Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1957)

FRENCH THEY ARE A FUNNY RACE. THE IConti nental' Martine Carol, Jack Buchanan Noel-Noel. Produced by Preston Sturges. Comedy. Filmization of a famous French best-selling novel. 92 min. 5/27. JOHNNY TREMAIN (Buenct Vista) Technicolor. Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten. Jeff York. A Walt Disney Production. Director Robert Stevenson. Adventure. A teen-age silversmith turns freedom fighter in the American War of Independence. JULIETTA (Kingsley International) Jeanne Moreau. Nicole Berger. An Indrusfilms Production. Director Marc Allegret. Comedy. July A NOVEL AFFAIR I Continental I Sir Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton. Comedy. CARNIVAL ROCK (Howeo) The Platters. David Houston. A Howco Production. Musical. 80 min. TEEN AGE THUNDER (Howco) Church Courtney, Melinda Byron. A Howco Production. Melodrama. 80 min. Coming BROTHERS IN LAW [Continental I Ian Carmichel, Richard Attenborough, Jill Adams. Producer-director, the Boulting Bros. Comedy. Adventures of a young lawyer. CARTOUCHE IRKO) Richard Basehart, Patricia Roc. Producer John Nasht. Director Steve Sekely. Adventure. The story of a lusty adventurer during the reign of Louis XVI. CITY OF WOMEN .Associates Osa Masse Robert Hutton, Maria Palmer. Producer-director Boris Perroff. Drama. From a novel by Stephen Longstreat. DRAGSTRJP GIRL I American-International ) Fay Spain, Steve Terrell, John Ashley. Producer Alex. Gordon. Director Edward Gahn. Story of teen-age hot rod and dragstrip racing kids. 75 min. LOST CONTINENT IIFE] CinemaScope, Ferranieolor. Producer-director Leonardo Bonii. An excursion into the wilds of Borneo and the Maylayan Archepelago. English commentary. 86 min. NEAPOLITAN CAROUSEL IIFE) ILuxFilm, Rome) Pathecolor. Print by Technicolor. Sophia Loren. Leonide Massine. Director Etfore Giannini. Musical. The history of Naples traced from 1400 to date in song and dance. PERRI (Buena Vista) Technicolor. A true-life fantasy by Walt Disney. The life story of a Pine Squirrel named "Perri". REMEMBER, MY LOVE I ArtistsProducers Assoc.) CinemaScope, Technicolor. Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quale. Musical drama. Producer-director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Based on Strauss' "Die Redermaus". 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. X— THE UNKNOWN Dean Jagger, William Russell. Producer A. Hinds. Director Leslie Norman. Sciencefiction. Keen minded scientist fights awesome creation. METRO-GOLDWYN -MAYER February BARRETS OF WIMPOLE STREET, THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Jennifer Jones, Sir Joiin Gielgud, Bill Travers. Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director Sidney Franklin. Drama. Love story of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. I0S min. 1/21. HOT SUMMER NIGHT Leslie Nielsen, Coieen Miller. Producer Morton Fine. Director David Friedkin. Melodrama. Story of a gangland hide-out. 84 min. 2/4. WINGS Of THE EAGLES, THE John Wayne. Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara. Producer Charles Schnee. Director John Ford. Drama. Life and times of a naval aviator. 1 10 min. 2/4. March LIZZIE EJeanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Btondell. Producer Jerry Bresst-sr. Director Hugo Haas. Drama. A young girl lives three different lives. 81 min. 3/4 TEN THOUSAND BEDROOMS CinemaScope. MetroColor. Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti. Producer Joseph Pasternack. Director Richard Thorpe. Musical. A hotel tycoon falls in love with a lovely Italian girl. 114 min. 2/18. April DESIGNING WOMAN CinemaScope. MetroColor. Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall. Producer Dore Schary. Director Vincente Minnelli. Comedy. Ace sportswriter marries streamlined blond with ideas. 117 min. 3/4 VINTAGE, THE MetroColor. Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, Leif Erickson. Producer Edwin Knoph. Director Jeffrey Hayden. Drama. A conflict between young love and mature responsibility. 90 min. 3/18. May LITTLE HUT, THE Eastman Color. Ava Gardner. Stewart Granger. Producers F. Hugh Herbert. Director Mark Robson. Comedy. Husband, wife and wife's lover are marooned on a tropical isle. 98 min. 5/27. TARZAN AND THE LOST SAFARI Technicolor. Gordon Scott Robert Beatty. A Sol Lesser Production. Director Bruce Humberstone. Adventure. Tarzan rescues safari lost in deepest Africa. 80 min. 3/18. THIS COUU5 BE THE NIGHT Jean Simmons. Paul Douglas. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Robert Wise. Comedy. A girl fresh out of college gets a job as secretary to an ex-bootlegger. 103 min. 4/15. Fill June SEVENTH SIN, THE CinemaScope. Eleanor Parker. Mill Travers, George Sanders. Producer David Lewis. Director Ronald Neame. Drama. Story of an adulterous woman. 94 min. SOMETHING OF VALUE Rock Hudson, Dana Wynt.r, Wendy HMIer. Producer Pandro Berman Director Richard Brooks. Drama. Stry of a Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. East Africa. 113 min. 5/13. July MAN ON FIRE Bing Crosby, Mary Pickett Inger Stevens. Producer Sol Siegel. Director R. MacDougall. Drama. The effect of divorce on a boy and his estranged parents. SILK STOCKINGS MetroColor, CinemaScope. Fred Astaire, Cyd Charrise, Janis Page. Producer Arthur Freed. Director R. Mamoullian. Musical. Russian girl falls in love with an American film producer in Paris. 117 min. Coming ACTION OF THE TIGER CinemaScope. Eastman Color. Van Johnson Martine Carol. Gustave Roto. A Claridge Production. Drama. Beautiful girl seetu help of contraband runner to re»cue brother from Communists. DECISION AGAINST TIME Jack Hawkins. Elizabeth Sellars. Producer M. Balcon. Director C. Crichton. Test pilot attempts to land disabled plane. GUN GLORY CinemaScope. MetroColor. Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming. Producer N. Nayfack. Director Roy Rowland. Western. Ex-outlaw is tormented by his former reputation as a killer. HAPPY ROAD, THE Gene Kelly. Michael Redgrave. Barbara Laage. A Kerry Production. Directors, Gene Kelly, Noel Coward. Drama. Two children run away from boarding hchool to find their respective parents. 100 min. 2/4. HOUSE OF NUMBERS CinemaScope. Jack Palance, Barbara Lang. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Russell Rouse. Law-abiding citizen attempts to engineer San Quentin escape for his brother. LIVING IDOL, THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Steve Forrest, Lilliane Montevecchi. Producer-director Al Lewln. Drama. An archeologist is faced with an unworldly situation that threatens the safety of his adopted daughter. 101 min. 5/13. RAINTREE COUNTY MetroColor. CinemaScope 65 Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift. Producer David Lewis. Director Edward Dymtryke. Drama. Life in Indiana during the middle I800's. PARAMOUNT February RAINMAKER, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Burt Lancaster, Katherine Hepburn, Wendell Corey. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Joseph Anthony. Comedy drama. Fllmization of the famous B'way play. 121 min. 12/24. March FEAR STRIKES OUT Anthony Perkins, Karl Maiden, Norma Moore. Producer Aien Pakula. Director Perry Wilson. Drama. Story of the Boston baseball player. 100 min. 2/18. April FUNNY FACE VistaVision, Technicolor. Audiey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson. Producer Roger Edens. Director Stanley Donen. Musical. Photographer plucks fashion model from Greenwich VTIfage bookshop. ID~3 min. 2/18. May BUSTER KEATON STORY, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming. Producers Robert Smith, Sidney Sheldon. Director Sidney Sheldon. Drama. Life of the great comedian. 91 min. 4/15. GUNFIGHT AT O.K. CORRAL VistaVijion. Technicolor. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas. Rhonda Flemina. Producer Hal Wallis. Director John Sturges. Western. Drunken badman hunts for murderer of his cheat'ng brother. 122 min. 5/27. June LONELY MAN, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Elaine Aiken. Producer Pat Duggan. Director Henry Levin. Western. A gunfighter finds he is losing his sight— and his aim. 87 min. 5/27. July BEAU JAMES VistaVision, Technicolor. Bob Hope. Producer Jack Rose. Director Michael Moore. Drama. Biography of the famous Jimmy Walker, mayor of N Y. from 1925 to 1932. 105 min. DELICATE DELINQUENT, THE Jerry Lewis, Darren MeGavin, Martha Hyer. Producer Jerry Lewis. Director Don McGuire. Drama. Janitor longs to be police officer so he can help delinquents. 101 min. August YOU VistaVision Technicolor. Elvis Presley, Scott Wendell Corey. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Hal Kanter. Small-town boy makes big-time show business. KHAYYAM VistaVision, Technicolor. Cornel vtichael Rennie, Debra Paget. Producer Frank Jr. Director William Dieterle. Adventure, 'and times of medieval Persia's literary idol. LOVING Lizabeth Musical, good in OMAR WHde, Freeman The life 103 min. BULLETIN — THIS JULY SUMMARY The number of features scheduled for July release totals 35. Leading suppliers of hot weather product will be 20th Century-Fox. United Artists and Republic, each with five films. Four films each will be released by Rank and AA. The Independents and Universal will release three each; Columbia. M-G-M and Paramount will release two each; Warner Bros., one. Eleven of the July releases will be in color. CinemaScope features number seven; VistaVision. three; Superscope. one. 16 Dramas 2 Musicals 1 Western 4 Melodramas 7 Comedies 2 Horror 2 Adventure 1 Science-fiction Coming HAIRPIN DEVIL'S, THE VistaVision. Techmcolor Cornel Wilde Jean Wallace Mary Astor. Producer-director Cornel Wilde. Adventure. Story which deals with sports car racing. HOT SPELL VistaVision Shirley Booth. Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Daniel Mann. Drama. The disintegration of a Southern family during a torrid heat wave. JOKER IS WILD, THE VistaVision. Technicolor Frank Sinatra. Mitii Gaynor, Jeanne Crain Producer Samuel Briskhv Director Charles Victor Drama. Film biography of Joe E. Lewis, nightclub comedian. SHORT CUT TO HELL VistaVision. Robert Ivers William Bishop. Georgann Johnson. Producer A. C. Lyles. Director James Cagney. Drama. SPANISH AFFAIR VistaVision, Technicolor. Carmen Sevilla Richard Kiley. Producer Bruce Odium. Director Donald' Siegel. An American architect travelling in Spain is attracted to a beautiful girl, half-Gypsy. haltSpanish. TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE VistaVision Technicolor. Charlton Heston. Yul Brynner, Anne Bax*.-. ^reducerdirector Cecil 8. DeMille. Relioious drama l'<e i'otv of Moses as told in the Bible and Koran. 219 min. 10/15 TIN STAR, THE VistaVision. Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins. A PerlSerg-Seaton Production. Director Anthony Mann. V .„tern. June REACH FOR THE SKY Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow. Producer Daniel M. Angel. Director Lewis Gilbert. CHECKPOINT Eastman Color Anthony Steel, Odile Versois. Producer Betty E. Box. Director Ralph Thomas. July VALUE FOR MONEY Technicolor. VistaVision. John Gregson. Diana Dors Producer Sergei Nolbandov, Director Ken Annakin. Comedy. 83 min. TRIPLE DECEPTION Technicolor. VistaVision Michael Craig, Julia Arnall. Producer Vivian A. Cox. Director Guy Green. Drama. 85 min. OUT OF THE CLOUDS Eastman Color Anthony Steel. Robert Beatty Producer-director Michael Relph and Basil Dearden Drama. 75 min. THIRD KEY. THE Jack Hawkins. John Stratton. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Charles Frend Drama 83 min. August A TOWN LIKE ALICE Virginia McKenna. Peter Finch. Producer Joseph Janni. Director aJck Lee. 98 min. GENTLE TOUCH. THE Technicolor. George Baker. BeLinda Lee. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Pat Jackson. 86 min. BLACK TENT, THE Technicolor, VistaVision. Anihony Steel. Donald Sinden. Producer William MacQuitty. Director Brian D. Hurst. 82 min. AS LONG AS THEY'RE HAPPY Eastman Color. Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott. Producer Raymond Stross. Director J. Lee-Thompson. 70 min. JACQUELINE John Gregson. Kathleen Ryan. Producer George H. Brown. Director Roy Baker. 92 min. September PURSUIT OF THE GRAF SPEE Technicolor, VistaV.sion. John Gregson, Anthony Quayle. Producer-director Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. 110 min. SPANISH GARDENER Technicolor. VistaVision. Dirk Bogarde. Jon Whiteley. Producer John Bryan. Director Philpi Leacock. 95 mm. AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY Technicolor, VistaVision. Donald Sinden, Diana Dors. Producer Raymond Stross. Director J. Lee-Thompson. 88 min. YOUR PRODUCT