Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1957)

OCTOBER SUMMARY Features scheduled for October release number 29. United Artists will be the leading supplier with four films. Allied Artists. Columbia, Paramount and Universal-International will release three films each; American International, Metro, Rank, 20th Century-Fox. Republic and Warner Bros, will release two each. Independent distributors will release three fj|ms — one each from Trans-Lux, Continental and Zenith. Color films total seven. Five features will be in CinemaScope, four in VistaVision and two in Naturama. 14 Dramas 2 Science-Fiction 4 Comedies 1 Adventure 2 Westerns 1 Horror 5 Melodramas INDEPENDENTS August MAID IN PARIS (Continental! Oany Robin. Daniel Gelin. Producer Yvon Guezel. Directed by Gaspard Huit. Comedy. A daughter rebels against her actress mother. 83 min. MARCELI NO I United Motion Picture Organiiation ) Pablito Calvo, Rafael Rivelles. Juan Calvo. Director Ladislao Vajda. Based on an old legend about a boy saint. 90 min. PERRI IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Producer Winston Hibler. Directors Paul Kenworthy and Ralph Wright A true-life fantasy by Walt Disney. The life story of a Pine Squirrel named "Perri". 75 men. 7/2. September BED OF GRASS ITrans-Lux) Anna Brazzou, Mike Nichols. Vera Katri. Producer-Director Gregg Tallas. Drama. 92 min. CARTOUCHE IRKOI Richard Basehart, Patricia Roc. Producer John Nasht. Director Steve Sekely Adventure. The story of a lutty adventurer during the reign of Louis XVI. 73 min. GUN GIRLS lAstorl Jeanne Ferguson, Jean Ann Lewis. Producer Edward Frank. Director Robert Derteano. Drama. Gang girls on the loose. 47 min. PASSIONATE SUMMER IKingsley) Madeleine Robinson. Magali Noel, Raf Vallons. Produced by Les Films Marceau. Director Charles Brabant Drama. Conflicting passions between three women and a man, isolated or. a rugged farm in a mountainous French province. 98 min. October BROTHERS IN LAW (Continental I Ian Carmichel. Richard Attenborough. Jill Adams. Producer-director, the Boulting Bros. Comedy. Adventures of a young lawyer. 95 min. FOUR BAGS FULL (Trans-Lux) Jean Gabin. Bourvil, Jeannette Batti. A Franco London Production. Director Claude Autant-Lara. French Black Market Drama. 84 VIRTUOUS SCOUNDREL. THE (Zenith Amusement Enterprises! Michel Simon. Producer-Director Sacha Guitry. A comedy of irony which pokes a satirical finger into the pretensions of Parisian high society. November A MAN ESCAPED (Continental Distributing) Francois Leterrier. Charles Leclainche. Maurice Beerblock. Producers Jean Thullier and Alain Poire. Director Robert Bresson. French Drama. 94 min. TEENAGE BAD GIRL (DCAI Sylvia Syms, Anna Neagle. Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox. Juvenile Delinquents. TEENAGE WOLF PACK (DCAI Juvenile Delinquents. December OLD TELLER (Walt Disney Productions) Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Chuck Connors. Producer Walt Disney. Director Robert Stevenson. SILKEN AFFAIR, THE (DCA) David Niven. Genevieve Page, Ronald Squire. Producer Fred Feldkamp. Director Roy Kellino. English Comedy. 94 min. Coming A TIME TO KILL I Producers Associated Pictures Co.) Jim Davis, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Betz. Director Oliver Drake. BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, THE ( Howco-Marquette ■for Howco International releasel John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller. Producer Jacques Marquette. Director Jerry Juran. BUFFALO GUN Wayne Morris. Don Barry. Mary Ellen Kaye. Producer Al Milton. Director Albert C. Gannaway. CITY OF WOMEN (Associated) Ota Massen Robert Mutton Maria Palmar. Producer-director Boris Patroff. Drama. From a novel by Stephen Longifreat. COOL AND THE CRAZY. THE (Imperial) Scott Marlowe, Gigi Perreau. Producer Elmer Rhoden, Jr. Director William Whitney. Story of teenage violence. DAY OF THE TRUMPET, THE IC. Santiago Film Organiiation Prod.) John Agar, Richard Arlen, Bill Phipps. Producer Harry Smith. Director Eddie Romero. DREAM MACHINE, THE (Amalgamated Prods.) Rod Cameron, Marty Murphy, Peter llling. Producers Richard Gordon and Charles Vetter, Jr. Director Montgomery Tully. ESCAPADE IDCA) John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell. Alastair Sim. Producer Daniel M. Angel. Director Philip Leacock. Comedy Drama. 87 min. min. 9/14. GARDEN OF EDEN (Excelsior) Jamie O'Hara. Mickey Knox, R. G. Armstrong. Director Max Nosseck. Producer Walter Bibo. Drama. The happenings in a Florida nudist colony. 70 min. IL GRIDO (Robert Alexander Prods.) Steve Cochran, Betsy Blair. Allida Valli. Producer Harrison Reader. Director Michelangelo Antonioni. IT HAPPENED IN THE PARK I Ellis Films) Vittorio De Sica, Gerard Philipe, Micheline Presle. Produced by Astoria Film. Director Gianni Franciolini. Five short sketches showing happenings within the garden and park. 94 min. 9/2. LIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. THE IUMPO) Brigitte Bardot, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut. Producer Jacques Gauthier. Director Georges Lacombe. Drama. A French husband and wife try to live without normal sex relations, after the husband had a near-fatal accident. 74 min. LAST BRIDGE, THE (Union Film Distributors) Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rutting. A Cosmopol Production. Director Helmut Kautner. Austro-Yugoslav Film. 90 min. RAISING A RIOT (Continental) Kenneth More. Shelagh Fraier, Mandy Producer Ian Dalrymple Director Wendy Toye. English comedy. 90 min. REMEMBER. MY LOVE I Artists-Producers Assoc. I CinemaScope, Tachnkoaor. Michael Redgrave, Mel Farrar. Anthony Quale. Musical drama. Producer-director Michael Powell, Emerle Pressburger. Based on Strauss' "Die Redermaui". WOMAN AND THE HUNTER I Gross-Krasna and Kenya Prods.) Ann Sheridan, David Farrar. Jan Merlin. Producer-director George Breakston. METRO-GOLDWYN -MAYER LOST CONTINENT IIFE) CinemaScope. Ferranicolor. Producer-director Leonardo Bonii. An aicursion into the wilds of loniao and the Maylayan Archecelago. English commentary. 14 min. MISSOURI TRAVELER. THE Brandon DeWilde. Fess Parker. NEAPOLITAN CAROUSEL IIFE) ILui Film, Rome Patheeolor. Print by Technicolor. Sophia Loren, Leoaide Mesiine. Director Ettore Gienniai. Musical The hittary of Naples traced from 1400 to data in song and dance. August DECISION AGAINST TIME Jack Hawkins. Elizabeth Sellars. Producer M. Balcon. Director C. Crichton. Adventure. Test pilot attempts to land disabled plane. 87 min. 7/22. 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. 89 min. TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY CinemaScope. Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala. Producer Edwin Knoph Director Richard Thorp. Melodrama. International police track down smugglers. 109 min. 9/2. September ACTION OF THE TIGER CinemaScope. Eastman Color. Van Johnson, Martine Carol. Gustave Rocco. A Claridge Production. Director Terence Young. Drama. Beautiful girl seeks help of contraband runner to rescue brother from Communists. 94 min. HIRED GUN, THE CinemaScope. Gil McCord, Ellen Beldon, Kell Beldon. Producers Rory Calhoun and Victor M. Orsatti. Director Ray Nazzaro. Western. 44 min. 9/14. LES GIRLS CinemaScope, MetroColor. Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director George Cukor. Musical. Dancing troupe touring Europe. 114 min. 9/30. HOUSE OF NUMBERS CinemaScope. Jack Palance, Barbara Lang. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Russell House. Melodrama. Law-abiding citizen attempts to engineer San Quentin escape for his brother. 92 min. 7/8. October INVISIBLE BOY, THE Richard Eyer. Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster. Producer Nicholas Nayfack. Director Herman Hoffman. Science-fiction. Sequel to "Forbidden Planet". UNTIL THEY SAIL CinmeaScope. Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Robert Wise. Drama. James A. Michener story U.S. troops in New Zealand during World War I. Coming BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, THE MetroColor. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Richard Brooks. Based on famous novel by Dostoyevsky. CRY TERROR James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger. Producer-director Andrew Stone. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER CinemaScope, MetroColor. Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Keenan Wynn. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Charles Walters. Comedy. Story of a South Seas naval base during World War I. HAPPY ROAD, THE Gone Kelly, Michael Redgrave, Barbara Laaga. A Kerry Production. Directors, Gone Kally, Noal Coward. Drama. Two children run away from boarding hchool to find their respective parents. 100 min. 2/4. I ACCUSE Jose Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn. Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director Jose Ferrer. Drama. French officer unjustly accused of treason. JAILHOUSE ROCK Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler. Producer Pandro Berman. Director Richard Thorpe. Musicaldrama. Youth's singing talent is fostered in prison. LIVING IDOL, THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Stave Forrest, Lilliane Monteveechi. Producer-director AJ Lewia. Drama. An archeologist is faced with an unworldly situation that threatens the safety of hit adopted daughter. 101 min. 5/13. MERRY ANDREW CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Danny Kaye, Pier Ageli, Baccpopmo. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director Michael Kidd. RAINTREE COUNTY MetroColor. MGM Camera 45. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift. Producer David Lewis. Director Edward Dymtryke. Drama. Life in Indiana during the middle 1880 s. 185 min. SADDLE THE WIND Robert Taylor, John Cassavetes. Julie London. Producer Armand Deutsch. Director Robert Parrish. SEVEN HILLS OF ROME LeCloud Productions. Mario Lanza, Marisa Allasio. Producer Lester Welch. Director Roy Rowland. PARAMOUNT August LOVING YOU VistaVision Technicolor. Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey. Producer Hal Wallis. Musical. Director Hal Kanter. Small-town boy makes good in big-time show business. 101 min. 7/22. OMAR KHAYYAM VistaVision, Technicolor. Cornel WWde. Michael Rennie, Dabra Paget. Producer Frank Freeman Jr. Director William Dieterle. AdventureThe life and times of medieval Persia's literary idol. 103 min. September MR. ROCK AND ROLL Alan Freed, Rocky Graziano. Lois O'Brien. Producers Serpe and Kreitsek. Director Charles Dubin Musical. Disc jockey establishes authenticity of rock and roll. 84 min. STOWAWAY GIRL Trevor Howard, Elsa Martinell. Pedro Armandariz. Producer Ivan Foxwell. Director Guy Hamilton. Drama. A beautiful girl stows away on a tramp steamer. 93 min. 9/30. SHORT CUT TO HELL VistaVision. Robert Ivers. William Bishop, Georgann Johnson. Producer A. C. Lyles. Director James Cagney. Drama. Story of a professional killer with a gun for hire. 87 min. October HAIRPIN DEVIL'S, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Mary Astor. Producer-director Cornel Wilde. Adventure. Story which deals with sports car racing. 82 min. JOKES IS WILD. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Frank Sinatra, Mltxi Gaynor, Jeanne Craln. Producer Samuel Brwhm. Director Charles Vkfor. Drama. Film biography of Joe E. Lewis, nightclub comedian. 123 min. 9/2. HEAR ME GOOD Hal March, Joe E. Ross, Merry Anders. Producer-Director Don McGuire. Comedy. Broadway con-men hounded by creditors. November TIN STAR. THE VistaVision. Henry Fonda, Anthony Parkins. A Perlherg-Seaton Production. Director Anthony Mann. Outdoor drama. Bounty-hunting in the old west. 93 min. ZERO HOUR Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden. Producers John Champion and Hall Bartlett. Director Hall Bartlett. Drama. A man battles for his life and love. December SAD SACK VistaVision. Technicolor. Jerry Lewis. David Wayne. Producer Hal Wcllis. Director George Marshall. Comedy. Life in the Army. Coming A WOMAN OBSESSED VistaVision Anna Magnani. Anthony Ouinn. Producer Hal Wallis. Director George Cukor. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS Sophia Loren. Anthony Perkins. Burl Ives. Producer Don Hartman. Director Delbert Mann. Drama. Emotional conflicts of a farmer, his son and his second wife. FLAMENCA VistaVision. Color. Carmen Sevilla. Richard Kiley. Producer Bruce Odium. Director Donald Siegel. 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. HOUSEBOAT VistaVision. Technicolor. Cary Grant. Sophia Loren. Producer Jack Rose. Director Melville Shavelson. Maid reunites family and becomes wife of master. MATCHMAKER, THE VistaVision. Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine. Producer Don Hartman. Director Joseph Anthony. Comedy. Lovable widow becomes matchmaker for herself. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT