Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1957)

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DECEMBER SUMMARY Features scheduled for December release ot this writing total 20. Later additions to the roster are expected to add another dozen or so films to the year's final month. Thus far, 20th Century-Fox promises to be the leading supplier with five releases; Allied Artists, American International and the Independents each will have three; Universal-International will release two; while Columbia. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, Paramount and Warner Bros, one each. Seven December releases will be in color. Four films will be in CinemaScope, one in VistaVision, one in Technirama. 1 Drama 5 Comedies 2 Westerns 1 Melodrama 1 Horror 1 Adventure MARCELINO (United Motion Picture Organization ) Pablito Calvo, Rafael Rivelles. Juan Calvo. Director Ladijlao Vajda. Based on an old legend about a boy saint. 90 min. PERRI IBuena Vistal 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 min. 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, itory of a lusty adventurer during the reign of In,.,, YVI 71 COOL AND THE CRAZY. THE (Imperial! Scott Marlowe. Gigi Perreau. Producer Elmer Rhoden. Jr. Director William Whitney. Story of teenage violence. GUN GIRLS lAstor) Jeanne Ferguson, Jean Ann Lewis. Producer Edward Frank. Director Robert Derteano. Drama. Gang girls on the loose. 67 min. PASSIONATE SUMMER IKingsley) Madeleine Robinson Magati 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. CARNIVAL ROCK IHowco International) Susan Cabot, David Stewart. Producer-director Roger Corman. Musical. Rock n' roll love story. 75 min. TEENAGE THUNDER IHowco International) Charles Courtney, Melinda Bryon. Producer Jacques Marquette. Director Paul Helmick. Melodrama. Hot rods and drag strips. 75 min. October BROTHERS IN LAW (Continental) Ian Carmichel Richard Attenborough, Jill Adams. Producer-director, the Boulting Bros. Comedy. Adventures of a young lawyer. DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (Continental) Jean Gabin, Daniele Delorme. Director Julien Duvivier. Melodrama The duplicity of a seemingly shy and innocent girl leads to homicide. 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 Leterner, Charles Leclainche, Maurice Beerblock. Prodacers Jean Thullier and Alain Poire. Director Robert Bresson. Drama. Young French lieutenant plans daring ®*c^pe from German concentration camp. 94 min. BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS. THE I Howco-Marquette for Howco International release) John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller. Producer Jacques Marquette. Director Jerry Juran. Science-Fiction. TEENAGE BAD GIRL (DCA) Sylvia Syms, Anna Neagle Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox. Juvenile Delinquents. Melodrama. TEEN AGE MONSTER IHowco International) Anne Gwynne, Charles Courtney. Producer-director Jacques Marquette. Horror. Cosmic rays turn teenager into hairy monster. TEENAGE WOLF PACK (DCA) Juvenile Delinquents. Melodrama . AND GOD CREATED WOMAN IKingsley International! Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jurgens. Producer-director Roger Vadim. Drama. Story of a woman of easy virtue. 100 min. 10/28. PLEASE, MR. BAIZAC (DCA) Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Bardot. Producer Raymond Eger. Director Marc Allegret. Comedy. Young daughter writes scandalous novel. 99 mm. December OLD YELLER (Walt Disney Productions) Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker. Chuck Connors. Producer Walt Disney. Director Robert Stevenson. SILKEN AFFAIR. THE (DCA) David Niven, Genevieve Page. RonaTd Squire. Producer Fred Feldkamp Director Roy Kellino. English Comedy. 96 min. GERUAISE (Continental) Eastman Color. Maria Schell Francois Perrer. Director Rene Clement. Drama. Based on a famous novel by Emile Zola. Coming A TIME TO KILL (Producers Associated Pictures Co. I Jim Davis, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Beti. Director Oliver Drake. BUFFALO GUN Wayne Morris. Don Barry, Mary Ellen Kaye. Producer Al Milton. Director Albert C. Gannaway. DAY OF THE TRUMPET, THE (C. Santiago Film Organization 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 (DCA) John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell Alastair Sim. Producer Daniel M. Angel. Director ' Philip Leacock. Comedy Drama. 87 min. min. 9/16 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. 76 min. LAST BRIDGE. THE lUnion Film Distributors! Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rutting. A Cosmopol Production. Director Helmut Kautner. Austro-Yugoslav Film. 90 min. LOST CONTINENT IIFE) CinemaScc-p*. F.rranicolor. Producer-director Leonardo Bonii. An excursion into the wilds of Borneo and the Maylayan Archepelago. English commentary. 86 min. MISSOURI TRAVELER, THE Brandon DeWllde Fess Parker. NEAPOLITAN CAROUSEL IIFEI ILuxFilm, Rome! Pathecolor. Print by Technicolor. Sophia Loren, Leonid* Massin* Director Ettore Giannini. Musical. The history of Naples traced from 1600 to date in song and dance. RAISING A RIOT Continental! Kenneth More. Shelagh Frazer. Mandy. Producer Ian Dalrymple. Director Wendy Toye. English comedy. 90 min. REMEMBER, MY LOVE I Artists-Producers Assoc. I CinemaScope, Technicolor. Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quale. Musical drama. Producer-director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Based on Strauss' "Die Fledermaus". WOMAN AND THE HUNTER I Gross-Krasna and Kenya Prods ! Ann Sheridan. David Farrar. Jan Merlin. Producer-director George Breakston. METRO-GOLDWYN -MAYER 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, Gustavo 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. 64 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. fl4 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". 90 min. 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. 95 min. 10/14. November JAILHOUSE ROCK Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler. Producer Pandro Berman. Director Richard Thorpe. Musicaldrama. Youth's singing talent is fostered in prison. 96 min. 10/14. December 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. 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. 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. I ACCUSE Jose Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn. Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director Jose Ferrer. Drama. French officer unjustly accused of treason. LIVING IDOL. THE CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Steve Forrest, Lilliane Montevecchi. Producer-director Al Lewin. Drama. An archaologist is faced with an unworldly situation that threatens the safety of his 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 65. Eliiabetti Taylor, Montgomery Clift. Producer David Lewis. Director Edward Dymtryke. Drama. Life in Indiana during the middle 1 880 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, Qebra Paget. Producer Frank freeman, Jr. Director William Dieterle. Adventur*. The 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 Di/bin. Musical. Disc jockey establishes authenticity of rock and roll. 86 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, Georqann Johnson. Producer A. C. Lyles. Director James Cagney. Drama. Story of a professional killer with a gun for hire. 87 min. 10/14. 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. 10/14. JOKER IS WILD. THE ViitaVfsion, Technicolor. Frank Sinatra, Mltii Gaynor. Jeanne Craln. Producer Samuel Brijkhv Director Chaslet Vkfor. Drama. Rim 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. 80 min. 10/28 November TIN STAR, THE VistaVision. Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins,. A Perlberg-Seaton Production. Director Anthonv Mann. Western. Bounty-hunting in the old west. 93 min. 10/14. ZERO HOUR Dana Andrews. Sterling Hayden. Producers John Champion and Hall Bartlett. Director Hall Bartlett. Drama. A man battles for his life and love. 81 min. 10/28. December SAD SACK VistaVision, Technicolor. Jerry Lewis, David Wayne. Producer Hal Willis. Director George Marshall. Comedy. Life in the Army. 98 min. 10/28. SPANISH AFFAIR VistaVision, Technicolor. Carmen Sevilla, Richard Kiley. Producer Bruce Odium. Director Donald Siegel. Adventure. An American architect travelling in Spain is attracted to a beautiful girl, half-Gypsy, half-Spanish. Coming 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 Ouinn, Shirley MacLaine. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Daniel Mann. Drama. The disintegration of a Southern family during a torrid heat wave. BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT