Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1959)

lURDER REPORTED Paul Carpenter. Melissa Stribling. rodueers Guido Coen, Director Charles Saunders, rama. London reporter solves village murder, gets coop. 58 min. ARAWA BEACHHEAD Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, roducer Charles H. Schneer. Director Paul Wendkos. ^er-action. Soldier fighk two wars — with enemy and mseJf — in PacUic. 77 mln. 12/8. December (AN INSIDE. THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Jack alance, Anita Ekberg. Producers Irving Alten, Albert . Broccoli. Director John Gilllng. Drama. Detective, eautiful girl in search of $700,000 blue diamond. 90 tin . 1URDER BY CONTRACT Vince Edwards, Michael Granger. Producer Leon Chooluck. Director Irving erner. Drama. Hoodlums plot to kill woman who an testify against them. 81 min. TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD. THE Technicolor. Kerwin 4arthews, Kathryn Grant. Producer Charles Schneer. 'irector Nathan Juran. Fable of famous sailor-prince, eaturing novel Dynamation process. 8? min. 11/24. January ELL, BOOK AND CANDLE Color. Kim Novak, James tewart. Producer Julian Blauitein. Director Richard )uine. Beautiful witch finds romance in giddy gambol 03 min. 10/27. •JTY OF FEAR Vince Edwards, John Archer. Proucer Leon Chooluck. Director Irving Lerner. Prisner escapes jail with what he thinks is heroin — but ; really deadly cobalt. VOOD DAY FOR A HANGING Eastman Color. Fred iiacMurray, Maggie Hayes. Producer Charles H. '" -chneer. Director Nathan Juran. Western. Baby-faced iller upsets town. 85 min. AST BLITZKRIEG, THE Van Johnson. Producer Sam '.atiman. Director Arthur Dreifuss. War-action. Gerlan spy in American ranks. 84 min. IDE LONESOME CinemaScope, Columbia Color. Ranolph Scott, Karen Steele. Producer-director Budd oetticher. Bounty hunter rides alone to seek revenge. tENIOR PROM Jill Corey, Paul Hampton. Producer tarry Romm. Director David Lowell Rich. True love, alent triumph over wealth, snobbery in campus musical! 2 min. March ..JO-HEADED SPY. THE Jack Hawkins, Gia Sala. Pro11 <ucer Bill Kirby. Director Andre DeToth. British spy . jeautiful singer in Nazi Germany. Coming >IDEON OF SCOTLAND YARD Color. Jack Hawkins, >ianne Foster. Producer-director John Ford. Meloirama. THEY CAME TO CORDURA Gary Cooper Rita Hayvorth, Van Heflin. y TOUNG LAND. THE Technicolor. Pat Wayne, Yvonne -ragi, Dennis Hopper. Producer Patrick Ford. Di■ector Ted Tetzloff. Adventure. INDEPENDENTS July ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER INTA). CAPTAIN FROM KOEPENICK, THE IDCA) Color. Heinz Ruhmann, Hannelore Schroth. 93 min. CIRCUS OF LOVE (DCA) Color. Curt Jurgens, Eva Bartok. 93 min. , LIGHT IN THE FOREST. THE IBuena Vista) Technicolor Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James I MacArthur. Producer Walt Disney. Director H DaughI erry. Adventure. White teen-ager raised as an Indian 93 mm 5/12. August BLUE MURDER AT ST. TRINIAN'S (Continental]. Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Simm. Producers Sidney Gilliat Prank Launder. Director F. Launder. Comedy. LAW AND DISORDER (Continental Dist.) Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley. Producer Paul Soskin. Director Charles Crichton. Con-man attempts to reform and icauses arrest of Judge. Comedy. 78 min. 8/18. LISA (DCA). Maria Schell, O. W. Fischer. LOVERS AND THIEVES IZENITH) Jeon Poiret, Michel ierrault, Magali Noel. Director Sacha Guitry. Comedy. RICE IDCA) Color. Yuko Machizuki, Masaka NakaImura . SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (Stanley Warner) Cinerama. .Producer Carl Dudley. Directors Carl Dudley, Richard jOoldjtone. Scenic wonders of South Pacific. 120 min. ,I,"E,CA~SE OF DR LAURENT (Trans-Lux). Jean Gabin Nicole Courcel Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Drama. Natural childbirth. 94 min. 7/7. TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN. THE (Continental), Eastman Color Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris. Producer-directors Muriel and Sydney Box. Comedy. Rise and fall of a young career diplomat. 107 min. 9/1. September DEFEND MY LOVE (DCA) Martine Carol, Vittorio Sassman. LOVERS, THE (DCA) Anfeonella Lualdi, Franco Interlenghi. SECRET. THE (DCA) Sam Wanamaker, Mandy. 79 min. TIME LOCK (DCA) Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson. 74 min. October LUCKY JIM IKingsley International) Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas. Porducer Roy Boulting. Director John Boulting comedy. Man turns professor in a British provincial university. 95 min. 9/15. WHITE WILDERNESS (Buena Vista) Technicolor. Producer Ben Sharpsteen. Director James Algar. Documentary adventure feature of wild life in the Arctic Circle region. 80 min. 7/7. December TONKA IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Sal Mineo, Philip Carey. Producer James Pratt. Director Lewis R. Fos ter. Drama. Story of Army horse — only survivor of Little Big Horn — and his young pal. 97 min. 12/22. February SLEEPING BEAUTY IBuena Vista) Technirama— 70, Technicolor. Animated filmization of fairy tale. 75 April SHAGGY DOG. THE (Buena Vista) Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Charles Barton. Comedy. July DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro. Director Robert Stevenson. Comedy. Coming A TIME TO KILL I Producers Associated Pictures Co.) Jim Davis, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Betz. Director Oliver Drake. BIG FISHERMAN IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Howard Technicolor. Animated filmization of famous fable. 75 Lee. Director Frank Borzage. Drama. 45 min. 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. FLESH AND THE WOMEN (Dominant) Technicolor. Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty. Director Robert Siodmak. Producer Henri Baum. Melodrama. Bankrupt by wife, man retreats into French Foreign Legion. 102 min. 8/4. LIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, THE (UMPO) Brigitte Bardot, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Piquat. 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. ROUGE ET NOIR (DCA) Technicolor. Gerald Philipe, Danielle Darrieux. Directed Claude Autant-Lara. A provincial nobody conquers a class-conscious society. 137 min. 5/26. THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN IBuena Vista) Technicolor. James MacArthur, Janet Monro. Producer William H. Anderson, Director Ken Annakin. Drama. METRO-GO LDWYN -MAYER July GIGI CinemaScope Metrocolor. Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Vincente Minnelli. Musical. 115 min. IMITATION GENERAL CinemaScope. Glenn Ford, Red Buttons. Producer William Hawks. Director George Marshall. War comedy. 88 min. 7/7. TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Gordon Scott, Eve Brent. Producer Sol Lesser. Director Bruce Humberstone. Action. Hero stops tribal warfare. 86 min. 7/7. August ANDY HARDY COMES HOME Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden. Producer Red Doff. Director Howard W. Koch. New adventures of Andy and son. Comedy. 80 min. 8/4. BADLANDERS, THE CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado. Producer Aaron Rosenberg. Director Delmer Daves. Western. Two saddle tramps turn outlaws. 85 min. 7/21. RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE, THE Color, CinemaScope. Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall. Producer Pandro Berman. Director Vincente Minnelli. Comedy. Parents attempt to whirl their daughter through her first social season. 96 min. 8/4. September CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Metrocolor. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Richard Brooks. Drama. Family tribulations i a Southern town. 108 min. 8/18. JANUARY SUMMARY The January list of releases has swelled to 18, and Columbia has increased its pace-setting total to six. Twentieth Century-Fox, United Artists and Universal are tied for the runner-up spot with three pictures apiece. MGM, Paramount and Rank are the only other studios with releases set for January, each having listed one film. Allied Artists, American-International, Republic and Warner Brothers have not yet announced any releases for this month. October DECKS RAN RED, THE James Mason, Broderick Crawford, Dorothy Dandridge. Producer-director Andrew L. Stone. Melodrama. Lust of wealth stirs mutiny. 84 min. 9/29. DUNKIRK John Miles, Bernard Lee. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Leslie Norman. Drama. England evacuates soldiers from Nazi-infested France. 135 min. 9/1. PARTY GIRL CinemaScope. Metrocolor. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Nicholas Ray. Prohibition-era drama. 100 min. iO/27. TORPEDO RUN CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Joseph Pevney. Drama. U. S. sub vs. Jap ship. 98 min. 10/27. November TUNNEL OF LOVE, THE Doris Day, Richard Widmark. Producers Joseph Fields, Martin Melcher. Director Gene Kelly. Comedy. Pregnancy, infidelity in the cocktail party set. 98 min. 10/13. December TOM THUMB Technicolor. Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young. Producer-director George Pal. Live, animated version of Grimm Brothers' fairy tale classic. 98 min. 12/8. January SOME CAME RUNNING CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director Vincente Minnelli. Picturization of James Jones' novel. 127 min. 12/22. July KING CREOLE Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Michael Curtiz. Drama. Singer is forced into New Orleans underworld. 116 min. 7/7. ROCK-A-BYE BABY Technicolor, VistaVision. Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell. Producer Jerry Lewis. Director Frank Tashlin. 103 min. August MATCHMAKER, THE VistaVision. Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine. Producer Don Hartman. Director Joseph Anthony. Comedy. Lovable widow becomes matchmaker for herself. 101 min. 5/12. September AS YOUNG AS WE ARE Robert Harland, Pippa Scott. Producer William Alland. Director Bernard Girard. Drama. Young high school teacher becomes involved with one of her students. PARTY CRASHERS. THE Connie Stevens, Robert Driscoll. Producer William Alland. Director Bernard Girard. Drama. Delinquent parents neglect hot-rod offspring. 78 min. 10/13. October BLOB, THE DeLuxe Color. Steven McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe. Producer Jack H. Harris. Director Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. Science fiction. Gelatinous substance from outer space sets about consuming humans. 85 min. I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott Producer-director Gene Fowler. Jr. Young bride discovers she has married invading space monster. 78 min. November HOUSEBOAT VistaVision, Technicolor. Cary Grant, Sophia Loran. Producer Jack Rosa. Director Malvill* Shavelton. Maid reunites family and becomes wife of master. 1 10 min. 9/15. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT