Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1959)
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IDEON OF SCOTLAND YARD Color. Jack Hawkins, anne Foster. Producer director John Ford. Meloima. Day in life of British inspector. 91 min. 1/19.
DE LONESOME CinemaScope, Columbia Color. Ran>lph Scott, Karen Steele. Producer-director Budd letticher. Bounty hunter rides alone to seek revenge. ' 1 1 n .
March
DRBIDDEN ISLAND Columbia Color. Jon Hall. Projcer-director Charles B. Griffith. Murder, blackmail i a diving expedition. 66 min.
UNMEN FROM LAREDO Columbia Color. Robert napp, Jana Davi. Producer-director Wallace Maconald. Young cowman gets a chance to revenge his ife's death. 67 min. 3/2.
rVO-HEADED SPY. THE Jack Hawkins, Gia Sala. Proucer Bill Kirby. Director Andre DeToth. British spy, eautiful singer in Nazi Germany. 93 min. 1/5.
April
ANDIT OF ZHOBE. THE CinemaScope, Technicolor, ictor Mature, Anne Aubrey. Producers Irving Allen, Ibert R. Broccoli. Director John Gilling. Indian Prince attles British. 80 min. 3/16.
'IDGET CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Sandra Dee, ames Darren. Producer Lewis J. Rachmil. Directoiaul Wendkos. Ingenue meets surf bums, falls in love. •5 min. 3/16.
UKE BOX RHYTHM Jo Morrow, Brian Donlevy. Proucer Sam Katzman. Director Arthur Dreifuss. Princess nd love with young American singer. 81 min.
February
May
ACE OF A FUGITIVE Technicolor. Fred MacMurray, )orothy Green.
HEY BOY, HEY GIRL Louis Prima, Keely Smith.
'OUNG LAND. THE Technicolor. Pat Wayne, Yvonne >agi, Dennis Hopper. Producer Patrick Ford. Dijector Ted Tetzloff. Adventure.
June
T HAPPENED TO JANE Eastman Color. Doris Day, lack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs. Producer-director Richard ?uine. Young, widow-lobster dealer wins heart of county in battle with railroad. 107 min.
Coming
THEY CAME TO CORDURA Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin.
INDEPENDENTS
August
BLUE MURDER AT ST. TRINIAN'S (Continental ) . Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Simm. Producers Sidney Gilliat Frank Launder. Director F. Launder. Comedy.
LAW AND DISORDER (Continental Dist.) Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley. Producer Paul Soskin. Director iCharles Crichton. Con-man attempts to reform and causes arrest of Judge. Comedy. 78 min. 8/18.
LISA IDCA). Maria Schell, O. W. Fischer.
LOVERS AND THIEVES IZENITH) Jeon Poiret, Michel iSerrault, Magali Noel. Director Sacha Guitry. Comedy.
RICE IDCA I Color. Yuko Machizuki, Masaka Nakamura .
SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (Stanley Warner) Cinerama. Producer Carl Dudley. Directors Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone. Scenic wonders of South Pacific. 120 min. 8/4.
THE CASE 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 IDCA) Martine Carol, Vittorio Gassman.
LOVERS, THE IDCA) Anteonella Lualdi, Franco Interlenghi.
SECRET, THE IDCA) Sam Wanamaker, Mandy. 79 min.
TIME LOCK IDCA) Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson. 74 min.
October
LUCKY JIM IKingsley International I Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas. Porducer Roy Boulting. Director John Boulting. Comedy. Man turns professor in a British provincial university. 95 min. 7/15.
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 jer. Drama. Story of Army horse — only survivor of Little Big Horn — and his young pal. 97 min. 12/22.
SLEEPING BEAUTY IBuena Vista) Technirama— 70, Technicolor. Animated filmization of fairy tale. 75 min. 2/16.
April
SHAGGY DOG. THE IBuena Vista) Fred MacMurray. Jean Hagen. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Charles Barton. Comedy. Boy turns into dog. 104 min. 3/2.
July
DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro. Director Robert Stevenson. Comedy.
Coming
A TIME TO KILL (Producers Associated Pictures Co. I Jim Davis, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Betz. Director Oliver Drake.
BIG FISHERMAN IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Howard Keel, John Saxon, Susan Kohner. Producer Rowland V. Lee. Director Frank Borzage. Drama. 65 min.
DAY OF THE TRUMPET, THE IC. Sarrtiago 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 1UMPO) Brigitte Bardot, Raymond Pellogrin, 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 IDCA) 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-GOLD WYN -MAYER
September
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Metrocolor. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Richard Brooks. Drama. Family tribulations in a Southern town. 108 min. 8/18.
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. i 0/27.
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. 92 min. 12/8.
January
DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, THE Eastman color Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde. Producer Anatole de Grunwald. Director Anthony Asquith. Filmization of famous Shaw play. 98 min. 1/19.
SOME CAME RUNNING CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLalne. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director Vincente Minnelli. Picturization of James Jones' novel. 136 min. 12/22.
February
FIRST MAN INTO SPACE Marshall Thompson, Maria Landi Producers Johi Croydon, Charles F. Vetter. Jr. Director Robert Day. Flier comes back from space trip as monster. 77 min. 2/2.
JOURNEY, THE Technicolor Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr. Producer-director Anatole Litvak. Couple flee from Communists during Hungarian revolt. 125 min. 2/16.
NIGHT OF THE OUARTER MOON CinemaScope John D Barrymore. Julie London. Producer Albert Zugsmith Director Hugo Haas, Jr. Mexican holiday romance leads to climax that rocks San Francisco high society. 96 min. 2/16.
MAY SUMMARY
The May release list totals 22, with United Artists in first place on the strength of four films. Columbia, MGM and Warner Brothers are tied for second place with three pictures each, and Allied Artists, American-International and Twentieth Century-Fox follow, each with two releases. Paramount, Rank and Universal each has slated one film, while Republic has not listed any pictures for May.
March
MATING GAME, THE CinemaScope. Debbie Revnolds, Tony Randall. Producer Philip Barry, Jr. Director George Marshall. Young love emerges from farmergovernment squabble over taxes. 96 min. 3/2.
NOWHERE TO GO George Nader. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Seth Holt. Drama. Con-man runs from police. 89 min.
April
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier. Producer Karl Tunberg. Director Jean Negulesco. Corned". Girl marries Frenchman with roving eye. 101 min. 3/30.
GREEN MANSIONS CinemaScope. Metrocolor. Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Mel Ferrer. Filmization of W. H. Hudson's novel. 114 min . 3/30.
May
Metrocolor. Jap
MYSTERI ANS, THE CinemaScope. anese science-fiction.
WATUSI Technicolor. George Montgomery, Taina Elg. Producer Al Zimbalist. Director Kurt Neumann. Picturization of novel, "King Solomon's Mines."
WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, THE CinemaScope. Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. Producer George Englund. Director Ronald MacDougall. Story of last three survivors in New York City after a world catastrophe.
June
ANGRY HILLS, THE CinemaScope. Robert Mitchum, Gia Scala. Producer Raymond Stross. Director Robert Aldrich. Picturization of Leon Uris b^st-seller.
ASK ANY GIRL CinemaScope. Metrocolor. David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Charles Walters. Comedy. Girl in search of career — and husband.
July
BEAT GENERATION, THE CinemaScope. Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Charles Haas. Drama with "beatnik" background.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST VistaVision. Metrocolor. Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Madison Ave. executive gets involved with foreign spies.
August
FOR THE FIRST TIME Technirama Technicolor. Mario Lanza, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Producer Alexander Gruter. Director Rudy Mate. Great singer falls in love with deaf girl.
TARZAN. THE APE MAN Denny Miller. Producer Al Zimbalist. Former UCLA basketball star is new King of the Jungle.
September
BIG OPERATOR. THE Mickey Rooney Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren. Producers Al Zugsmith, Red Doff. Director Charles Haas. Topical gangland drama.
SCAFEGOAT. THE Alec Guinness, Bette Davis. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Robert Hamer. Filmization of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller.
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.
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