Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1959)

[ATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala. Producer Charles H. Schneer. Director Paul Wendkos. Drama set against WW II background. CRIMSON KIMONO. THE VicWia ?haw. Prcducerdirector Samuel Fuller. Love and murder on burlesgue row. FLYING FONTAINES. THE Eastman Color. Michael Callcn, Evy Norlund. Producer Sam Katiman. Director George Sherman. GENE KRUPA STORY, THE Sal MIneo. Susan Kohner. Producer Philip A. Waxman. Director Don Weis. KILLERS OF KILIMANJARO C nemaScope, Color. Robert Taylor. Producers Irving Allen, A'bert R. Broccoli. Director Richard Thorpe, Engineer fights slave trade in Africa. LAST ANGRY MAN, THE Paul Muni, David Wayne. Picturization of Gerald Green's best-seller. MAN ON A STRING Ernest Borgnine. Producer Louis ds Rochemant. Director Andre de Toth. Hollywood fi!m magnate becomes U.S. counter-spy. WOUSE THAT ROARED, THE Color. Peter Sellers, Jec.n Seberg. Producer Walter Shenson. Director Jack Arnold. Satire on relations of countries during Atomic Age. SATAN'S BUCKET CinemaScope, CdIot. Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw. Producer Kendrick Sweet. Director Donald Siegel. Murder and wtrigue at Arizona mine. THEY CAMS TO CORDURA CinemaScope. Eastman Color. Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin Tab Hunter. Producer William Goetz. Director Robert Rossen. From the novel by Glendon Swarthout. TINGLER, THE Vincent Price, Judiih Evelyn. Producerdirector William Castle. YESTERDAY'S ENEMY Sranl-y Baker, Guv Rolfe. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Val Guest. British and Japs battle in Burma. December TONKA IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Sal Mineo Philip Carey. Producer James Pratt. Director Lewis R. Fos ter. Drama. Story cf 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 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 (Buena Vista) Technicolor. Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro. Producer Walt Disney. Director Robe-t Stevenson. Comedy. 93 mm. 5/11. Coming A TIME TO KILL (Producers Associated Pictures Co.) Jim Davis, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Beti. Director Oliver Drake. BIG FISHERMAN, THE IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Howard Keel, John Saxon, Susan Kohner. Producer Rowland V. Lee. Director Frank Borzage. Biblical drama. 180 min. 7/6. DAY OF THE TRUMPET. THE !C. Santiago Film Organisation Prod.) John Agar, Richard Arlen, Bill Phipps. Producer Harry Smith. Director Eddie Romero. DREAM MACHINE. THE (Amalgamated Prods.) Rod Cameron, Marty Murphy, Peier llling. Producers Richard Gordon and Charles Vetter, Jr. Director Montgomery Tully. FLESH AMD THE WOMEN (Dominant) Technicolor. Gma 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 IUMPO) Brigitte Bardot, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Piquat. Producer Jacques Gauthier. Director Georges Lacombe. Drama. A French husband and wife try to live without normal iex relations, after the husband had a near-fatal accident. 76 min. ROUGE ET NOIR I 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 Cp WYN-MAYER 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 MacLaine. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director Vincente Minn»lli 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 QUARTER MOON CinemaScope. John D. Barrymore, Julie London. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Hugo Haas, Jr. Mexican holiday romance leads to climax that rocks San Francisco hioh society. 96 min. 2/16. March MATING GAME. THE CinemaScope. Debbie Reynolds, 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. 87 min. 4/13. April COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier. Producer Karl Tunberg. Director Jean Negulesco. Comedy. Gl-I marries Frenchman with roving eye. 102 min. 3/30. GREEN MANSIONS CinemaScope. Metrocolor. Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Mel Ferrer. Filmization of W. H. Hudson's novel. I 14 min. 3/30. May WATUSI Technicolor. George Montgomery, Taina Elg. Producer Al Zimbalist. Director Kurt Neumann. Picturizatien of novel, "King Solomon's Mines." 85 min. 4/27. 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. 95 min. 4/27. June ANGRY HILLS, THE CinemaScope. Robert Mitchum, Gia Scala. Producer Raymond Stross. Director Robert Aldrich. Picturization of Leon Uris best-seller. 105 min. 6/8. 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. 98 min. 6/8. MYSTERIANS, THE CinemaScope. Metrocolor. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. Director Inoshiro Honda. Japanese science-fiction. 85 min. 5/25. July BEAT GENERATION. THE CinemaScope. Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Charles Haas. Drama with "beatnik" background. 95 min. 8/3. NORTH BY NORTHWEST VistaVision. Metrocolor. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Madison Ave. executive gets involved with foreign spies. 136 min. 7/6. August BIG OPERATOR, THE Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren. Producers Al Zugsmith, Red Doff. Director Charles Haas. Topical gangland drama. 91 min. SCAPEGOAT, THE Alec Guinness, Bette Davis. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Robert Hamer. Fi'mizaticn of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller. 92 min. 8/3. September 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. 92 min. 8/17. IT STARTED WITH A KISS CinemaScope, Color. Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Aaron Rosenberg Director George Marsha-ll. Soldier wins bride and car. 104 min. 8/17. TARZAN. THE APE MAN Denny Miller. Producer Al Zimbalist. Director Joseph M. Newman. Former UCLA basketball star is new King of the Jungle. October GIRLS' TOWN Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme Ray Anthony. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Charles Haas. LIBEL Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland. Producer Anatole do Grunwald. Director Anthony Asquith. November HOUSE OF SEVEN HAWKS. THE Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey. Producer David E. Rose. Director Richard Thorpe. WRECK OF THE MARY DEAR*, THE Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston. Producer Julian Btaustcin. Director Michael Anderson. SEPTEMBER SUMMARY The September release list has increased to 13, with MGM talcing over first place with three pictures. Four companies— Allied Artists, Twentieth CenturyFox, United Artists and Warner Brothers — are tied for second spot, each with two films. American-International and Paramount are next, with one release each, while Columbia, Rank, Republic and Universal have yet to report any product for September. December BUCCANEER, THE Technicolor, VistaVision. Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Charles Boyer, Claire Bloom. Producer Henry Wilcoxon. Director Anthony Ouinn. Life of romantic American pirate, Jean Lafitte. 118 min. 12/22. GEISHA BOY, THE Technicolor, VistaVision. Jerry Lewis, Mario McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa. Producer Jerry Lewis. Director Frank Tashlin. Comedy. Smalltime mag:cian ioins a U.S.O. unit in Japan and tangles in local and international situations. 98 min. 11/24. HOT ANGEL, THE Jackie Loughery, Edward Kemmer. Producer Stanley Kallis. Director Joe Parker. Drama. Today's younger generation. 73 min. January TOKYO AFTER DARK Michi Kobi, Richard Long. Producers Norman T. Herman, Marvin Segal. Director Norman T. Herman. Tough American MPs love for beautiful Jap ninht club entertainer faces violence, danger when he kills one of her countrymen. 80 min. 2/16. February TRAP, THE Technicolor. Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise. Producers Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Director Norman Panama. Drama. Revenge-bent man clashes with gang-chief, henchmen in California desert. 84 min. 2/2. YOUNG CAPTIVES. THE Steven Mario, Luana Patten. Producer Andrew J. Fenady. Director Irvin Kershner. Drama. Crazed young murderer, pursued by police, holds two teen-age elopers captive on wild dash to Mexican border. 61 min. 2/16. March BLACK ORCHID. THE VistaVision. Sophia Loren, Anthony Ouinn. Producers Carlo Ponti, Marcello Girosi. Director Michael Curtiz. Comedy-drama. Children complicate romance between beautiful gangster's widow and businessman. 96 min. 2/2. April TEMPEST Technirama, Technicolor. Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin. Producer Dino DeLaurentiis. Director Alberto Lattuado. Drama. Russian Cossacks, Tartars spread death, destruction in rebellion against armies of Catherine the Great. 125 min. 1/19. May THUNDER IN THE SUN Technicolor. Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler. Producer Clarence Greene. Director Russel Rouse. Western drama. Hardships and Indians encountered by Basque pioneers in 1847 trek to California. 81 min. 3/30. June HANGMAN, THE Robert Taylor, Tina Louise. Producer Frank Freeman, Jr. Director Michael Curtiz. Western Drama. Peace officer's hunt for killer meets resistance of an entire frontier town. 86 min. 4/27. MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, THE Technicolor. Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Suspense melodrama. Parisian doctor, having discovered secret of eternal youth, perpetuates himself, with dire consequences. 83 min. 6/22. TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE Technicolor. Gordon Scott, Sara Shane. Producers Sy Weintraub, Harvey Hayutin. Director John Guillerman. A diamond search, a crazed killer and romance occupy the famous ape man deop in African iunqle. 88 min. 6/22. July DON'T GIVE OP THE SHIP Jerry Lewis, Dina M. Robert Middleton, Mickey Shaughnessy. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Normon Taurog. Comedy. Navy lieutenant "loses" a destroyer escort and hunts for it during his honeymoon. 89 min. 6/8. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT