Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1960)

CAVES OF NIGHT Cornel Wilde. Jean Wallace. Cliff Robertson. CRESCENDO CinemaScope. Color. Dirk Boqarde, Capucine. Producer William Goeti. Director Charles Vidor. DEVIL AT 4 O'CLOCK. THE Spencer Tracy. Sidney Poitier. Director Peter Glenville. GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN Cinemascope. Color. James Darren. Sandra Dee. Michael Callan. Producer Jerry Bresler. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Super Dynamation Color. Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow. Producer Charles Schneer. Director Jack Sher. I AIM AT THE STARS Curt Jurgens, Victoria Shaw. Director Lee Thompson. MY DOG BUDDY Ken Curtis. MOUNTAIN ROAD, THE James Stewart. Lisa Lu. Producer William Goetz. Director Daniel Mann. REACH FOR TOMORROW Burl Ives. Shelly Winters. James Daren. Producer Boris D. Kaplan, Director Philip Leacock. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET CinemaScope, Color. Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak. SURPRISE PACKAGE Yul Brynner, Midi Gaynor. TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL, THE Color. Paul Massie, Dawn Addams. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. INDEPENDENTS August BIG FISHERMAN, THE (Buena Vistal Technicolor. Howard Keel. John Saxon. Susan Kohner. Producer Rowland V. Lee. Director Frank Boriage. Biblical drama. 180 min. 7 4. TAMANGO (Hal Roach) CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Dorothy Dandridge, Curt Jurgens. Director John Berry. Melodrama of slave trader and his mulatto mistress. 98 min. 8/31/5?. September BACK TO THE WALL I Ellis) Gerard Oury, Jeanne (Moreau. Producer Francois Chavane. Director Edouard Molinaro. French melodrama about husband who blackmails his cheating wife. 94 min. 8/31/59. TAILOR'S MAID, THE CinemaScope (TransLux) Vittorio de Sica, Lorella de Luca. Producer Guido Giambartolomei. Director Mario Monicelli. Italian version of parents-children problem. 92 min. 8/31/59. October THE 400 BLOWS (Zenith) Jean Pierre Leaud. Produced land directed by Francois Truffant. French drama of boy's unhappy life. 98 min. 9/14/59. November THE LOVERS IZenithl Jeanne Moreau. Alan Cuny. IDirected by Louis Malle. French import about illicit love affair. 90 min. 9/14/59. [THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN IBuena Vistal Walt Disney. Technicolor. Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro. Produced by William H. AnderIson. Directed by Ken Annakin. Adventure. 100 min 9/14/59. Coming IA TIME TO KILL I Producers Associated Pictures Co.) |Jim Davit, Don Megowan, Allison Hayes. Producer Pat Betz. Director Oliver Drake. [BEHIND THE GREAT WALL (Continental Dist.) Aroma Rama, DeLuxe Color. TotalScope. Producer Leonardo Bonzi. Director Sidney Kauffman. Narrated by Chef Huntley Story introduces the process and its explanations. 98 min. 12/21. DAY OF THE TRUMPET, THE iC. Saniiago Film Organisation Prod.) John Agar, Richard Arlen, Bill Phipps. Producer Harry Smith. Director Eddie Romero. DREAM MACHINE. THE (Amalgamated Prods.) Rod ijCameron, Marty Murphy, Peier tiling. Producers Richard Gordon and Charles Vetter, Jr. Director Montgomery Tully. FLESH A NO THE WOMEN (Dominant) Technicolor. IGina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty. Director Robert Siodmak. Producer Henri Baum. Melodrama. ■Bankrupt by wife, man retreats into French Foreign iLegion. 102 min. 8/4. iGORGO (King Bros.) Technicolor. Wide screen. Bill Ilravers, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester. Producer IMaurice and Frank King. Director Eugene Lourie. [JUNGLE CAT IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Story of will lanimal life along the Amazon River. 'KIDNAPPED IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Peter Finch, (James MacArthur. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenjson's adventure classic. LIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, THE IUMPO) Brigitte "3ardot, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Piquat. Producer Jacques Gauthier. Director Georges Lacombe. Drama. \ French husband and wife try to live without normal ;ex relations, after the husband had a near-fatal accident. 76 min. 'OLLYANNA IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Jane Wyman Richard Eagan. Eleanor H. Porter's best seller. iOUGE ET NOIR IDCA) Technicolor. Gerald Philipe, Danielle Darrieux. Directed Claude Autant-Lara. A srovincial nobody conquers a class-conscious society. 137 min. 5/26. SIGN OF ZORRO. THE IBuena Vistal. Guy Williams. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON IBuena Vistal Technicolor. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire. Adapatation of Johann Wyss' Adventure classic. TOBY TYLER IBuena Vistal Technicolor. Kevin Corcoran. Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon Producer Walt Disney. Director Charles Banton. Circus tale of a runaway boy's adventures under the Big lop. METRO-GOLD WYN' MAYER 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. TH€ 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 SCAPEGOAT. THE Alec Guinness, Bette Davis. Producer Michael Balcon. Director Robert Hamer. Filmization 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. 97 min. 8/17. IT STARTED WITH A KISS CinemaScope, Color. Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Aaron Rosenberg Director George Marshall. Soldier wins bride and car. 104 min. 8/17. October GIRLS TOWN Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Maggie Hayes, Paul Anka. Ray Anthony. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Charles Haas. Drama of a girl suspected of murder, who proves her innocence after she is committed to an institution. 92 min. LIBEL Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde. Producer Anatole de Grunwald. Director Anthony Asquith. Courtroom drama based on London and New York stage hit. 100 min. 10/26/59. TARZAN. THE APE MAN Color, Wide Screen. Denny Miller, Joanna Barnes. Producer Al Zimbalist. Director Josesph Newman. New adventure of the world-famed King of the Jungle. 82 min. 10/26/59. November HOUSE OF THE SEVEN HAWKS. THE Robert Taylor. Nicole Maurey. Producer David E. Rose. Director Richard Thorpe. Suspense drama of the search for looted iewels hidden by the Nazis in Holland. 92 min. December WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE, THE CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston. Producer Julian Blaustein. Director Michael Anderson. Film version of Hammond Innes' best-seller dealing with the captain of a freighter whose owners conspire to sink her for the value of her cargo. 106 min. 11/23/59. January NEVER SO FtW CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida. Produced by Edmund Grainger. Directed by John Sturges. Story of a group of K«hin guerillas in Burma during World War II, based on Tom Chamales' best-selling novel. 127 min. THE GAZEBO CinemaScope. Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director George Marshall. Film version of the Broadway mysterycomedy hit. 102 min. 12/21. February SUBTERRANEANS. THE CinemaScope, Metrocolor. Leslie Caron, George Peppard. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Ranald MacDougall. Film version of Jack Kerouac's novel. THE LAST VOYAGE MetroColor. Robert Stack. Dororthy Malone. Producer-Director Andrew L. Stone. Dramatic story of the events which occur with sinking of an ocean liner. JANUARY SUMMARY The release schedule for January remains at sixteen films, exactly the same as in our previous report, but chances are that in the coming four weeks a few more announcements will be made. As matters stand now, the companies with the most pictures slated for this month are still Columbia, 20th Century-Fox and United Artists, with three each. Universal is the only one with two pictures ready to be issued, while Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Allied Artists, Warner Bros, and the Rank Organization are, as yet, only planning to start the new year with one each. March HOME FVIOM THE HILL CinemaScope. Metrocolor Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Vincente Minnelli. Film version of William Humphrey's novel dealing wiih conflict between family. THE TIME MACHINE Rod Taylor. Alan Young P-oducer George Pal. Based on H. G. Wells' story of a man who invents a machine which carries him from the 19th century into an amazing world of the future. April BELLS ARE RINGING CinemaScope. MetroColor. Judy Holliday. Dean Martin. Director Vincente Minnelli. Film version of Broadway hit. PLATINUM HIGH SCHOOL Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore. Producer Red Doff. Director Charles Haas Story of delinquents at an exclusive boys military academy. PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES CinemaScope, MetroColor. DorrT Day, David Nlven. Janis Paige. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Cnarles Walters. Comic experiences of N. Y. couple and their children. THE DAY THEY ROEBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith Producer Jules Buck. Director John Guilleenmin. Suspenseful action-thriller of a sensational robbery Coming ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CinemaScope. MetroColor. Tony Randall. Eddie Hodges. Producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Director Michael Curtiz. ALL THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS CinemaScope. Color. Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood. BACHELOR IN PARADISE Bob Hope BEN HUR Panavision, Technicolor. Charlton Heston. Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director William Wyler. Bfblical spectacle. 212 min. 11/23/59. CIMARRON Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Anthony Mann. KEY WITNESS Jeff Hunter, Pat Crowley. PARAMOUNT July DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Robert Middleton, Mickey Shaughnessy. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Norman Taurog. Comedy. Navy lieutenant "loses" a destroyer escort and hunts for it during his honeymoon. 89 min. 6/8. August THE FIVE PENNIES Technicolor. Danny Kaye. Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong. Harry Guardino. Producer Jack Rose. Director Melville Shavelson. Comedy-drama. Life story of iazzman Red Nichols. 117 min. 5/11. September THAT KINO OF WOMAN Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter. George Sanders. Producers Carlo Ponti, MarceMo Girosi Director Sidney Lumet. Comedy-drama. Rich man's paramour chooses between financial security and love of a young paratrooper. 92 min. 8/17. October BUT NOT FOR ME Clark Gable. Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Lilli Palmer. Producers William Perlberg, George Seaton Director Walter Lang. Comedy. May-December romance between dynamic Broadway producer and his actress-secretary. 105 min. 8/17. JAYHAWKERS, THE Technicolor. Jeff Chandler. Fess Parker. Nicole Maurey. Producers Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Director Melvin Frank. Frontier Napolion strives to make pre-Civil War Kansas his empire. 100 min. 10/26/59. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT