Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1961)

GUNS OF NAVARONE, THE CinemaScope, Color. Gregory Peck, David Niven, 'Anthony Quinn. Producer Carl Foreman. Director J. Lee Thompson. PEPE CinemaScope, Color. Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones. Producer-director George Sidney. Musical-comedy. 195 min.. 12/24/60. RAISIN IN THE SUN Sidney Poitier. Producer David Susskind. Director Daniel Petrie. Diane Cilento. Pro NDEPENDENTS August PRIVATE PROPERTY (Citation Films, Inc. I Corey Allen, rren Oates, Robert Wark, Jerome Cowan, Kate Manx. Producer Stanley Colbert. Director Leslie Stevens. 80 min. 6/22/60. SAVAGE EYE. THE ITrans-Lux Kingsley) Gary Merrill, Barbara Baxley, Herschel Bernard!. Producer-Director Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick. 67 min. 8/22/60. October November TEN WHO DARED (Buena Vista) Brian Keith, John Beal. James Drury. Producer Walt Disney. Director William Beaudine. 92 min. 10/17/40. December ANGRY SILENCE. THE (Valiant) Pier Angeli. Richard Attenborough, Michael Craig. Producers Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough. Director Guy Green. British factory strike drama. 95 min. 12/26/60. BIG DEAL OF MADONNA STREET. THE (United Motion Picture Organization, Inc.) Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto. Producer Franco Cristaldi. Director Mario Monicelli. Italian spoof of the perfect crime. 91 min. 11/28/60. COME DANCE WITH ME (Kingsley International) Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams. Director Michel Boisrond. Murder mystery. 91 min. 11/14/60. FRENCH MISTRESS, A I Films Around the World. Inc.) Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen. Producer John Boulting. Director Roy Boulting. British comedy. 91 min. 12/26/40. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Panavision. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire. Producer William H. Anderson. Director Ken Annakin. Adaptation of Johann Wyss' adventure classic. 124 min. 11/14/40. VIRGIN SPRING, THE (Janus Films) Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom. Director Ingmar Bergman. Modernized 14th century folk legend. 88 min. 11/23/60. February MAKE MINE MINK (Continental Distributing, Inc.) Terry-Thomas, Athene Sevier, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw. Producer Hugh Stewar*. Director Robert Ashor. Comedy. 101 min. 1/9/61. April 101 DALMATIANS (Buena Vista) Technicolor. All cartoon feature. Producer Walt Disney. Directors Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske, Clyde Geronimi. Comedy-fantasy based on Dodie Smith's novel. 80 min. 1/23/61. Coming ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR, THE IBuena Vista) Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn. Producer Walt Disney. Director Robert Stevenson. Comedy about professor who invents anti-gravity force. BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (Kingsley International) Vladimir Ivashov, Shanna Prokhorenko. Director Grigori Chukhrai. 89 min. 1/9/41. CHASERS, THE (Gaston Hakim] Jacques Charrier, Charles Agnovour. Director Jean-Pierre Mocky. Cynical yet engrossing French import about youthful women-chasers. 75 min. 3/28. CROWNING EXPERIENCE, THE (Moral Re-Armament) Muriel Smith, Louis Byles. Director Marion Clayton Anderson. Strong plea for world understanding. 102 min. 1/23/41. DAY OF THE TRUMPET. THE IC. Santiago Film Organization Prod.) John Agar, Ricnard Arlen, Bill Phipps. Producer Harry Smith Director Eddie Romero. DEADLY COMPANIONS, THE I Pathe-America ) Color, Panavision. Maureen O'Hara Brian Keith. Producer Charles B. FitzSimons. Director Sam Peckinpah. DREAM MACHINE. THE (Amalgamated Prods.) Red Cameron, Marty Murphy, P»»er filing . Producers Richard Gordon and Chanes Vetter, Jr. Director Montgomery Tully. ENTERTAINER, THE (Continental Distributing, Inc.) Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright. Producer Harry Saltiman. Director Tony Richardson. Film version of John Osborne's play. 97 min. 10/17/40. G03GO IKing Bros.) Technicolor, Wide screen. Bill Travers, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester. Producer Maurice and Frank King. Director Eugene Lourie. HIROSHIMA. MON AMOUR (Zenith International) Emmanuelle Riva, E]il Okada. Producer-Director Alain Resnais. Love story set against background of war. 88 min. 7/25/40. IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT [Continental Distributing, Inc.) Heinz Ruhmann, Michel Simon, Gert Frobe. Producer Lazar Wechsler. Director Ladislao Vaida. 97 min. 10/17/40. JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (Galaxy Attractions, Inc.) Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing Producer-director Bert Stern. Sights and sounds of the Newport, R. I. annual iazz festival. 85 min. 5/9/40. LIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. THE IUMPO) Brigittc Bardot, Raymond Psllogrin, Roger Piquat. Producer Jacqjis Gauthier, Dirtctor Georges Lacombe. Drama A French husband and wife try to live without normal sex relations, after the husband had a near-fatal accident. 74 mm LUST TO KILL (Producers Associated Pictures Co.) Jim Davis, Dan Magowan, Allison Hayes. Producers Alfred R. Milton, Patrick Beti. Director Oliver Drake. MICHAEL STROGOFF (Continental Distributing, Inc.) Color, CinemaScope. Curt Jurgens, Genevieve Page. Producer John Spigler. Director Carmine Gallone. Adventure classic. 115 min. 4/4/40. NEVER ON SUNDAY (Lopert Films. Inc.) Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin. Director Jules Dassin. 91 min. 10/17/40. REST IS SILENCE, THE (Films Around the World. Inc.) Hardy Kruger, Peter Van Eyck, Ingrid Andree. Producer-Director Helmut Kautner. Modernized version of Hamlet in German. 104 min. 8/8/60. SANTA CLAUS IK. Gordon Murray Productions) Joseph Elias Moreno. Producer William Calderon. Director Rene Cardone. Children's Christmas story. 94 min. 10/3/60. SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS (Continental Distributing, Inc.) Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott. Producer Hal E. Chester. Director Robert Hamer. British comedy. 94 min. 7/25/60. SILVER SKATES, THE (Buena Vista) Eastman Color. Rony Zeander, Carin Rossby. Producer Walt Disney. Director Norman Foster. Romantic fairy-tale taking place by the Zuider Zee in 1850. THUNDER IN CAROLINA (Howco International) Rory Calhoun, Alan Hale, Connie Hines, John Gentry. Producer J. Francis White. Director Paul Helmick. 92 min. 7/25/60. TUNES OF GLORY (Lopert Films, Inc.) Color. Alec Guinness, John Mills. Producer Colin Leslie. Director Rnnald Neame. Comedy-drama of postwar British Army. 106 min. 12/26/40. YOUNG ONE. THE IValiant) Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton. Producer George P. Werker. Director Luis Bunuel. Negro, falsely accused of raping white woman, fights for survival on isolated southern island. 94 min. 1/23/41. METRO-GOLDWYN -MAYER August ALL THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS CinemaScope, MetroColor. Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood. Susan Kohner. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Michael Anderson. Drama involving four young people whose paths cross in their search to find love. 112 min. 7/25/40. TIME MACHINE. THE Color. Rod Taylor, Alan Young. Producer-director 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. 103 min. 7/25/40. September ANGEL WORE RED. THE Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten. Producer Goffredo Lombardo. Director Nunnally Johnson. Drama, during Spanish Civil War, involving a priest and a beautiful dancer. 99 min. 9/19/40. SUBTERRANEANS, THE CinemaScope. MetroColor. Leslie Caron, George Peppard. Producer Arthur Freed Director Ranald MacDougall. Film version of Jack Kerouac's novel. 89 min. 8/22/40. October KEY WITNESS CinemaScope. Jeff Hunter, Pat Crowley. Producer Kathryn Hereford. Director Phil Karlson. Story of a man threatened by a gang of hoodlums after he is witness to a murder. 81 min. 10/3/40. November BUTTERFIELD 8 CinemaScope, MetroColor. Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Daniel Mann. Adaptation of John O'Hara's novel. 109 min. 11/14/40. WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS Glna Lollobrigida, Yves Montand. Producer Jacques Bar. Director Jules Dassin. From Roger Vailland's best-selling novel of smoldering violence among people of primitive morals living in an isolated Adriatic village. 120 min. 10/3/40. December CIMARRON CinemaScope, MetroColor. Glenn Ford. Maria Sc he II , Anne Baxter. Producer Edmund Grainger Director Anthony Mann. Based on Eana Ferber's classic novel. 147 min. 12/12/40. WHERE THE BOYS ARE CinemaScope. MetroColor. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss, Connje Francis. Producer Joseph Pasternak. Director Henry Levin. Based on Glendon Swarthout's best-seller about college students who ioin annual Easter trek to Florida for vacations and romance. 99 min. 12/12/40. i already MARCH SUMMARY Early March release schedules reveal a hefty 20 pictures. Columbia leads the pack with six, while Twentieth Century-Fox is close behind on the strength of four films. Allied Artists, American-International and Paramount are tied at two releases each. Four companies — M-G-M, United Artists, Universal and Warner Bros. — the total with one picture January GORGO Eastman Color. Bill Travers. Will Sylvester. Vincent Winter. Producers Frank and Maurice King. Director Eugene Lourie. Adventure story of a monster that virtually destroys London to rescue its off-spring from captivity. 79 min. 2/4/61. VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED George Sanders, Barbara Shelley. Producer Ronald Kinnoch Director Wolf Rilla. Suspense drama with a science-fiction basis. 78 min. 10/31/60. February GO NAKED IN THE WORLD CinemaScope. MetroColor. Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine Producer Aaron Rosenberq. Director Ranald MacDougall Film version of a novel by Tom Chamales. 103 min. 1/23/61. March ATLANTIS. THE LOST CONTINENT Color. Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, John Dall. Producer-Director George Pal. Science-adventure drama of mysterious civilization said to have vanished into the sea. 90 min. Coming ADA Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Ralph Meeker. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Daniel Mann. BEN HUR Panavision, Technicolor. Charlton Heston. Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet. Producer Sam Zimbalist. Director William Wyler. Biblical spectacle. 213 min. 11/23/59. BRIDGE TO THE SUN Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, J«mes Yagi. Producer Jacques Bar. Director Etienne Perier. Based on the autobiographical novel by Gwenn Terasaki. COLOSSUS OF RHODES. THE CinemaScope, Color. Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari. Director Sergio Leone. Action spectacle of historic battle between '.he people of ancient Rhodes and invading Phoenicians. DON QUIXOTE Color. N. Cherkassov. Producer-Director Grigory Kozintsev. Russian-»nade version of Cervantes' classic, for U.S. -Soviet Cultural Exchange. 106 min. 1/23/61. FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Gienn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Paul Lukas, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Yvette Mimieux. Producer Julian Blaustein. Director Vincente Minnelli. Film version of the famous novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. GREEN HELMET, THE Bill Travers, Nancy Walters. Producer Charles Vetter. Director Michael Forlong. Dramatic thriller about auto racing, based on the novel by John Cleary. INVASION QUARTET Bill Travers. Gregoire Asian. Producer Ronald Kinnoch. Director Jay Lewis. Comedyromance about British Armed Forces. KING OF KINGS Technicolor, Technirama. Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna. Robert Ryan. Producer Samuel Bronston. Director Nicholas Ray. Epic drama based on life of Christ. MAGIC BOY Magicolor. Animated cartoon depicting adventures of a little Japanese boy and girl and their animal friends in the mountain district of Japan. 83 min. MORGAN THE PIRATE Steve Reeves, Valerie Lagrange. Director Andre Toth. Colorful action-drama of the swashbuckling adventures of Henry Morgan. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Color Ultra Panavision. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Hugh Griffith. Producer Aaron Rosenberg. Director Sir Carol Reed. Spectacular sea-adventure drama based on triology by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall. RING OF FIRE Metrocolor. David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin. Producer-director Andrew Stone. Suspense-drama of a manhunt. SECRET PARTNER, THE Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet. Producer Michael Relph. Director Basil Dearden. Melodramatic story mixing sex and suspense. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT