Variety (December 1957)

16 PICTURES PfijRMEfr Wednesday, December 4, 1957 Hollywood Production Pulse ALLIED ARTISTS Starts, This Y*ar.......,24 This Data, Last Year ......19 "BULLWHIFFID" Execv-Prod.—Wm. F» Broidy Prod.—Heleri Alnworth Dir.—John Martin Guy Madison. Rhonda Fleming. James Griffith, * Peter Adams, Barbara Woodell, Rick Vallin, Don Beddoa (Started Nov. ID "DATELINE^ TOKYO 1 * CNacirema Prod.) Prod.-Dir.,—Norman T. Herman Michl Kobi (Started Dec. 2) "THE TOWNSEND HARRIS STORY" (Shooting in Japan) Prod.—Eugene Frenke Dir.—John Huston John Wayne, Eko Anda, Sam. Jaffe, So Yamamura (Stated Oct. 14) , "TEN NORTH FREDERICK" Prod.—Charles Brackett DJr:—Philip Dunne Gary Cooper, Susy Parker, Diane yard, Geraldine Fitzgerald (Started Dec. 2) COLUMBIA Starts, This Year... ....31 This Date, Last Year. ... . .36 "NO TIME TO DIE" (Shootirg in England) Prod.—Phil C. Samuel Dir.—Terence Young Victor Mature, Leo Genn. Bonar Col- leano, Anthony Neweley. Sean Kelly, Kenneth Fortescue, Alfred Burke, Maxwell Shaw, Robert Rietty. Alan ^ -Tilvern, Martin Boddey, George Pravda, David Lodge, Lucian*. Pao- JuZzi, Percy Herbert, Kenneth Cope: Ernst Walder, Andreas Malandrinos. Ann Aubrey- (Started Sept. 0) "THE KEY" (Shooting in England) Prod.—Carl Foreman Dir.—Sir Carol Reed . . William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Holmoka, Bryan Forbes, Kleron Moore, Sidney Vivian, Russell Walters, Carl Mohner, B4r- nard Lee,-Rupert'Davies, Beatrix Leh¬ mann. Belita, Rene. Houston, Noel PUrcelL William Russell (Started Aug. 7) •“THE WHOLE TRUTH" (Shooting in England) Prod.-arJack Clayton Dir.—John. Guillermin Stewart Granger. Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna MariaCanale, Michael Cablllo, Carlo Justbol (Started Oct. 14) •ME AND THE COLONEL" (William Goetz Prod0 (Shooting , in France) Prod.—William Goetz Dir.—Peter Glenville. . Danny Kaye, Curt Jurgens, Nicole. Maurey, AJdm Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Francoise Rosay (Started Nov. 18) "GUNMAN'S WALK" (Shooting in Arizona) Prod.—Fred Kohlmar Dir.—Phil Karlson Van Heflin. Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy. Ed Platt, Robert Simon, Ray Teal, Paul Birch. Bert Convy, Michael Granger, Blue Eagle. Will Wright, Paul E. Burns, Paul Bryar, Harry Antrim - (Started Nov. 21) A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE" (Shooting in Germany) Prod.—Robert Arthur . Dir.—Douglas Sirk John . Gavin, Lisa Pulver, Ann Harding, Erich Maria Remarque, Keenan Wynn, Jock Mahoney, Don DeForC, Agnes Windeck, Dorothea Wieck, Charles Regnier.-Thayer Davis- (Started Aug. 26) ''TWILIGHT'POR THi COD*" Prod;—Gordon Kay Dir.—Joseph Pevney Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse. Ernest Truex, Charles McGraw, Celis Loysky. Wallace Ford, Judith Evelyn. Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Richard' . Haydn (Started Sept. 30) "NEVER STEAL ANYfHINO SMALL" Prod.—Aaron Rosenberg Dir.—Charles Lederer James ■ Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams, Royal Dano, Virginia Vincent,’ Jack Albertson, Horace McMahon, Robert Wilkie (Started Oct. 3D "AND RIDE A TIGER" Prod.—Ross Hunter Dir.—Helmut Kautner June Ally son, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Conrad- Nagel* Charles Coburn (Started Dec. 2) WALT DISNEY Starts, This Year.........2 This Date, Last Year...... f METRO Starts, This Year.. 18 This Date, Last Year.... . .24 "THE LAW AND JAKE WADE" Prod.—William Hawks Dir.—John Sturges Robert Taylor. Richard Widmark, Burt Douglas, Patricia Owens, Robert Mid¬ dleton, Henry Silva, Eddie Firestone (Started Nov. 12) PARAMOUNT Starts, This Year. ........ .14 This Date,Last Year.. . .. . .17 "PROM AMONGST THE DEAD'* Prod.-Dir.—Alfred Hitchcock . James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby (Started Sept. 25) "THE BUC9ANEER" Prod.—Henry Wilcoxon Dir.—Anthony Quinn. . Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Charles Boyer, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens. Henry Hull, E. G. Marshall, George Matthews, Theodora Davitt, Douglass Dumbrille, Ashley Cowan. Manuel Rojas,. Bruce Gordon, Robert F. Simon. John Dierkes, Robin Hughes, Iris Adrian, Leonard Graves, Jerry Hartleben. Steven Mario. Fran Jef¬ fries, Robert Warwick, . Onslow Stevens, Jack Kruschen, Julio de Diego, Reginald Sheffield (Started Sept. 30) "MARACAIBO" Prod.-Dir.—Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde, Jean-Wallace. Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Joe E. Ross, Michael Landon (Started Nov. 14) *-ROCK-A-BYE BABY" (YoFk Prods.) Prod.—Jerry Lewis Dir.—Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis. Marilyn Maxwell. Connie Stevens, Reginald Gardiner, Baccalon, Hans Conreid (Started Nbv. 25) 20th CENTURY-FOX I Starts, This Year ......... 25 This Date, Last Year..... ..25 "NELL BENT ElD" Prod.—Robert Buckner Dir.—Henry Hathaway. Don Murray. Dianne Varsi, Ken Scott, Dennis Hopper, Robert Armstrong. Chill Wills, Lee Van Cleef, Rudy Acosta. Harry . Carey Jr., Jerry Oddo, J. C. Flippen, Margo, John Larch (Started Sept. 30) UNIVERSAL Starts, This Year„ ..... . .31 This Date, Last Year . 32 WARNER BROS. Starts, This Year..... ..20 This Date, Last Year.... .. .13 "ONION HEAD'* Prod.—Jules Schermer Dir.—Norman Taurog Andy Griffith, Ray. Dalton, Felicia Fart, Walter Matthaw, Joe Mantell, James Gregory, Joey Bishop. Claude Akins, Erin .-O'Brien, Ainslie Pryor. Dan Barton (Started Sept. 23) "TOO MUCH. TOO SOON" Prod.—Henry Blanks Dir.—Art Napoleon Dorothy Malone,. Errol Flynn (Started Oct. 16) INDISCREET" (Grandon Prod.) , .(Shooting in London) Prod.-Dir.—Stanley Donen Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Margaret Johnston, David Kossoff, Megs Jenkins: (Started Nov. • 18) ACROSS THE. EVERGLADES" (Schulberg Erod.) » (Shooting in Florida) Prod.—Stuart Schulberg Dir.—Nicholas- Ray Christopher PlUmmer. Burl Ives, Gypsy Rose Lee, Chana Eden (Started Nov.- 14) BORN RECKLESS" Prod.—Aubrey Schenck Dir.—Howard W. Koch Mamie Van Doren, Jeff. Richards, ’ Arthur Hunnicutt, Carol Ohmart (Started Nov; 25) "MAYBE SMITH" (Gannaway. International) , (For Republic Release) Exec. Prod.—Albert C. Gannaway Prod.—rVarice Skarstedt - Dir.—Albert C. Ganna way • Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter. James Gleason, Robert Burton,. Harry Shan¬ non. Carl* York, Julian Burton, Ken. Lynch, Harry Klekas, Killer Karl Davis, MCI Gaines, Larry Grant (Started Nov. 14) "DESERT HELL'f (Regal Films) (For 20th-Fox Release) Prod.—Robert Stabler Dir.—Charles Marquis Warren Brian Keith, Richard Denning, Johnny Desmond (Started Nov. IN BRITAIN ASS. BRIT. ELSTREE Starts, This - Year ,... . 4 This Date, Last Year.... 4 "ICE COLD IN ALEX" . Pro.—W. A. Whittaker Dir.—J. Lee-Thompson John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle,. Harry Andrews (Started Sept. 16) "WONDERFUL THINGS" (Everest Productions) Prod.-—Anna Neagle Dir.—Herbert Wilcox Frankie Vaughan, Jackie Lane,. Jeremy . Spencer (Started Nov. 5) ANGLO A’LG’MATED Starts, This Year .. . . 8 This Date, Last Year.. 4 "THE DUKE WORE JEANS" (Insignia Films) Prod.—Peter Rogers Dir.—Gerald Thomas Tommy Steele, JuneLaverick, ] Medwin .- (Started Oct. 28) "4-3 SPECIAL" Exec. Prod.—Herbert Smith Asst. Prod.—Josephine Douglas Dir.—Alfred Shaughnessy "THE GOLDEN DISC" 4 Prod.—W. G. Chalmers Dir.—Don Sharp . . Lee Paterson, Mary Steele, Linda Grey, TefTy Dene ' (Started Sept. 23) INDEPENDENT Starts, This Year;....;.. 133 This Date, Last Year ..... .85 "TOM THUMB" (Galaxy Piets.) (MGM Release) (Shooting, in England) Prod.—George Pal Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, . Terry. Thomas, Peter Sellers, June Thorburn, Bernard Miles- (Started Oct. 14) THE LONE RANGER IN THE LOST CITY OF GOLD" (Jack Wrather Prods.) (For U-A. Release) Clayton . Moore, Charles Wafts, . Lisa Montell, Norman. Frederic, Ralph. Moody, Tonto, Noreen Nash, Douglas . Kennedy . Prod.—Sherman - Harris - Dir.—Leslie Selander (Started Nov. 4) 'COUNTERPLOT" .'L. Harold OdeU Prods. Inc.) (For UA Release) Prod.-Dir.:—Kurt Newmann Forrest Tucker,-. Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton, Jackie Wayne (Started Nov. 4) KINGS GO FORTH" (Frank Ross-Eton Prods.) (For UA Release) Prod—Frank Ross ’ - Dir.—Delnier Daves Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Zena Frovendie (Started Noy. 11) "THE SECRET MAN" (Amalgamated Prods J (Shooting in London) , ■ : Prod.-Dir.—Ronald Kinrioch Marshall Thompson, John Loder, Anne Aubrey,- Magda Miller, John Stuart, . Henry Oscar (Started Nov, ID "ANOTHER TIME,. ANOTHER. PLACE (Kayder-Lanturn Prods.) (For Paramount Release) Prod.-—Joseph Kaufman Dir.—Lewis Allen •• Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Terence Long- don, Siddye James (Started Oct. 1) "TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN" (Selzter Films) (For UA Release) Prod.—Frank N. Selzter - Dir.—Joseph H. Lewis Sterling Hayden, Carol -Kelly (Started Nov. 13) BUTCHER’S Starts, This Year ., 3 This Date, Last Year . ..,.. 3 COLUMBIA Starts, This Year... 6 This Date, Last Year. . ..,, 4 'THE KEY" (Highroad Productions) Prod.—Carl Foreman THE WHOLE TRUTH" (Rcmulas Films Production) " Prod.—Jack Clayton Dir.—John Guillermin Stewart Granger, Donna Re . Sanders (Started Oct. 14) Dir.—Sir Carol Reed- Willlam Holden, Sophia . Loi Howard . (Started Aug. 7) NO TIME TO DIE" (Warwick Film Productions) RANK Starts, This Year. ....... .20 This Date, Last Year..... .73 'A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" Prod.—William McQuitty Dir.—Roy Baker Kenneth More, - David McCalluin, i .. Dixon (Started Oct. 14) 'HEARt OF A CHILD* (Shooting m Austria and Beaconsfield) Prod.—Sydney Box Dir.—Clive Donner Donald Pleasance, Maureen Pryor, Jea Anderson (Started Sept. "ROONEY" - (Shooting In Dublin and'Pinewood) Prod.—George -Brown : Dir.—George Pollock John Gregson, Muriel. Pavlow, Jur . .Thorlwin,- Barry Fitzgerald (Started Sept. -18) "THE SINNERS" ' Prod.—Hugh Stewart . Dir.—Phillip Leacock Susan - Beaumont, Flora Robson, Davi Kossoff, Barbara Mullen (Started Aug. 26) "NOR THE MOON BY NIGHT" . (Shooting in Africa arid Pine wood) BRITISH LION Starts, This Year .......... 9 This Date; Last Year. .. .. .12 "THE PACK" -- Prod.—Sergei Nolbandov Dir.—Brian Desmond Hurst Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton (Started Oct. 21) "OUR VIRGIN ISLANO" (Shooting in the . West Indies) Prod.—Grahame Tharpe and Leon Clore . Dir.—Pat Jackson John Cassavetes, Sidney Politer, Ruby Dee, Virginia MaskaU (Started Oct. 7) NBC Opera’s Tour —j ^Continued from page 2 official car of the opera, just as Baldwin is the official piano. That the entire tour was, with only a few exceptions, capacity* is the re-1 suit -of excellent productions and 1 the. sound organization developed by* Producer Samuel Chotzinoff, Theatrical Director Louis B. Ames, Arthur Perles, in charge of pre-. motion, and Musical Director Peter Herman Adler, who moved on for a change of pace to lend hisMiscrim- inating musicianship to the City Center Opera. The touring company will end its travels next Saturday (7) at Kingston, and the next "day Adler will open; the 1957-58 season of‘the NBC Opera with a two-hour colorcast of Elaine Malbin in Francis Poulenc's “Dialogue of the Carmelites.” While the public relations experts in Radio City are too astute to blurt out that what is good for RCA i§ good for music, and vice versa, it does not take much drilling into the corporate structuie to realize that a dry well here is compensated by a gusher there. If record sales go up and operatic awareness is stimulated by live performances in the hinterland and by color TV, what’s good for opera will also be 'V.l" (Criterion Film Productions) Prod.—George. Maynard Dir.—Vernon SeweH Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, David Knight, Milly Vitale (Started Sept. 30) "A QUESTION OF ADULTRY (Raystro Productions) (On location in London) Prod.—-Raymond Stross Dir.—Don Chaffey . Julie London, Arithony Steel, Basil Sydney. Geoffrey Keen ' (Started Dec. 2) "CAT AND. MOUSE" (Anvil Films) Prod:—Paul Rotha Dir.—Paul Rotha ’ . Lee. Patterson; Ann Sears, Hilton Ed¬ wards, Victor Maddern,- Diana Faw¬ cett, George Rose, Reddy McMillan (Started Nov. 25) good for the music-l »ving Samoffs, father and son. Not to mention Columbia, Angel, London and Cam¬ den, who also purvey ; “Figaro,” “Butterfly” and “Traniata.” in Cleveland, record buyers had an incentive to make it RCA-Victor, because by spending $4.10 for the “Traviata”. highlights, or $820 for the Toscanini four-sider, or $12.30 for the album complete with a fine edition of “Camile” by Dumas, they could also see “Traviata” for half price, as presented by G. Bemardi at the Music Hall last Wednesday. (Nov. 27), Posters announcing this bargain, on display in all music stores,.resulted in .a two-way spurt in ticket sales at the Music Hall and in record sales before the per¬ formance: This reversed the usual pattern of an upturn in record sales aft eh. the company had left, town, whenmewcomers to opera; bemused by the Anglican version, seemed willing to tackle the original Italian or French. In Ames, Iowa, the ABC affiliate plugged “Traviata” with free spots and discussions of Verdi’s genius. In Pensacola, Channel 3, the CBS station, did such , valiant public service for “Butterfly” that Jim McNamara of Mobile’s WALA-TV flew in Elaine Malbin, and Kirk Oreste for week-end programming on NBC prior to the Monday per¬ formance, which drew audiences from Northwest Florida and South¬ east Alabama, a market shared by both stations. While no two performances were identical, because of casting changes , and stages ranging from college gymnasiums to movie pal¬ aces, it was the Bolton High School in. Alexandria, La., that had the most, memorable evening of opera. During the first act of “Madame Butterfly” a tornado swooped down on the city, uprooting trees and houses and killing three Alexan¬ drians. With a power failure and a . decision that everybody was safer inside than out, enough can¬ dles and flashlights were impro¬ vised for the musicians and singers to give an operatic, jam session that is still the talk, of the town. Two weeks before the world series demand for “Traviata” tick¬ ets was in inverse ratio to call for seats at the County Stadium* but after two weeks of intensive pro¬ motion by Bob Cunniff; who flew out from ,New York, there was a gemuetlicht capacity house at the vast Milwaukee Auditorium. Football & Violetta But football frenzy during the weekend when Oklahoma barely defeated Colorado by one point flowed up the weekend of opera audaciously planned for the 6,000- seat Municipal Auditorium.. After 61,000 people had watched a blocked conversion Saturday after¬ noon and 10% of these dedicated Oklahomans had watched a. blocked Violetta on Saturday night, there just weren’t enough music-lovers aroiind to do justice to*~a Sunday matinee of “Figaro.” In New Orleans the Sunday matinee a . fortnight later played to standing room, for that old French city has a long tradition of culture, But one old French family—Brulatour—would certain¬ ly be amazed to see how their charming old residence at 520 Roy¬ al Street has been transformed into the NBC center for tv, radio and opera. It was here that Pere Brulatour sent young Jules on what was in¬ dubitably the most fateful errand ever undertaken in show business. Relatives in France had included with their shipments of cheese and wine some nitrate film being used by Lumiere and Pathie in their new cinematographic machines, The stuff came in cans and smelled worse than ripe roquefort, and 17- year-old Jules was sent to see If he could get rid of it Out in Texas where Brocho Billy Anderson was then making cowboy arid Indian pictures. At the opening night Of the Metropolitan Opera last October Hope Hampton, as always, was re¬ splendent in. ermine and jewels. She is the widow of Brulatour. Groves Boss of Tent 34 - Houston, Dec. 3. Jack Groves, head of the Post Oak Drive-In Theatre, has been named new chief barker of tht Houston Variety Tent 34. Other officers are Jerry Kirby, second chief barker; Les Hunt, dough guy, and Sid Balkin, proper¬ ty master.