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. Sc- — . > , Vchoel — 70 — "5XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY ABOUT PICTURE SI Recommends for Novelty "•oti-rHonf Wimcn nnd Donee Holl Giris" rwo stofes n^hfs ptetures, rei«os«d as o ere c'!^^;. whick we picked up and mode bc H gt rlian o»ef09€ praHf with It icc«s tlMt tfcil it vikot o«r pwblic woats. TK««e co«M b« iliovv •wyiilKic- We —ed «oee l&c Hiis that every- Hspkiwak, Kf. JIM MONDAY, MGR ALLIED ARTISTS Foee at Fire -- — Zr-e-?-i M.tctiell, James ,s.— -,j ... - . ^.^., hr>« to go to -=-^-t^' ': ~:- vec ' e Reeves, "^ : - :" :--c= Crr*:- A 'tot berref t+ion "Sign ~-. -- ;- :-• E-:^.;- s; d —Harold Bell. Opera - :->i ;:;•;:;. ;_e =.-3 6,3S2- BUENA VISTA Toby Ty'er =v"—Kev n Corcoran, Henry CoMn, ^'^ ^hom bring mem m as welt as 555. - :r "Otd YeUer." A vety cute pwrture. : ; rao many days and tenns too stiff. -îc^ Mon. Weoltwr: Rainy ond cooL ^. 5ncc s Triecrtre. Shoals, Ind. PoQ. COLUMBIA I 1001 Arafaioa NigMs C&;?—Animated feoTure. ':r^Sr -as - ra»n campotgrang when we s 5C - f.ôoed o: the - boxoffice. OoUited -* _: rarv-aines to very poor gross. iNearher Ovily.—G. J. Thomas. "neo--e Fovetrev lie, W. Vo. Pop. 2,000. o"d Bess '— :Coi)^S«jney Poitier, Dorothy Dovts Pearl Bailey. Well, r jr.. I've •3- 1*i«s year. I subiected my long- -s to seven days of "culture." Boy, - ng they are not interested in. rfs Q doubt, itw is itie biggest flop .-rs in ttvs town. I would enioy it in else's theatre, but :::w iT someone -.g :—e one caused me to Froser, Auditoriian rook o* on this —j.m r -^. V Poo. 'n 12300. = -= rtt Save Girt Co;';—Georges Mar- ---v=e Ettore Marmi. If your ' :xrr on plus bloody killings, .-c me p; C-c- '• 5 'yz^ or this ^^Tê of yecr r-s-css or.e o.e-oce -> co o'. Very good. olTtKkj^ rc.e:: re ' z~^'' Sw Vo-. Tues. WeoTtier. \'. o-^ — Leo Backer \ o e^ ~r>eotre, Pauls Valle>, M:r\n. Pop. 1,117. Rookie, T*e ,20th-Fox)—Tommy Noonon, Pete Morsholl, Julie IMewmor. Fox sure missed the bus with this one. We hod wolkouts otkI thot is very rare here. If its too corny for our patrons, ifs CORNY. Ployed Sot., Sun., Mon. Weother. Dry ond Hct.—Carl P. Anderfco, Rainbow Theofre, Costroville. Tex. Pop. 1.500. Woke Me When Ifs Over !20th-Fox)—errwe Kovacs, .v.argo Voore, Jock Warden, Dick Shown. Th.-s was o d.soppcintment to me ond the people ««+>o support me. Very flot picture. We iKCre expecting o fiikarious comedy ond we sow o good sHow, but short on laughs. Moybe I proised it too high, becouse offer ttie first night business started to si 3e- Ployed Thurs., through Tues.—Jim Froser, Aijd.ranum Theatre, Red Wing. Minn. Pop. 12300. Whe« OxMdy Was Kiag (20tt>-Fox)—Compilotion of comedy classics. And comedy still could be king if given o chcmce. Worthy of good ploy dote. At least, it's better tfxm tfiose fKxror thkigs they try to sell us. Played Wed. ttirough Sot. Weottier: Ideal. —HorokJ Be" Dpe-o House. Cooricook, Que. Pop. 6J82. UNITED ARTISTS Horse's Moiitli, The UA — Alec Gjinness, Kay Walsh. Robert Coore. Or,\ recomnêrxjed for Trie ort houses. We ncê enougn rcffee rvjses ;Nob HI 1 patrons in your co_fnr^ ' *vove made its run profitobie. It was grcrx: t^-. i*otc- ryg tê r feces ct the end of ttie shows . . rr-.osT or ttiem ociijQnt tfte show fiad something to do with rcc.ng. D-d thev look puzzled!—Dove 5. Klein, Astro Theatre, Kitwe NkoTKi, Northern Rhodesia, Afnco. Pop. 13.000. On the Beodi (UA)—Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astoire. Don't expect too much. Will get by orxl thots oil. No extro seats will be dusted on tt«s one. Ployed Surt, Mon., Tues. Weother. Worm. —Leo Bocker, Volley Theatre. Browns Volley, Minn. Pop. 1,117. Pier S Hmioae (UA)—Comeron Mitchell, Allison Hayes. Played on triple bill to smoll business. Booked wrth top-rated picture it wouW serve its purpose. Ployed Wed. through Sat. Weather: Ideal. —Horo'd SeM, Opera House, Cooticook, Que. Pop. 6 382. UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL Restless Yeors, The L'-l —Jo"n Scxoo. Sondra Dee. Luorva =a"e-. Srt too bod- D'ew o.e-age crowds, coupiea witn Torzon s Greatest Adventure (Para). Pkjyed Wed., Thurs., Fri. Weather: Good.—Arlen W. Peohl, HiWoy Theatre, Shendon, Ore. Pop. 2,000. TUs Eoftk Is MiM 'V-D—Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Darothy McGuiie. Claude Roins. A very good picture or>d o gaod story, in color too. Everyone entoyed this stxnr very muct> ond we were glod ttxjt we played ttus one. Business was better ttxv> usual, so we were glod about ttiot. Don't be ofroid of ttm one.—Hony Howkinson. Orpheum Theotre, Marietta, w.nn Pop. 280. MISCELLANEOUS Eig Sky. The 5K3-Sn '» ssje —Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin. E zobe-n ~nreott. We needed o Stxidoy pKtive so we put rr- s one in. Only did fair business on on exce' err* p r'j'e, first released in 195Z Excellent oct ng on tnc port of Kirk Douglas. Played Sun., Men., Tues. Weottier; Very chilly. G. J. Thomas, Fayette Theotre. Foyetteville, W. Vo. Poo 2 000 'Editors note- This picture hos been Ideal Midnight Fare Ployed "The Ghost of Drogsthp Hollow" AlP on o Scturdoy midnight show to biggest gross of any pxtvre at o midnight show ond it otftgr^ssed some of the so-colled big specials thot ployed rwQ and three doys. ideol for this change It is a notMrol. Buy it ond ploy it. Liberty Thcstre. Cornegie. Oklo. CLINT APPLrwHITE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE REVIEWS The Big Chief F J'|fi»- /*2 l- Continental 98 Minutes ReL lune '60 Fernandel, the rubber-faced veteran French comic whose appearances in several Englishspeaking roles and m a score oi French imports have given him considerable marquee draw in the U. S.. is given a race for histrionic honors by a mischievous six-year-old named Popoui in this laugh-iilled Frenchlanguage film. Based on O. Henry's iomous short taê. "Tfte Ransom o! Red Chi^." (filmed as part of 'O. Henry's Full House" by 20th-Foi in 1952). the adaptation by Henri Vemeuil. Henri Troyat and Jean Manse is often hilarious although the humor wears thin long beiore the ironic finale. But Verneuil. Turho also directed, gets his best htimor out of the visual gags, as rwo kidnappers are plagued into desperation by the "little monster" they captured while he was wearing a feathered Indian head-dress (hence the title) . T^wo of the funniest scenes sho'w Femandel accidentally falling do^wn six flights o: stairs. another the other kidnapper. Gino Cervi. -waking in the morning with his hair scalped off- Although Fern-andel and the natural little Papouf ran crway with the picture. Cervi. -who has starred in many Italian iUms. is eiceller' as the "brains" of the kidnapping team. A F.-on co-London Film ^xoduced by Ralph Baum. Femandel, Gino Cervi. Popoui, Noelle Norman. George Chamorat. FEATURETTE The Hound Thcrt Thought ^'o-
' — Opinions on Current Productions ÊATURE REVIEWS Symbol O denotes color; ^ CinemoScope; v Vistovision; § Superscope; % Naturoma; g Regalscope; t Tech For story $ynop$ii eh picture, see reverse side. Fast and Sexy r Ratio: Romantic Coaiedy 2_35-l t O Columbia (507) 99 Minutes Bel. Sept '60 Even the most obtuse patron will encounter no difficulty in determining that this widescreen, color-splashed Italian _ import derives the latter half of its title from the tact that,-t-^. the cast is headed by Gina Lollobrigida. It is upon that'^^"' provocative tag, the combined drawing power of the film's three stars. Techniroma or.d Technicolor—a trio of highly exploitable items—that the offering will hove to depend for the business it attracts, whidi should be sufficiently voluminous to prove profitable in most situations. By disclaying the permissible maximum of the curves that won her fame. La Lollobrigida does her best to live up to the handle's billing which is somewhat ot a chore inasmuch as it is a wholesome, bucolic romantic comedy which leaves no room for either speed, (rerjdering the first half of the title a glaring misnomer) sin or sez. Dale Robertson with his 'Wells Fargo' drawl flounders as the he-man village blacicsmith. but his TV fame should add to the feature's salobiliiy. 'Viitoria ds Sica is characteristically urbane, although herein he portrays a priest The photcgrophic process and color elevate the film to highest physical standards. Mil]co Skofic produced, 7"? The Crowded Sky t Ratio: LSS-l Warner Bros. (001) 105 Minutes ReL Sept. '80 Every em^ticn :r. "he cocic, including icve. hate, revenge, jealousy, ambition—you name it, the picture has got it—is put through the wringer m this vacillotingly paced story about pilots or.d their passengers. Because o! the unusually large and reasonably magnetic cost and the appeal ol Technicolor, the photoplay should encounter no difficulty in finding plenty of profitable bookings, although audience reactions are apt to be a bit mixed. Discrimirjjting ticketbuyers tire certain to be pleased by the generally good performances; action lovers will be intrigued by the stispense element that is slowly built to a crashing, hair-raising climax. But a percentage of spectators may grow uneasy dtiring long periods of soul-searching, many of them interpolated via flashback technique, which at times has a tendency to become confusing. In the ccset column, however, is on interesting insight into modem operational methods of aircraft, both civilian and military. Charles Schnee s screenplay adroitly kept the feature's multirudir.cus dramatic elements from going too far afield and the businesslike direction of Joseph Pevney added to keeping the wide-ranging proceedings in hand. Michael Garrison produced impressive- Gina Lollobrigida. Dale Robertson. Vittorio de Sica. Carlo Macelloni, Gabriella Pollotti, Luigi De Filippo. Dana Andrews. Rhonda Fleming, Eirem Zimbalist jr.. lohn Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn. Troy Donahue. ifV School for Scoundrels F Ratio: Comedy L85-1 Continental 34 Minutes BeL July '60 Ar. tzniising British impcrt in the slapstick tradition, this Guardsman Film produced by Hal E. Chester has three of England's top screen comedians, the miid-monnered Ion Cormichael and the gap>-tooLhed Terry-Thomas (they rank just below Peter Sellers in U. S. popularity) and the wonderful Alostoir Sim (of "Belles of St. Trinian's" fame) to make this a strong d-'ow in the art houses. Based on a series of humorous books by Stephen Potter, "Lifemanship," "Gamesmanship" and "Oneupmonship," the screenplay by Chester and Patricia Moyes hammers home on original idea of how a man con leom to win at games without actually cheating. Most of this is frantic and funny, - even if some of the gags "oecome somewhat repetitious. Bui2-G0; the players milk every possible lough out of the silly situa- °^ tions, particularly Ccc-michael, with his inferiority complex changing into a go-getter, and Sim, as his smooth-talking instructor. Terry-Thomns mugs and plays too broadly, but he does get laugh returns. Dennis Price and Peter fones have two uproarious scenes as rascally automobile salesmen. Janette Scott is natural and most attractive as the heroine, who switches from the insufferable Terry-Tnomas to the Ian CarmichaeL Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim. Janette Scott. Dennis Price, Edward Chapman, Peter Jones, Come Dance With Me! A Ratio; LS5-1 Comedy- Mystery Eingsle7-Union 90 Minutes ReL Aug. '60 La petite Parisienne, Mile. Brigitte Bordot, is front and center with a rather intriguing premise—she takes on a job in a dance school while trying to track down the murder of the owner in order to help her husband who is unjustly accused of the killing. The casting permits the heroine ample opportunity to display her whistle-provoking, lithesome loveliness—and in Eastman color tcnes, MUe. Bordot may not win any international acting awards, but her lure certainly shotild rate hcsonnos wherever those theatregoers gather to gaze wistful appreciation of the feminine form. She s aided and abetted by Henri Vidol ond Dawn Addams, who busy themselves dashing hither and yon, but the picture, by all counts, is a Brigitte Bordot romp. Michel Boisrond directed and Francis Cosne produced, the Annette Wademant-G. Cops-J. C. TacheUa shooting script bosed on a novel. "The ' Blonde Died Dancing by Kelley Roos. Exploitation potential seems directed towards dancing schools and not a little of oexuty pageantry. This has been dubbed into English. Brigitte Bardot. Henri VidoL Dawn Addams, Noel Roquevert, Dario Moreno, Philippe Nicoud, Paul Fronkeiir. The Big Time Operator F ^!, '^""^ Times Film Corp. 80 Minutes BeL lune '60 Ths engaging talents of Peter Sellers trre Tery much evident in this British impcrt, as welcome a bit of hilarious commentary on the motion picture industry as has come across the Atlantic in a number of years. He's cast as a smalltown theatre projectionist with decided predilection for the bottle. When Bill Trovers and Virginia McKenno inherit said theatre, the fun begins, particularly with opposition exhibitor Francis deWoH's refusal to continue negohattons tor acquisition of the Trovers property for a parking lot. There follows a course of bluffing on Trovers' oort to convince deWolf that the Bijou is indeed the most choice thetrtre in the English countryside ond should be added to the deWolf interest". How and when Trovers' argument finally takes effect is cause for humorous study. Understandably, there is no conscious effort by producer Michael Relph and Basil Deorden working from o soundly comic screenplay by William Rose and John Eldridge—to heap ridicule on the likes ot theotremen; rother, the filmmokers hove successfully come up with a story cf what it means to be a small-business man confronted by seemingly herculean obstacles. The small-business mon—in this instance the grim-countenanced Trovers manages to overcome opposition to success Bill Trovers. Virginia McKenna. Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Francis deWoU. Sin and Desire Atlantis Films 77 Minutes BeL July '60 The story ot o girl bent on attaining fame regoraless ot how much' hurt she may inflict has cert.ainly served as dramatic pivot for countless imports over the yea.-s. What se's this dubbed Gallic effort above the humdrum is its superlative emotive prowess. Francoise Amo'jl, who's heard singing three tunes, is o most luscious lovely, the physical attributes not unlike her homeland's better-known Brigitte Bardot. She meets deep-sea diver Andre LeGoU in Toulon, is soon living in sin in an idyllic cottage setting. Bored with relatively peaceful pursuits, she spurs LeGoll on to making more money; in the process, he's seriously hurt on a deep-sea diving assigimient. On ieoving the hospital he finds the girl of his dreams gone, and the rest of the story is motivated by his long wait to gain revenge. Xovier Volliers script contains on odmirable degree of symbolism, vividly, forcefully, dramatically brought to the fore by Willy Rozier, the producer-director MUe. Amoul and M. LeGaU are o most scirited costorring team of whom much ought to be heard in the itnmediate years ahead. They bring to their portrorvals a poignancy oil too rorely encountered in adult melodromti- Francoise Amoul, Andre LeGaU. Aime Clariond. Raymond Cordv, Blavette, Rene Bloncard. The reviews on these poges moy be f*ed for future tefetmce m any of the foHo»ing ways: 1' in onY Jt''»5^.';?f ^^S^^Sf loose-leaf binder; 2" individuany, by eonipony, in ony standard 3x5 cord index file; or in the BOXOFFICE PICTURE 3' GUIDE three-ring, pocltet-sile binder. The latter. Including a year's supply of booking ond daily business reojrd sheeft, may b« obtoined from Associated Publications, i2S Vo« Brunt Blvd., Koatoi City 24, Mo., for SI. 00, portage poid. 2456 BOXOFTICE BookinGuide Aug. 29, 1960 2455
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