Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)
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FILM BUYERS RATING
Film buyers of independent circuits in the U. S. rate current product on the basis of its performance in their theatres. This report covers 121 attractions, 3,761 play dates.
Titles run alphabetically. Numerals refer to the number of engagements on each attraction reported. The tabulation is cumulative. Dagger (f) denotes attractions published for the first ti?ne. Asterisk (*) indicates attractions which are listed for the last time.
EX means Excellent; AA — Above Average; AV — Average: BA — Below Average PR — Poor.
Alexander the Great (U.A.)
Ambassador's Daughter, The (U.A.)
Animal World, The (W.B.)
Anything Goes (Par.)
■(Attack (U.A.)
Autumn Leaves (Col.)
Away All Boats (U-l)
Backlash (U-l)
Bad Seed, The (W.B.)
Bandido (U.A.)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (RKO)
Bhowani Junction (MGM)
Bigger Than Life ( 20thFox )
Birds and the Bees (Par.)
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado (Col.)
Bold and the Brave (RKO)
Burning Hills, The (W.B.)
Bus Stop (20th-Fox)
Catered Affair, The (MGM)
Cockleshell Heroes (Col.)
Comanche (U.A.)
Come Next Spring (Rep.)
Come On, The (A. A.)
Congo Crossing (U-l)
Conqueror, The (RKO)
Court Jester, The (Par.)
Crashing Las Vegas (A. A.)
Creature Walks Among Us (U-l)
Creeping Unknown, The (U.A.)
fCrime Against Joe (U.A.)
Crime in the Streets (A. A.)
D-Day the Sixth of June (20th-Fox)
Dakota Incident (Rep.)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (B.V.) Day of Fury ( U-l )
Earth vs. Flying Saucers (Col.)
Eddy Duchin Story, The (Col.)
Fastest Gun Alive (MGM)
First Texan, The (A. A.)
First Traveling Saleslady (RKO)
Forbidde*. Planet (MGM)
Foreign Intrigue (U.A.)
Francis in the Haunted House (U-l)
Gaby (MGM)
Girls in Prison (A.I.P.) ...*
Godzilla, King of the Monsters (Trans.)
Goodbye, My Lady (W.B.)
Great Day in the Morning (RKO)
Great Locomotive Chase, The (B.V.)
Guys and Dolls (MGM)
Harder They Fall The f Col. )
High Society (MGM)
Hilda Crane (20th-Fox)
Hot Blood (Col.)
Hot Rod Girl (A.I.P.)
EX
2
3 24
4
1
2 I
27
17
I
I
2
4
I
20
14
AA
AV
BA
PR
12
12
8
5
10
7
10
5
8
17
3
3
4
16
16
3
2
—
—
4
8
4
4
25
16
4
1
18
4
23
7
2
2
—
3
—
10
3
3
—
1
5
2
8
6
15
6
—
1
4
12
13
19
5
14
3
1
2
5
18
16
13
1
2
1 1
13
2
14
10
4
—
15
3
9
10
1
9
7
—
1
7
15
21
2
6
27
1
6
A
1
14
1
7
7
13
14
15
12
10
9
13
10
3
1
1
—
5
5
4
3
1
1
5
5
II
7
1
9
30
3
3
1
5
5
2
—
3
9
12
—
5
II
5
17
9
3
1
28
29
3
1
22
21
4
_
2
5
1 1
2
—
1
5
1
18
15
4
6
—
5
2
3
12
17
5
2
1
13
16
6
9
2
1
—
4
3
5
2
4
II
II
8
1
9
6
2
14
15
14
8
II
10
6
9
5
4
29
24
8
4
—
—
—
9
9
9
5
16
15
7
12
2
1
—
I'll Cry Tomorrow (MGM)
37 1 1 I I
Johnny Concho (U.A.)
Jubal (Col.)
Kettles in the Ozarks (U-l) King and I, The ( 20thFox )
Last Wagon, The (20th-Fox)
Leather Saint (Para.)
Lisbon (Rep.)
EX AA AV BA PR
I 4 3 21 2
1 25 3 32 2
2 18 13 16 3
30 16 19 12 3
— 8 II I —
— 3 3 5 5
— 2 — 25 5
Magnificent Roughnecks (A. A.)
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (20th-Fox)
Man Who Knew Too Much (Par.)
Massacre ( 20thFox )
Maverick Queen, The (Rep.)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (MGM)
Miami Expose (Col.)
Miracle in the Rain (W.B.)
Moby Dick (W.B.)
Mohawk (20th-Fox)
6
1
22
29
13
8
8
1
17
23
7
2
—
1
2
1
4
—
4
3
8
2
6
9
23
17
9
16
O
6
10
20
J
26
7
5
17
9
3
—
4
8
4
2
Naked Hills (A.A.)
Navy Wife (A.A.)
Never Say Goodbye (U-l)
1—22 1—13 12 27 23 16
On the Threshold of Space (20th-Fox)
Our Miss Brooks (W.B.)
9 7 13 16
— 9 II 13
Pardners (Par.)
Patterns (U.A.)
Pillars of the Sky (U-l)
Price of Fear (U-l)
Proud and Profane The (Par.) Proud Ones, The (20th-Fox)
7 28 II 3 —
— 2 6 8 2
— — — I 7
— 16 17 5 4
— 26 18 15 10
Quincannon, Frontier Scout (U.A.)
2 2 6 2
Raw Edge (U-l)
Rawhide Years, The (U-l)
Red Sundown (U-l) ...
(Reprisal (Col.)
Revolt of Mamie Stover (20th-Fox)
Rock Around the Clock (Col.)
Run for the Sun (U.A.)
— — 3
— 4 22
— II 9
— I 3
— II 26
22 21 14
— 47
Safari (Col.) —
Santiago (W.B.) —
Satellite in the Sky (W.B.)
Scarlet Hour (Para.)
Screaming Eagles (A.A.)
Searchers, The (W.B.)
Serenade (W.B.)
Seven Men From Now (W.B.)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (MGM)
Star of India (U.A.)
Star in the Dust (U-l)
Storm Over the Nile (Col.)
Stranger at My Door (Rep.)
Swan, The (MGM)
— 6 18
— I 17
— — 3
— 26
6 22 17
— I 4
— 7 15
2 3 11
— I 7
— — 2
— 22
3 12 17
Tea and Sympathy (MGM)
That Certain Feeling (Par.)
These Wilder Years (MGM)
Timetable (UA)
Toy Tiger (U-l)
Trapeze (U.A.) —
Tribute to a Bad Man (MGM)
23 Paces to Baker Street (20th-Fox)
— 5 I
— II 13
— 3 4
II 12 21
9 28 34
— 2 13
I 3 13
Uranium Boom (Col.) — — —
Vagabond King (Par.) — — 4
Walk the Proud Land (U-l)
Werewolf, The (Col.)
While the City Sleeps (RKO) ... World in My Corner (U-l) World Without End (A.A.)
4 1 1 I
I
16
5
5
5
4
3 —
8 7
9 5
I —
10 I
I I
3 3
14 2
9 9
1 2
— 7
7 3
2 —
8 18
2 I
24 2
13 —
16 —
4 3
6 3
14 7
25 17
6 2
3 4
9 2
3 —
14 14
1 1 20
4 5
3 5
8 — I — 18 6
15 29
I 2
42
MOTION PICTURE HERALD, NOVEMBER 3, 1956