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Columbia (Cont'd) phrey Bogart, arrives Francis admires his spit-andpolish attitude. Several incidents occur which prove the captain a coward, and the crew decides he is insane. Van Johnson invokes a navy law and takes over the ship. He and Francis, up for court martial, are acquitted and the neurotic captain goes completely to pieces. Filmed in Technicolor. THE CASE OF INGRID BREMSEN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Buddy Adler. Director: not set. Original: Dagmar Edgvist. Screenplay: not set. • A volunteer nurse in war time is attacked by a vagrant and subsequently rejected by her fiance. Later she kills her attacker under mysterious circumstances and is charged with murder, but through the efforts of a doctor who loves her, regains her psychological balance and faces her accusers. CHARGE OF THE LANCERS (Action Drama). Stars: Jean Pierre Aumont, Richard Stapley, Paulette Goddard. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Castle. Original Screenplay: Robert E. Kent. • For two years during the Crimean war the allies have been trying to take a Russian fort. Jean Pierre Aumont and Richard Stapley arrive with a new cannon, powerful enough to break through the walls of the fort. Stapley is captured by a Russian patrol. Aumont, in an attempt to find Stapley, hides with a traveling gypsy band. The gypsies help Aumont rescue Stapley and the allies are victorious. DRUMS OF TAHITI (Romantic Drama). Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Castle. Original Screenplay: Robert E. Kent, Douglas Heyes. • In 1877, with Tahiti about to become a French possession, Dennis O'Keefe arranges to run in guns for the islanders. He falls in love with Patricia Medina, a showgirl, learns the fight for independence is off, and abandons his insurrectionist plans. In 3-D and Technicolor. EL ALAMEIN (War Drama). Stars: Scott Brady, Robin Hughes, Edward Ashley. Producer: Wallace MacDonald. Director: Fred F. Sears. Original Herbert Purdum. Screenplay: Herbert Purdum, George W. Yates. • Scott Brady, an American civilian who services and delivers American tanks to the British army, inadvertently finds himself involved in the campaign whereby Montgomery routed Rommel and his Afrika Korps from the North African desert. FATHER BROWN (Mystery Drama). Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood. Producer: Vivian Cox (Facet Productions). Director: Robert Harner. Original: G. K. Chesterton. Screenplay: Thelma Schnee, Robert Harner. • Filmed in England, this casts Alec Guinness as Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's famed fictional priest and amateur detective. THE FRANZ LISZT STORY (Biography With Music). Producer: William Fadiman. Director: William Dieterle. Original Screenplay: Oscar Saul, Elick Moll, Gina Kaus, Walter Reisch. • A biographical subject, dealing with the Hungarian composer and pianist. Excerpts from his works will form the musical background for the Technicolor feature. GUNSLINGER (Western). Stars: Dana Andrev/s, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster. Producer: Harry Joe Brown (Scott-Brown Productions). Director Alfred Werker. Original: Alex Gottlieb. Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons, Maxwell Shane. • Technicolor filming is planned for this sagebrushes Dana Andrews is cast as a southwesterner of the 1880s who returns to the scene of his nearhanging after five years to avenge himself on the men who tried to kill him. HELL BELOW ZERO (Adventure Drama). Stars: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney. Producers: Irving Allen, A. R. Broccoli (Warwick Pictures). Director: Mark Robson. Original: Hammond Innes. Screenplay: not set. » To be made in England and on location, this is an adventure story of the Antarctic whaling industry. THE HUMAN BEAST (Drama). Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame. Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Director: Fritz Lang. Original: Emile Zola. Screenplay: Maxwell Shane, Alfred Hayes, Sidney Boehm. • From Zola's classic novel, a story of human beings and their good and bad qualities, physical and mental, this is scheduled for filming partially on location in Canada. INDIAN SCOUT (Western). Stars: George Montgomery (incomplete). Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Teddi Sherman, Richard Collins. « A story of Indian warfare on the frontier, to be filmed in Technicolor. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE (Romantic Drama). Stars: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift. Producers: David O. Selznick, Vittorio de Sica. Director: Vittorio de Sica. Original Screenplay: not set. • Jennifer Jones, a young American wife traveling in Europe, falls in love with a young Italo-American, Montgomery Clift, in Rome's terminal station. The film was produced entirely in Italy. THE IRON GLOVE (Costume Drama). Stars: Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess, Richard Stapley. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Castle. Original: Robert E. Kent, Samuel J. Jacoby. Screenplay: Jesse L. Lasky jr., DeVallon Scott, Douglas Heyes. • Prince James (Richard Stapley), son of James II of Scotland, is determined to wrest the English throne from George I; among the pretender's supporters is Robert Stack, a skilled swordsman. Stack manages to save the prince from several assassination attempts and, although George I still holds the throne, the followers of James continue to hope that he will one day be ousted. JESSE JAMES VS. THE DALTONS (Western). Stars: Brett King, Barbara Lawrence, John Cliff. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Castle. Original Screenplay: Jerry Thomas, Sam Newman. • In which the notorious Jesse James tangles with the equally infamous Dalton gang. The galloper was lensed in 3-D and Technicolor. JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN (Biblical Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: William Dieterle. Original: Louis N. Parker. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin. • Adapted from the stage play, this drama of Biblical times will be made in Technicolor, partially on location in the Holy Land. JUNGLE JIM SERIES (Melodramas). Stars: Johnny Weissmuller (incomplete). Producer: Sam Katzman. Directors: not set. Original: King Features comic strip. Screenplays: not set. • For the seventh consecutive year, Johnny Weissmuller will be the title-roler in three "Jungle Jim" adventures. Titles of the 1 954 output have not been announced. THE KILLER WORE A BADGE (Crime Drama). Stars: Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey. Producer: Jules Schermer. Director: Richard Quine. Original: Thomas Walsh. Screenplay: not set. • In the film, Fred MacMurray is cast as a plainclothesman who sees a chance to get away with the proceeds from a bank robbery, and with the robber's feminine accomplice. THE KING'S MISTRESS (Biographical Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: William J. Fadiman. Director: not set. Original: Edison Marshall. Screenplay: Anatole De Grunwald. • The life story of Lola Montez, 19th-century dancer and adventuress, who rose to power as the mistress of Louis I of Bavaria and later came to California's gold fields during the days of '49. THE LAST OF THE PHARAOHS (Costume Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Sam Roeca. • A drama of ancient Egypt. THE LAW VS. BILLY THE KID (Western). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: John T. Williams. • This Technicolor western deals with the life and times of the notorious desperado, Billy the Kid. LEGIONS OF HANNIBAL (Costume Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Jack Garis. • A drama of the war between Rome and Carthage, approximately 200 B. C., and of the Carthaginian general, Hannibal. THE LITTLE GIANT (Comedy Drama). Stars: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy. Producer: Jonie Taps. Director: Richard Quine. Origincl Screenplay: Blake Edwards. • Mickey Rooney, an auto mechanic and sports car racer, is tricked into driving the getaway car for two eastern hoodlums who hold up a Palm Springs bank. However, Mickey manages to kill one of the bandits in a deliberate car accident, shoots the other in self-defense and emerges a hero. LOST CITY OF THE AZTECS (Action Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Frank L. Moss, Robert Libbott. • Adventure story with a Latin American locale, this will be photographed in Technicolor. THE MAD MAGICIAN (Horror Drama). Stars: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Pat O'Neal. Producers: Edward Small, Bryan Foy. Director: John Brahm. Original Screenplay: Crane Wilbur. • Vincent Price, a magician, kills the man for whom Price's wife left him, then masquerades as the man he has slain. Next he slays his former wife when she uncovers the deception. Price traps those who are on his trail, but is caught and killed in a device of his own making. In 3-D and Eastman color. THE MAIN EVENT (Sports Drama). Stars: Broderick Crawford (incomplete). Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Director: not set. Original: Roy Huggins. Screenplay: not set. • Broderick Crawford portrays a fight manager in this story of the prize ring, planned for filming in 3-D. MASSACRE CANYON (Western). Stars: Phil Carey, Audrey Totter, Douglas Kennedy. Producer: Wallace MacDonald. Director: Fred Sears. Original Screenplay: Tom Reed. • Sergeant Douglas Kennedy has been detailed to bring four wagonloads of rifles to Fort Collier, an army post threatened by Apache Indians. He and Phil Carey, a West Point lieutenant, overcome treachery and marauding redskins to accomplish the mission successfully. In Technicolor. THE MIAMI STORY (Crime Drama). Stars: Barry Sullivan, Adeie Jergens, Luther Adler. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: Fred Sears. Original Screenplay: Robert E. Kent. • In this underworld drama Barry Sullivan, a gangster, reforms and joins the forces of law and order. The picture was shot entirely on location in Florida. MONSTER OF THE DEEP (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Steve Fisher. • This science-fiction entry is scheduled for filming in 3-D and Technicolor. MY SISTER EILEEN (Musical Comedy). Stars: Judy Holliday, Marge and Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original: Ruth McKenney, Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov. Screenplay: William Ludwig, Sonya Levien. • A new version — this time as a Technicolor musical— of the comedy about two sisters and their romantic adventures in New York, first filmed by this company in 1942. PAL JOEY (Musical Comedy). Stars: not set. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, John O'Hara. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose. • A projected film version of the Broadway stage success. PARATROOPER (War Drama). Stars: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Michael Kelly. Producers: Irving Allen, A. R. Broccoli (Warwick Productions). Director: Terence Young. Original: Hillary St. George Saunders. Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Frank Nugent. • Alan Ladd, a Canadian, joins the British commandos as a paratrooper during World War II, and this is the story — filmed in England — of the bravery of the Red Beret Battalion, which fights its way out, with heavy casualties, after being surrounded by Nazi stormtroopers. In Technicolor. PHFFT: the Chronicle of a Divorce (Comedy). Stars: not set. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original: George Axelrod. Screenplay: George Axelrod. • A romantic comedy, this is based on an unproduced play by the author of the current Broadway success, "The Seven Year Itch." PICNIC (Drama.) Stars: not set. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: not set. Original: William Inge. Screenplay: Daniel Taradash. • A picturization of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize play, dealing with the havoc created by a good-looking roughneck in the lives of several women in a small town in Kansas. PIRATES OF TRIPOLI (Action Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Arthur Orloff. • A Technicolor adventure drama about buccaneers along the Barbary coast. THE PLEASURE IS ALL MINE (Musical). Stars: Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Marge and Gower Champion. Producer: Jonie Taps. Director: H. C. Potter. Original: Somerset Maugham. Screenplay: Leonard Stern, Edward Hope, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose. • This Technicolor musical, to be filmed in Cinemascope, is a new version of Somerset Maugham's stage success, "Too Many Husbands." RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED (Costume Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Aeneas MacKenzie. • This historical swashbuckler is a story of England in the 1 2th century. RIVER OF THE SUN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: William Fadiman. Director: not set. Original. James Ramsey Ullman. Screenplay: Michael Blankfort. • From the novel, this deals with an expedition which reaches hitherto unexplored tributaries of the Amazon and is planned for filming In Technicolor on location in Brazil. ROMANCE OF THE HAREM (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: not set. Director: not set. Original: Anna Harriet Leonowens. Screenplay: not set. • An autobiographical novel by the author of "Anna and the King of Siam," this deals with a schoolteacher brought to Siam in the 1870s to teach the harem women to converse intelligently with their master, the king. ROUGH COMPANY (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Director, not set. Original: James Poe. Screenplay: Alfred Hayes. • This romantic drama has a Tangiers background. THE SARACEN BLADE (Costume Drama). Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Betta St. John. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Castle. Original: Frank Yerby. Screenplay: not set. • A Technicolor film version of the novel by Frank Yerby, this casts Ricardo Montalban as Pietro Di Donati, a blacksmith's son who fought his way to power and knighthood in Italy in the 13th century. Miss St. John is the daughter of a feudal baron who becomes romantically involved with Montalban. A STRETCH ON THE RIVER (Comedy Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Buddy Adler. Director: not set. Original: Richard Bissell. Screenplay: Noel Houston. 78 BAROMETER Section