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Paramount (Cont'd) by Della Gould Emmons, this is a fictionized historical account of the Indian maiden who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition. THE BIG TOP (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis (incomplete). Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Don McGuire. • The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appear as circus stars in this Technicolor entry, in which the Clyde Beatty circus also is featured. THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI (War Drama). Stars: William Holden, Mickey Rooney, Fredric March. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: Mark Robson. Original: James A. Michener. Screenplay: Valentine Davies. • This story of the Korean conflict deals with landing operations by jet pilots from a carrier stationed off the coast of that war-tom land. CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT (Comedy). Stars: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton. Producer: Paul Jones. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Original: Aubrey Wisberg. Screenplay: Hal Kanter, Edmund Hartmann. • Mistaking him for a Casanova, the great lover, Hope Emerson, a duchess, hires Bob Hope, a tailor's apprentice, to test the love of Audrey Dalton, her son's fiancee. Joan Fontaine, a grocer's dcughter, and Basil Rathbone, the real Casanova's valet, help Hope carry out the assignment. Filmed in Technicolor. CATCH A THIEF (Suspense Drama). Stars: Cary Grant (incomplete). Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original: David Dodge. Screenplay: John Michael Hayes. • Cary Grant, a clever criminal, retires and becomes a good friend of the police who had never been able to catch him. When a new series of robberies breaks out, suspicion again points toward him, and he is compelled to work on the side of law and order to clear himself by capturing the real crook. CHUBASCO (Drama). Stars: Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl (incomplete). Producers: William Pine, William Thomas. Director: not set. Original: Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard. Screenplay: not set. • This romantic action drama is slated to be produced on location in Mexico in Technicolor. CONQUEST OF SPACE (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: William Redfield, Ross Martin. Producer: George Pal. Director: Byron Haskin. Original: Chesley Bonesfell, Willy Ley. Screenplay: Barre Lyndon, Philip Yordan, James O'Hanlon. • A group of volunteers attempts a flight to Mars from "The Wheel," a man-made space station 1 ,000 miles above the earth, in this Technicolor sciencefiction drama. THE COUNTRY GIRL (Drama). Stars: Bing Crosby, William Holden. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: George Seaton. Original: Clifford Odets. Screenplay: George Seaton. • Based on the Broadway stage success, this relates the disintegration of a one-time brilliant actor into a drunkard, forsaken by all but the woman who loves him. THE COVERED WAGON (Western). Stars: Alan Ladd (incomplete). Producer: Irving Asher. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Emerson Hough. Screenplay: H. L. Davis. • A new version of one of the silent screen's great outdoor dramas, a story of the pioneers who brought civilization to our country's western frontiers. ELEPHANT WALK (Drama). Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch. Producer: Irving Asher. Director: William Dieterle. Original: Robert Standish. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin. • Elizabeth Taylor becomes the bride of Peter Finch, owner of a tea plantation in Ceylon. She falls in love with Dana Andrews, one of Finch's associates, but Andrews dies when a plague epidemic ensues. When elephants stampede and ruin the plantation, Elizabeth realizes her great love for Finch, and they plan to rebuild their home and their lives. Filmed in Technicolor. FOREVER FEMALE (Romantic Comedy) . Stars: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas. Producer: Pat Duggan. Director: Irving Rapper. Original: J. M. Barrie. Screenplay: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. • Paul Douglas agrees to produce a play written by William Holden provided Douglas' ex-wife, Ginger Rogers, plays the lead — a 19-year-old girl. The play flops; Ginger realizes she is too old for the part, and bows out to young Pat Crowley, whose performance makes the play a hit. HIGH VOLTAGE (Action Drama). Stars: John Payne (incomplete). Producers: William Pine, William Thomas. Director: not set. Original: William Wister Haines. Screenplay: Richard English, David Duncan, Thomas Dykers. • A story of navy yard men engaged in a submarine-remodeling program. To be filmed in Technicolor. JIVARO (Action Drama). Stars: Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming, Brian Keith. Producers: William | Pine, William Thomas. Director: Edward Ludwig. Original Screenplay: David Duncan. • Fernando Lamas operates a trading post at a settlement near the head-hunting Jivaro Indian country in South America. To the settlement comes Rhonda Fleming, fiancee of Richard Denning, drunken wastrel hunting for a lost treasure in the Indian territory. Denning is slain by the Jivaros, and Lamas and Rhonda find they love each other. In Technicolor and 3-D. KNOCK ON WOOD (Musical Comedy). Stars: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, David Burns. Producers: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Original Screenplay: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. • Danny Kaye, an American ventriloquist in Paris, has a tremendous fear of marriage. Undergoing psychoanalysis with Mai Zetterling, he discovers she is as afraid of marriage as he. Meantime he becomes involved in an international espionage riddle, which he solves, and finds himself a hero — at which point his other problems dissolve. LIVING IT UP (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh. Producer: Paul Jones. Director: Norman Taurog. Original: Ben Hecht. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose. • Janet Leigh, a New York newspaper reporter, brings Jerry Lewis to Manhattan for one last gay fling, in the mistaken belief he is about to die from radiation poisoning. It is a film version of the Broadway musical success, "Hazel Flagg." To be filmed in Technicolor. MAMBO (Drama). Stars: Silvana Mangano, Shelley Winters, Vittoria Gassman. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis. Director: Robert Rossen. Original Screenplay: not set. • This romantic drama was filmed in Italy. MONEY FROM HOME (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Pat Crowley. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: George Marshall. Original: Damon Runyon. Screenplay: Hal Kanter. • Dean Martin owes a small fortune to a bookmaker and is ordered to make redemption by fixing a steeplechase. He enlists the dubious assistance of his cousin, Jerry Lewis, in this enterprise, and Lewis, trapped into performing as a jockey, saves the horse, the money and the race. Filmed in 3-D and Technicolor. THE NAKED JUNGLE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, William Conrad. Producer: George Pal. Director: Byron Haskin. Original: Carl Stephenson. Screenplay: Philip Yordan, Ranald MacDougall. • Charlton Heston, a South American plantation owner, urges his mail-order bride, Eleanor Parker, to leave because he fears she is too elegant for the rough life. But she sticks by him and, when the countryside is laid low by soldier ants attacking in phalanxes six miles wide, they conquer the invaders and save their plantation. Filmed in Technicolor. REAR WINDOW (Suspense Drama). Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey. Producer-Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original: Cornell Woolrich. Screenplay: not set. • James Stewart, a bed-ridden intellectual, sees a murder committed in a neighboring apartment house, and solves the crime after the police give up. Grace Kelly portrays Stewart's society-girl sweetheart. RED GARTERS (Musical Comedy). Stars: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell. Producer: Pat Duggan. Director: George Marshall. Original Screenplay: Michael Fessier. • Guy Mitchell rides into a California frontier town to avenge the death of his brother, and falls in love with Pat Crowley, ward of Jack Carson, the political boss. Mitchell manages to get . his man and win Pat's love, but not before the whole town is up in arms. Lensed in Technicolor. SABRINA FAIR (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden. ProducerDirector: Billy Wilder. Original: Sam Taylor. Screenplay: not set. • Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, wealthy brothers, have a fabulous Long Island estate where lives Audrey Hepburn, daughter of the family chauffeur. When Audrey returns from Europe, laden with continental glamor, her beauty and charm dazzle the brothers and they vie to win her hand. SECRET OF THE INCAS (Drama). Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas Mitchell, Yma Sumac. Producer: Mel Epstein. Director: Jerry Hopper. Original Screenplay: Sydney Boehm. • Two men and a girl become involved in suspense and adventure when they stumble on a legendary Inca treasure horde in Peru. Filmed in Technicolor. STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (Drama). Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson (incomplete). Producer: Samuel Briskin. Director: Anthony Mann. Original: Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay: not set. • In which James Stewart is cast as a young American who must decide between patriotism and personal gain — whether to remain in a wellpaying civilian job or volunteer to contribute his abilities as a member of the armed forces. June Allyson is the girl who helps him to reach the right decision. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Biblical Drama). Stars: Yul Brynner (incomplete). Producer-Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Original: The Bible; the Koran; Dorothy Clarke Wilson's "The Prince of Egypt." Screenplay: Fredric Frank. ® Made once previously, as a silent, by Cecil B. DeMille, this is the panoramic Technicolor story ' of Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. Yul Brynner is cast j as Rameses the Great, the Egyptian pharaoh who s clashed in combat with Moses. ULYSSES (Costume Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn. Producers: Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis. Director: Mario Camerini. Original: Homer. Screenplay: not set. ® Filmed in Italy, with Kirk Douglas in the title role, this is based on Homer's classic saga of love, war and adventure. WHITE CHRISTMAS (Musical). Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. Producer: Robert Emmett Dolan. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Irving Berlin. Screenplay: Norman Krasna. ® Two World War II buddies, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, team up as entertainers after the war, become involved with a singing sister-act, and find themselves in Vermont in search of a white Christmas. A Christmas Eve snowfall helps them to formulate plans for a successful Broadway show. Filmed in Technicolor. RKO RADIO (June 30 through November 10, 1953) APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS (Drama). Stars: Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott. Producer: Benedict Bogeaus. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Original: Mario Silveira, Jack Cornall. Screenplay: Karen DeWolf. © Carrying money with which the ragged army of the president of Honduras is to be outfitted as a means of overthrowing a cruel dictator, Glenn Ford is forced into a perilous journey through Central American jungles, accompanied by cowardly Zachary Scott and the latter's wife, Ann Sheridan. Scott is slain, the money delivered, and Glenn and Ann plan life together. Print by Technicolor. Oct. 16, 1953. DECAMERON NIGHTS (Four-episode Dramas). Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle, Joan Collins, Binnie Barnes. Producers: M. J. Frankovich, William Szekely. Director: Hugo Fregonese. Original: Giovanni Boccaccio. Screenplay: George Oppenheimer. • A main story — Giovanni Boccaccio's biography — acts as a framework for three of his famous love stories. First episode, "Paganino the Pirate": A young wife teaches her elderly husband a lesson when he prefers astrology to her. The second, "Wager on Virtue": Elderly husband suspects his young wife of infidelity strictly on circumstantial evidence. The third, "The Doctor's Daughter": A young wife finds herself spurned by the man who married her at the King's command. In Technicolor. Nov. 10, 1953. DEVIL'S CANYON (Melodroma). Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt. Producer: Edmund Grainger. Director: Alfred Werker. Original Screenplay: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. © Ex-marshal kills two men in self-defense and is sent to prison, where he becomes involved with mutineers against his will. Aided by the prison's only woman inmate, he quells the mutineers and both are promised pardons. In Natural Vision 3-D, in 2-D and Technicolor. Aug. 15, 1953. LOUISIANA TERRITORY (Documentary Drama). Stars: Val Winter, Leo Zinser, Julian Miester. Producers: Jay Bonafield, Douglas Travers. Director: Harry W. Smith. Original Screenplay: Jerome Brondfield. • Historians believe the importance of the Louisiana purchase in 1803 from Napoleon's government, negotiated by Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, was not fully appreciated in his time. In this film Livingston's ghost revisits New Orleans during Mardi Gras festivities and loses himself in the romance of a young couple and the wonders of a new world. In 3-D, 2-D and Pathe Color. Oct. 16, 1953. MARRY ME AGAIN (Comedy). Stars: Robert Cummings, Marie Wilson, Ray Walker. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Frank Tashlin. Original: Alex Gottlieb. Screenplay: Frank Tashlin. • As Robert Cummings is about to be married to Marie Wilson, a letter arrives recalling him to the air force. Returning from Korea, he learns Marie has inherited a million dollars and balks at marrying her until he finds she is using the money for a veterans' housing project. Oct. 22, 1953. THE SEA AROUND US (Documentary). Producer: Irwin Allen. Original: Rachel L. Carson. Screenplay: Irwin Allen. • Based on Rachel Carson's best-selling nonfiction tome. The documentary concerns the sea, how it started and grew, and the life contained in it. Footage was assembled from photographic records obtained by exploratory expeditions, museums and other sources. There is. no human cast. In Technicolor. June 30, 1953. BOXOFFICE 85