Boxoffice barometer (1954)

20th Century-Fox (Cont'd) THE KID FROM OUTER SPACE (Comedy Drama). Stars: George Winslow, Spring Byington, Charles Coburn. Producer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Oscar Rudolph. Original Screenplay: George W. George, George F. Slavin. o Story of a feminine justice of the peace in New England. KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES (Action Drama). Stars: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie. Producer: Frank Rosenberg. Director: Henry King. Original: Talbot Mundy. Screenplay: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts. © Tyrone Power, a British army captain in India in 1857, is unusually well-informed about the plans and movements of raiding tribesmen from the hills, since he is the half-breed son of an English father and Moslem mother. Through diplomacy and intrigue he puts down a native uprising but is slain in a final victorious battle. Made in CinemaScope and Technicolor. THE LADY AND THE LUMBERJACK (Romantic Drama). Stars: Marilyn Monroe (incomplete). Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Director: not set. Original: Olive Barber. Screenplay: Horace McCoy. • In CinemaScope and color, this is a story of romance and action in the lumber country. LORD VANITY (Costume Drama). Stars: Robert Wagner (incomplete). Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: not set. Original: Samuel Shellabarger. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch. • This 18th-century romantic drama concerns the love story of the illegitimate son of an English lord and a beautiful Italian ballerina. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. A MAN CALLED PETER (Biographical Drama). Stars: Richard Burton (incomplete). Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Director: not set. Original: Catherine Marshall. Screenplay: Eleanor Griffin. • A biography of Peter Marshall, chaplain of the U. S. senate, whose brilliant career was ended by death in 1949. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Melodrama). Stars: not set. Producer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Hugo Fregonese. Original Screenplay: John Paxton, Robert Presnell. • This suspense drama is planned for filming on location in Spain. MISS ROBIN CRUSOE (Drama). Stars: Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes. Producers: Al Zimbalist, Harold Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke. Director: Eugene Frenke. Original: Ricardo Yriondo. Screenplay: not set. • Caught in a storm, Amanda Blake is the only survivor when a sailing vessel sinks. She is cast away on a seemingly deserted tropical island. Later she discovers it is peopled by ferocious natives and is rescued from them by George Nader, also cast away on the island. Filmed in Eastman Color. NEW FACES (Musical). Stars: Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Alice Ghostley. Producers: Edward L. Alperson, Berman Swarttz. Director: Harry Horner. Original: Leonard Sillman. Screenplay: Leonard Sillman. • A film version, in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, of the Broadway musical revue. NIGHT PEOPLE (Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck, Rita Gam, Broderick Crawford. Producer-Director: Nunnally Johnson. Original: Jed Harris, Tom Reed. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. • East Berlin Communists kidnap an American corporal and in exchange for his return, demand two people now in Berlin's western zone. Through the efforts of Gregory Peck, an army colonel, the corporal's rescue is effected. The picture was shot in CinemaScope, on location in Germany. THE NINE DAYS OF FATHER SERRA (Historical Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: John C. Higgins. • A biography of Junipero Serra, the courageous Spanish priest who is revered as the founder of California's missions in the early days of Spanish occupation. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. PINK TIGHTS (Musical). Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Tommy Noonan. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Henry Koster. Original: I. A. L. Diamond. Screenplay: Arthur Sheekman. • A tunefilm dealing with show business in New York in the 1890s. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. PRINCE VALIANT (Costume Drama). Stars: Sterling Hayden, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner. Producer: Robert L. Jacks. Director: Henry Hathaway. Original: Based on King Features comic strip. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. • Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner) is dispatched to the court of King Arthur with word that a Viking traitor plans an invasion of Britain and an attempted overthrow of Arthur. Displaying bravery and fighting skill, Prince Valiant aids the Knights of the Round Table in foiling the plot and becomes one of King Arthur's knights. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. PRINCESS OF THE NILE (Costume Drama). Stars: Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie. Pro ducer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Harmon Jones. Original Screenplay: Gerald Drayson Adams. • A romantic drama with Egypt in the era of the pharaohs as its locale. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (Biblical Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Director: not set. Original: Old Testament. Screenplay: Czenzi Ormonde. ® Drawn from the Book of Solomon, in the Old Testament, this relates the romance between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. To be filmed in CinemaScope. THE RAID (Historical Drama). Stars: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone. Producer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Hugo Fregonese. Original: Herbert Ravanel Sass. Screenplay: Sydney Boehm. • Van Heflin is cast as an American patriot involved in political operations in New England during the Civil war. To be produced in Technicolor. RIVER OF NO RETURN (Western). Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Tommy Rettig. Producer: Stanley Rubin. Director: Otto Preminger. Original Screenplay: Louis Lantz. • Robert Mitchum, an adventurer; his 10-year-old son. Tommy Rettig; and Marilyn Monroe, the wife of a crooked gambler, are forced together by circumstances on a peril-laden river in Idaho in the 1870s. They survive attacks by hostile Indians and other dangers; the gambler is slain in a gun duel; and Mitchum and Marilyn, realizing they love each other, plan to marry. Filmed in CinemaScope. SABER TOOTH (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Philip Dunne. Director: Samuel Fuller. Original Screenplay: Samuel Fuller. • A drama of the world during pre-historic days, this will be photographed in CinemaScope and Technicolor. THE SIEGE OF RED RIVER (Western). Stars: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone. Producer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Rudy Mate. Original: J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater. Screenplay: Sid Boehm, Leo Townsend. • Masquerading as a medicine show operator, Van Johnson, a Confederate officer, captures a shipment of death-dealing Gatling guns from Union forces. However, a renegade purloins the weapons and plans to turn them over to the Shawnees for use in their war against the whites. Johnson's heroism routs the redskins and he returns to the south to assist in its reconstruction. SIR WALTER RALEIGH (Historical Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director: not set. Original: Mindret Lord. Screenplay: Harry Brown. © Which traces the adventurous career of the English navigator, explorer, colonist, statesman, courtier and author, one of the outstanding figures during Britain's Elizabethan period, and who finally came to a violent end when he was sentenced to be executed. In CinemaScope and Technicolor. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS (Musical). Stars: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Walter Lang. Original: Irving Berlin. Screenplay: Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Lamar Trotti. ® This story of backstage life and romance, in Cinemascope and Technicolor, is adapted from a story by Irving Berlin and will feature a musical score written by him. THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Jean Negulesco. Ofiginal: John H. Secondari. Screenplay: John Patrick. • Filmed in Italy in CinemaScope, this concerns the romantic yearnings of three American secretaries working in Rome. It is based on the novel, "Three Coins in the Fountain," which draws its title from the legend that he who tosses a coin into the Trevi fountain will return to Rome. THREE YOUNG TEXANS (Western). Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter. Producer: Leonard Goldstein (Panoramic Pictures). Director: Henry Levin. Original: William MacLeod Raine. Screenplay: Gerald Drayson Adams. • Jeffrey Hunter's father, a railroad telegrapher, is blackmailed into agreeing to participate in a train robbery, but before the holdup is committed another lone bandit does the job and escapes. Hunter is suspected, but it is revealed that his pal, Keefe Brasselle, actually perpetrated the crime. In Technicolor. UNTAMED (Romantic Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Bert Friedlob, William A. Bacher. Director: not set. Original: Helga Moray. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, William A. Bacher. • This story of life and love in South Africa is scheduled to be filmed on location there in CinemaScope. THE WANDERING JEW (Drama) Stars: not set. Producer: Nunnally Johnson. Director: not set. Original: E. Temple Thurston. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. • A film version, in CinemaScope, of the widespread medieval legend about a Jew who treated Christ contemptuously at the time of the crucifixation and was condemned by Him to wander upon the earth until the Second Advent. UNITED ARTISTS (November 2 through December 26, 1953) BEAT THE DEVIL (Drama). Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley. Producer: Romulus Films-Santana Productions. Director: John Huston. Original Screenplay: Truman Capote. • Humphrey Bogart portrays the go-between for an unscrupulous group trying to secure land in Africa that is laden with uranium deposits. The crooks are tricked out of their plans by Jennifer Jones, the pert wife of an Englishman, and Bogart's visions of millions in wealth are dissipated. Dec. 26, 1953. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS (Historical Drama). Stars: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale jr. Producers: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen (Edward Small Productions). Director: Lew Landers. Original Screenplay: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen. • In Pathe Color, this tells of the romance between Captain John Smith, the English adventurer who founded the colony of Jamestown in Virginia in 1608, and Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief, Powhatan, who saved Smith from execution by her father. Nov. 20, 1953. THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE (Comedy). Stars: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson. Producer: Anthony Kimmins (London Films). Director: Anthony Kimmins. Original: Alec Coppel. Screenplay: Alec Coppel, Nicholas Phipps. • British-made and a Lopert-UA release. Alec Guinness is a happy ferryboat captain with a homeloving wife in Gibraltar who appeals to his domestic nature, and a tempestuous mistress in a North African port who likes fun and finery. Trouble begins when he mixes up their gifts and the deception is discovered. Dee. 18, 1953. SHARK RIVER (Action Drama). Stars: Steve Cochran, Carole Mathews, Warren Stevens. Producer-Director: John Rawlins. Original Screenplay: Joseph Carpenter, Lewis Meltzer. • Steve Cochran is persuaded to help his brother, Warren Stevens — a Civil War veteran — and the latter's wounded friend through the Everglades to the Gulf of Mexico. They overcome attacks by the Seminole Indians and other perils to reach the gulf, but only after Stevens has been slain. Filmed in color. Nov. 13, 1953. SONG OF THE LAND (Documentary). ProducerDirector: Henry S. Kesler (Harrison-Roberts, Inc.). Written narration: Joseph Henry Steele. Narration: Marvin Miller. • Story of life and of creation, a cosmic cycle in earth's history occurring over and over again in the form of flaming volcanoes, death and destruction, desolation, rebirth of land and of living things. The "stars" are animal, bird, marine and insect life. In color. Nov. 27, 1953. STRANGER ON THE PROWL (Drama). Stars: Paul Muni, Joan Lorring, Vittorio Manunta. Producer: Noel Calef. Director: Andrea Forzano. Original: Noel Calef. Screenplay: Andrea Forzano. • Story of an unwilling fugitive from the law who strikes up a friendship with a boy while trying to escape a police net. The boy idolizes the man, and together they elude capture, but eventually the man is shot down and the boy, mourning his loss, returns to the comfort of his mother's arms. Nov. 2, 1953. YESTERDAY AND TODAY (Documentary). Stars: Clara Bow, Harold Lloyd, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Pola Negri, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino and others. Producer-Director: Abner J. Greshler. Original Screenplay: George Jessel. • George Jessel does the narration for this film, which presents scenes from films covering a 60-year period — from 1893 to 1953. Jessel also introduces screen star greats of yesterday and today, appears in the film and sings two old-time song hits. Dec. 2, 1953. Coming ACT OF LOVE (Romantic Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Robert Strauss. Producer-Director: Anatole Litvak (Benagoss Productions). Original: Alfred Hayes. Screenplay: Irwin Shaw. • This story of the romance between an American soldier and an Italian girl during World War II was filmed on location in Europe. It is adapted from a novel, "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (Romantic Drama). Stars: Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien. Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. • This romantic drama is scheduled for production on location in Rome. BEACHHEAD (War Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary M.urphy. Producers: Aubrey Schenck, Howard W. Koch. Director: Stuart Heisler. Original: Richard Hubler. Screenplay: not set. • Just before the full-scale assault on Bougainville by U. S. marines in World War II, five marine platoons make a diversionary attack on a nearby island to pick up invaluable data. This is the story of their assault, their heroism and their ultimate success. Filmed in Eastman Color. 88 BAROMETER Section