Boxoffice barometer (1954)

Miscellaneous (Cont'd) COCOBOLO (Action Drama). Stars: William Holmes (incomplete). Producer: Robert L. Peters. Director: Kenny Herts. Original Screenplay: Ken Krippene. • Filmed on location in Colombia, this is an adventure story backgrounded against the ancient emerald mines discovered and worked by the Incas. COMANCHEROS (Historical Western). Stars: Van Heflin (incomplete). Producer-Director: George Stevens. Original: Paul Wellman. Screenplay: not set. • Based on a novel, this deals with renegade whites who organized Comanche Indian raids and disposed of the loot therefrom in Mexico. CONGO KILLER (Melodrama). Stars: Karen Booth, Myron Healey, Ross Elliott. Producer: Jerry Thomas (Trinity Productions). Director: Seymour Friedman. Original Screenplay: Jerry Thomas. • An action drama of adventure in Africc. DAWN IN THE SKY (Western). Stars: James Stewart (incomplete). Producer: William Goetz. Director: not set. Original: James O'Mara. Screenplay: not set. • This outdoor action drama, to be photographed in Technicolor, is adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial. FEATHERBRAIN (Comedy) Stars: Joanne Dm (incomplete). Producer-Director: Frank Tashlin. Original Screenplay: Frank Tashlin. • In which Joanne Dru portrays a Canadian war bride in a satire on murder mysteries. FILE 246 (Drama). Stars: Shelley Winters, Van Heflin, Pedro Armendariz. Producer-Director: George Sherman. Original Screenplay: not set. o Planned for filming in Italy, this casts Van Heflin as an insurance adjuster who treks to Rome to locate Shelley Winters, a girl who has inherited $500,000. THE FLAMING STALLION (Western). Stars: not set. Producer: Herman Cohen (Abtcon Pictures). Director: not set. Original: Johnston McCully. Screenplay: William Raynor. • An outdoor drama about a wild-horse herd. GIRLS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Lili St. Cyr (tentative, incomplete). Producer: Albert Zugsmith (American Pictures). Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Aben Kandel, Herbert Kline. • As its title implies, this is a romantic comedy with a South Seas locale. THE GREAT GREEN OG (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: Robert Hutton, Gerald Mohr (incomplete). Producer: Albert Zugsmith (American Pictures). Director: Alfred E. Green. Original Screenplay: Robert Smith. • A science-fiction entry dealing with a visitor from outer space. HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLYSON (Romantic Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Eugene Frenke, Rene Williams. Director: not set. Original: Charles Shaw. Screenplay: not set. • Based on the novel, this is planned for filming in Technicolor on location in the South Pacific. HEDDA GABLER (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Tom Gries (Allan Dowling Productions). Director: not set. Original: Henrik Ibsen. Screenplay: Norman Corwin. • From the play by Henrik Ibsen, this deals with a Norwegian girl, uncongenially married, who torments to his death an admirer and finally commits suicide. To be filmed in Norway. HUMAN CARGO (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: William Rowland (New World Films). Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Michel Kraike, Herbert Kline, Irma Berk. • A story of the U.S. drive to stop the invasion of "wetbacks" from Mexico, this is scheduled for filming with the cooperation and approval of the Mexican government. In 3-D and color. HUNTERS OF THE SEA (Documentary). Stars: not set. Producer: Tom Gries (Allan Dowling Productions). Director: not set. Original Screenplay: not set. • This full-length documentary on underwater life and the popular sport of spear-fishing will be processed by the Color Corp. of America. HURRICANE ROAD (Documentary). Stars: not set. Producer: Hugh Brooke (Allan Dowling Productions). Director: not set. Original Screenplay: not set. • This deals with a West Indian hurricane, following it from its origin ir\ the Caribbean on through its devastating impact when it hits North America. KARAMOJA (Travelog). Producers: Matt Freed, T. Frank Woods. Director: not set. • The film record of a safari from Capetown, in South Africa, to Kampala. THE INTERNATIONAL TOUCH (Drama). Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Hans Albers (incomplete). Producer: N. Peter Rathvon. Director: not set. Original: Larry Rachman. Screenplay: not set. • This suspense drama deals with Interpol, the International Criminal Police organization. THE LION (Romantic Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: not set. Original: Eleanor De Lamater. Screenplay: Walter Doniger. • Adapted from a Cosmopolitan magazine story, this is a love story set against the background of a wild-anjmal compound. THE LOST WOMAN (Melodrama). Stars: Liba Petrova (incomplete). Producers: Matt Freed (Moravia Productions). Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Jay Tobias. • In which a man and woman escape to freedom from a Communist-dominated European country. MAN FROM MONTMARTE (Biographical Musical). Stars: Danny Kaye (incomplete). Producer: William Goetz. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: not set. • First independent production to be charted by William Goetz, former Universal-International filmmaking executive, this is a biography of the noted French entertainer, Maurice Chevalier. It will be photographed in Technicolor. MATADOR (Drama). Stars: Jose Ferrer (incomplete). Producer-Director: John Huston. Original: Barnaby Conrad. Screenplay: Barnaby Conrad, John Huston. • To be filmed on location in Spain, this is based on the novel by Barnaby Conrad, the story of the last day in the life of Spain's greatest bullfighter. MERRILL'S MARAUDERS (War Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Jack Broder. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Wyatt Ordung. • An action drama of World War II. THE NAKED KING (Romantic, Drama). Stars: Cornel Wilde (incomplete). Producer-Director: Albert Lewin. Original: Albert Ades. Screenplay: Albert Lewin. • Dealing with the life of a Parisian artist at the turn of the century, this is scheduled to be made on location in France. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Paul Gregory. Director: not set. Original: David Grubb. Screenplay: not set. • Adapted from the novel, this is a suspense drama with Pennsylvania in the 1920s as its locale. NO DEADLIER SIN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Samuel Newman, Louis B. Appleton jr. Director: Louis B. Appleton jr. Original Screenplay: Samuel Newman. • A semi-documentary drama about the criminal abortion racket. PARIS METRO (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: King Bros. Productions. Director: not set. Original: Andre Sert. Screenplay: not set. • A maniacal killer stalks the Paris subwoy system in a suspense drama scheduled for filming in France. PASSPORT (Drama). Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall (incomplete). Producer-Director: Nicholas Ray. Original Screenplay: Pier Pasenetti. • To be filmed in Italy, this is the story of a man without a passport, who lives on a tourist ship operating between Venice and Trieste. A young Italian girl ultimately helps him to escape from his shipboard prison. RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND (Action Drama). Stars: Dawn Addams, Tab Hunter, Porter Hall. Producers: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen (in association with Edward Small). Director: E. A. DuPont. Original Screenplay: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen. • A treasure-hunting melodrama, filmed in Pathe color. RICHARD THE THIRD (Costume Drama). Stars: Jose Ferrer (incomplete). Producer: Romulus Films. Director: John Huston. Original: William Shakespeare. Screenplay: not set. • Scheduled for production in England is this film version of one of Shakespeare's immortal tragedies, with Jose Ferrer in the title role. RIVER BEAT (Melodrama). Stars: Phyllis Kirk, Donald Houston. Producers: Herman Cohen (Abtcon Pictures), Anglo-Amalgamated Films. Director: Guy Green. Original Screenplay: not set. • This cops-and-robbers drama was filmed in London. ROUGHING IT (Comedy-Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Victor Orsatti, Joseph Newman (Sabre Productions). Director: Joseph Newman. Original: Mark Twain. Screenplay: not set. • In color, this is an adaptation of Mark Twain's sketches about life in California during frontier days. THE SEA IS A WOMAN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Tom Gries (Allan Dowling Productions). Director: Walter Doniger. Original: Tom Gries, Jim Fitzpatrick. Screenplay: Herb Meadow. • A story of the tuna-fishing industry in Central America. SHIELD FOR MURDER (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Aubrey Schenck, Howard W. Koch. Director: not set. Original: William P. McGivern. Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons. • A cops-and-robbers melodrama, adapted from a novel. THE STEEPER CLIFF (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: not set. Original: David Davidson. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner. • A film version of the novel about the establishment of democratic newspapers in post-war Germany. THE STORY OF A COP (Drama). Stars: Ida Lupino (incomplete). Producer: Collier Young. Director: not set. Original: Paul MacNamara. Screenplay: Collier Young, Ida Lupino. • In semi-documentary style this relates the recruiting and training of a policeman. THE SWAMP FOX (Historical Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Aubrey Schenck, Howard W. Koch. Director: not set. Original: Len L. Simpson, Thomas J. McGowan. Screenplay: not set. • A film biography of Francis Marion, American hero of the Revolutionary War. TARGET — EARTH (Science-Fiction Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Herman Cohen (Abtcon Pictures). Director: Sherman Rose. Original: Paul Fairman. Screenplay: William Raynor. • In which attempts by a race from outer space to invade and capture the earth are repelled. TENDER HEARTS (Drama). Stars: Hugo Haas, Francesca de Scaffa (incomplete). Producer-Director: Hugo Haas. Original Screenplay: Hugo Haas. • The story of a prostitute. TIGER BY THE TAIL (Suspense Drama). Stars: Richard Conte, Constance Smith (incomplete). Producer: Robert Goldstein. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Eric Ambler. • An American newspaperman in London solves a murder to clear himself. Planned for fiiming in England. THE TRAIN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Allan Dowling (Aries Productions). Director: not set. Original: Martin Fiala. Screenplay: Orin Jannings. • Adapted from a novel, this is the story of a successful escape from behind the Iron Curtain. It is planned for filming on location in Germany. TREASURE OF THE UNTAMED (Drama). Stars: John Agar, Rosemarie Bowe. Producers: Harry Rybnick, Richard Kay (R-K Productions). Director: Joel Judge. Original Screenplay: not set. • Said to be the first feature-length motion picture ever produced in Haiti, this was filmed in Pathe color with the cooperation of the government of that Central American republic. WALK WITH THE DEVIL (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: Mark Robson, Harry Lenart. Director: Mark Robson. Original: Elliott Arnold. Screenplay: Elliott Arnold, Lou Schorr. • This suspense story, based on a novel, is planned fcr filming on location in Italy. WOMAN OF THE SHADOWS (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Matt Freed (Moravia Productions). Director: not set. Original: Pierre Moreau, T. C. Lengyel. Screenplay: not set. • A story of life in postwar Berlin, this is slated tor filming in English and a foreign language. THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY (Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck (incomplete). Producers: Gregory Peck, Robert Parrish. Director: Robert Parrish. Original: Tom Lea. Screenplay: not set. • From the novel by the author of "The Brave Bulls," this is scheduled for production on location in Mexico. ZULIKA (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: Helen Ainsworth. Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Monica Lang, Esko Miettinen. • This romantic drama is planned for production on location in London and South Africa. KEEP UP WITH THE TREND — of industry events and on production progress and change EVERY WEEK 90-D BAROMETER Section