Boxoffice barometer (1954)

A Complete Production Record tor the Year ★ Essential Data on 1952-53 Releases FEATURE INDEX Allied Artists (October 26, 1952 through October 11, 1953) ©Affair in Monte Carlo . .5307. .. (74) ... Aug. 23 Technicolor Drama. British-made. (Released in England as “Twenty-Pour Hours in a Woman’s Life.”) Guests in Monte Carlo hotel, skeptical about a waitress-guest romance, hear a novelist unfold a similar romance from which he had rescued the woman he later introduces as his wife. Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray, Peter Reynolds. Director: Victor Saville. Battle Zone.. ..5301.... (82) Oct. 26, ’52 Drama. Adventures of two Marine sergeants, in love with the same Red Cross nurse, who all ship out together for Korea. The boys complete a dangerous photographic mission, and the love triangle resolves itself. John Hodiak, Stephen McNally, Linda Christian, Dick Emory. Director: Lesley Selander. (A Walter Wanger Production.) Bomba and the Jungle Girl....5208 (70) Dec. 7, ’52 Adventure Drama. Jungle yarn where a youth saves a girl from a crocodile and gets information from natives about his parents. Their diary induces natives to depose the usurper and select the rightful chief. Johnny Sheffield, Karen Sharpe, Suzette Harbin, Walter Sande. Director: Ford Beebe. Clipped Wings. ...5320.... (65) Aug. 30 Comedy Melodrama. Bowery Boys join air force when a lieutenant friend is arrested as a spy. Released, officer is kidnaped by the spies, but the Boys go to his rescue in a plane, with only a “mail order” knowledge of flying. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, June Vincent, Renie Riano, Todd Karns. Director: Edward Bernds. Cow Country.. ..5310.. . (82) Apr. 26 Action Drama. Business men connive to buy out cheaply, desperate Texas ranchers during a depression. The man who exposes them wins the rancher’s eastern-educated daughter. A second romance, somewhat sordid, ends happily. Edmond O’Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery, Peggie Castle, Barton MacLane. Director: Lesley Selander. Fangs of the Arctic . .5222.... (63) Jan. 18 Outdoor Drama. A story of the Canadian Mounties and the dog, Chinook, who pose as trappers to get on the trail and capture a murderer. The murdered man’s daughter supplies the romantic interest. Kirby Grant, Chinook, Lorna Hansen, Warren Douglas, Leonard Penn. Director: Rex Bailey. Fighting Lawman, The....5334....(71)....Sept. 20 Western. U.S. marshal trails three bank robbers on a clue furnished by the fourth robber before he dies. Latter’s sister doublecrosses marshal and blackmails the bandits, but she and the outlaws are killed in a showdown. Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, Myron Healey, John Kellogg, Harry Lauter. Director: Thomas Carr. Explanatory Statistical and summary data on feature releases arranged alphabetically under company headings. PRODUCTION NUMBER follows title. RUNNING TIME in parentheses. RELEASE DATE at end of title line is 1953 unless otherwise stated. TYPE of picture and color indicated in boldface. STAR and DIRECTOR: credits conclude each summary. REISSUES are listed separately under each company heading. Symbol & indicates BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award Winner. Symbol ® indicates color photography. ©Flat Top... .5201. .. (85) Nov. 30, ’52 Color Melodrama. Air officer and carrier captain stand on a flight deck in Korean waters and recall the events of 1943, during the Pacific campaign, when they were on the same carrier deck together. Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, Phyllis Coates, Keith Larsen. Director: Lesley Selander. ©Fort Vengeance... 5303. .. (75) Mar. 29 Color Outdoor Drama. Two brothers join the newly organized Royal Canadian Mounted Police when Sitting Bull, following the Custer massacre, goes to Canada to stir the Blackfeet against white settlers. One turns renegade and is killed. James Craig, Keith Larsen, Reginald Denny, Rita Moreno. Director: Lesley Selander. (A Walter Wanger Production.) ©Hiawatha.. ..5202.... (80) Dec. 28, ’52 Color Drama. Screen story of Hiawatha and Minnehaha. Tells of the tribal war between the Ojibways and the Dacotahs, Hiawatha’s marriage and reunion with his father — chief of the Dacotahs — and ultimate peace between the two warring tribes. Vincent Edwards, Yvette Dugay, Keith Larsen, Gene Iglesias. Director: Kurt Neumann. Homesteaders, The. ...5323. .. (62) Mar. 22 Sepiatone Western. Oregon homesteaders get delivery of four wagonloads of dynamite from a midwest army post, to clear rocky farmland. The return is menaced by mutiny and by hijackers seeking the dynamite. Wild Bill Elliott, Robert Lowery, Barbara Allen, James Seay, Emmett Lynn. Director: Lewis D. Collins. (A Silvermine Production.) Hot News.... 5327.... (6014) Oct. 11 Drama. Crusading sports writer exposes and brings to justice a vicious gambling ring that invades the college sports field. He also helps vindicate a collegiate basketball star who had been expelled. Stanley Clements, Gloria Henry, Scotty Beckett, Veda Ann Borg, Myron Healey. Director: Edward Bernds. Jalopy.. .5318. ..(62) Feb. 15 Comedy. Bowery Boys enter jalopy race with a powerful new fuel. The magic solution lost, a new batch is mixed and delivered to the track during the race, letting them win. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Robert Lowery, Mona Knox. Director: William Beaudine. ©Kansas Pacific.. . 5302.. . (73) Feb. 22 Color Action Drama. Story of the construction of the Kansas Pacific railroad in 1860 and how the work was completed despite sabotage efforts of William Quantrill’s Southern sympathizers to keep the road from reaching the western forts. Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Reed Hadley. Director: Ray Nazarro. (A Walter Wanger Production.) Loose in London.. ..5319.... (6214) May 24 Comedy Melodrama. Bowery Boys trade single ticket sent to one, supposedly the relative of a titled, dying Englishman, for lesser accommodations. Arriving in England, they save the pseudo-relative’s life from sinister forces and are rewarded. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bennie Bartlett, David Condon, Bernard Gorcey, Angela Greene. Director: Edward Bernds. Marksman, The.. ..5333.... (61) Apr. 12 Western. Roving U.S. deputy marshal in early Texas days, recognized by rustlers, is tracked to the hills. He uses his last six shells to kill the outlaws, one by one. Wayne Morris, Stanford Jolley, Elena Verdugo, Rick Vallin, Frank Ferguson. Director: Lewis D. Collins. (A Westwood Production.) Maverick, The....5322 . (71) Dec. 14, ’52 Sepiatone Western. Cattlemen hire gunmen to foster a range war against homesteaders. U.S. cavalry steps in to protect the homesteaders and the gunmen are defeated in a wild battle. Wild Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Florence Lake, Myron Healey. Director: Thomas Carr. (A Silvermine Production.) Maze, The.... 3101. ...(81) July 26 3-D Mystery Drama. Young Scotsman, mysteriously changed, breaks his engagement after inheriting an estate. His former fiancee and her aunt visit him, learning a human-brained giant toad is the real heir, but the monster falls and dies. Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate, Hillary Brooke. Director: William Cameron Menzies. (Also available in 2-D.) Mexican Manhunt. ...5317.. . (71) Sept. 13 Melodrama. Mystery writer goes to Mexico after receiving a letter from a newspaperman who had vanished 15 years previously while covering a murder case. Gangsters try to prevent their return to the States. George Brent, Hillary Brooke, Karen Sharpe, Morris Ankrum. Director: Rex Bailey. BOXOFFICE 31