Boxoffice barometer (1954)

secretly with the British Colonial Police in tracking down her husband’s murderer, uncovers a nest of foreign spies headed by the killer. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Torin Thatcher. Director: Vincent Sherman. (A Beckworth Corporation Production.) ©All Ashore....534.... (80) Mar. Technicolor Musical Comedy. Victimized by navy buddies while spending a week’s shore leave on Catalina Island, gob meets rich girl, rescues her from a motor car accident, earning her father’s gratitude and her love. Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrance. Director: Richard Quine. ©Ambush at Tomahawk Gap ...522.. . (73) ..May Technicolor Western. Four men, released from prison sentences for a payroll holdup, go after the loot. One falls in love with a Navajo girl: all the others die in an Apache attack. John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, Maria Elena Marques, Ray Teal. Director: Fred F. Sears. Assignment — Paris. ...507. .. (85) Oct. ’52 Drama. Newspaperman, representing New York Herald Tribune’s Paris edition, becomes involved in international intrigue when he is sent to Budapest to bargain for the release of an American businessman sentenced as a spy by Moscow’s puppet prime minister. Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders, Audrey Totter, Sandro Giglio. Director: Robert Parrish. Blue Canadian Rockies.... 472.... (58) Nov. ’52 Western. Sent to protect a wealthy Montana ranchowner’s Canadian timber holdings, hero’s mission is accomplished and peace restored to the timberland. Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Carolina Cotton, Pat Buttram, Cass County Boys. Director: George Archainbaud. (A Gene Autry Production.) ©Captain Pirate....502.. . (85) Aug. ’52 Technicolor Melodrama. Captain Blood, reformed pirate, is blamed for a raid that takes place on his wedding eve and thrown into prison. His loyal followers come to the rescue and unmask the real pirates. Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton. Director: Ralph Murphy. Clouded Yellow, The . . 509.. . (89) Aug. ’52 Drama. British-made. Clouded memory of girl accused of murder is cleared when a retired Secret Service man lays a trap for the real killer, who had also murdered her parents. Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Maxwell Reed. Director: Ralph Thomas. (J. Arthur Rank.) Eight Iron Men . . 515. .. (80) Dec. ’52 Drama. War story about infantrymen who manage to save a buddy marooned in a shell hole. Emphasis is on personal relationships of the combat men, rather than on battle scenes. Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz, Dick Moore, Mary Castle, Lee Marvin. Director: Edward Dmytryk. (A Stanley Kramer Production.) Five Angles on Murder.. .543.... (88) Mar. Mystery Drama. British-made. (Pre-released under title, “The Woman in Question.”) Amusement arcade fortune teller is murdered. Police reconstruct her past and pin the crime on a mild pet store owner in love with her and whom she had used as a convenience. Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Shaw, John McCallum, Hermione Baddeley. Director: Anthony Asquith. (J. Arthur Rank.) ©Fort Ti....546....(73) May Technicolor Natural Vision 3-D Action Drama. A Rogers Ranger in 1759 learns his brother-in-law has been forced to. spy for the French. With aid of refugee girl, the Rangers capture Fort Ticonderoga, freeing its prisoners. George Montgomery, Joan Vohs, Irving Bacon, James Seay. Director: William Castle. 49th Man, The. ...529. .. (73) June Drama. U S. Security Division assigns man to find subversives smuggling in A-bomb parts. Locating the ring in Marseilles, he is recalled but finds assembled bomb split seconds before timed to explode. John Ireland, Richard Denning, Suzanne Dalbert, Robert C. Foulk, Touch Conners. Director: Fred F. Sears. Four Poster, The.. ..519.... (103) Jan. Comedy Drama. Story of a novelist’s marriage in the late nineties, ending after 45 years with the wife’s death. It encompasses the first child’s birth, reconciliation after his infidelity, and a second wooing. Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer. Director: Irving Reis. (A Stanley Kramer Production.) Glass Wall, The.. ..541.... (80) Apr. Drama. Refused entry, an immigrant jumps ship to find a man in New York whose life he saved during the war. Falling in love, he is ready to commit suicide when his friend shows up. Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer. Director: Maxwell Shane. ©Golden Hawk, The. ...508. ... (83) Oct. ’52 Technicolor Melodrama. Based on Frank Yerby’s novel of a 17th century French privateer who falls in love with a beautiful female pirate. Responsible for his getting the death penalty for piracy, girl relents on learning the truth and helps him escape. Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton. Director: Sidney Salkow. Goldtown Ghost Riders. ...574.. . (57) May Western. Man who served 10 years for “murder” of his partner in gold-claim swindle, frightening prospectors away with “ghost riders,” returns to find partner alive under another name. They and their gangs wipe each other out. Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Smiley Burnette, Kirk Riley, Carleton Young. Director: George Archainbaud. (A Gene Autry Production.) ©Hangman’s Knot. ...512.. . (81) Nov. ’52 Technicolor Western. Action story about Confederate officers capturing Union gold bullion, then learning the war is over. Keeping the gold to rehabilitate the south, they fight renegades going back. Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman jr., Frank Faylen, Lee Marvin. Director: Roy Huggins. (A Scott-Brown Production.) Happy Time, The. ...506.. . (94) Dec. ’52 Comedy. Story of a delightful French-Canadian family, into whose household comes a beautiful magician’s assistant. All the males, from grandfather down to the 12year-old youngest, fall in love with her. Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Bobby Driscoll, Kurt Kasznar. Director: Richard Fleischer. (A Stanley Kramer Production.) Invasion, U.S.A 513 . (74) Dec. ’52 Melodrama. Detailed account of an enemy invasion of America and its consequences along individual lines. At the end it is shown to be a mock invasion, aimed at defense measures. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O’Herlihy. Director: Alfred E. Green. (An American Pictures Corp. Production.) ©Jack McCall, Desperado. ...537.... (76) Apr. Technicolor Western. Southerner in Union army is tricked by a Confederate spy and sentenced to hang for treason. Escaping, he clears his name after the war, shooting it out with the spy’s gang in the Dakotas. George Montgomery, Angela Stevens, Douglas Kennedy, James Seay, Eugene Iglesias. Director: Sidney Salkow. Juggler, The. ...520.. ..(86) June Drama. Filmed partially in Israel. Based on novel by Michael Blankfort. European vaudevillian, neurotic from concentration camp experiences, comes to Israel, but escapes thinking he has committed a crime. In a lonely girl’s home he finds romance, and goes for psychiatric treatment. Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Joey Walsh, Alf Kjellin. Director: Edward Dmytryk. (A Stanley Kramer Production.) ©Last of the Comanches....511 (85) Feb. Technicolor Western. A handful of survivors of an Indian massacre, and stagecoach passengers, are led by an Indian boy to an abandoned mission. They hold out until the cavalry comes. Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Johnny Stewart, Lloyd Bridges. Director: Andre de Toth. Last Train From Bombay. ...504.. . (72) ... Aug. ’52 Melodrama. The adventures of an American diplomat in India as he tries to foil a plot to dynamite a train carrying an important official, which action would plunge the nation into civil war. Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Lisa Ferraday, Douglas R. Kennedy. Director: Fred F. Sears. Man in the Dark.. ..547.... (70) Apr. Sepiatone 3-D Crime Drama. Payroll robber, paroled after an operation destroying memory as well as criminal tendencies, is kidnaped by former pals wanting to share hidden loot, but his girl friend and the police come to the rescue. Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Horace McMahon, Nick Dennis. Director: Lew Landers. Member of the Wedding, The... 521.... (91) ..Mar. Drama. Lonely 12-year-old girl confides only in a sympathetic Negro maid. Disappointed when she cannot accompany her brother on his honeymoon, she runs away. A sordid experience sends her home more mature. Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates. Director: Fred Zinnemann. (A Stanley Kramer Production.) On Top of Old Smoky... .572.. . (59) Mar. Sepiatone Western. Hero’s Texas Ranger badge, a stage prop, is mistaken for the real thing and he exposes the local villains trying to sabotage the toll road property owned by a girl. Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Smiley Burnette, Sheila Ryan, Cass County Boys. Director: George Archainbaud. (A Gene Autry Production.) One Girl’s Confession. ...528. .. (74) ... Apr. Melodrama. Cafe drudge steals $25,000 from owner who has robbed her father, and serves a prison term. Afterwards the money causes her more trouble so she gives it to an orphanage. Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Glenn Langan, Ellen Stansbury. Director: Hugo Haas. (A Hugo Haas Production.) Pack Train. ...575.... (57) July Western. Small settlement, short of food and medicine, sends hero to buy supplies at nearest town. Crooked storekeepers withhold part of supplies and hero goes into action when girl needing medicine dies. Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Smiley Burnette, Kenne Duncan, Sheila Ryan. Director: George Archainbaud. (A Gene Autry Production.) ©Pathfinder, The... .516. .. (78) . Jan. Technicolor Historical Drama. A Mohican raised white man acts as a British spy against the French, aided by an English girl and his Indian friend. Discovered, they are 96 BAROMETER Section