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her own car crashes. Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O’Farrell, Lloyd Lamble, Geoffrey Keen. Director: Sam Newfield. (An Exclusive Films Production.) Slasher, The....5218. (75) May 29 Melodrama. British-made. Juvenile delinquent, out on probation, fools his mother into thinking he is going straight. When a robbery plan misfires, boy’s stepfather takes him in hand before the police lead him away. James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley. Director: Lewis Gilbert. (A Daniel M. Angel Production.) Tall Texan, The . .5207 . (84) Feb. 13 Western. Stagecoach passengers beat off an Indian attack and find a gold lode on a sacred burial ground. Attacked again, only an escaped convict, now reformed, and a girl survive. Lloyd Bridges, Marie Windsor, Lee J. Cobb, Luther Adler. Director: Elmo Williams. Tromba, the Tiger Man. ...5201 (63) Nov. 14, ’52 Drama. (German-made with Englishdubbed dialog.) Circus story of a tiger trainer who controls the beasts by hypnotic eyes. Purposely causing a tragedy, he himself is later the victim of a tiger. Rene Deltgen, Angelika Hauff, Gustav Knuth, Hilde Weissner. Director: Helmut Weiss. Twilight Women. ...5217. ... (89 ) .. .May 15 Drama. British-made. Unwed prospective mother takes shelter in questionable boarding place. When an infant dies of neglect, she protests and is injured by the proprietor, but survives and finds good parents for her baby. Freda Jackson. Rene Ray, Lois Maxwell, Laurence Harvey, Joan Dowling. Director: Gordon Parry. (A Daniel M. Angel Production.) White Goddess.. ..5224.... (73) Mar. 27 Melodrama. African jungle story of girl trader whose inherited place of business is wiped out by fire. Her business itself is saved by friends who help her capture an adult gorilla. Jon Hall, Ray Montgomery, M’liss McClure, Ludwig Stossell, James Faii'fax. Director: Wallace Fox. (An Arrow Production.) (REISSUES) Ali Baba Nights (formerly “Chu Chin Chow”). ...5215.. ..(76) May 22 Musical. Anna May Wong, George Robey, Fritz Kortner. <A Gaumont-British film originally released in the U.S. in 1934.) Captain Kidd...J52 10.... (89) Dec. 12, ’52 Adventure Drama. Randolph Scott, Charles Laughton, Barbara Britton. Great White Hunter . . 5209. ... (89) ... Dec. 12, ’52 Drama. Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (September 5, 1952 through August 28, 1953) Above and Beyond. ...313. ...(122) Jan. 2 Drama. World War II pilot has the nervewracking assignment of training personnel for dropping the atom bomb on Japan. Extreme secrecy of his work causes marital troubles, later resolved. Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Marilyn Erskine. Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The.. ..346.... (73). .Aug. 14 Comedy With Music. College youth majors in making love to a co-ed whose father transfers her to a New York school. To raise money to join her, the youth gets together a band which she joins. Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Hans Conried. Director: Don Weis. Apache War Smoke . . 305.. . (67) Oct. 17, ’52 Western Comedy Melodrama. Story of a lovable rogue with a law-abiding son. When attacking Indians seek a traitorous white man, the bad man is suspected, but he captures the culprit and rides on — trailing a stagecoach carrying gold. Gilbert Roland, Glenda Farrell, Robert Horton, Barbara Ruick, Gene Lockhart. Director: Harold Kress. ©Arena... 337. ..(71) June 12 Ansco Color 3-D Melodrama. Ex-champion cowboy, estranged from wife, arrives in Tucson, accompanied by girl friend, to ride in the rodeo. When another ex-champion turned clown is killed saving him from a bull, he and his wife are reconciled. Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen, Henry Morgan, Barbara Lawrence. Director: Richard Fleischer. (Photographed in Ansco Color: print by Technicolor. Also available in 2-D.) Bad and the Beautiful, The. ...315 (118) Jan. 30 Drama. This details, through flashbacks, the double-crossing tactics of a Hollywood film maker, now down and out in Paris. Stars who now hate him with reason help him stage a comeback. Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame. Director: Vincente Minnelli. ©Band Wagon, The. ...345 ... (112) Aug. 7 Technicolor Musical. Trials and tribulations of a once-popular film dancing star who returns to Broadway to appear in a new musical, which flops. Rallying the cast, he whips show into shape for a smash Broadway opening. Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Battle Circus.. . 321. .. (90) Mar. 6 Drama. Love story on the Korean battle front between a major attached to a mobile hospital unit and an army nurse. Excircus man in charge of moving the unit furnishes the colorful background. Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith. Director: Richard Broofcs. :«i©Because You’re Mine. ...304 (103) Oct. 3, ’52 Technicolor Musical. Top opera and recording star is army inductee under sergeant who coddles him to get an audition for his beautiful sister. A three-way rift is created by a jealous singing partner, but all ends on a happy note. Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, Paula Corday, Eduard Franz. Director: Alexander Hall. Big Leaguer.. . 347. .. (71) Aug. 21 Comedy Drama. Once-famous third baseman runs a training camp for the New York Giants, where promising youngsters are selected. He trains son of immigrant miner, who becomes a big league player, overcoming his father’s prejudice against baseball. Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen, Jeff Richards, Richard Jaeckel, William Campbell. Director: Robert Aldrich. Bright Road. ...326.. . (69) Apr. 17 Comedy Drama. Negro grammar school teacher finds 11-year-old boy rebellious but keenly appreciative of beauty. Encouraging his talent for drawing, and sympathetic when he grieves for a dead classmate, she ultimately wins his confidence. Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Barbara Ann Sanders. Director: Gerald Mayer. Clown, The....316.. . (91) Jan. 16 Comedy Drama. Dissipation reduces a Zieg feld star to playing clowns in burlesque shows and amusement parks. His young son’s faith helps him to make a brilliant TV comeback just before he dies. Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Timothy Considine, Loring Smith, Philip Ober. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Code Two. .. 329 ... (69) ....Apr. 24 Drama. Two Los Angeles police recruits are trained to become motorcycle officers. After graduating, one is deliberately killed by a black market truck driver, and his buddy tracks down the killers. Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn, Robert Horton, James Craig. Director: Fred M. Wilcox. Confidentially Connie... 322.. . (71) Mar. 13 Comedy. Texas cattleman, indignant because his college professor-son cannot afford steaks for his pregnant wife, supplies beef from the ranch at cost, thus instigating a price war— then endows the college. Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart. Director: Edward Buzzell. Cry of the Hunted. ...330. .. (79) May 8 Melodrama. Escaped prisoner heads for his native Louisiana where he is caught. Escaping again, he turns back to rescue the prison officer from death in a bog, then goes back to prison. Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. ©Dangerous When Wet . . 341... (95) ... July 3 Technicolor Musical. Fast-talking trainer persuades an entire family to swim the English channel, but only the girl tries it, defeats the French aquatic star contestant, and wins a husband. Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood, Denise Darcel, William Demarest. Director: Charles Walters. Desperate Search. .314 ...(71) Jan. 23 Drama. Story of two children lost in a plane crash in the Canadian wilds. The divorced parents, both fliers, and the stepmother complicate rescue work by indulging in personal animosities. Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina, Keenan Wynn, Robert Burton. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Devil Makes Three, The. ...302 (90) Sept. 12, ’52 Drama. American army captain returns to Munich after the war to search for a German girl and finds her working as a B-girl. The two unwittingly become involved with Nazi smugglers trying to finance a comeback. Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan, Claus Clausen. Director: Andrew Marton. Dream Wife... 335.. . (99) June 19 Comedy. Young businesman meets a khan’s daughter, and when he quarrels with his fiancee, a beautiful state department employe, he cables a proposal. The Persian girl arrives but brings the couple together. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Buddy Baer. Director: Sidney Sheldon. ©Everything I Have Is Yours. ...306 (92) Oct. 31, ’52 Technicolor Musical. Wife in a married song-and-dance team becomes pregnant just as they score in their first Broadway hit. The understudy makes a play for the husband but wife stages a comeback. Marge and Gower Champion, Dennis O’Keefe, Monica Lewis, Dean Miller. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Fast Company . . 332.. ..(68) May 22 Comedy Drama. A young man, hoping to buy a certain race horse cheap, sees that the horse always loses. He meets and falls in love with its owner — then her horse wins. 100 BAROMETER Section