Boxoffice barometer (1954)

Laughton, Kay Walsh. Director: George Sidney. (REISSUES) Sequoia. ...340.. . (73) June Nature Drama. Jean Parker, Russell Hardie, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Hurst. Trader Horn.. . 339.. . (120) June Adventure Drama. Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo. Paramount (September 1952 through August 1953) ©Arrowhead. ...5227.... (105) Aug. Technicolor Western. Scout kills Indian lookouts, unaware cavalry unit is keeping rendezvous to sign peace treaty with Apaches, and cavalry men are ambushed. Resentment for scout flares until he saves cavalry by a ruse. Charlton Heston, Katy Jurado, Jack Palance, Mary Sinclair, Brian Keith. Director: Charles Marquis Warren. ©Blazing Forest, The. ...5207.... (90) Dec. ’52 Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Niece of lumberman’s widow falls in love with crew manager of lumberjacks. After he plays the hero in a fire, she gives up city plans to marry him. John Payne, Susan Morrow, William Demurest, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Arlen. Director: Edward Ludwig. (A Pine -Thomas Production.) ©Caribbean....5202... (97) „ Sept. ’52 Technicolor Adventure Melodrama. Captain of a pirate ship kidnaps young American and forces him to engage in a revenge plot against a Caribbean island dictator who had run off years before with the pirate’s wife and daughter. John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan, Willard Parker. Director: Edward Ludwig. (A Pine-Thomas Production.) Come Back, Little Sheba... 5213.. . (99) Mar. Drama. Based on William Inge’s hit play. Neurotic, slovenly wife of a chiropractor battling alcoholism, rents room to young girl student to whom she talks constantly about her lost puppy, symbol of happier days. Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel. Director: Daniel Mann. (Pre-released February 1953.) ©Girls of Pleasure Island, The.. ..5215 (95) Apr. Technicolor Romantic Comedy. British operator of a copra plantation in the South Pacific, with three beautiful daughters, is appalled to have a company of U.S. marines land, but the girls enjoy the situation. Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Barry, Audrey Dalton. Directors: F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer. CJ©Greatest Show on Earth, The.. ..5129 (153) May Technicolor Drama With Music. (Special Academy Award release.) Troubles of the circus manager in the early days of Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, as he struggles with poor business, his own romance and the problems of the performers working for him. Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. (Pre-released July 1952.) ©Houdini .5223. . (106) July Technicolor Biographical Drama. Magician marries and wife becomes his professional partner. His fame grows after he frees himself from a strait jacket suspended from a Times Square building, but he dies later during a performance. Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel. Director: George Marshall. ©Hurricane Smith. ...5204.... (90) Oct. ’52 Technicolor Action Drama. Swashbuckling tale of 19th century piracy, buried treasure and romance and mutiny aboard a sailing ship. Pirates take over a slave ship and charter it for a “scientific expedition,” in reality a hunt for buried treasure. Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, James Craig, Forrest Tucker, Richard Arlen, Lyle Bettger. Director: Jerry Hopper. ©Jamaica Run. ...5220. .. (92) June Technicolor Adventure Drama. Operator of trading schooner is in love with daughter of family owning sugar plantation, who will not marry because of responsibilities. When he saves the plantation from a forging schemer, she capitulates. Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles, Laura Elliot. Director: Lewis R. Foster. (A Clarion Production.) ©Just for You.. . 5201. ...(104) Sept. ’52 Technicolor Musical Comedy Drama. Plot centers around the efforts of a successful Broadway producer to become reacquainted with his motherless teenage son and daughter and to iron out their youthful problems. Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Natalie Wood, Robert Arthur. Director: Elliott Nugent. Off Limits . . 5216 . ..(89) Apr. 5 Comedy. Fight manager joins army when his champion lightweight is drafted but later rejected for service. The manager meets an aspiring boxer in training camp, and grooms him to win the title. Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff, Stanley Clements. Director: George Marshall. ©Pony Express.. ..5217.... (101) May Technicolor Western. Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok are assigned to push relay stations of the Pony Express westward. Californians, desiring the state to be an independent republic, cause trouble but are defeated. Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Jan Sterling. Director: Jerry Hopper. ©Road to Bali.. ..5209.. . (91) Jan. 1 Technicolor Comedy. Two second-rate vaudevillians from Australia meet a South Sea island prince. Seeking lost treasure for him, they have adventures with cannibals, beautiful women and wild beasts. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye. Director: Hal Walker. ©Sangaree....5230... (95) May (Pre-release) Technicolor 3-D Adventure Drama. (Also available in 2-D.) Doctor son of indentured servant in Georgia, 1781, is asked by dying benefactor to manage estate. Benefactor’s daughter opposes his clinics, schools and wages to slaves until she falls in love with him. Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Korvin. Director: Edward Ludwig. (A PineThomas Production.) ©Savage, The . ..5206... (95) Nov. ’52 Technicolor Action Drama. Indians adopt an 11-year-old white boy, sole survivor of a wagon train. When grown, he helps keep peace between U.S. soldiers and hostile Indians, but an incident forces him to choose between his adopted tribe and his own white people. Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hanson, Joan Taylor, Angela Clarke. Director: George Marshall. Scared Stiff. .5222... (108) June Comedy. Entertainers meet a girl who has inherited a Caribbean island. After a warning phone call and a murder, they are shanghaied with her to the island, saving its treasure. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda. Director: George Marshall. IMsShane... 5225.. ..(117) Aug. Technicolor Western. Drifting cowboy learns Wyoming homesteaders are being harassed by a neighboring cattleman, and stays to help one homesteading family, then rides on because he has fallen in love with the wife. Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde. Jack Palance. Director: George Stevens. (Pre-released April, 1953.) ©Somebody Loves Me... .5203.. . (97) Oct. ’52 Technicolor Musical. Story of the careers of Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, two vaudeville greats of yesteryear. Tells of their trials as a husband-and-wife team, their breaking up and ultimate reconciliation. Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Robert Keith, Adele Jergens. Director: Irving Brecher. Stalag 17. ...5224.... (120) July Drama. When two American escapees are killed in German POW camp, a wrongfully suspected airman is beaten because he was skeptical of escape plans. Later he escapes and the real squealer is killed. William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck. Director: Billy Wilder. y©Stars Are Singing, The . . 5214.... (99) .. .Mar. Technicolor Comedy With Music. Polish war orphan stowaway swims ashore at New York and contacts a family friend, a former opera star. He and friends recognize her great singing voice and work to keep her in America. Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchior, Bob Williams, Tom Morton. Director: Norman Taurog. Stooge, The.. .5212. .. (100) Feb. Comedy With Songs. Song-and-dance man with swelled head hires a song-plugger as his stooge but refuses him billing. The stooge leaves but comes back to save the act, and receives recognition. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Eddie Mayehoff, Marion Marshall. Director: Norman Taurog. Thunder in the East.. ..5210 (98) Jan. Drama. Set in India after she gains her independence. An American aviator, trying to sell guns and ammunition, uses them to defend himself and others from rebels. Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Corinne Calvet, Cecil Kellaway. Director: Charles Vidor. ©Tropic Zone. ,5211... (94) Jan. Technicolor Drama. Girl operator of a banana plantation in Central America is plotted against by a monopoly which hires her foreman. Latter falls in love with her and foils the plot. Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Estelita, Noah Beery, Grant Withers. Director: Lewis R. Foster. (A Pine-Thomas Production.) Turning Point, The ... 5205 ... (85) Nov. ’52 Melodrama. Tells the story of what happens when a big city newspaper reporter learns his best friend’s father is in cahoots with an underworld syndicate being investigated by a crime committee headed by the crook’s own son. William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully. Director: William Dieterle. ©Vanquished, The... 5221. .. (84) June Technicolor Drama. Rascally “poor white” southerner is appointed civil administrator by Union forces after the Civil War. Returned Confederate officer takes job under him to obtain evidence for prosecution. 104 BAROMETER Section