Boxoffice barometer (1954)

of a Georgia hillbilly girl and her bloodhounds, imported to Broadway by night club and horse parlor owners. She knocks the city slickers cold. Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O’Shea. Director: Harmon Jones. Blueprint for Murder, A... 332.. . (76) Sept. Mystery Drama. When young girl dies with the same symptoms as her father had, uncle suspects the stepmother. Autopsy reveals strychnine poisoning and he traps her with a poisoned cocktail into confessing. Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen. Director: Andrew L. Stone. ©Call Me Madam. ...311.... (114) Apr. Technicolor Musical. Based on Irving Berlin’s stage hit. Leading party-giver in Washington, D.C., is named representative to the grand duchy of Lichtenburg. A brash young reporter who becomes her attache wins the duchy’s princess from a neighboring prince. Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Helmut Dantine. Director: Walter Lang. ©City of Bad Men....328.... (82) Sept. Technicolor Western. Two brothers heading desperado gang carry news to Carson City girl of her brother’s death in Mexico. They and rival gangs try to steal the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight receipts and brother surviving the battle wins girl. Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Boone, Carole Mathews. Director: Harmon Jones. Dangerous Crossing. ..330.... (75) July Mystery Drama. Bride boards ship for honeymoon and husband disappears with luggage. Ship’s doctor discovers third officer, feigning illness, is missing husband, plotting to control her fortune by having her judged insane. Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams, Carl Betz, Mary Anderson. Director: Joseph M. Newman. Desert Rats, The... .319.... (88) May War Drama. North African campaign in World War II, in which Australian troops undergo a siege of 242 hours from Rommel’s forces. Former schoolmaster and liaison officer, a former pupil, add personal touches. Richard Burton, Robert Newton, James Mason, Robert Douglas, Chips Rafferty. Director: Robert Wise. ©Destination Gobi....313 (89) Mar. Technicolor Drama. Seven enlisted navy men hold a weather observation station in the Gobi desert during World War II. Captured by the Japanese, Mongols help them escape to Okinawa on a Chinese junk. Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Casey Adams, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman. Director: Robert Wise. ©Down Among the Sheltering Palms 317.... (87) Mar. Technicolor Comedy With Music. Occupation duty on a South Pacific island finds an officer trying to enforce non-fraternization and romance the missionary’s niece. The native king presents him a wife but everything is happily resolved. William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Gloria DeHaven, Gene Lockhart. Director: Edmund Goulding. ©Farmer Takes a Wife, The. ...307 (81) July Technicolor Musical. Based on the novel, “Rome Haul,” by Walter D. Edmonds, in which a young farmer comes aboard an 1850 Erie canalboat to work for a stake and falls in love with the cook. Together they buy a vessel and win a $500 race. Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll, Eddie Foy jr. Director: Henry Levin. ©Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.. ...326.. ..(91)... .Aug. Technicolor Musical. Night club singer and brunet girl friend wangle European trip from wealthy boy friend whose father objects to a marriage. Hired “spy” courts the girl friend but middle-aged married beau complicates matters before double-wedding finale. Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan. Director: Howard Hawks. ©Girl Next Door, The.. ..320.... (92) June Technicolor Musical. Night club star meets widower next door devotedly rearing a 10year-old son. They fall in love but wait to marry until the son is won over by a little neighborhood girl. June Haver, Dan Dailey, Dennis Day, Billy Gray, Cara Williams, Clinton Sundberg. Director: Richard Sale. Glory Brigade, The. ...323. ... (81) July Drama. American lieutenant in Korea commands Greek infantrymen into enemy territory and some are captured. The lieutanant, of Greek origin, brands them as cowards until they prove themselves in later fighting. Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan, Nick Dennis. Director: Robert D. Webb. ©“I Don’t Care” Girl, The....302 . (78) Jan. Technicolor Musical. Film biography of Eva Tanguay which shows screen writers interviewing her former partners to get the story of her life. A secret romance is uncovered and adopted for the script. Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Oscar Levant, Bob Graham, Craig Hill. Director: Lloyd Bacon. ©Inferno.. ..329. .. (83) Aug. Technicolor 3-D Drama. Wealthy playboy’s wife and her boy friend abandon him in desert canyon, with leg broken. He splints own leg, is rescued, later winning fight with boy friend. Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull. Director : Roy Baker. (Made available in 2-D for Dec. ’53 release.) ©Invaders From Mars.. ..314 ... (78) May Cinecolor Science-Fiction Drama. Boy sees space ship disappear underground, tells his father, atomic missile scientist. The army is alerted, young physician and wife are kidnaped to weird underground place, but the boy saves them. Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke. Director: William Cameron Menzies. Kid From Left Field, The. ...325.... (80) July Comedy. Baseball-wise 9-year-old boy turns apathetic club into a winning team and is made manager. When he reveals that the tips came from his dad, a one-time big league outfielder, the father gets the managerial job. Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins. Director: Harmon Jones. Man on a Tightrope.. ..315.... (105) May Drama. Produced in Europe. Managerclown of a small circus in Czechoslovakia plans to escape to the American zone. He and a spy kill each other but his daughter and the circus escape. Fredric March, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell, Gloria Grahame, Adolphe Menjou. Director: Elia Kazan. Mr. Scoutmaster.... 331... (87) Sept. Comedy. When broadcaster’s TV program fails to sell sponsor’s breakfast food, wife suggests they adopt a child, to understand children’s minds. Instead he becomes a Scoutmaster, but after humorous experiences, adopts resourceful boy. Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee, Veda Ann Borg. Director: Henry Levin. My Cousin Rachel.... 301.... (98)..... Jan. Drama. From Daphne du Maurier’s story of double intrigue in which a man suspects his cousin of having fatally poisoned his foster-father (her husband), and of at tempting to poison him; but she dies accusing him of her accident. Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz. Director: Henry Koster. My Pal Gus....233.... (83) Dec. ’52 Comedy. Modern theme based on the battle between divorced parents for the custody of a son. Legitimate romance between the father and a schoolteacher adds the love interest. Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter, George Winslow. Director: Robert Parrish. My Wife’s Best Friend. ...231. .. (87) Oct. ’52 Comedy. Thinking their plane will crash, husband confesses a romantic interlude with his wife’s best friend. She forgives him, but when plane lands safely, almost wrecks their marriage by a flirtation in retaliation. Anne Baxter, Macdonald Carey, Catherine McLeod, Cecil Kellaway. Director: Richard Sale. ©Niagara.. ..306.... (89) Feb. Technicolor Drama. Korean veteran’s wife plots with her lover to kill her husband while vacationing at Niagara. The plan backfires, her lover is killed, and the husband goes over the Falls. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Richard Allan. Director: Henry Hathaway. Night Without Sleep....235. .. (77) Nov. ’52 Drama. Through the fog of a hangover, brilliant composer turned psychopathic pieces together events of the previous day and night, ending in the murder of his domineering wife. He gives himself up. Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegarde Neff, Joyce MacKenzie. Director: Roy Baker. Pickup on South Street.. ..322. ...(80) June Drama. Pickpocket takes wallet from underworld girl, finding microfilm in it belonging to her employer, a Communist spy. Pickpocket and girl fall in love, work with the FBI, and emerge as heroic characters. Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey. Director: Samuel Fuller. ©Pony Soldier.... 237.... (82) Nov. ’52 Technicolor Drama. Canadian Cree Indians cross into Montana to raid the Blackfeet and Sioux tribes. Royal Canadian Mounted Police release white hostages and escort the Crees back to Saskatchewan. Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez, Penny Edwards. Director: Joseph M. Newman. ©Powder River.... 321.... (77) June Technicolor Western. Gunman gold prospector volunteers for town marshal to avenge death of his partner. Girl who came west to take former doctor, turned desperado, back falls in love with the marshal, who reciprocates. Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Penny Edwards, Carl Betz. Director: Louis Fling. President’s Lady, The.. . 312.. ..(96) Apr. Historical Drama. Andrew Jackson (17671845) has to remarry his wife because her divorce was prematurely reported. The circumstances are exaggerated for campaign purposes, and she dies before he occupies the White House. Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John Mclntire, Fay Bainter, Whitfield Connor. Director: Henry Levin. Ruby Gentry.. ..303. ...(82) Jan. Drama. Tempestuous story of a southern swamp girl in love with an aristocrat, but who marries a wealthy, self-made man. When he accidentally drowns, she is suspected of his murder. Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully Director: King Vidor. (A BernhardVidor Production.) 112 BAROMETER Section