Boxoffice barometer (1954)

Sailor of the King. ...327 (83) Aug. Drama. Produced in England. British naval officer of World War I has brief romance with girl he meets on train. During World War II he and his son are waiting to be decorated at Buckingham palace for heroism, each unaware of the other’s identity. Jeffrey Hunter, Wendy Hiller, Michael Rennie, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck. Director: Roy Boulting. Silver Whip, The. ...309. .. (73) Feb. Western. Stagecoach driver, wounded during a holdup, drives on. His daredevil messenger pursues the bandits, captures the leader, and wants to lynch him, but the deputized driver wounds him to uphold the law. Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Lola Albright. Director: Harmon Jones. ©Snows of Kilimanjaro, The. ...247. .. (117) ..July Technicolor Drama. Adventurous big game hunter, dying of a leg injury in Africa, reviews past amours in his fever-ridden mind. Devotion of wealthy woman he married is clear to him when help arrives. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll. Director: Henry King. (Pre-released October 1952.) Something for the Birds. ...238. ... (81) . ..Oct. ’52 Comedy. Cynical young lobbyist and girl trying to save a wildlife refuge from oil interests he represents, meet at a Washington party. Their quarreling ultimately ends in reconciliation and love. Victor Mature, Patricia Neal, Edmund Gwenn. Director: Robert Wise. Star, The. .316 (89) Feb. Drama. Divorcee, formerly a top movie star, tries to stage a comeback. Recognizing herself in her role, she retires to devote herself to her young daughter and new husband. Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson. Director: Stuart Heisler. 4l©Stars and Stripes Forever... 239 (89) Dec. ’52 Technicolor Biographical Drama. Screen biography of John Philip Sousa, the “March King.” He assembles his first band after serving a marine enlistment and it debuts at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, Ruth Hussey. Director: Henry Koster. Steel Trap, The.. ..232.... (85) Nov. ’52 Drama. Bank executive plans to embezzle $1,000,000 and escape to Brazil with his wife and daughter. His wife discovers the plan in time to save their integrity. Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande, Tom Powers. Director: Andrew L. Stone. Taxi....305....(77) Mar. Comedy Drama. Cab driver tries to help an Irish war bride and baby find her husband. When found, he is in love with another, and the cabby meanwhile has fallen for the colleen. Dan Dailey, Constance Smith, Neva Patterson, Blanche Yurka, Kyle MacDonnell. Director: Gregory Ratoff. Thief of Venice, The . .304. .. (91) Jan. Costume Drama. The last picture made by Maria Montez. Produced in Venice, it shows the struggles of galley slaves of the Republic for freedom after their defeat by the Turks in the Adriatic. Maria Montez, Paul Christian, Faye Marlowe, Massimo Serato, Aldo Silvani. Director: John Brahm. (A Robert Haggiag Production.) ^Titanic... 318 ... (98) May Drama. The liner Titanic is hit by an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Among the passengers are an estranged husband, his wife and two children. His heroic behavior reunites them before she is put in a lifeboat and he goes down with the ship. Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Thelma Ritter, Audrey Dalton, Richard Basehart. Director: Jean Negulesco. ©Tonight We Sing . .347.. . (109) Apr. Technicolor Musical Biography. Traces the career of Sol Hurok, world-famous impresario, who brought many concert artists to the people at popular prices. For a time, his devotion to his work threatened his marriage. David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Tamara Toumanova, Anne Bancroft. Director: Mitchell Leisen. ©Treasure of the Golden Condor... 308 (93) Feb. Technicolor Drama. Placed in bondage by his uncle who usurped his estates, a French nobleman escapes to help search for Mayan treasure. Finding it and romance, he regains his heritage but returns to Guatemala. Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, George Macready, Walter Hampden. Director: Delmer Daves. ©Way of a Gaucho....229....(91) Oct. ’52 Technicolor Drama. Made in Argentina. Argentine bandit-Gaucho saves aristocratic Spanish girl from Indian kidnaper. Escaping from prison later, he and the girl take refuge in a church and the priest intercedes for them. Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe. Director: Jacques Tourneur. ©White Witch Doctor. ...324.... (96) July Technicolor Drama. In 1907, registered nurse arrives in African Congo where Dutch trader and partner, seeking gold, guide her to Bakuba tribe. Trader causes trouble, she saves life of king’s son, and has romance with partner. Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak, Mashood Ajala, Joseph C. Narcisse. Director: Henry Hathaway. (REISSUES) ©Broken Arrow . . 356. .. (93) Sept. Technicolor Western Drama. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget. Call of the Wild . . 350 ... (81) Mar. Adventure Melodrama. Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie. Gentleman’s Agreement . ..352. .. (118) May Drama. Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm. Gunfighter, The . . 348. .. (84) ... Jan. W’estern Melodrama. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker. I Was a Male War Bride . ..357.. . (105) Sept. Comedy Farce. Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart. Kiss of Death. ...354.. . (99) -...July Drama. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark. My Darling Clementine.... 351.. . (97) Mar. Western Drama. Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs. Road House. .. 355.... (95) July Drama. Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark. Snake Pit, The.. . 353. ...(108) ... May Drama. Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan. Yellow Sky.. ..349.... (98) Jan. Super-Western. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark. United Artists (November 21, 1952 through October 23, 1953) Assassin, The . .5302. .. (90) Apr. 22 Melodrama. British-made. (Released in England as “Venetian Bird.”) Private-eye, who goes to Venice to reward an Italian for helping an American GI during the war. has a series of adventures before finding the hero-criminal, turned political assassin. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson, George Coulouris, Margot Grahame. Director: Ralph Thomas. (J. Arthur Rank.) ©Babes in Bagdad.1191... (79) Dec. 7, ’52 Exotic Color Comedy Drama. Harem extravaganza filmed in Spain. The jealous revolt of the kadi of Bagdad’s eleven neglected wives and the extra-curricular romance of a new recruit form the plot. Paulette Goddard, Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Ney, John Boles. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. (Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger.) Bandits of Corsica, The. ...1199.... (82) ... Feb. 27 Costume Drama. One of Siamese twins early separated by surgery suffers amnesia and joins the gypsies. Induced by a tyrannical ruler to pose as his brother, an insurgent leader, he is killed in a battle liberating Corsica. Richard Greene, Paula Raymond, Raymond Burr, Dona Drake, Raymond Greenleaf. Director: Ray Nazarro. (Global Productions.) Breaking the Sound Barrier.. ..1192 (115) Dec. 21, ’52 Melodrama. British-made. J e t-p lane manufacturer is fanatically devoted to experiments that cost his son’s and son-inlaw’s lives. His daughter is bitter until the next flight succeeds, then the father breaks down. Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan. Director: David Lean. (A London Films presentation and a Lopert Films release.) ©Bwana Devil.. ..5300. ...(85) Mar. 13 Ansco Color Natural Vision 3-D Drama. Before construction of the first railroad to span British East Africa can be completed, obstacles, in the form of man-eating lions that attack the workmen, have to be overcome. Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce. Director: Arch Oboler. (Arch Oboler Productions.) ©Captain Scarlett.... 1176 (75) Aug. 12 Technicolor Adventure Drama. French Royalists after Napoleon’s defeat oppress the people. Captain instrumental in saving princess from marriage with nobleman who confiscated captain’s estates is aided by local Robin Hood to outwit enemies and win princess. Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Manolo Fabregas, Eduardo Noriega. Director: Thomas H. Carr. (A Craftsman Production.) Donovan’s Brain. ...5329.. . (81) Sept. 30 Science -Fiction Drama. Doctor, experimenting in brain research, steals a dead man’s brain and keeps it alive through a special apparatus, making contact via mental telepathy. As a result the brain dominates the doctor and turns him into a Jekyll and Hyde character with criminal tendencies. Lew Ayres, Nancy Davis, Gene Evans, Steve Brodie. Director: Felix E. Feist. (Allan Dowling Productions.) Fake, The....5322.... (80) Sept. 25 Drama. British-made. Man guarding famous masterpiece lent London’s Tate gallery secretly removes real painting and thief steals copy. Suspecting an artist and his daughter, he follows the clue, which leads to discovery of the real culprit. Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton, John Laurie. Director: Godfrey Grayson. 114 BAROMETER Section