Boxoffice barometer (1954)

one of their number a traitor when he denounces violence and bloodshed as false patriotism. The events that follow prove to them that he was right. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Sellars, Robert Beatty. Directors: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph. (J. Arthur Rank.) Girls in the Night....311... (83) Feb. Melodrama. Story of tenement life, in which ambitions of the young people to move out of the area, lead to incidents of crime that show them such methods do not pay. Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck, Glen Roberts, Patricia Hardy. Director: Jack Arnold. ©Golden Blade, The. .332 . (81) Sept. Technicolor Drama. Young commoner, in Bagdad to avenge father’s death, unwittingly buys the famous Sword of Damascus. With it he saves the caliph’s daughter, marries her, and overthrows the people’s oppressors. Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, George Macready, Steven Geray. Director: Nathan Juran. ©Great Sioux Uprising, The. ...326.. . (80) .. .July Technicolor Western Drama. Dishonest horse trader and feminine competitor supply Fort Laramie’s cavalry. Stealing from Sioux chief who earlier had refused to sell to her, trader starts trouble she and Union doctor avert in time. Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney. Director: Lloyd Bacon. ©Gunsmoke....312.... (79) Mar. Technicolor Western. Brought to Montana to kill a rancher, a gunman becomes friends with the rancher, drives his cattle across the mountains with his gun arm broken, and wins the rancher’s daughter. Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Paul Kelly, Charles Drake, Mary Castle. Director: Nathan Juran. I Believe in You.. ..384.... (90) May 4 Drama. British-made. Based on book by Sewell Stokes. When teen-ager stumbles into a bachelor’s apartment after an accident and pleads for him to contact her probation officer, he becomes interested in the rehabilitation of criminals. Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Godfrey Tearle, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins. Directors: Michael Relph, Basil Dearden. (J. Arthur Rank.) ©Importance of Being Earnest, The 381.... (95) Dec. 22, ’52 Technicolor Comedy. Oscar Wilde’s stage play of a bachelor who invents a brother, Earnest, to camouflage his visits to London. When his best friend poses as Earnest, romantic and other complications result. Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, Michael Denison, Dame Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford. Director: Anthony Asquith. (J. Arthur Rank.) It Came From Outer Space.. ..322 (3-D) 335 (2-D)....(80) June Science-Fiction Drama. (Available in both 3-D and 2-D.) Scientist investigates crash of meteor-like object in Arizona, recognizing it as a space ship. Contacting the occupants, he keeps them from being molested while they repair their ship and escape. Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes. Director: Jack Arnold. It Grows on Trees....303.... (84) Nov. ’52 Comedy Fantasy. A couple with three children and a lot of bills finds money growing on trees in their back yard. The government confiscates the trees but reimburses them for illegal money spent. Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna. Director: Arthur Lubin. It Happens Every Thursday.. ..319. .. (80) ....May Comedy. Young married couple buys a California weekly newspaper with small circulation that jumps after he has an air plane seed clouds for rain. Later floods are blamed on him until his wife explains. Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh, Edgar Buchanan, Palmer Lee. Director: Joseph Pevney. ©Law and Order....318....(80) May Technicolor Western. Ex-U.S. marshal, persuaded by sweetheart to turn rancher, is induced to come back and bring law and order after his brother, as marshal, is killed by the gang of a political boss. Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Alex Nicol, Ruth Hampton. Director: Nathan Juran. ©Lawless Breed, The. ...306 (83) „ Jan. Technicolor Western. Detailing the daring exploits of another legendary badman of the west, John Wesley Hardin, this shows him eventually returning from a 16-year prison term to set straight his adolescent son. Rock Hudson, Julia Adams, Mary Castle, John Mclntire. Director: Raoul Walsh. ©Lone Hand, The....317.... (79^) May Technicolor Western. Detective is found murdered on farm of widower who is placed under suspicion by a vigilante group. Remarrying, suspect’s secret activities alarm his wife and young son, but he is later vindicated as a Pinkerton undercover agent. Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Jimmy Hunt. Director: George Sherman. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation. ...314 (75) Apr. Comedy. The Kettles go to Paris where a man hands him stolen plans which he takes to the American consulate. The spies abduct Ma and Pa becomes a hero rescuing her. Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Ruman. Director: Charles Lamont. ©ManFrom the Alamo, The. ...328. ...(79). ...Aug. Technicolor Western. Branded as a deserter for leaving the defenders of the Alamo, only to be acclaimed a hero in the end, fighting Texan brings to justice a band of American renegades disguised as Mexicans who had massacred a whole town. Glenn Ford, Julia Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O’Brian, Victor Jory. Director: Budd Boetticher. ©Meet Me at the Fair....307....(87) Jan. Technicolor Drama With Music. A 13-yearold boy escapes from an orphan’s home in 1904 and is picked up by the operator of a one-man medicine show, who romances the welfare worker seeking the boy. Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Hugh O’Brian, Carole Mathews, Chet Allen. Director: Douglas Sirk. ©Mississippi Gambler, The.. ..310 ... (98) Feb. Technicolor Drama. Story of a river-boat gambler who falls in love with a girl from an aristocratic family, who scorns him. Becoming a respectable New Orleans business man, he finally wins her. Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julia Adams, John Mclntire, Paul Cavanagh. Director: Rudolph Mate. ©Penny Princess... .382.... (91) Mar. 24 Technicolor Comedy. British-made, filmed in Spain. Department store salesgirl inherits small European country, meeting a cheese expert en route. Together they market the local wine-flavored Schneese to pay off the country’s debt, before marrying and leaving. Dirk Bogarde, Yolande Donlan, A. E. Matthews, Kynaston Reeves. Director: Val Guest. (J. Arthur Rank.) Promoter, The....285....(88^) Oct. ’52 Comedy. British-made. Story of an aggressive lad who was determined to get rich. This he does iby ingenuous methods, taking advantage of his shrewd knowledge of human nature. Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark. Director: Ronald Neame. (J. Arthur Rank.) Q©Queen Is Crowned, A. ...323 (82 and 66) June Technicolor Documentary. (Playing in both long and shorter versions.) British-made. Ceremonies of the historic coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Narrated by Laurence Olivier from script, partly in verse, by Christopher Fry, with music by the London Symphony Orchestra. (J. Arthur Rank.) ©Raiders, The.... 301.... (80) Nov. ’52 Technicolor Western. Early California prospector’s cabin is looted and his wife killed by a territorial judge’s gang. He and a Spaniard, also wronged, stage robberies to bankrupt the corrupt judge. Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Hugh O’Brian. Director: Lesley Selander. ©Redhead From Wyoming, The . . 309 (80) Jan. Technicolor Western. A woman saloonkeeper is involved in a range war between cattlemen and settlers. Her romance with the sheriff gets a temporary setback when she is jailed for suspected rustling. Maureen O’Hara, Alex Nicol, Robert Strauss, William Bishop, Alexander Scourby. Director: Lee Sholem. ©Seminole.. . 313.. . (86) Mar. Technicolor Action Drama. Officer who had lived with the Florida Indians finds his commander using harsh methods to drive the Seminoles westward. Court-martialed after the murder of the half -white chief, a boyhood friend, the officer is saved by the new chief. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson, Hugh O’Brian. Director: Budd Boetticher. Something Money Can’t Buy.. ..380 (82) Sept. 30 Comedy Drama. British-made. A young couple decides to beat the complexity of living in the post-war world — each one working out the problem in his own way. The wife builds a successful employment agency; the husband a prosperous mobile restaurant. Patricia Roc, Anthony Steel, Moira Lister, A. E. Matthews. Director: Pat Jackson. (J. Arthur Rank.) ©Stand at Apache River, The. ...331 (77) Sept. Technicolor Western. Arizona sheriff arrives at inn where Apache action follows refusal to give army colonel as hostage. Sheriff saves chief’s life and rides away with girl who came to marry a rancher. Stephen McNally, Julia Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Edgar Barrier, Hugh O’Brian. Director: Lee Sholem. ©Take Me to Town.. ..321.. . (81) June Technicolor Drama. Entertainer in logging camp, a fugitive from the law in Denver, is “adopted” by three motherless boys of parttime preacher. She proves herself worthy of their love and wins his. Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Philip Reed, Lee Patrick, Lee Aaker. Director: Douglas Sirk. ©Thunder Bay.. ..327.... (102) Aug. Technicolor Drama. Oil well drillers obtain industrial backing in Louisiana tidelands venture, with three-month time limit set. Shrimp fishermen oppose them until a gusher uncovers a new shrimp bed. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Dan Duryea, Gilbert Roland, Antonio Moreno. Director: Anthony Mann. ©Titfield Thunderbolt, The....387....(84)....Oct. 5 Technicolor Comedy. British-made. Inhabitants of a small English village, opposed to the new bus transporation, are given a month’s probation to run the railway themselves. Sabotaged by bus operators, they take the original Titfield Thunderbolt train out of the museum, putting it into service for a successful trial run. Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Godfrey Tearle. Director: Charles Crichton. (J. Arthur Rank.) 120 BAROMETER Section