Boxoffice barometer (1954)

Miscellaneous Angel Street.... (80) Commercial Piets. Drama. British-made. Filmed in 1940 on the same theme as MGM’s 1944 “Gaslight,” about a man who tries to drive his wife insane, as part of a diabolical plot when she accidentally stumbles on a clue to an unsolved murder. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Robert Newton, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell. Director: Thorold Dickinson. Angels One Five.... (98) Stratford Piets. Action Drama. British-made. New pilot ordered to land WAAF plane has to “jump” an incoming damaged plane, crashes and is slightly injured. Grounded by a furious officer, he performs heroically in a crisis. Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Cyril Raymond, Andrew Osborn, Humphrey Lestocq, John Gregson. Director: George More O’Ferrall. (Associated British-Pathe.) Anna.... (96) IFE Rel. Corp. Drama. (Italian-made with English-dubbed dialog.) As a hospital nun waits while her former fiance is in surgery, she thinks back over her past. The events that shaped her decision to help the sick are told in flashback. Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman. Director: Alberto Lattuada. (Released 1951-52 season by Lux Films.) Big Break, The.... (74) Madison Piets. Drama. Day-dreaming shipping clerk meets girl at a mountain resort and back in New York gets fired trying to impress her. His four-flushing leads to arrest, sobers him, and girl stands by. James Lipton, Gaby Rodgers, Ellie Pine, Leona Powers. Doug Taylor. Director: Joseph Strick. (A Joseph Strick Production.) Blades of the Musketeers (52 Howco Prods Apr. 18 Costume Drama. A shorter version with modernized dialog of Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers.” The Musketeers foil a plot by the prime minister of France to seize the throne from Louis XIII, thereby averting a revolution. Robert Clarke, John Hubbard, Mel Archer, Keith Richards, Marjorie Lord, Don Beddoe, Paul Cavanagh. Director: Budd Boetticher. (Produced by Hal Roach jr. Distributed through state right distributors.) Blood Brothers.. . (63) Classic Piets. Documentary. This is the grim and morbid survey of Communist totalitarianism, which is emphasized, and that of dictators Hitler, Mussolini, Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas as portrayed by newsreel clips. Written and narrated by Quentin Reynolds. Director: Robert Snyder. (Produced by Parliament.) Brave Don’t Cry, The.... (90) ....Mayer-Kingsley Drama. British-made. Story of a Scotch mine accident, with the entire crew sealed in. Having telephone communication with rescue workers, the miners are saved when breathing equipment is brought in. John Gregson, Meg Buchanan, John Rae, Fulton Mae Kay, Andrew Keir. Director Philip Leacock. Castle in the Air.. . (92) Stratford Piets. Comedy. British-made. Impoverished earl rents rooms in his castle where the archaic comforts keep guests complaining. He proposes to his secretary after the rich, American woman, of whom she was jealous, buys the castle. Margaret Rutherford, David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, A. E. Matthews. Director: Henry Cass. Children of Loneliness, The (see “The Third Sex” this classification). Congress Dances (90) Noel Meadow. ...Reissue Musical Comedy. (Produced in Germany in both English and German language versions, and originally released in the U.S. in 1932 by United Artists.) This is the Englishdubbed version and is being released as a double feature package with “The Seven Ravens.” Plot concerns a meeting of the Congress of the Five Powers in Vienna, 1814, and a pretty glove salesgirl who unknowingly held the fate of Napoleon in her hands. Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Henry Garat. Director: Eric Charell. Curtain Up ... (82) Noel Meadow-Fine Arts Comedy. British-made. Repertory company in small industrial city has series of mishaps in producing a play for a fussy spinster. Although the manager breaks his leg, the play goes on as scheduled. Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Olive Sloane, Joan Rice, Charlotte Mitchell. Director: Ralph Smart. (J. Arthur Rank.) Dance Hall Girls... (67) Bell Piets. Drama With Music. British-made. Girl who likes to dance loses her regular sweetheart over a dance hall partner. Reconciled, they marry and settle down, after a brawl when she goes back to dance. Bonar Colleano, Donald Houston, Diana Dors, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton. Director: Charles Crichton. Double Confession.... (80) Stratford Piets. Drama. British-made. Man arriving in seacoast town hears woman scream and sees man leave lonely cottage. Learning his estranged wife and another were murdered that night, he helps unravel the crime to clear himself. Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell, Naunton Wayne. Director: Ken Annakin. Egypt by Three.. . (79) Filmakers Rel. Org. Comedy Drama. (Produced in Egypt with English dialog.) Episodic trio, the first about a philandering knife-thrower and his wife who fears an “accident” during their act. The second concerns a quarantined camel caravan, the third two American crooks working a confidence game on a Coptic church. Cast includes Egyptian natives and British and American players. Ann Stanville, Jackie Craven, Paul Campbell, Abbas Fares. Director: Victor Stoloff. Fall Guys, The ... (47) Ellis Films Novelty. A review of the century’s champion wrestlers, and highlights of bouts between a Russian and “Mr. America;” Benito Gardini and Argentino Rocco; Primo Camera and Jim Londos; Don Eagle and Frederick Von Schacht. Narrated by Dennis James, television wrestling announcer. (Produced by Clyde Elliott.) ©Father’s Doing Fine.. . (83).. ..Stratford Piets. Technicolor Comedy. British-made. Widow with four daughters, one married and expecting a baby, is wrapped up in the coming blessed event and her daughters’ love affairs. Her own romance flowers at the end. Heather Thatcher, Richard Attenborough, Diane Hart, Virginia McKenna, Mary Germaine. Director: Henry Cass. (An Associated British Production.) Fear and Desire. .. (61^) Joseph Burstyn War Drama. Four soldiers, shot down behind enemy lines, build a raft to float down the river. Guarding a captive native girl, one goes crazy, shoots her, and another is fatally wounded by enemy fire. Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith. Narration by David Allen. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Fighting Pimpernel, The.. . (88) ....Carroll Piets. Melodrama. British-made. The Scarlet Pimpernel saves countless victims from the guillotine in French revolutionary days. The secret police almost succeed in trapping him, but the elusive Pimpernel eludes again and escapes to England. David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Robert Coote. Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Force of Destiny, The (“La Forza del Destino”).... (104) Screen Art Sales Operatic Drama. (Italian-made with English narration.) From the famous Verdi opera, with the Rome Opera House chorus conducted by Gabriele Santini. A tale of lovers separated on the eve of their elopement, with passionate duels ending in high tragedy. Nelly Corradi, Gino Sinimberghi, Tito Gobbi, Giulio Neri, Mira Vargas. Director: Carmine Gallone. (Ellis Films is distributing this in the New York area.) Glory at Sea.. (88) ..Rogers & Unger Associates Drama. British-made. (Released in England as “Gift Horse.”) World War I ship known as “Gift Horse” was given to Britain by the U.S. in 1940. Once-dishonored captain, called back to command in 1942, redeems himself by scuttling the ship in an enemy port, covering both himself and “Gift Horse” with glory. Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, Joan Rice, James Donald, Bernard Lee. Director: Compton Bennett. Gods of Bali, The. .. (61) Classic Piets. Documentary. (Filmed in Bali with English narration.) Life cycle of the Balinese, showing their rituals, dances, music and symbols, ending in a cremation ceremony. Death is a happy occasion becausfe of their belief in an after life. Narration written by Sydney Carroll, spoken by John Rodney. Director: Robert Snyder. Guilt Is My Shadow. .. (86) Stratford Piets. Drama. British-made. Bachelor uncle unknowingly harbors his criminal nephew, then commits the crime of concealment when nephew is murdered by his wife. Tortured by guilt, wife falls ill and the two admit their guilt to gain peace and happiness. Patrick Holt, Elizabeth Sellars, Lana Morris, Peter Reynolds. Director: Roy Kellino. ©Hindu, The. .. (83) Frank Ferrin Prods. Eastman Color Drama. Filmed in India. Hindu lad defies a fanatical religious cult and swears revenge when his sister and her husband are burned alive. He risks his life to expose the cult to the maharajah and is acclaimed a hero. Nino Marcel, Boris Karloff, June Foray, Victor Jory, Reginald Denny. Director: Frank Ferrin. Horror Maniacs.... (68) Hoffberg Prods. Horror Melodrama. British-made. (Released as a horror bill with “Strangler’s Morgue.”) Presents a series of episodes in the lives of a pair of criminals who indulged in the most fiendish tricks to lure their victims to their deaths. Tod Slaughter, Aubrey Woods, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville. Director: Oswald Mitchell. Hundred Hour Hunt.... (84) Fine Arts Drama. British-made. (Released in England as “Emergency Call.”) An extensive search is made for three blood donors of a rare blood type to save life of small girl. Scotland Yard and the underworld help in locating the three men — a Negro seaman, a prize fighter and a murderer. Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Jack Warner, Freddie Mills, Earl Cameron. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (53) Howco Prods Apr. 25 Comedy. Wyoming oil baron visits his New England granddaughter with marital . troubles. The lovable old busybody meddles in young romances and pretends to conjure up a hurricane, rescuing the town’s big 124 BAROMETER Section