Boxoffice barometer (1954)

Morgan, Luana Walters, Jean Carmen, Sheila Loren, Allan Jarvis. Director: Richard G. Kahn. Three Girls From Rome (85) IFE Rel. Corp Oct. Drama. (Italian-made with English-dubbed dialog.) Held back from marriage by poverty and family problems, three young seamstresses drift from their lovers. After many disappointments, each ultimately finds happiness with someone else and their problems are resolved. Lucia Bose, Cosetta Greco, Liliana Bonfatti, Eduardo de Filippo, Ave Ninchi. Director: Luciano Emmer. ©Tonight at 8:30.. . (81) Continental Distrs. Technicolor 3-Episodic Comedies. Britishmade. “The Red Peppers” — Plot centers around a squabbling husband-and-wife song-and-dance team. “Fumed Oak” — Meek man lays down the law to his nagging wife, brattish daughter and feuding mother-inlaw, to the surprise of all. “Ways and Means” — Social-climbing couple, trying to get their gambling losses back from their hostess, is taught a lesson by her butler. Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Stanley Holloway, Valerie Hobson, Nigel Patrick, Martita Hunt, Jack Warner. Director: Anthony Pelissier. (J. Arthur Rank.) Undersea Raider.... (74) Manor Films Documentary. British-made. Saga of submarine warfare during World War II when patrols sent out to destroy enemy ships rescue men in a sailboat seeking asylum in Britain from Nazism. Cast consists of men of the Royal Navy. Director: Jack Lee. (Produced by Ian Dalrymple and Crown Film Unit.) Wherever She Goes.... (80) Mayer-Kingsley Biographical Drama With Music. Australian-made. Australian girl pianist earns money for music lessons by playing the mouth organ outside pubs. The miners raise funds to send her abroad, and she goes on to London concert halls and worldwide fame. Eileen Joyce, Suzanne Parrett, Muriel Steinbeck, Nigel Lovell, John Wiltshire. Director: Michael S. Gordon. White Corridors.. . (87) Fine Arts Films Drama. British-made. Stresses the heroism and sacrifices of the medical profession. Young woman surgeon, in love with doctor, risks a murder charge to save his life by using his own untested discovery on him. Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark, Moira Lister. Director: Pat Jackson. (J. Arthur Rank.) White Hell of Pitz-Palu, The (98) IFE Rel. Corp Nov. Drama. (Swiss-made with English-dubbed dialog.) Remake of old silent film. Relates the experiences of two American lads and an American doctor who are trapped in the mountains. Hans Albers, Ellen Widmann, Liselotte Pulver, Heinrich Grettler. Director: Rolf Hansen. Woman’s Angle, The.... (87) Stratford Films Comedy Drama With Music. British-made. Member of a British musical family writes music based on Greek folk songs, but his wife disapproves. After romancing a ballet dancer, he is divorced and marries an American journalist. Edward Underdown, Cathy O’Donnell, Lois Maxwell, Claude Farell, Anthony Nicholls. Director: Leslie Arliss. Young Caruso, The.... (77) ... IFE Rel. Corp.. Oct. Drama With Music. (Italian-made with English-dubbed dialog.) Struggles of a youngster with a talented singing voice, who gives up singing after his mother dies. Years later, he again takes up voice training, becomes a successful operatic star and is reunited with an old sweetheart. Maurizio di Nardo, Ermanno Randi, Gina Lollobrigida, Ciro Scafa, Voice of Mario Del Monaco. Director: Giacomo Gentilomo. Foreign Language (All have English subtitles unless otherwise stated. Foreign dialog indicated after film title.) Bad Woman, The. ...French (90) Arlan Piets. Romantic Drama. Story of a beautiful woman who made or broke men at her will. Swearing vengeance against the underground leader responsible for her lover’s death, they ultimately meet and he falls in love with her, but she betrays him to the Germans. Viviane Romance, Valentina Cortesa, Clement Duhour, Fosco Giachetti, Giovanni Hinrich. Director: Ettore Giannini. (An Arthur Davis Associates Presentation.) Bellissima. . ..Italian (108) IFE Rel. Corp. Drama. A plain little girl is entered in a movie contest for the prettiest new child star. When child is offered a plain role, the mother turns it down as she cannot believe her child is not beautiful. Anna Magnani, Alessandro Blasetti, Tina Apacelli, Walter Chiari, Gastone Renzelli. Director: Luchino Visconti. Berliner, The. ...German.... (80) ..Joseph Burstyn Satirical Comedy Drama. Fantasy laid in the year 2050 in which TV shows a 100-yearold movie of “Mr. Average Man” in the Berlin of 1950. Commentary written and spoken by Henry Morgan. Gert Frobe, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wascher, Tatjana Sais, O. E. Hasse. Director: R. H. Stemmle. Cadets of Guascogna, The (“I Cadetti di Guascogna”) ....Italian (92) Continental Piets. Musical Comedy. Story with an army camp background, centering around the romances of a girl and several rookies in love with her. A successful amateur show solves a financial problem and resolves a lovers’ quarrel. Ferruccio Tagliavini, Luciano Sangiorgi, Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Fulvia Mammi, Gianni Glori, Carlo Campanini. Director: Mario Mattoli. Carmela (“The Officer and the Lady”) Italian... (84) Scalera Films Reissue Psychological Drama. Doris Duranti, Pal Javor, Aldo Silvani, Anna Capodaglio. (Originally released 1948-49 season by Lopert Films.) Carmen. ...Italian and French (96) Scalera Films . ..Reissue Melodrama. (Also being released under title of “Vengeance.”) Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, Lucien Coedel. (Originally released in French language 1946-47 season > by Superfilm.) Cavalleria Rusticana... .Italian (84) Scalera Films. ...Reissue Drama. Leonardo Cortese, Isa Polo, Carlo Ninchi. (Originally released 1947-48 season by Superfilm.) Cheri... French.... (90) Commercial Piets. Drama. Story of the love of a wealthy, young man for a woman twice his age, to whom he returns after leaving his bride. Disillusioned by the sudden revelation of their age differences, he commits suicide. Jean Desailly, Marcelle Chantal, Marcelle Derrien, Jane Marken. Director: Pierre Billon. Cinderella (“La Cenerentola”) ....Italian (97) Times Films Operatic Comedy. Based on the Rossini opera. Cinderella falls for a footman, while her two haughty sisters try to capture the prince. The “prince” turns out to be the footman in disguise while the real prince is disguised as the footman. Lori Randi, Gino Del Signore, Afro Poli, Vito De Taranto, Franca Tamantini. Director: Fernando Cerchio. Cliff of Sin, The (“La Scogliera del Peccato”) ... Italian.... (94) ....Continental Piets. Drama. Beautiful, villainous woman returns to an old lover living on top of a cliff, now drinking heavily. Locating his money, she poisons him, and later falls to her death. Gino Cervi, Margaret Genske, Delia Scala, Ermanno Randi, Otello Toso. Director: Roberto Montero. Counterfeiters, The . ..Italian (90) IFE Rel. Corp.. ..(May Melodrama. Police inspector tracks down counterfeiters by going to the town where the paper is manufactured. He finds one of the workers is used by the ring, and captures its leaders. Fosco Giachetti, Doris Duranti, Erno Crisa, Lianella Carell, Saro Urzi. Director: Franco Rossi. Der Hauptmann Von Koepenick (“Captain of Koepenick”). ...German (96) Brandon Films. ...Reissue Comedy Drama. Story of the cobbler-exconvict who pulled the biggest hoax in history to get a passport, which had been denied him. He gets the passport and a royal pardon from his Imperial Majesty. Max Adalbert, Friedrich Kayssler, Ilse Fuerstenberg, Hermann Valentin, Emil Wabschke. Director: Richard Oswald(Originally released in 1933.) Devotion. . ..Italian (92) IFE Rel. Corp Mar. Melodrama. Financial difficulties of a Sardinian village nobleman prompts his sweetheart to smother his wealthy bedridden uncle. Confessing to her priest, she does penance by giving up the man she loves; Colomba Dominques, Roldano Lupi, Juan De Landa, Franca Marzi, Gualtiero Tumiati. Director: Augusto Genina. Doomed.. ..Italian.... (89) ....IFE Rel. Corp May Melodrama. A young man leaves postwar Italy for Argentina, to earn money to marry the sweetheart left behind. During his absence, a false friend plots against the lovers, who are ultimately reunited. Franca Marzi, Otello Toso, Barbara Florian, Renato Baldini. Director: Armando Zorri. Duel Without Honor... .Italian (108) IFE Rel. Corp Feb. Drama. Poor cousin living with rich one manages to marry the rich cousin’s fiance, after causing a duel. Later the ingrate is killed by her artist-lover, and her duplicity revealed. Massimo Girotti, Annette Bach, Constance Dowling, Roldano Lupi, Ave Ninchi. Director: Camillo Mastrocinque Each Heart Has Its Own Story Swedish. ...(104 ) Scandia Films Romantic Comedy. Idyllic tale of baron’s daughter, about to become engaged to a nobleman, who meets a wandering minstrel, falls in love with him and receives the parental blessing brought on by encouragement from the family ghost. Edvard Persson, Inger Juel, Hilda Borgstrom, Dagmar Ebbesen, Henrik Schildt. Director: Bror Bugler. (A. B. Europa Films.) Fanfan the Tulip... .French. .. (96) ..Lopert Films Satirical Comedy. Destiny of young adventurer is changed by faked prophecy of a gypsy in disguise that he would have a brilliant army career and marry the king’s daughter. The prophecy is fulfilled, with the king helping along Destiny. Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Noel Roquevert, Oliver Hussenot, Marcel Herrand. English commentary by Hiram Sherman. Director: Christian-Jaque. (United Artists will distribute this film for the 1953-54 season.) Females at Play Swedish.... (82) ....Arlan Piets. Musical Comedy. Sailors on leave spend their time at an exclusive girls’ school. 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