Boxoffice barometer (1954)

izes guerrillas, helps defeat the French, and wins the king’s daughter. Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier, Jacqueline Pierreux, Nando Bruno. Director: Mario Soldati. O. K. Nero.. . (88) JFE Rel. Corp May Comedy Satire. (Italian-made with Englishdubbed dialog. Made in both Italian and American-language versions.) Two American sailors on leave in Rome are assaulted and left unconscious. In their delirium they find themselves back to the days of Nero in ancient Rome. Walter Chiari, Carlo Campanini, Silvana Pampanini, Gino Cervi, Giulio Donnini. Director (American-language version) : Lewis E. Ciannelli. Director (Italian-language version) : Mario Soldati. Paolo and Francesca.. . Italian (98) IFF Rel. Corp Mar. Drama. A marriage is arranged to bring peace to two feudal towns of 13th century Italy. The bridegroom sends his younger brother as proxy, which brings tragedy, as he and the bride fall in love. Odile Versois, Andrea Checchi, Armando Francioli, Nino Marchesi, Aldo Silvani. Director: Raffaello Matarazzo. Pimpernel Svensson... Swedish (86) Scandia Films Comedy. Guitar-strumming farmer whose nephew is detained by the USSR for lack of papers signs as chef on a Swedish freighter, rescuing the nephew in a Russian port through a ruse. Edvard Persson, Ivar Wahlgren, Aurore Palmgren, Gunnel Wadner, Arne Wiren. Director: Emil A. Lingheim. (A. B. Europa Films.) Ramuntcho . ..French.... (93) Arlan Piets. Drama. Illegitimate lad strays from the honest path when he falls in with smugglers in the French mountains, but is regenerated by love. Louis Jouvet, Francoise Rosary, Nino Constantini, Madeleine Orseray, Odile Rameau. Director: Rene Barberis. (An Arthur Davis Ossociates Presentation.) Rome, 11 O’Clock. ...Italian ... (91) . ..Times Films Drama. Postwar want ad in Rome newspaper, calling for girl typist, results in crowd on staircase which collapses, killing one. Story delves into the lives of several applicants rushed to the hospital. Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose, Raf Vallone, Eva Vanicek, Lea Padovani. Director: Giuseppi De Santis. (A Paul Graetz Production.) Secret of Mayerling, The.. ..French (90) Commercial Piets. Drama. Film version of the 19th century mystery surrounding the death of Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of the Hapsburg Empire, and his mistress, which was given a double suicide verdict. Historians believe it was political assassination. Jean Marais, Dominique Blanchar, Claude Farrel, Sylvia Montfort, Debucourt. Director: Jean Delannoy. Seven Deadly Sins, The. ...French and Italian (127) Arlan Piets May 11 Episodic Dramas. Seven dramas on sin played by seven different all-star casts, in stories based on short story classics. Viviane Romance, Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Frank Villard, Isa Miranda, Francoise Rosay, Noel-Noel, Henri Vidal. Directors: Roberto Rossellini, Claude Autant-Lara, Yves Allegret, Jean Dreville, Eduardo de Filippo, Carlo Rim, Georges Lacombe. (An Arthur Davis Associates Presentation.) Sextette.. ..French.... (90) Arlan Piets. Episodic Comedies-Dramas. Six episodes, each with a different cast, comprising the stories of “The Gun,” “Female Affair,” “The Key to Sin,” “Snow Queen,” “Seducer’s Fate” and “Ski champ.” Portrays love, sex, comedy, fantasy, murder and revenge, all taking place at a famous inn in the French Alps. Frank Villard, Martine Carol, Blanchette Brunoy, Sophie Desmarets, Alexandre Rignault. Director: Robert Hennion. (An Arthur Davis Associates Presentation.) Skipper Next to God. ...French (83) Excelsior Piets. Melodrama. Skipper without moral scruples takes a cargo of Jewish refugees to Egypt where technicality prevents their landing. Moved by their plight, he scuttles his ship off America and they land as survivors. Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Francois, Jean Mercure, Loleh Bellen, Jean-Pierre Grenier. Director: Pierre Laurent. Story of Tosca, The.. ..Italian (105) Scalera Films.. ..Reissue Operatic Drama. Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Voice of Ferruccio Tagliavini. (Originally released 1947-48 season by Superfilm.) Strange Ones, The ...French.. . (95) ... Fine Arts Fantasy Drama. Based on Jean Cocteau’s novel, “Les Enfants Terribles.” Story of a strange brother and sister relationship that ends in madness, murder and suicide. Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Renee Cosima, Jacques Bernard. Director: JeanPierre Melville. Strange Deception.. ..Italian (96) Casino Films Drama. (Foreword narrated in English.) Story of an Italian soldier who sought vengeance against his brother’s betrayer, and an innocent man who confessed to the crime and gave his life to save the soldier from himself. Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Alain Cuny, Gino Cervi, Philippe Lemaire. Director: Curzio Malaparte. Streets of Sorrow.. . Italian (75) Union Film Distrs. Drama. Girl becomes a prostitute to help her family but attempts suicide and is saved by a young magistrate. Afraid of his friendship, she goes back, killing herself later to avoid recognition by him. Geraldine Brooks, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Marzi, Lucille Marsh, Bruna Danieli. Director: Arturo Gallea. Tears of Blood....Italian.. . (73) Ellis Films Melodrama. Tragic circumstances force a beautiful servant girl into becoming a street walker. She meets an old love, the flame is rekindled and together they begin life anew. Andrea Checchi, Nita Naldi, Carlo Ninchi. Director: Guido Brignone. (A Crest Films release.) Three Forbidden Stories. ...Italian (105) Ellis Films ... Sept. 3-Episode Drama. Three girls applying for a typist job in Rome, are injured when a staircase collapses. While in the hospital together, they confess the true stories of their lives. Eleanora Rossi Drago, Antonella Lualdi, Lia Amanda, Gino Cervi, Isa Pola. Director: Augusto Genina. Times Gone By.. . Italian (106) IFE Rel. Corp. Episodic Dramas. Ties together six short stories in which a second-hand bookseller, fond of the classics, proves that while times change, people do not. As incidents in modern life occur at his stall, he recalls a classic story that parallels it. Vittorio de Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Aldo Fabrizi, Alba Arnova, Enzo Staiola. Director: Alessandro Blasetti. Topaze... French (100) Discina Int’l.,..Oct. ’52 Comedy. Honest schoolteacher in private school is fired for not passing an undeserving pupil. A couple uses him as a front for a phony corporation but loses the busi ness to him. Fernandel, Helene Perdriere, Pierre Larquey, Jacques Morel. Director: Marcel Pagnol. Tormento... Italian (100) IFE Rel. Org Apr. Drama. Rescued from a shrewish stepmother by her lover, girl faces deeper tragedy when her rescuer is unjustly convicted of murder, and she is forced to return home with her illegitimate child. After two years of torment, justice prevails and lover, girl and child are reunited. Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Roberto Murolo, Giuditta Rissone, Mario Ferrari. Director: Raffaello Matarazzo. (A Titanus Production.) Trip to America.... French. ...(75)... Lewis Prods. Musical Comedy Drama. Small town French couple plan their first long trip to see a daughter who had married an American. Their provincial attitude compared to that of seasoned travelers provides the comedy. Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Oliver Hussenot, Jane Morlet, Lisette Le Bon. Director: Henri Lavorel. Two Cents Worth of Hope. ...Italian (99) Times Films Comedy Drama. Enraged when his sweetheart’s father turns her out because she wants to marry him, an Italian veteran strips her in the square and takes her away with the town’s approval. Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo, Luigi Astarita, Felicia Lettieri. Director: Renato Castellani. (A Sandro Ghenzi Production.) Vengeance (see “Carmen” under this classification) . Vergi nita. ...Italian (97) IFE Rel. Corp Apr. Melodrama. Village newsdealer’s daughter reads pulp magazines and dreams of glamorous city life. Entering a beauty contest, she is offered modeling job, a front for white slave activities which she barely escapes. Irene Genna, Eleanora Rossi Drago, Leonardo Cortese, Otello Toso, Franca Marzi. Director: Leonardo De Mitri. Voice in Your Heart, A.. ..Italian (88) Scalera Films Comedy Drama. War correspondent falls in love with singer, then leaves on an assignment. By a strange web of circumstances, the two lovers are kept apart, but are reunited when he returns to her and his new son. Vittorio Gassman, Constance Dowling, Gino Bechi, Beniamino Gigli, Fiorella C. Forti. Director: Alberto D’Aversa. What Price Innocence.. ..Italian (100) IFE Rel. Corp May Drama. Girl betrayed by landowner, living on estate with their child, meets friend of a former sweetheart. The landowner is killed on a hunt when his plot to kill his rival backfires. Mariella Lotti, Lyda Baarova, Otello Toso, Mino Doro, Ignazio Balsamo. Director: Luigi Capuano. Where Is Zaza? (“Dove Sta Zaza?”) Italian.. . (94) , Casolaro Films Comedy. Song contest winner and his longlost gangster twin brother are unaware that each is a guest at the same hotel. Girl singer keeps mistaking their identities, and much confusion results before a happy reunion is effected. Nino Taranto, Isa Barzizza, Alfredo Semprini. Director: Giorgio C. Simonelli. White Line, The... Jtalian... (75) ..IFE Rel. Corp. Drama. New frontier line, drawn between two nations at the end of World War II, divides a peaceful country into two parts. The existence of the inhabitants becomes at once impossible. Gina Lollobrigida, Raf Vallone, Erno Crisa, Enzo Staiola. Director: Luigi Zampa. (Released during 1950-51 season by Lux Films.) 132 BAROMETER Section