20th Century-Fox Dynamo (April 1950)

FACTS ABOUT 1950-51 FEATURE PRODUCT APRIL (1950) THREE CAME HOME. A true story. The moving drama of an American mother, her little boy and husband held captive by the Japanese for three years in war-time North Borneo concentration camps. Based on the best- ' ... f £t\ seller book by Agnes Newton Keith. A factual, unromanticized story of how gently bred people met terror — both practically and spiritually. Star- ring Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith, with Patric Knowles, Florence Des- mond, Sessue Hayakawa, Sylvia Andrews, Phyllis Morris, Kermit White- held, Kim Spaulding, Mark Keuning and others. Adaptation and produc- tion by Nunnally Johnson. Directed by Jean Negulesco. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. Color by Technicolor. A domestic comedy. Based on the best-selling autobiographical book by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The true story of an efficiency-minded £ father and a psychologist-mother of 12 children. Co-starring Clifton Webb as the elder Gilbreth, Myrna Loy as Mrs. Gilbreth and Jeanne Crain as the eldest daughter, and featuring Barbara Bates, Sara Allgood, Norman Ollsted, Carole Nugent, Betty Lynn, Mildred Natwiek, Craig Hill, Frank Orth, Jimmy Hunt, Betty Barker, Patty Brady, Anthony Sydse, Teddy Driver, Roddy McCaskell, and many others. Produced by Lamar Trotti, Directed by Walter Lang. WABASH AVENUE. Color by Technicolor. Romantic comedy with music. The rou^h and tumble rivalry of two hustlers in the days of Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier, Anthony Ross, Verna Felton, Ellen Corby, Richard Jaeckel, Alan Hale, Jr., David Clarke, John Pickard, B.G. Norman, Angela Clarke, Cliff Clark, Jean Innes, Eddie Ehrhart, Albert Morin, Kenneth Tobey, Michael Branden, Eddie Parkes, Ferris Taylor, Hank Patterson, Mae Marsh, Credda Zajar, Kim Spaulding, and many others. Produced by Nunnally Johnson. Directed by Henry King. JULY (1950) Chicago’s 1892 Columbian World’s Fair, for the hand of a beautiful singer.” ■ - " 5 3 and dancer. Screenplay by Harry Tugend and Charles Lederer. Original songs by Mack Gordon and Josef Myrow. Co-starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Phil Harris, with Reginald Gardiner, James Barton, Barry Kelley, Maragaret Hamilton, Jacqueline Dalya, Robin Raymond, Hal K. Dawson, Irving Bacon, Dorothy Neuman, Alexander Pope, Henry Kulky, Marie Bryant, Collette Lyons, Charles Arnst, Dick Crockett, Walter Long, Marion Marshall, John (Skins) Miller, Percy Helton and Claire Carleton. Produced by William Perlberg. Directed by Walter Lang. MAY (1950) THE BIG LIFT. Formerly titled “Two Corridors East”. Dramatic story inspired by the historic Berlin airlift. An original story by George A. Seaton about an airlift pilot who falls in love with a conniving ex-Nazi woman-propagandist. A dramatic revelation of how a schemer tried to use her sex and love to secure refuge in the United States for the purpose of joining a secret husband and carrying on an “ism” supposedly elimina- ted through Allied victory — and of a great lesson learned by a young man. Filmed in the American zone of Occupied Germany, in and around Berlin, with the co-operation of the United States Army Of Occupation and U.S. Army Air Force. Co-starring Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas. Introducing a new star, Cornelia Burch, with Burni Loebel and many others who play themselves. Produced by William Perlberg. Directed by George A. Seaton. A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK. Color by Technicolor. A romantic com- edy. Based on an original story, by Anita and Richard Sale, about a foot- loose, glib drummer, a “solid-sender” with the women and reformed song- and-dance man travelling in the Southwest in the 1870’s, who finds himself in the middle of a war between a stagecoach line and a narrow-gauge railroad — and who falls in love with a two-gun, fast-shooting U.S. woman- marshal who is leading Coloradoans in a fight to bring law and order out of violence and chaos. Co-starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter with Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Charles Kemper, Connie Gilchrist, Arthur Hun- nicutt. Will Wright, Chief Yowlachie, Victor Sen Yung, Mauritz Hugo,, Raymond Greenleaf, Harry Carter, Robert Adler, Lee MacGregor, Marion Marshall, Joyce MacKenzie, Marilynn Monroe, Barbara Smith and others. Filmed at Durango, Col. Produced by Robert Bassler. Directed by Richard Sale. JUNE (1950) NIGHT AND THE CITY. Underworld melodrama. Entirely filmed in London, England. Story takes place between sundown and dawn. The drama of a merciless, unscrupulous, conniving get-rich-quick, handsomA \ hoodlum who outsmarts himself. For the first time, London’s night-life! i is dramatized on the screen. A fast-moving, suspenseful drama of a man' without morals, who preyed on women for the money he could get out of them—and of another man who dearly loved a girl who lived in a world of confusion. Co-starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe and Francis L. Richardson, with Stanislaus Zbyszko, former world’s heavyweight champion; Herbert Lorn, Mike Mazurki, James Hay- ter, Maureen Delaney and others. Produced by Samuel Engel. Directed by Jules (“The Naked City”) Dassin. THE GUNFIGHTER. Outdoor drama. Screenplay by William Bowers * and William Sellers from a story by Mr. Bowers and Andre de Toth. A’_ Darryl F. Zanuek production. The story of a fabulous outlaw who became^ the West’s most notorius killer, who tried to reform only to be provoked into more killings, even though they are in self-defense. A man’s desperate fight to win back his wife and son and of forces conspiring against him in his effort to change over to the ranks of law and order. Starring Gregory Peck as the West’s famous outlaw, Jim Ringo, with Helen Westcott, Millard WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. Drama of *he New York police and underworld. Filmed in New York. Screenplay by Ben Herht from an adap- tation by Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg and Robert E. Kent of a novel by William L. Stuart. Suspenseful drama of a young New York L detective who wins fame because of his punishment of criminals, who '\ substitutes brawn for brain in his work. Fate involves him in an investiga- tion of a murder in which a gambler he despises is connected. But, in a determination to get a confession from a suspect he beats him to death— and then, frightened, plots to hide his crime only to turn the finger of suspicion to the father of the girl he loves. Co-starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney and featuring Gary Merrill, with Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Robert Simon, Harry von Zell, Don Appell, Neville Brand, Grace Mills, Lou Krugman, David Mc- Mahon, David Wolfe, Phil Tully, Ian MacDonald, John Close, John Mc- Guire, Lou Nova, Ralph Peters, Oleg Cassini, Louise Lorimer, Lester Sharpe, Chili Williams, Robert Foulk, Eda Reiss Marin, Mack Williams, Clancy Cooper, Bob Evans and others. Produced and directed by Otto. Preminger. LOVE THAT BRUTE. A satire, formerly titled “Turned Up Toes”. ‘ Written by Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware and John Lee Mahin. The turbu- lent romance of a leader of a Chicago gang of racketeers in the 1920’s, who falls in love with a girl who detests mobsters. The mirthful adventures of the gangster who adopts an orphan so he can hire the girl to work as governess in his home and who plots his own “murder” when the young woman discovers his true identity. Co-starring Paul Douglas as the mob chief, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis, Arthur Treacher and 12-year-old Peter Price, with Jay C. Flippen, Barry Kelley, Leon Belasro, Edwin Max, Sid Tomark, Phil Tully, Clara Blandick, Jimmy Hawkins, Judith Ann Vroom, Grayce Hampton, Billy Chaney, Dan Riss, Charles Lane, Marion Marshall, Charles Evans, Leif Erickson, Mauritz Hugo, Stan Johnson, Frank (Billy) Mitchell, and others. Produced by Fred Kohlmar. Directed by Alexander Hall. BROKEN ARROW. Color by Technicolor. One of this year’s more im- portant motion pictures. Characterized by Will Rogers, Jr., as “the great- est motion picture ever produced about Indians’ relations with white men”. Screenplay by Michael Blankfort. Based on the novel, “Blood Brother”, by Elliott Arnold. A romantic drama of an idealist, but coura- geous young white man who joins an Apache tribe to fight his own race which he believes is needlessly exterminating the Indians. To prove that both people can live in peace and understanding together, he has joined the Indians, falls in love with and marries an Indian girl, only to be con- demned as a traitor and an outcast, but eventually proving the practicabil- ity of his theory through a sacrifice by his beautiful wife. Starring James Stewart, with Debra Paget, Jeff Chandler, Basil Ruysdael, Will Greer, Joyce MacKenzie, Arthur Hunnicutt, Raymond Bramley, Jay Silverheels, Argentina Brunetti, Jack Lee, Robert Adler, Harry Carter, Robert Griffin, Billy Wilkerson, Nicky Kuhn, J.W. Cody, Chris Willow Bird, John War Eagle, Iron Eyes Cody, Charles Soldani. Robert Foster Dover, John Mar- ston, Edwin Rand and John Doucett. Produced by Julian Blaustein. Di- rected by Delmer Daves. ? AUGUST (1950) THE BLACK ROSE. Color by Technicolor. Spectacular romantic drama. From the screenplay by Talbot Jennings from the best-selling novel by Thomas B. Costain. Wholly filmed in North Africa, England and Scotland. The adventures of a brave warrior and a semi-civilized Moroccan girl with whom he falls in love. The most ambitious and elaborate motion picture ever filmed by an American producer abroad. With a cast of 5132 people, 3000 camels, 2500 horses. Starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles and Cecile Aubry, young French screen star in her first American-produced film, with Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Finlay Currie, Herbert Lorn, Mary Clare, Bobby Blake, Alfonso Bedoya, Gibb McLaughlin, James Robertson Justice, Henry Oscar and Laurence Harvey. Produced by Louis D. Lighton. Di- rected by Henry Hathaway. THE FIREBALL. Romantic comedy drama. From a story by Tay Garnett and Horace McCoy. The human storj of an undersized orphan who, suffer- ing from an inferiority complex because he can not compete with taller boys for athletic honors, runs away and finds an outlet for his yearning for recognition in roller-skating, becoming a champion and eventually finding happiness after learning a great lesson. Co-starring Mickey Rooney and Pat O’Brien, with Shirley Tyler, Ralph Dumke, Glenn Corbett, Mil- burn Stone and others, including roller-skating stars of today. Produced by Tay Garnett and Bert Friedlob. Directed by Mr. Garnett. ? 7 u 1950 Business Will Be Good For Those Who Make It Good