Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1953)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT Know Your Product, Mr. Exhibitor. This New Film Bulletin Feature Is Designed to Give You All The Vital Details on Current &) Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS November FIGHTER ATTACK Sterling Hayden, Joy Page, J. Carroll Naich. Director Lesley Selander. Producer William Calihan, Jr. War melodrama. Shot down in Italy during WW II, American flyer joins guerillas. 80 min. JACK SLADE Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Western melodrama. U. S. Marshal uses badqe to become ruthless killer, is finally killed in gunfight with former friend tryinn to brine him to trial. 90 min. VIGILANTE TERROR Bill Elliott. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Sheriff, suspected of being brains of a gold-robbing gang, turns outlaw to unveil real culprit. 70 min. December PRIVATE EYES Bowery Boys. Director Edward Bernds. Producer Ben Schwalb. Comedy melodrama. When one of the Boys develops mind reading power, the others form a detective agency to capitalize on the gift, uncover a fur theft gang. 44 min. TEXAS BADMAN Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Young sheriff tracks down outlaws, finds leader is his father, who later sacrifice: hi; life to save son. 62 min. WORLD FOR RANSOM Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patrick Knowles. Director Robert Aldrich. Producers Bernard Tabakin and Aldrich. Suspense melodrama. Adventurer foils kidnap plot involving nuclear scientist. 80 min. January HOUSE IN THE SEA Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix. Director Nathan Juran. Producer William F. Broidy. Suspense melodrama. Hitch-hiking ex-Marine becomes involved in murder, becomes object of a five-state manhunt. 80 min. MR. POTTS GOES TO MOSCOW George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray. Producer-director Mario Zampi. Comedy, British plumber mistakenly carries brief case containing atomic secrets into Russia, becomes prey of spy network. 93 min. OFF THE RECORD Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Mary Beth Hughes. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Comedy drama. Bank teller, $50,000 short in his accounts, tracks down phony bank examiner, recovers loot and job. 78 min. February RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Carleton Young. Producer Walter Wanner. Director Don Sie^el. Prison melodrama. Jail riot spreads until Governor and State Militia are called in to quell the prisoners. 80 min. THE GOLDEN IDOL Johnny Sheffield. Producer-Director Ford Beebe. Jungle melodrama. Bomba, accidentally in possession of a valuable statue, fights motley group seeking the treasure. 71 min. YUKON VENGEANCE Kirby Grant, Monte Hale. Producer William F. Broidy. Director William Beaudine. Melodrama. Disguised Canadian Mountie uncovers mystery mail robberies committed by trapper using trained ■jiant bear. 68 min. March CHEYENNE CROSSING Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. PARIS PLAYBOYS Bowery Boys. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director William Beaudine. Comedy. Huntz Hall is sent to Paris believed to be a French scientist, concocts a formula that proves even more potent than the original scientist's. 66 min. PRIDE OF THE BLUE GRASS Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles. Director William Beaudine. Producer Hayes Goetz. Racetrack drama. Ambitious racehorse trainer goes big time, comes to earth when kid jockey rides horse trainer had saved to victory. Coming ARROW IN THE DUST Technicolor. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray. Director Lesley Selander. Producer Hayes Goetz. Western melodrama. Would-be deserter dons dying Major's uniform to lead wagon train through hostile Indian territory, is regenerated. 80 min. BITTER CREEK Bill Elliott. Director Thomas D. Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Out to avenge death of his murdered rancher brother, Elliott picks up friends and sweetheart who save him in the showdown battle. 72 min. DRAGONFLY SOUADRON John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett. Director Lesley Selander. Producer John Champion. War drama. Rigid disciplinarian takes over Korean airfield before invasion, is wounded in air attack, but his trained flyers come to the rescue. 80 min. THE GHOST OF O'LEARY Technicolor. David Niven, Yvonne de Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Comedy. Irish fantasy with comic flavor. 80 min. COLUMBIA November GUN FURY 3D Technicolor. Rock Hudson, Donna Reed. Director Raoul Walsh. Producer Lewis J. Rachmil. Western melodrama. Civil War veteran sets out to find fiancee, kidnapped by a Texas gang after a holdup. Four way romance complicates matters. 83 min. LAST OF THE PONY RIDERS Gene Autry. Director George Archainbaud. Producer Armand Schaefer. Western. Former Pony Express rider Autry fights the dieh3rds holding back the stage and the telegraph. S9 min. PARIS MODEL Marilyn Maxwell, Paulette Goddard, Eva Gabor. Producer Albert Zugsmith. Director Alfred E. Green. Comedy drama. Four episodes based around newly designed dress, "Nude At Midnight," detailing amorous adventures of girls who wear creation. 81 min. PRISONERS OF THE CASBAH Technicolor. Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Richard Bare. Costume melodrama. Intrigue in Algiers, culminating in a wild battle in the Casbah. 78 min. December DRUMS OF TAHITI 3D Technicolor. Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Cottume melodrama. Americao in Tahiti is persuaded to smuggle in rifles to overthrow French rule. Marriage of convenience turns out to be real thine, despite hurricanes and volcanic eruptions. KILLER APE Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston. Director Spencer G. Bennet. Jungle melodrama. Jungle Jim tangles with mad scientist drugging animals. 68 min. MISS SADIE THOMPSON 3D Technicolor. Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray. Director Curtis Bernhardt. Producer Jerry Wald. Melodrama with music. From the Somerset Maugham story of "entertainer" on a tropical island who becomes involved with a batch of Marines and fanatical, hypocritical missionary. 91 min. THE NEBRASKAN 3D Technicolor. Phil Carey, Roberta Havnes. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred F. Sears. Western. Army scout tries to get fair trial for Indian pal accused of murdering chief. 68 min. January BAD FOR EACH OTHER Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott. Director Irving Rapper. Producer William Fadiman. Drama. Young doctor out of Army is misled into an easy life as a society medico by wealthy spoiled divorcee, but mine explosion uncovers his true worth when he risks his life to save trapped workers. 83 min. EL ALAMEIN Scott Brady. Director Fred F. Sears. Producer Wallace MacDonald. War melodrama. An American with Montgomery's forces returns to El Alamein to relive in flashback the great victory won there and find the girl he had loved. 67 min. PARATROOPER Technicolor. Alan Ladd, Leo Genn. Director Terence Young. Producers Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli. War melodrama. Training of Paratroopers in Britain climaxed by attempt to take German stronghold in Africa. Interwoven is love story between Ladd and newcomer Susan Stephen. 87 min. Coming BATTLE OF ROGUE RIVER Technicolor. George Montgomery. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Western drama. Spit and polish officer tries to run fort in hostile Indian territory by the "book". After learning what real fighting is, he succeeds in arranging peace with cunning redskin leader. CHARGE OF THE LANCERS Technicolor. Paulette Goddard, Jean Pierre Aumont. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Romantic adventure. Lancers, aided by new cannon, take supposedly impregnable Russian naval base at Sebastapol during Crimean War. FATHER BROWN Alec Guiness, Joan Greenwood. Director Robert Hamer. Producer Vivian Cox. Comedy drama. British made, with Guiness as whimsical priest in the G. K. Chesterton stories who runs a haven for ex-convicts, using it for some unorthodox crime-busting. HELL BELOW ZERO Alan Ladd. Director Mark Robson. Producers Irving Allen, Albert Broccoli. Sea adventure. Murder and the elements combine to make complications for x-Navy skipper in the Antarctic. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift. Director Vittorio de Sica. Producers David O. Selznick and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy, ("Bicycle Thief" ) de Sica's first English language film. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford. Director George Cukor. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Comedy. Girl, yearning for fame, invests her savings to have her name in lights on Broadway sign. Resultant fame and furor disillusions her, drives her into arms of young idealistic photographer. 87 min. JESSE JAMES VS. THE DALTONS 3D Technicolor. Brett King, Barbara Lawrence. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Western melodrama. Supposed son of Jesse James becomes involved with Dalton gang, out to get the loot of the notorious bandit. In showdown battle, Daltons are wiped out and money turns out to be Confederate bills. MASSACRE CANYON Phil Carey, Douglas Kennedy. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred Sears. Western melodrama. Army sergeant detailed to bring shipment of rifles to outpost completes his mission despite harrassing by Apaches, treachery and romance. SPEEDY SHANNON Mickey Rooney. Director Richard Quine. Producer Jonie Taps. Drama. A pint-sized auto mechanic is inveigled into a holdup gang by a pretty girl. Girl repents as she falls in love with the guy, aids him in breaking up the gang. THE CAINE MUTINY Technicolor. Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis. Director Edward Dmytryk. Producer Stanley Kramer. Sea drama. From the famed best-seller by Herman Wouk, of a mutiny aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer. Bogart plays a neurotic captain, Johnson the executive officer, MacMurray is the prissy Keefer, Ferrer the defense attorney for the mutineers and newcomer Francis the Princeton lad who gets a ship of his own. THE IRON GLOVE Technicolor. Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Historical adventure drama. Swashbuckler built around Stuarts and Windsors battle for British throne. THE MIAMI STORY Barry Sullivan, Adele Jergens. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Melodrama. Ex-gangster, now respectable, uses his past experience to expose crime syndicate. THE MAD MAGICIAN 3D Technicolor. Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor. Director John Brahm. Producer Bryan Foy. Horror melodrama. Illusion genius, prevented by his boss from using his creations as a stage magician, murders, him, assumes his identity. THE SARACEN BLADE Technicolor. Ricardo Montalban, Betta St. John. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Costume melodrama. 13th century swashbuckler with Montalban in a vendetta to avenge his father's murder, going to the Holy Land in Crusades. THE WILD ONE Marlon Brando. Director Laslo Benedek. Producer Stanley Kramer. Melodrama. Band of hotrodders terrorize town until indicant citizens force law to clamp down. Eventual regeneration of ringleader comes through love and innate decency. 79 min. METHD-GDLDWYN-MAYER November ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT Technicolor Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Richard Thorpe. Romantic Sea Saga. Two brothers fight for the love of a woman while on whaling expedition in the South Seas. 95 mm. KISS ME KATE 3D Ansco Color. Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller. Producer Jack Cummings. Director George Sidney. Musical comedy. Play-withina-play dramatization of a Broadway show based on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". 109 mm. December EASY TO LOVE Technicolor. Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Charles Walters. Aquatic Musical. Romantic triangle in Cypress Gardens amid colorful swimming and water-skiing productions. 96 min. ESCAPE FROM FORT ERAVO Ansco Color. William Holden, Eleanor Parker. Producer Nicholas Nayfack. Director John Sturges. Western melodrama. Adventure in Civil War period dealing with rebel prisoners in a Union stockade located in the desert. 98 min. January GIVE A GIRL A BREAK Technicolor. Marge and Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Jack Cummings. Director Stanley Donen. Musical comedy. Three young actresses fight for starring role in Broadway musical when the name star wall's out. 82 min. KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE CinemaScope Color Magnificence. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Richard Thorpe. Historical adventure drama. Tale of King Arthur's ascension to the throne of England, his turbulent reign and eventual death, complicated by his wife Guinevere's love for the knight Lancelot. THE GREAT DIAMOND ROBBERY Red Skelton, Cara Williams. Producer Edwin H. Knopf. Director Robert Z. Leonard. Comedy. Young diamond cutter dreams of locating his long lost family and getting chance to cut a fabulous diamond. Phony family materializes and tricks the diamond cutter into stealing the gem. 69 min February ROSE MARIE CinemaScope-Kodacolor. Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas. Producers Arthur Hornblow, Jr. and Lawrence Weingarten. Director Mervyn LeRoy. Musical outdoor drama. Romance and murder in the Canadian north woods involving a beautiful girl, a trapper and a mountie. SAADIA Technicolor. Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam. Producer-director Albert Lewin. Costume melodrama. East-meets-West story of love and violence in t^e Morrocan desert. FILM BULLETIN — YOUR PRODUCT