Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1953)

TE.NNEG;:: CHAMP Ansco Color. Shelley Winters, Dewey Martin, Keenan Wynn. Producer Sol Baer Fielding. Director Fred M. Wilcox. Comedy. Prize fighter who believes the Lord is in his corner and his slick manager become involved with a blond bombshell along thi Mississippi river-front. THE LONG, LONG TRAILER Ansco Color. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Vincente Minnelli. Comedy. Trials and tribulations of family life in a trailer. 94 min. A pril FLAM2 AND THE FLESH Technicolor. Lana Turner, Pier Anneli, Carlos Thompson. No other information. GYPSY COLT Ansco Color, Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee. Producers William Grady, Jr. and Sidney Franklin Jr. Director Andrew Marton. Drama. A spirited black colt refuses to accept separation from the little r;irl who raised him. RHAPSODY Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassnon. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Charles Vidor. Love story. A beautiful woman in Europe holds the lives and music careers of two young artists in her hands. Background of classical music. Coming CIEST OF THE WAVE Gene Kelly. Producer-Directors John and Roy Boulting. Science melodrama. AngloAmerican temperaments cet a workout during the development of a new torpedo explosive. EXECUTIVE SUITE William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allvson, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Douglas. Other information not available. NCR TWELVE MEN Ansco Color. Greer Garson, Robert Ryan. Producer John Houseman. Director Robert Z. Leonard. Comedy-romance. Sole woman teacher in a boys' school copes with the problem of sharing her living room with !3 males. INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kell/. Ballet. Four episodes dealing in romance, drama, comedy and pathos told entirely through the medium of *he dance. JULIL'S CAESAR Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr. Producer John Houseman. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Historical drama. A:sassination of Caesar wi;h friend Antony wreaking vengeance on Brutus, Cassius et al. 121 min. PARAMOUNT November BOTANY BAY Technicolor. Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina. Producer Joseph Sistrom. Director John Farrow. Historical adventure. American aboard British ship bound for Australian colonization foments conflict to remove tryanny of cruel captain. 94 min. FLIGHT TO TANGIER 3D Technicolor. Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet. Producer Nat Holt. Director Charles M. Warren. Action melodrama. Soldier of fortune outwits international black market operators in Tangier. 90 min. December H2RE COMES THE GIRLS Technicolor. Bob Hope, A.-lene Dahl, Tony Martin, Rosemary Clooney. Producer Paul Jones. Director Claude Binyon. Comedy-musical. The oldest chorus boy on Broadway accidently becomes a star when leading man drops out because of a murder threat, thus becoming object of killer. 78 min. JIVARO Technicolor. Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming. Producers Pine-Thomas. Director Edward Ludwig. Adventure-drama. A pretty American girl goes to find her sweetheart in the Amazon jungle, is aided by jungle trader wilh whom she falls in love after learning of death of fiance. January CHASE FIRE 3D. Gl's in Korea. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Owen Crump. War drama. Patrol action in final day of fighting in Korea. 75 min. FOREVER FEMALE Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas. Producer Pat Duggan. Director Irving Rapper. Comedy. Maturing stage actress fights to keep her hold on youth by playing young roles. Her ex-husband producer hopes to remarry her, but plans are complicated when she falls for playwright. 93 min. February ALASKA SEAS Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling. Producer Mel Epstein. Director Jerry Hopper. Adventure drama. Salmon fishermen plagued with thieves robbing their traps, break the gang when the sweetheart of the fishing fleet becomes involved with one of the thieves. MONEY FROM HOME 3D Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerrv Lewis. Producer Hal Wallis. Director George Marshall. Comedy. Horseplayer becomes heavily indebted to a boo!:ie hinc. Ordered to fix a race to pay off he calls in veterinary interne pal who blows up plot. 100 min. Coming CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT Technicolor. Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman McLeod. Comedy. Hope, mistaken for the lover Cas«-nova is hired to test the faithfulness of another man's fiancee. ELEPHANT WALK Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews. Producer Irving Asher. Director William Dieterle. Drama. Girl married to tea plantation owner in Ceylon, falls in love with his foreman and plans to run away with him. Plague strikes, her lover dies, and in crisis she finds she still loves her husband. KNOCK ON WOOD Technicolor. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterlinq. Producers and directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank. Comedy. American ventriloquist in Paris undergoes psychonanalysis to overcome a fear of marriage finds the female psychiatrist has same complex, becomes involved in spy plot and murder. NAKED JUNGLE Technicolor. Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston. Producer George Pal. Director Byron Haskin. Adventure drama. South American plantation owner considers his mail-order wife too elegant for rough jungle life. She proves herself when plantation is attacked by hordes of soldier ants. RED GARTERS Technicolor. Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell. Producer Pat Duggan. Director George Marshall. Western musical comedy. Fanciful yarn revolves around Mitchell's arrival in California town to avenge death of his brother. Killer turns out to be best friend of Mitchell. ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Mario Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric feats of Ulysses as taken from the Odessey. REPUBLIC November CRAZYLEGS Elroy Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs. Producer Hall Bartlett. Director Francis Lyon. Sport drama. Life of Ail-American "Crazylegs" Hirsch from his high school football days up to his present starring role with the Los Angeles Rams. 87 min. FLIGHT NURSE Joan Leslie, Forrect Tucker. Director Allan Dwan. War drama. Air Force nurse, assigned to Korean duty, at first more interested in locating her sweetheart than in doing her duty, is molded by war into woman of heroic and responsible stature. 90 min. December GERALDINE John Carroll, Mala Powers, Stan Freberg. Producer Sidney Picker. Director R. G. Springsteen. Comedy with music. Tin Pan Alley publicity girl discovers youn? college music instructor with golden voice, interested only in folk songs, eventually interests him in popular music and a marriage license. 90 min. RED RIVER SHORE Pex Allen. Producer Rudy Ralston. Director Harry Keller. Western. Allen discovers a respected rancher is plotting a swindle by reporting a fake oil discovery cn his ranch and selling shares to fellow-citizens. Coming HELL'S HALF AC3E Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester. Associate producer-director John H. Auer. Mystery melodrama. Woman goes to Honolulu to check on husband reported killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941 but his crime-ridden past destroys hope for the revival of marriar.3. JOHNNY GUITAR Trucolor. Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden. Associate producer-director Nicholas Ray. Western drama. Woman gambling-house owner learns love of gunman who helps her against group of antirailroad ranchers is worth more than money she dreamed of making if railroad crossed her land. JUBILEE TRAIL Trucolor. Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker. Associate producer-director Joseph I. Kane. Outdoor drama. California trader meets and marries Eastern girl takes her West. Romantic complications when she learns he has a son by unmarried Soani:h ~'r!. LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Respectable schooner captain tries to save girl and illegitimate son from degrading life with beachcomber. When she is murdered Captain avenges death and claims boy. THE FORTUNE HUNTER Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Young westerner wages range war against unscrupulous uncle to recover stolen heritage. WOMAN IN THE FOG Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally. Associate producer-director William Seiter. Drama. Woman newspaper owner is confronted with hidden past when husband turns up after serving prison term for murder. She could have saved him and he plans to get revenge by ruining life of their daughter. RK0 November DECAMERON NIGHTS Technicolor. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan. Producers M. J. Frankovich and Wm. Szekely. Director Huco Fregonese. Costume comedy. Boccaccio, in love with beautiful woman whose memory of her late, aaed husband prevents new romance, attempts to win her love through his stories. 87 min. December FRENCH LINE 3D Technicolor. Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Edmund Grainier. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comedy. Jilted at the altar because she has too much, money, Texas millionairess takes cruise cn 1 iberte. Incognito, she sets out to find husband who will Icve her for herself alone. February BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES IGoldwyn Re-release). Myrna Lo". Frederic March Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews. Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Director William Wyler. Drama. 170 mins. PINOCCHIO IDisney Re-release) Technicolor. Cartoon feature. 87 mins. Coming DANGEROUS MISSION 3D. Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price, Wm. Bendix. Producer Irwin Allen. Director Louis Kin-;. Melodrama. Girl, after witnessing a murder, hides out in Glacier National Park to escape killer. Chase results with police trying to find her before killer does. KILLERS FROM SPACE Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar. Producer-director W. Lee Wilder. Science fiction. Nuclear scientist prevents the conguest of Earth by invaders from another planet. SHE HAD TO SAY YES Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Lloyd Bacon. Comedy. Poor-little-rich-girl learns people in Arkansas iown saved her life when she was a baby. Her secret money gifts to townspeople disrupts their barter-system economy. 89 mins. 20TH CENTURY-FOX November A YANK IN THE RAF IReissue) Tyrone Power, Betty Grable. Producer Darryl Zanuck. Director ' Henry King. War drama. 97 min. FALLEN ANGEL IReissue) Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell. Producer-director Otto Preminger. 97 min. FOREVER AMBER IReissue) Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, George Sanders. Producer William Perlburg. Director Otto Preminger. Romantic melodrama. 140 min. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE CinemaScope Technicolor. Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall. David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell. Producer Nunnally Johnson. Director Jean Negulesco. Comedy. Three penniless models rent ultra swank penthouse to capture rich husbands with resultant comedy of errors finding and marrying for love. 94 min. INFERNO (Also 3D) Technicolor. Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan. Producer W. Bloom. Director R. Baker. Drama. Rich wastrel, left to die in desert by scheming wife and her lover, becomes a man in struggle to survive and leaves plotters to ravages of conscience. 83 min. THE ROBE CinemaScope Technicolor. Richard Burton. Jean Simmons. Victor Mature. Producer Frank Ross. Director Henry Koster. Biblical drama. Story of the Roman tribune who performed the Crucifixion and how the robe Christ wore to Golgotha and his conscience converted him to a Christian. 133 min. December BENEATH THE TWELVE MILE REEF CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland. Producer Robert Bassler, Robert D. Webb. AdventureDrama. Perils of sponge divers interwoven in story of father-son relation:hip. clashes between sponge-fishermen, and young romance. 102 min. MAN CRAZY Neville Brand. Christine White. Producers S. Haromn. P. Voran. Director !. Lerner. Other information not available. MAN IN THE ATTIC Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Hugo Fregonese. Mystery melodrama. Psychopathic boarder commits nicht murders, with pretty women as his victims. About to kill a girl he has fallen in love with, the twisted mind uncoils and he takes his own li.'e. January KEYS OF THE KINGDOM IReissue) Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Roddy McDowall. Producer Joseph Mankiewicz. Director John Stahl. Drama. 137 min. KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES CinemaScope Technicolor. Tyrone Power. Terry Moore. Producer Frank Rosenberg. Director Henry King. Adventure drama. Half-breed British officer in ! 9th century India becomes a deserter to demonstrate his right to equality in the Army and in romance with General's daughter. 99 min. THREE YOUNG TEXANS Technicolor. Mitzi Gaynor, Jeff Hunter, Keefe Brasselle. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Henry Levin. Western drama. Friendship between pair of cowboys and cirl becomes imperiled when one is suspected of train robbery. Turns out other is guilty, is killed after repentance. February HELL AND HIGH WATER CinemaScope Technicolor. Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Cameron Mitchell, David Wayne. Adventure drama. Touch captain and motley crew of ex-U. S. sailors use submarine on special mission to thwart a conspiracy to start World War III by an atomic bomb incident. THE SEIGE AT RED RIVER Technicolor. Van Johnson, Joanne Dru. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Rudy Mate. Civil War drama. Robbery of a Union cavalry troop train sets off net of intrigue and heroism involving Confederate who turns out to be Union spy. March GORILLA AT LARGE 3D Technicolor. Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft. Lee Cobb. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director H. Jones. Murder melodrama. Carnival gorilla used as murder weapon by beautiful trapeze artist, finallv carries her atop roller coaster and both meet their death. RIVER OF NO RETURN CinemaScope Technicolor. Mari|vn Monroe. Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun. Producer Stanley Rubin. Director Otto Preminger. Outdoor adventure romance. Barroom entertainer Monroe, exconvict Mitchum and his young son are forced to guide a raft down a treacherous mountain river, battling the rapids, Indians and the elements. FILM BULLETIN — YOUR PRODUCT