Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT ICnow 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 Nal:h. Director Lesley Selander. Producer William Caliban. Jr. War melodranna. Shot down in Italy during WW II. Annerican flyer joins guerillas. 80 min. JACK SLADE Mark Stevens. Dorothy Ivialone. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Western melodrama. U. S. Marshal uses badge to become ruthless killer, is finally killed in gunfight with former friend trying to bring 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 capitaMie on the gift, uncover a fur theft 9ang. 64 min. TEXAS BAOMAN Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. CoJlins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Young sheriff tracks down outlaws, finds leader is his father, who later sacrifices hit life to >ave son. t2 mIn. January GOLDEN IDOL, THE Johnny Sheiffield. Producer-Director Ford Beebe. Jungle melodrama. Bomba, accidentally in possession of a valuable statue, fights motley group seakinn the treasure. 71 min. WORLD FOR RANSOM Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patrick Knowles. Director Robert Aldrlch. Producers Bernard Tabakin and Aldrich. Suspense melodrama. Adventurer foils kidnap plot involving nuclear scientist. 80 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 ci*nt bear. 68 min. February BITTER CREEK Bill Elliott. Director Thomas D. Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Out to avenge death of his murdered rancher brother, Elliott pick< up friends and sweetheart who save him in the showdown battle. 72 min. HIGHWAY DRAGNET 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. RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Carlcton Younn. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Den Sienel. Prison melodrama. Jail niot spreads until Governor and State Militia are called In to quell the prisoners. 80 min. March PARIS PLAYBOYS Bowery Boys. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director William Beaudine. Comedy. Hunii Hail is sent to Paris believed to be a French scientitt, concocts a formula that proves even more potent than the original scientist's. 66 min. LOOPHOLE Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Mary Beth Hughes. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Comedy drama. Bank teller, $S0,000 short in his accounts, tracks dowTi phony bank examiner, recovers loot and job. 78 min. April PRIDE OF THE BLUE GRASS Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles. Director William Beaudine. Producer Hayes Goeti. Racetrack drama. Filmed in color. Ambitious racehorse trainer coes bi'^ time, comes to earth when kid jockey rides horse trainer had saved to victory. Coming ARROW IN THE DUST Technicolor. Sterling Hayden, CoUen Gray. Director Lesley Selander. Producer Hayes Goett. Western melodrama. Would-be deserter dons dying Major's uniform to lead wagon train through hostile Indian territory, is regenerated. 80 min. CHEYENNE CROSSING Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. DRAGONFLY SQUADRON John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett. Director Lesle/ 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. 60 min. GHOST OF O'LEARY, THE Technicolor. David Niven, Yvonne de Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Ccmcdy. 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 Pon-' Express rider Autry fights the diehards holding back the stage and the telegraph. SI 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 Katiman. Director Richard Bare. Costume melodrama. Intrigue in Algiers, culminating in a wild battle in the Casbah. 78 min. December KILLER APE Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston. Director Spencer G. Bennet. Jungle melodrama. Jungle Jim tangles with mad scientist drugging animals. 68 min. NEBRASKAN, THE 3D Technicolor. Phil Carey, Roberta Haynes. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred F. Sears. Western. Army scout tries to get fair trial for Indian cal 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. DRUMS OF TAHITI 3D Technicolor. Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina. Director Wilfiam Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Coitume melodrama. Americao in Tahiti is persuaded to smuggle in rifles to overthrow French rule. Marriage of convenience turns out to be real thina. desp'rfe hurricanes and volcanic eruptions. 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. MISS SADIE THOMPSON 30 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 tro.oical island who becomes Invotved with a batch of Marines and fanatical, hypocritical missionary. 9! 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 Cattle. 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. CAINE MUTINY. THE 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. 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 AMEJtlCAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Cliff. Director Vittorlo de Sica. Producers David O. Selznick and de SIca. Drama. Made In Italy, ("Bicycle Thief") de Sica's first English language film. IRON GLOVE, THE Technicolor. Rober tStack, Ursula Thiess. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Historical adventure drama. Swashbuckler built around Stvarts and Windsors battle lor British throne. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU Judy Holllday, 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 cet the loot of the notorious bandit. In showdown battle, Daltons are wiped out and money turns out to be Confederate bills. MAD MAGICIAN. THE 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. 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. MIAMI STORY, THE Barry Sullivan, Adele Jergens. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Melodrama. Ex-gangster, now respectable, uses his past experience to expose crime syndicate. SARACEN CLADE, THE 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. 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. WILD ONE, THE Marlon Brando. Director Laslo Benedek. Producer Stanley Kramer. Melodrama. Band of hotrodders terrorize town until indignant citizens force law to clamp down. Eventual regeneration of ringleader comes through love and innate decency. 79 min. I. F. E. November WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU, THE English. Hans Albers. Producers H. R. Sokal and F. A. Mainz. Director Rolf Hansen. Documentar:'. New version of famous mountain-climbing thriller shot in Alpine peaks. 98 min. December LURE OF THE SILA English. Silvana Mangano. Vittorio Gassman. Producer Dino De Laurentis. Director Duilio Coletti. Melodrama. Story of vendetta in mountainous Siia recion of Ital-.' in which Mangano avenges death of her mother and brother. 74 min. TIMES GONE BY Subtitled. Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica. Director Alessandro Blasetti. Drama. Six short story classics each suggesting an aspect of the earthy, lust'.', sentimental character of the Italian people. 106 min. January GOLDEN COACH. THE Technicolor. English. Anna Mannani. Delphinus Hoche production. Director Jean Renoir. Drama. 105 min. February GREATEST LOVE. THE English. Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox. Ponti-De Laurentis production. Director Roberto Rossellini. Drama. Story of a woman's search for meaning in her life. !I6 min. SENSUALITA English. Eleanora Kossi Drago. PontiDe Laurentis production. Director Clemente Fracassi. Drama. "Bitter Rice" story of two men and a girl in the wheat fields of Ital:'. VI min. Coming DESTINATION MATRIMONY Subtitles. Eduardo De Filippo, Titina De Fili.npo. Savanzati-Titanus production. Comedy. Municipal employee takes bribes for issuing special permits. With the money he tries to marry his daughters to rich men. 96 min. LIPPERT November MAN FROM CAIRO, THE George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale. Producer Bernard Luber. Director Ray H. Enright. Mystery drama. American adventurer in North Africa teams with nicht club sincer to solve mystery of missing gold cache. 82 min. December LIMPING MAN. THE Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister. Producer Donald Ginsberc Director Charles de Lautour. Murder drama. American traveler in London witnesses a killing, becomes involved in a mystery that winds up at a variet'.' theatre where a magician is revealed at the "Limping Man" killer. 76 min. TERROR STREET Dan Duryea, Elsy Albiin. Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Montgomery Tully. Murder drama. Air Force pilot is suspected of killing his wife, has 36 hours to prove his Innocence and exposes a blackmail ring responsible for tha murder. 83 min. FILM BULLITIN — YOUR PRODUCT