Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

LIPPERT (Continued) January BLA'CK GLOVE Ale« Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield. Murder drama. Producer Michael Carreraj. Director Terence Fisher. Jaii trumpet star is suspected of killing a blonde singer, but after many fights, threats of violence and an attempted poisoning, he pins the blame on the real slayer. HOLLYWOOD THRILL-MAKERS James Gieason. Bill Kenry. Producer Maurice Kosloff. Director Bernard Ray. Adventure drama. Small town boy comes to Hollywood as a stunt man. marries and quits the game, but first performs a daring plane crash to aid widow of his best friend. 9UEEN OF SHEBA Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervi. Producer Mario Francisci. Director Pietro Francisci. Biblical spectacle. Queen of Sheba leads her armies against Solomon's forces In Jerusalem, 1000 B.C., Is captured and makes her esca.oe. After a battle and an avalanche, she Is freed of "marriage" vows to pagan gods and marries Solomon's son. WHITE FIRE Scott Brady, Mary Castle. Producers Robe.-t S. Baker, Monty Berman. Director John Gilllng. Mystery drama. Ship's officer seeking missing brother suspected of murder finds the latter miied up in smuggling ring, and with help of a night club singer rounds up the rian7 and proves his brother's Innocence. February FANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin, Jr., Anslow Stevens. Producer Robert L. LIppert, Jr. Director Will lam Claxton. Murder drama. Boy and his dog are only witnesses to a cold-blooded killing in the woods. Boy's story Is not believed until the murderer's wife establishes truth, causing a chase in which the lad's life is tfireatened. WE WANT A CHILD Ruth Brejnholm, Jorgen Reenberg. Directors Alice ©'Fredericks, Lau Lauritien. Drama. Married young girl desiring child cannot have one, while her best friend has an unfortunate affair and bears an unwanted child. Finally young wife becomes expectant and audience witnesses actual birth of baby. March COWBOY, THE Eastman Color. Producer-director, Elmo Nyilllams. Documentary feature. Photographed in color on actual Southwest locations, story relates the American cowbov's true life from pioneer days to now. Coming BLACKOUT Dane Clark., Belinda Lee. Producer Michael Carreraj. Director Terence Fisher. Murder drama. A down-and-out war veteran Is offered a $1000 mystery fOb b/ a i'<r\ whose father Is later murdered, throwing suspicion on the veteran until he establishes that the qirl's mother was responsible for the killino. HEAT WAVE Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke.' Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Ken Hughes. Murder drama. Faithless wife allows husband to drown a young novelist, an unwitting accessory, keeps silent but tells police after widow illti him. METHD-GDLDWYN-MAYER November ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT Technicolor. Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann BIyth. 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 min. KISS ME KATE 3D Ansco Color. Kathryn Grayson. Howard Keel, Ann Miller. Producer Jack Cummlngs. Director George Sidney. Musical comedy. Play-withlna-play dramatization of a Broadway show based on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". 10? min. December EASY TO LOVE Technicolor. Either Williams, Van Johnson. Ton/ Martin. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Charles Walters. Aquatic Musical. Romantic trianql* in Cypress Gardens amid colorful swimming and water-skiing productions. 94 min. ESCAPE FROM FORT ERAVO Ansco Color. William Holden. Eleanor Parker. Producer Nicholas Nayfack. Director JohR 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 wal-':s out. 82 min. GREAT DIAMOND ROBBERY. THE 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 ♦ricks the diamond cutter into stealing the gem. 69 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 kni'jht Lancelot. February LONG. LONG TRAILER. THE Ansco Color. Lucille Ball, DesI Arnai, Marjorie Main, Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Vincente Minnelli. Comedy. Trials and tribulations of famih/ life in a trailer. 9& min. SAADIA Technicolor. Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam. Producer-director Albert Lewin. Costume melodrama. East-meets-West storv of love and violence In the Morrocan desert. 82 min. March ROSE MARIE CinemaScope-Kodacolor. Ann BIyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas. Producers Arthur Hornblow, Jr. and Lawrence Wein^arten. Director Mervyn LeRoy. Musical outdoor drama. Romance and murder In the Canadian north woods Involving a beautiful 'jlrl, a trapper and a nnountle. TENNESSEE 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 the Mississippi river-front. April FLAME AND THE FLESH Technicolor. Lana Turner, Pier Angell, 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 t.he little i;Irl who raised him. RHAPSODY Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor. VlHorlo Gassman. Producer Lawrence Welngarten. 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 CREST OF THE WAVE Gene Kelly. Producer-Directors John and Roy Boultlng. Science melodrama. AngloAmerican temperaments oet 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. HER 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 13 males. INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kelly. Ballet. Four episodes dealing in romance, drama, comedy and pathos told entirely through the medium of the dance. JULIUS CAESAR Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr. Producer John Houseman. Director Joseph L. Manklewlcz. Historical drama. A:sassination of Caesar, with 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, Corlnne Calvet. Producer Nat Holt. Director Charles M. Warren. Action melodrama. Soldier of fortune outwits international black market operators in Tangier. 90 min. December HERE COMES THE GIRLS Technicolor. Bob Hope. Arlene Dahl, Tony Martin, Rosemary Clooney. Producer Paul Jones. Director Claude BInyon. Comedy-musical. The oldest chorus boy on Broadway accldently becomes a star when leading man drops out because of a murder threat, thus becoming object of killer. 78 min. January CEASE FIRE 3D. Gl's In Korea. Producer Hal Wallls. Director Owen Crump. War drama. Patrol action In final day of fighting in Korea. 75 min. FOREVER FEMALE Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas. Phoducer 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. 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 with whom she falls In love after learning of death of fiance. 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. Jerry Lewis. Producer Hal Wallis. Director George Marshall. Comedy. Horscplayer becomes heavily indebted to a boofrie kinc. 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 Casanova 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 Zetterling. 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 eleqant 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, Sllvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Mario Camarlnl. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric feats of Ulysses as ta-ken from the Odessey. REPUBLIC December CHAMP FOR A DAY Audrey Totter, Charles WInnlnger, Hope Emerion. A:sociate Producer-Director William A. Seiter. Action melodrama. A youn'; heavyweight finds his manager missino, and risks the danger of tangling with a gang of local gamblers to uncover the secret of his disappearance. 9C min. RED RIVER SHORE Rex Allen. Producer Rudy Ralston. Director Harry Keller. Western. Allen discovers a respected rancher is plotting a swindle by reporting a fake oil discovery on his ranch and selling shares to fellow-citizens. January TRENT'S LAST CAST Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles. Produced and directed by Herbert WIlcoi. Mystery drama. E. C. Bentley's famous detective. Philip Trent, suspects the widow and the secretary in the death of a financial tycoon, uncover* plot within a plot. 90 min. February 'CRAZYLEGS EIroy Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs. Producer Hall Bartlett. Director Francis Lyon. Sport drama. Life of All-Amerlcan "Crazylegs" Hirsch from his hloh school football days up to his present starring role with the Los Anneles Rams. 87 min. SEA OF LOST SHIPS John Derek, Wanda Hendrix. Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel. Action melodrama. Two young me who have grown up together fall out because of a girl, but are reunited In flahtinq ihe dangers of the arctic while on Ice patrol with the U. S. Coast Guard. 85 min. March FLIGHT NURSE Joan Leslie, Forrect Tucker. Director Allan Dwan. V/ar drama. Air Force nurse, assigned to Korean duty, at first more Interested In locating her sweetheart than In doino her duty. Is molded by war Into woman of heroic and responsible stature. 90 min. April GERALDINE John Carroll, Mala Powers, Stan Freberg. Producer Sidney Picker. Director R. G. Springsteen. Comedy with music. Tin Pan Alley publicity girl discovers younc collece music Instructor with golden voice, interested only in folk songs, eventually Interests him In popular music and a marriage license. 90 min. Coming HELL'S HALF ACRE 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 marrlac?. 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 shj learns he has a son by unmarried Soanlth C'rl. LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey. Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Respectable schooner captain tries to save cirl and Iltegltlmate son from degrading life with beachcomber. When she Is murdered Captain avenges death and claims boy. OUTCAST. THE Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Youn'; westerner wa^es ran'je war against unscruoulous uncle to recover stolen heritage. SHANGHAI STORY. THE Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel. Associate producer-director Frank Lloyd. Suspense melodrama. Disillusioned American doctor and Tangiers-born beauty find excitement and love In aiding people of Shanghai's International Settlement against Red police. FILM BULLETIN — YOUR PRODUCT