Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

UNIVERSAL-INTL November BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY Technicolor. Rock Hudson, Steve Cochran. Producer Howard Christie. Director Joseph Pevney. Outdoor melodrama. Schooner captain and wife harrassed in the frozen North by thieves triyng to steal fur cargo. 78 min. GLASS WEB. THE 2D-3D. Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director Jack Arnold. Murder mystery. Whodunit set against background of television studio. 81 min. VEILS OF BAGDAD, THE Technicolor. Victor Mature, Mari Blanchard. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director George Sherman. Costume adventure. Cham.oion of Ottoman empire fights again:t despots from Bagdad attempting to conr.uer the land. 82 min. December TIIM:B1EWEED Technicolor. Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills. Producer Ross Hunter. Director Nathan Juran. Western. Murphy, accused of cowardice when wagon train he is guarding is massacred by Indians, overcomes onus. 79 min. WALKING MY BABY BACK HOME Technicolor. Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh. Producers Ted RichmondLeonard Goldstein. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comedy. Younn clarinetist :tands to inherit fortune if he becomes operatic star, makes his mark instead in concert ball jaii. 95 mm. January OOriDER RIVER Technicolor. Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director George Sherman. Western drama. Confederate officer steals gold from Union mint to buy supplies in Mexico for the Southern army, causing bloodshed. 8! min. FORBIDDEN Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru. Producer Ted Richmond. Director Rudolph Mate. Melodrama. Racketeer goes to Macao to find a slain hoodlum': widow who has evidence of gangleader's crimes. 85 min. WAR ARROW Technicolor. Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler. Producer John W. Rogers. Director George Sherman. Western. Cavalry officer sent from Washington to put down Indian uprising finds the tribes are being led by supposedly dead cavalryman. 78 min. February GLENN MILLER STORY. THE Technicolor. James Stewart. June Allyson. Producer Aaron Rosenberg. Director Anthony Manin. Biopic with music. Highlights of the life of the late, great bandleader lost in an air accident over English Channel. TAZA, SON OF COCHISE 2D-3D. Rock Hudson. Producer Ross Hunter. Director Douglas Sirk. Western. Apache chief i: forced to fight other redskins trying to bring peace between his people and the white men. March CREATURE FROM THE ELACK LAGOON 3D. Richard Carlson, Julia Adams. Producer William Alland. Director Jack Arnold. Fantasy melodrama. Geologist discovers creature which is half man, half fish and forms an expedition to capture it. RIDE CLEAR OP DIABLO Technicolor. Audie Murphy Dan Duryea. Producer John W. Rogers. Director Jesse Hibbs. Western. Murphy returns home to avenge murders of his father and kid brother. SASKATCHEWAN Technicolor. Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters. Producer Aaron P.osenberg. Director Raoul Walsh. Outdoor drama. Canadian mountie rebels against his commanding officer to save survivors of Indian attack. April FOrtT LARAMIE Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Mari Blanchard. Producer Ted Richmond. Director Jesse Hibbs. Outdoor drama. Trouble-shooting soldier is sent to Wyoming Territory to clear work stoppage on construction of railroad. MA & PA KETTLE AT HOME Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride. Producer Richard Wilson. Director Charles Lamont. Comedy. Kettles leave ultra-modern home, go back to dilapidated farmhouse so that oldest boy can win contest on typical farm life. YANKEE PASHA Technicolor. Jeff Chsndlcr, Rhonda Fleming. Producer Howard Christie. Director Joseph Pe vney. Coitume adventure. Frontiersman Chandler fights half-way around world to save woman he loves. Coming DRUMS ACROSS THE RIVER Technicolor. Audie Murphv, Walter Brennan. Producer Mel Tucker. Director Nathan Juran. Western. Trouble when gold miners break treaty with Indian: to obtain ore-beating ground. FAR COUNTRY. THE Technicolor. James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan. Producer Aaron Rosenberg. Director Anthony Mann. Outdoor drama. Driving a herd of cattle up to Alaska, Stewart plays tag with gold, love and sudden death. JOHNNY DARK Technicolor. Tony Curtis Piper Laurie. Producer Will iam Alland. Director George Sherman. Drama. Young automotive designer develops sport car to save failing auto company, succeeds when he wins cross country race. MA & PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI Mariorie Main, Percy Kilbride. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Lee Sholem. Comedy. Kettles go to Hawaii where Pa takes over the running of his rich brother's fruit processing plant. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Technicolor. Jane Wyman, P.ock Hudson, Agnes Moorchead. Producer Ross Hunter. Director Douglas Sirk. Drama. Playboy atones for death of one man and the blindness of a woman by becoming a doctor devoting himself to humanity. TANGANYIKA Technicolor. Van Heflin, Ruth Roman. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director Andre De Toth. Outdoor drama. !n forests of Africa, two lumbermen, beleagured by hostile natives, put down uprising by killing renegade whiteman who incites the savages. WARNER BROTHERS November CALAMITY JANE Technicolor WarnerPhonic sound. Doris Day Howard Keel, AMyn McLerie. Producer William Jacobs. Director David Butler. Musical western. Fabulous Calamity Jane in friendly feud with Wild Bill Hickok, brings bac': famed entertainer's stage-struck maid as the real thing is transformed into pretty girl, ends u.T marrying Wi!:^ Bill. !0! min. DIAMOND QUEEN. THE Color. Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Gilbert Roland. Producer Frank Melford. Director John Brahm. Romantic adventure. Pair of Frenchmen in India to get diamond for Louis XIV's coronation go through perilous and romantic adventures to accomplish mission. 80 min. KEY LARGO IReissuel Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore. Producer Jerry Wald. Director John Huston. Drama. 101 min. TREASURE OF SIERRA MAD:iE (Reissue) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston. Producer Henry Blanke. Director John Huston. Drama. 126 min. December THR;E sailors and a GIRL Technicolor. Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson. Producer Sammy Cahn. Director Roy Del Ruth. Musical comedy. Three gobs, designated by submarine crew to invest $50,000, plunge into show business, manage to bring flop show into Broadway hit. 95 min. THUNDER OVER THE PLAINS WarnerColor. Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk. Producer David Weisbart. Director Andre de To'h. Western. Union Captain harrassed by carpet-bag politicians on side of law, takes action when friends and his wife are put in peril. 82 min. January EDDIE CANTOR STORY. THE Technicolor. Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine. Producer Sidney Skolsky. Director Alfred E. Green. Musical biography. Life of Eddie Cantor from his beginnings as entertainer at 13, success in the Follies, eventual recovery from illness to entertain for charity. I!4 min. HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE Technicolor. Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice. Producer Harold Hecht. Director Byron Hasl'in. Action drama. Victim of a mutiny, sea captain is set adrift, lands cn South Pacific island, becomes white ruler using democratic methods to unite warring factions. 88 min. HONDO 3D WarnerColor. John Wayne, Geraldine Page. Producer Robert Fellows. Director John Farrow. Western drama. Lone U. S. Cavalry scout, unhorsed in Indian battle, comes to Western town, befriends widow and young son. paves way for romantic and dramatic complications. 83 min. February BOY FROM OKLAHOMA. THE WarnerColor. Will Rogers, Jr., Nancy Olson. Producer David Weisbart. Director Michael Curtii. Western comedy drama. Young cowboy seeking to be lawyer unwittingly becomes Sheriff, humbles llilly the Kid, captures outlaws, finally leaves for law apprenticeship. 88 min. COMMAND. THE WarnerColor. Guy Madison, Joan Weldon James Whitmore. Producer David Weisbart. Director David Butler. Western drama. Youmj doctor takes over command of trocp train in Wyoming territory, brings it to safety through raids and disease. March CRIME WAVE Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk. Producer Bryan Foy. Director Andre de Toth. Crime melodrama. Record of reformed convict involves him in hotduo plot, but with aid of understanding detective, and innate honesty, is freed from past. DUFFY OF SAN pUENTIN Louis Hayward, Paul Kelly, Joanne Dru, Maureen O'Sullivan. Prison drama. PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE WarnerColor. Karl Maiden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina. Producer Henry Blanke. Director Roy Del Ruth. Murder melodrama. Series of murders in turn of the century Paris with beautiful girls as victim of sadistic zoologist studying "animal" reflexes. Coming DIAL M FOR MURD:R WarnerColor. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. Director Alfred Hitchcock. Murder melodrama. Hu;band plots death of wife wh-im he marrie:' for money. Original plan backfires when wife kills her would-be murderer. Husband makes. self-defense killing look like premeditated murder. RIDING SHOTGUN WarnerColor. Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris. Producer Ted Sherdeman. Director Andre de Toth. Western. Stagecoach guard, victim of odd circumstances, clears hi: name, wipes out outlaws. THEM Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon. Producer David Weisbart. Director Gordon Douglas. Science-fiction melodrama. Ten foot ants terrorize the Southwest until their nest is discovered and wiped out. Would you like send a copy of to BULLETIN to someone in the trade with your compliments? FILL OUT THIS FORM, MAIL IT TO US, AND WE WILL DO THE REST. Publication office: 1239 Vine Sfrreef-, Philadelphia 7, Penna. Name Theatre Address . City Zone State * * □ If possible send the issue of 19 Sender Theatre Address City Zone Stale I YOUR SERVICE— OUR RESPONSIBILITY NEW JERSEY MESSENGER SERVICE Member National Fill?} Carriers 250 N. Juniper Street Philadelphia 7, Pa. 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