Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

LIPPERT November MAN FROM CAIRO, THE George Raft. Glanno Maria Canale. Producer Bernard Luber. Director Ray H. Enright. Mystery drama. American adventurer in North Africa teams with nicht club singer to solve mystery of missing gold cache. 82 min. December tIMPING MAN, THE Lloyd Bridges. Moira Lister. Producer Donald Ginsberg. 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 as ♦he "Limping Man" killer. 74 min. TEMOR 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 eiposes a blackmail ring responsible for the murder. 83 min. January ■LACK GLOVE Alei Nicol. Eleanor Summerfield. Murder drama. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Jazz 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 Gleason Bill Henry. 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 Marro 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 escape. 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 Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Director John Gilling Mystery drama. Ship s officer seeking missing brother suspected of murder finds the latter miied up in smuggling rina, and with help of a niaht club sinqer rounds up the ?an-: and proves his brother s Innocence. February FANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin. Jr. Onslow Steveni. Producer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Director William Claiton Murder drama. Bov and his dog are only witnesses to a cold-blooded killing in the woods Boy's stor; is not believed until the murderer's wife establishes truth, causinn a chase in which the lad's life IS threatened. WE WANT A CHILD Ruth Brejnholm Jorgen Reenberg Directors Alice O' Fredericks, Lau Lauritzen. 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 eipectant and audience witnesses actual birth of baby. March COWBOY, THE Eastman Color. Producer-director Elmo Williams. Documentary feature. Photographed in color on actual Southwest locations, story relates the American cowboy's true life from pioneer days to now. Coming BLACKOUT Dane Clark. Belinda Lee Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Murder drama. A down-and-out war veteran is offered a $1000 mystery |0b b.' a clrl whose father is later murdered, throwing suspicion on the veteran until he establishes that the girl's mother was responsible for the killinn. HEAT WAVE Alex Nico(. Hillary Brooke. Producer Anthonv Hinds. Director Ken Hughes. Murder drama. Faithless wife allows husband to drown a young novelist, an unwiHin'; accessory, keeps silent but tells police after widow jilts him. METHO-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 eipedition in the South Seas 95 min 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 " (09 min. December EASY TO LOVE Technicolor. Esther Williams. Van Johnson. Ton. Martin. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director Charles Walters. Aquatic Musical. Romantic triangle in Cypress Gardens amid colorful swimming and water-skiing productions. 94 min. ESCAPE FROM FORT tRAVO 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 Unon stockade located in the desert. 98 min. January OIVE 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 walis out. 82 min. G2EAT DIAMOND ROBBERY, THE Red Skelton. Cara Williami. 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. 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 hi$ wife Guinevere's love for the kni-ht Lancelot. February February LONG, LONG TRAILER, THE Ansco Color. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjone Main. Producer Pandro S. Berman. Director Vincente Minnelli. Comedy. Trials and tribulations of family life in a trailer. 94 min. SAADIA Technicolor. Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam. Producer-director Albert Lewin. Costume melodrama. East-meets-West story of love and violence in the Morrocan desert. 80 min. March ROSE MARIE CinemaScope-Kodacolor. Ann BIyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas. Producers Arthur Hornblow, Jr. and Lawrence Wein-jarten. Director Mervyn LeRoy. Musical outdoor drama, Romance and murder in the Canadian north woods involving a beautiful girl, a trapper and a mountie. 102 min. 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. 73 min. 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 the little ^irl who raised him. RHAPSODY Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor. Vlttorlo Gassman. 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. 115 min. Coming CaEST OF THE WAVE Gene Kelly. Producer-Directors John and Roy Boultlng. Science melodrama. AngloAmerican temperaments Qet a workout during the development of a new torpedo explosive. EXECUTIVE SUITE William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Ally:on Frederic March. Walter Pldneon. Paul Douglas. Drama. Effect the death of a riresident of a lar^e firm has on the fir:' six vice-oresidents. HER IWELVE 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. Manklewicz. Historical drama. A:sassination of Caesar, with friend Antony wreaking vengeance on Brutus, Casslus 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 foment; 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 HERE COME THE GIRLS Technicolor. Bob Hope Arlene Dahl. Tony Martin, Rosemary Clooney. Producer Paul Jones. Director Claude Blnyon. 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 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. Phoducer Pat Duggan. Director Irving Rapper. Comedy. Maturing stage actress fights lo 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. 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. Horseplayer becomes heavily indebted to a boo.'^ie kino 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 psychonanalysls to overcome a fear of marriage finds the female psychiatrist has same complex, becomes Involved in spy plot and murder. LIVING IT UP Technicolor. Dean Martin. Jerry Lewis. Janet Lelc*! Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Comedy. Dr. Dean Martin mistakenly announces th3t Jerry Lewis is dyln^ of radiation poisoning and he is niven one last flinn at life by reporter Janet Leigh. 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 eleoant for rough jungle life. She proves herself when plantation Is attacked by hordes of soldier ants. RSD 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 aveni^e dealh of his brother. Killer turns out to be best friend of Mitchell. SABRINA FAIR Humphrey Bonart. Audrey Hepburn, William Holden. Producer and HIrector Billy Wilder. Comedy. Two rich brof-sr": fall f-'r "-.^ir chauffeur's daughter after fh? returr. from a year in Paris. SECRET OF THE INCAS Technicolor. Charlton Heston. Nicole Maure.. ThDmas Mitchell Robert Youn';. Producer Mel E.ostine. Director Jerry Hoooer. Melodrama. American .ollot stranded in Peru join: a rencrade in searching tor lost Inca treasure. 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. WHITE CHRISTMAS Technicolor. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye. Rosemary Clooney Vera-Ellen. Producer Robt. E. r^olan. Director Michael Curtiz. Musical. Two World War !! buddies team as entertainers after war. become Involved with sister act whic^ threatens their plans for Broadwav show. REPUBLIC December CHAMP FOR A DAY Alex Nicol Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson. Asso. producer-director William A. Selter. Action melodrama. A young heavyweight finds his manager mlssln-^, and risks the danger of tangling with a gang of local gamblers to uncover the secret of ha disappearance. 9? 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 WilcOx. Mystery drama. E. C. Bentley's famous detective, Philip Trent, suspects the widow and the secretary in the death of a financial tycoon, uncovers 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-American "Craiylegs" hiirsch from his high school football days up to his present starring role with the Los Angeles 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 fafl out because of a girl, but are reunited in fighting the 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. 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. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT