Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) April CERALDINE John Carroll, Mala Powers, Stan Freberg. Producer Sidney Picker. Director R. G. Springsteen. Comedy witti music. Tin Pan Alley publicity girl discovers youn-^ 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 194! but his crime-ridden past destroys hope for the revival of marriage. JOHNNY GUrTAR 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 Soaniih C'ri. LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Respectable schooner captain tries to save C'rl and illegitimate son from degrading life with beachcomber. When she is murdered Captain avenges death and claims bo". MAKE HASTE TO LIVE Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally. Associate producer-director William Selter. Drama. Woman news.oa.ier owner is confronted with hidden past when husband turns up after serving prison term for murder. Sh? could have saved him and he plans to get revenge by ruinlnn life of their daughter. OUTCAST, THE Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Youn^ westerner waoes ran':;e 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. TROUBLE IN THE GLEN Technicolor.. Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Orson Welles. Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox. Adventure roriance. Story by Maurice Walsh, author of "The Quiet Man". An American in Scotland to visit his child, stays to champion the people whose livelihood is threatened when a private road they had alv/ays used is closed by the owner. RKD November D'CAMERON NIGHTS Technicolor. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan. Producers M. J. Frankovich and Wm. Szekely. Director Huco Freoonese. Costume comedy. Boccaccio, in love with beautiful woman whose memory of her late, aaed husband orevents new romance, attempts to win her love throunh his stories. 87 min. January KILLERS FROM SPACE Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar. Producer-director W. Lee Wilder. Science fiction. Nuclear scientist .orevents the conquest of Earth by invaders from another planet. February BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES IGoldwyn Re-release). Mvrna Loy, Frederic March, Teresa Wrioht, Dana Andrews. Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Director William Wyler. Drama. 170 mins. FRENCH LINE 3D Technicolor. Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Edmund Grainier. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comed^'. Jilted at the altar because she has too much money, Texas millionairess takes cruise on Liberte. Incocnito. she sets out to find husband who will love her for herself alone. RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (Reissue). Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum. William Holden. 93 min. ROB ROY Technicolor. Glynis Johns, Richard Todd. Producer Perce Pearce. Director Harold French. Disney live-action costume drama. From Daniel Defoe story of Scottish hero who led rebellion against tyranny of British governors until King George I relieved the situation in admiration for Rob Roy's exploits. SHE COULDN'T SAY NO Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Lloyd Bacon. Comedy. Poor-little-rich-girl learns people in Arkansas town saved her life when she was a baby. Her secret money gifts to townspeople disrupts their barter-system economy. 89 min. VALLEY OF THE SUN (Reissue) Lucille Ball, James Craig. 84 min. March CARNIVAL STORY Technicolor. Anne Baxter. Steve Cochran. Producers Frank and Maurice King. Director Kurt Neumann. Melodrama. Struggle of a young girl to free herself from her fascination for a carnival heel who causes her high-diving partner's death. She does and carny strong man kills heel in a ferris-wheel chase. DANGEROUS MISSION 3D. Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price, Wm. Bendix. Producer Irwin Allen. Director Louis Kin'j. 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. ENCHANTED COTTAGE (Reissue). Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. 91 min. TALL IN THE SADDLE leissue). John Wayne. 87 min. April MR. BIANDING BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (Reissue) Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. 94 min. PINOCCHIO (Reissue). Disney. SAINT'S GIRL FRIDAY Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance. Producer Julian Lesser. Mystery comedy-drama. Saint even score with namblers for curder and ruination of youths. SON OF SINBAD 30 Technicolor. Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Lill St. Cyr, Vincent Price. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Ted Tetzlaff. Romantic adventure, further adventures of Sinbad and his 40 thieves. Double romance pairs Robertson & Forrest, Price & St. Cyr. THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (Reissue) Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer. 95 min. Coming DADMAN'S TERRITORYIRelssue) Randolph Scott 98 min. SPANISH MAIN (Reissue) Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreld. 100 minutes. THING, THE (Reissue) Producer-director Howard Hawks, Science-fiction melodrama. 87 min. STATIONS WEST (Reissue) Dick Powell. 92 min GUNGA DIN (Reissue) Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Producer-Director John Ford. I 1 7 minutes. LOST PATROL (Reissue) Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Glenn Ford. 73 min. BIG RAINtOW Technicolor Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Harr, Tatelman. Director John Sturges. Romantic adventure drama. DESPERATE MEN Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Liiabeth Scott. Producer Benedict Bo^eaus. Director Allan Dwan. Western drama. Townspeople alienate upstanding clliien accused of murder and daughter of cattle baron who stands by him. SUSAN SLEPT HERE Technicolor. Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Harriet Parsons. Director Frank Tashlln. Romantic comedy. 2DTH CENTURY-FDX November HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE CinemaScope Technicolor. Marilyn Monroe. Bettv 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. 96 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. December BENEATH THE 12.MILE REEF CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland. Producer "obert Bassler. Director Robert D. Webb. Adventure-drama. Perik of fponce divers Interwoven in stor.' of father-son relations'-ip. clashes between sponge-fishermen, and youn-^ 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 ni^ht murders, with pretty women as his victims. About to kill a girl he has fallen in love with, the twisted mind uncoils and takes own life. 82 min. January KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (Reissue) Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Roddy McDowall. Producer Joseph Mankiewlcz. 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 Britich officer in 19th 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. 78 min. 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. SIEGE AT RED RIVER, THE Technicolor. Van Johnson, Joanne Dru. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Rudolph Mate. Civil War drama. Robbery of a Union cavalry troop train sets off net of Intri'^ue 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, fina lly carries her atop roller coaster and both meet their death. NIGHT PEOPLE CinemaScope Technicolor. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford. Rita Gam. Producer-director Nunnally Johnson. Melodrama. Efforts of an American officer in Berlin to untangle red tape to negotiate return of young soldier kidnapped by Reds. G.l.'s wealthy father complicates by attempting bribery and barter of two people wanted by Communists for return of his son. A pril PRINCE VALIANT CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Ma:on. Janet Leich. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Vikinc kino overthrown by traitor Is civen sactuary by Kinn Arthur. Years later ths dis.o'osed king's son overthrows the traitor. Coming RIVER OF NO RETURN CinemaScope Technicolor. Marilyn 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. UNITED ARTISTS November CAPT. JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS Pathecolor. Anthony Dexter. Jody Lawrance. Producers Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen. Director Lew Landers. Historical drama. Based on the famous incident wherein the Indian princess saves the life of British captain, then is instrumental in preservinn Jamestown from annihilation. 75 min. SHARK RIVER Color Corp. of America. Steve Cochran, Carole Matthews. Producer-director John Rawlins. Adventure melodrama. Chase throunh the Everglades in post Civil War days with murderer and his brother as the prey. 80 min. SONG OF THE LAND Color Corp. of America. Narrated by Marvin Miller. Documentary, Filmed by naturalists, tells of ife of the nearly extinct California condor and evolution of our planet which caused his extermination. 71 min. STRANGER ON THE PROWL Paul Muni, Joan Lorring. Melodrama. Stowaway lands in Italy, becomes murderer in quest for food. Attachment with young boy. whom he saves from death, leads to his doom. 82 min. December CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, THE Alec Guinness, Yvonne de Carlo. Producer-director Anthony KImmlns. Romantic adventure drama. Sea captain dividing his romance between his wife in Gibraltar and girl in North Africa, ends double life when storm shows him the futility of his course. 77 min. YESTERDAY AND TODAY Narrated by George Jessel. Producer-director Abner J. Greshler. Documentary. History of the movies from "flickers" of 1893 and the progress made to today. Includes top stars of filn> history. 57 min. January ALGIERS (Reissue) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr. Producer Walter Wan'jer. Director John Cromwell. Romantic drama. 95 min. CONQUEST OF EVEREST, THE Technicolor Documentary. Depiction of the 1953 expedition under Col. Hunt that scaled Mt. Everest. 78 min. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Robert Morley. Maurice Evans, The D'Oylv Carte Opera Company. Producers Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliatt. Director Sidney Gilllatt. Musical biography. Story of the famed operetta team, their beginnings and differences. 105 min. GO, MAN, GO Dane Clark, Harlem Globe Trotters. Producer Anton M. Leader. Director James Wong Howe. Sports drama. Story of the rise of the famed Negro basketball team, their rise under Abe Saperstein (Clark) from a iaiopy-traveling barnstorming outfit to one of the world's greatest sports attractions. 82 min. RIDERS TO THE STARS Super-Cinecolor. William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carson. Producer Ivan Tors. Science-fiction adventure. Other information not available. 81 min. WICKED WOMAN Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan. Producer Clarence Greene. Director Russell Rouse. Melodrama. Loose woman takes job as bargirl, induces owner to leave his booiy wife and run off with her. When plans are upset, she makes new setup. 77 min. February BEACHHEAD PatheColor. Tony Curtis, Frank Loveioy. Mary Murphy. Producer W. Koch. Director Stuart Heisler. Action drama. MAN BETWEEN, THE James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hlldegarde Neff. Producer-director Carol Reed. Suspense drama. Spies, secret police and innocent pawns involved In plot to stem flow of refugees from western sector of Berlin to Allies' area. Mason, used by Reds, overcomes blackmail threats to rescue kidnapped British girl. 100 min. OVERLAND PACIFIC SuperCineCoior. Jock Mahoney. Peggie Castle. Producer Edward Small. Director Fred Sears. Western. Battles and intrigue In the laying of the railroad through hostile Indian country to the West Coast. PERSONAL AFFAIR Gene Tierney, Leo Genn. Producer Antony Darnborough. Director Anthony Pellssier. Drama. Small town British teacher is accused by his wife of having affair with school girl. When latter disappears, teacher is suspected of murder. 82 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT