Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

UNITED ARTISTS (Continued) TOP BANANA Color Corp. of America. Phil Silvers, Rose Marie. Producers Albert Zu'jsmith and Ben Peska;'. Director Alfred E. Green. Musical comedy. Filmed as though it were a stace play. :how within a show has Silvers as funniest man on TV, fond of girls and autographs. When real love hits, he is bounced around by Qirl and sponsor, but his basic desire to be an entertainer ends rifts. March ACT OF LOVE Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin. Producerdirector Anatole Litvak. Drama. French refu'^ee girl Is compromised by American occupation soldier; they fall in love, are separated by police; girl, mistakenly believes American has forsaken her, goes to her death. BEAT THE DEVIL Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, GIna Lollobriglda. Producer-director John Huston. Drama. An assorted croup on tramp steamer become involved In Intricue. murder and romance in search for uranium. Filmed in Mediterranean area. 82 min. CAMELS WEST PatheColor. Rod Cameron, Joanne Dru, John Ireland. Producer Edward Small. Adventure drama. GOLDEN MASK, THE Technicolor. Van Heflln, Wanda Hendrix. Producers Aubrey Barinn, Maxwell Setton. Romantic adventure. SCARLET SPEAR. THE Technicolor Morasi, John Bentley, Martha H'/er. Producer Charles Reynolds. Directors George Breakston Ray Stahl. Adventure drama. April ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE PatheColor. Dan O'Herlihy. Producers Oscar Danclgers, Henry Ehrlich. Director Luis Bunuel. Adventure drama. From Daniel Defoe's classic of the shipwrecked sailor and the native who became his man Friday. HEIDI Elsbeth SIgmund, Heinrlch Gretler. Producer Laiar Wechsler. Director Luici Comencini. Drama. Taken from famed children'st story by Johanna Spyri of the l^ve between a little Swiss cirl and her grandfather. 98 min. LONE GUN, THE George Montgomery, Dorothy Malone. Producer Edward Small. Director Ray Naiarro. MALTA STORY Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins. Producer Peter De Sarigny. Director Brian Desmond Hurst. Air-war drama. British attempt to hold Malta In World War II backgrounds reconnaissance pilot's daring exploit in locating enemy convoy, sealing fate of Nazis' Afrika Corps. WITNESS TO MURDER Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill. Producer Chester Erskine. Director Roy Rowland. Suspense Melodrama. Coming CROSSED SWORDS PatheColor. Errol Flynn, GIna Vassarottl. Director Milton Krims. Period adventure drama. Adventures of pair of very eligible bachelors returning to Italian dukedom where decree has been established that all males over 20 must be married. Lollobriglda. Producers J. Barrett Mahon, Vittorio GOG Color Corp. of America. Richard Egan, Constance Dowlin';, Herbert Marshall. Producer Ivan Tors. Director Herbert L. Strock. Science-fiction drama. UNIVEflSAL-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, Marl Blanchard. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director George Sherman. Costume adventure. Champion of Ottoman empire fights againit despots from Bagdad attempting to con'-.uer the land. 82 min. December TUt/BLEWEED 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 stands to inherit fortune if he becomes operatic star, makes his mark instead in concert ball jazz. 95 mm. January BORDER RIVER Technicolor. Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo. Producer Albert J. Cohen. Director George ShernisTn. Western drama. Confederate officer steals gold irom Union mint to buy supplies in Mexico for the Southern army, causing bloodshed. 81 min. FORBIDDEN Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru. Producer Ted Richmond. Director Rudolph Mate. Melodrama. Racketeer rjoes to Macao to find a slain hoodlum's 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 beinc led by supposedly dead cavalryman. 78 min. February GLENN MILLER STORY, THE Technicolor. James Stewart, June Allyson. Producer Aaron Rosenberg. Director Anthony Manln. Biopic with music. Highlights of t.he life of the late, creat bandleader lost in an air accident over English Channel, TAZA, SON OF COCHISE 2D-3D. Rock Hudson. Producer Ross Hunter. Director Douc'as Sirk. Western. Apache chief i: forced to ficht other redskins trying to brin'j peace between his people and the white men. March CREATURE FROM THE CLACK 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 OF 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.osenber-:. Director Raoul Walsh. Outdoor drama. Canadian mountie rebels against h-: commandin-^ officer to save survivors of Indian attack. April FORT LARAMIE Technicolor. Jchn Payne, Dan Duryea. Marl Blanchard. Producer Ted Richmond. Director Jesse Hibbs. Outdoor drama. Trouble-shooiing soldier is sent to Wyoming Territory to clear work stoppage on construction of rai'road. 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 Chandler, Rhonda Fleming. Producer Howard Christie. Director Joseph Pevney. Co:tume 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 cold miners break treaty with Indian: to obtain ore-beatinn ground. FAR COUNTRY. THE Technicolor. James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corlnne Calvet. Walter Brennan. Producer Aaron Rosenberc Director Anthony Mann. Outdoor drama. Driving a herd of cattle up to Alaska, Stewart plays tac with cold, love and sudden death. JOHNNY DARK Technicolor. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie. Producer William Alland. Director George Sherman. Drama. Younc automotive designer develops sport car to save fallinc auto company, succeeds when he wins cross country race. MA & PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Lee Sholem. Comedy. Kettles co to Hawaii where Pa takes over the runnlnc of his rich brother's fruit processing plant. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Technicolor. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead. Producer Ross Hunter. Director Douglas Slrk. 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 Heflln, 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 renecade whiteman who incites the savaces. WARNER BROTHERS November CALAMITY JANE Technicolor WarnerPhonic sound Doris Day Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie. Producer William Jacobs. Director David Butler. Musical western. Fabulous Calamity Jane in friendly feud with Wild Bill Hickok, brin::? back famed entertainer's stage-struck maid as the real thing, is transformed into pretty girl, ends u:> marrvinc Wild Bill. !01 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 cet diamond for Louis XIV's coronation go throuch perilous and romantic adventures to accomplish mission. 80 min. KEY LARGO IRelssue) Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore. Producer Jerry Wald. Director John Huston. Drama. 101 min. TREASURE OF SIERRA MAD?.E (Reissue) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston. Producer Henry Blanke. Director John Huston. Drama. 126 min. December THREE 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 Toth. 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 beglnnincs as entertainer at_ 13. success in the Follies, eventual recovery from Illness to entertain for charity. !!4 min. HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE Technicolor. Burt Lancaster. Joan Rice. Producer Harold Hecht. Director Byron Haskln. Action drama. Victim of a mutiny, sea captain is ;et adrift, lands on Soulh Pacific island, becomes white ruler usinc democratic methods to unite warring factions. 88 min. HONDO 3D WarnerColor. John Wayne, Geraldlne Page. Producer Robert Fellows. Director Jchn 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 cowbo" seekinc to be lawyer unwlttlncly becomes Sheriff', humbles jlily the Kid, captures outlaws, finally leaves for law apprenticeship. 88 min. COMMAND, THE ClnemaScope, WarnerColor. Guy Madison, Joan Weldon. James Whltmore. Producer David Weisbart. Director David Butler. Western drama. Young doctor ta':es over command of troop tram in Wyoming territory brines it to safety through raids and disease. 94 mms. March CRIME WAVE Sterling Heyden, Gene Nelson. Phyllis Kirk. Producer Bryan Foy. Director Andre de Toth. Crime melodrama. Record of reformed convict Involves him in holdup plot, but with aid of understanding detectlce, en'* Innate hones*. . Is freed from past. 74 min. DUFFY OF SAN pUENTIN Louis Hayward, Paul Kelly. Joanne Dru, Maureen O'SuTlvan. Prison drama. PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE 3D 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 cirls as victim of sadistic zoologist studying "animal" reflexes. Coming DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D WarnerColcr. Ray Mllland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummlncs. Director Alfred Hitchcock. Murder melodrama. Hu;band plots death of wife whom he married 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 his name, wipes out outlaws. THEM Edmund Gwenn, James Whltmore, 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. YOUR SERVICE— OUR RESPONSIBILITY NEW JERSEY MESSENGER SERVICE Member Xational Film Carriers 250 N. Juniper Street Philadelphia 7. Pa. LOcust 7-4823 ORDER NOW! Expendable 3-D Glasses that are adjustable A prompt order ivill reserve your POLALITE glasses and insure delivery for future bookings. HIGHWAY EXPRESS LINES, INC. Philadelphia. Pa.: LOcust 4-0100 Washington, D. C: DUpont 7-7200 Member National Film Carriers FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT