Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

LIPPERT (Continued) ERROR STREET Dan Duryea. Elsy Albiin. Producer -♦hony Hinds. Director Montgomery Tully. Murder ama. Air Force pilot is suspected of killing his wife, ti 34 hours to prove his innocence and exposes a ■ ackmail ring responsible for the murder. 83 min. January LACK GLOVE Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield. Murer drama. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Ter-ce Fisher. Jazi trumpet star is suspected of killing Dionde singer, but after many fights, threats of vio-ce and an attempted poisoning, he pins the blame the real slayer. OLLYWOOD TH:?ILL-MAKERS James 6leason, Bill 5nry. Producer Meurice Koslcff. Director Bernard ay. Adventure drama. Small town boy comes to lollywood as a stunt man. marries and quits the game, jt first performs a daring plane crash to aid widow • his best friend. 60 min. /HITE fire Scott Brady, Mary Castle. Producers obert S. Baker, Monty Berman. Director John Gilling. lystery drama. Ship s officer seeking missing brother jspect'ed of murder finds the latter mixed up in smug■\q ring, and with help of a night club singer rounds •he gang and proves his brother's innocence. 82 min. February >UEEN OF SHEBA Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervi. Projcer Mario Francisci. Director Pietro Francisci. Bibjcal spectacle. Queen of Sheba leads her armies 'gainst Solomon's forces in Jerusalem, 1000 B.C., is laptured and makes her escape. After a battle and an valanche. she Is freed of "marriage" vows to pagan ods and marries Solomon's son. 9V min. VE WANT A CHILD Ruth Brejnholm, Jorgen Reenberg. Sirectors Alice O' Fredericks, Lau Lauritien. Drama. Carried young girl desiring child cannot have one, /hile her best friend has an unfortunate affair and ears an unwanted child. Finally young wife becomes ipectant and audience witnesses actual birth of baby. bo March 'WBOY, THE Eastman Color. Producer-director, timo Williams Documentar/ feature. Photographed n color on actual Southwest locations, story relates the ^me^ican cowboy's true life from pioneer days to now r-ANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin, Jr., Onslow •tevenst Producer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Director /William Claxton. Murder drama. Boy and his dog are ;infy witnesses to a cold-blooded killing in the woods. |Joy'$ story is not believed until the murderer's wife fstablishes truth, causin'; a chase in which the lad's ife is threatened. |I^LACKOUT Dane Clark, Belinda Lee. Producer Michael .Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Murder drama. A 'Jown-and-out war veteran is offered a $1000 mystery ob b;' a -^irj whose father is later murdered, throwing luspicion on the veteran until he establishes that the pirl's mother was responsibly for the klllin". [ April HEAT WAVE Alex Nico), Hillary Brooke. Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Ken Hughes. Murder drama, -aithless wite allows husband to drown a young novelsf an unwitting accessory, keeps silent but tells police j^ter widow jrits him. METHD-GQLDWYN-MAYER November ill THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT Technicolor, tobert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann BIyth. Producer Jandro S. Berman. Director Richard Thorpe. Romantic >ea Saga. Two brothers fight for the love of a woman rwhile on whaling expedition in the South Seas. 95 min. IKISS ME KATE 3D Ansco Color. Kathryn Grayson, |Howard Keel, Ann Miller. Producer Jack Cummings. Director George Sidney. Musical comedy. Play-within[a-play dramatization of a Broadway show based on jShakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". 109 min. j December |EASY TO LOVE Technicolor. Esther Williams, Van Johnrson, Tony Martin. Producer Joe Pasternak. Director jOhaMes Walters. Aquatic Musical. Romantic triangle 'm Cypress Gardens amid colorful swimming aRd water-skiing productions. 94 min. ESCAPE FROM FORT ERAVO 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 Union stockade located in the desert. 98 min. January GIVE A GIRL A BREAK Technicolor. Marge and Gower Champion Debbie Reynolds. Producer Jack Cummings. ^'r\rl.°/ 5 ?"'«V Donen. Musical comedy. Three young wh. '^^^ starring role in Broadway musical when tW name star walks out. 82 min GREAT DIAMOND ROBBERY. THE Red Skelton Cara wil iams. Producer Edwin H. Knopf. Director Robert „, '-eo"?'-d. Comedy. Young diamond cutter dreams rni V,^'^, his long lost family and getting chance to Wi, k Phony family materializes and ' ' , j "'^ diamond cutter into stealing the gem. 49 min. ulJrJi^^ ROUND TABLE CinemaScope Color p/nH V"n" ^^^'o'' Gardner. Producer Th!: ? Bsi-man Director Richard Thorpe. Historical th. .k,"''* .T' . '^^'^ °' ^'""i Arthur', ascension to rne throne of England, his turbulent reign and eventual ?„V.u' ,'=?'"P'i<:«»ed by his wife Guinevere's love 'or the knight Lancelot. 115 min. February LONG. LONG TRAILER. THE Ansco Color. Lucille Ball, r>\rl . "w' •^*'''0'"'e Main Producer Pandro S. Berman. Ut:^„. . Minnelli. Comedy. Trials and tribu lations 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 Mornbiow, Jr. and Lawrence Wein^arten. 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 EXECUTIVE SUITE William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck June Allycon. Frederic March. Walter Pidoeon Paul Douglas. Drama. Effect the death of a president of a larne firm has on the first 4 vice-presidents. !04 min. 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 trom the little girl who raised him. 72 min. RHAPSODY Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor Vittorlo Gassman. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Director Charles Vidor. Love story. A beautiful woman In Europe holds the lives and music careers of two youno artists in her hands. Background of classical music. 115 min. Coming CREST OF THE WAVE Gene Kell". Producer-Directors John and Roy Boultlng. Science melodrama. AngloAmerican temperaments cet a workout during the development of a new torpedo explosive FLAME AND THE FLESH Technicolor. Lana Turner Pier Anqeh, Carlos Thompson. Producer Joe Pasternak Director Richard Brooks. Rmantic drama. Beautiful giri drifting around world from one love affair to another becomes involved m web of intri-ue and romance. 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. Aisasslnation 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, 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 BInyon. Comedy-musical. The oldest chorus boy on Broadway accidently 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 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 Ludwlg. Adventure-drama. A pretty American girl goes to find her sweetheart in the Amazon jungle, is aided by iungle 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. Horseplayer becomes heavily indebted to a boogie 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 Ce-.'lon. falls in love with his foremjn 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 Mel vin Frank. Comedy. American ventriloquist in Paris undergoes psychonanalysls to overcome a fear of marriage finds the female psychiatrist has same complex, becomes involved in sp: plot and murder. LIVING IT UP Technicolor. Dean Martin. Jerry Lewis. Janet Lei';h. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Comedy. Dr. Dean Martin mistakenl.' announces that Jerry Lewis is d'-inr of radiation poisoning and he is given one last flinn at life by reporter Janet Leigh. NAKED JUNGLE Technicolor. Eleanor Parker. Ch^rltcn Heston. Producer George Pal. Director Byron Haskin. Adventure drama. South American plantation owner considers his mail-order wife too eleqant for rouch iungle life. She prove: 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 dealh or his brother. Killer turns cut to be best friend of Mitchell. SABRINA FAIR Humphrey Bogart. Audrey Hepburn. William Holden. Producer and director Billy Wilder. Comedy. Two rich brothers fall for 'heir chauffeur's daughter after rhe return; from a '.ear in Paris. SECRET OF THE INCAS Technicolor. Charlton Heston. Nicole Maure.', Thomas Mitchell, Robert Younn. Producer Mel Epstine. Director Jerr. Hopper. Melodrama. American .pilot stranded in Peru :oln: a renegade in searching for lost Inca treasure. ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas, Sllvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Pontl DeLaurentis. Director Mario Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric feats of Ulysses as ta.ken from the Odessey. WHITE CHRISTMAS Technicolor. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. Vera-Ellsn. Producer Robt. E. Dolan. Director Michael Curtiz. Musical. Two World War !! buddies team as entertainers after war, become involved with sister act which ttireatens their plans for Broadwav show. REPUBLIC December CHAMP FOR A DAY Alex Nicol. Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger. Hope Emerson. Asso. producer-director William A. Seiter. Action melodrama. A young heavyweight finds his manacer missin'^, and risks the danner of tangling with a gang of local gamblers to uncover the secret of hU disappearance. 92 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. 54 min. January TRENT'S LAST CAST Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood. Orson Welles. Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcdx. Mystery drama. E. C. Bentley's famous detective, Philip Trent, suspects the widow and the secretary in the deaih of a financial tycoon, uncovers plot within a plot. 90 min. February CRAZYLEGS EIroy Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vchs. Producer Hall Bartlett. Director Francis Lyon. Sport drama. Life of AM-American "Crazylegs" Hirsch from his hirh 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 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 doinn 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 youn*^ college 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. 91 min. 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 antlrallroad ranchers is worth more than money she dreamed of making If railroad crossed her land. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT