Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) JUBILEE TRAIL Trucolor. Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker. Associate producer-director Joseph IKane. Outdoor drama. California trader meets and marries Eastern girl takes her West. Romantic complications when she learns he has a son by unmarried Spanish girl. 103 min. 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. Wnen she is murdered Captain avenges death and claims boy. MAKE HASTE TO LIVE Dorothy McGuIre. Stephen McNally. Associate producer-director William Seiter. Drama. Woman news.oa.ner owner is confronted with hidden past when husband turns up after serving prison term for murder. She could have saved him and he plans to get revenge by ruining life of their daughter. OUTCAST, THE Trucolor. John Derek. Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Younc westerner wa^es ran^e war against unscrupulous uncle to rec-over 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 Oulet Man". An American in Scotland to visit his child, stays to champion the .neo.ole whose livelihood is threatened when a private road they had always used is closed by the owner. RKO November DECAMERON NIGHTS Technicolor. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan. Producers M. J. Frankovlch and Wm. Szekely. Director Huco Freoonese. Costume comedy. Boccaccio, in love with beautiful woman whose memory of her late, aaed husband prevents new romance, attempts to win her love through his stories. 87 min. January KILLERS FROM SPACE Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar. Producer-director W. Lee Wilder. Science fiction. Nuclear scientist prevents the conquest of Earth by invaders from another planet. February BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Goldwyn Re-release). Myrna Loy, Frederic March, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews. Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Director William Wyler. Drama. 170 mins. FRENCH LINE 3D Technicolor. Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Edmund Grainger. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comedy. Jilted at the altar because she has too much money, Texas millionairess takes cruise on Liberte. Incognito, she sets out to find husband who will love her for herself alone. 102 min. 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. 87 min. 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-wheei chase. DANGEROUS MISSION 3D. Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price, Wm. Bendix. Producer Irwin Allen. Director Louis Kin^. 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 (Reissue). John Wayne. 87 min. A pril MR. BLANDING BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (Reissue) Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. 94 min. PINOCCHIO (Reissue). Disney. 87 min. SAINT'S GIRL FRIDAY Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance. Producer Juiian Lesser. Mystery comedy-drama. Saint even score with gamblers for curder and ruination of youths, SON OF SINBAD 3D Technicolor. Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Lili St. Cyr, Vincent Price. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Ted Tetzlaff. Romantic adventure. Further adventures of SInbad and his 40 thieves. Double romance pairs Robertson S Forrest, Price & St, Cyr. THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME IRelssue) Susan Hayward, Robert Young. Jane Greer. 9S min. Coming BADMAN'S TERRITORY(Reissue) Randolph Scott 98 min. SPANISH MAIN (Reissue) Maureen O'Hara, Pau( 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 I 7 minutes. LOST PATROL IRelssue) Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Glenn Ford. 73 min. BIG RAINEOW Technicolor Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Harr. Tatelman. Director John Sturges. Romantic adventure drama. DESPERATE MEN Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Lizabeth Scott. Producer Benedict Boneaus. Director Allan Dwan. Western drama. Townspeople alienate upstanding citizen 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 Tashlin. Romantic comedy. 2DTH CENTURY-FDX November HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE CinemaScope Technicolor. Marilyn Monroe. Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Ca meron 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 Lundinan. 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 Robert Bassler. Director Robert D. Webb. Adventure-drama. Perili of sponoe divers Interwoven in storv' of father-son relationship, clashes between sponge-fishermen, and younn romance. 102 min. MAN CRAZY Neville Brand, Christine White. Producers S. Haromn, P. Voran. Director !. Lerner. Documentary drama. Teenage girls seek glamour and excitement In Hollywood after stealing bootlegger's money. 79 min. MAN IN THE ATTIC Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Hugo Fregonese. Mystery melodrama. Psychopathic boarder commits nirjht 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 Mankiewicz. 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 British officer in !9th 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 nirl becomes imperiled when one is sus.oected 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 troo.o train sets off net of intrii^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, finally 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. April PRINCE VALIANT CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Ma:on. Janet Leinh. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. VIklna kino overthrown bv traitor Is oiven sactuary bv Kinrj Arthur. Years later the disposed king's son overthrows the traitor. Coming RIVER OF NO RETURN CinemaScope Technicolor. Marl lyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun. Produce Stanley Rubin. Director Otto Preminger. Outdoor ad venture romance. Barroom entertainer Monroe, ei convict Mitchum and his young son are forced to guidf a raft down a treacherous mountain river, battling th( rapids, Indians and the elements. THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CinemaScope Tec^ nicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuIre, Jean Peter; Maggie McNamara. Director Jean Nei^uiesco. Romanti, comedy. Three American cirls workinn in Rome tos coins in Wishing Fountain. After each travels rock> road, dreams come true. 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 preserving Jamestown fror annihilation. 75 min. SHARK RIVER Color Corp. of America. Steve Cochran, Carole Matthews. Producer-director John Rawlins. Ad venture melodrama. Chase through the Everglades ipost Civil War days with murderer and his brothe as the prey. 80 min. SONG OF THE LAND Color Corp. of America. Nar rated by Marvin Miller. Documentary. Filmed b naturalists, tells of ife of the nearly extinct Californ ; condor and evolution of our planet which cause: 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 bov whom he saves from death, leads to his doom. 82 mir December CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, THE Alec Guinness, Yvonne de Carlo. Producer-director Anthony Kimmins. 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 Wanger. Director John Cromwell. Romantic drama. 95 min. CON9UEST OF EVEREST, THE Technicolor Documentary. Depiction of the 1953 expedition under Col. Hunt that scaled Mt. Everest. 78 min. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Robert Morley, Mauri^t Evans, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Producer: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliatt. Director Sidney Gil llatt. 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 SapersteinI (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 Lun digan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carson. Producer Ivan Tors. Science-fiction adventure. Other infor matlon 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 boozy 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. 89 min. MAN BETWEEN, THE James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hil-i degarde Neff. Producer-director Carol Reed. Suspense drama. Spies, secret police and innocent pawns Involved in plot to stem flow of refugees from westerr sector of Berlin to Allies' area. Mason, used by Reds overcomes blackmail threats to rescue kidnappec British girl. 100 min. OVERLAND PACIFIC SuperCineColor. Jock Mahoney Peggie Castle. Producer Edward Small. Director Fred Sears. Western. Battles and intrigue in the laying ofl the railroad through hostile Indian country to the West Coast. 73 min. PERSONAL AFFAIR Gene Tierney, Leo Genn. Produce' Antony Darnborough. Director Anthony Pellssle' Drama. Small town British teacher Is accused by h^ wife of having affair with school girl. When latter dls appears, teacher Is suspected of murder. 82 min. TOP BANANA Color Corp. of America. Phil Silvers, Rose Marie. Producers Albert Zugsmith and Ben Peskay. Director Alfred E. Green. Musical comedy. Filmed as though it were a stage play, show within a show| has Silvers as funniest man on TV. fond of girls andj autographs. When real love hits, he Is bounced around! by girl and sponsor, but his basic desire to be an; entertainer ends riffs. 100 min. FILM BULLETIN— THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT