Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) April GERALDINE John Carroll, Mala Powers. Stan Freberg. Producer Sidney Picker. Director R. G. Springsteen. Comedy with music. Tin Pan Alley publicity girl discovers younij colleoe music instructor with golden voice, interested only in folk songs, eventually interests him in popular music and a marriage license. ?0 min. May JUBILEE ntAIL 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 Spanish girl. 103 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 1941 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 antirailroad ranchers is worth more than money she dreamed of making if railroad crossed her land. LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcoi. 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 boy. MAKE HASTE TO LIVE Dorothy McGuire, Stephen Mc Nally. Associate producer-director William Seiter. Drama. Woman newspaper 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. Youn^ westerner wanes ran'^e war against unscrupulous 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. TOBOR THE GREAT Charles Drake. Karen Booth. Science fiction. Adventures of lO-year-old boy and mechanical man in foiling enemy agent's .olot to steal secret formula. TROUBLE IN THE GLEN TrueColor. 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 peo.ole whose livelihood is threatened when a private road they had always used is closed by the owner. UNTAMED HEIRESS Judy Canova. Don Barry. Comedy. Judy becomes involved with cold hoard and battle royal in pseudo medieval castle in the desert. RKQ 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. 71 min. February BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES IGoldwyn Re-releasel. 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 Grainoer. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comed:'. 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 relie/ed 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. Corned/. 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 ferrls-wheel chase. DANGEROUS MISSION 3D Technicolor Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price. Wm. Bendix. Producer Irwin Allen. Director Louis Kln^. 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. 75 min. ENCHANTED COTTAGE I Reissue I. Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. 91 min. TALL IN THE SADDLE (Reissue). John Wayne. 87 min. April 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 Julian Lesser. Mystery comedy-drama. Saint even score wi*h gamblers for murder and ruination of youth. 68 min. SON OF SINBAD 3D Technicolor. Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Lili St. Cyr, Vincent Price. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Ted Tetilaff. Romantic adventure. Further adventures of Sinbad and his 40 thieves. Double romance pairs Robertson S Forrest, Price & St. Cyr. THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (Reissue) Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer. 95 min. Coming CADMAN'S TERRITORY (Reissue) Randolph Scott 98 min. BIG RAINBOW 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 Bogeaus. Director Allan Dwan. Western drama. Townspeople alienate upstanding citizen accused of murder and daughter of cattle baron who stands by him. CUNGA 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. SPANISH MAIN (Reissue) Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid. 100 minutes. STATIONS WEST (Reissue) Dick Powell. 92 min SUSAN SLEPT HERE Technicolor. Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Harriet Parsons. Director Frank Tashlin. Romantic comedy. THING. THE (Reissue) Producer-director Howard Hawks. Science-fiction melodrama. 87 min. 2DTH CENTURY-FOX December BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland. Producer P.obert Bassler. Director Robert D. Webb. Adventure-drama. Peril; of sponce divers interwoven in stori' of father-son relationship, clashes between sponge-fishermen, and vounn 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 niciht 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 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 olrl 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 111 by an atomic bomb incident. 103 min. MISS ROBIN CRUSOE Pathecolor. Amanda Blake, George Nader. Producer-director Eugene Frenke. 75 min. March CRY OF THE CITY Reissue. Victor Mature, Shelley Winters. 95 min. NEW FACES CinemaScope Eastman Color. Ronny Graham. Eartha Kitt. Producer Edward Alperson. Director Harry Hr»rner. Musical Fi'min-: of B'way show. 98 min. 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 wealthv father complicates by attempting bribery and barter of two people wanted by Communists for return of his son RACING CLOOD Color. Bill Williams, Jean Porter. Producer-director W. Barry. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Reissue. George Mont, gomery. 56 min. SCUDDA HOO-SCUDDA HAY Reissue. June Haver Walter Brenne. 95 min. STREET WITH NO NAME Reissue. Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan. 91 min. April KID FROM OUTER SPACE. THE George Winslow. Charles Coburn, Spring Byington. Producer Leonard Goldstein. PRINCE VALIANT CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Maion. Janet Leich. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Vikino kina overthrown by traitor is civen sactuary by King Arthur. Years later the disposed king's son overthrows the traitor. 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 intrigue and heroism Involving Confederate who turns out to be Union spy. May 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. 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. Coming PRINCESS OF THE NILE Technicolor. Jeffrey Hunter, Debra Pa^et. Michael P.ennie. Producer Leonard Goldstein . THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CinemaScope Technicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Maggie McNamara. Producer Sol Siecel. Dorector Jean Ne^ulesco. f.r>mantic comedy. Three American girls working In P-ome to5s coins in Wishing Fountain. After each traveU rocky road, dreams come true. UNITED ARTISTS December CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, THE Alec Guinness, Yvonne de Carlo. Producer-director Anthony Kimmins. Romantic adventure drama. Sea captain dividing his romasce 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 Wanner. 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 Technicolor. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. Producers Frank Launder, Sidney Gilllatt. Director Sidney Gilliatt. 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. Soorts drama. Story of the rise of the famed Negro basketball team, their rise under Abe Saperstem (Clark) from a jalopy-traveling barnstorming outfit to one of the world's greatest sports attractions. 82 min. RIDERS TO THE STARS Color Corp of Am. 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 boozy wife and run off with her. When plans are upset, she makes new setup. 77 min February BEACHHEAD PatheColor. Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy. Producer W. Koch. Director Stuart Helsler. Action drama. Four Marines invate small Japheld Inland ♦o obtain .nians of minefield during World War II. 89 min. MAN BETWEEN, THE James Mason. Claire Bloom, Hildegarde 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 Color Corp of Am. 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. 73 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT