Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT ICnow Your Product, Mr. Kxliibitor. This New Film Bulletin Feature Is Designed to Give You All Tlie Vital Details on Current &) Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS December PRIVATE EYES Bowery Boys. Director Edward Bernds. Producer Ben Schwalb. Comedy melodrama. When one of the Boys develops mind reading power, the others form a detective agency to capitalize on the gift, uncover a fur theft gang. 64 min. TEXAS BADMAN Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Young sheriff tracks down outlaws, finds leader is his father, who later sacrifice: hi: life to save son. 62 min. January GOLDEN IDOL. THE Johnny Sheffield. Producer-Director Ford Beebe. Jungle melodrama. Bomba, accidentally in possessjon of a valuable statue, fights motley group seekin'; the treasure. 71 min. WORLD FOR RANSOM Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patrick Knowles. Director Robert Aldrlch. Producers Bernard Tabakin and Aldrich. Si'spense melodrama. Adventurer foils kidnap plot involving nuclear scientist. 82 min. YUKON VENGEANCE Kirby Grant, Monte Hale. Producer William F. Broidy. Director William Beaudine. Melodrama. Disguised Canadian Mountie uncovers mystery mail robberies committed by trapper using trained niant bear. 63 min. February BITTER CREEK Bill Elliott. Director Thomas D. Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fenneliy. Western. Out to avenge death of his murdered rancher brother, Elliott picks up friends and sweetheart who save him in the shvwdown battle. 74 min. HIGHW/AY DRAGNET Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrlx. Director Nathan Juran. Producer William F. Broidy. Suspense melodrama. Hitch-hiking ex-Marine becomes involved in murder, becomes object of a five-state manhunt. 71 min. RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Carleton Young. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Don Siegel. Prison melodrama. Jail rfot spreads until Governor and State Militia are called m to quell the prisoners. 80 min. March DRAGONFLY SPUADRON John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett. Director Lesley Selander. Producer John Champion. War drama. Rigid disciplinarian takes over Korean airfield before invasion, is wounded in air attack, but his trained flyers come to the rescue. 84 min. PARIS PLAYBOYS Bowery Boys. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director William Beaudine. Comedy. Hunti Hall is sent to Paris believed to be a French scientist, concocts a formula that proves even more potent than the original scientist's. 62 min. LOOPHOLE Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Mary Beth Hughes. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parson:. Drama. Bank teller, $50,000 short in his accounts, tracks down phony bank examiner, recovers loot and job. 80 min. April ARROW IN THE DUST Technicolor. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray. Director Lesley Selander. Producer Hayes Goetz. Western melodrama. Would-be deserter dons dying Major's uniform to lead wagon train through hostile Indian territory, is regenerated. 80 min. MR. POTTS GOES TO MOSCOW George Cole, Nadia Gray. Produced & directed by Mario Zamoi. Comedy. Sanitary engineer mixes briefcases with atomic scientist setting off chase through Russia and Europe. 93 min. PRIDE OF THE BLUE GRASS Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles. Director William Beaudine. Producer Hayes Goetz. Racetrack drama. Filmed in color. Ambitious racehorse trainer noes bio time, comes to earth when kid jockey rides horse trainer had saved to victory. 71 min. Coming DESPERADO, THE Wayne Morris. Director Thomas Carr. Producer Vincent M Fenneliy. GHOST OF O'LEARY. THE Technicolor. David Niven, Yvonne de Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Cemedy. Irish fantasy -'•♦h comic flavor. 80 min. TWO GUNS AND A BADGE Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M Fenneliy. COLUMBIA January CAD FOR EACH OTHER Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott. Director Irving Rapper. Producer William Fadiman. Drama. Younn doctor out of Army is misled into an easy life as a society medico by wealthy spoiled divorcee, but mine explosion uncovers his true worth when he risks his life to save trapped workers. 83 min. DRUMS OF TAHITI 3D Technicolor. Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Costume melodrama. American in Tahiti is persuaded to smuggle in rifles to overthrow French rule. Marriage of convenience turns out to be real thing, despite hurricanes and volcanic eruptions. 73 min. EL ALAMEIN Scott Brady. Director Fred F. Sears. Producer Wallace MacDonald. War melodrama. An American with Montgomery's forces returns to El Alamein to relive in flashback the great victory vrt>n there and find the girl he had loved. 67 min. PARATROOPER Technicolor. Alan Ladd, Leo Genu. Director Terence Young. Producers Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli. War melodrama. Training of Paratroopers in Britain climaxed by attempt to take German stronahold in Africa. Interwoven Is love story between Ladd and newcomer Susan Stephen. 87 min. February CHARGE OF THE LANCERS Technicolor. Paulette Goddard, Jean Pierre Aumont. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Romantic adventure. Lancers, aided by new cannon, take supposedly impregnable naval base at Sebastapol during Crimean War. 74 min. MISS SADIE THOMPSON 3D Technicolor. Rita Hayworth. Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray. Director Curtis Bernhardt. Producer Jerry Wald. Melodrama with music. From the Somerset Maugham story of "entertainer" on a tropical island who becomes invofved with a batch of Marines and fanatical, hypocritical missionary. 91 min. WILD ONE, THE Marlon Brando. Director Laslo Benedek. Producer Stanley Kramer. Melodrama. Band of hotrodders terrorize town until indignant citizens force law to clamp down. Eventual regeneration of ringleader comes through love and innate decency. 79 min. March BAIT Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar. Directorproducer Huco Haas. Outdoor drama. Old prospector marries pretty nirl and involver her in plot to murder his young partner with whom he shares a rich gold strike. 79 min. BATTLE OF ROGUE RIVER Technicolor. George Montgomery. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Western drama. Spit and polish officer tries to run fort in hostile Indian territory by the "book". After learning what real fighting is, he succeeds in arranging peace with cunning redskin leader. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford. Director George Cukor. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Comedy. Girl, yearninc) for fame, invests her savings to have her name in lights on Broadway sign. Resultant fame and furor disillusions her, drives her into arms of young idealistic photographer. 87 min. MAD MAGICIAN. THE 3D Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor. Director John Brahm. Producer Bryan Foy. Horror melodrama. Illusion nenius, prevented by his boss from usinc hi: creations as a stage magician, peace with cunning redskin leader. 71 min. April DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD Mickey Rooney. Director Richard Ouine. Producer Jonie Taps. Drama. A pint-size auto mechanic is inveigled into a holdup gang by a pretty nirl. Girl re.oents as she falls in love with the guy, aid: him in breaking up the gang. 82 min. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Cliff. Director Vittorio de Sica. Producers David O. Selznick and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy, T'Bicycle Thief") de Sica's first English language film. IRON GLOVE. THE Technicolor. Rober tStack, Ursula Thiess. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katz. man. Historical adventure. Swashbuckler built around Stuarts and Windsors battle for British throne. 77 min. JESSE JAMES VS. THE DALTONS 3D Technicolor Brett King, Barbara Lawrence. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. Western melodrama. Supposed son of Jesse James becomes involved with Dalton gang, out to get the loot of the notorious bandit. In showdown battle. Daltons are wiped out and money turns out to be Confederate bills. 65 min. May MASSACRE CANYON Phil Carey, Douglas Kennedy. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred Sears. Western melodrama. Army sergeant detailed to bring shipment of rifles to outpost completes his mission despite harrassing by Apaches, treachery and romance. MIAMI STORY. THE Barry Sullivan, Adele Jergens. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Melodrama. Ex-gangster, now respectable, uses his past experience to expose crime syndicate. Coming CAINE MUTINY, THE Technicolor. Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray, Robert I Francis. Director Edward Dmytryk. Producer Stanley I Kramer. Sea drama. From the famed best-seller by Herman Wouk, of a mutiny aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer. Bogart plays a neurotic captain, Johnson the executive officer, MacMurray is the prissy Keefer, Ferrer the defense attorney for the mutineers and newcomer Francis the Princeton lad who gets a ship of his own. FATHER BROWN Alec Guiness, Joan Greenwood. Di. rector Robert Hamer. Producer Vivian Cox. Comedy drama. British made, with Guiness as whimsical priest in the G. K. Chesterton stories who runs a haven for ex-convicts, using it for some unorthodox crime-busting HELL BELOW ZERO Technicolor. Alan Ladd. Director Mark .Robson. Producers Irving Allen, Albert Broccoli. Sea adventure. Murder and elements combine to make complication for x-Navy skipper in the Antarctic. HUMAN DESIRE Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford. Director Fritz Lang. Melodrama. Korean war veteran becomes involved with married woman who sells herself and becomes a partner in murder to achieve selfish ends. SARA'CEN ELADE. THE Technicolor. Ricardo Montalban, Betta St. John. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Costume melodrama. 13th century swash i buckler with Montalban in a vendetta to avenge his I father's murder, going to the Holy Land in Crusades. ) WHITE FEATHER Donna Reed, Robert Francis. Director Phil Karlson. Producer Lewi: Rachmil. Western. Doctor at frontier Arm.' post incurs enmity of fellow officers when he administers to hostile Indians. LIPPERT January BLACK GLOVE Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield. Murder drama. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Jazz trumpet star is suspected of killing a blonde singer, but after many fights, threats of violence and an attempted poisoning, he pins the blame on the real slaeyr. 80 min. HOLLYWOOD THRILL-MAKERS James Gleason, Bill Henry. Producer Maurice Kosloff. Director Bernard Ray. Adventure drama. Small town boy comes to Hollywood as a stunt man, marries and quits the game, but first performs a daring plane crash to aid widow of his best friend. 60 min. WHITE FIRE Scott Brady, Mary Castle. Producers Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman. Director John Gilling. Mystery drama. Ship's officer seeking missing brother suspected of murder finds the latter mixed up in smuggling ring, and with help of a night club singer rounds up the gang and proves his brother's innocence. 82 mm. February QUEEN OF SHEBA Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervi. Producer Mario Francisci. Director Pietro Francisci. Biblical spectacle. Queen of Sheba leads her armies against Solomon's forces in Jerusalem, 1000 B.C., is captured and makes her escape. After a battle and an avalanche, she is freed of "marriage" vows to pagan gods and marries Solomon's son. 99 min. WE WANT A CHILD Ruth Brejnholm, Jorgen Reenberg. Directors Alice O'Fredericks, Lau Lauritzen. Drama. Married young girl desiring child cannot have one. while her best friend has an unfortunate affair and bears an unwanted child. Finally young wife becomes expectant and audience see actual birth of baby 76 mm. March BLACKOUT Dane Clark, Belinda Lee. Producer Michael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Murder drama. A down-and-out war veteran is offered a $1000 mystery job by a girl whose father is later murdered, throwing suspicion on the veteran until he establishes that the girl's mother was respon'ible for the killing. 87 min. A pril FANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin, Jr., Onslow Stevensu Producer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Director William Claxton. Murder drama. Boy and his dog are only witnesses to a cold-blooded killing in the woods. Boy's story is not believed until the murderer's wife establishes truth, causing a chase in which the lad's life is threatened. 71 min. HEAT WAVE Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke. Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Ken Hughes. Murder drama. Faithless wife allows husband to drown a young novelist, an unwitting accessory, keeps silent but tells police after widow jilts him. May COWBOY. THE Eastman Color. Producer-director SImo Williams. Documentary feature. Photographed in color on actual Southwest locations, story relates the cowboy's true life from pioi\e«r days to now. 69 mm. Coming DEADLY GAME. THE Lioyd Bridges. Producer, Robert Dunbar. Dirertnr Dan Blrt Mystery drama. American novelist in southern Spain becomes involved in murder, blackmail and smua^i«d microfilm of secret formulas. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUC