Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

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REPUBLIC (Confmued) OUTCAST, THE Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Youno westerner wa^es ranne war against unscrupulous uncle to recover stolen heritag*. 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 !0-vear-old boy and mechanical man in foiling enemy agent's plot to steal secret formula. TROUBLE IN THE GLEN TrueColor. Margaret Lockwood. Forrest Tucker, Orson Welles. Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox. Adventure ronance. Story by Maurice Walsh, author of "The Quiet Man". An American in Scotland to visit his child, stays to champion the .oeople whose livelihood is threatened when c private road they had always used is closed by the owner. UNTAMED HEIRESS Jud-; Canova. Don Barry. Comedy. Judy becomes Involved with cold hoard and battle royal in pseudo medieval castle In the desert. RKD 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 DEST 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 Gralnner. Director Lloyd Bacon. Musical comedy. Jilted at the altar because she has too much money, Texas millionairess takes cruise on Liberte. Incocnito, 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 BaH, 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 hinh-divino partner's death. 93 min. DANGEROUS MISSION 3D Technicolor Victor Mature, Pioer 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. 75 min. ENCHANTED COTTAGE (Reissue). Dorothy McGuIre, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. 91 min. TALL IN THE SADDLE (Reissue). John Wayne. 87 min. A pril MR. BIANDING 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 with oamblers for murder and ruination of youth. 68 min. SON OF SINBAD 3D Technicolor. Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Llll St. Cyr, Vincent Price. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Ted Tetzlaff. Romantic adventure. Further adventures of SInbad and his 40 thieves. Double romance pairs Robertson & Forrest. Price & St. Cyr. THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (Reissue! Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer. 95 min. May BADMAN'S TERRITORYIReissue) Randolph Scott 98 min. DESPERATE MEN Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Liiabeth 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. SPANISH MAIN (Reissue) Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid. 100 minutes. SUSAN SLEPT HERE Tachnicolor. Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Harriet Parsons. Director Frank Tashlin. Romantic comedy. Coming BIG RAINBOW Technicolor Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Harr. Tatelman. Director John Sturges. Romantic adventure drama. GUNGA DIN (Reissue) Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Producer-Director John Ford. I I 7 minutes. LOST PATROL (Reissue) Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Glenn Ford. 73 min. STATIONS WEST (Reissue) Dick Powell. 92 min THING, THE (Reissue) Producer-xlirector Howard Hawks, Science-fiction melodrama. 87 min. 20TH CENTURY-FDX January KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (Reissue) Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Roddy McDowall. Producer Joseph Mankiewlcz. Director John Stahl. Drama. 137 m,in. 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 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 Darvl, 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. 103 min. MISS ROBIN CRUSOE Pathecolor. Amanda Blake, George Nader. Producer-director Eugene Frenke. Adventure. Twist given "Crusoe" story by substituting females as leading characters, complicated by arrival of shipwrecked sailor. 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 Horner. Musical Fllminc 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 untannle 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. 93 min. RACING BLOOD Color. Bill Williams, Jean Porter. Producer-director W. Barry. Drama. Boy secretly trains colt which was to heve been destroyed. Colt eventually becomes great racehorse. 76 min. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Reissue. George Montgomery. 56 min. SCUDDA HOO-SCUDDA HAY Reissue. June Haver, Walter Brennan. 95 mm. STREET WITH NO NAME Reissue. Richard WIdmark, Lloyd Nolan. 91 min. A pril PRINCE VALIANT CInemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Ma:on. Janet Leich. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Vlklno kino overthrown bv traitor is niven sactuary by King Arthur. Years later the disposed king's son overthrows the traitor. 105 min. ROCKET MAN, THE George Winslow, Charles Coburn, Sprin-: Byincton. Producer Leonard Goldstein, involving Confederate who Is a Union spy. 81 min. 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 Pac;et. Michael Rennle. Producer Leonard Goldstein . THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CinemaScope Tech nicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire. Jean Peters Maggie McNamara. Producer Sol Sieael. Dorector Jeai Nei;ulesco. P.omantlc comedy. Three American girl working in P.ome to^s coins In Wishing Fountain. Aftei each travel* 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 dIvidInQ his romance between his wife In Gibraltar and girl in North Africa ends double life when storm shows him the futilit, 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 film history. 57 min. January ALGIERS (Reissue) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr. Producer Walter Wander. Director John Cromwell. Romantic drama. 95 min. CONQUEST OF EVEREST, THE Technicolor Documentary Depiction of the 1953 expedition under Col. Hunt tha* scaled Mt. Everest. 78 min. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Technicolor. Robert Morley Maurice Evans. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. Producers Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliatt. 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. Sports drama. Story of the rise of the famed Negro basketball team, their rise under Abe Saperstein (Clark) from a iaiopy-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. Scientiits, faced with obstacle to space travel In rockets find the answer b, capturing a metor In flight. 81 min. WICKED WOMAN Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan Producer Clarence Greene. Director Russell Rouse Melodrama. Loose woman takes job as barglrl. 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 M-urphy. Producer W. Koch. Director Stuart Heisler. Action drama. Four Marines Invate small Japheld Island to obtain plans of minefield durinn 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. PERSONAL AFFAIR Gene TIerney. Leo Genn. Producer Antony Darnborough. Director Anthony Pelissier. Drama. Small town British teacher Is accused by his wife of having affair with school girl. When latter disappears, teacher is sus.oected of murder. 82 min. TOP BANANA Color Corp. of America. Phil Silvers. Rose Marie. Producers Albert Zuosmith 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 and autographs. When real love hits, he is bounced around by oirl and sponsor, but his bosic desire to be an entertainer ends rifts. IOC min. March ACT OF LOVE Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin. Producerdirector Anatole Litvak. Drama. French refugee girl is compromised by American occupation soldier; they fall In love, are separated by police; girl, mistakenly believes he has forsaken her, goes to her death. 108 min. BEAT THE DEVIL Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida. Producer-director John Huston. Drama. An assorted croup on tramp steamer become involved in intri*2ue. murder and romance in search for uranium. Filmed In Mediterranean area. 82 min. GOLDEN MASK, THE Technicolor. Van Heflin. Wanda Hendrlx. Producers Aubrey Baring. Maxwell Setton. Director Jack Lee. Romantic adventure. Archaeologist and dauchter co to Africa In search of priceless mask of Moloch, the god of revenge. SCARLET SPEAR, THE Technicolor Moras!, John Bentley. Martha Hyer. Producer Charles Reynolds. Directors George Breai-ston. Pay Stahl. Adventure drama. Commissioner of African district cets involved in tribal rit« in which Hnn of tribe performs arduous quest. 78 mm. April ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE PatheColor. Dan O'Herllhy. Producers Oscar Dancigers, Henry Ehrllch. Director Luis Bunuel. Adventure drama. From Daniel Defoe's classic of the shipwrecked sailor and the native who became his man Friday. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT