Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) MAKE HASTE TO LIVE Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally. Associate producer-director William Setter. 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 revenge by ruining life of their daughter. 90 min. OUTCAST, THE Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer William J. O'SullIvan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Yournj westerner wages range 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 Tanglers-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-year-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 romance. Story by Maurice Walsh, author of "The <PuIet Man". An American In Scotland to visit his child, stays to champion the people whose livelihood is threatened when a private road they had always used is closed by the owner. 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 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Goldwyn 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 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 IReissue). 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-IIttle-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 OP THE SUN IReissue) 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-dlving partner's death. 93 min. DANGEROUS MISSION 3D Technicolor 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. 75 min. ENCHANTED COTTAGE IReissue). Dorothy McGuIre, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. 91 min. TALL IN THE SADDLE IReissue). John Wayne. 87 min. April MR. BLANDING BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE IReissue) Gary Grant. Myrna Loy. Melvyn Douglas. 94 min. PINOCCHIO IReissue). 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, 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 IReissue) Susan Hayward, Robert Young. Jane Greer. 95 min. May BAOMAN'S TERRITORYIRelssuel Randolph Scott 98 min. DESPERATE MEN Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Lizabeth Scott Producer Benedict Bogeaus. Director Allan Dwan. Western drama. Townspeople alienate upstanding citiien accused of murder and daughter of cattle baron who stands by him. SPANISH MAIN IReissue) Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henraid 100 minutes. SUSAN SLEPT HERE Technicolor. Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds Producer Harriet Parsons. Director Frank Taihlin. Romantic comedy. Coming BIG RAINBOW Technicolor Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Harry Tatelman. Director John Sturges. Romantic adventure drama. GUNGA DIN IReissue) Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Producer-Director John Ford. I 1 7 minutes. LOST PATROL IReissue) Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Glenn Ford, 73 min. STATIONS WEST IReissue) Dick Powell. 92 min THING, THE IReissue) Producer-director Howard Hawks, Science-fiction melodrama. 87 min. eOTH CENTURY-FDX January KEYS OF THE KINGDOM IReissue) Gregory Peck, Vincent Price. Roddy McDowall. Producer Joseph Mankiewlci. 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. Mitzl Gaynor, Jeff Hunter, Keefe Brasselle. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Henry Levin. Western drama. Friendship between pair of cowboys and girl 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 Filminc 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 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 min. STREET WITH NO NAME Reissue. Richard WIdmark, Lloyd Nolan. 91 min. April PRINCE VALIANT CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Mason. Janet Leigh. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Vikina kino overthrown bv traitor Is given sactuary by King Arthur. Years later the disposed king's son overthrows the traitor. 105 min. ROCKET MAN, THE George WInslow, Charles Coburn, Spring Bylngton. Producer Leonard Goldstein, Fantasy. Orphan prevents the sale of orphanage to crooked politician with the help of his own private Space Man. 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 is a Union spy. 81 min. 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 trapeie 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, exconvlct MItchum and his young son are forced to guide a raft down a treacherous mountain river, battling the rapids, Indians ?nd the elements. Coming DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS CinemaScoJ Technicolor. Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Micha Rennie, Debra Paget. Producer Frank Ross. DirecM Delmer Daves. Historical drama. Begins where '"Tl Robe" ended and tells story of slave Demetrius whol Christian faith is tried in the arena where he is forcl to fight as gladiator. 1 PRINCESS OF THE NILE Technicolor. Jeffrey HuntJ Debra Paget. Michael Rennie. Producer Leonal Goldstein. Costume adventure. Prince of Bagdad hell people along the Nile throw off yoke of evil rull and gains beautiful princess for his wife. ] THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CinemaScope Tec nicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire. Jean Peten Maggie McNamara. Producer Sol Siegel. Dorector Jej Negulesco. .".omantlc comedy. Three American giij working in P.ome toss coins in Wishing Fountain. Afti each traveU rocky road, dreams come true. I UNITED ARTISTS I January II ALGIERS IReissue) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr. Pr(M ducer Walter Wanger. Director John Cromwell. Ra| mantle drama. 95 min. |l CONQUEST OF EVEREST, THE Technicolor Documentar^ Depiction of the 1953 expedition under Col. Hunt th^| scaled Mt. Everest. 78 min. |l GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Technicolor. Robert Morlell Maurice Evans. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. Producei|| Frank Launder, Sidney Gllliatt. Director Sidney Gill llatt. Musical biography. Story of the famed operetlH team, their beginnings and differences. 105 min. M GO, MAN, GO Dane Clark, Harlem Globe Trotterij Producer Anton M. Leader. Director James Wonil Howe. Sports drama. Story of the rise of the fame<{ Negro basketball team, their rise under Abe Saperstei, ICIark) from a jalopy-traveling barnstorming outfit t' one of the world's greatest sports attractions. 82 min RIDERS TO THE STARS Color Corp of Am. William Lun' digan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carson. Produce' Ivan Tors. Science-fiction. Scientists, faced with ob| stacle to space travel in rockets find the answer b<| capturing a metor in flight. 81 min. , WICKED WOMAN Beverly Michaels, Richard EganI Producer Clarence Greene. Director Russell Rousei Melodrama. Loose woman takes job as bargirl, Induce: owner to leave his boozy wife and run off with herj When plans are upset, she makes new setup. 77 nnin February BEACHHEAD PatheColor. Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy Mary Murphy. Producer W. Koch. Director Stuari' Heisler. Action drama. Four Marines Invate small Jap held island to obtain plans of minefield during Woric War II. 89 min. MAN BETWEEN, THE James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hi! degarde Neff. Producer-director Carol Reed. Suspenst drama. Spies, secret police and Innocent pawns in volved In plot to stem flow of refugees from westerr sector of Berlin to Allies' area. Mason, used by Reds' overcomes blackmail threats to rescue kidnappeoj British girl. 100 min. OVERLAND PACIFIC Color Corp of Am. Jock Mahoney.' Peggie Castle. Producer Edward Small. Director Fredi Sears. Western. Battles and intrigue in the laying ot' 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 hii wife of having affair with school girl. When latter disappears, teacher is suspected of murder. 82 min. TOP BANANA Color Corp. of America. Phil Slivers. 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 and; autographs. When real love hits, he is bounced around by girl and sponsor, but his b-isic desire to be an entertainer ends rifts. 100 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 mm. , BEAT THE DEVIL Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrlgida. Producer-director John Huston I Drama. An assorted group on tramp steamer become| Involved In Intrleue. murder and romance in search fori uranium. Filmed in Mediterranean area. 82 min. GOLDEN MASK, THE Technicolor. Van Heflin. Wandai Hendrlx. Producers Aubrey Baring. Maxwell SettonJ Director Jack Lee. Romantic adventure. Archaeologist, and daughter go to Africa In search of priceless mask of Moloch, the god of revenge. 88 min. SCARLET SPEAR, THE Technicolor Morasl. John Bentley,] Martha Hyer. Producer Charles Reynolds. Directeri Georne Brealrston, Ray Stahl. Adventure drama. Cornmissloner of African district gets involved in tribal rite in which king of tribe performs arduous quest. 78 mm. A pril ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE PatheColor. Dan OHerlihy. Producers Oscar Dancigers, Henry Ehrllch. Director Luis Bunuel. Adventure drama. Fronj Daniel Defoe's classic of the shipwrecked sailor and the native who became his man Friday. 90 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT