Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT 9 Mr. Elxltibitor, This ^ew Film Bulletin Feature Is Designed, to Grive You All Xlie Vital Details on Current &) Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS February BITTEa CREEK Bill Elliott. Director Thomas D. Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Out to avenge death ot his murdered rancher brother, Elliott picks up friends and sv/eetheart who save him In the sh.;wdown battle. 74 mIn. HIGHWAY DRAGNET Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hcndrix. 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 Younn. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Don Sie<:el. Prison melodrama. Jail riot spreads until Governor and State Militia are called in to guell the prisoners. 80 mIn. March DRAGONFLY SQUADRON John Hodiak, Barbara Brltfon, Bruce Bennett. Director Lesle;' Selander. Producer John Champion. War drama. Rigid disciplinarian takrs 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 Hu^;hes. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Drama. Bank teller. $50,000 short In his accounts, tracki down phony bank examiner, recovers loot and job. 80 mIn. April ARROW IN THE DUST Technicolor. Sterling Hayder. 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 Zamol. Comedy. Sanitary enclneer 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 Goeti. Racetrack drama. Filmed In color. Ambitious racehorse trainer noes bic time, comes to earth when kid jockey rides horse trainer had saved to victory. 71 mIn. May FORTY-NINERS, THE Wild Bill Elliott. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Director Thomas Carr. Western. U. S. Marshjl poses as killer to trap three killers one of whom Is sheriff of gold-boom town. 71 min. Coming eOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS, THE Bowery Boys. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director Edward Bernds. Comedy. Boys become involved with mad doctor, electronic robot and gorilla who hopes to get human brain. DESPERADO. THE Wayne Morris. Director Thomas Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Fighting to free Texas from carpetbaggers after Civil war, youig man Is doublecrossed bv friend and framed for murder. GHOST OF O'LEARY, THE Technicolor. David Niven, Yvonne d* Carlo. Barry Fitigerald. Comedy. Irish fantasy — i»h comic flavor. 80 min. SONS OF THE NAVY Jan Sterling, Neville Brand. Producer Scott R. Dunlap. Director Lesley Selander. War drama. Chief Bos'n's Mate takes charge of destroyer when executive officers are killed In battle. Returns home a hero to marry girl he loves. TWO GUNS AND A BADGE Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Ex-convict is made deputy sheriff. Finds love and new life by ridding town of outlaws COLUMBIA February CHARGE OF THE LANCERS Technicolor Paulette Godd»rd, Jean Pierre Aumont. Director Williair Castle. Producer Sam Katiman. Romantic adventure. Lancers, aided by new cannon, take supposedly impregnable naval bait <t Sebaitapol during CrI m^dn 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 tro.olcal island who becomes Invotved with a batch of Marines and fanatical, hypocritical missionary, fl 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 Huoo Haas. Outdoor drama. Old prospector marries prett'/ cirl 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 Cattle. Producer Sam Katiman. 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. 71 min. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford. Director George Cukor. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Comedy. Girl, yearning 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. April DaiVE A CROOKED ROAD Mickey Rooney. Director Richard Ouine. Producer Jonle Taps. Drama. A pint-size auto mechanic Is Inveinled Into a holdup gang by a pretty cirl. Girl repents as she falls in love with the guy. aid; him in breaklnrj up the gang. 82 min. IRON GLOVE, THE Technicolor. Robert Stack. Ursula Ihiess. Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katzman. 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 cet the loot of the notorious bandit. In showdown battle. Daltons are wiped out and money turns out to be Confederate bills. 65 min. May MAD MAGICIAN. THE 3D Vincent Price. Mary Murphy. Eva Gabor. Director John Brahm. Producer Bryan Foy. Horror melodrama. Illusion ncnius. prevented by his boss from usinc hh creations as a stage magician, peace with cunning redskin leader. 71 min. 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 Apaches, treachery and romance. 66 min. 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. 75 min. Coming CAINE MUTINY. THE Technicolor. Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer. Fred MacMurray. Robert Francis. Director Edward Dmytryk. Producer Stanley Kramer. Sea dran>a. 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 Gulness. Joan Greenwood. Director Robert Hamer. Producer Vivian Cox. Comedy drama. British made, with Gulness 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 Irvinrj 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, Broderlck 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. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Cllft. Director Vlttorlo de Slca. Producers David O. Selznlck and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy. ("Bicycle Thief") de Sica's first English language film. OUTLAW STALLION, THE Technicolor. Phil Carey, Dorothy Patrick. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred F. Sears. Western drama. Boy's devotion to wild stallion leads to capture of horse thieves. SAHA'CEN CLADE, THE Technicolor. Rlcardo Montalban, Betta St. John. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Costume melodrama. 13th century swashbuckler with Montalban in a vendetta to avenge his father's murder, going to the Holy Land in Crusades. THEY RODE WEST Donna Reed, Robert Francis. Director Phil Karlson. Producer Lewi: Rachmll. Western. Doctor at frontier Arm/ post Incurs enmity of fellow officers when he administers to hostile Indians. I. F. E. March ANITA OARICALDI Italian. Subtitles. Anna Magnan!, Raf Vallone. Directors Goffredo Allessandrini, Franco Rosl. Drama. Stor.' of Garibaldi's battle to unite Italy In mld-l9th Century and his wife's loyalty and bravery In the cause, causing hsr tragic death. 95 min. MY HEART SINGS Subtitles. Ferrucclo Tagllavini. Director Mario Mattoll. Comedy with music. Two petty renegades discover voung electrlan with fine operatic voice, p lace him under contract and plot to exploit him with operatic impressarlo. 99 min. April SENSUALITA English. Eleonora Rossi Drago. PontiDe Laurentis production. Director Clemente Fracassi. Dram^. "Bitter Rice" story of two men and a girl In the wheat fields of Italy. 72 min. Coming AIDA Eng. Nar. Sophia Loren, Lois Maxwell, Ballet Corps of Rome. Producer F. De Martlno. Director Clemente Fracassi. Opera. Verdi's story of rivalry between Egyptian princess and slave girl for love of Egyptian officer. HELL RAIDERS OF THE DEEP English Language. Eleonora Rossi Drago. Cossa, DeLaurentis Producers. Director Duillo Coletti. War drama. Deals with the adventures of Italian Navy frogmen during World War II. War II. HUSBAND FOR ANNA, A English Language. Silvana Pampaninl. Producer D. F. Davanzati. Director G. De Santls. Drama. Trials and tribulations of woman in search of love and husband. TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE English Language. Marina Vlady. Producer NIccolo Theodoli. Director L. De Felice. Drama. Story of love between two 15-yearolds which ends tragically. LIPPERT February QUEEN OF SHEBA Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervl. Producer Mario Franclscl. 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'Frederlcks, 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 min. 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 nirl whose father is later murdered, throwing suspicion on the veteran until he establishes that the girl's mother was responsible for the kllllna. 87 min. A pril FANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin. Jr.. Onslow Stevens. 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 wif* establishes truth, causing a chase in which the ltd'f life Is threatened. 71 min. FILM ■tlLITIN— THIS IS YOUK PRODUCT