Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

LIPPERT (Continued) |j4T WAVE Alex Nicol, H?llary Brooke. Producer J hony Hinds. Director Ken Hughes. Murder drama, ijthless wife allows husband to drown a young novelan unwitting accessory, keeps silent but tells police er widow jilts him. May • iWBOY, THE Eastman Color. Producer-director, .10 Williams. Documentary feature. Photographed j:oloron actual Southwest locations, story relates the vboy's true life from pioneer days to now. 49 min. )NSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR Anne Klmbell, art Wade. Producer Roger Corman. Director Wyott dung. Science-fiction. A girl skin-diver and scientist one-man submarine brave shark-infested waters to e a huge sea monster far under the ocean. Coming J CHASE, THE Glenn Langan. Adele Jergens. Procer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Director Arthur Hilton, tion drama. Rookie cop goes on patrol car duty, !es part in chase by auto, boat and helicopter that ds in shooting of payroll robbers. ADLY GAME, THE Lloyd Bridges. Producer, Robert nbar. Director Dan Birt. Mystery drama. American vellst In southern Spain becomes Involved In murder, ickmail and smuaded microfilm of secret formulas. 4ID TO KILL Dane Clark. Producer Anthony Hinds, rector Montgomery Tully. Mystery drama. Desperate siness man hires thug to kill him so his wife can col:t insurance. Changes his mind and barely escapes ath. to learn that his wife was responsible for 3se call. kCE FOR LIFE, A Richard Conte, Marl Aldon. Procer Mickey Delamar. Director Terence Fisher. Action ama. Former auto racing champion quits big race len his best friend crashes to death. He makes a ■meback and wins back his wife by winning the rand Prii. VER BEAT Phyllis Kirk. John Bentley. Producer Heran Cohen. Director Guy Green. Mystery drama. Girl dio operator on U. S. freighter becomes unwitting cessory to diamond smugglers. Teams with detective investigate murder and round up gang In chase. EGE, THE Special Cast. Historical spectacle. Story the Spanish "Joan of Arc." who persuades Spain's my to resist Napoleon, but dies as a besieged city lis and French rule prevails. ERROR SHIP William Lundlgan. Naomi Chance. Pro-cer W H. Williams. Director Vernon Sewell. Mysry drama. Writer buys derelict ship, finds It has een used to cache highly-eiploslve atomic formula. Dards yacht for sea-chase after plotters attempt to scape with the secret. NHOLY FOUR, THE Paulette Goddard. Producer llchael Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Mystery rama. Huiband returns after four-year memory loss 5 try and find which of wife's three suitors tried to lurder him. vIETHD-GDLDWYN-MAYER February uONG, LONG TRAILER. THE Ansco Color. Lucille Ball, pes! Arnai. Marjorie Main. Producer Pandro S. Berman. pirector Vincente Mlnnelll. Comedy. Trials and tribuations of family life In a trailer. 94 min. BAADIA Technicolor. Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Bam. Producer-director Albert Lewin. Costume meloUrama. East-meets-West story of love and violence 'in the Morrocan desert. 60 min. March ROSE MARIE ClnemaScope-Kodacolor. Ann BIyth. Howard Keel. Fernando Lamas. Producers Arthur Mornblow. Jr. and Lawrence Welngarten. Director Mervyn LeRoy. Musical outdoor drama. Romance and murder In the Canadian north woods Involving a beautiful girl, a trapper and a mountle. 104 min. TENNESSEE CHAMP Ansco Color. Shelley Winters. Dewey Martin. Keenan Wynn. Producer Sol Baer Fielding. Director Fred M. Wilcoi. Comedy. Priie fighter who believes the Lord Is In his corner and his slick manager become involved with a blond bombshell along the Mississippi river-front. 73 min. A pril EXECUTIVE SUITE William Holden. Barbara Stanwyck June Allyion. Frederic March. Walter Pidgeon Paul Oouglas. Drama. Effect the death of a president of a lartje firm has on the first 4 vice-presidents. 104 min. GYPSY COLT Ansco Color. Donna Corcoran Ward Bond. Frances Dee. Producers William Grady Jr. and Sidney Franklin Jr. Director Andrew Marton. Dramu. A spirited black colt refuses to accept separation 'rom the little girl who raised him. 72 min. RHAPSODY Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor. Vlttorlo Gassman. Producer Lawrence Welngarten. Director Charles til r' * beautiful woman In Europe holds ine lives and music careers of two young artists in her nands. Background of classical music. 115 min May FLAME AND THE FLESH Technicolor. Lana Turner, Pier Angeli. Carlos Thompson. Producer Joe Pasternak' Director Richard Brooks. Rmantic drama. Beautiful giri drifting around world from one love affair to another gets Involved in web of intrlcue and romance. 104 min. PRISONER OF WAR Ronald Reagan. Steve Forrest. Producer Henry Berman. Director Andrew Marton. War drama. Army officer parachutes Into Red prison camp to check on stories of Communist atrocities. 81 min. Coming BEAU BRUMMEL Eastman. Stewart Granger. Elizabeth Ta--lor. Producer Sam ZImballst. Director C. Bernhardt. Drama. In Ennland durlna Napoleonic era. dashing cavalry captain oalns reputation for revolutionary fashions, but personal ambitions lead to disaster. BETRAYED Eastman. Clark Gable. Lana Turner. Victor Mature. Melodrama. Beautiful airl becomes involved in espiona':e and romance In occupied Holland during World War II. CREST OF THE WAVE Gene Kelly. Producer-Directors John and Roy Boultlng. Science melodrama. AngloAmerican temperaments get a workout during the development of a new torpedo explosive. HER TWELVE MEN Ansco Color. Greer Garson. Robert Ryan. Producer John Houseman. Director Robert Z. Leonard. Comedy-romance. Sole woman teacher in a boys' school copes with the problem of sharing her living room with 13 males. 91 min. INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kelly. Ballet. Four episodes dealing in romance, drama, comedy and pathos told entirely through the medium of the dance. JULIUS CAKAR Louis Calhern. Marlon Brando. James Mason. Greer Garson. Dakorah Kerr. Producer John Houseman. Director Jeseph L. Mankiewlci. Historical drama. Assassination of Caesar, with friend Antony wreaking vengeance on Brutus. Catslus et al. 121 min. MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY Ansco. Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon. Louis Calhern. Frank Lovejoy. War drama. Navy flohter :quadron in Korea overcomes tremendous odds to save blinded pilot. 80 min. 7 BRIDES FOR 7 BROTHERS CInemaScope Ansco Color. Jane Powell. Howard Keel. Producer Jack Cummlngs. Dwector Stanley Donen. Outdoor Musical Comedy. Keel marries Powell and takes her Into the hills of Oregon where she is feced witl> prospect of living with his six semi-clvlllied brothers. STUDENT PRINCE, THE CInemaScope. Ansco Color. Ann BIyth. Edmund Purdom. John tricson. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Vincente MInelll. Musical. Film version of Romberg's operetta. 109 min. VALLEY OF THE KINGS Eastman Color. Robert Taylor. Eleanor Parker. Producer. Sam ZImbalist. Director R. PIrosh. Adventure drama. Younc archeolooist aids beautiful cirl to carry on dead father's ambition ot find lost tomb of Egyptian Pharoah. PARAMOUNT February ALASKA SEAS Robert Ryan. Jan Sterling. Producer Mel Epstein. Director Jerry Hopper. Adventure drama. Salmon fishermen plagued with thieves robbing their traps, break the agng when the sweetheart of fishing fleet becomes involved with one of the thieves. 78 min. MONEY FROM HOME 3D Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. Producer Hal Wallis. Director George Marshall. Comedy. Horseplayer becomes heavily Indebted to a bookie kina. Ordered to fix a race to pay off he calls In veterinary interne pal who blows up plot. 100 min. March NAKED JUNGLE Technicolor. Eleanor Parker. Charlton Heston. Producer George Pal. Director Byron Haskin. Adventure drama. South American plantation owner considers his mail-order wife too elegant for rough iungle life. She proves herself when plantation is attacked by hordes of soldies ants. 95 min. TImt* ar* 21 fcatiirvs presently scIm^bM for May release, not Includ\mq a flock of reissues from o number of companies. Only Paramount is without a feature release this month. Columbia, RKO, Fox and Warners will each have one in 3D. Fox also has the loM CInemaScope entry. Eleven are in color. Available to exhibitors in May arc: 3 Dramas Westerns Melodramas Adventures Comedies 1 Documentary JS«iMC# Fictiea RED GARTERS Technicolor. Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell. Producer Pat Duggan. Director George Marshall. Western musical comedy. Fanciful yarn revolves around Mitchell's arrival In California town to avenge death of his brother. Killer turns out to be best friend of Mitchell. 91 min. April CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT Technicolor. Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman McLeod. Comedy. Hope, mistaken for the lover Casanova Is hired to test the faithfulness of another man's fiancee. 85 min. Coming ABOUT MRS. LESLIE Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan. Producer Hal Wallls. Director Daniel Mann. Drama. Woman rooming house owner finds tenant's problems lead her to reminisce about own past and Ill-fated affair. CONQUEST OF SPACE Technicolor. Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming. Producer George Pal. Director Byron Haskin. Science fiction. Flioht to Mars from man-made space station 1000 miles above the earth. ELEPHANT WALK Technicolor. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews. Producer Irving Asher. Director William Dieterle. Drama. Girl married to tea plantation owner in Cevlon. falls in love with his foreman and plans to run away with him. Plague strikes and In crisis she finds she still loves her husband. 103 min. KNOCK ON WOOD Technicolor. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterl'mg. Producers a»d directors Norman Pananna and Melvin Frank. Comedy. American ventriloquist in Paris undergoes psychonanalysis to overcome a fear of marriage f'uidi the female psychiatrist has same conv p*ex, gets mwoKed in spy plot and murder. 103 min. LIVING IT UP Technlcotor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leich. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taur»q. Comedy. Dr. Dean Martin mistakenly announces that Jerry Lewis Is dying of radiation poisoning and he is given one last fling at life by reporter Janet Leigh. REAR WINDOW Technicolor. James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Director Alfred Hitchcock. Comedy drama. Freelance photographer becomes involved with Greenwich Village characters, society girl and murder. SABRINA Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden. Producer and director Billy Wilder. C«inedy. Two rich brothers fall for their chauffeur's daughter after she returns from a year In Paris. SECRET OF THE INCAS Technicolor. Charlton Heston, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Young. Producer Mel Epstlne. Director Jerry Hopper. Melodrama. American pilot stranded In Peru iolns a renecade In searching for lost Inca treasure. ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas. Sllvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentls. Director Mario Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric feats of Ulysses as taken from the Odessey. WHITE CHRISTMAS Technicolor. BIng Crosby, Danny Kaye. Rosemary Clooney. Vera-Ellen. Producer Robt. E. Dolan. Director Michael Curtli. Musical. Two World War II buddies team as entertainers after war. become Involved with sister act which threatens their plans for Broadway show. REPUBLIC February CRAZYLEGS EIroy Hlrsch, Lloyd Nolan. Joan Vohs. Producer Hall Bartlett. Director Francis Lyon. Sport drama. Life of All-American "Crazylegs" Hlrsch from his high school football days up to his present starring role with the Los Angeles Rams. 87 min. SEA OF LOST SHIPS John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan. Richard Jaeck«l. Action melodrama. Two young me who have grown up together fall out because of a girl, but are reunited in fighting the dangers of the arctic while on Ice patrol with the U. S. Coast Guard. 85 min. March FLIGHT NURSE Joan Leslie. Forrect Tucker. Director Allan Dwan. War drama. Air Force nurse, assigned to Korean duty, at first more Interested in locating her sweetheart than In doing her duty. Is molded by war into woman of heroic and responsible stature. 90 min. April GERALDINE John Carroll. Mala Powers, Stan Freberg. Producer Sidney Picker. Director R. G. Springsteen. Comedy with music. Tin Pan Alley publicity girl Discovers young college music Instructor with golden voice, interested only in folk songs, eventually Interests him in popular music and a marriage license. 90 min. May JUBILEE TRAIL 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-rldden past destroys hope for the revival of marriage. 91 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT