Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) JOHNNY GUITAR Trucolor. Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden. Associate producer-director Nicholas Ray. Western drama. Woman gambling-house owner learns love of gunman who helps her against group of antirailroad ranchers is worth more than money she dreamed of, if railroad crossed her land. 110 min. LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Respectable schooner captain tries to save o<rl and illegitimate son from degrading life with beachcomber. When she is murdered Captain avenges death and claims boy. 9! min. MAKE HASTE TO LIVE Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally. Associate producer-director William Seiter. 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. Youno 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 Tangiers-born beauty find excitement and iove in aiding people of Shanghai's International Settlement against Red police. TOBOR THE GREAT Charles Drake. Karen Booth. Science fiction. Adventures of 10-year-old boy and mechanical man in foiling enemy agent's plot to steal secret formula. TROUBLE IN THE GLEN TrueColor. Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles. Forrest Tucker. Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox. Adventure roriance. Story by Maurice Walsh, author of "The Quiet 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. UNTAMED HEIRESS Judy Canova. Don Barry. Comedy. Judy becomes involved with oold hoard and battle royal in pseudo medieval castle in the desert. 70 min. BHD February BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Goldwyn Re-release). 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. Incocnito, she sets out to find husband who will love her for herself alone. 102 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 ecoflomy. 89 min. March DANGEROUS MISSION 3D Technicolor Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price. Wm. Bendix. Producer Irwin Allen. Director Louis Kinc. 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. A pril CARNIVAL STORY Technicolor. Anne Baiter, 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-diving partner's death. 93 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. (8 min. May SILVER LODE Technicolor. John Payne. Dan Duryea. Liiabeth 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. 80 min. SON OF SINBAD 3D Technicolor. Dale Robertson. Sally Forrest, Llli St Cyr. Vincent Price. Producer Robert Sparks. Director Ted Tetilaff. Romantic adventure. Further adventures of Sinbad and his 40 thieves. Double romance pairs Robertson-Forrest. Price-St. Cyr. 90 min. June SUSAN SLEPT HERE Technicolor Dick Powell. Debbie Reynolds Producer Harriet Parioni. Director Frank Tathlin. Romantic comedy. "Bad girl" is placed in custody of writer who wants to study her type for ttory he is writing. Coming BIG RAINBOW Technicolor Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland. Producer Harr;' Tatelman. Director John Sturges. Adventure drama. Action and intrigue centering around hunt for sunken treasure. SINS OF ROME Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tcherina. Producer Consorzio Spartacus. Director Riccardo Freda. Drama. 2DTH CENTURY-FOX February HELL AND HIGH WATER CinemaScope Technicolor. Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Cameron Mitchell, David Wayne. Adventure drama. Touah captain and motley crew of ex-U. S. sailors use submarine on special mission to thwart a conspiracy to start World War 111 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 NEW FACES CinemaScope Eastman Color. Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt. Producer Edward Alperson. Director Harry Horner. Musical Filmina 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. 74 min. April PRINCE VALIANT CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Mason. Janet Leigh. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Vikina kino overthrown by 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 Byington. Producer Leonard Goldstein, Fantasy. Orphan prevents the sale of orphanage to crooked politician with help of his private Space Man. 80 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 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 trapeze artist, finally carries her atop roller coaster and both meet their death. 84 min. 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. 91 min. Coming ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA, THE Technicolor. Elaine Stewart, John Derek. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Don Weis. Adventure romance. BROKEN LANCE CinemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner. Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy. Jean Peters. Producer Sol C. Siegel. Director Edward Dmytryk. Western drama. Cattle baron's son by Indian wife is caught in feud with renegade half brothers for control of homestead. DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS CinemaScopeTechnicolor. Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget. Producer Frank Ross. Director Delmer Daves. Historical drama. Begins where "The Robe" ended and tells story of slave Demetrius whose Christian faith is tried in the arena where he is forced to fight as gladiator. GAMBLER FROM NATCHEZ, THE Technicolor. Dale Robertson. Debra Paget. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Director Henry Levin. Action drama. Son of river boat gambler sets out to find father's killers and absolve him from charge of cheating. GARDEN OF EVIL CinemaScope Technicolor. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward. Producer Charles Brackett. Director Henry Hathaway. Adventure drama. Three gold hunters become involved with a beautiful woman and death in interior of Mexico. MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A Ricardo Montalban. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Harry Horner. Murder melodrama. Boy trying to clear hit father of several kill'igs falls into hands of real murderer. PRINCESS OF THE NILE Technicolor. Jeffrey Hunter Debra Paget. Michael Rennie. Producer Leonard Goldstein. Costume adventure. Prince of Bagdad helps people along the Nile throw off yoke of evil ruler and gains beautiful princess for his wife. RAID, THE Technicolor. Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft Richard Boone. Producer Robert L. Jacks. Director Hugo Fregonese. Action drama. Historical Confederate raid on town in Vermont in retaliation for the burning of the Atlanta. THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CinemaScope Technicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peteri Maggie McNamara. Producer Sol Siegel. Director Jean Negulesco. Romantic comedy. Three American girit working in Rome toss coins in Wishing Fountain. After each travels rocky road, dreams come true. UNITED ARTISTS February BEACHHEAD PatheColor. Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy. Producer W. Koch. Director Stuart Heisler. Action drama. Four Marines invate small Japheld island to obtain plans of minefield during World War II. 89 min. MAN BETWEEN, THE James Mason, Claire Bloom, Nildegarde 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 Darnbofough. Director Anthony Pelissier. Drama. Small town British teacher is accused by his wife of having affair with school girl. When latter disappears, teacher is suspected of murder. 82 min. TOP BANANA Color Corp. of America. Phil Silvers. , Rose Marie. Producers Albert Zugsmith and Ben Peskay. Director Alfred E. Green. Musical comedy. Filmed as thc)ugh it were a stage play, show within a show has Silvers as funniest man on TV. fond of girls and autographs. When leal love hits, he is bounced around by girl and sponsor, but his basic desire to be an entertainer ends rifts. 100 min. ; March \ ACT OF LOVE Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin. Producer > director 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 group on tramp steamer become involved in intriaue. murder and romance in search for uranium. Filmed in Mediterranean area. 82 min. GOLDEN MASK. THE Technicolor. Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix. Producers Aubrey Baring, Maxwell Setton. 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 Moras!, John Bentley, Martha Hyer. Producer Charles Reynolds. Directors George Breakston. Ray Stahl. Adventure drama. Commissioner of African district gets involved in tribal rite !n which king of tribe performs arduous quest. 78 min. April HEIDI Elsbeth Sigmund, Heinrich Gretler. Prodocer Laiar Wechsler. Director Luigi Comencini. Drama. ■ Taken from famed children'st story by Johanna Spyri of the love between a little Swiss girl and her grandfather. 98 min. LONE GUN. THE George Montgomery. Dorothy Malone. Producer Edward Small. Director Ray Naiarro. Western. Marshal cleans out band of rustlers and wins ' love of girl preyed upon by outlaws. 73 min. ' SOUTHWEST PASSAGE 3D PatheColor. Rod Cameron, Western drama. Bank robber and his girl join camel caravan being tested as means to cross American Desert. 82 minutes. May CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE SLAVE GIRL Color Corp o« America. Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor. Wlsberg-Pollexfen production. Director Lew Landers. Adventure. Famous pirate captain escapes gallows with aid of un j scrupulous nobleman who plans to doublecross Kidd and thereby obtain his treasure hoard. LONG WAIT. THE Anthony Quinn, Peggie Castle. Producer Lesser Samuels. Director Victor Seville. Murder mystery. Amnesia victim returns home to find he is wanted for murder. Missing link to his innocence il beautiful girl and works his way through a number of them before finding her and solving mystery. 93 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT