Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT Mr. ExIiil>itor, This New Film Bulletin Feature Is Designed to Give You All Tlie Vital Details ou Current &) Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS February BITTER CREEK Bill Elliott. Director Thomas D. Carr. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Out to avenge death of his murdered rancher brother, Elliott picks up friends and sweetheart who save him in the sh;wdown battle. 74 min. HIGHWAY DRAGNET Richard Conte. Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrii. Director Nathan Juran. Producer William F. Broidy. Suspense melodrama. Hitch hiking ei-Marine becomes Involved in murder, becomes object of a five-state manhunt. 71 min. RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Carleton Younrj. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Den Siegel. Prison melodrama. Jail riot spreads until Gavernor and State Militia are called in to quell the prisoners. 80 min. March DRAGONFLY SQUADRON John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett. Director Lesley Selander. Producer John Champion. War drama. Rigid disciplinarian takes 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. Huntz Hall is sent to Paris believed to be a French scientist, concocts a formula that proves even more potent than the original scientist's. &2 min. LOOPHOLE Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Mary Beth Hughes. Director Harold Schuster. Producer Lindsley Parsoni. Drama. Bank teller, {50,000 short in his accounts, trackt down phony bank examiner, recovers loot and job. 80 min. A pril A.tROW IN THE OUST Technicolor. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray. Director Lesley Selander. Producer Hayes Goeti. 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, Madia Gray. Produced & directed by Mario Zamoi. Comedy. Sanitary engineer mixes briefcases with atomic scientist setting off chase throuch Russia and Europe. 93 min. PRIDE OF THE BLUE GRASS Lloyd Bridges. Vera Miles. Director William Beaudine. Producer Hayes Goetz. Racetrack drama. Filmed in color. Ambitious racehorse trainer <^oes 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. Marshal poses as killer to trap three killers one of whom Is sheriff of gold-boom town. 71 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 tropical island who becomes invotved with a batch of Marines and fanatical, hypocritical missionary. 91 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. June 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. 66 min. DESPERADO. THE Wayne Morris. Director Thomas Carr Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Fighting to free Texas from carpetbaggers after Civil war, youtg man is doublecrossed bv friend and framed for murder. HOME FROM THE SEA 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 hsme a hero to marry girl he loves. Coming GHOST OF O'LEARY, THE Technicolor David Niven, Yvonne d* Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Ctmedy. Irish i.««..„ f-r^rnir f|p"or PO min WANTED BY THE F. B. I. John Ireland, Dorothy Malone. Producer William F. Broidy. Director Harold Schuster. Melodrama. FBI agent on vacation thwarts communi .ts who kill atomic scientist and steal secret papers. 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 Goddard. Jean Pierre Aumont Director William Castle. Producer Sam Katiman Romantic adventure. Lancers, aided b;' new cannon, lake supposedly impregnable naval base at Sebattapol during Crimean War. 74 min. March BAIT Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar. Directorproducer Huco 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 Katzman. 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. 67 min. April DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD Mickey Rooney. Director Richard Ouine. Producer Jonie Taps. Drama. A pint-size auto mechanic is inveinled into a holdup gang by a pretty rirl. Girl repents as she falls in love with the guy, aids him in breaking 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 renius, prevented by his boss from usinc hii 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. ,^rmy sergeant detailed to bring sh'oment 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. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clilt. Director Vittorio de Sica. Producers David O. Selznick and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy, ("Biryclo Thief'l de Sica's first English language film. 63 min. 'une HELL BELOW ZERO Technicolor. Alan Ladd. Director Mark P.obson. Producers Irvino Allen, Albert Broccoli. Sea adventure. Murder and elements combine to make complication for x-navy skipper in the Antartic. 91 min. JUNGLE MANEATERS Johnny Weissmuller, Karin Booth, Producer Sam Katzman. Director Lee Sholem. Adventure-melodrama. Jungle Jim tracks down diamond smuggler who is jeopardizing peace of jungle. 68 min. SARACEN ILADE. THE Technicolor. Ricardo Montalban, Betia St. John. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle Costume melodrama. 13th century swashhui-kler with Montalban in a vendetta to avenge his father's murder, joining in the Crusades. 76 min. Coming CAINE MUTINY. THE Technicolor. Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson. Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis. Director Edward Dmytryk. Producer Stanley Kramer Sea drama. From the famed best-seller by Herman Wouk, of a mutiny aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer. Bogart plays a neurotic captain, Johnson the exp'-utiv» officer. MacMurray is the prissy Keefer, Ferrer the defense attorney for the mutineers. 125 min. FATHER BROWN Alec Guiness. Joan Greenwood. Director Robert Hamcr. Producer Vivian Cox. Comedy drama. British made, with Guiness as whimsical priest in the G. K. Chesterton stories who runs a haven for ex-convicts, using it for some unorthodox crime-busting. HUMAN DESIRE Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahal Broderick Crawford. Director Fritz LanQ. Melodral Korean war veteran becomes involved with marn woman who sells herself and becomes a partnerf murder to achieve selfish ends. OUTLAW STALLION. THE Technicolor. Phil Gail Dorothy Patrick. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Dili tor Fred F. Sears. Western drama. Boy's devotion|| wild stallion leads to capture of horse thieves. THEY RODE WEST Donna Reed, Robert Francis. Dill tor Phil Karlson. Producer Lewis Rachmil. Wesl4 Doctor at frontier Arm: post incurs enmity of fel| officers when he administers to hostile Indians. I. F. E. March ANITA GARIBALDI Italian. Subtitles. Anna Magn Raf Vallone. Directors Goffredo Allessandrini, Fra Rosi. Drama. Story of Garibaldi's battle to unite It in mid-l9th Century and his wife's loyalty and brav in the cause, causing her tragic death. 95 min. MY HEART SINGS Subtitles. Ferruccio Tagliavini. rector Mario Mattoli. Comedy with music. Two p( renegades discover young electrian with fine oper voice, p lace him under contract and plot to exp him with operatic impressario. 99 min. April SENSUALITA English. Eleonora Rossi Drago. Po De Laurentis production. Director Clemente Fraca Drama. "Bitter Rice" story of two men and a gir the wheat fields of Italy. 72 min. June GIRLS MARKED DANGER English Language. Silv Pampanini, Eleonore Rossi Drago, Vittorio Gassm Producers Dino De Laurentis & Carol Ponti. Direc Luigi Comcncini. Drama. Expose of vice ring inv ing girls who enter dance marathon. 75 min. HELL RAIDERS OF THE DEEP English Langua Eleonora Rossi Drago. Cossa, DeLaurentis Produc Director Duilio Coletti. War drama. Deals with the ventures of Italian Navy frogmen during World War War II. 93 min. Coming AIDA Color Eng. Nar. Sophia Loren, Lois Maxw , Ballet Corps of Rome. Producer F. De Martino. DirecClemente Fracassi. Opera. Verdi's story of rivalry • tween Egyptian princess and slave girl for love f Egyptian officer. j HUSBAND FOR ANNA. A English Language. Silv i Pampanini. Producer D. F. Davanzati. Director G. Santis. Drama. Trials and tribulations of woman ,i search of love and husband. TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE English Language. Man Vlady. Producer Niccolo Theodoli. Director L. Felice. Drama. Story of love between two l5-y< olds which ends tragically. LIPPERT February QUEEN OF SHEBA Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervi. ducer Mario Francisci. Director Pietro Francisci lical spectacle. Queen of Sheba leads her ami against Solomon's forces in Jerusalem, 1000 B.C. captured and makes her escape. After a battle andn avalanche, she is freed of "marriage]' vows to pa gods and marries Solomon's son. 99 min. WE WANT A CHILD Ruth Brejnholm, Jorgen Reenbe Directors Alice ©'Fredericks, Lau Lauritzen. Dra Married young girl desiring child cannot have c while her best friend has an unfortunate affair bears an unwanted child. Finally young wife becoi expectant and audience see actual birth of baby 74 r March BLACKOUT Dane Clark, Belinda Lee. Producer Mie Carreras. Director Terence Fisher. Murder drama down-and-out war veteran is offered a $1000 mysl job by a C'rl whose father is later murdered, throw suspicion on the veteran until he establishes thal_ girl's mother was responsible for the killing. 87 mir A pril FANGS OF THE WILD Charles Chaplin, Jr., 9ns Stevens. Producer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Dirt^ William Claxton. Murder drama. Boy and his dog only witnesses to a cold-blooded killing in the woi Boy's story is not believed until the murderer's establishes truth, causing a chase in which tht I life is threatened. 71 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT