Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

REPUBLIC (Continued) 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. June 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-ridden past destroys hope for the revival of marriage. 91 min. July LAUGHING ANNE Technicolor. Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Respectable schooner captain tries to save nirl and illegitimate son from degrading life with beachcomber. When she is murdered Captain avenges death and cla ims boy. 91 min. August 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. 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 servino prison term for murder. She could have saved him and he plans revenge by ruining life of their daughter. 90 min. Coming OUTCAST. THE Trucolor. John Derek, Joan Evans. Producer Wllliarn J. O'Sullivan. Director Bill Witney. Western. Young westerner wages ranne 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 love in aiding people of Shanghai's International Settlement against Red polrce. TOBOR THE GREAT Charles Drake, Karen Booth. Science fiction. Adventu'-es 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 romance. Story by Maurice Walsh, author of "The Quiet Man". An Arnerican 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 gold hoard and battle royal in pseudo medieval castle in the desert. 70 min. HKD March DANGEROUS MISSION 3D Technicolor Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price. Wm. Bendix. Producer Irl win 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. April 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-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 gamblers for murder and ruination of youth. 68 min. May NO RELEASES June BIG RAINBOW Technicolor Jane Russell. Gilbert Roland Producer Harr; Tatelman. Director John Sturgrs. Adventure drama. Action and intrigue centering around hunt for sunken treasure. SILVER LODE Technicolor. John Payne, Dan Duryea, Lizabelh 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. SINS OF ROME Massimo G<rottI, Ludmilla Tcherina. Producer Consoriio Spartacus. Director Riccardo Freda. Adventure. Roman gladiator leads revolt and attempts to unite slaves against Roman army. 75 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-Forrest, Price-St. Cyr. 90 min. July SUSAN SLEPT HERE Technicolor. Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds. Producer Harriet Parsons. Director Frank Tashlin. Romantic comedy. "Bad girl" is placed In custody of writer who wants to study her type for story he is writing. Coming NIGHT MUSIC Eastman color. Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue. Producer Hugh Brooke. Director Stuart Helsler. Drama. 2DTH CENTUHY-FDX March NEW FACES Cinemascope Eastman Color. Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt. Producer Edward Alperson. Director Harry Horner. Musical Filmlna 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 untannle red tape to negotiate return of young soldier kidnapped by Reds. G.l.'s wealthy father complicates 'oy attempting bribery and barter of two people wanted by Communists for return of his son. 93 min. RACING ELOOD Color. Bill Williams, Jean Porter. Producer-director W. Barry. Drama. Boy secretly trains colt which was to heve been deitroyed. Colt eventually becomes great racehorse. 76 min. April PRINCE VALIANT CInemaScope Technicolor. Robert Wagner, James Mason. Janet Leiah. Producer Robert Jacks. Director Henry Hathaway. Romantic adventure. Viklna kina overthrown by traitor Is civen sactuary by KIna 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 intrioue 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. THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN CInemaScope Technicolor. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuIre, Jean Peters. Maggie McNamara. Producer Sol Slegel. Director Jean Nenulesco. Romantic comedy. Three American girls working in Rome toss coins in Wishing Fountain. After each travels rocky road, dreams come true. 101 min. June DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS ClnemaScopeTechnicolor. 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. 101 min. 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. July 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. Coming ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA, THE Technicolor. Elal,,, Stewart, John Derek. Producer Walter Wanger. Direc tor Don Wels. Adventure romance. Young Perslar barber leaves his shop In seek of adventure. Aftei, horse-sword action In desert he rescues Princes: and prevents war. BROKEN LANCE CInemaScope Technicolor. Rober Wagner, Richard WIdmark, Spencer Tracy. Jear Peters. Producer Sol C. Slegel. Director Edward Dmy tryk. Western drama. Cattle baron's son by Indlar wife Is caught in feud with renegade half brothers foi control of homestead. LIFE IN THE BALANCE, A RIcardo Montalban Producer Robert Jacks. Director Harry Horner. Murdei melodrama. Boy trying to clear his father of severa killings falls Into hands of real murderer. RAID, THE Technicolor. Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft Richard Boone. Producer Robert L. Jacks. Directoi Hugo Fregonese. Action drama. Historical Confederaft raid on town in Vermont in retaliation for the burn Ing of the Atlanta. UNITED ARTISTS March ACT OF LOVE Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin. Producer director Anatole LItvak. Drama. French refugee gin 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 Intrlaue. 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.i 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 MorasI, John Bentley, Martha Hyer. Producer Charles Reynolds. Directors George Breakston, Ray Stahl. Adventure drama. Commissioner of African district gets Involved in tribal rite in which king of tribe performs arduous quest. 78 min. April HEIDI Elsbeth Sigmund. Helnrich Gretler. Prodocer Lazar Wechsler. Director Lulgi Comencini. Drama. Taken from famed children'st story by Johanna Spyri of the love between a little Swiss girl and her grand-father. 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. WIsberg-Pol lexfen production. Director Lew Landers. Adventure Famous pirate captain escapes gallows with aid of unscrupulous nobleman who plans to doublecross Kidd and thereby obtain his treasure hoard. 83 min. LONG WAIT. THE Anthony <?uinn, Peggie Castle. Producer Lesser Samuels. Director Victor Savllle. Murder mystery. Amnesia victim returns home to find he Is wanted for murder. Missing link to his innocence is beautiful girl and works his way through a number oil them before finding her and solving mystery. 93 min.^ WITNESS TO MURDER Barbara Stanwyck, George San-' ders. Gary Merrill. Producer Chester Erskina. Director Roy Rowland. Suspense melodrama. Woman witnesses murder which she reports to police. Checking, police^ find no evidence of crime and woman Is suspected of being Insane. 83 min. I YELLOW TOMAHAWK, THE Color Corp. of America.' Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle. Producer Howard W Koch. Director Lesley Selander. Western. Indian scout and U. S. Cavalry battle Cheyenne assault on frontier outpost. 82 min. June CHALLENGE THE WILD Color Corp. of America. George and Sheila Graham. Producer and directed by Frank Graham. Nature documentary. Family explores the Great North Country, where wild life remains untouched by civilization. 49 min. GOG 3D Color Corp. of America. Richard Egan. Constance Dowllng, Herbert Marshall. Producer Ivan Tors. Director Herbert L. Strock. Science-fiction. 85 min. HOBSON'S CHOICE Charles Laughton, Brenda Dij Banzie. Producer-director David Lean. Comedy. Pro$-| perous bootmaker finds his life complicated when he| tries to direct wedding plans of his daughters. 107 mm. MAN WITH A MILLION Technicolor. Gregory Peck Jane Griffiths. Producer John Bryan. Director Ronald Neame. Comedy. Poverty-stricken but honest man is given million pound note to prove theory that merely possessing It, but never spending it will bring him good fortune. 90 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT