Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

I THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT All The Vital Details on Current &> Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS 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. June BOWERY 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, young man is doublecrossed by friend and framed for murder. 81 min. July RETURN 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 home a hero to marry girl he loves. 80 min. WEAK AND THE WICKED, THE Glynis Johns, John Gregson. Producer Victor Skutezky. Director J. LeeThompson. Drama. Framed in fraud case young woman is sentenced to two years in prison. She is thrown among wicked women and involved in escape. 72 min. August KILLER LEOPARD Johnny Sheffield, Beverly Garland. Produced arfd directed by Ford Beebe. Melodrama. Bomba helps beautiful screen star track down runaway husband in wilds of Africa. SECURITY RISK John Ireland, Dorothy Malone. Producer William F. Broidy. Director Harold Schuster. Melodrama. FBI agent on vacation thwarts communists who kill atomic scientist and steal secret papers. September HUMAN JUNGLE, THE Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling. Producer Hayes Goetz. Director Joe Newman. Murdermeller. Young police captain revamps police squad, cleans up tough section of city and solves murder. Coming TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT Technicolor. David Niven, Yvonne de Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Comedy. Irish fantasy with comic flavor. 88 min. TWO GUNS AND A BADGE Wayne Morris. Director Lewis D. Collins. Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Western. Ex-convlct is made deputy sheriff. Finds love and new life by ridding town of outlaws. 69 min. COLUMBIA May MAD MAGICIAN, THE 3D Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor. Director John Brahm. Producer Bryan Foy. i^orror melodrama. Illusion nenius, prevented by his boss from usinc hi; 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 Katiman. Director Fred Sears. Melodrama. Ex-gangster, now respectable, uses his past experience to expose crime syndicate. 75 min. June 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 BLADE, THE Technicolor. Ricardo 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, joining in the Crusades. 76 min July CAINE MUTINY, THE ( Pre-releasel Technicolor. Hum(Jhrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray. 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. 125 min. HELL BELOW ZERO Technicolor. Alan Ladd. Director Mark Robson. Producers Irving Allen. Albert Broccoli. Sea adventure. Murder and elements combine to make complication for x-navy skipper in the Antartic. 91 min. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Cllft. Director Vittorio de Sica. Producers David O. Selinick and de Sica. Drama. Made In Italy, ("Bicycle Thief") de Sica'i first English language tilm. 63 min. 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. 64 min. August LAW VS. BILLY THE KID, THE Technicolor. Scott Brady, Betta St. John. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Western. Revenginq himself on crooked sheriff an<l outlaw qanq, Billy the Kid runs afoul the law, and is eventually killeil by his best friend. PUSHOVER Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey. Producer Jules Schermer. Director Richard Quine. Melodrama. Detective falls in love with gunman's girl. His desire for her turns him against law. Coming BLACK DAKOTAS, THE Technicolor. Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Ray Nazarro. Western. Confederate spys plot to send Sioux Nation on warpath thereby tieing up large Union army force. CANNIBAL ATTACK Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Lee Sholem. Jungle meller. Jungle Jim solves mysterious cobalt thefts by savage cannibal tribe. DETECTIVE, THE Alec Guiness, Joan Greenwood. Director Robert Hamer. 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. FIRE OVER AFRICA Technicolor. Maureen O'Hara, MacDonald Carey. Producer M. J. Frankovlch. Director Richard Sale. Adventure-meller. Tangier customs officials employ woman secret agent to help break up smuggling ring. HUMAN DESIRE Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford. Director Fritz Lan<3. Melodrama. Korean war veteran becomes involved with married woman who sells herself and becomes a partner in murder to achieve selfish ends. I WAS A PRISONER IN KOREA Robert Francis, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith. Producer Bryan Foy. Director Lewis Seller. War drama. U. S. Intelliqence officars masquerade as collaborators in Korean prison camp in order to spy on the Communists. MASTERSON OF KANSAS Technicolor. George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Western. Bat Masterson saves wrongly convicted man from hanging and puts down threat of Indian war. ON THE WATERFRONT Marlon Brando, Karl Maiden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint. Producer Sam Spiegel. Director Ella Kazan. Melodrama. Ex-fighter Involved in racketeers' domination of longshoremen Is moved to rebel against the syndicate by love of woman. PHFFFT Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Director Mark Robson. Comedy. Bored by their marriage, professional couple find that their freedom Is even worse. PIRATES OF TRIPOLI Technicolor. Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Felix Feist. Costume adventure. Morrocan princess enlists aid of pirate leader to help drive savage hordes from her kingdom. THEY RODE WEST Donna Reed, Robert Francis. Director Phil Karlson. Producer Lewis Rachmil. Western. Doctor at frontier Arm'.' post incurs enmity of fellow officers when he administers to hostile Indians. THREE FOR THE SHOW CInemaScope, Technicolor. Betty Grable, Marge i Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon. Producer Jonie Taps. Director H. C. Potter. Musical. Musical comedy writer reported killed in Korea returns home to find wife remarried to best friend THSEE HCURS TO KILL Technicolor. Dana Andrews, Donna Reed. Dianne Foster. Producer Harry Joe Brown. Director Alfred Werker. Western. Framed for murder three years earlier, cowboy returns home to clear his name. VIOLENT MEN, THE Technicolor. Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Producer Lewis J. Rachmil. Director Rudolph Mate. Western. Ex-cavalry officer leads small ranchers against encroaching land baron. I. F. E. June GIRLS MARKED DANGER English Language. Sllv Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Vittorio Gassn Producers Dino De Laurentis S Carlo Pontl. Dire. Lulgl Comencini. Drama. Expose of vice ring inv ing girls who enter dance marathon. 75 min. SENSUALITA English. Eleonora Rossi Drago. Pc De Laurentis production. Director Clemente Fraca Drama. "Bitter Rice" story of two men and a qir the wheat fields of Italy. 72 min. August ' HELL RAIDERS OF THE DEEP English Langua Eleonora Rossi Drago. Cossa, DeLaurentis Produc i Director Dullio Coletti. War drama. Deals with the I ventures of Italian Navy frogmen during World Wart War II. 93 min. HUSBAND FOR ANNA, A English Language. Sllv Pampanini. Producer D. F. Davanzati. Director G. I Santis. Drama. Trials and tribulations of woman search of love and husband. 105 min. September CITY STANDS TRIAL English. Silvana Pampan' Amedeo Nazzari. Director Luigi Zampa. Melodrai. Suspense story of murder investigation In corr city. 105 min. ' GOLDEN COACH, THE English. Technicolor. A I Magnanl. Director Jean Renoir. Musical drama. II century tale of beautiful actress. 105 min. LOVE IN THE CITY Eng(ish. All star cast. Produ| Cesare Zavattini. Omnibus. Portrayal of various w of love and women who practice them presented' "March of Time" style. 110 min. ' Coming I AIDA Color Eng. Nar. Sophia Loren, Lois Maxw Ballet Corps of Rome. Producer F. De Martino. Direc Clemente Fracassl. Opera. Verdi's story of rivalry i tween Egyptian princess and slave girl for love j Egyptian officer. BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS Gina Lollobrigida torio DeSica. Director Luigi Comencini. Drama. TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE English Language. Mar Vlady. Producer Niccolo Theodoli. Director L. Felice. Drama. Story of love between two 15-ye olds which ends tragically. LIPPERT May COWBOY, THE Eastman Color. Producer-direct Elmo Williams. Documentary feature. Photograph in color on actual Southweit locations, story relates t cowboy's true life from pioneer days to now. 69 nl MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR Anne Kimb Stuart Wade. Producer Roger Corman. Director Wy Ordung. Science-fiction. A girl skin-diver and scien in one-man submarine brave shark-infested waters I face a huge sea monster far under the ocean. 64 n'. June BIG CHASE, THE Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens. P ducer Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Director Arthur HiH Action drama. Rookie cop goes on patrol car du; takes part In chase by auto, boat and helicopter tl! ends in shooting of payroll robbers. 65 min. ' PAID TO KILL Dane Clark. Producer Anthony Hinj Director Montgomery Tully. Mystery drama. Desp'f'j business man hires thug to kill him so his wife can c lect insurance. Changes his mind and barely eicaij death, to learn that his wife was responsible I close call. 75 min. July i RIVER BEAT Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley. Producer H man Cohen. Director Guy Green. Mystery drama. C| radio operator on U. S. freighter becomes unwif' acc«5«ory to diamond smugglers. Teams with detect to Investigate murder and round up gang. 73 mm. THUNDER PASS Dane Clark. Andy Devine. Produt Robert A. Nunes. Director Frank McDonald. Weiti drama. Party of whites crossing hostile Indian cou" with a suspected renegade is attacked by Inb "Renegade" Is vindicated as Army agent. 74 m FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT 1