Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT All The Vital Details on Currezit SD Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS 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, youTg 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. LeeTho mpson. 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 helos beautiful screen star track down runaway husband in wilds of Arfica. 70 min. SECURITY PJSK John Ireland, Dorothy Malone. Producer William F. Broidy. Director Harold Schuster. Melodrama. FBI agent on vacation thwarts communists who kill scientist and steal secret papers. 69 min. 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 and solves murder. 82 min. JUNGLE GENTS Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, IBowery Boysl. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director Edward Bernds. Comedy. Discovering that one of the boys can actually smell diamonds, the gang goes to Africa to find a fortune in stolen diamonds. 64 min. 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. 69 min. October DANGER POINT Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Director Stevens. Melodrama. Former detective released from prison after serving long term for crime he didn't commit seeks revenge against men who framed him. TARGET EARTH Richard Denning, Virginia Gray. Producer Herman Cohen. Director Sherman A. Rose. Science Fiction. Earth is invaded by army of robots from the planet Venus. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT Technicolor. David Niven, Vvonne d» Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald. Comedy. Irish fantasy with comic flavor. 88 min. November BOB MATHIAS STORY. THE Bob Mathias, Melba Mathias. Ward Bond. Producers James L. Fallon, William E. Selwyn. Director Francis D. Lyon. Sports drama. Biography of Olympic Decathlon champion from high school days to present. Coming ANNAPOLIS STORY. THE Technicolor. John Derek, Kevin McCarthy, Diana Lynn. Producer Walter Mirlsch. Director Don Siegel. Drama. Brothers who graduated from Annapolis together split over a girl but are eventually reconciled during combat as jet fighter pilots in Korea. BOWERY TO BAGDAD Leo Gorcev, Hunti Hall, IBowery Boys). Producer Ben Schwalb. Director Edward Nernds. Comedy. Bowery Boys find Aladdin's magic lamp and resulting adventures take them to Bagdad 64 min. DYNAMITE ANCHORAGE Wayne Morris, Dane Clark, Carole Mathews Producer William F. Broidy. Director Harold Schuster Melodrama. Port Warden of Los Angeles harbor learns docked freighter has atomic bimb aboard which is to be set off in communist plot to destroy the harbor. CDIUMBIA June JUNGLE MANEATERS Johnny Weissmuller, Karin Booth, Producer Sam Kdtiman. Director L»( Sholem. Adventur«-m»lodrama . Jungle Jim trdcki down diamond smuggler who is itoparditinq ptact of jungle. 68 min. SAIiA'CEN CLADE. THE Technicolor. Rlcardo Montalban, Betta St. John. Producer Sam Katiman. 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. Humphrey 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 Irvino 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 Clift. Director Vittorio de Sica. Producers David O. Selznick and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy. '"Bicycle Thief'l de Sica's first English language film. 63 min. OUTLAW STALLION. THE Technicolor. Phil Carey, Dorothy Patrick. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred F. Sears. Western drama. Bov'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. Revenging himself on crooked sheriff and outlaw gang, Billy the Kid runs afoul the law, and is eventually killed by his best friend. 73 min. 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. 88 min. September BLACK OAKOTAS. THE Technicolor. Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrlx. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Ray Nazarro. Western. Confederate spys plot to send Sioux Nation on warpath thereby tieing up large Union army force. 65 min. BULLET IS WAITING. A Technicolor. Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally, Brian Aherne. Producer Howard Welsch. Director John Farrow. Melodrama. Plane crash strands sheriff and suspected murderer in California wilderness. Violence flares when they seek shelter in lonely cabin occupied by a beautiful girl. 82 min. HUMAN DESIRE Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford. Director Friti Lano. Melodrama. Korean war veteran becomes involved with married wom^n who -^ells h«rsp|f and becomes a partner in murder to achieve selfish ends. 90 min. October ON THE WATERFRONT Marlon Brando, Karl Maiden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint. Producer Sam Spiegel. Director Elia Kazan. Melodrama. Ex-fighter involved in racketeers' domination of longshoremen is moved to rebel against the syndicate by love of woman. 108 min. THREE HOURS 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. 77 min. Coming CANNIBAL ATTACK Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Lee Sholem. Jungle meller. Jungle Jim solves mysterious cobalt thefts by savage cannibal tribe. CANGACEIRO Produced by Vera Cruz Productions with all-Brazilian cast. Director Lima Barreto. Action drama. Story of bandits who terrorized Brazil for almost 100 years and lived by their particular code of honor and justice. DETECTIVE. THE Alec Gulness, 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. Frankovich. Director Richard Sale. Adventure-meller. Tangier customs officials employ woman secret agent to help break up smuggling ring. I WAS A PRISONER IN KOREA Robert Francis, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith. Producer Bryan Foy. Director Lewis Seller. War drama. U. S. intelligence officers 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. 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, P [ tricia Medina. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fel Feist. Costume adventure. Morrocan princess enlis ' aid of pirate leader to help drive savage hordi from her kingdom. THEY RODE WEST Donna Reed, Robert Francis. Dire, tor Phil Karlson. Producer Lewis Rachmil. Westerr Doctor at frontier Arm:' post incurs enmity of fello officers when he administers to hostile Indians. THREE FOR THE SHOW CinemaScope, Technicoloi Betty Grable, Marge & Gower Champion, Jack Len mon. Producer Jonle Taps. Director H. C. Pottei Musical. Musical comedy writer reported killed i Korea returns home to find wife remarried to be'i friend | VIOLENT MEN, THE Technicolor. Glenn Ford Barbar Sta nwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Producer Lewis jl Rachmil. Director Rudolph Mate. Western. Ex-cavair, officer leads small ranchers against encroaching iann baron. I. F. E. June SENSUALITA English. Eleonora Rossi Drago. Ponti De Laurentis production. Director Clemente Fracassi Drama. "Bitter Rice" story of two men and a girl iri the wheat fields of Italy. 72 min. j August HELL RAIDERS OF THE DEEP English Language: Eleonora Rossi Drago. Cossa, DeLaurentis Producers' Director Duilio Coletfi. War drama. Deals with the ad.j ventures of Italian Navy frogmen during World War II.! War II. 93 min. \ September I CITY STANDS TRIAL English. Silvana Pampanini ' Amedeo Nazzari. Director Lulgi Zampa. Melodrama! Suspense story of murder investigation in ccrrputi city. 105 min. j GOLDEN COACH, THE English. Technicolor. Anna Magnani. Director Jean Renoir. Musical drama. 17th" century tale of beautiful actress. 105 min, LOVE IN THE CITY English. All star cast. Producerj Cesare Zavattlnl. Omnibus. Portrayal of various waysl of love and women who practice them presented in* "March of Time" style. 110 min. ' October { AIDA Color Eng. Nar. Sophia Loren, Lois Maxwell, I Ballet Corps of Rome. Producer F. De Martino. Directori Clemente Fracassi. Opera. Verdi's story of rivalry between Egyptian princess and slave girl for love of j Egyptian officer. | GIRLS MARKED DANGER English Language. Silvana | Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Vittorio Gassmar ' Producers DIno De Laurentis & Carlo Ponti. Director' Luigi Comencini. Drama. Expose of vice ring involving girls who enter dance marathon. 75 min. HUSBAND FOR ANNA, A English Language. Silvana Pampanini. Producer D. F. Davanzati. Director G. De Santls. Drama. Trials and tribulations of woman in search of love and husband. 105 min. TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE English Language. Marina Vlady. Producer Niccolo Theodoli. Director L. De Felice. Drama. Story of love between two 15-yearolds which ends tragically. November HURDY-GURDY Pathecolor. English. Producer, Lui Films. Director Ettore Glannini. Ballet-drama. Threecentury story of Naples told thru medium of ballet. Continuity provided by drama involving "show business" family thru the ages. THEODORA, SLAVE EMPRESS Pathecolor. English. Italo-French co-production by Lux. Director Riccardo Freda. Historical drama. Beautiful slave girl rises to become Empress of Byzantine empire. IN11EPENI1ENT5 September PRIVATE HELL 36 IFilmakersI Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff. Producer Collier Young. Director Don Siegel. Melodrama. Police detectives working on murder cas*^ steal some "hot" money and are eventnally trapped by police captain. 81 min. October VANISHING PRAIRIE IBuena Vista) Technicolor. Producer Walt Disney Nature Documentary. 71 min. FILM BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT i