Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT All The Vital Details on Carrent SD Coming Features ALLIED ARTISTS 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 honne a hero to marry girl he loves. 80 min. WEAK AND THE WICKED. THE Glynis Johns, John Gregson. Producer Victor Skuteiky. 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 anfd directed by Ford Beebe. Melodrama. Bomba helps beautiful screen star track down runaway husband in wilds of Arfica. 70 min. SECURITY RISK 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. 49 min. September JUNGLE GENTS Leo Gorcey, Hunti 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 BOB MATHIAS STORY. THE Bob Mathlas, 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. 80 min. HUMAN JUNGLE, THE Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling. Producer Hayes Goeti. Director Joe Newman. Murdermeller. Young police captain revamps police squad, cleans up tough section and solves murder. 82 min. November CRY VENGENCE 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. 75 min. December PORT OF HELL Wayne Morris, Dane Clark. Marole Mathews. Producer William F. Broidy. Director Harold Schuster. Melodrama. Port Warden of Los Angeles harbor learns docked freighter has atomic bomb aboard which is to be set off in communist plot to destroy the harbor. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT Technicolor. David NIven. Yvonne de Carlo. Barry Fitigerald. Comedy. Irish fantasy with comic flavor. 88 min. Coming ANNAPOLIS STORY. THE Tectimcolor. John Derek, Kevin McCarthy, Diana Lynn. Producer Walter MIrisch. 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 Gorcey, 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. COLUMBIA July CAINE MUTINY. THE I Pre-release) 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 Irving Allen. Albert Broccoli. Sea adventure. Murder and elements combine to make complication lor i-navy skipper In the Antartlc. 91 min. INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift. Director Vittorio de Siea. Producers David O. Selznick and de Sica. Drama. Made in Italy, ("Bicycle Thief") 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. 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 Katiman. 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 DAKOTAS. THE Technicolor. Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Ray Naiarro. 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 Lang. Melodrama. Korean war veteran becomes involved with married woman who sells herself 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. November AFFAIRS OF MESSALINA. THE Maria Felix. Georges Marchal. Director Gallone. Historical drama. 106 min. BLACK KNIGHT, THE Technicolor. Alan Ladd Patricia Medina. Producers Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli. Director Tay Garnett. Adventure. Poor sword-maker rises up to become knight and saves King Arthur. England and Christianity from pagans. 85 min. CANNIBAL ATTACK Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh. Producer Sam Katiman. Director Lee Sholem. Jungle meller. Jungle Jim solves mysterious cobalt thefts by savage cannibal tribe. FIRE OVER AFRICA Technicolor. Maureen O'Hara, MacDonald Carey. Producer M. J. Fra^nkovlch. Director Richard Sale. Adventure-meller. Tangier customs officials employ woman secret agent to help break up smuggling ring. 84 min. Coming CANGACEIRO Produced by Vera Crui Productions with all-Braiilian 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 iustlce. DETECTIVE. THE Alec Gulness, Joan Greenwood. Director Robert Hamer. Producer Vivian Cox. Comedy drama. British made, with Gulness as whimsical priest in the G. K. Chesterton stories who runs a haven for ex-convicts, using it for some unorthodox crime-busting. BAMBOO PRISON 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 Katiman. Director William Castle. Western. Bat Masterson saves wrongly convicted man from hanging and puts down threat of Indian war. PHFFFT Judy Holllday, 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 Katiman. 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. Direc tor Phil Karlson. Producer Lewis Rachmil. Western Doctor at frontier Army post Incurs enmity of fellov officers when he administers to hostile Indians. THREE FOR THE SHOW ClnemaScope, Technicolor Betty Grable, Marge S Gower Champion, Jack Lem mon. Producer Jonle Taps. Director H. C. Potter Musical. Musical comedy writer reported killed ii Korea returns home to find wife remarried to bes friend. VIOLENT MEN. THE Technicolor. Glenn Ford, Barbar. Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Producer Lewis J Rachmil. Director Rudolph Mate. Western. Ex-cavalr> officer leads small ranchers against encroaching lane baron. I. F. E. August HELL RAIDERS OF THE DEEP English Language Eleonora Rossi Drago. Cossa, DeLaurentis Producers Director Dulllo Coletti. War drama. Deals with the ad ventures of Italian Navy frogmen during World War II War II. 93 min. September BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS Sub-titles. GIna Lollo brigida, Vittorio DeSIca. Titanus Films production. Di rector Luigi Comencini. Drama. Joys and minor traqe dies of life in a mountain town. 90 min. CITY STANDS TRIAL English. Silvana Pampanini Amedeo Nazzari. Director Luigl Zampa. Melodrama Suspense story of murder investigation In corrpu' city. 105 min. GOLDEN COACH, THE English. Technicolor. Anne Magnanl. Director Jean Renoir. Musical drama. I7tl century tale of beautiful actress. 105 min. LOVE IN THE CITY English. All star cast. Produce. Cesare Zavattini. Omnibus. Portrayal of various way of love and women who practice them presented ir "March of Time" style. 110 min. October GIRLS MARKED DANGER English Language. Silvan Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Vittorio GassmaProducers Dino De Laurentis & Carlo Pontl. Direct Luigi Comencini. Drama. Expose of vice ring invoi ing girls who enter dance marathon. 75 min. HUSBAND FOR ANNA. A English Language. Silvan, Pampanini. Producer D. F. Davaniati. Director G. Di Santis. Drama. Trials and tribulations of woman i' search of love and husband. 105 min. TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE English Language. Marin, Vlady. Producer NIccolo Theodoli. Director L. Di Felice. Drama. Story of love between two 15-year olds which ends tragically. November AGAINST THE WALL Eng. Lang. Silvana Mangano Adventure. Turn-of-century bandit engages In rivalr with police officer for love of Mangano. AIDA Color Eng. Nar. Sophia Loren, Lois Maxwe Ballet Corps of Rome. Producer F. De Martino. Director Clemente Fracassi. Opera. Verdi's story of rivalry be tween Egyptian princess and slave girl for love o Egyptian officar. 110 min. HURDY-GURDY Pathecolor. English. Producer, Lui Films. Director Ettore Glannlni. Ballet-drama. Three century story of Naples told thru medium of ballet Continuity provided by drama involving "show bus! ness" family thru the ages. MADEMOISELLE GOBETTE Eng. Lang. Silvana Pam panini. Carlo Dapporto. Excelsa-Amato production Comedy drama. Dancer becomes entangled with la* because of icanty costume. THEODORA. SLAVE EMPRESS Pathecolor. English Italo-French co-production by Lux. Director RIccardc Freda. Historical drama. Beautiful slave girl rises tc become Empress of Byiantlne empire. VOICE OF SILENCE Eng. Lang. Rossana Podesta Cosetta Greco. Produced by Clnes-Franco London Drama. Story of men who make 3-day religious retreat and families and sweethearts they leave behind. 85 min INDEPENDENTS September PRIVATE HELL 36 IFllmakersI Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff. Producer Collier Young. Directon Don Siegel. Melodrama. Police detectives working oni murder case steal some "hot" money and are eventn-l ally trapped by police captain. 81 min. FILM lULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT