Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1955)

INDEPENDENTS (Continued) May JULY SUMMARY The warm weather picture outlook appears bright for July with 29 features scheduled for release, another recent monthly high. Republic is the leading supplier with five features. Offering three each this month are Allied Artists, Columbia, 20th-Fox, United Artists, Universal and Warner Bros. July product shows a high in anamorphics. Along with 9 CinemaScopics, two other wide screen features are available, one in SuperScope and one in VistaVision. July product also shows an increase in comedies. And in keeping with the July monthly highs, 16 releases, better than half of the total, are in color. The July schedule includes: 6 Melodramas 3 Musicals 6 Comedies 2 Science Fiction 5 Dramas 1 Western 5 Adventures 1 Feature Cartoon June ft CROCKETT IWalt Disney) Fess Parker, Buddy en. Technicolor. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Nori Foster. Western. Movie version of tri-part TV es about famous Indian fighter, congressman and ■no hero. 95 min. July iY AND THE TRAMP IWalt Disney) CinemaScope, inicolor. Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Thompson. Feature Cartoon. The tale of a robe* between two dogs. 75 min. Coming t D AND THE BRAVE. THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. ■ idell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Dan Taylor. Producer I E. Chester. Director Lewis R. Foster. Drama. Six s iers and an Italian girl react variously to stresses ci war-torn country and terrors of a battle in the I / campaign. f -BUG, THE (Filmakersl SuperScope. Producer Colli Young. Drama. Arson squad Investigator probes a ■ es of fires, rescues a woman from a huge blaze .0, proves she is the arsonist. S)LDERING SEA. THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. Proc ;r Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the ftnnical captain and crew of an American merchant I reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal. » VPON. THE IFilmakers] SuperScope. Producer Hal SOhester. Drama. An unsloved murder involving a b'sr U.S. war veteran, a German war bride and a k r is resolved after a child finds a loaded gun in ■ b rubble. LIPPERT March S 'ER STAR, THE Edgar Buchanan, Marie Windsor, L Chaney. Producer Earle Lyon. Director Richard B left. Western. Newly-elected young sheriff is at I gun-shy, but eventually cleans up pioneer town if showdown gun duel. 73 min. A pril «.SS TOMB, THE John Ireland. Producer Anthony I is. Director Montgomery Tully. Melodrama. Sidetl ' barker is key figure in slaying of a young girl. V i numerous carnival characters among the suspects, ■ mystery is resolved at the glass tomb where the b er presents his latest attraction. 59 min. T NDER OVER SANGOLAND Jon Hall, Ray Mont9 ery, Marjorie Lord. Producer Rudolph Flothow. 0 ctor Sam Newfield. Adventure. White doctor and fi d trke into the jungle to save missionary girl fr. native uprising. 73 min. May A STRIKE Richard Denning, Gloria Jean. Producers'ctor Cy Roth. Drama. Commander of Navy jet tt dron training on carrier copes with conflict among m and marital problems of junior officers. 67 min. P NTOM OF THE JUNGLE Jon Hall, Ray Mont•jery, Anne Gwynne. Producer Rudolph Flothow. Dif« sr Spencer Bennet. Adventure. Facing attacks by w le savages, white doctor recovers golden tablet Mn from a jungle tribe, finds missing archeologist, a leads party to safety. 75 min. June W» DINOSAUR Bill Bryant, Wanda Curtis. Producer ■ imbalist. Director Bert I. Gordon. Science-fiction. Wet party ef four lands on new planet, encounters M storic beasts and use A-blast to escape. 59 min. I' ESOME TRAIL, THE Wayne Morris, John Agar. Mucer Earle Lyon. Director Richard Bartlett. WestM Young soldier returned from Indian wars is forced H ght for his property against land-grabbers who M taken control of Western town. 73 min. July M A J. Arthur Rank. Eastman Color. Dirk Bogarde. M nture. Mau-Mau story filmed entirely in Africa. nETBO-GOLDWYN-MAYER March W ABOARD JUNGLE Glenn Ford, Anne Francis. Pro•jjr Pandro S. Berman. Director Richard Brooks. Il|drama. Problems met by Navy veteran teaching ■ I blic school devoid of discipline. 101 min. 3/7. H THE DECK CinemaScope EastmanColor. Jane rcj II, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Martin. Producer Joe M rnak. Director Roy Rowland. Musical. Returning irj a not-so-romantic Pacific cruise three sailors set «*t" to untangle romances at home. 112 min. 3/21. A pril ■Bj VILLED CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Anne Baxter, Forrest. Producer Henry Berman. Director fllieil Leisen. Melodrama. Man preparing for priestjtj meets woman who is involved in Paris underworld nurder. 89 min. 5/2. 6 iS SLIPPER, THE EastmanColor. Leslie Caron, •Jlael Wilding. Producer Edwin Knopf. Director Mies Walters. Musical fantasy. Retells the story of nderella. 94 min. 3/7. MARAUDERS, THE Eastman Color. Dan Duryea. Jeff Richards. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director Gerald Mayer. Western. Band of border killers and insane leaaer try to take rancher's home in Ariiona wastelands. 81 min. 5/2. PRODIGAL, THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Edmund Purdom, Lana Turner, Audrey Dalton. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Richard Thorpe. Biblical drama. Based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. 144 min. 4/4. June LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Doris Day, James Cagney. Producer Joe Pastrenak. Director Charles Vidor. Biographical musical love story of Roaring 20's singer Ruth Ettinq . 122 min. 5/30. MOONFLEET CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Stewart Granger, Viveca Lindfors, George Sanders. Producer John Houseman. Director Fritz Lang. Adventure drama. Amid life with English coast smugglers a young boy and his protector look for lost diamond. 87 min. 5/ 14. July COBWEB, THE CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer. Producer John Houseman. Director Vincent Minnelli. Romantic drama. Conflict about lives of staff and patients of small midwestern psychiatric clinic. 124 min. 6/13. INTERRUPTED MELODY CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford. Producer Jack Cummings. Director Curtis Bernhardt. Musical drama. Opera star almost has her career destroyed by polio. 106 min. 4/4 Coming INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Produc-er Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kelly. Ballet. Four episodes dealing in romance, drama, comedy and pathos told entirely through the medium of the dance. 94 min. KING'S THIEF, THE CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Edmund Purdom, Ann Blyth, David Niven. Producer Edwin H. Knopf. Director Robert Z. Leonard. Historical adventure. Young soldier of fortune attempts to steal Crown Jewels during reign of Charles II. 78 min. SCARLET COAT, THE CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, Ann Francis. Producer Nicholas Nayfack. Director John Sturges. Historical drama. Story of a British officer and t+ie treason of Benedict Arnold during Revolutionary War. I 0 I min. SVENGALI Eastman Color. Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond. A George Minter Production. Director Noel Langley. Musical drama. Young tone-deaf model becomes great singer under hypnotic influence of a mad musician. 82 min. PARAMOUNT March CONOUEST OF SPACE Technicolor. Walter Brooke. Eric Fleming. Producer George Pal. Director Byron Haskin. Science fiction. Fliaht to Mars from man-made space station 1000 miles about earth. 103 min. COUNTRY GIRL, THE Bing Crosby, William Holden, Grace Kelly. Producer Wm. Perlberg. Director George Seaton. Drama. Once-great Broadway star finds he has lost self-confidence trying comeback. 104 min. 12/27. A pril MAMBO Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters. Producers Ponti & DeLaurentis. Director Robert Rossen. Drama. Beautiful Venetian shopgirl attains success but meets with broken romance along the way. 94 min. 4/18. RUN FOR COVER VV-Technicolor. James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors, John Derek, Jean Hersholt. Producers Pine-Thomas. Director Nicholas Ray. Western. Twofisted Westerner befriends young man only to be rewarded with attempted murder. 92 min. May HELL'S ISLAND VV-Technicolor. John Payne, Mary Murphy. Producers Pine-Thomas. Director Phil Kar son Melodrama. Going to S. A. to locate priceless ruby, involves Payne in murder and intrigue. 84 min. 5/16. June FAR HORIZONS VV-Technicolor. Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed. Producers Pine-Thomas. Director Rudolph Mate. Adventure. Recounting of famous Lewis and Clark expedition. 108 min. 6/13. STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND W-Technicolor. James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy. Producer Samuel J. Briskin. Director Anthony Mann. War drama. Big league ball player is recalled to Air Force. Joining Strategic Air Command, he is envolved in crash and historic non-stop flight. 114 min. 5/2. July SEVEN LITTLE FOYS, THE VV-Technicolor. Bob Hope, Milly Vitale. Producer Jack Rose. Director Mel Shavelson. Comedy-drama. Story of Eddie Foy who takes his children into showbusiness when his wife dies. 93 min. Coming ANYTHING GOES VistaVision. Technicolor. Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jeanmarie. Producer Robert Emmett Dolan. Director Robert Lewis. Musical. Two girls chosen for one role in Broadway show creates many humorous complications before problem is solved. ARTISTS AND MODELS VistaVision. Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. Producer Hal Wallis. Director Frank Tashlin. Comedy. Artist and children's stor*writer find life hectic and nightmarish through horror and crime comic books. COURT JESTER. THE VistaVision. Technicolor Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury. Producer-director Norman Panama and Metvin Frank. Comedy drama. Masquerading as court clown member of patriot group branded outlaws aids in restoring crown to rightful king. DESPERATE HOURS, THE Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Martha Scott. Producer-director William Wyler. Melodrama. Escaped convicts take refuge in suburban home and terrorize residents. GIRL RUSH. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven. Producer Frederick Brisson. Director Robert Pirosh. Musical. Rosalind Russell inherits a Las Vegas hotel, the moth-eaten Vegas House on which there is a $10,000 mortgage to be paid off in 72 hours. LUCY GALLANT VV-Technicolor. Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter. Producers PineThomas. Director Robert Parrish. Drama. Woman builds fabulous department store in booming Texas oil town. MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. THE VistaVision. Technicolor. James Stewart, Doris Day. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Drama. Political assassination plot leads to kidnapping of young boy to keep parents from talking. ROSE TATTOO, THE VistaVision. Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster. Producer Hal B. Wallis. Director Daniel Mann. Drama. Worshipping dead husband's memory woman almost loses her own chance for new love and her daughter until she learns he had been unfaithful. TEN COMMANDMENTS. THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter. Producerdirector Cecil B. DeMille. Religious drama. Life story of Moses as told in the Bible and Koran. TO CATCH A THIEF VV-Technicolor. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Comedy drama. Ex-jewel thief is suspected of resuming his profession and seeks to catch real thief to clear his name. TOO LATE. MY LOVE VistaVision. Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, James Gregory. Melodrama. Unhappily married wife creates triangle, becomes involved in hijacking and murder. TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE W-Technicolor. John Forsythe, Shirley McLean, Edmund Gwenn. Producerdirector Alfred Hitchcock. Comedy-drama. Nice old gentleman is suspected of accidentally killing man while out hunting, but death is complicated by number of angles including pretty widow. ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Marie ^*marini Adventure Spectacle. *-"om»ric feats of Ulysses as taken from the Odessey. 104 min. VAGABOND KING, THE VistaVision, Technicolor. Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno. Producer Pat Duggan. Director Michael Curtiz. Musical drama. Vagabond band helps French King rout nobles who would overthrow him. WAR AND PEACE VistaVisioi, Technicolor. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer. Producers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis. Director King Vidor. Drama. Based on Tolstoy's novel of the Napoleonic era. WE'RE NO ANGELS VV-Technicolor. Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett, Aldo Ray. Producer Pat Duggan. Director Michael Curtiz. Comedy. Escaping from Devil's Island, three convicts aid benefactors who are on the verge of bankruptcy. 103 min. YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG VV-Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Masquerading as I 1-year-old bov Lewis becomes involved with iewel thief, teacher, inmates of girk' school. 102 min. 6/27. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT