Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1955)

AUGUST SUMMARY New features scheduled for release this month number only 24, a decline of five over July. Six films will come from Republic. Columbia. 20th-Fox and Universal each have set three. Metro, Allied Artists and Paramount will offer two. The month's schedule includes eight in CinemaScope, two in VistaVision and two in SuperScope. Color films total 16. The break-down for August: 9 Dramas 2 Westerns 5 Melodramas 2 Musicals 4 Comedies 2 Adventures INDEPENDENTS (Continued) June VVY CROCKETT IWalt Disney] Fess Parker, Buddy ■sen. Technicolor. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Norin Foster. Western. Movie version of tri-part TV ries about famous Indian fighter, congressman and amo hero. 95 min. July DY AND THE TRAMP IWalt Disney) CinemaScope, chnicolor. Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, I Thompson. Feature Cartoon. The tale of a romce between two dogs. 75 min. 7/11. August •LD AND THE BRAVE, THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. endell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Taylor, Nicole lurey. Producer Hal E. Chester. Director Lewis R. ster. Drama. Six soldiers and an Italian girl react riously to stresses of a war-torn country and terrors a battle in the Italy campaign. Coming iEBUG, THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. Producer Colr Young. Drama. Arson squad investigator probes a ies of fires, rescues a woman from a huge blaze d proves she is the arsonist. IOLDERING SEA. THE IFilmakersI SuperScope. Procer Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the annical captain and crew of an American merchant p reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal. iAPON. THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. Producer Hal Chester. Drama. An unsloved murder involving a ter U.S. war veteran, a German war bride and a er is resolved after a child finds a loaded gun in mb rubble. LIPPEHT April ASS TOMB, THE John Ireland. Producer Anthony ids. Director Montgomery Tully. Melodrama. Sideiw barker is key figure in slaying of a young girl, th numerous carnival characters among the suspects, mystery is resolved at the glass tomb where the ' ker presents his latest attraction. 5? min. UNDER OVER SANGOLAND Jon Hall, Ray Mont•nery, Marjorie Lord. Producer Rudolph Flothow. •ctor Sam Newfield. Adventure. White doctor and < ind trke into the jungle to save missionary girl m native uprising. 73 min. May t STRIKE Richard Denning, Gloria Jean. Producer•ctor Cy Roth. Drama. Commander of Navy jet I adron training on carrier copes with conflict among ' i and marital problems of junior officers. 67 min. ANTOM OF THE JUNGLE Jon Hall, Ray Montnery, Anne Gwynne. Producer Rudolph Flothow. Ditor Spencer Bennet. Adventure. Facing attacks by tile savages, white doctor recovers golden tablet . en from a jungle tribe, finds missing archeologist, leads party to safety. 75 min. June G DINOSAUR Bill Bryant, Wanda Curtis. Producer , Zimbalist. Director Bert I. Gordon. Science-fiction, ket party of four lands on new planet, encounters nistoric beasts and use A-blast to escape. 59 min. July -IESOME TRAIL, THE Wayne Morris, John Agar. ducer Earle Lyon. Director Richard Bartlett. Westi Young soldier returned from Indian wars is forced j fight for bis property against land-grabbers who I i taken control of Western town. 73 min. September '■ BA J. Arthur Rank. Eastman Color. Dirk Bogarde. ' enture. Mau-Mau story filmed in Africa. 99 min. : ETRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER A pril f :VILLED CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Anne Baxter, e Forrest. Producer Henry Berman. Director ' hell Leisen. Melodrama. Man preparing for priest' I meets woman who is involved in Paris underworld * murder. 89 min. 5/2. 1 SS SLIPPER, THE EastmanColor. Leslie Caron, J iael Wilding. Producer Edwin Knopf. Director <• -Ies Walters. Musical fantasy. Retells the story 0 mderella. 94 min. 3/7. May * AUDERS, THE Eastman Color. Dan Duryea, Jeff »; irds. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director ■ Id Mayer. Western. Band of border killers and lr e leader try to take rancher's home in Arizona *] slands. 81 min. 5/2. KJIGAL, THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Edmund ri 3m. Lana Turner, Audrey Dalton. Producer Charles 5 se. Director Richard Thorpe. Biblical drama. Based 01 e 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 Etting. 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. 5/16. 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 August 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. 79 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 the treason of Benedict Arnold during Revolutionary War. 100 min. September IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER CinemaScope, Color. Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Dolores Gray. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Musical. Three World War II buddies hold reunion after ten years are instrumental in breaking up boxing "fix" and furthering career of female TV star. 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. Coming GUYS & DOLLS CinemaScope, Color. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra. Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Musical. Based on Damon Runyon story and Broadway musical. INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Producer Arthur Freed. Director Gene Kelly. Ballet. Four episodes dealing in romance, dra"ia. comedv and pathos told entirely through the medium of the dance. 94 min. TRIAL Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy. Producer Charles Schnee. Director Mark Robson. Drama. Young University instructor of criminal law gains courtroom experience defending Mexican boy accused of murder. His death is wanted by Communists as they need a martyr. 105 min. PARAMOUNT 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 W-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 W-Technicolor. John Payne, Mary Murphy. Producers Pine-Thomas. Director Phil Karlson. Melodrama. Going to S. A. to locate priceless ruby, involves Payne in murder and intrigue. 84 min. 5/16. June FAR HORIZONS W-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 W-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. August WE'RE NO ANGELS W-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 W-Technicolor. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch. Producer Paul Jones. Director Norman Taurog. Masquerading as I |-year-old boy Lewis becomes involved with jewel thief, teacher, inmates of girls' school. 102 min. 6/27. September 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. TO CATCH A THIEF W-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. 106 min. ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas. Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Mario Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Hr,m«ric '»ats of Ulysses as taken from the Odessey. 104 min. 7/11. 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 story writer find life hectic and nightmarish through horror and crime comic books. COURT JESTER, THE VistaVision. Technicolor. Danny Kaye, Glynls Johns, Angela Lansbury. Producer-director Norman Panama and Melvin 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, Fredrie March, Martha Scott. Producer-director William Wyler. Melodrama. Escaped convicts take refuge in suburban home and terrorize residents. LUCY GALLANT W-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. 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 gentkman is suspected of accidentally killing man while out hunting, but death is complicated by number of angles including pretty widow. 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 VistaVision, 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. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT