Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1955)

INDEPENDENTS (Continued) July June LADY AND THE TRAMP IWalt Disney) CinemaScope. Technicolor. Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Jill Thompson. Feature Cartoon. The tale of a rotiance between two dogs. 75 min. 7/11. August SOLD AND THE BRAVE, THE (Filmakers) SuperScope. Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Taylor, Nicole vlaurey. Producer Hal E. Chester. Director Lewis R. :oster. Drama. Six soldiers and an Italian girl react <ariously to stresses of a war-torn country and terrors )f a battle in the Italy campaign. September 4PACHE WOMAN [A Golden State Production) Supericope. Color. Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, 'roducer-director Roger Corman. Western. After the \pache Peace Treaty vicious crimes by a band of )utlaws almost brings about further Apache massacre, nvestigating Government man brings peace to tht :Ountryside. 83 min. Coming AFRICAN LION, THE (Walt Disney) Technicolor. Phoographed by Alfred and Elma Milotte. Director James Mgar. Adventure. True-Life adventure set in the high jlateau country of Arfica. 75 min. MREBUG, THE (Filmakers) SuperScope. Producer Colier Young. Drama. Arson squad investigator probes a series of fires, rescues a woman from a huge blaze and proves she is the arsonist. SMOLDERING SEA. THE I Filmakers) SuperScope. Producer Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the ■yrannical captain and crew of an American merchant .hip reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal. WEAPON, THE (Filmakers) SuperScope. Producer Hal :. Chester. Drama. An unsloved murder involving a jitter U.S. war veteran, a German war bride and a tiller is resolved after a child finds a loaded gun in somb rubble. LIPPEHT April 5LASS TOMB, THE John Ireland. Producer Anthony Hinds. Director Montgomery Tully. Melodrama. Sideihow barker is key figure in slaying of a young girl. I itfith numerous carnival characters among the suspects, •he mystery is resolved at the glass tomb where the barker presents his latest attraction. 5? min. THUNDER OVER SANGOLAND Jon Hall, Ray Montgomery, Marjorie Lord. Producer Rudolph Flothow. [Jirector Sam Newfield. Adventure. White doctor and rriend trke into the jungle to save missionary girl rom native uprising. 73 min. May I MR STRIKE Richard Denning, Gloria Jean. ProducerDirector Cy Roth. Drama. Commander of Navy jet < ;cnjadron training on carrier copes with conflict among nen and marital problems of junior officers. 67 min. 'HANTOM OF THE JUNGLE Jon Hall, Ray Montgomery, Anne Gwynne. Producer Rudolph Flothow. Director Spencer Bennet. Adventure. Facing attacks by Hostile savages, white doctor recovers golden tablet i tolen from a jungle tribe, finds missing archeologist, md leads party to safety. 75 min. June IING DINOSAUR Bill Bryant, Wanda Curtis. Producer , 0 Zimbalist. Director 8ert I. Gordon. Science-fiction. I locket party ef four lands on new planet, encounters prehistoric beasts and use A-blast to escape. 59 min. July .ONESOME TRAIL, THE Wayne Morris, John Agar, 'roducer Earle Lyon. Director Richard Bartlett. Western. Young soldier returned from Indian wars is forced o fight for his property against land-grabbers who ave taken control of Western town. 73 min. September •IMBA J. Arthur Rank. Eastman Color. Dirk Bogarde. Ivdventure. Mau-Mau story filmed in Africa. 99 min. VIETRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER A pril EDEVILLED CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Anne Baxter, teve Forrest. Producer Henry Berman. Director Mitchell Leisen. Melodrama. Man preparing for priestood meets woman who is involved in Paris underworld nd murder. 89 min. 5/2. iLASS SLIPPER, THE EastmanColor. Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding. Producer Edwin Knopf. Director -harles Walters. Musical fantasy. Retells the story , f Cinderella. 94 min. 3/7. May MARAUDERS. THE Eastman Color. Dan Duryea, Jeff ichards. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director I 'erald Mayer. Western. Band of border killers and isane leader try to take rancher's home in Arizona •astelands. 81 min. 5/2. RODIGAL, THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Edmund | urdom, Lana Turner, Audrey Dalton. Producer Charles chnee. Director Richard Thorpe. Biblical drama. Based n the Parable of the Prodigal Son. 144 min. 4/4. 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 Ettlng. 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. 8/8. 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 BAR SINISTER, THE CinemaScope Eastman Color. Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis. Producer Henry Berman. Director Herman Hoffman. Adventures of a bull terrior in the Bowery. 88 min. 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, drama, 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 VV-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 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. 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. SEPTEMBER SUMMARY The product shortage will be emphasized for exhibitors by the scant 22 features tentatively scheduled for release in September. Emphasis on next month's films appears to be on dramas and westerns. Columbia will be the leading supplier with four features. Metro, Paramount and Allied Artists each will offer three. Five are in CinemaScope, four in SuperScope and two in VistaVision. Fifteen of the 22 total are in color. The September program includes: 7 Dramas 2 Comedies 6 Westerns 2 Musicals 3 Adventures 1 Melodrama 1 Science Fiction 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 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 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. 106 min. ULYSSES Tectinicolor. Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Marie Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric 'eats ot 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, Glynis 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, Fredric March, Martha Scott. Producer-director William Wyler. Melodrama. Escaped convicts take refuge in suburban home and terrorize residents. 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. 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. 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