Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1955)

OCTOBER SUMMARY New features scheduled for release this month number 28, a total slightly higher than the previous two months. Columbia and Republic have slated the highest number of releases, four. Allied Artists, 20thUniversal and Warners each have three on the agenda. October's program includes ten films in CinemaScope, three in Super-scope. Eighteen will be in color. As to types, the releases break down as follows: 14 Drama 2 Musical Comedy 5 Western 1 Comedy 5 Adventure 1 Melodrama November 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. TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE W-Technicolor. John Forsythe, Shirley McLean, Edmund Gwenn. Producerdirector Alfred Hitchcock. Comedy-drama. Nice old gentkeman is suspected of accidentally killing man while out hunting, but death is complicated by number of angles including pretty widow. Coming INDEPENDENTS June DAVY CROCKETT (Walt Disneyl Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen. Technicolor. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Norman Foster. Western. Movie version of tri-part TV series about famous Indian fighter, congressman and Alamo hero. 95 min. KING DINOSAUR ILippert) Bill Bryant. Wanda Curtis. Producer Al Zimbalist. Director Bert I. Gordon. Science Fiction. Rocket party of four lands on new planet, encounters prehistoric beasts and use A-blast to escape. 59 min. July LADY AND THE TRAMP (Walt Disney) CinemaScope, Technicolor. Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson. Feature Cartoon. The tale of a romance between two dogs. 75 min. 7/11. LONESOME TRAIL, THE Lippert) Wayne Morris. John Agar. Producer Earle Lyon. Director Richard Bartlett. Western. Ycung soldier returned from Indian wars is forced to fight for his property against land-grabbers who have taken control of Western town. 73 min. August NO RELEASES September APACHE WOMAN (American Releasing Corp. I SuperScope. Color. Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller. Producer-director Roger Corman. Western. After the Apache Peace Treaty vicious crimes by a band of outlaws almost brings about further Apache massacre. Investigating Government man brings peace to the countryside. 83 min. BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES (American Releasing Corp.) Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole. Producerdirector David Kramarsky. Science-fiction. Creature from another world takes over minds of animals, birds and people in a deserted desert village. 78 min. SIMBA ILippert) J. Arthur Rank. Eastman Color. Dirk Bogard?. Adventure. Mau-Mau story filmed in Africa. ?? min. October BOLD AND THE BRAVE, THE [Filmakersl SuperScope. Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Taylor, Nicole Maurey. Producer Hal E. Chester. Director Lewis R. Foster. Drama. Six soldiers and an Italian girl react variously to stresses of a war-torn country and terrors of a battle in the Italy campaign. AFRICAN LION, THE (Walt Disney) Technicolor. Photographed by Alfred and Elma Milotte. Director James Algar. Adventure. True-Life adventure set in the high plateau country of Arfica. 75 min. November DAY THE WORLD ENDED, THE (American Releasing Corp.) Superscope. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens. Producer-director Roger Corman. Science-fiction. Seven people survive the atomic destruction of the world and the conflict among them to seek a new life. Coming SMOLDERING SEA. THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. Producer Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the tyrannical captain and crew of an American merchant ship reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal. WEAPON, THE IFilmakers) Superscope. Nicole Maurey. Producer Hal E. Chester. Drama. An unsolved murder involving a bitter U.S. war veteran, a German war bride and a killer is resolved after a child finds a loaded gun in bomb rubble. METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER May MARAUDERS, THE Eastman Color. Dan Duryea, Jeff Richards. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director Gerald Mayer. Western. Band of border killers and insane leader try to take rancher's home in Arizona 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. Dons Day, James Cagney. Producer Joe Pastrenak. Director Charles Vidor. Biograthical 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. Amio ' fe 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. Cor nel 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. 9/5. 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 TV star. 102 min. 8/22. 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. October PUENTIN DURWOOD CinemaScope, Eastman Color. Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley. Director Richard Thorpe. Drama. Sir Walter Scott novel. Two unscrupulous brothers in a mortal struggle for power. 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. 8/22. 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. PARAMOUNT 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. I 14 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. YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG W-Technicolor. Oean 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 Plrosh. Musical. Rosalind Russell inherits a Las Vegas hotel, the moth-eaten Vegas House on which there is a S 1 0 .000 mortgage to be paid off in 72 hrs. 85 min. 9/5. TO CATCH A THIEF VV-Technicolor. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock. Comedy drama. Ex-iewel thief is suspected of resuming his profession and seeks to catch real thief to clear his name. 106 min. October ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Marie ^.amarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric *«ats of Ulysses as taken from the Odessey. 104 min. 7/11. 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 refuqe in suburban home and terrorize residents. 112 min. 9/19. 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. 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 VistaVisioT, 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. REPUBLIC May ETERNAL SEA Sterling Hayden. Alexis Smith, Dean Jagger. Producer-director John H. Auer. Drama. Biography of famous American naval hero who distinguished himself in WWII and Korean conflict. 103 min. 4/18. DON JUAN'S NIGHT OF LOVE Raf Vallone. Silvana Pampanini, Michele Philippe. Producer Niccolo Theodoli. Director Mario Soldati. Italian costume melodrama. Passion and intrigue in the romantic days of Madame Pompadour. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT