Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1955)

INDEPENDENTS June AVY CROCKETT IWalt Disney) Fess Parker, Buddy (Ibsen. Technicolor. Producer Bill Walsh. Director Nor[lian Foster. Western. Movie version of tri-part TV tries about famous Indian fighter, congressman and I lamo hero. 95 min. ING DINOSAUR (Lippertl Bill Bryant, Wanda Curtis. roducer Al Zimbalist. Director Bert I. Gordon. Science liction. Rocket party of four lands on new planet, ncounters prehistoric beasts and use A-blast to es' ape. 59 min. July ADY AND THE TRAMP IWalt Disney) CinemaScope, technicolor. Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, ill Thompson. Feature Cartoon. The tale of a ro lance between two dogs. 75 min. 7/11. ONESOME TRAIL, THE Lippertl Wayne Morris, John |igar. Producer Earle Lyon. Director Richard Bartlett. [Vestern. Young soldier returned from Indian wars is orced to fight for his property against land-grabbers 'ho have taken control of Western town. 73 min. August NO RELEASES September tPACHE WOMAN (American Releasing Corp.) Supercope. Color. Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, roducer-director Roger Corman. Western. After the pache Peace Treaty vicious crimes by a band of utl aws almost brings about further Apache massacre, ivestigating Government man brings peace to the lountryside. 83 min. EAST WITH 1.000.000 EYES (American Releasing lorp.) Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole. Producerirector David Kramarsky. Science-fiction. Creature >rom another world takes over minds of animals, birds nd paople in a deserted desert village. 78 min.' IMBA (Lippertl J. Arthur Rank. Eastman Color. Dirk . ogarde. Adventure. Mau-Mau story filmed in Africa. 9 min. October .FRICAN LION, THE (Walt Disney) Technicolor. Phojgraphed by Alfred and Elma Milotte. Director James Igar. Adventure. True-Life adventure set in the high 1 lateau country of Arfica. 75 min. November IAY THE WORLD ENDED, THE (American Releasing ,:orp.) Superscope. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, ,\dele Jergens. Producer-director Roger Corman. cience-fiction. Seven people survive the atomic deduction of the world and the conflict among them o seek a new life. August Coming OLD AND THE BRAVE. THE (Filmakers) SuperScope. Vendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Taylor, Nicole •laurey. 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. MOLDERING SEA. THE IFilmakers) SuperScope. Proucer Hal E. Chester. Drama. Conflict between the yrannical captain and crew of an American merchant hip reaches its climax during battle of Guadalcanal. VEAPON, THE (Filmakers) Superscope. Nicole Maurey. 'roducer Hal E. Chester. Drama. An unsolved murder nvolving a bitter U.S. war veteran, a German war iride and a killer is resolved after a child finds a oaded gun in bomb rubble. vIETHD-GDLDWYN-MAYER May MARAUDERS, THE Eastman Color. Dan Duryea, Jeff .ichards. Producer Arthur M. Loew, Jr. Director Jerald Mayer. Western. Band of border killers and nsane 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. June ■OVE ME OR LEAVE ME CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Jons Day, James Cagney. Producer Joe Pastrenak. director Charles Vidor. Biographical musical love story ■t Roaring 20's singer Ruth Etting. 122 min. 5/30. 400NFLEET CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Stewart granger, Viveca Lindfors, George Sanders. Producer ohn Houseman. Director Fritz Lang. Adventure drama. j .. fe w!th English coast smugglers a young boy md his protector look for lost diamond. 87 min. 5/16. July -OBWEB, THE CinemaScope, EastmanColor. Richard l«iamark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer. Producer John iouseman. Director Vincent Minnelli. Romantic drama, -ontlict about lives of staff and patients of small mdwestern psychiatric clinic. 124 min. 6/13. INTERRUPTED MELODY CinemaScope. EastmanColor. <:|eanor Parker, Glenn Ford. Producer Jack Cummings. Jirtc.or Curtis Bernhardt. Musical drama. Opera star Hmost has her career destroyed by polio. 106 min. 4/4 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 rhe 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. Adv&ntures 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 OUENTIN 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 TENDER TRAP, THE Eastman Color, CinemaScope. Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm. Director Charles Walters. Producer Lawrence Weingarten. Comedy. A young 'ady shows the different devices used to catch a reluctant male. 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. November 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. Coming INVITATION TO THE DANCE Technicolor. Gene Kelly, Mora Kaye. Proauc-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. PARAMOUNT 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. BH$*in. 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, Aido 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 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 hrs. 85 min. 9/5. 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. October ULYSSES Technicolor. Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano. Produced by Lux-Ponti DeLaurentis. Director Marie Camarini. Adventure Spectacle. Homeric '»ats of Ulysses as taken from the Cdessey. 104 min. 7/11. NOVEMBER SUMMARY The tentative schedule of new releases for November numbers 18, a figure considerably lower than this month's output of 28. Allied Artists, Columbia and 20th each have three features on the agenda, while M-G-M, Paramount, and Warners have slated two for release. More than half of the program, 10, will be in color. Ten films are in CinemaScope, four in Superscope, one in VistaVision. The breakdown for November: 8 Drama 3 Musical 1 Western 1 Comedy 1 Adventure 4 Melodrama November DESPERATE HOURS, THE Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Martha Scott. Producer-director William Wyler. Melodrama. Escaped convicts take refuge in suburban home and terrorize residents. 112 min. 9/19. 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. 104 min. 10/3. Coming ANYTHING GOES VistaVision. Technicolor. Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jeanmarle. Producer Robert Em'mett 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. 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. 99 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 Vista Visioi, 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. HEPUBLIC 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