Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1956)

THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT All Tiie Vital Details on Current &> Coming Features T (Date of Film BULLETIN Review Appears At End of Synopsis) ALLIED ARTISTS February INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Superscope. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Don Siegel. Science Fiction. Wierd plant life drains humans of all emotions but the will to live. 80 min. March WORLD WITHOUT END Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates. Producer Richard Heermance. Director Edward Bernds. Science Fiction. Scientists in space ship circling Mars in 1957 are suddenly accelerated to unbelievable speed and break time barrier to see planet Earth in the year 2508. 81 min. A pril COME ON, THE Superscope. Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Director Russel Birdwell. Drama. Greedy woman and lover conspire to steal money from fellow thief. 82 min. CRASHING LAS VEGAS Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall. Producer Ben Schwalb. Director Jean Warborough. Comedy. Bowery Boys go to Las Vegas and get mixed up with gangsters. 63 min. WICKED WIFE Nigel Patrick, Beatrice Campbell, Moira Lister. Producer Phil Samuel. Director Bob McNaught. Drama. A husband is wrongfully accused of his wife's murder. 75 min. May THUNDERSTORM Carlos Thompson, Linda Christian, Charles Korvin. Producer Mike Frankovich. Director John Guillerman. Drama. The story of a beautiful woman who was an omen of ill-fortune. 81 min. NAVY WIFE Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill Shirley maguchi, Judy Nugent. Producer Walter Wanger. Director Edward Bernds. Drama. Wife of American soldier institutes revolution among Japanese women. 83 min. SCREAMING EAGLES Tom Tyron, Jacqueline Beer, Jan Merlin. A Bischoff-Diamond Production. Director Charles Haas. Adventure. The saga of a platoon in an airborne infantry division during WWII. 81 min. June CRIME IN THE STREETS James Whitemore, John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo. Producer Vincent Fennelly. Director Don Siegel. Drama. Teen-age gangs and violence in New York City. 91 min. THE NAKED HILLS De Luxe Color. David Brian, Marsha Hunt, Hugh Corcoran. Producer-director Josef Shaftel. Drama. Doctor's children come into possession of germ warfare pellets which, if broken, could kill all the people in a large city. 84 min. Coming ATOMIC MAN, THE Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Roland Brand. Producer Alec Snowden. Director Ken Hughes. Nuclear scientist develops process to manufacture tungsten cheaply, but in doing so becomes radioactive. 73 min. CANYON RIVER George Montgomery, Peter Graves, Marcia Henderson. Producer Richard Heermance. Director Harmon Jones. Western. Ranch owner thwarts plan of rustlers to steal his herd. FIRST TEXAN, THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Joel McCrea, Wallace Ford. Producer Walter Mirisch. Director Byron Haskin. Western. Sam Houston helps Texans win independence from Mexico. 82 min. FOUR SEASONS, THE David Wayne, Marcia Henderson, Keenan Wynn, James Backus. Producer-director Josef Shaftel. Drama. Gold rush tale set in California during the I800's. A man's never-ending search for the precious metal. 84 min. FRIENDLY PERSUASION Deluxe Color. Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton. Producer-director William Wyler. Drama. The story of a Quaker family during the Civil War. HOLD BACK THE NIGHT John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Garves. Producer Hayes Goetz. Director Allan Dwan. Drama. INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN, THE Lon Chaney, Marian Carr, Casey Adams. Producer-director Jack Pollexfen. Fantasy. Executed criminal is restored to life in the form of an indestructible man. 70 min. INTRUDER, THE Edward Purdom, Ida Lupino, Ann Harding, Jacques Bergerac. Producer Lindsley Parsons. Director Irving Rapper. Drama. A returning Korean vet makes a strange promise to a dying comrade-in-arms. 81 min. MAGNIFICENT ROUGHNECKS Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates, Jeff Donnell. Producer Herman Cohen. Director Sherman Rose. Drama. Two American oil men bring in first gusher in S. American oil field. 75 min. THREE FOR JAMIE DAWN Laraine Day, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Carlson. Producer Hayes Goetz. Director Thomas Carr. Drama. Courtroom drama of beautiful, notorious woman who is sole heir to a vast fortune on trial for the murder of her lover. 85 min. YOUNG GUNS. THE Russ Tamblyn, Gloria Talbot, Scott Marlowe. Producer Richard Heermance. Director Albert Band. February BATTLE STATIONS William Bendix, John Lund. Naval drama. Story of ship and the men who manned her during World War II. The story of a ship and the brave men who fought alongside her in the United States Navy. 81 min. 2/20. FURY AT GUNSIGHT PASS David Brian, Neville Brand, Richard Long. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Fred Sears. Western. Based on a story by David Lang. 68 min. 1/23. HOUSTON STORY, THE Lee J. Cobb, Edward Arnold, Barbara Hale. Producer Sam Katzman. Director William Castle. Drama. 79 min. JOE MACBETH Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano. Producer Mike Frankovich. Director Ken Hughes. Drama. Modernization of Shakespeare. Situations are brought up to date in America. 90 min. 1/23. PICNIC CinemaScope, Technicolor. William Holden, Kim Novak. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Director Joshua Logan. Drama. The prize winning Broadway play recreated for the screen. 115 min. 12/12. March HOT BLOOD Technicolor, CinemaScope. Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler. Producers Howard Welch, Harry Tatelman. Director Nicholas Ray. Drama. Story of a roving Gypsy family and their beautiful daughter. 85 min. 3/5. OVEREXPOSED Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna. Producer Lewis Rachmil. Director Lewis Seiler. Melodrama. A beautiful girl runs blackmail photo racket. 80 min. 3/5 PRISONER, THE Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins. Producer Vivian Cox. Director Peter Glenville. Drama. Clergyman is brainwashed until he confesses act of treason against the State. 91 min. 1/23. URANIUM BOOM Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Tallman. Producer Sam KatzmaD. Director William Castle. Drama. Cowboy gives up carefree life to try his fortunes in an uranium boom taking place in Colorado. 67 min. 3/19. A pril BLACKJACK KETCHUM. DESPERADO Howard Duff, Victor Jory, Maggie Mahoney. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Earl Bellamy. Western. Gun-slinger, trying to forget past, is forced to take up guns again, this time on the side of the law. 76 min. 4/16. HARDER THEY FALL, THE Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling. Producer Philip Yordan. Director Mark Robson. Drama. Seven foot giant from Argentina attempts to capture the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. 109 min. 4/2. ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Bill Haley and his Comets, Johnny Johnston, Lisa Gaye. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Musical. Dance band manager discovers rock-and-roll music and a pretty girl. 79 min. May AUTUMN LEAVES Joan Crawford, Vera Miles, Lorna Green, Ruth Donnelly. Producer William Goetz. Director Robert Aldrich. Drama. Wife rescues husband from descent into a fantasy world of his own. 108 min. 4/30 COCKLESHELL HEROES Jose Ferrar, Trevor Howard. A Warwick Production. Drama. The story of heroic men in the British Navy and methods they used to paralyze Nazi merchant shipping during WWII. 97 min. 3/5 JUBAL CinemaScope, Technicolor. Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger. Drama. Producer William Fadiman. Director Delmer Daves. Drama. Cowboy gets involved in self-defense killing, but clears his name and catches real culprit. 101 min. 4/16. LAST TEN DAYS, THE Albin Skoda, Oscar Werner, A Cosmopolfilm Production. Drama. Hitler's last days in an underground bunker. German dialogue with subtitles. I 13 min. 4/30. STORM CENTER Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Paul Kelley, Kim Hunter. Producer Julian Blausteln. Director Daniel Taradash. Drama. A librarian protests the removal of "controversial" from her library, embroils a small town in a fight. 87 min. June GAMMA PEOPLE, THE Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok. Leslie Phillips. Producer John Gossage. Director John Gilling. Drama. Mad dictator rules Balkan nation with deadly gamma-ray. 79 min. SAFARI Technicolor, CinemaScope. Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin. Producers Irving Allen, Albert Broccoli. Directed by Terence Young. Adventure. White hunter seeks revenge for the murder of his sister and son at the hands of the Mau Mau. 91 min. 4/30. STORM OVER THE NILE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey. A Zoltan Korda Production. Drama. Remake of "Four Feathers". 107 min. Coming BEYOND MOMBASA Technicolor, CinemaScope. Cornell Wilde, Donna Reed. Producer Tony Owen. Director George Marshall. Adventure. Leopard Men seek to keep Africa free of white men. EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Science-fiction. Flying saucermen attack the United States, but are beaten back by a secret weapon. 83 min. EDDY DUCHIN STORY. THE CinemaScope, Technicolor. Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Rex Thompson, Victoria Shaw. Producer Jerry Wald. Director George Sidney. Drama. The life story of the famous orchestra leader. 123 min. HE LAUGHED LAST Technicolor. Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Richard Long. Producer Jonie Taps. Director Blake Edwards. Musical. An underworld czar plays practical joke and leaves his entire fortune to a young nightclub entertainer. KILLER APE Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Spencer G. Bennett. Adventure drama. The story of a giant half-ape, half-man beast who goes on a killing rampage until destroyed by Jungle Jim. 68 min. NIGHTFALL Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft. Producer Ted Richmond. Director Jacques Tourneur. Drama. Mistaken identity of a doctor's bag starts hunt for stolen money. 1984 Edmund O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling. A Holiday Production. Director Michael Anderson. Drama. From the novel by George Orwell. 91 min. ODONGO Technicolor, CinemaScope. Macdonald Carey, Rhonda Fleming, Juma. Producer Irving Allen. Director John Gilling. Adventure. Owner of wild animal farm in Kenya saves young native boy from a violent death. 91 min. PORT AFRIQUE Technicolor. Pier Angelli, Phil Carey, Dennis Price. Producer David E. Rose. Director Rudy Mate. Drama. PORTRAIT IN SMOKE Arlene Dahl, Phil Carey. Producer Maxwell Setton. Director Ken Hughes. Drama. A beautiful girl wins a beauty contest and a "different" life. REPRISAL Technicolor. Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant. Producers, Rackmil-Ainsworth. Director George Sherman. Adventure. SECRET OF TREASURE MOUNTAIN Valerie French, William Prince, Raymond Burr. Producer Wallace MacDonald. Director Seymour Friedman. Adventure. Three men who seek treasure of gold in mountain hideout are thwarted by half-breed Indian. SEVENTH CAVALRY Technicolor. Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale. Producer Harry Brown. Director Joseph Lewis. Western. An episode in the glory of General Custer's famed "7th Cav.". SOLID GOLD CADILLAC. THE Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark. Producer Fred Kohlmar. Director Richard Ou'ne Comedy. Filimization of the famous Broadway play about a lady stockholder in a large holding company. WEREWOLF, THE Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, Steven Ritch. Producer Sam Katzman. Director Fred Sears. Horror. Man turns into werewolf from taking special serum developed by scientist. 80 min. YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT Technicolor, CinemaScope. June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford. Produced-director Dick Powell. Musical. Reporter wins heart of oil and cattle heiress. ZARAK Technicolor, CinemaScope. Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg. A Warwick Production. Director Terence Young. Drama. INDEPENDENTS February LEASE OF LIFE IIFE) Eastman Color. Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri. A J. Arthur Rank Production. Director Charles Frenc!. Drama. The story of a small town vicar who meets and conquers the fears of every man. PLEASE MURDER ME IDCA) Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran. Producer Donald Hyde. Director Peter Godfrey. Melodrama. Lawyer traps woman into murdering him in order to avenge double-cross. 78 min. RIVIERA IIFE) Technicolor. Marline Carol, Raf Vallone. Director Alberto Lattuada. Drama. The story of those who work at play on the Riviera. English subtitles. 88 min. Film BULLETIN — THIS IS YOUR PRODUCT