Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1947)

DEAD END CATS (20th Cent.Fox) Terrytoon (7513) Produced in Technicolor. Mighty Mouse's life is threatened by a tough gang of alley cats operating a black market. Despite the danger Mighty Mouse leads the cat-gang a merry chase and in the end is victorious in breaking up the gang and their operations. Release date, February 14, 1947 7 minutes A BOY AND HIS DOS (WB) Technicolor Special (3003) This is the short that won the 1946 Academy Award in the two-reel division. Billy Sheffield, a country boy, finds a beaten and scared hound dog chained to a heavy wheel on the property of a mean neighbor. Billy takes the dog home with him. Later the neighbor drags the boy to court in an effort to get his dog back. The judge rules that the dog should be owned by a boy who loves it and not by a man who beats it. In Technicolor. Release date, April 26, 1947 20 minutes MEXICAN BASEBALL (20th Cent.Fox) Terrytoon (7515) Gandy Goose and his friend Sourpuss engage the Mexican League Bulls in a baseball game to end all baseball games. Gandy's faultless pitching puts the bulls through their paces and the Mexican team finally goes down to defeat. Produced in Technicolor. Release date, May 14, 1947 7 minutes ALADDIN'S LAMP (20th Cent.Fox) Terrytoon (7516) Bagdad is the locale for this Mighty Mouse subject in Technicolor. When the sultan's daughter secretly tries to meet Mighty Mouse, scheming thieves attempt to kidnap her but the Mouse foils all their attempts. Release date, March 28, 1947 7 minutes MY PAL RINGEYE (Col.) Screen Snapshots (8858) Smiley Burnette, the cowboy, holds a birthday party for his horse, Ringeye, and invites many of the Western stars to attend, including Eddie Dean, Curly Turford, Jeff Donnell, Texas Jim Lewis, Lee "Lasses" White, Ken Curtis and others. A fine time was had by all. Release date, April 10, 1947 10 minutes CAT TROUBLE (20th Cent.Fox) Terrytoon (7517) The talking magpies are appointed guardians of a little bird but their trouble begins with the arrival of a villainous cat. However, the bird and the magpies make life miserable for the feline and finally send him scampering off. Produced in Technicolor. Release date, April 11, 1947 7 minutes ADVANCE SYNOPSES CYNTHIA (MGM) PRODUCER: Edwin Knopf. DIRECTOR: Robert Z. Leonard. PLAYERS: Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, Mary Astor, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart. SMALL TOWN STORY. A young girl, sheltered by her family because of ill-health, finally asserts herself sufficiently to go to the high-school prom. Such dissipation has no ill effects, and thereafter she decides to make up for the good times she has heretofore missed. GREEN FOR DANGER (Eagle-Lion) PRODUCERS: Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. DIRECTOR: Sidney Gilliatt. PLAYERS: Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim. MELODRAMA. Several murders are committed in a small English hospital, and involved are two doctors and three nurses as suspects. An inspector from Scotland Yard is assigned to the case. Through clever deduction and the process of eliminating one by one of the suspects, the inspector exposes the real killer and the motives for the murder. ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE (MGM) PRODUCER: Jack Cummings. DIRECTOR: Roy Rowland. PLAYERS: Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Dean Stockwell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Jim Davis, Guy Kibbee. PERIOD DRAMA. Laid in the Ozark mountains in the years immediately following the Civil War, this is the story of a romance which develops between a returned Union soldier and the daughter of a farming family whose sympathies lie with the Confederacy. The northerner is accepted into the family when he exposes a plot by terrorists to stir up factional hatred, and thus seize land rightfully belonging to the farmers. THE WEB (Universal-International) PRODUCER: Jerry Bresler. DIRECTOR: Michael Gordon. PLAYERS: Edmond O'Brien, Ella Raines, William Bendix, Vincent Price, John Abbott, Maria Palmer. MELODRAMA. An industrialist hires a lawyer as a bodyguard. When the lawyer shoots a would-be assassin, he is charged with murder. The magnate, afraid of being suspected of the first slaying, kills his butler and plants evidence in order to implicate the lawyer. The police, however, set a trap which convicts the industrialist. EMPEROR WALTZ (Paramount) PRODUCER: Charles Brackett. DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder. PLAYERS: Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Oscar Karlweis, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Sig Ruman, Alma Macrorie. MUSICAL DRAMA. Laid in Vienna in 1906, this is the love story of an American phonograph salesman and a Viennese countess, who are brought together by the circumstance that they both own dogs. Emperor Franz Joseph at first disapproves of the match, but finally decides that the two must take a chance on finding happiness together. DESERT FURY (ParamountWallis) PRODUCER: Hal Wallis. DIRECTOR: Lewis Allen. PLAYERS: John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey, James Flavin, Kristine Miller, Jane Novak. MELODRAMA. Against the wishes of her mother and of the local sheriff, a girl runs away with a big-time gambler. She barely escapes the fate of his first wife, killed in an automobile accident, and then flees from him after he shoots his best friend. She witnesses his own death as his car crashes through a bridge. BRUTE FORCE (Universal-International) PRODUCER: Mark Hellinger. DIRECTOR: Jules Dassin. PLAYERS: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Yvonne de Carlo, Anita Colby, Sam Levene, Art Smith. PRISON DRAMA. Six men are imprisoned in a cell of a penitentiary. The head guard stirs trouble among the prisoners in order to discredit the warden, whose job he covets. One of the six men works out an escape plan with another prisoner. The former later learns that the head guard has knowledge of the plan. It is too late to get word to his cohort. In the gun battle that follows the escape attempt, the head guard mans a machine gun and mows down all the men involved, but is himself killed. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (RKO Radio -Goldwyn) PRODUCER. Samuel Goldwyn. DIRECTOR: Norman Z. McLeod. PLAYERS: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Fay Bainter, Boris Karloff, Thurston Hall, Florence Bates, Ann Rutherford. COMEDY-DRAMA. A clerk in a publishing house, dominated by his employer at the office, and by his mother at home, compensates for his frustration by continual day-dreaming. He dreams he is a gangster, a pirate, a G-man, etc., and in all his dreams the same girl figures as heroine. When he becomes involved in a real-life murder committed by a gang of jewelthieves, his mother, his employer and his psychiatrist think it is just one more day-dream. After many complications, he proves that he is telling the truth by capturing the killers. THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN (Paramount) PRODUCER: Harry Tugend. DIRECTOR: Sidney Lanfield. PLAYERS: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy. COMEDY-DRAMA. A college professor, who holds the theory that women long to be dominated by men, institutes a libel suit against a newspaper which misquotes him. The paper's city editor assigns a young woman to join the professor's classes in an attempt to get the latter to withdraw the suit. The inevitable happens : the girl and the professor fall in love, she persuades him to withdraw the suit, and everybody's happy. THE VIGILANTES RETURN (Universal) PRODUCER: Howard Welsch. DIRECTOR: Ray Taylor. PLAYERS: Jon Hall, Margaret Lindsay, Paula Drew, Andy Devine, Robert Wilcox, Jack Lambert, Jonathan Hale, Arthur HohL WESTERN. A government marshal is sent to Montana to restore law and order. He joins a band of outlaws in order to learn their secrets, and is framed by them -on a murder charge. He escapes from jail, organizes the Vigilanties, and with their assistance, wipes out the bandits. FIESTA • (MGM) PRODUCER: Jack Cummings. DIRECTOR: Richard Thorpe. PLAYERS: Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Jean Van, Joey Preston, Fortunio Bonanova, Mary Astor, Akim Tamiroff, John Carroll, Cyd Charisse, Carlos Ramirez. MUSICAL. A Mexican bull-fighter is the father of twins. The boy is anxious to become a musician rather than a bull-fighter, while the girl, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about the sport. The day of the big bull-fight, the boy has gone to see a fellow musician. The girl, wearing his clothes, enters the bull-ring, where she is injured, just as her brother returns. The boy enters the ring and slays the bull. Subsequently his father is brought to understand that the boy must be allowed to follow his own bent. KILROY WAS HERE (Monogram) PRODUCERS: Dick I. Hyland and Sidney Luft. DIRECTOR: Phil Karlson. PLAYERS: Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Wanda McKay, Norman Phillips, Barton Yarborough. COLLEGE COMEDY: The ambition of a returning G.I., Kilroy by name, is to get a college education. When he finds himself onehalf credit short for college entrance, a co-ed prepares feature stories about him as Kilroy. the most talked-about G.I., and is able to get him registered. Fraternity members grow dubious and attempt to make him withdraw from the campus. However, the intervention of friends brings a happy ending. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MAY 3, 1947 361 1