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EATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Adiines for Newspaper and Programs
HE STORY: "The Lawless Breed" (U-I)
Rock Hudson, portraying John Wesley Hardin, son of a
ircuit-riding Texas preacher, kills a man in self-defense
uring a card game and is helped to escape by Julia Adams,
jining a northbound cattle drive, Hardin is again forced
D kill when challenged by a relative of the man slain
orlier. In Abilene, Kas., Hardin wins a lot of money playing
oker and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart,
lary Castle, but she is killed by a posse surrounding the
lardin home. Teaming up with Julia, Hardin moves from
ily to city, gambling and getting into shooting scrapes,
'inally Texas Rangers arrest him, and he serves a 16-year
srison term. Upon his release he rejoins Julia and straightens
.ut their adolescent son, who has displayed leanings toward
he life of a gunfighter.
:atchlines:
The Story of the Greatest Gunfighter of Them All . . . John
Lesley Hardin ... In a Saga of the Lcrwless and the Hunted
With the Sensational Young Stars of "Bend of the
?iver."
rHE STORY: "No Time for Flowers" (RKO)
In postwar Prague, Viveca Lindfors is assigned the job of
;ecretary to Paul Christian, a party comrade lately reiurned
rom the U.S. Shocked at Christian's treasonous remarks,
/iveca reports them to her chief, Frederick Berger, unaware
hat Christian and other party leaders are merely testing
ler loyalty before giving her an important assignment in
he U.S. Too many party members have been deserting after
:rossing the iron curtain. However, Viveca foils in love
with Christian, and fails to report the discovery of planted
etters incriminating him as a spy. Subsequently it develops
hat both Berger and Christian have American leanings, and
Christian arranges a false "arrest" whereby he and Berger,
/iveca and her family escape to the American zone to
segin a new life.
:;atchlines:
A Revealing Glimpse of Life Behind the Iron Curtain . . .
Where Men and Women Must Look for Love in the Shadows
Where There's No Time for Stolen Kisses ... No Time
[or Flowers.
rHE STORY: "Bwana Devil" (Oboler)
The first railroad to span British East Africa is under
construction at the turn of the century, but the undertaking
is disrupted by two man-eating lions who attack the workmen.
Desperately Robert Stack, one of the engineers in
:harge, tries to outwit the man-eaters, but the slaughter
Dontinues, and the British government sends three gamehunters
to investigate. Also arriving is Stack's wife, Barbara
Britton. The lions massacre two of the hunters and a doctor,
Nigel Bruce. Determined now to bring an end to the killings.
Stack thoughtlessly wanders into the jungle with Barbara,
and the lions attack. He kills one, but they are cornered
by the other. However, Stack finally conquers the second
man-eater, paving the way for completion of the railroad
project.
CATCHLINES:
Here Is a Motion Picture Experience That Dwarfs Mere
Story-Telling . . . The World's First
Bringing You an Entirely
Three-Dimensional Feature
New Entertainment Thrill.
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IKE STORY: "Singing Angels" (Casino)
Following a performance by the orchestra and boys choir
of his "Creation," Composer Joseph Haydn (Gustav Waldau)
tells the conductor the story of the choir and its teacher,
Hans Holt, who worked at the Cathedral of St. Stephan. Holt
was fired when he had his boys sing a popular song but
his fiancee got him a schoolteacher job and, he organized
his own boys choir. When Waldau hears the new group, he
arranges to have Empress Maria Theresa hear them. The
latter gets Holt out of his difficulty and she asks him to
perform a Hadyn mass for the emperor. The latter promises
to support the boys choir as a state cultural institution, called
the 'Vienna Boys Choir.
CATCHLINES:
Thrill
The True Story of the Famous Vienna Boys Choir . . .
to the Music of the World's Greatest Composers, Haydn,
Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven . . . The Moving Tale of a
Man Who Had Faith and Boys Who Sang Like Angels .
Singing Angels Who Were Actually Very Human Boys.
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THE STORY: "Come Back, Little Sheba" (Para)
Shirley Booth, an indolent, gossipy woman prone to live
in the past, is married to Burt Lancaster, a chiropractor
battling alcoholism. Living in a university town, they rent
a room to Terry Moore, a young student, and Shirley bores
Burt with accounts of interminable dreams about "Little
Sheba," a lost puppy, which symbolizes the happier days
of her youth. In Terry, Lancaster sees someone who must
not make the mistakes he did while young; it becomes a
fetish that she shall remain innocent and decent. Suspecting,
wrongly, that Terry has allowed arrogant Richard Jaeckel
to spend the night in her room, Burt hits the bottle again
and, in a drunken rage, attacks Shirley. Hospitalized, Burt
returns to a new and better home as Shirley, realizing he
still loves her, gives up her slovenly ways.
CATCHLINES:
A Dramatic Masterpiece on the Stage . . .
Motion Picture
for Happiness
Becomes
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The
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Year's Most Moving and Compelling
Story of a Man and Woman Who Groped .
and Found It.
THE STORY: "Angel Face" (RKO)
Jean Simmons, a spoiled heiress, adores her father but
loathes her stepmother. She meets Robert Mitchum, an
ambulance driver, is attracted to him, and persuades her
stepmother to hire him as a chauffeur. Although Mitchum
doesn't entirely trust Jean, they carry on a romance. Next
Jean tells him there has been an attempt on her life and
infers her stepmother is guilty. Next day, in what appears
to be a freak automobile accident, both her parents are
killed. Jean and Mitchum are arrested and, against his will,
Mitchum marries her on the advice of their attorney. They
are acquitted and Mitchum announces he is leaving her.
Jean, after confessing to her attorney that she was guilty,
picks up Mitchum in her car and stages another crackup
in which both are killed.
CATCHLINES:
When a Right Guy Gone Wrong . an Angel-
Faced Gal With a Heart Full of Hate ... It Means Crisp
and Crackling Drama ... As Her Taunting Lips Lead Them
to Smouldering Love . . . And Murder.
THE STORY: "Invasion, U.S.A." (Col)
While Gerald Mohr, a reporter, interviews a group of
people in a bar, word comes over the television that Alaskan
air bases have been bombed. The all-out invasion follows.
Air fields and cities are seized by enemy paratroopers or
destroyed. The members of the group separate to go to their
homes and businesses. One, a tractor manufacturer, is
killed when he resists seizure of his plant. Another, a
rancher, perishes with his family when Boulder dam is
bombed. When the seat of government is seized another
of the group, a senator, is killed. Mohr and Peggie Castle,
who have discovered they love each other, die fighting
the invaders of New York City. The scene is again the bar
with the group before the television set and we realize the
whole series of events has been of a vision induced by
one of the group in a demonstration of mass hypnosis as
a warning and a plea for preparedness.
CATCHLINES:
How It Would
U.S. Cities Vanish Before Your Eyes . . .
Happen 11 It Happened Now.
THE STORY:
"Mr. Walkie Talkie" (Lippert)
Fed up with the constant chatter o! William Tracy, a
sergeant with a photographic memory, Joe Sawyer, also a
sergeant, requests transfer from a training camp and finds
himself shipped to the front lines in Korea. Here he is
happy, away from Tracy, until his nemesis parachutes into
Sawyer's foxhole and joins the outfit. When Margia Dean,
a visiting entertainer, sings for the troops, Sawyer is placed
in charge of security, but the alert Tracy exposes an enemy
soldier who has infiltrated the audience, and Sawyer is
broken to private. His stripes are restored when ho and
Tracy establish walkie-talkie communication with an
embattled unit; despite savage enemy attacks and many
mishaps, they work together successfully to accomplish the
mission, and emerge as heroes.
CATCHLINES:
Ten-Shunl ... Be Prepared for a Comedy Riot ... As
Sergeant Doubleday . Smartest Man in the Army
Into Korea . . . It's a Front-Line Funfest . , .
A Barrage of Belly-Laughs.