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FIRST AGAIN<br />
This is the season of the annual polls by showmen for the past year's Tops<br />
In Stars, Hits, Shorts. M-G-M sweeps the industry as usual. First in Showmen's<br />
Trade Review Leader's Annual Poll and now in BoxofFice Barometer:<br />
M-G-M HIT LEADER!<br />
More Hits Than Any Other Company!<br />
("Show Boat", "King Solomon's Mines", "The Great Caruso", "Kim", "Father's Little Dividend",<br />
"Royal Wedding", "Go For Broke!", "Pagan Love Song", "Rich, Young and Pretty", "To Please<br />
A Lady", "Toast of New Orleans".)<br />
Twice As Many Blue Ribbons As Next Company And<br />
More Than The Next Two Companies Combined!<br />
Blue Ribbons are the Industry's Best, voted by exhibitors, press and public. M-G-M is this year's<br />
winner and also all-time winner!<br />
STAR LEADERSHIP!<br />
June Allyson wins top female spot for 2nd year in a row and is combined male-female poll winner.<br />
Female winners: June Allyson, Esther Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Jane Powell. Male<br />
winners: Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Gene Kelly.<br />
SHORTS LEADER!<br />
.:-G-M has 3 out of 10 Top Shorts Series. TOM & JERRY CARTOONS [Technicolor); PETE<br />
SMITH SPECIALTIES; M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS.
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NEXT YEAR TOO!<br />
Just a Few of The Award-Winning Contenders for 1952<br />
(And of course. The Greatest 'QUO VADIS")<br />
"THE WILD NORTH "—The co-director of "King Solomon's Mines" and its handsome star Stewart<br />
Granger team again in a smashing Ansco Color drama. Wendell Corey and beautiful Cyd Charisse co-star.<br />
Packed with thrills: the avalanche, the wolf attack, the duel in the rapids topped by the searing romance<br />
of Granger and Charisse, the Indian maid. Truly "The King Solomon's Mines of 1952!"<br />
"LONE STAR"— The Battle of Texas and the Battle of the Sexes. Clark Gable fights for gorgeous<br />
Ava Gardner against Broderick Crawford. Cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi. It's<br />
Love and Action with Box-Office written all over it!<br />
BIG in<br />
"SINGIN' IN THE RAIN"- The producer of "Show Boat" and "An American In Paris" does it<br />
again! A GREAT Technicolor musical. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen,<br />
Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse.<br />
"IVANHOE"—The "Quo Vadis" company brings the world another giant production. The famed<br />
novel in all its glory, filmed in Technicolor in actual locations. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan<br />
Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams.<br />
"BELLE OF NEW YORK"— Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice<br />
Pearce, Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins bring the fans a joyous M-G-M Technicolor musical featuring<br />
a "Dancing on Air" novelty that's sensational.<br />
"SCARAMOUCHE"— Public demand for Big, romantic dramas of "The Three Musketeers" type<br />
is answered by the director of that famed hit in a new thrill-packed Technicolor dramatization of the<br />
swashbuckling novel "Scaramouche". Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry<br />
Wilcoxon, Nina Foch, Lewis Stone, Richard Anderson.<br />
"SKIRTS AHOY!"— Packed with entertainment for the masses is this rollicking romance of the<br />
WAVEs and their boy friends. Technicolor musical dynamite with a breezy star cast: Esther Williams,<br />
Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Billy Eckstine, The De Marco Sisters, Dean<br />
Miller. A Wow!<br />
"JUST THIS ONCE"— Winchell told the nation the good news in his syndicated column: "'Just<br />
This Once', a new M-G-M film is rated a click 'sleeper' by the trade." Once in a decade alone comes a<br />
comedy howl that rocks the nation. This is it. Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine,<br />
Richard Anderson<br />
"WESTWARD THE WOMEN"-The producer and director of "Battleground" have delivered<br />
again. It's all about women, 200 of them, in a dangerous pioneering journey across the nation to marry<br />
men they never saw! Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, the "Battleground" girl, Hope Emerson, John Mclntire.<br />
"THE MERRY WIDOW"— Magic words that excite. And the most exciting team in years, Lana<br />
Turner and Fernando Lamas, brings it to brilliant Technicolor life. Here are spine-tingling dreams of<br />
romance and pulse-stirring songs in a rapturous musical. Cast includes: Una Merkel, Richard Haydn,<br />
Thomas Gomez.<br />
Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge & Gower Champion, Ann Miller, Sza Sza<br />
"LOVELY TO LOOK AT"— M-G-M gives you another great musical. Glamorous stars, Adrian's<br />
fabulous gowns, Jerome Kern's irresistible music. Technicolor glory. It's Box-Office! Terrific cast includes:<br />
Gabor, Kurt Kasznar.<br />
And Remember These Titles :<br />
"One Piece Bathing Suit" (Esther WaUams, victor Mature, Waiter<br />
Pidgeon, Donna Corcoran) • "Carbine Williams" {James Stewart, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen) • "Pat and<br />
Mike" (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, "Because You're Mine" (Mario Lanza) • "Plymouth Adventure"<br />
(Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr)<br />
(Pier Angell, Rlcardo Montalban, Leslie Caron)<br />
• "Young Bess" {Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons) • "Three Love Stories"<br />
• "Prisoner of Zenda" (Stewart Granger) • and many more.
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Of Things in Prospect for the Year Ahead 10<br />
Production Outlook Is Better Than Ever 12<br />
The Ali-American Favorites of 1951 19<br />
The All-Americon Western Favorites 34<br />
Cartoons Lead the Short Subjects Parade 36<br />
Grosses— Ratings at the Boxoffice 38<br />
Western Records 50<br />
The Outlook Is Brighter in Britain 55<br />
Blue Ribbon Winners of 1950-51 60<br />
Blue Ribbon Winners of Past Years 73<br />
Blue Ribbon Honor Roll Call 74<br />
Roster of the National Screen Council 76<br />
Producers of the 1950-51 Hit Films 80<br />
Directors of the Season's Big Hits 84<br />
Grassroots Produce New Selling Ideas 86<br />
Looking Ahead at Coming Features 91<br />
Feature Index of the 1950-51 Releases 107<br />
Shorts Index of the 1950-51 Releases 147<br />
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Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 1, Mo. Ben Shlyen, Publisher and Editor-in-Chiei; James<br />
M. Jerauld, Editor; Nathan Cohen, Executive Editor; E. S. Nelson, Velma West<br />
Sykes, Dorothy Martin, Associate Editors; Jesse Shlyen, Managing Editor; Ivan<br />
SpeOT, Hollywood Editor; John G. Tinsley, Advertising Manager. Eastern Office,<br />
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"SNAKE PIT," has another masterpiece currently winning the critics' plaudits. Gary Merrill,<br />
Richard Basehart, and newcomers Oskar Werner and Hildegarde Neff lead the way in a film<br />
that is on everyone's "Ten Best" list... A "must" for every showman.<br />
JAPANESE WAR BRIDE out of the present Korean conflict comes a most<br />
unusual love story of mixed marriage. Introducing Japan's top feminine star "Yamaguchi," plus<br />
Don Taylor, Marie Windsor and Cameron Mitchell in a startling motion picture.<br />
THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER" Thewam,,<br />
human story of the unsung matchmakers who give Cupid a little push in the right direction.<br />
A Jeanne Crain picture perfectly embellished by the exciting performances of Thelma<br />
Ritter, Scott Brady, Frank Fontaine and Zero Mostel.<br />
MAttC"<br />
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER m the tradition of<br />
a letter<br />
TO THREE WIVES" and "ALL ABOUT EVE" comes a dramatic triumph which lashes out at the<br />
"Double Standard" of marriage. Great performances by Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Keenan<br />
Wynn, Michael Rennie and the positively sizzling Shelley Winters.<br />
RED SKIES OF MONTANA'' The first<br />
Jumpers" .<br />
story of the courageous "Smoke<br />
. . Technicolor flashing across the screen with the most spectacular action sequences<br />
ever filmed. Richard Widmark heads a cast of rough, tough guys in a picture that combines<br />
power, drama, and all the excitement of the Great American Northwest.<br />
f I V6 rlNwCKS The true, shocking revelations of the highest paid spy in history<br />
whose unbelievable exploits stunned the world. James Mason, Dannielle Darrieux and<br />
Michael Rennie head the cast of Joseph Mankiewicz's tingler filmed in<br />
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Ankara and Istanbul.<br />
TB^AIM The adventurous story of a man who came home<br />
to the land that bred him and the woman who loved him. Vividly set in America's new<br />
great Southwest and dramatically portrayed by Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru and Walter<br />
Qrennan.<br />
V I VA 2iAPATA! Another off-the-beaten-path dramatic achievement utilizing<br />
the collective talents of 20th Century-Fox's "Greats". John Steinbeck wrote it. Darryl<br />
Zanuck produced it. Elia Kazan directed it. Marlon Brando stars in it. ""That" should give<br />
the theatre-going public an idea of what's in store for them.
WITH SIX MONTHS OF THE
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(INETEEN fifty-one closed with the<br />
economists predicting cautiously that<br />
the second half of 1952 might bring<br />
with it a business boom.<br />
Sentiment among exhibitors, however,<br />
ranged from deep pessimism to outspoken<br />
optimism. Their comments depended on<br />
where they lived and operated. All agreed,<br />
however, that there had been varying degrses<br />
of improvement during the last three<br />
months.<br />
It is this improvement that intrigues<br />
the industry economists. General business<br />
outside the film industry is on the upgrade,<br />
with the exception of some local<br />
areas like the automobile and textile centers,<br />
and the rise is bound to be on an<br />
accelerating basis. Government spending<br />
is going up. General spending always<br />
follows it, the economists say.<br />
GOOD CHANCE FOR A BOOM<br />
For the first half of 1951 the total was<br />
323.4 billions. In the second half it was<br />
326.8 billions. The prediction for the first<br />
half of 1952 is 334.9 billions with a further<br />
increase to 352.3 billions in the second<br />
half.<br />
When that total is reached a boom will<br />
be under way, say the experts. There<br />
will be a record number of jobs and a<br />
record income, but profits may not hit a<br />
record. Taxes are too high.<br />
As the so-called soft goods and all<br />
articles requiring stategic metals become<br />
scarce, say the forecasters, more and more<br />
people will turn to entertainment the<br />
way they did during the .second<br />
World War II.<br />
year of<br />
So much for the future. It's the present<br />
and immediate past that have this<br />
industry in a state of agitation. No important<br />
industry problems were solved during<br />
1951.<br />
INTERNAL PROBLEMS CONTINUE<br />
Basically, all the acrimonious discussion<br />
was due to the uncertainties cau,sed<br />
by rising prices. Producers were trying<br />
to keep costs within reason, distributors<br />
were trying to get rentals high enough<br />
to a.ssure a profit and exhibitors were<br />
complaining that high film costs, lack of<br />
prints and booking uncertainties brought<br />
on by competitive bidding and chaotic<br />
clearances were making them bite the dust,<br />
or words to that effect.<br />
There is nothing new about intra-industry<br />
complaints, of course, but the current<br />
outcry has more volume than formerly,<br />
becau.se all the big circuits find themselves<br />
in the same boats with the little<br />
fellow who used to make most of the<br />
noi.se.<br />
What to do about it?<br />
Both the national exhibitor organizations<br />
have turned again to arbitration and<br />
regional units are endorsing their stands,<br />
but several more weeks may elapse before<br />
anything definite happens. Trueman<br />
Rembusch. Allied president, intends<br />
to appoint a committee to meet with the<br />
distributors, but the distributors are not<br />
expected to move before both Allied and<br />
TOA and probably the PCCITO agree to<br />
meet with them for a general discussion<br />
of the broad outlines of the problem.<br />
This discussion could develop into a fair<br />
trade practice code that would require approval<br />
of the Department of Justice and<br />
the three-judge court which heard the<br />
antitrust case and retained jurisdiction,<br />
but leadership has been lacking to date.<br />
Three names have been suggested as<br />
possible leaders—Robert J. O'Donnell and<br />
Col. H. A. Cole, who started the Movietime<br />
U.S.A. movement in Texas, and William<br />
P. Rodgers of MGM. who headed the<br />
unity movement of a decade ago, but if<br />
they are interested, they have given no<br />
indication of it.<br />
Rodgers left December 20 for Florida<br />
for a two-month vacation after withdrawing<br />
from his duties as general sales manager<br />
of MGM. He will be an active consultant<br />
and adviser for the company when<br />
he returns, but his attitude early in December<br />
was in favor of contracting rather<br />
than expanding his activites.<br />
TELEVISION A BIG QUESTION<br />
Television has assumed the form of a<br />
big question mark for 1952. Some of the<br />
panic caused by the huge sales of home<br />
receivers has subsided, partly as a result<br />
of the FCC freeze on station construction,<br />
the growing impression that advertisers<br />
were finding it difficult to finance programs<br />
that would hold interest, and the<br />
increasing opposition among football,<br />
baseball and boxing promoters to telecasts<br />
that were cutting into gate receipts.<br />
Some exhibitors thought the television<br />
problem was solved when boxing matches<br />
proved a big source of income for those<br />
theatres with television projectors, but<br />
this idea was short-lived. Before cold<br />
weather .set in it was apparent that theatres<br />
were going to have the same programming<br />
difficulties that advertising<br />
agencies were facing.<br />
Since then a period of watchful waiting<br />
has set in with an undercurrent of excitement<br />
similar to that which preceded the<br />
introduction of sound. The same divergent<br />
attitudes are present. Some, who think<br />
a status quo can be permanent, are saying<br />
the pattern of exhibition will not change;<br />
others foresee a revolution. Even the more<br />
conservative leaders with large investments<br />
at stake have come to the conclusion<br />
that they had better be prepared<br />
for a possible overturn in the whole competitive<br />
situation.<br />
With the government restrictions on use<br />
of strategic metals, there is no po.ssibility<br />
of a sudden rush to television like the<br />
rush to sound which followed AI Jolson's<br />
sound picture, but before the end of 1952<br />
it will known whether or not color television<br />
is commercially feasible. If color<br />
comes over the horizon, theatre and home<br />
television would start from scratch in a<br />
competitive race.<br />
First, assignment of wavelengths for<br />
theatre use must be obtained from the<br />
Federal Communications Commission. The<br />
argument for these will be that theatres<br />
can provide a new form of public service<br />
in the form of educational programs during<br />
non-exhibition hours—something that<br />
would make theatres community institutions<br />
to an extent often talked about but<br />
never achieved.<br />
Entertainment programs would take on<br />
a new form with swift transmission of<br />
news, coverage of local events and introduction<br />
of entertainment from legitimate<br />
theatre and other sources.<br />
ECONOMICS CHANGES VIEWS<br />
A year ago it was predicted that the<br />
present broadcasting interests and the financial<br />
interests behind set manufacturers<br />
would put up a struggle without quarter<br />
to prevent an invasion of their fields, but<br />
the economics of the situation have<br />
changed this.<br />
United Paramount Theatres not only<br />
wants to put on all the public service and<br />
entertainment programs it can get; it<br />
wants also to do it with the cooperation<br />
of the American Broadcasting Co.. with<br />
which it seeks a merger. Twentieth Century-Fox<br />
wants to do it with an entirely<br />
new color apparatus—Eidophor—with the<br />
color system developed by Columbia<br />
Broadcasting System with General Electric<br />
making the equipment. RCA is strenuously<br />
pushing its color tubes and unquestionably<br />
will get into the theatre field<br />
through its manufacturing affiliates.<br />
Wayne Coy, chairman of the FCC. says<br />
it will be possible to build 2,000 television<br />
stations by using the ultra high frequencies.<br />
That demolishes the argument that<br />
there would be no room for new stations.<br />
Film men contend these stations would<br />
never be built and that, if many of them<br />
should be built, there would be nothing<br />
for them to show unless some way could<br />
be found to finance the programs. A percentage<br />
of theatre admissions would do<br />
this,<br />
they insist.<br />
SEE NEW INCOME SOURCE<br />
Political pressure will figure in the final<br />
decision, because the vast number of receiver<br />
owners who have been getting programs<br />
free contend they would be cheated<br />
if<br />
the best programs should go to theatres.<br />
Here again film men see a new source of<br />
income, because the belief is widely held<br />
that most of the future television programs<br />
will be produced from films .<br />
Equipment makers profess to be sitting<br />
on the sidelines, but they are not.<br />
Once theatre television has proved a success<br />
a stampede for installations could develop,<br />
and they know it. This would include<br />
telecasting stations, regional studios,<br />
microwave relays and the equipment that<br />
goes into theatres.<br />
Nobody predicts all this will come to pass<br />
in 1952, but all those connected with the<br />
present planning are certain that the possibilities<br />
will be known in the next year.<br />
10 BAROMETER Section
Year in...<br />
Year out...<br />
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by IVAN SPEAR<br />
«« GAIN comes that time of the year<br />
ySSjk when the shopworn crystal ball<br />
and faithless it has proven to be<br />
in many instances—must be dusted off<br />
and studied for a prognostication; this<br />
time anent what Hollywood might or might<br />
not do. productionwise, during the calendar<br />
year of 1952.<br />
Those who have had the patience and<br />
courage to follow down through the years<br />
the annual, clairvoyant chattering of<br />
scores of ob.servers of the film capital<br />
.scene who undertake to call the turn as<br />
to future production plans must know, by<br />
50 per cent<br />
now. that the foreteller who is<br />
correct is batting very high in the celluloid<br />
fortune-telling league. That's because<br />
of Cinemania's chronic—and understandable—propensity<br />
toward changing its<br />
plans upon the drop of a pessimistic conclusion<br />
and/or the raising of the most<br />
diminutive flag of optimism.<br />
BIGGER BUDGETS ON TAP<br />
If any guess can be considered reasonably<br />
good at year's beginning, it might be<br />
the one that, even though fewer features<br />
may be forthcoming, those that are made<br />
will be budgeted more liberally than were<br />
pictures of comparable scope during the<br />
past few seasons.<br />
Two reasons are advanced for such<br />
logic. In the first place, the more farseeing<br />
among film-fabricating brass have<br />
apparently concluded that there has been<br />
a bit too much of penny-pinching; that<br />
there arrives a point when the elimination<br />
of waste—and that was highly necessary<br />
can evolve into the trimming, also, of those<br />
essential productional costs that give substance<br />
to big pictures. Secondly, there<br />
is an almost universal and fervent revival<br />
of the hackneyed—but still unassailable—morsel<br />
of motion picture philosophy<br />
regarding the fact that "good pictures<br />
still get money."<br />
OPTIMISM WELL-GROUNDED<br />
And a look at the records reveals plenty<br />
of current testimony in support of that<br />
hoary axiom—at the same time giving<br />
reason why Hollywood apparently is facing<br />
the future with more hope and courage<br />
than have been evident at this time<br />
of the year for several seasons past.<br />
Figures don't lie—so goes another adage<br />
—and a gander at the boxoffice revenues<br />
accruing particularly in the latter months<br />
of 1951 to those hunks of celluloid on<br />
which rather massive bankrolls were expended<br />
seems to establish beyond rea.sonable<br />
doubt that, other factors to the contrary<br />
notwithstandmg. the public is still<br />
willing and ready to go to the movies.<br />
Ready, that is, if the picture palace is exhibiting<br />
film fare of top grade as concerns<br />
star names, story and production values<br />
and the lustrous qualities of showmanship<br />
and entertainment that, to date, the medium<br />
of television has not been able to<br />
match. Consider, for example, such<br />
money-earners as Metro's "Quo Vadis,"<br />
"An American in Paris" and "Show Boat";<br />
20th Century-Fox's "David and Bathsheba,"<br />
"The Desert Fox" and "On the<br />
Riviera"; Warners' "A Streetcar Named<br />
Desire"; Paramount's "A Place in the<br />
Sun" and "Detective Story"; the strong<br />
business being done by United Artists'<br />
"Fort Defiance" and RKO Radio's "Two<br />
Tickets to Broadway"; and other product<br />
equally diversified as concerns .subject<br />
matter but alike in their appeal to the<br />
potential patron. They have the basic<br />
ingredients to entertain, and they have<br />
been strongly sold and merchandised to<br />
extract the utmost from their revenue potential.<br />
TOP PRODUCT ABOUNDS<br />
The nation's showmen have already been<br />
informed, and the trade's drumbeaters<br />
will continue to pass along the welcome<br />
word, that the prospect for 1952's early<br />
months is aglow with news of a substantial<br />
supply of product capable of matching<br />
the boxoffice records established by film<br />
fare such as that mentioned above. There<br />
are many releases of comparable promise<br />
in the immediate offing, budgeted as liberally<br />
and adding weight to the optimistic<br />
sentiment that better things are to come.<br />
Paramount, for instance, is highly enthused<br />
over Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest<br />
Show on Earth," which the company<br />
believes amply fulfills its title, and is also<br />
very bullish over "My Son John." Columbia<br />
is of the opinion that it has another<br />
"Born Yesterday" in "The Marrying<br />
Kind," in which Judy HoUiday, star of<br />
the former, has a top comedy role, and<br />
the same studio is touting two of Producer<br />
— Stanley Kramer's completed efforts "My<br />
Six Convicts" and "The Four Poster" a,s rich<br />
boxoffice potentials. RKO Radio's biggie<br />
is "Androcles and the Lion," plus which<br />
the Howard Hughes organization is very<br />
high on the prospects for "Macao"; out<br />
at 20th Century-Fox the passwords are<br />
"Viva Zapata" and "With a Song in My<br />
Heart." Metro feels it has SRO material<br />
in "The Merry Widow" and "Singin' in the<br />
Rain." while over at Warners the chips<br />
are down on "Retreat. Hell!" and "Room<br />
for One More." Universal-International<br />
believes it can match these with "Bend<br />
of the River," a top-budget historical<br />
western, and tosses in "Red Ball Express,"<br />
a World War II opus, for good measure.<br />
There are others, of course—many others<br />
—but limited space precludes complete<br />
tallying of what looms as an extensive list.<br />
COLOR IN BIG INCREASE<br />
Several motion picture companies have<br />
disclosed that their output of color films<br />
will, this year, exceed that of any past<br />
season in their respective histories. Metro.<br />
which will make a minimum of 40 pictures,<br />
will garnish about half of them in<br />
Technicolor, and in addition is dabbling<br />
in its own tint process, employed for the<br />
first time on the upcoming "The Wild<br />
North." Limitations in laboratory facilities<br />
have precluded the expanded use of<br />
this system, but that it will be employed<br />
more and more by Leo in the future is a<br />
conclusion foregone. Warner, too, has perfected<br />
its Warnercolor, which will be<br />
viewed initially in "The Lion and the<br />
Horse" and "Carson City," and has extensive<br />
plans, also, for Technicolor. Approximately<br />
50 per cent of 20th Century-Fox's<br />
1952 output will be in Technicolor, while<br />
Universal-International matches that figure<br />
with the disclosure that 18 of its 36-<br />
picture schedule will be in the same tint<br />
proce.ss. Monogram and its sister-company.<br />
Allied Artists, have embarked on an<br />
ambitious policy whereby at least one release<br />
a month will be tinted—in this ca.se<br />
in either Cinecolor or that company's<br />
new three-hue process. Supercinecolor.<br />
These two systems, parenthetically, are<br />
being utilized by the makers of considerable<br />
medium-budgeted celluloid, much of<br />
which is being turned out by independent<br />
units for major company relea.se.<br />
Further. Republic—whose head man. Herbert<br />
J. Yates, has long been a vociferous<br />
exponent of tint photography—is speeding<br />
up in the use of Trucolor. which has<br />
abandoned the two-tint for the threecolor<br />
system.<br />
SCIENCE-FICTION CYCLE<br />
No Hollywood season could be considered<br />
complete unless a cycle or two were<br />
in the making—and 1952 is right in there<br />
pitching in this regard. The boxoffice<br />
appeal of such fare having been satisfactorily<br />
demonstrated last year with such<br />
entries as "The Thing From Another<br />
World" and "When Worlds Collide." the<br />
space-opera boys are having an interplanetary<br />
field day. George Pal. who made<br />
"Collide" for Paramount, will follow that<br />
breadwinner with "War of the Worlds";<br />
Monogram has a sequel to its "Flight to<br />
Mars'" with "Voyage to Venus"; on the<br />
Lippert Pictures docket is "Miss 21st Century,"<br />
while RKO Radio will distribute<br />
the independently-produced "3,000 A. D.."<br />
United Artists will handle the relea.se of<br />
"Miracle From Mars," and Arch Oboler,<br />
who wrote, produced and directed "Five,"<br />
and sold it to Columbia, is following that<br />
with the provocatively titled "The Twonky."<br />
EPISODIC FEATURES COMING<br />
Further on the matter of cycles, not in<br />
recent years has there been such concentration<br />
on the so-called episodic feature,<br />
composed of three, four or more sequences<br />
which may or may not be interrelated,<br />
plotwise, and which usually employ<br />
different casts, directors and even<br />
producers. The whisper is circulating in<br />
some quarters—and. of cour.se. without<br />
the slightest chance of official confirmation—that<br />
in Hollywood's new-found attachment<br />
for pictures of this type there<br />
is an undercurrent of far-seeing commercialism.<br />
This school of thought holds that<br />
the movie magi intend, once the theatrical<br />
life of the episoders has ended, to cut<br />
them up into their component segments<br />
and peddle them as 15- or 30-minute subjects<br />
to— yes. that's right. At any rate,<br />
MGM recently completed and tradescreened<br />
its multi-sequence "It's a Big<br />
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Country" and has two others, "Three Love<br />
Stories" and "American Beauty" in preparatory<br />
stages: "Actors and Sin," written<br />
and directed by Ben Hecht and comprising<br />
two expisodes, is due for early release<br />
by United Artists. And 20th Century-Pox<br />
is going full steam ahead on a<br />
pair of others, "We're Not Married" and<br />
"The Full House."<br />
STORY VARIETY A-PLENTY<br />
Otherwise, generally speaking, exhibitors<br />
can look for the film capital to supply, in<br />
quantities proportionate to other years,<br />
the varied types of celluloid entertainment<br />
that have long since been established<br />
as movie staples. Times being what they<br />
aie, there is perhaps a shade more emphasis<br />
upon topical fare—the topic being<br />
warfare, either the current Korean conflict<br />
or the first two world wars. One of<br />
RKO Radio's heavily budgeted entries is<br />
Producer Edmund Grainger's "The Korean<br />
Story," while Republic, with "The<br />
Wild Blue Yonder" now in release is readying<br />
"Marines Have Wings" as a followup.<br />
Warners has a passel of 'em, including<br />
the aforementioned "Retreat, Hell!" as<br />
well as "Darby's Rangers" and "The<br />
Fighting Marine." On Stanley Kramer's<br />
docket at Columbia is "The Caine Mu-<br />
based on the best-seller by Herman<br />
tiny,"<br />
Wouk, while for the same studio Sam<br />
Katzman is making "A Yank in Indochina."<br />
Paramount has a pair of GI<br />
comedies in "Jumping Jacks." the Dean<br />
Martin-Jerry Lewis starrer produced by<br />
Hal Wallis, and the Bob Hope topliner,<br />
"The Military Policeman." Completed at<br />
20th Century-Fox is "Five Fingers," the<br />
Monogram slate includes "Down Periscope"<br />
and Metro has "The Making of a Marine"<br />
on the front burner.<br />
MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZAS<br />
All is not blood and sweat and tears,<br />
however. As still further manifestation<br />
of Hollywood's decision to open the purse<br />
strings a mite, many studio schedules are<br />
heavy with the lush, multi-starred type<br />
of musical extravaganzas which were so<br />
popular in the year when money didn't<br />
matter—much—and which only recently<br />
have begun to stage a comeback. Some<br />
of these are an adroit blend of tunefilm<br />
and biography—as witness Warners' current<br />
and popular "I'll See You in My<br />
Dreams," the life story of Songwriter Gus<br />
Kahn: 20th Century-Fox's upcoming "The<br />
I Don't Care Girl," which traces the career<br />
of Eva Tanguay; Paramount's "Somebody<br />
Loves Me," wherein Betty Hutton<br />
portrays Blossom Seeley: and Republic's<br />
"Song of Youth," dealing with Stephen<br />
Foster as a young man. Still others are<br />
in the more-or-less familiar, frothy, songfilled<br />
category of light-hearted "escapist"<br />
fare, of which Paramounts' projected "The<br />
Golden Circle"—draw-ing its title from the<br />
studio's widely-touted roster of new- acting<br />
contractees—Metro's "Belle of New York"<br />
and "Singin' in the Rain" and Warners'<br />
"She's Working Her Way Through College"<br />
are typical examples.<br />
Films with a religious and or spiritual<br />
motif, the ever-popular crime subjects,<br />
swashbuckling costumers with virile heroes<br />
and bosomy heroines, fantasies, comedies,<br />
romantic drama.s—they're all present and<br />
accounted for. Biblical spectacle— always<br />
sure-fire at the ticket window— will characterize<br />
"Pilate's Wife," an upcoming<br />
Wald-Krasna opus for RKO Radio: the<br />
historical adventures range from Metro's<br />
"Scaramouche" to Universal-International's<br />
pirate actioner, "Against All Flags,"<br />
20th Century-Fox's release of the Wanger-<br />
Frenke production, "The Lady in the Iron<br />
Mask," and Columbia's "Caption Blood.<br />
Fugitive." In the realm of fantasy there<br />
is the Kramer project for Columbia, "The<br />
5000 Fingers of Dr. T," an Abbott and Costello<br />
starrer. "Jack and the Beanstalk,"<br />
which Warners will release, and, of course,<br />
an impending contribution by Walt Disney,<br />
maestro of the animated cartoon<br />
field, who is at work on "Peter Pan" as<br />
part of his RKO Radio distribution schedule.<br />
The comedies will range from unadulterated<br />
slapstick—witness Paramount's<br />
"Aaron Slick From F^mkin Crick"—to<br />
sophisticated fare such as Columbia's<br />
"The Marrying Kind" and Metro's "Pat<br />
and Mike."<br />
SAGEBRUSHERS RIDE ON<br />
Westerns? Relax. There'll be plenty<br />
of horseflesh and sagebrush, running the<br />
gamut from big-bankrolled, so-called supers<br />
down through the modestly budgeted,<br />
bread-and-butter "series" subjects—enough<br />
of them in each category to assure a<br />
steady flow to those showmen who rely<br />
upon the gallopers as an important segment<br />
of their programming and profits.<br />
Of note in this regard is the lessened emphasis<br />
upon the cavalry-vs-Injuns theme,<br />
which in some quarters was thought to<br />
have been overworked just a trifle in<br />
1951. The paleface-against-redskin facet<br />
isn't being entirely dropped however, with<br />
Columbia's "The Sabre and the Arrow."<br />
Monogram's "Fort Osage" and Universal-<br />
International's "Battle of Apache Pass"<br />
looming as examples of this sagebrush<br />
school. Other biggies set for early release<br />
include "High Noon" made by Stanley<br />
Kramer for United Artists release, Warners'<br />
"Carson City," Columbia's "Cripple<br />
Creek" and Paramount's "Shane. " There<br />
have been a few changes in the "series"<br />
field: Roy Rogers is no longer riding the<br />
range for Republic, but will soon appear<br />
as the co-star with Bob Hope and Jane<br />
Ru.ssell in Paramount's comedy western,<br />
"Son of Paleface," while Tim Holt, after<br />
many years with the company, left the<br />
RKO Radio corral and, reportedly, plans<br />
to concentrate on TV. Still doing business<br />
at the old stand, though, are Charles<br />
"The Durango Kid" Starrett who ambles<br />
thataway for Columbia, and Gene Autry,<br />
who produces and stars in .several annually<br />
for distribution by the same company.<br />
Rex Allen and Allan "Rocky" Lane<br />
continue as top hands at Republic, while<br />
Wild Bill Elliott. Whip Wilson and the<br />
Johnny Mack Brown-Jimmy Ellison team<br />
are on the Monogram payroll.<br />
America being the sports-loving nation<br />
that it is. upcoming picture schedules<br />
are dotted with entries ranging from<br />
horseracing (Columbia's "Boots Malone")<br />
to baseball (20th Century-Fox's "Pride of<br />
St. Louis" and Warners' "Alexander, the<br />
Big Leaguer"), football ("All-American"<br />
at Universal-International) and boxing<br />
(U-I's "Hear No Evil"). There's some<br />
stress, too. on pictures with a "message,"<br />
whether they be an attack upon some social<br />
problem such as Paramount's indictment<br />
of alcoholism, "Something to Live<br />
For," barrages against Communism and<br />
the Iron Curtain, of which Monogram's<br />
"The Steel Fist" and Metro's "The Big<br />
Lie" are examples, or entertainmentcoated<br />
preachments for Americanism, as<br />
exemplified by "Mr. Congressman." which<br />
Leo now has in work.<br />
REVIVALS OF OLD HITS<br />
The theory that good story themes (like<br />
old generals! never die is bringing forth<br />
an unusually heavy agenda of—you should<br />
pardon the expression—remakes. One of<br />
the biggest gros.sers of all time. Warners'<br />
"The Jazz Singer," has been dusted off<br />
and will be brought up to date in a new<br />
version. Currently in production at 20th<br />
Century-Fox are "What Price Glory,"<br />
and "Les Miserables," while Metro—with<br />
"The Merry Widow" awaiting release<br />
has scheduled a new treatment of the silent<br />
hit. "Flesh and the Devil." as well as<br />
musical version of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"<br />
and "Peg O' My Heart."<br />
Biographical subjects appear to be retaining<br />
a strong grip upon the affections<br />
of the picture-makers and, it is to be<br />
hoped, the paying public. Typifying this<br />
type of celluloid are Samuel Goldwyn's<br />
forthcoming "Hans Christian Andersen,"<br />
based on the life of the famed Danish<br />
spinner of fairy tales: Paramount's "The<br />
Houdini Story," 20th Century-Fox's "The<br />
Pi'esident's Lady," a biography of Andrew<br />
Jackson and his wife, and Warners' "The<br />
Will Rogers Story" and "The Eddie Cantor<br />
Story."<br />
STAGE HITS AND NOVELS<br />
Incomplete would be any production<br />
year if it did not contain an array of film<br />
versions of stage successes and best-selling<br />
novels. That a Broadway stage hit<br />
can still command a top price as concerns<br />
the acquisition of screen rights thereto<br />
was demonstrated w'hen 20th Century-Fox<br />
opened the purse strings to purchase "Call<br />
Me Madam" and "Gentlemen Prefer<br />
Blondes" while Warners has completed<br />
filming of "Where's Charley?" and Stanley<br />
Kramer, who will make them for Columbia,<br />
picked up "The Happy Time" and<br />
"Member of the Wedding." Over at Paramount<br />
"Stalag 17" is in the works and Hal<br />
Wallis. for release through that company,<br />
is about to launch "Come Back, Little<br />
Sheba." In the best-seller category Columbia<br />
scriveners are doing their derndest<br />
to delete the four-letter words from<br />
James Jones' "From Here to Eternity,"<br />
while Metro will make "Moonfleet" and<br />
RKO Radio has "The Left Hand of God"<br />
on its docket.<br />
In toto, and as heretofore noted, an<br />
encouraging aura of optimism in production<br />
circles, strengthened by a diversified<br />
lineup of potent boxoffice properties, renders<br />
it reasonably safe to predict that 1952<br />
is going to be a healty year for industryites<br />
who aren't averse to a .spot of enthusiastic<br />
hard work.<br />
BOXOFFICE 15
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ITS ALWAYS<br />
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. . . Look At These Standout K^urren<br />
JET PILOT<br />
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THE BIG SKY<br />
(WINCHESTER-HOWARD HAWKS)<br />
MACAO<br />
THE LAS VEGAS<br />
STORY<br />
TEMBO<br />
(ANSCO COLOR)<br />
ANDROCLES<br />
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MONTANA BELLE ILLE<br />
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SONS OF THE<br />
MUSKETEERS<br />
(TECHNICOLOR)<br />
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BEAUTIFUL<br />
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THE BLUE V<br />
(WALD-KRASNA)<br />
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(EDMUND GRAINGER)
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A GIRL IN<br />
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THE KOREAN STORY<br />
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GYPSY BLOOD<br />
(DAVID O. SELZNICK<br />
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THIS MAN IS MINE<br />
(WALD-KRASNA)<br />
ALICE IN<br />
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(DISNEY-TECHNICOLOR)<br />
BEHAVE YOURSELF!<br />
(WALD-KRASNA)<br />
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DRUMS IN THE<br />
DEEP SOUTH<br />
(SUPERCINECOLOR-KING BROS.)<br />
CLASH BY NIGHT<br />
(WALD-KRASNA)<br />
THE RAGGED EDGE<br />
FLYING<br />
LEATHERNECKS<br />
(TECHNICOLOR-EDMUND GRAINGER)<br />
SLAUGHTER TRAIL<br />
(CINECOLOR)<br />
TARZAN'S<br />
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(SOL<br />
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— and here are just<br />
some of the stars.<br />
DANA ANDREWS<br />
^W BARKER<br />
VVIILIAM BENOIX<br />
JOAN BtONOEU<br />
ANN BIYTH<br />
GEORGE BRENT<br />
JACK BUETEL<br />
"5if ®^ JANIS CARMICHAEL<br />
CARTER<br />
JAMES CRAIG<br />
MARIENE DIETRICH<br />
GLORIA<br />
BRIAN DeHAVEN<br />
KIRK DONLEVY<br />
DOUGLAS<br />
MELVYN DOUGLAS<br />
PAUL DOUGLAS<br />
JOAN EVANS<br />
MAURICE EVANS<br />
MEL<br />
FERRER<br />
SALLY FORREST<br />
FARLEY GRANGER<br />
SUSAN HAYWARD<br />
JENNIFER<br />
CHARLES<br />
JONES<br />
LAUGHTON<br />
JANET LEIGH<br />
IDA LUPINO<br />
DOROTHY McGUiRE<br />
GROUCHO MARX<br />
TONY MARTIN<br />
ANN MILLER<br />
ROBERT<br />
MARILYN<br />
MITCHUM<br />
MONROE<br />
ROBERT NEWTON<br />
DAVID NIVEN<br />
MAUREEN OHARA<br />
CESAR ROMERO<br />
JANE RUSSELL<br />
ROBERT RYAN<br />
GEORGE SANDERS<br />
LI2ABETH SCOn<br />
JEAN SIMMONS<br />
FRANK SINATRA<br />
BARBARA STANWYCK<br />
CLAIRE<br />
TREVOR<br />
VERA-ELLEN<br />
JOHN WAYNE<br />
CORNEL WILDE<br />
MARIE WILSON<br />
SHELLEY<br />
WINTERS<br />
JANE WYMAN<br />
ALAN YOUNG<br />
ROBERT YOUNG<br />
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JUNE<br />
ALLYSON and Bing<br />
Crosby, in that order, have won<br />
top honors for the second year<br />
among America's favorite film stars.<br />
Securing her lead over the masculine<br />
contingent by v/inning twice in<br />
a row, the little actress, whose name<br />
first appeared in the voting lists in<br />
1943, establishes herself as no flashin-the-pan,<br />
but as an example of the<br />
steady pull to popularity by means<br />
of a long string of solid successes at<br />
the boxoffice. She proves, again,<br />
that the American movie fan is not<br />
a fickle<br />
individual who changes his<br />
loyalties from year to year. Many<br />
things go into the making of a<br />
popular favorite. These include years<br />
of well-ployed roles in good pictures,<br />
a careful handling of the build-up<br />
through publicity plus, of course, the<br />
essential quality of personal magnetism.<br />
Miss Allyson seems to have<br />
demonstrated her ability to grasp<br />
and hold the affections of motion<br />
picture fans.<br />
Jane Wyman's rise to third place<br />
in the combined list is another<br />
example of the long years an actress<br />
may wait to win the favor of the fans.<br />
Five years ago, despite some ten<br />
years and 35 pictures before the<br />
camera, she did not place among<br />
runnersup in the poll, although she<br />
had a substantial number of hits behind<br />
her. Yet in the last three years<br />
she has reached the top rungs of<br />
the popularity ladder.<br />
Nosing out favorites of other years<br />
on the combined list, three feminine<br />
stars appear for the first time. Doris<br />
Day, Susan Hayward and Jeanne<br />
Grain displace Claudette Colbert,<br />
Loretta Young and Olivia de Havilland.<br />
Of last year's stars Clark<br />
Gable, Bob Hope and Spencer Tracy<br />
have slipped out, but John Wayne<br />
makes it for the first time. Crosby,<br />
Gregory Peck, Gary Grant and Gary<br />
Cooper of the old guard still reign,<br />
apparently indestructible in popularity.<br />
This year, as in all the years it has<br />
been in existence, the poll brings<br />
home the fact that stardom, in itself,<br />
THE WINNERS<br />
1. June Allyson<br />
2. Bing Crosby<br />
3. Jane Wyman<br />
4. Esther Williams<br />
5. Gregory Peck<br />
6. Gary Grant<br />
7. Gary Cooper<br />
8. Doris Day<br />
9. Susan Hayward<br />
10. Betty Grable<br />
11. leanne Grain<br />
12. John Wayne<br />
does not necessarily bring popularity.<br />
Nor will the movie fans vote into<br />
popularity a personality on the basis<br />
of a single smash hit. If this were<br />
true, then, stars such as Mario Lanza,<br />
with his performance in "The Great<br />
Caruso," Jose Ferrer in "Cyrano de<br />
Bergerac" and Judy Holliday of<br />
"Born Yesterday" would grace the<br />
winner lists.<br />
Progressing to the list of male winners<br />
the three newcomers are noteworthy.<br />
Gene Kelly and Montgomery<br />
Clift moved into this category from<br />
the male runnersup of last year. Both<br />
of these stars, hovering close, received<br />
boosts in great pictures which<br />
were of inestimable value in furthering<br />
their careers. In the case of<br />
Kelly, the almost revolutionary "An<br />
American in Paris" put his name on<br />
the lips of countless Americans.<br />
With Clift, it was "A Place in the<br />
Sun," in which his performance was<br />
outstanding.<br />
The entire industry has watched<br />
with keen interest the rise in the past<br />
two years of Dean Martin and Jerry<br />
Lewis. Grosses began to climb with<br />
"At War With the Army" and these<br />
two have become unquestionably<br />
the top favorite comedy team of the<br />
year. Whether this will remain a<br />
lasting popularity or burn itself out<br />
remains to be seen. But their teenage<br />
following seems to be second to<br />
none in a field where a duo of this<br />
magnitude is a very rare occurrence.<br />
Among the list of feminine stars,<br />
Ava Gardner and Jane Powell receive<br />
this accolade for the first time,<br />
rising from the ranks of runnersup<br />
in 1350.<br />
This year's poll was broken down<br />
to determine whether the men who<br />
manage the country's motion picture<br />
theatres feel the same way about the<br />
stars as do their patrons. It was<br />
found that these two groups are in<br />
definite disagreement. Exhibitors,<br />
who rate the value of a star on boxoffice<br />
performance almost exclusively,<br />
agree only in the instance of June<br />
Allyson as the top star of 1951.<br />
Among men stars, they consider<br />
John Wayne the biggest draw, and<br />
place only four other men in the top<br />
12—Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby and<br />
the Abbott and Costello team. Aside<br />
from these, they chose Esther Williams,<br />
Doris Day, Betty Grable, Mar<br />
jorie Main, Jeanne Grain, Jane Powol!<br />
and Susan Hayward, in the order<br />
named. The fact that John Wayne<br />
this year is 12th on the list of combined<br />
winners in the full poll and<br />
fifth among men stars would seem<br />
to indicate that, after the long pull<br />
through the years, the fans are tending<br />
to catch up with the exhibitors'<br />
estimate of this star.<br />
Exhibitors also evaluate highly<br />
Randolph Scott, Dean Martin and<br />
Jerry Lewis, Spencer Tracy, Van<br />
Johnson, Clark Gable and James<br />
Stewart among the men and Jane<br />
Wyman, Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette<br />
Colbert and Loretta Young among<br />
the women.<br />
In an effort to get a true representative crosssection<br />
of the stars the fans favor, questionnaires<br />
are sent to the following individuals and groups:<br />
1. A comprehensive list of newspaper motion<br />
picture editors.<br />
2. Independent theatre owners not .•subject to<br />
producer-affiUalion pressure or influences.<br />
3. National Screen Council Members, who each<br />
month select the outstanding picture thai is suitable<br />
for family entertainment, which then receives<br />
the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award. The Council<br />
is composed of newspaper and magazine motion<br />
picture editors, radio film commentators and representatives<br />
of better films councils, civic and<br />
.educational organizations.<br />
BOXOFFICE 19
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Esther<br />
Williams
Gregory<br />
Peck<br />
Gary<br />
Grant
Gary<br />
Cooper<br />
Doris<br />
Day<br />
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Susan<br />
H a y wa rd<br />
Betty<br />
Gra ble
Jeanne<br />
Grain<br />
John<br />
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MS out ... about ...<br />
VARIETY<br />
REPORTER<br />
It is a must see . . . Fredric March starred as Willy<br />
Loman in one of the great film performances of the<br />
year... shattering in its emotional impact... A memorable<br />
film experience.<br />
A dramatic masterpiece... gripping entertainment<br />
. . . Fredric<br />
March surely ranks as a leading contender<br />
in the awards tournament.<br />
FILM DAILY<br />
Fredric March's "Willy Loman" a brilliant rendition<br />
...immediately sets him up for consideration in the<br />
matter of masculine acting honors and awards.<br />
BOXOFFICE<br />
NOTION PICTURE DAILY<br />
Impressively mounted, skillfully and sensitively<br />
directed by Laslo Benedek, the picture is a field<br />
day of superb performances, with Fredric March<br />
dominating in the title role.<br />
Fredric March turns in a performance of matchless<br />
brilliance. Richly rewarding.<br />
The ^^word" is<br />
the greatest salesMnan<br />
tor ''So^^AfC
"THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC" .<br />
WHEN YOU'RE SMILING<br />
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When they get together<br />
Romance goes wild and<br />
Rhythm runs riot!<br />
MAN BLUES'<br />
^y With<br />
Raymond BURR<br />
Stofy and Screenplay by OON McGUIRE • Directed by JOSEPH PEVNEt • Produced by LEONARD GOLDSIEIN
THf flLL-flUlfRICfln SCfifEO fflVORIIfS Of 1951<br />
THE WINNERS:<br />
1. JUNE ALLYSON<br />
2. BING CROSBY<br />
3. JANE WYMAN<br />
4. ESTHER WILLIAMS<br />
5. GREGORY PECK<br />
6. GARY GRANT<br />
MALE<br />
1. Bing Crosby 8. James Stev/art<br />
2. Gregory Peck<br />
9. Bob Hope<br />
3. Cary Grant<br />
10. Gene Kelly<br />
4. Gary Cooper<br />
11. Montgomery Clift<br />
5. John Wayne<br />
G. Spencer Tracy 12. Dean Martin and<br />
7. Clark Gable Jerry Lewis<br />
Jeii<br />
The Runnersup:<br />
Chandler<br />
Alan Ladd<br />
Bud Abbott and<br />
Lou Costello<br />
Mario Lanza<br />
Van Johnson<br />
Fred Astaire<br />
Randolph ScotI<br />
Kirk Douglas<br />
William Holden<br />
loseph Gotten<br />
Dan Dailey<br />
Red Skelton<br />
Glenn Ford<br />
Dana Andrews<br />
Joel McCrea<br />
7. GARY COOPER<br />
8. DORIS DAY<br />
9. SUSAN HAYWARD<br />
10. BETTY GRABLE<br />
IL JEANNE GRAIN<br />
12. JOHN WAYNE<br />
FEMALE<br />
1. June AUyson 7. Jeanne Crain<br />
2. Jane Wyman 8. EUzabeth Taylor<br />
3. Esther Williams 9. Loretta Young<br />
4. Doris Day 10. Claudette Colbert<br />
5. Susan Haywardll. Ava Gardner<br />
6. Betty Grable 12. Jane Powell<br />
2^<br />
(Listed in Order oi HighesI Number of Votes Received)<br />
MALE<br />
Humphrey Bogart<br />
Marlon Brando<br />
Jose Ferrer<br />
Danny Kaye<br />
Farley Granger<br />
Burt Lancaster<br />
Fred MacMurray<br />
Clilton Webb<br />
Richard Widmark<br />
Ronald Colman<br />
Paul Douglas<br />
Roy Milland<br />
Lionel Barrymore<br />
Broderick CravHord<br />
Robert Taylor<br />
Walter Pidgeon<br />
Stewart Granger<br />
1. JuneAllyson 4. Gary Cooper<br />
2. John Wayne 5. Doris Day<br />
3. Esther Williams 6. Betty Grable<br />
1. John Wayne<br />
2. Gary Cooper<br />
3. Bing Crosby<br />
4. Abbott & Costello<br />
5. Randolph Scott<br />
6. Martin & Lewis<br />
MALE<br />
Bette Davis<br />
Barbara Stanwyck<br />
]udy Holliday<br />
Morjorie Main<br />
loon Crawford<br />
Shelley Winters<br />
Betty Hutton<br />
Ann Blyth<br />
Vivien Leigh<br />
Anne Baxter<br />
Ethel Barrymore<br />
Ruth Roman<br />
Irene Dunne<br />
Jane Russell<br />
Judy Garland<br />
Olivia de Hovilland<br />
HOW THE EXHIBITORS VOTED<br />
7. Spencer Tracy<br />
8. Van Johnson<br />
9. Clark Gable<br />
10. James Stewart<br />
11. Joel McCrea<br />
12. Alan Ladd<br />
FEMALE<br />
Lana Turner<br />
Virginia Mayo<br />
Janet Leigh<br />
Thelma Ritter<br />
June Haver<br />
Rosalind Russell<br />
Eve Arden<br />
Deborah Kerr<br />
Lucille<br />
Ball<br />
Gene Tiemey<br />
Katharine Hepburn<br />
Greer Garson<br />
Kathryn Grayson<br />
Ginger Rogers<br />
Maureen O'Hora<br />
Joan Fontaine<br />
7. Bing Crosby 10. Jeaime Crain<br />
8. Abbotts Costello 11. Jane Powell<br />
9. MarjorieMain 12. Susan Hayward<br />
1. June AUyson<br />
2. Esther Williams<br />
3. Doris Day<br />
4. Betty Grable<br />
5. Morjorie Main<br />
6. Jeanne Crain<br />
FEMALE<br />
7. Jane Powell<br />
8. Susan Hayward<br />
9. Jane Wyman<br />
10. Elizabeth Taylor<br />
11. Claudette Colbert<br />
12. Loretta Young<br />
The Medalists:<br />
Tyrone Power<br />
William Bendix<br />
Van Heflin<br />
Henry Fonda<br />
James Cagney<br />
Macdonold Carey<br />
Charles Laughton<br />
Ronald Reagan<br />
Howard Keel<br />
Robert Mitchum<br />
Percy Kilbride<br />
Robert Young<br />
Wendell Corey<br />
Jimmy Durante<br />
Barry Fitzgerald<br />
Gordon MacRae<br />
Fredric March<br />
James Mason<br />
George Sanders<br />
Rod Cameron<br />
Tony Curtis<br />
Edmund Gwenn<br />
Audie Murphy<br />
Rex Harrison<br />
Louis Calhern<br />
John Garfield<br />
Errol Flynn<br />
Joe E- Brown<br />
(Lis'ed in Order Named)<br />
Male<br />
Dick Powell<br />
Charles Boyer<br />
Claude Rains<br />
Steve Cochran<br />
John Hodiak<br />
Dennis Morgan<br />
Charles Coburn<br />
Frank Lovejoy<br />
John Derek<br />
Gene Nelson<br />
Keenan Wynn<br />
Robert Cummings<br />
Howard Duff<br />
Dennis Day<br />
Ricardo Montalban<br />
Douglas Fairbanks jr.<br />
Rhonda Fleming<br />
Lizabeth Scott<br />
Celeste Holm<br />
Mercedes<br />
McCambridge<br />
Gloria Swanson<br />
Dorothy McGuire<br />
Vera-EHen<br />
Eleanor Parker<br />
Arlene Dahl<br />
Hedy Lamarr<br />
Patricia Neal<br />
Jennifer Jones<br />
Linda Darnell<br />
Marlene Dietrich<br />
Spring Byington<br />
Yvonne De Carlo<br />
Rita Hayworth<br />
Corinne Calvet<br />
Joan Davis<br />
Joan Caulfield<br />
Piper Laurie<br />
Ida Lupino<br />
Joan Bennett<br />
Nancy Olson<br />
Ann Sheridan<br />
Sally Forrest<br />
Myrna Loy<br />
Margaret Sullavan<br />
Teresa Wright<br />
Barbara Hale<br />
Alexis Smith<br />
Mitzi Gaynor<br />
Marie Wilson<br />
Leslie Caron<br />
Debra Paget<br />
Pier Angeli<br />
David Wayne<br />
David Brian<br />
Charles Chaplin<br />
David Niven<br />
Donald O'Connor<br />
Peter Lawford<br />
William Lundigan<br />
John Payne<br />
Victor Mature<br />
Ezio Pinza<br />
Dale Robertson<br />
Lew Ayres<br />
Dan Duryea<br />
Vincent Price<br />
Richard Conte<br />
Pat O'Brien<br />
Rory Calhoun<br />
Jack Carson<br />
Leo Gorcey<br />
Richard Basehart<br />
Mel Ferrer<br />
Arthur Kennedy<br />
Cornel Wilde<br />
Dane Clark<br />
George Murphy<br />
Robert Ryan<br />
Ray Bolger<br />
Melvyn Douglas<br />
Dean Stockwell<br />
Scott Brady<br />
Gary Merrill<br />
William Powell<br />
Edward G. Robinson<br />
Monty Woolley<br />
Eddie Albert<br />
Brian Donlevy<br />
John Ireland<br />
Fernando Lamas<br />
John Lund<br />
Barry Sullivan<br />
Richard Todd<br />
Johnny WeissmuUer<br />
Orson Welles<br />
Tom Ewell<br />
Female<br />
Barbara Bel Geddes<br />
Dorothy Lamour<br />
Josephine Hull<br />
Diana Lynn<br />
Peggy Dow<br />
Margaret O'Brien<br />
Mono Freeman<br />
Susan Peters<br />
Marta Toren<br />
Claire Trevor<br />
Cyd Charisse<br />
Gloria DeHaven<br />
Paulette Goddard<br />
Lilli Palmer<br />
Ann Sothern<br />
Joan Leslie<br />
Maureen O'Sullivan<br />
Dinah Shore<br />
Joan Evans<br />
Gertrude Lawrence<br />
Jan Sterling<br />
Jean Peters<br />
Gail Russell<br />
Betsy Drake<br />
Wanda Hendrix<br />
Danielle Darrieux<br />
Joanne Dru<br />
Merle Oberon<br />
Shirley Temple<br />
Phyllis Thaxter<br />
Judith Anderson<br />
Lauren Bacall<br />
Sarah Churchill<br />
Laraine Day<br />
Evelyn Keyes<br />
Ann Miller<br />
Valli<br />
30 BAROMETER Section
NUMBER ONE MALE STAR IN<br />
BAROMETER<br />
"HERE COMES THE GROOM" -Bing's current release is<br />
a top-moneymaker of 1951. And in 1952 comes Bing's biggest<br />
of all^'JUST FOR YOU" co-starring<br />
Bing Crosby,<br />
Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore. Color by Technicolor.
HAL WALLIS PRODUCTIONS
PINE and THOMAS<br />
Current;<br />
"Hong Kong"<br />
Completed:<br />
"The Blazing Forest'<br />
Shooting:<br />
"Caribbean Gold"<br />
All in Color<br />
by<br />
Technicolor<br />
For<br />
PARAMOUNT<br />
BOXOFFICE 33
mericun l/Uedtern ^auorit<br />
IDING at the head of the pro-<br />
Jg)<br />
[vV cession this year again, Roy<br />
Rogers, with "Trigger" in parade<br />
gait, swings into every small<br />
town American Main street. He has<br />
maintained the front-and-center spot<br />
for nine years of undisputed rule over<br />
the affections of small boys and their<br />
g.-ownup counterparts. And for those<br />
nine years his footsteps have been<br />
persistently dogged by his contemporary,<br />
Gene Autry. Proving the love<br />
of the public for the "Toby" since<br />
tent show days, is the redoubtable<br />
George "Gabby" Hayes, representing<br />
tops in that necessary ingredient<br />
to all successful films, comic relief.<br />
Just behind the leading trio, and<br />
climbing steadily, is young Tim Holt.<br />
He seems to be taking the steps two<br />
at a time, since last year in sixth<br />
place, he settles into fourth as of<br />
1951.<br />
It is high time to polish up the<br />
saddle and the bridle and slick up<br />
the cowboys themselves for, riding<br />
full tilt into the rodeo arena, are a<br />
couple of gals ready to whoop it up<br />
v/ith the best of the male stars. Dale<br />
Evans and Judy Canova in fifth and<br />
sixth place respectively.<br />
The old bromide that 'there is<br />
nothing new under the sun" about<br />
Westerns was blown into a cocked<br />
hat in 1951. Not that the tried and<br />
true formulas were found wanting.<br />
But for reasons unknown, producers<br />
of the sagebrush-and-tumbleweed<br />
epics shifted their six-shooters and<br />
launched out in several new directions.<br />
These innovations seem to<br />
have met with the approval of the<br />
fans and it may well be that their<br />
ROY ROGERS<br />
THE<br />
1. Roy Rogers<br />
2. Gene Autry<br />
LEADERS<br />
3. George "Gabby" Hayes<br />
4. Tim Holt<br />
5. Dale Evans<br />
6. Judy Canova<br />
7. Smiley Bumette<br />
8. "Wild Bill" Elliott<br />
9. Rex Allen<br />
10. Charles Starrett<br />
numbers will have been increased<br />
thereby.<br />
To those who follow Westerns<br />
there has been a noticeable number<br />
of additions in story content. New<br />
situations, formerly considered<br />
proper grist for the standard featurewriting<br />
mill, have been lifted to embellish<br />
and enrich the old herornasquerades-as-a-villian<br />
theme. Historical<br />
incidents have, in more than<br />
a few instances, furnished the starting<br />
point for the standard exploits of<br />
the hero. The hero has even, on occasion,<br />
been given a new role to<br />
play. Invading the realms of the professions,<br />
he has become a doctor or<br />
a lawyer, albeit a hard-riding and<br />
hard-shooting doctor or lawyer. Like<br />
the music which goes round and<br />
round and comes out here, the performances<br />
are usually the same, but<br />
certainly the element of change has<br />
been introduced.<br />
Women, formerly delegated to a<br />
position below that of the hero's<br />
horse in importance in Westerns,<br />
have been given a new prominence.<br />
More women and children are being<br />
cast as supernumeraries as a routine<br />
measure. Leading women, in particular,<br />
have been given more to do<br />
and more to say. In fact, for the first<br />
time the names of women appeared<br />
on the ballot of AII-American favorites.<br />
Achieving this recognition, of<br />
c standing with the fans in their own<br />
right, were Dale Evans, Judy Canova<br />
and the moppet, Eilene Janssen.<br />
In the case of Miss Evans, a better<br />
share of the honors has been evident<br />
since her marriage to Roy Rogers.<br />
The publicity tour she made with<br />
her husband added to her popularity,<br />
and to his. The leavening ingredient<br />
introduced into the standard<br />
fare has made the Western a betterbalanced<br />
article of the motion picture<br />
diet.<br />
Judy Canova was launched during<br />
1951 in a picture, "Honeychile,"<br />
which is the first of a series designed<br />
to give her prominence as the Queen<br />
of the Cowgirls. Certainly a new departure<br />
m that, for the first time in<br />
a long while, a woman is to be the<br />
star of a western series, and her producers<br />
display such confidence that<br />
hers is the only "name" in the cast.<br />
This would seem to bear out the fact<br />
that woman's sphere is definitely no<br />
longer the home and the sunset.<br />
The same studio has sponsored<br />
still another innovation, that of a<br />
well-planned, long-range operation<br />
in exploiting tv/o youngsters, Eilene<br />
Janssen and Michael Chapin, as<br />
western stars. The idea being that<br />
they be given experience and buildup<br />
as child stars, with the hope that<br />
such buildup will result in adult popularity<br />
in a few years. So far three<br />
pictures starring the pair have been<br />
released, "Buckaroo Sheriff of<br />
Texas," "Arizona Manhunt" and<br />
"The Dakota Kid."<br />
With public acceptance of these<br />
departures from precedent a wellestablished<br />
fact, who can say what<br />
new and wonderful things may be<br />
added in the realm of this old, but<br />
greatly loved, field of motion picture<br />
entertainment. The task of the producers<br />
will be to keep all the "old"<br />
that is good and to sift carefully and<br />
discard or accept those new things<br />
which will add interest and. color to<br />
the product. In so doing, they may<br />
find that they have tapped a flood of<br />
new audiences which will assure an<br />
even greater degree of success for<br />
this perennial favorite.<br />
GENE AUTRY
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. "The<br />
. . "We<br />
—<br />
—<br />
C^uftoond ^ead tke S^kort ^ubiectd J-^av^ade<br />
by VELMA WEST SYKES<br />
TAKING<br />
A POLL of short subjects<br />
among exhibitors is about the most<br />
reliable way of finding out how popular<br />
shorts are as the "dessert" portion of a<br />
theatre program. Commenting on his ballot,<br />
one exhibitor wrote, "E^'eryone likes<br />
short subjects—we ought to play more of<br />
them." And another was able to pick the<br />
top winners in the series field, for he wrote,<br />
"Bugs Bunny Specials and Tom & Jerry<br />
Cartoons are oui- best ones." That seemed<br />
to be the way the majority felt, for Warner's<br />
Bugs Bunny Specials zoomed into<br />
top place this year, with Tom & Jerry<br />
Cartoons closely crowding that position.<br />
Last year the positions were reversed, so it<br />
will be interesting to see if this seesaw<br />
keeps up in their relative support by the<br />
public taste. Another exhibitor insisted,<br />
Said still<br />
"MGM and WB make the best shorts."<br />
another, "MGM's shorts are consistently<br />
the best—they have new and<br />
fresh<br />
ideas."<br />
Disney Cartoons (RKO) held to third<br />
place where that series had scored last<br />
year, but there was a tie for fourth place<br />
Woody Woodpecker Cartunes (U-I) and<br />
Pete Smith Specialties (MGM). Last year<br />
March of Time (20th-Fox) was fourth this<br />
year, seventh. Popeye Cartoons (Para)<br />
moved up a notch to fifth place, and<br />
Stooge Comedies (Col) came up from<br />
eighth to sixth place. Merrie Melodies<br />
Looney Tunes (WB) fell back one, to ninth<br />
place, and this year Grantland Rice<br />
Sportlights (Para) shared tenth place with<br />
Joe McDoakes Comedies (WBi.<br />
From this series popularity choice, it<br />
would seem that people like their shorts<br />
humorous and a little on the "goofy" side.<br />
Lest this conclusion be reached too<br />
hastily, however, it would be well to examine<br />
the results of the poll of single<br />
short subjects chosen. The first is RKO's<br />
Disney featurette, "Nature's Half Acre,"<br />
and since last year's top position went to<br />
Disney's "Beaver Valley," either the public<br />
likes longer shorts, nature realism, or<br />
it just likes factual subjects treated with<br />
imaginative artistry.<br />
Truth may not only be stranger than<br />
fiction, it may be more popular, for the<br />
short given second place was "Dobbin<br />
Steps Out" (Para), a Sportlight taken at<br />
the American Royal in Kansas City in<br />
which exhibitor George Baker's daughter,<br />
Linda, rides. "The Popcorn Story" (Col)—<br />
third from the top—is, of course, in the<br />
spoofing tradition, as is "Jerry's Cousin"<br />
(MGM), number 4. "Enchanted Islands"<br />
(WB) combines the two, with unusual<br />
color and narration, but has to shai'e fifth<br />
place honors with "Stage Struck" (20th-<br />
Fox), a delightful little fantasy of a baby<br />
elephant that wants to get into the circus<br />
act.<br />
Sixth place went to "Spooky Wooky"<br />
(RKO), a Leon Errol comedy. In this connection,<br />
one exhibitor wrote, "It is too bad<br />
Errol died. Maybe the type can be con-<br />
1—Bugs Bunny Specials (WB)<br />
2—Tom
TO THE EXHIBITORS OF AMERICA:<br />
In recognition of your voting<br />
JOHN WAYNE top male star<br />
of<br />
the year in the BOXOFFICE<br />
BAROMETER POLL....<br />
REPUBLIC PICTURES<br />
proudly presents<br />
in his greatest<br />
boxoffice performance<br />
I<br />
n<br />
John Ford's<br />
TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTION<br />
^r^ THE<br />
Uuiet<br />
Man
1<br />
Picture Records at the Nation's Boxoffices<br />
GROSSES<br />
Vhe iUIA<br />
55 Features in "Hit" Class<br />
Scoring 120% or<br />
More<br />
llpEATURE releases for 1950-51 and the box-<br />
•"l office records made by them are challenging<br />
to those who have pictured motion<br />
pictures as on their way out of the public entertainment<br />
field. Not only were 371 features<br />
released the past season in comparison with<br />
359 for 1949-50, but of these releases, 168 are<br />
shown to have done average business (100<br />
per cent) or better in theatre first runs and 55<br />
of them were top hits—playing to 120 per cent<br />
or over. Last season there were 53 in the top<br />
hit class and 136 did average business or better.<br />
A study of the report shows that 45 per cent,<br />
nearly half, were average grossers; and better<br />
than 10 per cent of the whole became top hits.<br />
Tell that to the gloom-spreaders!<br />
While figures for the average base percentage<br />
gross must be changed every few<br />
months, the economy is naturally geared for<br />
making a reasonable profit. The top grosser,<br />
"David and Bathsheba" scored 211 for the<br />
1950-51 season as compared with "Samson<br />
and Delilah" which ran up to 221 per cent for<br />
1949-50. There were still two features for the<br />
present season that did more than 200 per cent<br />
of average business, and eight did more than<br />
150 per cent. This is, not as many in that<br />
bracket as last season's figures, which show<br />
13 with 150 per cent business or better. Also,<br />
last season seven did more than 140 per cent<br />
and only six came that high this season. Going<br />
further, 14 .did 130 per cent or more last year<br />
and only ten this year. However, 31 came<br />
over the top at 120 per cent or more this year<br />
compared with 19 in that bracket last year. So<br />
the picture as a whole is still good from the<br />
boxoffice standpoint.<br />
This year 12 of the top hits were winners of<br />
the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award compared<br />
to 1 1 last year—which means that all of the pictures<br />
selected by the National Screen Council<br />
for their family entertainment this year were<br />
top money-makers. This is a wholesome note<br />
on the public's taste in screenfare,<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer again had the most<br />
releases which were top grossers, producing 1<br />
hits. The runnerup was 20th Century-Fox, with<br />
ten hits. The other companies were represented<br />
by the following, in the order of the number<br />
produced Warner Bros, had seven. Paramount<br />
and RKO tied with six each. United<br />
Artists, five Universal-International, four; Republic,<br />
two; Lopert, one.<br />
(These Scored Ratings of 150°o or More)<br />
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (20th-Fox)<br />
SHOW BOAT (MGM)<br />
THAT'S MY BOY (Para)<br />
TALES OF HOFFMANN (Loperl)<br />
WKING SOLOMON'S MINES (MGM)<br />
RIVER, THE (UA)<br />
IJGREAT CARUSO. THE (MGM)<br />
4>ALICE IN<br />
WONDERLAND (RKO)<br />
211<br />
201<br />
179<br />
.168<br />
176<br />
170<br />
1S7<br />
157<br />
(These Scored Ratings of 140% or More)<br />
BORN YESTERDAY (Col) 149<br />
AT WAR WITH THE ARMY (Para) 148<br />
WKIM (MGM) 146<br />
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (UA) 146<br />
OCAPTAIN HORATIO HOHNBLOWER (WB) 142<br />
^FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND (MGM) 142<br />
These Scored Ratings of 130% or More)<br />
HALLS OF MONTEZUMA (20th-Fox) 138<br />
UHARVEY (U-I) 138<br />
^.'ROYAL WEDDING (MGM) 138<br />
DALLAS (WB) 137<br />
OUR VERY OWN (RKO) 137<br />
THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, THE (RKO) 137<br />
OPERATION PACIFIC (WB) 135<br />
MR. MUSIC (Para) 133<br />
KON-TIKI (RKO) 131<br />
WON THE RIVIERA (20lh-Fox) 130<br />
ij'Winners of Blue Ribbon Award<br />
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'.<br />
What Thry lliil in h'irsi lliiiiv . (lulslandiiii! Ilil.v<br />
T<br />
Key Cities From Which Averages Were Computed:<br />
Baltimore Cincinnati Detroit Minneapolis Philadelphia<br />
Boston Cleveland Indianapolis New Haven Pittsburgh<br />
Bullalo Dallas Kansas City Now York San Francisco<br />
Chicago Denver Los Angeles Omaha Seattle<br />
And intermediate cities and typical small town situations.<br />
mt.<br />
(These Scored Ratings of<br />
120% or More)<br />
ALL ABOUT EVE (20th-Fox) 129<br />
GO FOR BROKE (MGM) 129<br />
MACBETH (Rep) 127<br />
TEA FOR TWO (WB) 127<br />
TOMAHAWK (U-I) 126<br />
ILL GET BY (20th-Fox) 125<br />
ON MOONLIGHT BAY (WB) 125<br />
PAGAN LOVE SONG (MGM) 125<br />
iJFANCY PANTS (Para) 124<br />
OLIVER TWIST (UA) 124<br />
PEOPLE WILL TALK (20th-Fox) 124<br />
RICH, YOUNG AND PRETTY (MGM) 124<br />
UP FRONT (U-I) 124<br />
OTREASURE ISLAND (RKO) 123<br />
WEST POINT STORY, THE (WB) 123<br />
TO PLEASE A LADY (MGM) 122<br />
TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS (MGM) 122<br />
VALENTINO (Col) 122<br />
OFROGMEN, THE (20th-Fox) 121<br />
LULLABY OF BROADWAY (WB) 121<br />
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE<br />
INVISIBLE MAN (U-I) 120<br />
CALL ME MISTER (20th-Fox) 120<br />
FABIOLA (UA) 120<br />
FIVE (Col) 120<br />
FOR HEAVENS SAKE (20th-Fox) 120<br />
LEMON DROP KID, THE (Para) 120<br />
OF MEN AND MUSIC (20th-Fox) 120<br />
168 Features Out of 371<br />
Do Average or Better<br />
A<br />
Abbott and Costello Meet the<br />
Invisible Man (U-I) 120<br />
According to Mrs. Hoyle (Mono) 86<br />
Air Cadet (U-I) 94<br />
Al Jennings of Oklahoma (Col) 105<br />
Alice in Wonderland (RKO) 157<br />
All About Eve (20th-Fox) 129<br />
Along the Great Divide (WB) 100<br />
American Guerrilla in the<br />
Philippines (20th-Fox)<br />
113<br />
Apache Drums (U-I) 39<br />
Appointment With Danger (Para) 95<br />
As You Were (LP) 95<br />
As Young as You Feel (20th-Fox) 86<br />
At War With the Army (Para) 148<br />
B<br />
Bandit Queen (LP) 97<br />
Bedtime for Bonzo (U-I) 100<br />
Belle Le Grand (Rep) 99<br />
Best of the Badmen (RKO) 87<br />
Between Midnight and Dawn (Col) 103<br />
Big Carnival, The (Para) 113<br />
Big Gusher, The (Col) 95<br />
Bird of Paradise (20th-Fox) 110<br />
Blue Blood (Mono) 95<br />
Blue Lamp, The (UA) *<br />
Born to Be Bad (RKO) 99<br />
Born Yesterday (Col) 149<br />
Bowery Battalion (Mono) 100<br />
Branded (Para) 116<br />
Brave Bulls, The (Col) 95<br />
Breaking Point, The (WB) 103<br />
Breakthrough (WB) 116<br />
Bullfighter and the Lady (Rep) 88<br />
Bunco Squad (RKO) 100<br />
C<br />
California Passage (Rep) 99<br />
Call Me Mister (20th-Fox) 120<br />
Captain Horatio Hornblower (WB) 142<br />
CasQ Manana (Mono) 90<br />
Cassino to Korea (Para) 86<br />
Cattle Drive (U-I) 35<br />
PAYMENT ON DEMAND (RKO) 120<br />
RIO GRANDE (Rep) 120<br />
TRIO (Para) 120<br />
Editor's Note: 100% is average or normal business.<br />
'Insufficient reports for computation.<br />
WELL, THE (UA)<br />
BOXOFFICE<br />
1^0<br />
fWesterns not included.<br />
39
I<br />
FOR SHOWMEN ONLY!<br />
Produced and Directed by PAUL HENREID<br />
PAUL HENREIDi."FOR MEN ONLY"<br />
with MARGARET FIELD • JAMES OOBSON<br />
and Douglas Kennedy<br />
•<br />
Robert Cafson<br />
• Virginia Mullen •<br />
0. Z Whitehead<br />
mlroducing Kathleen Hughes Vera Miles • Russell Johnson • Robert Sherman<br />
' Screenplay by LOU MORHEIM from a story by Lou Morhelm and Herbert Margolis* A Lippert Pictures Presentation<br />
MORE PROFIT WITH LIPPERT!<br />
READY FOR BOOKING -NOW!
-/ Icture Cy/ro55ed<br />
Cause for Alc(rm (MGM) 85<br />
Cavalry Scout (Mono) 95<br />
Chain Gang (Col) 100<br />
Chain of Circumstance (Col) '37<br />
China Corsair (Col) 82<br />
Circle of Danger (UA) 95<br />
Comin' Round the Mountain (U-I) 95<br />
Company She Keeps, The (RKO) 101<br />
Convicted (Col) 112<br />
Copper Canyon (Para) 105<br />
Corky of Gasoline Alley (Col) 91<br />
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (Col) 100<br />
Cry Danger (RKO) 98<br />
Cuban Fireball (Rep) 96<br />
Cyrano de Bergerac (UA) -146<br />
D<br />
Dallas (WB) 137<br />
Danger Zone (LP) 95<br />
Dark City (Para) 98<br />
David and Bathsheba (20th-Fox) 211<br />
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (20th-Fox) 116<br />
Dear Brat (Para) 91<br />
Deported (U-I) 98<br />
Devil's Doorway (MGM) 103<br />
Dial 1119 (MGM) 97<br />
Disc Jockey (Mono) 95<br />
Double Crossbones ( U-I ) 94<br />
Double Deal (RKO) 96<br />
E<br />
Edge of Doom (RKO) 101<br />
Elephant Stampede (Mono) 104<br />
Emergency Wedding (Col) 94<br />
Enforcer, The (WB) 115<br />
Excuse My Dust (MGM) 112<br />
Experiment Alcatraz (RKO) 95<br />
F<br />
Fabiola (UA) 120<br />
Fancy Pants (Para) 124<br />
Farewell to Yesterday (20th-Fox) 87<br />
Fat Man, The (U-I) 88<br />
Father Takes the Air (Mono) 90<br />
Father's Little Dividend (MGM) 142<br />
Father's Wild Game (Mono) 89<br />
Fighting Coast Guard (Rep) 98<br />
Fingerprints Don't Lie (LP) 91<br />
Fireball, The (20th-Fox) 94<br />
First Legion, The (UA) 114<br />
Five (Col) 120<br />
Flame of Stamboul (Col) 95<br />
Flying Missile, The (Col) 94<br />
Follow the Sun (20th-Fox) 101<br />
Footlight Varieties (RKO) 97<br />
For Heaven's Sake (20th-Fox) 120<br />
Fort Worth (WB) 97<br />
Four in a Jeep (UA).. 109<br />
Fourteen Hours (20th-Fox) 91<br />
Francis Goes to the Races (U-I) 115<br />
Frenchie (U-I) 108<br />
Frogmen, The (20th-Fox) 121<br />
Fugitive Lady (Rep) 100<br />
Fuller Brush Girl, The (Col) 100<br />
Fury of the Congo (Col) 93<br />
G<br />
Gambling House (RKO) 90<br />
Gasoline Alley (Col) 97<br />
Ghost Chasers (Mono) 95<br />
GI Jane (LP) 92<br />
Glass Menagerie, The (WB) 105<br />
Go for Broke! (MGM) 123<br />
God Needs Men (A.F.E. Corp.) 115<br />
Golden Horde, The (U-I) 103<br />
Golden Salamander (UA) 100<br />
Goodbye, My Fancy (WB) 96<br />
Great Caruso, The (MGM) 167<br />
Great Manhunt, The (Col) 102<br />
Great Missouri Raid, The (Para) 97<br />
Groom Wore Spurs, The (U-I) 92<br />
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) 95<br />
Gypsy Fury (Mono) 93<br />
Guy Who Came Back, The (20th-Fox) 106<br />
H<br />
Half Angel (20th-Fox) 103<br />
Halls of Montezuma (20th-Fox) 138<br />
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (RKO) 96<br />
Harriet Craig (Col) 106<br />
Harvey (U-I) 138<br />
He Ran All the Way (UA) 107<br />
Her First Romance (Col) 98<br />
He's a Cockeyed Wonder (Col) 104<br />
Highly Dangerous (LP) 91<br />
Highway 301 (WB) 104<br />
Highwayman, The (Mono) 80<br />
Hit Parade of 1951 (Rep) 85<br />
Hollywood Story (U-I) 91<br />
Home Town Boy (LP) *<br />
Home Town Story (MGM) 96<br />
Hoodlum, The (UA) 95<br />
Hotel Sahara (UA) 96<br />
House on Telegraph Hill (20th-Fox) 97<br />
Hunt the Man Down (RKO) 104<br />
Hurricane Island (Col) 98<br />
I<br />
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (20th-Fox)....110<br />
I Was an American Spy (Mono) 97<br />
I Was a Communist for the FBI (WB) 109<br />
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (20th-Fox)....105<br />
I'll Get By (20th-Fox) 125<br />
Inheritance, The (Fine Arts) 101<br />
Inside Straight (MGM) 96<br />
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (WB) 92<br />
Insurance Investigator (Rep) 92<br />
Interrupted Journey (Lopert) 100<br />
Iron Man (U-I) 110<br />
I<br />
Jackpot, The (20th-Fox) 107<br />
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PRODUCER<br />
In<br />
Distribution:<br />
When Worlds Collide<br />
In<br />
Preparation:<br />
H. G. Wells'<br />
The War of the Worlds<br />
The Houdini Story<br />
42 BAROMETER Section
. . , The<br />
Picture<br />
Q,TOAAeA<br />
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (Mono).... 90<br />
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (Mono) 90<br />
lungle Headhunters (RKO) 100<br />
K<br />
Kansas Raiders (U-I) 97<br />
Katie Did It (U-I) 95<br />
Kentucky Jubilee (LP) 90<br />
Killer That Stalked New York, The (Col) 95<br />
Kim (MGM) 146<br />
Kind Lady (MGM) 100<br />
King Solomon's Mines (MGM) 176<br />
Kon-Tiki (RKO) 131<br />
Korea Patrol (UA) 96<br />
L<br />
Lady and the Bandit, The (Col) 97<br />
Lady From Texas, The (U-I) 78<br />
Last of the Buccaneers (Col) 91<br />
Last Outpost, The (Para) 96<br />
Law and the Lady, The (MGM) 89<br />
Leave It to the Marines (LP) 95<br />
Lemon Drop Kid, The (Para) 120<br />
Let's Dance (Para) 107<br />
Let's Go Navy (Mono) 95<br />
Ufe of Her Own, A (MGM) 115<br />
Lightning Strikes Twice (WB) 96<br />
Lion Hunters, The (Mono) 88<br />
Little Ballerina (U-I) *<br />
Little Big Horn (LP) 106<br />
Little Egypt (U-I) 95<br />
Long Dark Hall, The (UA) 92<br />
Lorna Doone (Col) 96<br />
Lost Continent (LP) 107<br />
Louisa (U-I) 117<br />
Lucky Nick Cain (20th-Fox) 102<br />
Lullaby of Broadway (WB) 121<br />
M<br />
"M" (Col) 110<br />
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (U-I) 110<br />
Macbeth (Rep) 127<br />
Mad Wednesday (RKO) 97<br />
Madeleine (U-I) *<br />
Magnet, The (U-I) 107 .<br />
Magnificent Yankee, The (MGM) 93*<br />
Man From Planet X, The (UA) 98<br />
Man Who Cheated Himself, The (20th-Fox).. 97<br />
Man With My Face, The (UA) 99<br />
Mark of the Renegade (U-I) 96<br />
Mask of the Avenger (Col) 97<br />
Mask of the Dragon (LP) 92<br />
Massacre Hill (Int'l Rel) 95<br />
Mating Season, The (Para) 102<br />
Meet Me After the Show {20th-Fox) 118<br />
Milkman, The (U-I) 99<br />
Million Dollar Pursuit (Rep) 90<br />
Millionaire for Christy, A (20th-Fox) 96<br />
Miniver Story, The (MGM) 88<br />
Missing Women (Rep) 95<br />
Mister Drake's Duck (UA) 80<br />
Mister 880 (20th-Fox) 116<br />
Mister Universe (UA) 93<br />
Modern Marriage, A (Mono) 90<br />
Molly (Para) 93<br />
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th-Fox) 113<br />
Mr. Music (Para) 133<br />
Mr. Peek-a-Boo (UA) 87<br />
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (MGM) 96<br />
Mudlark, The (20th-Fox) 116<br />
My Forbidden Past (RKO) 109<br />
My Outlaw Brother (UA) 87<br />
My True Story (Col) 96<br />
Mystery Submarine (U-I) 93<br />
N<br />
Naughty Arlette (UA) 95<br />
Native Son (Classic Pictures) 115<br />
Navy Bound (Mono) 97<br />
Never a Dull Moment (RKO) 98<br />
Never Trust a Gambler (Col) 98<br />
New Mexico (UA) 104<br />
Next Voice You Hear . (MGM) 92<br />
Night Into Morning (MGM) 90<br />
No Questions Asked (MGM) 99<br />
No Way Out (20th-Fox)<br />
Ill<br />
O<br />
Obsessed (UA) 88<br />
Odette (UA) 96<br />
Of Men and Music (20th-Fox) 120<br />
Oh! Susanna (Rep) 89<br />
Oliver Twist (UA) 124<br />
One Minute to Twelve (UA) *<br />
On Moonlight Bay (WB) 125<br />
On the Riviera (20th-Fox) 130<br />
Only the Valiant (WB) 114<br />
Operation Disaster (U-1) 87<br />
Operation Pacific (WB) 135<br />
Operation X (Col) 98<br />
Our Very Own (RKO) ., 137<br />
Outrage (RKO) 97<br />
P<br />
Pagan Love Song (MGM) 125<br />
Painted Hills, The (MGM) 89<br />
Paper Gallows (UA) 105<br />
Pardon My French (UA) 90<br />
Paris 1900 (Mayer) 100<br />
Passage West (Para) 99<br />
Payment on Demand (RKO) 120<br />
Peking Express (Para) 96<br />
People Will Talk (20th-Fox) 124<br />
Petty Girl, The (Col) 110<br />
Pickup (Col) 109<br />
Pier 23 (LP) 90<br />
Pool of London (U-I) 88<br />
Prehistoric Women (UA) 116<br />
Prelude to Fame (U-I) 98<br />
Pretty Baby (WB) 97<br />
Pride of Maryland (Rep) 96<br />
Prince Who Was a Thief, The (U-I) 107<br />
Prowler, The (UA) 102<br />
Pygmy Island (Col) 100<br />
BOXOFFICE 43
Number 1<br />
COWBOY STAR<br />
9TH CONSECUTIVE<br />
YEAR<br />
ROY ROGERS<br />
"King of the Cowboys"<br />
and<br />
TRIGGER<br />
"Smartest Horse<br />
In the Movies"<br />
Current Picture "Son of Paleface"<br />
Co-Starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell<br />
A Paramount Picture in Technicolor<br />
RCA-Victor Recording Artist<br />
Exclusive Management<br />
ART RUSH, INC.<br />
Hollywood<br />
Public Relations<br />
Director<br />
ALRACKIN — Hollywood<br />
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Hollywood<br />
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44 BAROMETER Section
Thanks to Exhibitors and Newspaper Editors from .<br />
DALE EVANS<br />
"Queen of the West"<br />
. .<br />
Co-Star of "The Roy Rogers Show" Radio and TV-NBC Network<br />
Sponsored by Post Cereals<br />
RCA-Victor Recording Artist<br />
Rodeos and Personal Appearances<br />
Exclusive Management<br />
Art Rush, Inc., Hollywood<br />
Public Relations<br />
Al Rackin, Hollywood<br />
Commercial Tie-Ups<br />
Dale Evans Enterprises<br />
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f-^^icture<br />
Cy/roddeA<br />
Q<br />
Quebec (Para) 92<br />
Queen for a Day (UA) 84<br />
R<br />
Raton Pass (WB) 99<br />
Rawhide (20th-Fox) 115<br />
Redhead and the Cowboy, The (Para) 97<br />
Reunion in Reno (U-I) 78<br />
Revenue Agent (Col) 97<br />
Rhythm Inn (Mono) 95<br />
Rich, Young and Pretty (MGM) 124<br />
Right Cross (MGM) 102<br />
Rio Grande (Rep) 120<br />
River, The (UA) 170<br />
Roaring City (LP) 94<br />
Rocky Mountain (V/B) 106<br />
Rogue River (UA) 95<br />
Rookie Fireman (Col) 97<br />
Royal Wedding (MGM) 138<br />
S<br />
Santa Fe (Col) 100<br />
Savage Drums (LP) 96<br />
Scarf, The (UA) 99<br />
Sealed Cargo (RKO) 92<br />
Second Face, The (UA) 97<br />
Second Woman, The (UA) 99<br />
Secret of Convict Lake, The (20th-Fox) 107<br />
Secrets of Monte Carlo (Rep) 88<br />
September Affair (Para) 104<br />
Seven Days to Noon (Distinguished Films).... 87<br />
Short Grass (Mono) 102<br />
Show Boat (MGM) 201<br />
Sierra Passage (Mono) 97<br />
Sirocco (Col) 106<br />
Skipalong Rosenbloom (UA) 89<br />
Sky High (LP) 83<br />
Smuggler's Gold (Col) 98<br />
Smuggler's Island (U-1) 93<br />
So Long at the Fair (UA) 116<br />
Soldiers Three (MGM) 96<br />
Southside 1-1000 (Mono) 98<br />
St. Benny the Dip (UA) 94<br />
Stage to Tucson (Col) 103<br />
Steel Helmet, The (LP) 112<br />
Stop That Cob (LP) 91<br />
Storm Warning (WB) 105<br />
Strangers on a Train (WB) 115<br />
Strictly Dishonorable (MGM) 93<br />
Strip, The (MGM) 99<br />
Sugarfoot (WB) 109<br />
Sun Sets at Dawn, The (UA) 94<br />
Surrender (Rep) 97<br />
Sword of Monte Cristo (20th-Fox) 92<br />
T<br />
Take Care of My Little Girl (20th-Fox) 116<br />
Tales of Hoffmann (Lopert) 178<br />
Tail Target, The (MGM) 98<br />
Taming of Dorothy, The (UA) *<br />
Target Unknown (U-1) 100<br />
Tarzan's Peril (RKO) 90<br />
Tea for Two (WB) 127<br />
: 98<br />
Teresa (MGM) 98<br />
Texan Meets Calamity Jane, The (Col) 95<br />
Texas Rangers, The (Col) 103<br />
That's My Boy (Para) 179<br />
They Were Not Divided (UA) *<br />
Thing From Another World, The (RKO) 137<br />
13th Letter, The (20th-Fox) 91<br />
Three Desperate Men (LP)<br />
Three Guys Named Mike (MGM) 108<br />
Three Husbands (UA) 98<br />
Three Secrets (WB) 103<br />
Three Steps North (UA) 93<br />
Thunder on the Hill (U-I) 104<br />
To Please a Lady (MGM) 122<br />
Toast of New Orleans (MGM) 122<br />
Tokyo File 212 (RKO) 93<br />
Tomahawk (U-I) 126<br />
Tony Draws a Horse (Fine Arts) 103<br />
Tougher They Come, The (Col) 101<br />
Treasure Island (RKO) 123<br />
Trio (Para) 120<br />
Tripoli (Para) 103<br />
Try and Get Me (UA) 95<br />
Two Flags West (20th-Fox) 108<br />
Two Gals and a Guy (UA) 100<br />
Two Lost Worlds (UA) 96<br />
Two of a Kind (Col) 101<br />
Two Weeks With Love (MGM) 112<br />
U<br />
Under the Gun (U-I) 86<br />
Undercover Girl (U-I) 87<br />
Union Station (Para) 104<br />
Up Front (U-I) 124<br />
V<br />
Valentino (Col) 122<br />
Varieties on Parade (LP) 98<br />
Vendetta (RKO) 106<br />
Vengeance Valley (MGM) 113<br />
Vicious Years, The (Mono) 94<br />
W<br />
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO) 93<br />
Warpath (Para) 96<br />
Watch the Birdie (MGM) 110<br />
Well, The (UA) 120<br />
West Point Story, The (WB) 123<br />
When I Grow Up (UA) 93<br />
When the Redskins Rode (Col) 93<br />
When You're Smiling (Col) 97<br />
Where Danger Lives (RKO) 103<br />
Whistle at Eaton Falls, The (Col) 80<br />
Wicked City, The (UA) 109<br />
Woman on the Run (U-I) 96<br />
Wooden Horse, The (Snader) 117<br />
Wyoming Mail (U-I) 92<br />
y<br />
Yank in Korea, A (Col) 91<br />
Yellow Fin (Mono) 93<br />
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (LP) 89<br />
You Never Can Tell (U-I) 94<br />
You're in the Navy Now (20th-Fox) 105<br />
46 BAROMETEH Section
Your First<br />
Three Dividends<br />
on that<br />
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ALLIED ARTISTS<br />
iSuarantce<br />
of a<br />
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^<br />
Allied Artists presents "THE HIGHWAYMAN" . A Jack Dietz Production starring PHILIP FRIEND • CHARLES COBURN . WANDA HENDRIX costarnng<br />
Cecil Kellaway • Victor Jory • Produced by Hal E. Chester • Based on the poem by Alfred Noyes • Directed by Lesley Selander • Screenplay by Jan Jeffries<br />
Monogram Pictures presents "FLIGHT TO MARS" starring MARGUERITE CHAPMAN • CAMERON MITCHELL with Arthur Franz • Virginia Huston • John Litel<br />
Morris Ankrum • Produced by Walter Mirisch • Directed by Lesley Selander . Screenplay by Arthur Strawn<br />
Monogram<br />
Pictures<br />
presents<br />
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INECOLOR<br />
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"ALADDIN and HIS LAMP" . A WALTER WANGER Production starring PATRICIA MEDINA • JOHN SANDS<br />
with Richard Erdman • Directed by Lew Landers • Screenplay by Howard Dimsdale and Millard Kaufman
A<br />
Distinguished<br />
Year<br />
ARTHUR<br />
for<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
LUBIN<br />
"FRANCIS"<br />
(Universal- International)<br />
"QUEEN FOR A DAY"<br />
{Robert Stillman— United Artists Productions)<br />
'RHUBARB'<br />
(Paramount)<br />
'FRANCIS GOES TO THE RACES"<br />
(Universe I- International)<br />
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BAROMETER Ssciion
COMING FROM<br />
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The Never To Be Forgotten<br />
SNOW WHITE<br />
AND THE SEVEN DWARFS<br />
Brought back by popular demand<br />
For February 1952 Release<br />
NOW FILMING IN<br />
ENGLAND<br />
The<br />
Story<br />
of<br />
ROBIN HOOD<br />
AN ALL LIVE-ACTION PICTURE<br />
Starring<br />
Richard Todd as Robin Hood<br />
Joan Rice as Maid Marian<br />
August 1952 Release<br />
* • •<br />
IN<br />
PRODUCTION<br />
Another Great All Cartoon<br />
Feature Production<br />
PETER PAN<br />
For 1953 Release<br />
All in Color<br />
By Technicolor<br />
Distributed by<br />
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Wedtern l^ecords<br />
One-Third of<br />
Westerns<br />
Hit Average or Better<br />
A<br />
Abilene Trail (Mono) 90<br />
Arizona Manhunt (Rep) 90<br />
B<br />
Badman's Gold (UA) 98<br />
Blazing Bullets (Mono) 85<br />
Blazing Sun, The (Col) 80<br />
Bonanza Town (Col) 100<br />
Border Fence (Astor) 90<br />
Border Outlaws (UA) 90<br />
Border Treasure (RKO) 88<br />
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (Rep) 88<br />
M<br />
Man From Sonora (Mono) 90<br />
Montana Desperado (Mono)<br />
. 95<br />
N<br />
Nevada Badmen (Mono) 100<br />
Night Riders of Montana (Rep) *<br />
O<br />
Oklahoma Justice (Mono) 90<br />
Outlaw Gold (Mono) 90<br />
Outlaws of Texas (Mono) 107<br />
P<br />
Prairie Roundup (Col) 100<br />
C<br />
Call of the Klondike (Mono) 94<br />
Canyon Raiders (Mono) 100<br />
Colorado Ambush (Mono) 105<br />
Cyclone Fury (Col) 103<br />
D<br />
Dakota Kid, The (Rep) 110<br />
F<br />
Fort Dodge Stampede (Rep) 100<br />
Fort Savage Raiders (Col) 95<br />
G<br />
Gene Autry and the Mounties (Col) 85<br />
Gold Raiders (UA) 90<br />
Gunplay (RKO) 84<br />
H<br />
Heart of the Rockies (Rep) 91<br />
Hills of Utah (Col) 105<br />
R<br />
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek (Col) 100<br />
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail (Col) 99<br />
Rio Grande Patrol (RKO) *<br />
Rodeo King and the Senorita (Rep) 95<br />
Rough Riders of Durongo (Rep) *<br />
S<br />
Saddle Legion (RKO) , 88<br />
Silver Canyon (Col) 106<br />
Silver City Bonanza (Rep) 100<br />
Snake River Desperadoes (Col) 92<br />
Spoilers of the Plains (Rep) 83<br />
Stagecoach Driver (Mono) *<br />
T<br />
Texans Never Cry (Col) 80<br />
Thunder in God's Country (Rep) 93<br />
Trail of Robin Hood (Rep) 109<br />
U<br />
Utah Wagon Train (Rep) 90<br />
I<br />
In Old Amarillo (Rep) 89<br />
E<br />
Kangaroo Kid, The (UA) 95<br />
W<br />
Wanted: Dead or Alive (Mono) 105<br />
Wells Fargo Gunmaster (Rep) 85<br />
Whirlwind (Col) 108<br />
Whistling Hills (Mono) *<br />
50<br />
L<br />
Law of the Badlands (RKO) 110<br />
Lightning Guns (Col) 93<br />
Y<br />
Yukon Manhunt (Mono) 110<br />
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EDMUND GRAINGER<br />
PRODUCTIONS<br />
SEASON 1951-52<br />
On ZxltlLctian<br />
FLYING LEATHERNECKS<br />
\\ //<br />
(Color by Technicolor)<br />
Starring<br />
JOHN WAYNE • ROBERT RYAN<br />
Directed by<br />
NICHOLAS RAY<br />
w<br />
THE<br />
RACKET"<br />
starring<br />
ROBERT MITCHUM • LIZABETH SCOTT • ROBERT RYAN<br />
Directed<br />
by<br />
JOHN CROMWELL<br />
2^<br />
SUaatina<br />
'THE DAY THEY GAVE BABIES AWAY'<br />
"AFRICAN INTRIGUE'<br />
Color bv Technicolor]<br />
"BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE'<br />
(Color by Technicolor)<br />
"THE KOREAN STORY "<br />
Storring<br />
Robert Mitchum • Ann BIyth<br />
D. reefed by<br />
Toy Garnett<br />
R K O<br />
RADIO<br />
PICTURES<br />
BOXOFFICE 51
EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTIONS, INC.<br />
Presents . . .<br />
For Release by WARNER BROS.<br />
52 BAROMETER Section
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ABBOTT - COSTELLO<br />
IN<br />
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ACK and the<br />
DEANSTALK"<br />
BOXOFFICE 53
about<br />
1<br />
Une Lyutlooh ^6 (l5nakter ^i ^n OSntxtin<br />
by JOHN SULLIVAN<br />
ALTHOUGH<br />
the BritLsh film Industry<br />
produced only 53 feature films<br />
in 1951 against 62 in 1950 and 66 in<br />
1949. the quality has remained fairly high<br />
EJid. fortunately, boxoffice receipts for<br />
both British and American films have<br />
been good, at least until the last quarter<br />
of the year. From October there has been<br />
a slight recession in the overall takings,<br />
mainly because of an increase in seat<br />
prices brought about by the Eady plan.<br />
While full information on this point is<br />
not yet available, it seems that about the<br />
same niunber of people are going to the<br />
movies but they are purchasing the lowerpriced<br />
seats.<br />
EADY PLAN AIDS PRODUCERS<br />
Prospects for the British production industry<br />
are, however, considerably brighter<br />
in 1952. Much has been written of the<br />
Eady plan which is designed to make sure<br />
that the British producer gets a bigger<br />
share of the boxoffice take but few people<br />
in the American industry understand<br />
exactly how it works. It must be understood<br />
at the start that Anglo-American<br />
agreements forbid discrimination against<br />
American films and that, in itself, prevents<br />
the British government from adopting<br />
a straightforward tax remission<br />
scheme for the home producer such as the<br />
Italians and other nations have. Therefore,<br />
a more complicated system was developed<br />
by Sir Wilfrid Eady, a permanent<br />
official of the treasury. Since the<br />
producers' cry for more money came at a<br />
time when the exhibitor, too, was feeling<br />
the pinch, an arrangement was made<br />
whereby the government permitted the exhibitor<br />
to raise the price of admissions by<br />
a small sum and the result was that three<br />
half-pence<br />
i<br />
two cents) of this increase<br />
was retained by the industry and<br />
the balance paid to the treasury to compensate<br />
it for a tax loss which was to be<br />
felt when a reduction simultaneously was<br />
made in cheaper seats. Of this small sum<br />
the exhibitor retained one-half to compensate<br />
for rising salaries and other costs<br />
and the other half was paid by him into<br />
a pool known as the British Film Production<br />
Fund. It should be stressed at this<br />
point that the scheme is not official, but<br />
entirely voluntary and in spite of this only<br />
a tiny number of exhibitors have failed to<br />
meet the agreement signed by their association.<br />
HOW THE PLAN WORKS<br />
The sums paid into the production pool<br />
are allocated to British pictures according<br />
to their gross takings, both features and<br />
shorts enjoying this extra percentage. In<br />
the first year of the scheme, the seat deduction<br />
was only one third of the present<br />
sum but, in spite of this, more than three<br />
million dollars was paid into the pool to<br />
be shared out among British pictures distributed<br />
that year. The first year ended<br />
on August 4 and the average extra take<br />
for a film was about 17 '» per cent of the<br />
distributor's gross. During the present<br />
year the figure should average more than<br />
30 per cent, which will mean, in effect,<br />
that a producer will draw a distributor's<br />
gross take, since the extra 30 per cent will<br />
more than pay for distribution charges<br />
and prints and advertising.<br />
In the last years of the war there was<br />
practically no other form of entertainment<br />
to be had. At that time many British<br />
pictures were taking more than one<br />
million dollars in the home — market "The<br />
Wicked Lady" and "The Seventh Veil,"<br />
to mention only two. During the past<br />
year or so the boxoffice has dropped to<br />
such an extent that $450,000 can be accepted<br />
as a good distributor's gross for a<br />
British picture and $600,000 something<br />
fairly sensational. From the $450,000 can<br />
be taken $90,000 for the distributor's<br />
charges and a further $25,000 for prints,<br />
advertising and other expenses which<br />
means that the producer is left with a net<br />
return, from the home market of $335,000.<br />
Since a top feature film costs $350,000 to<br />
make at a major British studio, it can be<br />
seen that even a good picture could not<br />
make money in Britain alone. It is only<br />
fair to add that a film which did gross<br />
that figure in Britain would undoubtedly<br />
recoup its cost and also show a profit,<br />
since it could rely on perhaps $80,000 to<br />
$100,000 from overseas sales. But overseas<br />
takings take a long time to come in<br />
and to wait for that means that no producer<br />
can plan a proper continuity of<br />
production. That is where the Eady plan<br />
steps in.<br />
ALSO HELPS DISTRIBUTORS<br />
Taking the figure of $450,000 as that<br />
of a successful British picture during 1952,<br />
the producer, instead of making a loss on<br />
the first year's takings, can now rely on<br />
30 per cent of that figiu-e coming back<br />
to his film without any deduction from<br />
the distributor. In theory the money<br />
should come direct to him, but, in practice,<br />
it is paid to the distributor, since the<br />
latter usually owns a substantial share<br />
in the film. The distributor adds it to<br />
the producer's net take and the figure now<br />
looks rather better. To his net return<br />
of $335,000 the producer now gets 30 per<br />
cent of $450,000 or $135,000, making his<br />
total net $470,000 and showing him a<br />
profit of $120,000.<br />
Although the average takings of films<br />
has fallen good pictures can still command<br />
big money in this market for some very<br />
substantial figures have been realized this<br />
year. Top of the list of money-makers is<br />
undoubtedly Metro's "The Great Caru.so."<br />
which enjoyed the distinction of a repeat<br />
engagement of the A.B.C. circuit only<br />
three weeks after its original booking.<br />
What is, of course, remarkable about this<br />
big success is the fact that Mario Lanza<br />
is certainly not the conventional leading<br />
man. It does .seem, in this country at<br />
least, that music still pays dividends.<br />
Next on the list of the big hits are "Samson<br />
and Delilah" and "King Solomon's<br />
Mines," with spectacle the attraction m<br />
both cases. At the time of writing these<br />
were undoubtedly the three biggest piclures<br />
of the year, but during the latter<br />
months a strong contender has appeared<br />
in the James Mason film, "The Desert<br />
Pox."<br />
FIVE BRITISH FILM TOPPERS<br />
Among the British pictures in the lop<br />
brackets for money are three from the<br />
Rank studios which played Odeon and<br />
Gaumont circuits and two from Associated<br />
British which played their A.B.C. houses.<br />
The Rank pictures were two comedies and<br />
a drama: "Appointment With Venus,"<br />
which was produced by Betty Box, is the<br />
lighthearted story of the rescue from the<br />
Channel Islands of a prize cow which has<br />
been seized by the German Army. Although<br />
quite unassuming, this film has<br />
turned out to be a big success. The other<br />
comedy is Michael Balcon's "The Lavender<br />
Hill Mob," the story of a timid bank clerk<br />
who robbed the Bank of England of a million<br />
pounds in gold. This has already<br />
been seen in New York and elsewhere.<br />
The drama standing at the lop of the list<br />
is a hospital story, "White Corridors,"<br />
whose take astonished even the distributor.<br />
OTHERS THAT SCORED HITS<br />
The biggest British picture on the A.B.C.<br />
circuit is undoubtedly "Laughter in Paradise,"<br />
which Mario Zampi produced and<br />
directed at the Associated British studios.<br />
It is more than likely that the final<br />
figures for this will show it as the top<br />
money-maker of all British films during<br />
1951. The story itself was nothing sensational<br />
but the inspired fooling of Alastair<br />
Sim and a very fine cast lifted the film<br />
right out of the rut and brought the<br />
crowds out to the theatres.<br />
A.B.C. 's other winner deserves a paragraph<br />
to itself, since it stands as an object<br />
lesson—the lesson being that the film<br />
industry is, and always will be, a gamble<br />
and that fortunes can still be made as<br />
well as lost. The flim is titled "Worm's<br />
Eye View" and it was made by an independent<br />
producer and distributed by an<br />
independent distributor. At first none of<br />
the circuits were very interested, since It<br />
is no secret that the film cost only around<br />
$100,000 and the cast meant nothing to<br />
filmgoers. Its first three or four pre-release<br />
bookings, however, convinced Jack<br />
Goodlatte of A.B.C. that this was something<br />
special and the picture was booked<br />
in as a top feature on the entire A.B.C.<br />
circuit. ITie business done on release was<br />
such that the film must have returned,<br />
at a conservative estimate, something like<br />
three times the production cost to the producer.<br />
Judging by the films lined up for next<br />
year and either completed, in production,<br />
or awaiting studio space, the trend in<br />
Britain will now be toward the more ambitious<br />
production. The extra take promised<br />
by the Eady bonus will probably be<br />
I Continued on page 90<br />
BOXOFFICE 55
. . . . The<br />
. . . This<br />
HIGH<br />
TREASON<br />
. . . The threat of violence<br />
hangs over England. The enemies<br />
within wear the terrible<br />
disguise of ordinary people. A<br />
startling expose directed by Roy<br />
Boulting and produced by Paul<br />
Soskin.<br />
.... What happens when an<br />
Outpost of Empire finds that<br />
its new Governor is a working<br />
man from Lancashire.<br />
Great acting performances<br />
by Eric Portman, Cecil Parker,<br />
Helen Cherry and a team of<br />
those character players for<br />
which British films are justly<br />
acclaimed, make this film yet<br />
HIS<br />
EXCELLENCY<br />
another Ealing Studios triumph.<br />
Sparkling entertainment directed<br />
by Robert (Kind Hearts<br />
and Coronets) Homer.<br />
I BELIEVE IN YOU<br />
. . . Celia (Brief Encounter)<br />
Johnson teamed with versatile,<br />
sophisticated Cecil Parker in<br />
the picture which lifts the lid<br />
off a Police Court and tells the<br />
story of those anonymous people<br />
who stretch out helping<br />
hands to bewildered youngsters<br />
trapped in the underworld<br />
jungle. Directed by Basil Dearden,<br />
the man whose touch<br />
made "The Blue Lamp" an<br />
international success. A fine<br />
product from the famous Ealing<br />
Studios, it introduces lovely<br />
newcomer Joan Collins and a<br />
supporting cast of distinction.<br />
THE IMPORTANCE<br />
OF BEING EARNEST<br />
with one of the greofcst costs<br />
ever assembled in o British studio,<br />
Oscar Wilde's memorable comedy<br />
comes to the screen in Technicolor.<br />
Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison,<br />
Joan Greenwood, Dama Edith Evans,<br />
Margaret Rutherford and Miles Malieson<br />
portray with distinction Wilde's<br />
tomous characters. Directed by Anthony<br />
(The Browning Version) Asquith,<br />
produced by Teddy Boird<br />
THE<br />
HILL<br />
LAVENDER<br />
MOB<br />
. . . Another winner from Ealing<br />
Studios presenting the most<br />
formidable gang of master<br />
thieves the country has ever<br />
known. Alec Guinness and<br />
Stanley Holloway are teamed<br />
together in this hilarious comedy<br />
hit, directed by Charles<br />
Crichton.<br />
.... Screen adaptation of Arnold<br />
Bennett's famous book<br />
starring the versatile Alec<br />
Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie<br />
Hobson and Petula Clark.<br />
Filmed in the actual locale of<br />
the novel—the Potteries district<br />
of England, this delightful<br />
tale tells the story of the<br />
"cheekiest man in the world."<br />
THE<br />
CARD<br />
Produced, designed and directed<br />
by Ronald Neame and<br />
John Bryan, the team which<br />
brought to the screen that<br />
great story of motion pictures<br />
"The Magic Box."<br />
PENNY<br />
PRINCESS<br />
.... When a New York shopgirl<br />
inherits a piece of Europe<br />
it is practically a problem for<br />
the United Nations.<br />
In this Technicolor comedy.<br />
lovely Yolande Donlon is<br />
teamed with handsome Dirk<br />
Bogarde, the latter playing his<br />
first screen comedy role. Written<br />
and directed by Val Guest,<br />
the story takes the camera to a<br />
mountain village in sunny<br />
Spain, representing the mythical,<br />
mirthful kingdom of Lampidorra.<br />
HUNTED<br />
.... A new child actor co stars with<br />
Dirk Bogarde, lovely Elizabeth Sellars<br />
and talented Kay Walsh in this emotion<br />
packed thriller. Six and o half<br />
years old Jon Whiteley of Aberdeen,<br />
Scotland gives a great performance as<br />
the little boy who finds the first real<br />
love and kindness of his life in a murderer<br />
fleeing the length of Britain<br />
from the police. The picture is directed<br />
by Charles Crichton, and produced<br />
by Julian Wintle.<br />
WHERE NO<br />
VULTURES<br />
FLY<br />
Royal Performance<br />
Film. An Ealing Studios production<br />
in Technicolor, photographed<br />
entirely on location on<br />
the plains of Africa. Directed<br />
by that master of the outdoors,<br />
Harry Watt, the picture stars<br />
Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan<br />
and Harold Warrender.<br />
. . . Again Alec Guinness, giving<br />
yet another wonderful performance<br />
in this Ealing Studios<br />
comedy telling the story of a<br />
little man with a big invention<br />
nobody wants. With him in the<br />
cast are lovely Joan Greenwood,<br />
Cecil Parker, Michael<br />
Gough and Ernest Thesiger.<br />
Directed by Alexander "Whis-<br />
THE MAN IN<br />
THE WHITE SUIT<br />
ky Galore" MacKendrick from<br />
a screenplay by Roger Mac-<br />
Dougall, John Dighton and<br />
MacKendrick, the picture is<br />
"Tailormade" for the Film<br />
Trade!<br />
SECRET<br />
PEOPLE<br />
.... A vivid dramatic story of<br />
the attempted assassination of<br />
a military despot and the net<br />
of intrigue which collects both<br />
innocent and guilty and leaves<br />
them facing the aftermath of<br />
retribution. The international<br />
cast headed by Valentino Coresa<br />
and Serge Reggiani, introduces<br />
talented overnight star<br />
Audrey Hepburn. Produced and<br />
directed by Thorold Dickinson<br />
—one of Britain's leading directors.<br />
ENCORE<br />
is the lotest and greatest<br />
of the Somerset Maugham short story<br />
films In the tradition of QUARTET<br />
ond TRIO, ENCORE presents o brilliant<br />
cast headed by Glynis Johns,<br />
Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Ronald<br />
Squire ond Terence Morgan. Scripted<br />
by T E.B. Clarke, Arthur McCrae and<br />
Eric Ambler; directed by Pot Jackson,<br />
Anthony Pelissier, (Harold French and<br />
produced by Anthony Dornborough.<br />
and Especially These Fine Motion Pictures from the Famed PINEWOOD and EALING Studios,<br />
Associated with the J. ARTHUR RANK ORGANIZATION, LTD.
UL<br />
^^^^<br />
V<br />
^:3^=^<br />
Principal Characters<br />
David Gregory Peck<br />
Bathsheba Susan Hayward<br />
Nathan<br />
Raymond Massey<br />
Uriah Kieron Moore<br />
Abishai James Robertson Justice<br />
Michal<br />
Jayne Meadows<br />
Ira John Sutton<br />
Joab Dennis Hoey<br />
Goliath<br />
Walter Talun<br />
Adulteress Paula Morgan<br />
King Saul Francis X. Bushman<br />
Jonathan Teddy Infuhr<br />
David (as a boy)<br />
Leo Pessin<br />
Specialty Dancer Gwyneth Verdon<br />
Absolom Gilbert Barnett<br />
Priest...: John Burton<br />
Old Shepherd<br />
Lumsden Hare<br />
Egyptian Ambassador George Zucco<br />
Amnon Allan Stone<br />
Samuel<br />
Paul Newlan<br />
Jesse<br />
Holmes Herbert<br />
Executioners<br />
Robert Stephenson,<br />
Harry Carter<br />
Jesse's First Son Richard Michelson<br />
Jesse's Second Son<br />
Dick Winters<br />
Jesse's Third Son John Duncan<br />
Court Announcer James Craven<br />
Production Staff<br />
Producer<br />
Darryl P. Zanuck<br />
Director<br />
Henry King<br />
Screenplay Philip Dunne<br />
Color by Technicolor:<br />
Technicolor Color Assista?i£... .Leonard Doss<br />
Music Alfred Newman<br />
Orchestration<br />
Director of<br />
Art Direction<br />
Edward Powell<br />
Photography<br />
Leon Shamroy, A.S.C.<br />
Lyle Wheeler,<br />
George Davis<br />
Set Decorations Thomas Little,<br />
Paul S. Fox<br />
Film Editor Barbara McLean<br />
Wardrobe Direction Charles LeMaire<br />
Costumes Designed by. ...Edward Stevenson<br />
Choreography by Jack Cole<br />
Makeup Artist<br />
Ben Nye<br />
Special Photographic Effects. ...Fhev Sersen<br />
Sound E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman<br />
Biblical<br />
Technical Adviser<br />
Dr. C. C. McCown<br />
A 20th Century-Fox Production<br />
58 BAROMETER Section
THIS INSIGNE OF OUTSTANDING MERIT<br />
is awaraed eacn montn ay tne National Screen<br />
Council to tne picture wnicn, in tne opinion or<br />
its<br />
memners, comtines Lotn outstanding merit as<br />
a motion picture and wnolesome entertainment<br />
for tne entire family.<br />
Tne National Screen Council,<br />
now in its twentietn year, is comprised or<br />
motion picture editors, radio film commentators<br />
and representatives of tetter films councils and<br />
civic and educational organizations.
(From September 1950, through August 1951)<br />
September LouiSQ<br />
Universal-International<br />
October Fancy Pants Paramount<br />
November MlSter 880 20th Century-Fox<br />
December King Solomon's MineS Metro-Goldw^yn-Mayer<br />
January HaiVey Universal- International<br />
February Kim Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
March Royal Wedding Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
April Father's Little Dividend Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
May The Great Caruso Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
June On the Riviera 20th Century-Fox<br />
July The Frogmen 20th Century-Fox<br />
August... Alice in Wonderland RKO Radi<br />
-^^<br />
^^
Louisa A Universal-International Production<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
The Cast<br />
Hal Norton Ronald Reagan<br />
Abel Burnside<br />
Charles Coburn<br />
Meg Norton<br />
Ruth Hussey<br />
Henry Hammond Edmund Gwenn<br />
Louisa Norton Spring Byington<br />
Cathy Norton Piper Laurie<br />
Jimmy Blake<br />
Scotty Beckett<br />
Chris Norton Jimmy Hunt<br />
Gladys Connie Gilchrist<br />
Dick Stewart<br />
Willard Waterman<br />
Lil Stewart Marjorie Crosland<br />
Bob Steioart<br />
Martin Milner<br />
Stacy Walker<br />
Terry Frost<br />
Joe Collins Dave Willock<br />
Production Stait<br />
Executive Producer Leo Spitz<br />
Produced by Robert Arthur<br />
Directed by Alexander Hall<br />
Story and Screenplay bj/..Stanley Roberts<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Maury Gertsman. A.S.C.<br />
Art Direction<br />
Set Decorations<br />
Bernard Herzbrun,<br />
Robert Boyle<br />
Russell A. Gausman,<br />
Ruby R. Levitt<br />
Sound Leslie I. Carey,<br />
Glenn E. Anderson<br />
Music Frank Skinner<br />
Fihn Editor<br />
Milton Carruth<br />
Gowns Rosemary Odell<br />
Hair Stylist Joan St. Oegger<br />
Makeup<br />
Special Photography<br />
Bud Westmore<br />
David S. Horsley, A.S.C.<br />
61
Fancy Pants<br />
A Paramount Production<br />
OCTOBER<br />
Humphrey<br />
Bob Hope<br />
Agatha Floud<br />
Lucille Ball<br />
Cart Belknap<br />
Bruce Cabot<br />
Mike Floud<br />
Jack Kirkwood<br />
Effie Floud Lea Penman<br />
George Van-Basingwell Hugh French<br />
Sir Wivibley Eric Blore<br />
The Cast<br />
Wampum<br />
Teddy Roosevelt<br />
Lady Maude<br />
Rosalind<br />
Twombley<br />
Wong<br />
Joseph Vitale<br />
John Alexander<br />
Norma Varden<br />
Virginia Keiley<br />
Colin Keith-Johnston<br />
Joe Wong<br />
Production Staii<br />
Produced by Robert L. Welch<br />
Directed by George Marshall<br />
Screenplay by Edmund Hartmann,<br />
Robert O'Brien<br />
Based on story by Harry Leon Wilson<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Charles B. Lang jr., A.S.C.<br />
Art Direction Hans Dreier,<br />
Earl Hedrick<br />
Technicolor Consultant Francis Cugat<br />
Special Photographic Effects<br />
Gordon Jenntngs. A.S.C.<br />
Process Photography Farciot Edouart<br />
Set Decoration Sam Comer, Emile Kuri<br />
Edited by<br />
Archie Marshek<br />
Women's Costumes Mary Kay Dodson<br />
Men's Costmnes<br />
Gile Steele<br />
Specialty Number Staged by<br />
Billy Daniels<br />
Makeup Supervision Wally Westmore<br />
Sou7id Recording Gene Merritt,<br />
Don Johnson<br />
Assistant Director Oscar Rudolph<br />
Music Score Van Cleave<br />
Songs by Jay Livingston, Ray Evans<br />
62
Mister 880<br />
A 20th Century-Fox Production<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
The Cast<br />
Steve Buchanan<br />
Ann Winslow<br />
Skipper Miller<br />
Mac<br />
Judge O'Neil<br />
Chief<br />
Thad Mitchell<br />
OUe Johnson<br />
Duff<br />
Lee<br />
Burt Lancaster<br />
Dorothy McGuire<br />
Edmund Gwenn<br />
Millard Mitchell<br />
Minor Watson<br />
Howard St. John<br />
Hugh Sanders<br />
James Millican<br />
HowLAND Chamberlain<br />
Larry Keating<br />
Secretary<br />
Kathleen Hughes<br />
Miss Gallagher<br />
Geraldine Wall<br />
U.S. Attorney<br />
Mervin Williams<br />
Bailiff<br />
Norman Field<br />
Maggie Helen Hatch<br />
Sergeant<br />
Robert B. Williams<br />
Mousie<br />
Ed Max<br />
Mr. Beddington<br />
Frank Wilcox<br />
Carlos<br />
George Adrian<br />
Production Staff<br />
Executive Producer ....Darryl F. Zanuck<br />
Produced by<br />
Julian Blaustein<br />
Directed by<br />
Edmund Goulding<br />
Screenplay by<br />
Robert Riskin<br />
Based on an Article in The New<br />
Yorker by St. Clair McKelway<br />
Music<br />
Sol Kaplan<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Joseph La Shelle, A.S.C.<br />
Art Direction<br />
Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis<br />
Set Decorations<br />
Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox<br />
Film Editor<br />
Robert Fritch<br />
Wardrobe Direction Charles Le Maire<br />
Costumes Designed by<br />
Travilla<br />
Musical Direction Lionel Newman<br />
Makeup Artist<br />
Ben Nye<br />
Special Photographic Effects<br />
Fred Sersen<br />
SoMTiii....Arthur L. Kirbach, Roger Heman<br />
63
King Solomon's Mines A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production<br />
DECEMBER<br />
The Cast<br />
Elizabeth Curtis Deborah Kerr<br />
Allan Quatermain Stewart Granger<br />
John Goode<br />
Richard Carlson<br />
Smith Hugo Haas<br />
Eric Masters Lowell Gilmore<br />
Khiva<br />
KiMTJRSi<br />
Umbopa<br />
Siriaque<br />
Chief Gagool Sekaryongo<br />
King Twala<br />
Baziga<br />
Production Staff<br />
Production Chief<br />
Dore Schary<br />
Produced by<br />
Sam Zimbalist<br />
Directed by<br />
Compton Bennett,<br />
Andrew Marton<br />
Screenplay by<br />
Helen Deutsch<br />
Based on Novel by H. Rider Haggard<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Robert Suftees, A.S.C.<br />
Technicolor<br />
consultants<br />
Henri Jaffa,<br />
James Gooch<br />
Art Directors Cedric Gibbons,<br />
Paul Groesse<br />
Film Editors Ralph E. Winters,<br />
Conrad A. Nervig<br />
Recording Supervisor. ...Uovglas Shearer<br />
Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis<br />
Associate<br />
Keogh Gleason<br />
Costumes by Walter Plunkett<br />
64
Harvey<br />
A Universal-International Production<br />
JANUARY<br />
The Cast<br />
Ehvood P. Dowd James Stewart<br />
Veta Louise Sinnnons Josephine Hull<br />
Miss Kelly Peggy Dow<br />
Dr. Sanderson Charles Drake<br />
Dr. Chumley Cecil Kellaway<br />
Myrtle Mae<br />
Victoria Horne<br />
Wilson<br />
Jesse White<br />
.*. Judge Gaffney William Lynn<br />
Lofgren<br />
Wallace Ford<br />
Mrs. Chumley<br />
Nana Bryant<br />
Mrs. Chauvenet Grace Mills<br />
Herman<br />
Clem Bevans<br />
Mrs. McGiff Ida Moore<br />
Production Staff<br />
Executive Producer<br />
Produced by<br />
Directed by<br />
Screenplay<br />
From the stage play by<br />
Leo Spitz<br />
John Beck<br />
Henry Koster<br />
by<br />
Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney<br />
Mary Chase<br />
Director of Photography<br />
William Daniels. A.S.C.<br />
Film Editor<br />
Ralph Dawson<br />
Art<br />
Set<br />
Director<br />
Bernard Herzbrun, Nathan Juran<br />
Decorations<br />
Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron<br />
Sound Leslie I. Carey, Joe Lapis<br />
G0W71S<br />
Orry Kelly<br />
Hair Stylist Joan St. Oecger<br />
Makeup<br />
Bud Westmore<br />
Music<br />
Frank Skinner<br />
65
Kim A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
Mahbub Ali, The Red Beard. .Errol Flynn<br />
Kim<br />
Dean Stockwell<br />
Lama Paul Lukas<br />
Colonel Creighton Robert Douglas<br />
Em.issary Thomas Gomez<br />
Hurree Chunder Cecil Kellaway<br />
The Cast<br />
Lurgan Sahib<br />
Arnold Moss<br />
Father Victor<br />
Reginald Owen<br />
Laluli Laurette Luez<br />
Hassan Bey<br />
Richard Hale<br />
The Russia7is<br />
Roman Toporow, Ivan Triesault<br />
Production Staii<br />
^<br />
Production Chief<br />
Dore Schary<br />
Produced by<br />
Leon Gordon<br />
Directed by<br />
Victor Saville<br />
Screenplay by<br />
Leon Gordon,<br />
Helen Deutsch, Richard Schayer<br />
From a Story by Rudyard Kipling<br />
Director of Photography<br />
William Skall, A.S.C.<br />
Technicolor Consultants<br />
Henri Jaffa, James Gooch<br />
Art Directors<br />
Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters<br />
Film Editor<br />
George Boemler<br />
Music by<br />
Andre Previn<br />
Recording Supervisor ....Douglas Shearer<br />
Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis<br />
Associates ....Arthur Krams, Hugh Hunt<br />
Special Effects<br />
A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe<br />
Montage Sequence by ....Peter Ballbusch<br />
Costumes Designed by<br />
Hair Styles Designed by<br />
Sydney<br />
Valles<br />
Guilaroff<br />
Technical Adviser I. A. Hafesjee<br />
66
Royal Wedding<br />
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production<br />
MARCH<br />
Tom Bowen<br />
Ellen Bowen<br />
Lord John Brindale<br />
Fred Astaire<br />
Jane Powell<br />
Peter Lawford<br />
Anne Ashmond Sarah Churchill<br />
The Cast<br />
Irving and Edgar Klinger ..Keenan Wynn<br />
James Ashmond<br />
Albert Sharpe<br />
Sarah Ashmond<br />
Viola Roache<br />
Purser Henri Letondal<br />
Cabby<br />
James Finlayson<br />
Production Staff<br />
Production Chief<br />
Dore Schary<br />
Produced by<br />
Arthttr Freed<br />
Directed by<br />
Stanley Donen<br />
Story and Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner<br />
Music by<br />
Burton Lane<br />
Lyrics by ....Alan Jay Lerner<br />
Musical Direction Johnny Green<br />
Dances by<br />
Nick Castle<br />
Orchestrations<br />
Conrad Salinger, Skip Martin<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Robert Planck, A.S.C.<br />
Technicolor<br />
Art<br />
Directors<br />
Consultants<br />
Hetnri Jaffa, James Gooch<br />
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith<br />
Film Editor<br />
Albert Akst<br />
Recording Supervisor.. ..Douglas Shearer<br />
Set Decoration Edwin B. Willis<br />
Associate<br />
Special Effects<br />
Alfred E. Spe^^cer<br />
Warren Newcombe<br />
Hair Styles Designed by<br />
Sydney Guilaroff<br />
Makeup Created by William J. TtrnxE<br />
67
Father's Little Dividend<br />
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production APRIL<br />
The Cast<br />
Stanley Banks Spencer Tracy<br />
Ellie Banks Joan Bennett<br />
Kay Dunstan Elizabeth Taylor<br />
Buckley Dunstan Don Taylor<br />
Doris Dunstan<br />
Billie Burke<br />
Herbert Dunstan Moroni Olsen<br />
Police Sergeant<br />
Richard Rober<br />
Delilah<br />
Marietta Canty<br />
Tommy Baiiks<br />
Rusty Tamblyn<br />
Ben Banks<br />
Tom Irish<br />
Dr. Andrew Nordell Hayden Rorke<br />
Reverend Galsworthy Paul Harvey<br />
Production Staii<br />
^ r<br />
Production Chief<br />
Dore Schary<br />
Produced by<br />
Pandro S. Berman<br />
Directed by Vincente Minnelli<br />
Screenplay by<br />
Albert Hackett, Prances Goodrich<br />
Based on Characters Created by<br />
Edward Streeter<br />
Director of Photography<br />
John Alton, A.S.C.<br />
Art Directors<br />
Cedric Gibbons, Leonid Vasian<br />
Film Editor Ferris Webster<br />
Music by Albert Sendrey<br />
Conducted by<br />
Georgie Stoll<br />
Recording Supervisor ....Douglas Shearer<br />
Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis<br />
Associate<br />
Keogh Gleason<br />
Women's Costumes by Helen Rose<br />
Hair Styles Designed by<br />
Sydney Guilaroff<br />
Makeup Created by<br />
William Tuttle<br />
68
The Great Caruso<br />
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
Production<br />
MAY<br />
Enrico Caruso<br />
Dorothy Benjamin<br />
Louise Heggar<br />
Maria Selka<br />
Carlo Santi<br />
Park Benjamin<br />
Giulio Gatti-Casazza<br />
Alfredo Brazzi<br />
Jean de Reszke<br />
Antonio Scotti<br />
Gi?io<br />
Fucito<br />
The<br />
Mario Lanza<br />
Ann Blyth<br />
Dorothy Kirsten<br />
Jarmila Novotna<br />
Richard Hageman<br />
Carl Benton Reid<br />
Eduard Franz<br />
Ltjdwic Donath<br />
Alan Napier<br />
Paul Javor<br />
Carl Milletaire<br />
Shepard Menken<br />
Cast<br />
Tullio<br />
Vincent Renno<br />
Egisto Barretto<br />
Nestor Paiva<br />
Caruso (as boy) Peter Edward Price<br />
Papa Caruso<br />
Mario Siletti<br />
Mama Caruso<br />
Angela Clarke<br />
Hutchins<br />
Ian Wolfe<br />
Miisetta<br />
Yvette Duguay<br />
Mrs. Barretto Argentina Brunetti<br />
Opera Montage:<br />
Blanche Thebom, Teresa Celli, Nicola<br />
MoscONA, Giuseppe Valdengo, Lucine<br />
Amara. Marina Koshetz<br />
Production<br />
Production Chief<br />
Dore Schary<br />
Produced by<br />
Joe Pasternak<br />
Associate Producer Jesse L. Lasky<br />
Directed by<br />
Richard Thorpe<br />
Written by<br />
Sonya Levien,<br />
William Ludwig<br />
Suggested by her Iiusbaiid's biography,<br />
by<br />
Dorothy Caruso<br />
Operatic numbers staged and conducted<br />
by<br />
Peter Herman Adler<br />
Musical Supervision and Background<br />
Score by<br />
Johnny Green<br />
Staff<br />
Music Adaptation Irving Aaronson<br />
Color by Technicolor<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C.<br />
Technicolor assistants<br />
Henri Jaffa, James Gooch<br />
Art Directors<br />
....Cedric Gibbons, Gabriel Scognamillo<br />
Film Editor<br />
Gene Ruggiero<br />
Recording Supervisor Douglas Shearer<br />
Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis<br />
Associate<br />
Jack D. Moore<br />
69
On the Riviera<br />
A 20th Century-Fox Production<br />
JUNE<br />
Henri Duran and Jack Martin<br />
Danny Kaye<br />
Lilli Gene Tiehney<br />
Colette<br />
CoRiNNE Calvet<br />
Philippe Lebrix Marcel Dalio<br />
Periton Jean Murat<br />
Louis Forel<br />
Henri Letondal<br />
Antoine Clinton Stjndberg<br />
Gapeaux<br />
Sig Rtjman<br />
Mimi<br />
Joyce Mackenzie<br />
The Cast<br />
Minette<br />
Monique Chantal<br />
Mme. Cornet<br />
Marina Koshetz<br />
Mme. Periton<br />
Ann Codee<br />
Eugenie<br />
Mari Blanchard<br />
Dance Team<br />
Ethel Martin,<br />
George Martin, Vernal "Buzz" Miller<br />
Specialty Dancers Ellen Ray,<br />
GWYNETH VERDON<br />
Spanish Dancer Rosario Imperio<br />
Executive Producer ....Darryl F. Zanuck<br />
Produced by Sol C. Siegel<br />
Directed by<br />
Walter Lang<br />
Screen Play by<br />
Valentine Davies<br />
AND Phoebe and Henry Ephron<br />
Based on a Play by ....Rudolph Lothar,<br />
Hans Adler<br />
Adapted by<br />
Jessie Ernst<br />
-Oti the Riviera." "Popo the Puppet."<br />
"lUiythm of a New Romance."<br />
"Happy Ending" by Sylvia Fine<br />
Technicolor Color Consultant<br />
Leonard Doss<br />
Production Staff<br />
Musical Direction Alfred Newman<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Leon Shamroy, A.S.C.<br />
Art Direction Lyle Wheeler,<br />
Leland Fuller<br />
Set Decorations<br />
Thomas Little,<br />
Walter M. Scott<br />
Fibn Editor J. Watson Webb, jr.<br />
Costumes Designed by<br />
Travilla<br />
Costumes for Miss Tierney Designed<br />
by Oleg Cassini<br />
Dances Staged by<br />
Jack Cole<br />
Orchestration Earle Hagen,<br />
Edward Powell<br />
70
The Frogrhen<br />
A 20th Century-Fox Production<br />
JULY<br />
Lieut. Commander John Lawrence<br />
Richard Widmark<br />
Flannigan Dana Andrews<br />
Lieut. Commander Pete Vincent<br />
Gary Merrill<br />
Creighton Jeffrey Hunter<br />
Hodges<br />
Warren Stevens<br />
Lieut, (jg) Franklin Robert Wagner<br />
Canarsie<br />
Harvey Lembeck<br />
Lieut. Doyle Robert Rockwell<br />
The Cast<br />
Sleepy<br />
Chief Ryan<br />
Henry Slate<br />
Robert Adler<br />
Lieut. Klinger Bob Patten<br />
Kinsella<br />
Ferrino<br />
Admiral Dakers<br />
Commander Miles<br />
Harry Flowers<br />
William .Bishop<br />
Fay Roope<br />
William M. Neil<br />
Chief Petty Officer Lane ..James Gregory<br />
Captain Radford Russell Hardie<br />
Executive Producer Darryl F. Zanuck<br />
Produced by<br />
Samuel G. Engel<br />
Directed by Lloyd Bacon<br />
Screenplay by John Tucker Battle<br />
Story by<br />
Oscar Millard<br />
Music<br />
Cyril Mockridge<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Norbert Brodine, A.S.C.<br />
Art Director<br />
Lyle Wheeler,<br />
Albert Hogsett<br />
FilTn Editor William Reynolds<br />
Production Staff<br />
Set Decorations<br />
Thomas Little<br />
F^ed J. Rode<br />
Wardrobe Director Charles Le Maire<br />
Musical Direction Lionel Newman<br />
Orchestration Herbert Spencer,<br />
Earle Hacen<br />
Makeup Artist Ben Nye<br />
Special Photographic Effects<br />
Fred Sersen<br />
Sound<br />
Winston H. Leverett<br />
Roger Heman<br />
71
':':''>/ V :'i7T<br />
iS.iSt?"<br />
0W:<br />
.<br />
Alice in Wonderland<br />
An RKO Radio Production<br />
AUGUST<br />
Production Staff<br />
Producer Walt Disney With the Voices o/....Kathryn Beaumont<br />
Production Supervision ..Ben Sharpsteen (Alice), Ed Wynn (Mad Hatter), Jerry<br />
Directors<br />
Clyde Geronimi,<br />
Hamilton Luske. Wilfred Jackson<br />
Colonna (March Hare >. Sterling Hol-<br />
''''way<br />
(Cheshire Cat>. Richard Haydn<br />
„. ^. , . ^ ,, „ (Caterpillar), Verne Felton (Quee?j of<br />
Directing Animators Milt Kahl,<br />
,,, ,- _ _ _ Hearts), Heather Angel (Alice's<br />
Ward Kimball, Prank Thomas, Eric<br />
„ , Sister), Mello-Men (Playing CardsK<br />
Larson, John Lounsbery. Ollie Johns-<br />
„ ., Bill Thompson (White Rabbit aiid<br />
ton, Wolfgang Reitherman, Marc<br />
_ - „ ., „ Dodo), Larry Grey (Lizard), Doris<br />
Davis, Les Clark, Norm Ferguson.<br />
Lloyd (Rose), Pat O'Malley (Tweedle-<br />
Story<br />
Winston Hibler, Bill<br />
„ , „ „ „ , dee. Tweedledum, Walrus arid Carpen-<br />
Peet, Joe Rinaldi, Bill Cottrell, Joe<br />
r^„. r^„. /-.„„„„ rr. c. . „ r. ter) , JOSEPH Kearns (Door Knob),<br />
Grant, Del Connell, Ted Sears, Erd-<br />
MAN Penner, Milt Banta, Dick Kel-<br />
Queenie Leonard (Flowers), James<br />
SEY, Dick Huemer, Tom Oreb, John MacDonald ( Dormoi(se) ,<br />
Dink Trout<br />
Walbridge.<br />
(King of Hearts)<br />
(From the<br />
Musical<br />
original<br />
Score by<br />
Oliver Wallace<br />
classics of<br />
Lewis Carroll) Orchestration Joseph Dubin<br />
72
Warner<br />
. .RKO<br />
, .United<br />
(I5lue rslbbon l/UiLnnerS in P.st Uecir6<br />
iln seasonal crder, from September<br />
through August)<br />
1932<br />
(Inaugurated March 1932, Therefore Only 6<br />
Awards This Season)<br />
Business and Pleasure Fox<br />
Torzan, The Ape Man<br />
MGM<br />
No Greater Love Columbia<br />
The Doomed Battalion<br />
Universal<br />
Rebccco o# Sunnybrook Farm Fox<br />
Bring 'Em Back Alive RKO Radio<br />
1932 33<br />
A Successful Calomity Warner Bros.<br />
Pf»ontom President Paramount<br />
Little Orphon Annie RKO Radio<br />
Uptown New York KBS<br />
They Just Hod to Get Married Universal<br />
State Fair Fox<br />
Oliver Twist Monogrom<br />
King Kong RKO RodiO<br />
Adorable<br />
Fcx<br />
Gold Diggers of 1 933 Warner Bros.<br />
Stranger's Return MGM<br />
Tugboat Annie<br />
MGM<br />
1933-34<br />
One Man's Journey<br />
RKO Radio<br />
The Bowery 20th Century-UA<br />
Only Yesterday Universal<br />
Little Women RKO Radio<br />
Romon Scandals United Artists<br />
The Cat and the Fiddle MGM<br />
David Harum Fox<br />
Torzon and His Mate<br />
MGM<br />
Vivo Villa MGM<br />
Little Miss Marker Paramount<br />
Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros.<br />
Treasure Island MGM<br />
1934-35<br />
One Night of Love Columbia<br />
Judge Priest Fox<br />
White Parade Fox<br />
Flirtation Wolk First Notional<br />
Dovid Copperfield<br />
MGM<br />
Little Colonel Fox<br />
Roberta<br />
RKO Radio<br />
Naughty Morietto<br />
MGM<br />
G-Mcn<br />
Warner Bros.<br />
The Informer RKO Radio<br />
Love Me Forever<br />
Columbia<br />
Alice Adams RKO Radio<br />
1935-36<br />
Top Hot<br />
RKO Radio<br />
O'Shaughnessy's Boy MGM<br />
Mutiny on the Bounty<br />
MGM<br />
Ah, Wilderness!<br />
MGM<br />
A Tole of Two Cities MGM<br />
Story of Louis Pasteur Worner Bros.<br />
The Country Doctor 20th-Fox<br />
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbio<br />
Show Boot Universal<br />
Son Froncisco<br />
MGM<br />
The White Angel .<br />
Bros.<br />
The Green Pastures Warner Bros.<br />
1936-37<br />
The Lost of the Mohicans<br />
United Artists<br />
A Midsummer Night's Dream Warner Bros.<br />
Charge of the Light Brigade Warner Bros.<br />
Winterset<br />
RKO Radio<br />
The Ploinsmon Paramount<br />
Maid of Salem Paramount<br />
Moytime<br />
MGM<br />
Romeo and Juliet<br />
MGM<br />
The Prince and the Pauper Worner Bros.<br />
Captoins Courageous<br />
MGM<br />
Wee Willie Winkic 20th-Fox<br />
The Good Earth MGM<br />
1937-38<br />
Lost Horizon Columbia<br />
The Life of Emile Zolo Warner Bros.<br />
MGM<br />
The Firefly<br />
Tovorich Warner Bros.<br />
Wells Fargo<br />
Paramount<br />
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. . Radio<br />
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 20th-Fox<br />
In Old Chicago 20th-Fox<br />
Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros.<br />
Holiday<br />
Columbio<br />
Love Finds Andy Hordy MGM<br />
Alexander's Ragtime Bond<br />
20th-Fox<br />
1938-39<br />
Boys Town MGM<br />
You Can't Take It With You Columbia<br />
The Citadel MGM<br />
A Christmas Carol<br />
MGM<br />
Sweethearts<br />
MGM<br />
Gungo Din RKO Radio<br />
Pygmolion<br />
MGM<br />
Wuthering Heights United Artists<br />
Union Pocific Paramount<br />
Young Mr. Lincoln 20th-Fox<br />
On Borrowed Time MGM<br />
Stonley ond Livingstone 20th-Fox<br />
1939-40<br />
The Wizord of Oz MGM<br />
Mr. Smith Goes to Woshington<br />
, . .Columbia<br />
Drums Along the Mohawk 20th-Fox<br />
Gulliver's Travels Paramount<br />
The Greot Victor Herbert Poromount<br />
Pinocchio<br />
RKO Rodio<br />
Young Tom Edison<br />
MGM<br />
Rebecca<br />
United Artists<br />
Edison, the Man MGM<br />
The Mortal Storm MGM<br />
AM This, and Heaven Too Warner Bros.<br />
Pride and Prejudice MGM<br />
1940-41<br />
The Howards of Virginia<br />
Columbia<br />
The Great Dictator. United Artists<br />
Northwest Mounted Police Paramount<br />
Tin Pon Alley 20th-Fox<br />
Philadelphia Story '. . . .MGM<br />
Virginia<br />
Paramount<br />
The Lady Eve<br />
Poromount<br />
Men of Boys Town MGM<br />
Thot Hamilton Woman! United Artists<br />
I Wanted Wings Poromount<br />
Caught in the Draft Paramount<br />
Blossoms in the Dust MGM<br />
1941 -42<br />
Citizen Kane RKO Radio<br />
Sergeont York Warner Bros.<br />
One Foot in Heaven Warner Bros.<br />
H. M. Pulham, Esq MGM<br />
How Green Was My Vatley<br />
20th-Fox<br />
Woman of the Year MGM<br />
To Be or Not to Be United Artists<br />
Fontasio<br />
RKO Radio<br />
Tortilla Flat MGM<br />
They All Kissed the Bride Columbia<br />
This Above All 20th-Fox<br />
The Pied Piper 20th-Fox<br />
1942-43<br />
MGM<br />
Mrs. Miniver<br />
The Major and the Minor Paramount<br />
Talcs of Monhottan 20th-Fox<br />
George Woshington Slept Here WB<br />
Yonkec Doodle Dandy Warner Bros.<br />
Star Spangled Rhythm<br />
Paramount<br />
Pride of the Yonkees RKO Radio<br />
Rondom Harvest MGM<br />
The More the Merrier Columbia<br />
Stoge Door Canteen United Artists<br />
The Human Comedy<br />
MGM<br />
This Is the Army Warner Bros.<br />
1943-44<br />
So Proudly We Hail Paramount<br />
Thonk Your Lucky Stars Warner Bros.<br />
Guadalcanal Diory 20th-Fox<br />
Lassie Come Home MGM<br />
Destination Tokyo Warner Bros.<br />
Madame Curie<br />
MGM<br />
A Guy Named Joe.<br />
MGM<br />
Sec Here, Privote Hargrove MGM<br />
For Whom the Bell Tolls Poromount<br />
The White Cliffs of Dover MGM<br />
The Story of Or. Wassell Paramount<br />
Going My Way<br />
Paramount<br />
1944-45<br />
MGM<br />
The Seventh Cross<br />
Arsenic and Old Lace Warner Bros.<br />
Since You Went Away United Artists<br />
Mrs. Porktngton MGM<br />
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo MGM<br />
The Keys of the Kingdom<br />
20th-Fox<br />
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 20fh-Fox<br />
Notional Velvet MGM<br />
The Enchonted Cottage RKO Radio<br />
The Clock<br />
MGM<br />
Valley of Decision<br />
MGM<br />
Wilson<br />
20th-Fox<br />
1945-46<br />
Story of G.I. Joe United Artists<br />
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes MGM<br />
The House on 92nd Street 20th-Fox<br />
Spellbound United Artists<br />
The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Radio<br />
The Lost Weekend ... Paramount<br />
Tomorrow Is Forever. RKO Radio<br />
Saratoga Trunk .Warner Bros.<br />
Drogonwyck<br />
20th-Fox<br />
Two Sisters From Boston MGM<br />
The Green Yeors<br />
MGM<br />
Anna and the King of Siom 20th-Fox<br />
1946-47<br />
Caesar and Cleopatra , Artists<br />
Three Wise Fools MGM<br />
Sister Kenny RKO Radio<br />
Blue Skies<br />
Paramount<br />
The Jolson Story<br />
Columbia<br />
Song of the South<br />
RKO Rodio<br />
The Beginning or the End MGM<br />
It Happened in Brooklyn MGM<br />
The Farmer's Daughter RKO Radio<br />
The Ycorling<br />
MGM<br />
Miracle on 34th Street 20th-Fox<br />
Welcome Stranger<br />
Paramount<br />
1947-48<br />
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. . . .RKO Radio<br />
The Unfinished Dance<br />
MGM<br />
Secret Life of Walter Mitty RKO Rodio<br />
Where There's Life Paramount<br />
My Wild Irish Rose Worner Bros.<br />
Cass Timberlane MGM<br />
The Bishop's Wife RKO Radio<br />
I Remember Mama RKO Radio<br />
State of the Union MGM<br />
Green Grass of Wyoming 20th-Fox<br />
Easter Parade MGM<br />
The Best Years of Our Lives<br />
RKO Radio<br />
1948-49<br />
The Bobe Ruth Story<br />
Monogram<br />
Aportment for Peggy 20th-Fox<br />
Johnny Belindo<br />
Warner Bros.<br />
The Three Musketeers MGM<br />
The Snoke Pit 20th-Fox<br />
The Boy With Green Hair RKO Radio<br />
So Dear to My Heart RKO Radio<br />
Take Me Out to the Ball Game MGM<br />
Little Women MGM<br />
The Borkleys of Broadway MGM<br />
The Strotton Story MGM<br />
Look for the Silver Lining Warner Bros.<br />
Come to the Stable<br />
1949-50<br />
20th-Fox<br />
I Was a Male War Bride 20th-Fox<br />
Ichobod and Mr. Toad RKO Radio<br />
Adom's Rib MGM<br />
On the Town MGM<br />
All the Kinn's Men Columbia<br />
Twelve O'clock High 20th-Fox<br />
Cinderella RKO Radio<br />
Cheaper by the Dozen 20th-Fox<br />
The Jackie Robinson Story United Artists<br />
Father of the Bride MGM<br />
Treasure Island .... RKO Rodio<br />
73
U^iue r\ibbon ^J^onop r\oli (^uli^<br />
Recipients of Two or More Awards From March 1932, Through August 1951, Are Herein Cited<br />
Pioduceis<br />
10 Awards<br />
Pandro S. Berman<br />
9 Awards<br />
Walt Disney<br />
7 Awords<br />
David O. Selznick<br />
Hunt Stromberg<br />
Hal B. Wallis<br />
6 Awards<br />
Henry Blanke<br />
Sidney Franklin<br />
Arthur Freed<br />
Samuel Goldwyn<br />
Dore Schary<br />
5 Awards<br />
Kenneth Macgowan<br />
4 Awords<br />
John W. Considine jr.<br />
Cecil B. DeMille<br />
Joseph L. Mankiewicz<br />
Sol C. Siegel<br />
3 Awards<br />
Fronk Copra<br />
Leon Gordon<br />
Arthur Hornblow jr.<br />
Jesse L. Lasky<br />
Louis D. Lighten<br />
Frank Lloyd<br />
Joe Pasternak<br />
Perce Peorce<br />
George Stevens<br />
Sam Zimbalist<br />
2 Awards<br />
Robert Bossier<br />
Merian C. Cooper<br />
Jock Cummings<br />
Orville O. Dull<br />
Samuel G. Engel<br />
Bryan Foy<br />
Lucien Hubbard<br />
Bernard H. Hymon<br />
William Jacobs<br />
Nunnally Johnson<br />
Paul Jones<br />
Alexander Korda<br />
Mervyn LeRoy<br />
Albert Lewin<br />
David Lewis<br />
Samuel Marx<br />
Leo McCarey<br />
Harriet Parsons<br />
Gabriel Pascal<br />
William Perlberg<br />
William H. Pine<br />
Everett Riskin<br />
A. L. Rockett<br />
Jerry Wold<br />
DirecioTS<br />
7 Awards<br />
Mervyn LeRoy<br />
Henry King<br />
6 Awards<br />
Clarence Brown<br />
David Butler<br />
Frank Capra<br />
George Cukor<br />
5 Awards<br />
William Dieterle<br />
John Ford<br />
Henry Koster<br />
William Keighley<br />
George Stevens<br />
Norman Taurog<br />
4 Awards<br />
Michael Curtiz<br />
Cecil B. DeMille<br />
Anatole Litvak<br />
3 Awards<br />
Frank Borzage<br />
John Cromwell<br />
Stanley Donen<br />
Clyde Geronomi<br />
Alexander Hall<br />
Walter Long<br />
Robert Z. Leonard<br />
Vincente Minnelli<br />
Irving Pichel<br />
King Vidor<br />
Williom Wyler<br />
2 Awards<br />
Lloyd Bacon<br />
Jock Conway<br />
Toy Garnett<br />
Alfred E. Green<br />
Howard Hawks<br />
Alfred Hitchcock<br />
Wilfred Jackson<br />
Hamilton Luske<br />
George Marshall<br />
Leo McCarey<br />
John Robertson<br />
Alfred Sontell<br />
Victor Seville<br />
George Seaton<br />
Lewis Seller<br />
George Sidney<br />
Charles Walters<br />
Billy Wilder<br />
ActOTS<br />
16 Awards<br />
Spencer Tracy<br />
13 Awards<br />
Lionel Borrymore<br />
10 Awards<br />
Charles Coburn<br />
9 Awards<br />
Donald Crisp<br />
Cary Gront<br />
8 Awards<br />
Gory Cooper<br />
7 Awards<br />
Gene Lockhart<br />
Mickey Rooney<br />
6 Awards<br />
Edward Arnold<br />
Fred Astaire<br />
Niget Bruce<br />
Bing Crosby<br />
Edmund Gwenn<br />
Thomas Mitchell<br />
Henry O'Neill<br />
Basil Rothbone<br />
Willard Robertson<br />
James Stewart<br />
Robert Walker<br />
5 Awards<br />
Charles Bickford<br />
Errol Flynn<br />
James Gleason<br />
Porter Hall<br />
Sir Cedric Hardwicke<br />
Edward Everett Horton<br />
Van Johnson<br />
Peter Lawford<br />
Joel McCrea<br />
Roddy McDowall<br />
Lloyd Nolan<br />
Gregory Peck<br />
Walter Pidgeon<br />
Henry Stephenson<br />
Lewis Stone<br />
Akim Tamiroff<br />
George Tobias<br />
4 Awards<br />
Mischa Auer<br />
James Cagney<br />
Brian Donlevy<br />
Henry Fonda<br />
Bob Hope<br />
Fred MacMurray<br />
Ray Milland<br />
Laurence Olivier<br />
Reginald Owen<br />
Dick Powell<br />
Vincent Price<br />
Claude Rains<br />
Stanley Ridges<br />
Keenon Wynn<br />
Robert Young<br />
Roland Young<br />
3 Awards<br />
Eddie Anderson<br />
Lew Ayres<br />
William Bendix<br />
Roy Boiger<br />
Charles Boyer<br />
Wolter Brennan<br />
Felix Bressart<br />
Ray Collins<br />
Ronald Colmon<br />
Jackie Cooper<br />
Joseph Gotten<br />
Hume Cronyn<br />
Harry Davenport<br />
Tom Drake<br />
Bobby Driscoll<br />
Jimmy Durante<br />
Nelson Eddy<br />
Barry Fitzgerald<br />
Preston Foster<br />
John Garfield<br />
Billy Gilbert<br />
Jack Haley<br />
Ian Hunter<br />
Jackie Jenkins<br />
Allan Jones<br />
Cecil Kellowoy<br />
Gene Kelly<br />
Guy Kibbee<br />
Patric Knowles<br />
Alexander Knox<br />
George Marshall<br />
Frank McHugh<br />
Grant Mitchell<br />
Dickie Moore<br />
Paul Muni<br />
David Niven<br />
Jock Oakie<br />
Pat O'Brien<br />
Eugene Pollette<br />
Tyrone Power<br />
Randolph Scott<br />
Frank Sinatra<br />
Dean Stockwell<br />
Fronchot Tone<br />
Henry Trovers<br />
Henry Wilcoxon<br />
Monty Woolley<br />
2 Awards<br />
Dana Andrews<br />
Robert Arthur<br />
Scotty Beckett<br />
Sidney Blockmer<br />
Eddie Bracken<br />
Eddie Cantor<br />
Richard Carlson<br />
Leo Carrlllo<br />
Jock Carson<br />
Lee J. Cobb<br />
James Craig<br />
William Demarest<br />
Melvyn Douglas<br />
William Frawley<br />
Clark Gable<br />
Reginald Gardiner<br />
Thomas Gomez<br />
Stewort Granger<br />
Rex Harrison<br />
Richard Haydn<br />
Von Heflin<br />
William Holden<br />
John Howard<br />
Burl Ives<br />
Sam Jaffe<br />
Dean Jogger<br />
Victor Jory<br />
Danny Kaye<br />
Richard Lane<br />
Glenn Langan<br />
Charles Loughton<br />
Paul Lukos<br />
Barton MocLane<br />
Fredric March<br />
Hugh Marlowe<br />
Alan Marshal<br />
Adolphe Menjou<br />
Burgess Meredith<br />
Gary Merrill<br />
Millard Mitchell<br />
Robert Mitchum<br />
Dennis Morgan<br />
Ralph Morgan<br />
Alan Mowbray<br />
Jules Munshin<br />
John Payne<br />
Robert Preston<br />
Ronald Reagan<br />
Edward G. Robinson<br />
Don Taylor<br />
Rudy Vallee<br />
Johnny Weissmuller<br />
Orson Welles<br />
Actresses<br />
7 Awards<br />
Claudette Colbert<br />
Greer Garson<br />
Katharine Hepburn<br />
6 Awards<br />
Spring Byington<br />
Gladys Cooper<br />
Irene Dunne<br />
Jeanette MacDonold<br />
Ginger Rogers<br />
Shirley Temple<br />
5 Awards<br />
Jean Arthur<br />
Beulah Bondi<br />
Billie Burke<br />
Olivia de Havilland<br />
Agnes Moorehead<br />
Maureen O'Sullivan<br />
4 Awards<br />
June Allyson<br />
Fay Bointer<br />
Ingrid Bergman<br />
Judy Garland<br />
Roulette Goddard<br />
Signe Hasso<br />
Joan Leslie<br />
Anita Louise<br />
Margaret O'Brien<br />
Elizabeth Taylor<br />
Helen Westley<br />
Loretta Young<br />
3 Awards<br />
Mary Astor<br />
Joan Bennett<br />
Frances Dee<br />
Alice Foye<br />
Joon Fontaine<br />
Foye Holden<br />
Marsha Hunt<br />
Ruth Hussey<br />
Veronica Lake<br />
Elsa Lanchester<br />
Angela Lansbury<br />
Myrna Loy<br />
Ann Miller<br />
Dorothy McGuire<br />
Mary Nosh<br />
Flora Robson<br />
Ann Rutherford<br />
Ann Sheridan<br />
Gale Sondergaord<br />
Gloria Stuart<br />
Veree Teasdale<br />
Lucille Watson<br />
Virginia Weidler<br />
Teresa Wright<br />
Fay Wroy<br />
Jane Wymon<br />
2 Awards<br />
Elizabeth Allan<br />
Binnie Barnes<br />
Solly Benson<br />
Joan Blondell<br />
Helen Broderick<br />
Madeleine Carroll<br />
Joan Cauifield<br />
Jeanne Crain<br />
Jane Dorwell<br />
Bette Davis<br />
Geraldine Fitzgerald<br />
Betty Garrett<br />
Janet Gaynor<br />
Kathryn Grayson<br />
Sara Hoden<br />
Celeste Holm<br />
Josephine Hull<br />
Rita Johnson<br />
Hedy Lamorr<br />
Dorothy Lomour<br />
June Long<br />
Vivien Leigh<br />
Margo<br />
Mary Martin<br />
Aline MacMahon<br />
Virginia Mayo<br />
Hottie McDaniel<br />
Mildred Notwick<br />
Una O'Connor<br />
Maureen O'Hara<br />
Barbara O'Neil<br />
Cecelia Parker<br />
Luana Patten<br />
Donna Reed<br />
Anne Revere<br />
Rosalind Russell<br />
Martha Scott<br />
Ann Sheridan<br />
Barbara Stanwyck<br />
Randy Stuart<br />
Margaret Sullavan<br />
Jessica Tandy<br />
Gene Tierney<br />
Lano Turner<br />
Beverly Tyler<br />
Evelyn Venable<br />
Ruth Warrick<br />
Esther Williams<br />
Natalie Wood<br />
Writeis<br />
(Original Stories)<br />
3 Awards<br />
Robert Considine<br />
2 Awards<br />
Ben Hecht<br />
James Hilton<br />
George S. Kaufman<br />
Oscar Millard<br />
Leo McCarey<br />
George Bernard Show<br />
Phil Stong<br />
(Screenplays)<br />
10 Awards<br />
Sonya Levien<br />
8 Awards<br />
Lomar Trotti<br />
5 Awards<br />
Talbot Jennings<br />
Casey Robinson<br />
4 Awards<br />
Sidney Buchmon<br />
Helen Deutsch<br />
George Froeschel<br />
Frances Goodrich<br />
Albert Hockett<br />
Ben Hecht<br />
Dudley Nichols<br />
Robert Riskin<br />
3 Awards<br />
Hugo Butler<br />
Myles Connelly<br />
Delmer Daves<br />
Philip Dunne<br />
Howard Estabrook<br />
Jullen Josephson<br />
Jesse Lasky jr.<br />
John Lee Mahln<br />
Herman J. Mankiewicz<br />
Jane Murfin<br />
Allan Scott<br />
Arthur Sheekman<br />
Donald Ogden Stewart<br />
Dolton Trumbo<br />
Harry Tugend<br />
2 Awards<br />
Robert Ardrey<br />
John Tucker Battle<br />
Sally Benson<br />
DeWitt Bodeen<br />
Charles Brockett<br />
Betty Comden<br />
Marc Connelly<br />
William Conselman<br />
Ian Dolrymple<br />
Henry Ephron<br />
Phoebe Ephron<br />
Bradbury Foote<br />
Everett Freeman<br />
Leon Gordon<br />
Sheridan Gibney<br />
Adolph Green<br />
Victor Heermon<br />
Elizabeth Hill<br />
Nunnally Johnson<br />
Noel Langley<br />
Blerne Lay jr.<br />
Sara Y. Mason<br />
Alan Le May<br />
Anita Loos<br />
William Ludwig<br />
Joseph L. Mankiewicz<br />
Ben Markson<br />
John Meehan<br />
Seton I. Miller<br />
Paul Osborn<br />
Ernest Pascal<br />
Norman Reilly Roine<br />
Dore Schary<br />
George Seaton<br />
George Bernard Shaw<br />
Sidney Sheldon<br />
R. C. Sheriff<br />
Robert Sherwood<br />
Tess Slesinger<br />
C. Gardner Sullivan<br />
Jo Swerling<br />
Anthony Veiller<br />
Billy Wilder<br />
Companies<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Moyer ... 75<br />
20th Century-Fox 39<br />
RKO Radio 33<br />
Worner Bros 27<br />
Poromount 24<br />
United Artists M<br />
Columbio 13<br />
Universal 6<br />
Monogram 2<br />
74
EOXOFFICE 75
1<br />
ROSTER OF THE<br />
lational Screen Coundl<br />
OXOFRCE<br />
WHICH SELECTS THE<br />
Blue Ribbon Winners<br />
Meinbt.'s ot the National Screen Council select the picture<br />
eoch month to receive the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award<br />
This is done by mail. A list oi the current releases is sent on<br />
a post card ballot (or marking and returning by a specified<br />
date The picture receiving the most votes receives the<br />
Award, and Honorable Mention is given those that so impressed<br />
the members cs to receive a sizable number oi votes. A space<br />
on the ballot ior comment has resulted in an interesting<br />
exchange of opinion on a page devoted to the Council's<br />
appraisal oi pictures.<br />
: WMOLtj^<br />
Membership in the National Screen Council comes under<br />
three classifications: Editors of newspapers and magazines,<br />
radio commentators, and members of clubs, film councils,<br />
sociQi, civic and educational organizations. The Council and<br />
the Award it selects have a threefold purpose. BOXOFFICE<br />
sponsors them to encourage the production of motion pictures<br />
v/ith appeal to the mass of regular patrons of all ages, to<br />
foster a greater public appreciation of the more wholesome type<br />
of motion picture entertainment, and to stabilize motion<br />
picture theatre attendance on a higher average level.<br />
VELMA WEST SYKES,<br />
Chainnan<br />
MARJORY L. ADAM5, Boston Globe<br />
H. V, ANDERSON, Hartford Courant<br />
R. M. BAGAI, Hollywood correspondent, India press<br />
H. M. BALLIFF, Idaho Statesman, Boise<br />
GRACE L. BARNETT, Freeport (III.) Journal Standard<br />
MARGARET BEAN, Spokane Spokesman Review<br />
FRED BEERS, Perry (Okla.) Journal<br />
BROOKS H. BICKNELL, Alva (Okla.) Review Courier<br />
AMALIA MENDEZ de BITTERLIN, Hollywood correspondent,<br />
Panamanian newspapers<br />
LILLIAN BLACKSTONE, St. Petersburg Times<br />
LOUIS V. BLAY, Sfeubenville (Ohio) Herald Sfor<br />
JOHN H. BOOKER, Tulsa Tribune<br />
GEORGE BOURKE, Miami Hera;d<br />
HELEN C. BOWER, Detroit Free Press<br />
ALAN GREY BRANAGAN, Newark Evening News<br />
FRED BROOMFIELD, San Fernando Valley Times, N.<br />
Hollywood<br />
HOWARD C. BROWN, Hollywood correspondent,<br />
"Movie Life" (Australion)<br />
R. 5. BROWN, Sioux Falls Daily Argus Leader<br />
HELEN BUCKLEY, Winchester (Va.) Evening Star<br />
MAXINE BUREN, Oregon Statesman, Salem<br />
LILY MAY CALDWELL, B.rminghom News-Age-Herald<br />
KATE CAMERON, New York News<br />
FRANK E. CARPPENTER, Clarksburg Telegram<br />
DIANNE QUINONES CARRERE, Hollywood correspondent,<br />
Spanish language press<br />
VANCE CHANDLER, Authenticated News Service,<br />
Hollywood<br />
REGINA CLAIRE, Hollywood correspondent, Australian<br />
papers<br />
LEONARD CLAIRMONT, Hollywood correspondent,<br />
Swedish<br />
press<br />
MARION CLIFFORD, Pottsv.lle Republicon<br />
HAROLD V. COHEN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br />
PAUL de SAINTE COLOMBE, Hollywood correspondent<br />
for Canadian and French publicotions<br />
ALTON COOK, New York World-Telegram<br />
CARL E. COOPER, Kansas City Stor<br />
ALLEN COWPERTHWAITE, Helena (Mont.) Independent-Record<br />
AMY H. CROUGHTON, Rochester Times-Union<br />
W. F. DAGON, Illinois S.ate Journal & Register,<br />
Springfield.<br />
A. A. DAUGHERTY, Louisville Times<br />
HENRY DECKER, Frederick (Md.) News-Post<br />
WILLIAM DeMUTH JR., Wheeling (W. Va.) News-<br />
Register<br />
AMADO E. DINO, Hollywood correspondent, Manilo<br />
Post Herald<br />
ALBAN A. DUBE, Fall River Herald News<br />
A. R. DUNLAP, St. Petersburg Evening Independent"<br />
LOUIS A. ECKL, Florence (Ala.) Times<br />
RUTH ELGUTTER, Toledo Tirres<br />
R. S. FANSLER, Winchester Evening Stor<br />
ANDREW A. FARLEY, Donvi.le (Va) Register & Bee<br />
LOIS J. FEGAN, Horrisburg Patriot-Evening News<br />
FRANK FRAZER, Drama Editor, Long Island Doily<br />
Advocate<br />
MARILLA WAITE FREEMAN, Library Journal<br />
JOE FITZ GERALD, Nebraska State Journol & Star,<br />
Lincoln<br />
LESTER CLARK GIFFORD, Hickory (N. C.) Doily Record<br />
TOM R. GILLIAM JR., Fort Wayne Journal Gazette<br />
FRANK GROSJEAN, Shreveport Journal<br />
BILL HAGAN, Chattanooga News-Free Press<br />
DOROTHY F. HAMLIN, Portland (Me.) Press-Herald<br />
P. WALTER HANAN, Binghamton (N. Y.) Press<br />
EVELYN HARTNAGEL, Evening Huronite, Huron, S. D.<br />
PHILIP T. HARTUNG, Commonweal Magazine, New<br />
York City<br />
ARNOLD HEDERMAN, Jackson (Miss.) Daily Clarion<br />
Ledger<br />
MOTION PICTURE EDITORS<br />
LOLA HILL, Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call<br />
PAUL HOCHULI, Houston Press<br />
VIRGINIA HOFFSTROM, St. Paul Dispatch<br />
PAUL B. HOWLAND, Providence (R. I.) Sunday Journal<br />
ELINOR HUGHES, Boston Herald<br />
INGRID HULT, Hollywood correspondent, Swedish publications<br />
JOHN D. JENKS, Lexington Herald-Leader<br />
EMILY JERGER, Thomosville (Go.) Doily Times-Enterprise<br />
BOBBIE JOHNSTON, Phoenix Gazette<br />
A. S. KANY, Dayton Herald<br />
JEANETTE KEYSER, Mobile (Ala.) Press Register<br />
HERBERT B. KRONE, Lancaster (Pa.) New Era<br />
KARL KRUG, Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph<br />
NORA LAING, Hollywood correspondent, foreign publications<br />
VIRGIL D. LANGDON, Tacoma News Tribune<br />
MILTON G. LEVINE, Poterson (N. J.) Evening News<br />
EDITH LINDEMAN, Richmond Times Dispatch<br />
JANE LOCKHART, Rotarian Magazine, Chicago<br />
FLOfD LOGAN, Fort Wayne News Sentinel<br />
LOUISE MACE, Springfield (Mass.) Union<br />
GEORGE J. MacFARLANE, Manitowoc (Wis.) Herold-<br />
Times<br />
ARTHUR D. MACKIE, Jersey Journal, Jersey City<br />
HARRY MADISON, Hollywood correspondent, Manchester<br />
Guardian, Evening News (England)<br />
ARNOLD MARKS, Portland (Ore.) Journal<br />
W. WARD MARSH, Cleveland Plain Dealer<br />
MILDRED MARTIN, Philadelphia Inquirer<br />
NAZIH MASSAAD, editor Egyptian and Arabian news,<br />
Hollywood Magazine<br />
HELEN MATHESON, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison<br />
JUDGE J. MAY, Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville<br />
MARTHA McHATTON, Indianapolis<br />
News<br />
MABEL McKEE, Terre Houte Star<br />
DOROTHY MENARD, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock<br />
LOUISE MERRILL, Asheville (N. C.) Citizen-Times<br />
HARTLAND MERSHON, New Brunswick (N. J.) Daily<br />
Home News-Sunday Times<br />
E. B. MILLER, Plainview (Tex.) Evening Herald<br />
LEO MILLER, Bridgeport Hero.d<br />
LYNN S. MILLER, Royal Ook (Mich.) Daily Tribune<br />
MALCOLM MILLER, Knoxville Journal<br />
MADGE A. MILLIKIN, Adrian (Mich.) Daily Telegroph<br />
KASPAR MONAHAN, Pittsburgh<br />
Press<br />
ARMANDO del MORAL, Hollywood, Servicio<br />
istico ORBE<br />
Period-<br />
CALVIN D. MYERS, Newburgh (N. Y.) News<br />
IRIS L. MYERS, Walla Walla (Wash.) Union-Bulletin<br />
ROY E. O'NEAL, O'Neal News Service, Huntsville, Ala.<br />
TERESA SANTIAGO OPPENHEIMER, Hollywood correspondent,<br />
Puerto Rico press<br />
MAURINE PATIN, Port Arthur (Tex.) News<br />
TOM PECK, Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier<br />
DOMINIC PEPP, Watertown (N. Y.) Doily Times<br />
JOHN I. QUIRK, Manchester (N. H.) Union Leader<br />
MILTON RANDOLPH, Noshville Banner<br />
C. W. RATLIFF, Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal<br />
HERB RAU, Miami Daily News<br />
J. RICHARD RAUTH, Hogerstown (Md.) Daily Moil<br />
RUSSELL RHODES, Journol of Commerce, New York<br />
City<br />
JACK RILEY, Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer<br />
JULIA RISHEL, Volley Daily News, Tarcntum, Pa.<br />
ALFRED W. ROSE, Camden (Ark.) News<br />
FRED H. RUSSELL, Bridgeport Post & Telegram<br />
JOHN W. SAFFELL, Lorain (Ohio) Journal<br />
J. WILLIS SAYRE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer<br />
LEW SCHATZMANN, Maysville (Ky.)) Daily Independent<br />
THOLA TABOR SCHENCK, Syracuse Post-Standard<br />
HOWARD B. SCHUESSLER, Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune<br />
ROBERT SCHWARTZ, Hollywood correspondent, foreign<br />
press<br />
LUCILE M. SCOTT, Atlanta Daily World<br />
WILLIAM E. SEIFERT JR., Sportonsburg (S. C.) Journal<br />
MAHMUD SHAIKHALY, Hollywood correspondent Al-<br />
Sabah Magazine<br />
R. M. SHEPPHERDSON, Peoria (III.) Journol-Transcript<br />
JAMES A. SHERLOCK, Canton (Ohio) Repository<br />
DOROTHY SHERMER, Atlantic City Press Union<br />
MARY JEANETTE SIMPSON, New Orleans Times-<br />
Picayune<br />
HERM SITTARD, Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin<br />
WOOD SOANES, Oakland Tribune<br />
JIMMY STARR, Los Ange.es Herald & Express<br />
MARY STERNE, Birmingham Post<br />
MILDRED STOCKARD, Houston Chronicle<br />
NADINE SABOTNIK, Cedar Rapids Gazette<br />
BRADFORD F. SWAN, Providence Journal<br />
JOHN W. TEED, Long Beach Sun<br />
BETTE THOMPSON, Amarillo Globe-News<br />
R. K. TINDALL, Shenandoah (Iowa) Evening Sentinel<br />
RICHARD T. TORKELSON, Rock Islond Argus<br />
WARNER TWYFORD, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot<br />
STAN WALDORF, San Jose News<br />
HELEN WATERS, Long Island Doily Advocate<br />
T. H. WENNING, Newsweek Magazine, New York<br />
City<br />
MAX van WESEL, Hollywood correspondent, Dutch ond<br />
Belgian publications<br />
ELOISE WEST, Emporia Gazette<br />
ALLEN M. WIDEM, Hartford Times<br />
E. PHILIP WILLCOX, Parents' Mogaz.ne, New York<br />
City<br />
DICK WILLIAMS, Los Angeles Mirror<br />
EMERY WISTER, Charlotte (N. C.) News<br />
MITCHELL WOODBURY, Toledo Blade<br />
RADIO COMMENTATORS<br />
WILLIAM J. ADAMS, WHEC, Rochester, N. Y.<br />
IRWIN ALLEN, KLAC, Hollywood<br />
BOB BROWN, WMID, Atlantic City<br />
JANE DALTON, WSPA, Sportonsburg, 5. C<br />
ELAINE A. DROOZ, WROW, Albany<br />
ELAINE ERICK50N, KANS, Wichita<br />
LEE GORDON, KAYL, Storm Lake, Iowa<br />
HENRY GUERRA, WOAi, Son Antonio<br />
BILL HALEY, WWNY, Watertown, N. Y.<br />
ANNE HAYES, KCMO, Konsos City<br />
J. E. HUDGINS, WBRC, Birmingham<br />
LARRY JONAS, KRIZ, Phoenix<br />
JACK KEATING, KFJI, Klamath Foils<br />
ROBERT LAURENCE, WIP, Philadelphia<br />
MADGE MADISON, KID, Idaho Foils<br />
BARBARA MENDELSOHN, KWBB, Wichita<br />
ELSIE MEYER, WIBC, Indionopolis<br />
BYRON LEE McCALL, Wichita<br />
CLAIR R. McCOLLOUGH, Moson-Dixie Stations, Lancaster,<br />
Pa.<br />
NANCY OSGOOD, WRC, Washington, D. C.<br />
MINA OWEN, KLRA, Little Rock<br />
ART PRESTON, WIDE, Biddeford, Me.<br />
FLO BEACH ROWE, WSLB, Ogdensburg, N. Y.<br />
MARY RUTH, WVOM, Brookline,. Mass.<br />
DOROTHY R. SHANK, WEBR, Buffalo<br />
CAL SMITH, KROC, Rochester, Minn.<br />
GEORGE STUMP, KCKN, Kansas City<br />
I. M. TAYLOR, WEBQ, Horrisburg, III.<br />
PHIL VOGEL, WGKV, Charleston, W. Va.<br />
CHARLES S. ZURHORST, Minneapolis<br />
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Council<br />
REPRESENTATIVES OF SOCIAL, CIVIC, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATONS<br />
MRS. A. E. ANDERSON, G.F.W.C, Wodena, Minn.<br />
MRS. W. H. ANDREWS, Brooklyn Council of New England<br />
Women<br />
MRS. DeFOREST ANTHONY, Washington (D. C.) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
MRS. HENRY AUGUSTINE, Sheytrngon Better Films<br />
Council<br />
MRS. RICHARD G. AUSPITZER, IF.C.A., L. I., N. Y.<br />
MRS. HAROLD W. BAIN, Milwoukee County Better<br />
Films Council, Wauwatoso, Wis.<br />
MRS. LESLIE T. 8ARC0, Better Films Council of<br />
Greater St. Louis<br />
MRS. W. H. BARKER, G.F.W.C, Son Antonio<br />
VIRGINIA M. BEARD, curator of films, Clevelond public<br />
library<br />
DR. CAMPTON BELL, chairman Division of Fine Arts,<br />
University of Denver<br />
MRS. J. K. BERETTA, G.F.W.C, Son Antonio<br />
CATHERINE ROSS BETRY, Columbus and Fronklin<br />
County Better Films Council, Ohio<br />
ROSEMARY BEYMER, art director, Kansas City (Mo.)<br />
public schools<br />
R. R. BIECHELE, exhibitor, Kansos City<br />
LLOYD T. BINFORD, chairman Memphis Censor Board<br />
MRS. W. W. BREWER, G.F.W.C, Omar, W. Va.<br />
MRS. E. N. BROUGH, D.A.R., St. Johnsbury, Vt.<br />
MRS. WILLIAM A. BURK, president S. Calif. Motion<br />
Picture Council, Los Angeles<br />
MRS. E. L. BURNETT, chairman Indianopolis Screen<br />
Council, G.F.W.C.<br />
GENEVIEVE THOMAS BURRIS, Missouri Writers' Guild,<br />
Konsas City<br />
MRS. A. F. BURT, G.F.W.C, Greater St. Louis Better<br />
Films Council<br />
MRS. JOHN J. BUTLER, G.F.W.C, Lewiston, Me.<br />
MRS. ROBERT CARLETON, I.F.C.A., Palisade, N. J.<br />
MRS. EDWARD F. CARRAN, G.F.W.C, Lakewood, Ohio<br />
MRS. EDNA R. CAROLL, Pennsylvania Board of Censors,<br />
Philadelphia<br />
R. L. CARTER, Hilltop Community Council, Columbus<br />
MRS. JOSEPH R. CHESSER, G.F.W.C. consultant. Lakeland,<br />
Fla.<br />
MRS. GEORGE E. CHICK, G.F.W.C, Madison, N. H.<br />
MRS. B. C CHRISTOPHER, Konsas City (Mo.) Campfire<br />
Girls Council<br />
ELSIE CLANAHAN, G.F.W.C, Belleville, III.<br />
SUSAN AND STEPHEN COHEN, Youth Group, Kansas<br />
City<br />
MRS. C W. CONRAD, Cleveland Cinema Club<br />
MRS. W. B. COOPER, G.F.W.C, Fremont, Ohio<br />
MRS. JAMES J. COWAN, Maryville, Tenn., member<br />
Nat'l Board of Review<br />
MRS. EMORY W, COWLEY, Indiana Indorsers of<br />
Photoplays, Indianapolis<br />
MRS. ALLEN COX, G.F.W.C, Helena, Ark.<br />
CAROL COX, Cinema Study Club, Denver<br />
MRS. PAUL H. CRANE, Harrison (N. Y.) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
KATHLEEN CROWLEY, probation officer superior<br />
court, Woterbury, Conn.<br />
MRS. CHARLES J. CUNNINGHAM, I.F.C.A., New York<br />
City<br />
MRS. E. G. CURRIN JR., G.F.W.C, Meredithville, Va.<br />
MRS. S. B. CUTHBERT, G.F.W.C, Atlantic City<br />
MRS. WILLIAM DALTON, I.F.C.A., New York City<br />
MRS. MILDRED C DAVIS, G.F.W.C, Flemingsburg, Ky.<br />
MRS. ODESSA DAVIS, B.P.W.C, Los Angeles<br />
CLEG DAWSON, writer and lecturer, Lexington, Ky.<br />
MRS. HENRY DAWSON, MPA, New York City<br />
MRS. EUGENE A. DEAN, G.F.W.C, St. Paul<br />
MRS. LAWRENCE DELAY, Springfield (Mass.) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
B. DOLAN, I.F.C.A., Brooklyn<br />
MRS. EARL T. DUTTON, A.A.U.W., Temple City, Calif.<br />
DR. FRED EASTMAN, professor of biography and<br />
drama, Chicago University<br />
MRS. CLARENCE ECHOLS, Dalles Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
MRS. DEAN GRAY EDWARDS, eastern<br />
man G.F.W.C, Kew Gardens, N. Y.<br />
preview chair-<br />
EDDY G. ERICKSON, Theatre Enterprise Inc., Kansos<br />
City<br />
MRS. HENRY ERTELT, Women's Federation, Edgewood<br />
Congregationol Church, New Hoven<br />
MRS. VERNON FARQUHAR, S. Colif. Council of Church<br />
Women, Hollywood<br />
MRS. W. ROBERT FLEMING, Indiana Indorsers of<br />
Photoplays, Fort Wayne<br />
EMMA S. FORSTER, Women's Chamber of Commerce,<br />
Censor Boord, Little Rock<br />
MRS. BERNARD A. FOSTER, Spartanburg (S. C) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
MRS. La MONTE FOSTER, Motion Picture Council of<br />
Mann County, Larkspur, Calif.<br />
MRS. TEMPLE FRAKER, G F.W.C, Knoxville<br />
MRS. CLAUDE FRANKLIN, Not I of Women,<br />
Indianopolis<br />
MRS. LEO FREUND, Nat'l Council of Jewish Women,<br />
Los Angeles<br />
MRS. JOSEPH E, FRIEND, Louisiana<br />
tion Pictures, New Orleans<br />
Council for Mo-<br />
MRS, PAUL GEBHART, Cleveland Cinema Club<br />
MRS HAROLD L. GEE, Son Antonio Motion Picture<br />
Advisory and Reviewing Board<br />
MRS, WALTER L. GILBERT, Not'l Board of Review,<br />
Cobleskill, N. Y.<br />
H, H, GILES, Bureau of Intercultural Education, New<br />
York City<br />
MRS. S L. GILLETTE, G.F.W.C, Solt Lake City<br />
MRS. ELMORE GODFREY JR., PTA-G.F.W.C, Knoxville<br />
MRS. GEORGE S. GRAVES, A.A.U.W., Son Diego<br />
MRS. BETTINA GUNCZY,<br />
Council, New York City<br />
Protestant Motion Picture<br />
MRS. SHIRLEY H. GUNNELS, G.F.W.C, Fowler, Ind.<br />
GENEVIEVE HACKETT, motion picture chairman executive<br />
board, D.C.CW., Kansos City<br />
MRS. OLIVER J. HALLER, G.F.W.C, Pittsburgh<br />
JOHN W. HARDEN, Public relations director, Burlington<br />
Mills, Greensboro, N. C<br />
WINIFRED HOEY, I.FCA,, St. Albans, Vt.<br />
ETHEL W. HOLLINGER, S. Calif. Council of Church<br />
Women, Hollywood<br />
RUTH JEFFRIES, writer, Kansas City<br />
MRS. ALVIN C JOHNSON, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis<br />
MRS. DONALD JOHNSON, P.E.O. and Faculty Wives,<br />
East Lansing, Mich.<br />
WILLARD JOHNSON, Notional Conference of Christians<br />
and Jews, New York City<br />
MRS. C F, JOHNSTON, Jocksonville (Fla.) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
JUDGE CAMILLE KELLEY, Juvenile Court, Memphis<br />
MRS. ARTHUR D. KERWIN, Greater Detroit Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
MRS. KARL KING, Bryan (Ohio) Motion Picture Council<br />
MRS, B, F. KNISELEY, J. H. Reogon PTA, Delias<br />
MRS. EMMA KOMINERS, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis<br />
MRS. WILLIAM F. KUEBLER, Kansas City Athenaeum<br />
MRS. CHARLES LAMBUR, Better Films Council of<br />
Greater St. Louis<br />
MRS, HERBERT LANGNER,<br />
mittee, New York<br />
American Jewish Com-<br />
MRS. FRANK B. LEITZ, PTA, Kansos City, Mo.<br />
MRS. THOMAS LEONARD, I.F.C.A., Riverdale, N. Y.<br />
WILLIAM LEWIN, Film and Radio Discussion Guide,<br />
Newark, N. J.<br />
MRS, J. W. LIVINGSTON, Better Films Council of<br />
Grand Rapids ond Kent County<br />
MRS. FRED LUCAS, G.F.W.C, and Indiana Indorsers<br />
of Photoplays, Greencastle<br />
MRS. JAMES E. LUTTRELL, G.F.W.C, Craig, Colo.<br />
MRS. J. G. MAASDAM, G.F.W.C, Oakland, Calif.<br />
MRS. GRACE WIDNEY MABEE, chairman Nat'l Film<br />
Music Council, Old Greenwich, Conn.<br />
MRS. EDNA B. MACLACHLAN, Cleveland Cinema<br />
Club<br />
MRS. E. ROBERT MANNING, I.F.CA., Pittsburgh<br />
JOSEPH F. MARRON, Free Public Library, Jacksonville,<br />
Fla.<br />
JEAN MARTIN, Southwest high school, Kansas City,<br />
Mo.<br />
MRS. BYRON MATHEWS, Atlanta Better Films Committee<br />
CHARLES P. MAUS, Hilltop Community Council, Columbus<br />
ELLEN S, McAllister, director Wibler County recreotion,<br />
Ogden<br />
MRS, M. C McGAHERAN, G.F.W.C, Owotonno, Minn.<br />
INEZ MERZ, Indianopolis Screen Council<br />
MRS. CHARLES G. MILLER, Greater Seattle Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
MRS. LEROY MONTGOMERY, D.A.R., South Norwolk<br />
EDWIN MOORE, Junior College, Kansas City, Mo.<br />
MRS, A. L. MURRAY, Long Beach, Women's Club<br />
ELIZABETH MURRAY, Teachers' Ass'n, Long Beach<br />
LUCY M. NEWBILL, Kansas City Music Clubs<br />
CHARLES H. NILES, University of Conn., Storrs<br />
MRS. WILLIAM W. NOLAN, I.F.CA., New York City<br />
MRS. RALPH E. OESPER, Cincinnati Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
MRS. CHESTER A. OMMANNEY, A.A.U.W., Los Angeles<br />
MRS. P. H. PARKHURST, G.F.W.C, Denver<br />
MRS, LODER L, PATTERSON, G.F,W,C., Ocolo, Fla,<br />
MRS, WILLIAM HYDE PEARL, G, F.W.C, Indianapolis<br />
CORDA PECK, Collinwood High School, Cleveland<br />
GLADYCE PENROD, KMTA, Kansas City<br />
MRS. C R. PENTZ, A.A.U.W., Long Beach<br />
MRS. R. EARL PETERS, Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays,<br />
Fort Wayne<br />
MRS. JOHN B. PEW, Kansas City, Mo.<br />
MRS. L. W. POWELL, Springfield (Mass.) Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
CONSTANCE PURDY, Noll Federation of Music Clubs,<br />
Hollywood<br />
EDYTH R PYCOCK, G.F.W.C, Grond Rapids<br />
HARLAND RANKIN, exhibitor, Chatham, Ont.<br />
LAURA E. RAY, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis<br />
ANNA JOYCE REARDON, Woman's College, Greensboro,<br />
N. C<br />
MRS. L. O. REUNING, Conol Street Presbyterian<br />
Church Women's Auxiliary, New Orleans<br />
MRS. RAE L RIBLER, East Boy Motion Picture Company,<br />
Oakland<br />
MRS. CLAYTON H. RIDGE, Woman's Dep't Chamber<br />
of Commerce, Indianopolis<br />
EDNA REISE, League of Americon Penwomen, Son<br />
Francisco<br />
MRS. EDWARD J. RILEY, San Francisco Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
MRS. NATHANIEL ROUSE, Stoten Island Better Films<br />
Council<br />
MRS. MAURICE W. RUSSELL, G.F.W.C, Providence<br />
MRS. JOHN B. SAMMEL, I.F.CA., Parkersburg, W. Va.<br />
MRS. MAX SANSING, G.F.W.C, Clarksdole, Miss.<br />
LEONARD H. 5ANTWIRE, film critic, Minneapolis<br />
MRS, CLAUDE L. SEIXAS, Larchmont-Momoroneck (N.<br />
Y.) Motion Picture Council<br />
MRS. WILLIAM P. SETTLEMAYER, D.A.R., New York<br />
MRS. FRED D. SHANDORF, Community Club, Mitchell,<br />
5. D.<br />
MRS. WAYNE F. SHAW, G.F.W.C, Lowrence, Kos.<br />
MRS. JOHN K. SHENNAN, G.F.W.C, Chicago<br />
SANFORD SHLYEN, Cub Scouts, Konsas City, Mo.<br />
MRS, HARRY E. SIBLEY, Louisville Better Films Council<br />
CHRISTINE SMITH, Atlanta city censor<br />
F. H. SMITH, Paramount and Salt Lake City Film<br />
Council<br />
MRS. HENRY EARL SMITH, Sheboygan Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
MRS, E. D. SNOW JR., Scorsdole (N. Y.) Motion Picture<br />
Council<br />
and Sorosis,<br />
MRS. CRAWFORD SPEARMAN, G,F,W.C,<br />
Edmond, Oklo.<br />
WALTER SPEARMAN, journalism department. University<br />
of N. C, Chapel Hill<br />
MRS. S. F. SPRENGEL, Sheboygan Better Films Council<br />
MRS. CAROLYN KEIL STAFF, Worcester Better Films<br />
Council and BPW.<br />
MRS. FREDERIC H. STEELE, G.F.W.C, Huntingdon, Pa.<br />
MRS. C M. STEWART, Lincoln Better Films Council<br />
MRS. J. F. STRICKLER, state chairman Film Visual<br />
Education, Storm Lake, lowo<br />
MRS. WILLIAM STUTE, Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays,<br />
Fort Wayne<br />
ELLA M. SULLIVAN, I.F.CA., Brooklyn<br />
MRS. G, C SUTCLIFFE, Brooklyn Motion Picture Council<br />
MRS, VOLNEY W. TAYLOR, G.F.W.C, Brownsville, Tex.<br />
MRS, J. M, THISTLETHWAITE, Indiana Indorsers of<br />
Photoplays, Green Gables<br />
MRS, ALMA G. THOMAS, Ministers Wives Alliance,<br />
Detroit<br />
MRS. RUTH THOMAS, American Legion Auxiliary,<br />
Glendole, Calif.<br />
MRS. WILLIAM ROGER THOMAS, G.F.W.C, East<br />
Cleveland, Ohio<br />
LAURA THORNBURGH, League of Americon Penwomen,<br />
Knoxville<br />
MRS. HOWARD THWAITS, G.F.W.C, Milwaukee<br />
MRS. M. E. TOM, G.F.W.C, Union Mills, Ind.<br />
MRS. DANIEL TRUOG. PTA Council, Kansas City<br />
FRED UFFMAN, Women's Culb, Rossford, Ohio<br />
MARY ALICE UPHOFF, consultant in motion picture<br />
evoluation, Los Angeles<br />
MRS. A. L. WADE, Decatur (Go.) Better Films Council,<br />
D.A.R.<br />
MRS. JOHN B. WAIT, G.F.W.C, Chamberlain, S. D.<br />
MRS. E. C WAKELAM, Indianopolis Screen Council<br />
TOWNSEND L. WALKER, Better Films Ass'n of America,<br />
Memphis<br />
MAY WILLIAMS WARD, author, Wellington, Kos.<br />
VIRGINIA LEE WARD, oufhor ond exhibitor. Nelson<br />
Theatre Circuit, Mount Sterling, Ky,<br />
MRS, FRANK WELLWOOD, Woman's Club, Sheridan,<br />
Oklo.<br />
MRS. JOHN V. WESTFALL, G.F.W.C, New York<br />
MRS. GEORGE V. WHEELER, G.F.W.C, Milwoukee<br />
MRS. FAGAN WHITE, G.F.W.C, Russell, Kos.<br />
GEORGE H. WILKINSON JR., MPTO, Wallingford,<br />
Conn.<br />
LORA MURRELL WILLIAMS, city censor, Kansas City,<br />
Mo.<br />
MRS. MAX M. WILLIAMS, G.F.W.C, Royol Oak, Mich.<br />
MRS, P- E. WILLIS, chairman western division preview<br />
committee, G,F,W.C., Glendole, Colif.<br />
MRS. GEORGE F. WILSON, county representative Philadelphia<br />
Motion Picture Forum<br />
MRS. JACK WINDHEIM, Lorchmont (N. Y.) Motion<br />
Picture Council<br />
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^i^<br />
Completed:<br />
Bernard Shaw's<br />
"ANDROCLES AND THE LION'<br />
R K O<br />
RADIO<br />
PjOURES<br />
In<br />
Preparation:<br />
Bernard Shaw's<br />
"THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE"<br />
•<br />
"THE LIFE OF GANDHI"<br />
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:zm^ss^JZittl ThP Power Heliind the Scenes<br />
PRODUCERS Unsung<br />
Heroes Who Make or Break the Pictures<br />
8 WaL 21 ofS.euSon 6 ms<br />
WHOEVER<br />
said. "I care not who<br />
makes the nation's laws if I may<br />
write its songs" understood clearly<br />
how much more the latter entered into<br />
the hearts of the people. Thus it might<br />
be said for the producers of motion pictures,<br />
that no matter who makes the laws,<br />
those who make the pictures which entertain<br />
the public are closer to the roots<br />
of the people's affections than those who<br />
make themselves responsible for their protection<br />
and good conduct. A motion picture<br />
hit<br />
producer has made something on<br />
which a vast audience has placed its seal<br />
of approval. His skill has brought forth<br />
a product with general mass appeal in<br />
the entertainment field, and he can land<br />
doubtless does)<br />
feel the customary elation<br />
which comes after a creative effort of any<br />
kind makes its public appearance.<br />
For the 1950-51 sea.son. eight producers<br />
made 21 of its hits, while 37 others had<br />
only one hit each. During the 1949-50<br />
season, 35 producers had one hit each,<br />
ten had two each, and only one, Sol C.<br />
Siegel, produced three hits. In 1950-51.<br />
five producers had three hits each and<br />
three had two hits each. Of the five men<br />
that produced three hits for the season,<br />
three of them—Arthur Freed, Joe Pasternak,<br />
and Darryl F. Zanuck—had two each<br />
last year. Robert L. Welch had one hit<br />
last season and William Jacobs none, so<br />
their product jumped considerably, boxofficewise,<br />
for 1950-51. However, neither<br />
Welch nor Jacobs are new in the business.<br />
None of these producers is. They<br />
have all served full apprenticeship before<br />
becoming masters of their art, as will be<br />
shown by studying their backgrounds and<br />
careers.<br />
Taking them in the order in which they<br />
are listed, we find Arthur Freed came up<br />
via the song route, having many popular<br />
screen songs to his credit before becoming<br />
a producer. That is probably why he<br />
made three such effective musicals for<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as those listed, including<br />
the outstanding "Show Boat."<br />
William Jacobs, native of Chicago and<br />
educated at the Mo.sely Institute, developed<br />
into a producer from a .screenplay<br />
writer. He produced three delightful hi*<br />
musicals for Warner Bros, for the season.<br />
Joe Pasternak, who scored two hits in<br />
1949-50 and has three hits for 1950-51,<br />
was fortunate in having Mario Lanza in<br />
two of those three. He is one producer<br />
who has held the reins of productional<br />
power on both sides of the Atlantic.<br />
Robert L. Welch, one of whose hits of<br />
the season starred Bing Cro.sby and the<br />
other two Bob Hope, out of the university<br />
became an actor-producer at the Hedgerow<br />
Theatre in Philadelphia. He went to<br />
the Pasadena Playhouse, then was a writer<br />
and producer on the Kate Smith. Fred<br />
Allen and Jack Benny shows, as well as<br />
the originator of the Henry Aldrich shows,<br />
coining the expression, "Coming, Mother."<br />
Also, he produced all the U.S. Armed<br />
Forces radio shows during World War II.<br />
Darryl F. Zanuck, the Nebraska boy who<br />
made good in pictures to the extent that<br />
he is listed in that bible of distinguished<br />
attainment. Who's Who, has three unusual<br />
pictures to his credit this year, each differing<br />
from the other: one a religious epic<br />
starring Gregory Peck, another a sophisticated<br />
vehicle for Bette Davis, and the<br />
other an adult theme for Cary Grant's<br />
thespian talents.<br />
Louis P. Edelman, Harvard graduate,<br />
entered the motion picture industry<br />
as a prop boy at the Metro studios and<br />
went on to the sound and story department,<br />
then to the Warner and to the Fox<br />
studios, and to Columbia in 1942. He is<br />
the first of those listed here for two hits,<br />
both made in the Warner studios.<br />
Leonard Goldstein, one of the few western-born<br />
producers, used his talents in a<br />
number of studios before coming to Universal<br />
and producing the Ma and Pa Kettle<br />
series, along with such successes as<br />
"Tomahawk" and "Up Front."<br />
William Perlberg, Cornell graduate who<br />
served in the U.S. Navy during World<br />
War I, has aLso worked in a number of<br />
studios in varying capacities, but mostly<br />
as a producer in late years. While now<br />
with Paramount, his two hits for the season<br />
were made for 20th Century-Fox.<br />
Sol C. Siegel, who .scored with three<br />
hits for the 1949-50 season, has only one<br />
hit to his credit for 1950-51 but it is<br />
Danny Kaye's "On the Riviera. " Other<br />
notable hits who.se producers had only one<br />
credit for the .season include "Born Yesterday"<br />
(S. Sylvan Simon), "Cyrano de<br />
Bergerac" (Stanley Kramer i, and "King<br />
Solomon's Mines" iSam Zimbalisti.<br />
Producers credited with 1950-51 top<br />
boxoffice attractions are listed below.<br />
THREE WINNERS<br />
ARTHUR FREED:<br />
Show Boat (MGM)<br />
Royal Wedding (MGM)<br />
Pagan Love Song (MGM)<br />
WILLIAM JACOBS:<br />
Tea for Two (WB)<br />
On Moonlight Bay (WB)<br />
Lullaby of Broadway (WB)<br />
JOE PASTERNAK:<br />
Great Caruso, The (MGM)<br />
Rich, 'young and Pretty (MGM)<br />
Toast of New Orleans (MGM)<br />
ROBERT L. WELCH:<br />
Mr. Music (Para)<br />
Fancy Pants (Para)<br />
Lemon Drop Lid, The (Para)<br />
DARRYL F.<br />
ZANUCK:<br />
David and Bathsheba (20th-Fox)<br />
All About Eve (20th-Fox)<br />
People Will Talk (20th-Fox)<br />
TWO WINNERS<br />
LOUIS F. EDELMAN:<br />
Operation Pacific (WBi<br />
West Point Story. The (WB)<br />
LEONARD GOLDSTEIN:<br />
Tomahawk (U-I)<br />
Up Front (U-I)<br />
WILLIAM PERLBERG:<br />
For Heaven's Sake (20th-Fox)<br />
I'll Get By (20th-Fox)<br />
ONE WINNER<br />
ROBERT ARTHUR:<br />
Abbott and Costello Meet the<br />
Invisible Man (U-I)<br />
ROBERT BASSLER:<br />
Halls of Montezuma (20th-Pox)<br />
JOHN BECK:<br />
Harvey (U-I)<br />
PANDRO S. BERMAN:<br />
Father's Little Dividend iMGM)<br />
CLARENCE BROWN:<br />
To Please a Lady (MGM)<br />
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Para<br />
ARTHUR FREED<br />
LOUIS EDELMAN<br />
LEONARD GOLDSTEIN<br />
MERIAN C. COOPER:<br />
Rio Grande (Repi<br />
ANTHONY DARNBOROUGH:<br />
Trio<br />
I<br />
i<br />
WALT DISNEY:<br />
Alice in Wonderland iRKO)<br />
SAMUEL G. ENGEL:<br />
Frogmen. The (20th-Foxi<br />
FRED F. FINKLEHOFFE:<br />
At War With the Army iParai<br />
JOHN FORD:<br />
Rio Grande (Rep)<br />
SAMUEL GOLDWYN:<br />
Our Very Own (RKO)<br />
LEON GORDON;<br />
Kim (MGM)<br />
CLARENCE GREEN:<br />
Well, The lUA)<br />
HOWARD HAWKS;<br />
Thmg From Another World, The<br />
(RKO><br />
CY HOWARD;<br />
That'.s My Boy iPara)<br />
FRED KOHLMAR;<br />
Call Me Mi.ster i20th-Fox)<br />
STANLEY KRAMER:<br />
Cyrano de Bergerac
(^luudette<br />
L^otbert<br />
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A.
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I<br />
The (iuidina Hands oi the Biaaer Hits<br />
DIReCTORS<br />
They Co-ordinate the Showmanship Ingredients<br />
6 Sbireci 12 Oop Mih of<br />
'50 -'51<br />
THERE<br />
are those in the industry who<br />
feel that no matter how good the<br />
story, how generous or even opulent<br />
the budget, or how popular and competent<br />
the stars, a picture is only as good as its<br />
director. Even patrons who are production-wise<br />
to coming attractions pay attention<br />
to the director credit in selecting<br />
screen entertainment. Most producers<br />
have been directors<br />
before becoming producers,<br />
and many of them perform a dual<br />
role.<br />
However, many directors are content<br />
to remain always that skilful man with<br />
the megaphone who brings orderly film<br />
sequences out of the chaos of actors, sets,<br />
cameramen and other technicians with<br />
which he is surrounded, waiting for his<br />
commands in the studio or on location.<br />
He has been selected by the producer<br />
because of his imagination and practical<br />
methods of bringing life to a dead script.<br />
He knows how to deal with emotional<br />
crises in the cast as well as with technical<br />
problems which may come up as the story<br />
takes shape. He is aware of the varying<br />
tastes of the general audience toward<br />
which he has to aim for financial success,<br />
yet he must also be thinking of prestige<br />
awards and his own personal demands of<br />
his art. That he seldom makes more than<br />
one or two hit pictures a year is understandable.<br />
Not only is he a hard-working<br />
man but he is tied up for such periods<br />
of time that he does well to direct<br />
one hit picture a year. During the 1949-<br />
50 season, Henry Koster directed three hit<br />
pictures, but for 1950-51 he has only one,<br />
and no other director has more than two<br />
to his credit.<br />
There are six directors who made two hits<br />
each this season, the same as last year.<br />
And those with one hit each number 49.<br />
but it must be remembered tliat some of<br />
them shared their directing chores. Most<br />
of them megged alone, however, and in<br />
the two-hit class, only one—Hal Walker<br />
had any hits at all last season. This does<br />
not mean that Lloyd Bacon, who heads<br />
the list, is a novice at his profession, but<br />
only that this year two of his pictures<br />
were boxoffice hits.<br />
The same is true for David Butler, who<br />
used to alternate as actor and director<br />
and has made many hit pictures in the<br />
past. Roy Del Ruth, former scenarist for<br />
the Mack Sennett studios and who once<br />
directed the Ben Turpin comedies, was<br />
never better than with his expert guidance<br />
of "On Moonlight Bay." As for Joseph<br />
L. Mankiewicz, his Academy Awardwinning<br />
"All About Eve" and provocative<br />
"People Will Talk" speak for themselves.<br />
Norman Taurog. who has acted on the<br />
stage and in silent movies and specialized<br />
in directing children has directed clever<br />
and popular films in "Rich. Young and<br />
Pretty" and "Toast of New Orleans." Hal<br />
Walker, the Ottumwa, Iowa, boy who<br />
started on the stage and then came to<br />
Hollywood to act. has been directing for<br />
about ten years now and seems to have<br />
the secret of hit<br />
ingredients.<br />
There are a number of those who directed<br />
only one hit whose efforts should<br />
be noticed because of this one contribution<br />
to the hit field. Ken Annakin and<br />
Harold French share the honors for "Trio."<br />
but the results are such that if it always<br />
took two directors to make as good a picture,<br />
two directors would be the rule instead<br />
of the exception. Compton Bennett<br />
and Andrew Marton also share honors for<br />
an exceptional picture. "King Solomon's<br />
Mines."<br />
George Cukor helped to win laurels for<br />
star Judy Holliday with "Born Yesterday"<br />
and Michael Gordon did the same for star<br />
Jose Ferrer with "Cyrano de Bergerac."<br />
Henry King had two hit pictures last year,<br />
but the impact of his single one. "David<br />
and Bathsheba" this year, is enough for<br />
any director in one season.<br />
With Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,<br />
who are listed as both directors<br />
and producers of "Tales of Hoffmann"<br />
this year as they were of "Tlie Red Shoes"<br />
last year, the single hit is enough. The<br />
same can be said for George Sidney with<br />
his "Show Boat," even though he had two<br />
to his credit last season.<br />
Richard Thorpe also made one of the<br />
season's great artistic triumphs as well as<br />
a great boxoffice hit in "The Great Caruso."<br />
And in this connection it might<br />
be added that Irving Reis gave the musicloving<br />
public something unusual in his<br />
"Of Men and Music."<br />
The following directors are credited<br />
with tioo hit films each:<br />
LLOYD BACON; Call Me Mister (20th-<br />
Foxi. Frogmen, The
LLOYD BACON DAVID BUTLER ROY DEL RUTH<br />
JOHN FORD: Rio Grande (Rep)<br />
HAROLD FRENCH: Trio (Parai<br />
CLYDE GERONIMI: Alice in Wonderland<br />
(RKOi<br />
MICHAEL GORDON: Cyrano de Bergerac<br />
(UA)<br />
ALEXANDER HALL: Up Front (U-I)<br />
BYRON HASKIN: Treasure Island<br />
iRKOl<br />
RICHARD HAYDN: Mr. Music (Para)<br />
STUART HEISLER: Dallas<br />
iWB)<br />
WILFRED JACKSON: Alice in Wonderland<br />
(RKOi<br />
HENRY KING: David and Bathsheba<br />
(20th-Fox)<br />
HENRY KOSTER: Harvey<br />
CHARLES LAMONT: Abbott<br />
(U-Ii<br />
and Costello<br />
Meet the Invisible Man (U-Ii<br />
SIDNEY LANFIELD: Lemon Drop Kid.<br />
The (Para)<br />
WALTER LANG: On the Riviera<br />
Fox)<br />
DAVID LEAN: Oliver Twist<br />
(UA)<br />
(20th-<br />
HAMILTON LUSKE: Alice in Wonderland<br />
(RKO)<br />
GEORGE MARSHALL: Fancy Pants<br />
(Para)<br />
ANDREW MARTON: King Solomon's<br />
Mines (MGMi<br />
LEWIS MILESTONE: Halls of Montezuma<br />
(20th-Fox)<br />
DAVID MILLER: Our Very Own (RKO)<br />
VICTOR MINNELLI: Father's Little<br />
Dividend iMGMi<br />
CHRISTIAN MYBY: Thing From Another<br />
World, The iRKO)<br />
ARCH OBOLER: Five<br />
(Col)<br />
ROBERT PIROSH: Go for<br />
(MGM)<br />
LEO POPKIN: Well,<br />
The (UA)<br />
MICHAEL POWELL: Tales of Hoffmann<br />
(Loperti<br />
EMERIC<br />
Hoffmann (Lopert)<br />
PRESSBURGER:<br />
IRVING REIS: Of Men and Music (20th-<br />
Fox)<br />
JEAN RENOIR: River, The (UA)<br />
RUSSELL ROUSE: Well, The (UA)<br />
RICHARD SALE: I'll Get By (20th-<br />
Foxi<br />
VICTOR SAVILLE: Kim (MGM<br />
GEORGE SEATON: For Heaven's Sake<br />
(20th-Fox)<br />
GEORGE SHERMAN: Tomahawk (U-Ii<br />
GEORGE SIDNEY: Show Boat (MGMi<br />
RICHARD THORPE: Great Caruso,<br />
The (MGMi<br />
GEORGE WAGONER: Operation Pacific<br />
(WB)<br />
RAOUL WALSH: Captain Horatio Hornblower<br />
(WB)<br />
ORSON WELLES: Macbeth (Repi<br />
NORMAN TAUROG JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ<br />
BOXOFFICE 85
GTuddroo 16<br />
f roduce<br />
by CHESTER FRIEDMAN<br />
THE<br />
key cities of the nation, nuclei<br />
of the great population centers,<br />
gather the big ostentatious premieres.<br />
When production heads and the<br />
distributing company's exploiteers want to<br />
capture feature space in magazines and<br />
newspapers, it's a general custom to set<br />
the premiere for Boston, New York, Los<br />
Angeles, Kansas City. Cleveland or, maybe,<br />
Detroit. There the syndicate writers and<br />
the network's movie-gabbers find the incentive<br />
and the facilities for letting their<br />
readers, listeners and constitutents find<br />
out who was there, what went on and<br />
how good the picture is. The outpouring<br />
of news—and art—is generally classified<br />
under the heading of special exploitation<br />
and promotion—showmanship on the upper<br />
level.<br />
LOW BUDGETS NO HANDICAP<br />
By comparison, the grassroots exhibitor,<br />
the fellow who operates, usually, on four<br />
changes a week, wouldn't seem to have<br />
much chance to demonstrate his own ability<br />
and showmanship. Despite what might<br />
seem to be a handicap, the same backwoods<br />
theatremen each year come up<br />
with many times the number of new ideas<br />
projected in the big towns by high-priced<br />
exploiteers and theatre managers with<br />
bigger budgets.<br />
Each week, because his livelihood is contingent<br />
on his own efforts, the gra.ssroots<br />
exhibitor is developing new lines of promotional<br />
gimmicks and dusting off the old<br />
ones—with modern innovations to boot.<br />
Directed to BOXOFFICE. these ideas find<br />
fulfillment when other theatremen read<br />
about them, adapt them locally<br />
and then<br />
replenish the pool of ideas by reporting<br />
their own campaigns and tieups through<br />
the Showmandiser Section of BOXOF-<br />
FICE.<br />
A RECORD OF PRACTICAL IDEAS<br />
Each month, these ideas are sifted and<br />
appraised on their value to their creator<br />
and to the industry. Contributor,? whose<br />
skill and ingenuity are deemed outstanding<br />
are named to the BOXOFFICE Honor<br />
Roll. The year 1951 brought in a record<br />
bounty of good, practical innovations for<br />
improving business which are sure to reflect<br />
in increased usage and perhaps provide<br />
a formula for 1952 from w'hich theatremen<br />
everywhere will take their cue.<br />
If ever an idea conceived by a theatreman<br />
was widely copied—an orchid giveaway—that<br />
distinction belongs to Bob<br />
Walker, owner of the Uintah Theatre,<br />
Fruita, Colo. After the promotion was<br />
reported in the Showmandiser section,<br />
both Walker and BOXOFFICE were<br />
flooded with requests for additional information<br />
from other exhibitors, managers<br />
and circuit heads.<br />
Walker's idea was a perfect tie-in. It<br />
entailed a picture promotion, a date tie-in<br />
and helped to fulfill a secret ambition<br />
of many women of Fruita—to receive an<br />
The dating of the feature, "Wom-<br />
orchid.<br />
an of Distinction," was undoubtedly routine.<br />
But it was Walker's alertness that<br />
fixed the date to coincide with Valentine's<br />
day. He remembered reading an ad in a<br />
magazine that orchids could be bought for<br />
r lew ^eliina ^di\eciS<br />
11 cents each and flown from Hawaii for<br />
a few pennies extra. That was all the<br />
inspiration he needed for his offer of a<br />
free orchid to the first 100 women who<br />
attended. The show went over with a<br />
bang.<br />
Walker was cited for exceptional showmanship<br />
again in July. This time, cautious<br />
lest he flop with "The Next Voice<br />
You Hear ..." and impressed personally<br />
with the great spiritual message the picture<br />
unfolds, he advertised that the theatre<br />
boxoffice would be closed when the<br />
show started—opened at the conclusion so<br />
that those who enjoyed the picture could<br />
purchase tickets.<br />
His foresight and conviction paid off.<br />
The local citizenry showed up. After the<br />
program, they paid up. The innovation<br />
was a huge .success, financially and in<br />
goodwill.<br />
GETS RADIO PROMOTION FREE<br />
Dwight Hanson, owner-manager of the<br />
Valley Theatre. Eddyville, Iowa, is another<br />
grassroots exhibitor whose imagination<br />
and creative talent have paid off for<br />
him. Hanson decided that radio was an<br />
effective medium for selling his shows.<br />
He bought an hour's time on a popular<br />
station in the area, sold time to local<br />
merchants, took over the chore a.s disk<br />
jockey by himself and wound up getting<br />
his advertising free and regularly. Hanson<br />
made the BOXOFFICE Honor Roll in<br />
February.<br />
Last January, the list of Honor Roll<br />
candidates was topped by Ted Davidson, a<br />
Warner circuit manager in Lima, Ohio.<br />
Davidson introduced a series of PTAsponsored<br />
kiddy shows that had tremendous<br />
.support from the entire school system<br />
and excellent cooperation from Sears.<br />
Roebuck and other business firms. His<br />
format for this type of promotion has already<br />
been widely adopted by theatremen<br />
in all parts of the country. A second<br />
series of these shows was started in Lima<br />
last tall and proved equally successful.<br />
A new twist added to the standard Battle<br />
of the Cowboys put Stephen Saunders<br />
on the Honor Roll last April. Saunders<br />
owns and manages the Carmel (N.Y.)<br />
Theatre. He staged a weekly "battle" between<br />
popular cowboy stars for four weeks,<br />
then had the winners "fight" it out among<br />
themselves until the finalist was decided.<br />
The added "gimmick" injected by Saunders<br />
was a tieup with the Boy Scouts.<br />
Each kid paid a penny in order to vote<br />
for his favorite western star. All the<br />
pennies collected went to the Scouts fund<br />
so that the promotion served a community<br />
purpose in addition to boosting attendance<br />
at Saturday matinees.<br />
During the same month, another New<br />
York manager was busy developing his<br />
small-fry patronage along other lines,<br />
equally successful. John Langford, manager<br />
of the Strand Theatre, Carthage,<br />
noted a shortage of wire coat-hangers in<br />
the tailoring trade. He advertised free<br />
admission to kids who brought a specified<br />
number to the theatre, then sold the<br />
scarce item to a neighborhood tailor to<br />
recover the boxoffice admission,<br />
RECIPES A PATRON-PULLER<br />
Don Hayman, co-owner and manager of<br />
the Seneca Theatre at Belington, W. Va..<br />
made the Honor Roll by capitalizing on<br />
the fondness of housewives for cooking<br />
recipes. He invited his patrons to submit<br />
their own favorite recipes, published them<br />
on the back of his monthly calendar proi;ram<br />
and awarded prizes of theatre tickets<br />
for the best. Demand for the programs<br />
increased accordingly and interest skyrocketed<br />
to the point where Hayman decided<br />
to publish the recipes in a book and<br />
give them to his patrons as a Christmas<br />
present.<br />
A suburban theatre manager in Cleveland,<br />
Robert Reich of the Jewel Theatre,<br />
came up with an idea that was so successful<br />
it was adopted by the Lions Club.<br />
Reich staged a series of talent shows for<br />
handicapped persons. The Lions aired the<br />
program for a full hour over Station<br />
WSRS. The sympathetic response this<br />
promotion had from residents in the area<br />
made a substantial increase in theatre<br />
attendance for Reich.<br />
MANY OTHER NOVEL STUNTS<br />
Ben Geary, manager of the Oswego<br />
(N.Y.) Theatre, was the first theatreman<br />
to arrange a public homecoming celebration<br />
for a local boy returned from the<br />
fighting in Korea. The celebration took<br />
place on the theatre stage with merchant<br />
and patriotic veteran groups participating.<br />
Geary's inspiration opened the w'ay<br />
for similar promotions in other communities.<br />
Steve Miller, owner-manager of the<br />
Owen Theatre, Branson, Mo., came up<br />
with a Show Boat party during the summer<br />
months that placed his name on the<br />
Honor Roll in June. Miller made a deal<br />
with a boat line in Paterson to ferry<br />
patrons across the lake, one ticket giving<br />
the privilege of the ride and theatre admission.<br />
One of several Drive-In managers to be<br />
cited for outstanding .showmanship. Sidney<br />
Sayetta, was placed on the Honor<br />
Roll for starting a Stadium Seat Club at<br />
the Airway Drive-In, St. Louis. The club<br />
functions along the same lines as baseball's<br />
Knot Hole Gangs and introduces<br />
the small-fry to the pleasures and enjoyment<br />
of outdoor movies.<br />
Tom Muchmore, manager of the Warner<br />
Theatre, Fresno, Calif., put on a<br />
Back-to-School show in September that<br />
added a community service to its general<br />
value in stimulating attendance. Every<br />
(Continued on page 90)<br />
86 BAROMETER Section
Lloyd Bacon<br />
Director<br />
In 1951<br />
'The Frogmen"<br />
''Golden Girl"<br />
0-<br />
Just<br />
Completed:<br />
"The I<br />
Don't Care Girl"<br />
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88 BAROMETER Section
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J^ope<br />
BOXOFFICE 89
Prospects Are Brighter<br />
In Britain<br />
(Continued from page 52)<br />
gambled in pictures more similar to those<br />
by which Britain made her name for<br />
quality product. Carol Reed's "The Outcast<br />
of the Islands," from the Joseph Conrad<br />
story, is already finished and awaiting<br />
a west-end run. David Lean has also<br />
completed his first film for Korda. since<br />
leaving the Rank group; this is titled "The<br />
Sound Barrier" and .shows what happens<br />
to pilots when they exceed the speed of<br />
sound. Sir Ralph Richardson has made<br />
his bow as a director, al.so for Korda. in<br />
"Home at Seven" in which he also stars.<br />
At Elstree. Associated British are making<br />
"The Dam Busters." based on the exploits<br />
of Wing Commander Gibson and<br />
Ealing studios are also preparing a war<br />
subject, "The Cruel Sea," from Nicholas<br />
Monsarrat's best-seller. The tendency<br />
toward more ambitious subjects has also<br />
reached Pinewood, the sole remaining<br />
Rank studio, where Anthony Asquith is<br />
at work on an adaptation of the Oscar<br />
Wilde play. "The Importance of Being<br />
Earnest." Another Pinewood film, in what<br />
might be called the prestige class, is the<br />
screen version of Arnold Bennett's famous<br />
novel. "The Card," which will star Alec<br />
Guiness.<br />
All of these films will obviously cost<br />
rather more than the average film made<br />
during the past year or two. Their budgets<br />
reflect the confidence that British<br />
producers now feel that, at last, they might<br />
be getting a fairer deal in their own<br />
market.<br />
Grassroots Produce<br />
New Selling Ideas<br />
(Continued from page 86)<br />
child who bought a ticket for the show<br />
contributed an extra amount which paid<br />
the admission of an underprivileged child.<br />
Larry Jensen, manag-er of the Capitol,<br />
Oklahoma City, staged a mock holdup to<br />
exploit "The Return of Frank James" and<br />
landed his theatre in the pages of the<br />
newspaper besides boosting his current<br />
business. That earned an Honor Roll<br />
Citation for Jensen.<br />
David Williams, manager of the Gaumont<br />
Cinema, New Cross, England, proved<br />
that showmanship is in the fore in that<br />
country as well as America by making<br />
the Honor Roll in October. Williams improvised<br />
the presentation of a live trailer<br />
in conjunction with his campaign for "The<br />
Invisible Man." With the aid of a scrim<br />
curtain, a volunteer usher and some trick<br />
lighting effects, patrons had the illusion<br />
of seeing things move around the stage<br />
without any visible means of animation<br />
or propulsion.<br />
It will be seen, from the evidence above.<br />
that a preponderance of new ideas comes<br />
from the smaller communities. To encourage<br />
the grassroots exhibitors to share<br />
these ideas with their colleagues and to<br />
promote the exchange of ideas among all<br />
theatremen, the Honor Roll was introduced<br />
in the Showmandiser section of<br />
BOXOPFICE in May 1947.<br />
Since then, ten managers or exhibitors<br />
or publicity men have been named for the<br />
Honor Roll each month on the basis of individual<br />
originality and showmanship of<br />
an exceptional nature. Of more than 550<br />
showmen who have been named on the<br />
Honor Roll (several have won two or more<br />
awards). 63.8 per cent of the total are<br />
located in towns under 25.000 population:<br />
28.9 per cent are exhibitors who either own<br />
their theatres or are co-owners in the enterprise.<br />
To permit theatremen having a limited<br />
opportunity to compete equitably with<br />
larger theatres having sizable budgets.<br />
Honor Roll winners are selected on the<br />
basis of individual phases of promotion.<br />
The Citations are thus awarded for the<br />
most outstanding evidence submitted in<br />
the following: Original Idea, Public Relations,<br />
Window Display, Lobby Display, Cooperative<br />
Ad, Display Ad, Front, General<br />
Tie-up, House Program and Ballyhoo.<br />
The Honor Roll is administered by the<br />
Show'mandiser section in the New York<br />
offices. Promotion entries should be addressed:<br />
Showmandiser, BOXOFFICE, 9<br />
Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.<br />
PAT DUGGAN<br />
90 BAROMETER Section
No"<br />
A Glanre nl rnniinir Fpatiircs<br />
Advance Data on Films, Completed or in Production,<br />
tor Release After September I, /9S/.<br />
Title, Cast and Other Changes Will Be Published<br />
as They Occur in the Feature Chart and<br />
the News Section of BOXOFFICC.<br />
LOOKinCRHEflD<br />
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD [Romantic Drama). Stars: Rito<br />
Hayworth, tjlenn Ford, Torin Thatcher. Producer;<br />
Not set. Director Vincent Sherman. Original<br />
Screenploy: James Gunn.<br />
• This marks Rita Hoyworth's return to the screen<br />
offer a three-yeor hiatus and reunites her with<br />
Gl^nn Ford, her co-star in "Gildo" and "The Loves<br />
of Gormen." The opus has a background of Trinidad<br />
in the West Indies.<br />
THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN (Drama). Stars: Robert<br />
Cummings, Terry Moore, Jerome Court land. Producer:<br />
Robert Cohn. Director: Earl McEvoy. OrtginQ
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MASK OF THE AVENGER (Historical Droma). Stars:<br />
John Derek, Jody Lawrence, Anthony Quinn. Producer:<br />
Hunt Stromberg. Director: Phil Korlson.<br />
Original: George Bruce. Screenplay: Jesse L. Losky<br />
jr.<br />
• A soldier in Italy's war with Austria in ] 848,<br />
John Derek returns home on leave to find himself<br />
accused as a traitor and his father slain. Determined<br />
to avenge the family name, he manages<br />
to prove the real traitor and assassin is Anthony<br />
Quinn, the militory governor, and kills him in<br />
hand-to-hand combat. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE MOB (Crime Drama). Stars: Broderick Crawford,<br />
Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley. Producer: Jerry<br />
Bresler. Director; Robert Parrish. Original: Ferguson<br />
Findley. Screenplay; William Bowers.<br />
• Detective Broderick Crawford disguises himself<br />
OS a dock worker to track down the head of a<br />
waterfront racketeering gang. The job involves his<br />
fiancee, who is captured by the crooks, and Crawford<br />
rescues her. The gong leader trails them to<br />
the hospitol where the girl is token, and Crawford<br />
sloys him in a showdown gun battle.<br />
MONTANA TERRITORY (Western). Stars: Lon McCallister,<br />
Wanda Hendrix, Preston Foster. Producer:<br />
Colbert Clark. Director; Ray Nozarro. Original<br />
Screenplay: Barry Shipmon.<br />
• Lon McCallister, ornving in Montana as a goldhunter,<br />
witnesses a brutal murder by road agents.<br />
Learning this, Preston Foster, the sheriff and leader<br />
of the gang, tries to eliminate Lon. However, in<br />
a showdown battle Foster is captured and his gang<br />
rubbed out. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
MY SIX CONVICTS (Semidocumentary Drama). Stars:<br />
John Seal, Millard Mitchell, Gilbert Roland. Producer:<br />
Stanley Kramer. Director: Hugo Fregonese.<br />
Original; Dr. Donald Powell Wilson. Screenplay:<br />
Edward and Edna Anholt.<br />
• Adapted from the book by Dr. Donald Powell<br />
Wilson, this casts John Beal as the research psychologist<br />
who, over a three-year period, conducts<br />
an exhaustive survey of attitudes, aptitudes ond<br />
behavior patterns of the inmates of a state penitentiary.<br />
His findings were instrumental in institutino<br />
prison reforms.<br />
PAULA (Drama). Stars: Loretta Young, Kent Smith,<br />
Alexander Knox. Producer: Buddy Adier. Director;<br />
Rudolph Mate. Original: Larry Marcus. Screenplay:<br />
Charles Bennett.<br />
• Loretta Young injures a young orphan boy in a<br />
car accident. Fleeing an erroneous hit-and-run<br />
charge, she nevertheless orronges to take the lad<br />
who has become a mute— into her home to try to<br />
cure him. She is successful, but not before the<br />
story is brought to the attention of the police,<br />
who let Loretta off with probation.<br />
PURPLE HEART DIARY (Comedy With Music). Stars:<br />
Frances Longford, Judd Holdren, Ben Lessy. Producer:<br />
Sam Katzman. Director; Richard Quine.<br />
Original: Frances Longford's syndicated newspaper<br />
column. Screenplay: William Sockheim.<br />
• This is a frctionol version of the World War<br />
II activities of Frances Longford and her small<br />
troupe of USO entertainers in the Pacific area.<br />
High point of the plot is her success in rehabilitating<br />
a former football star, hopelessly crippled in<br />
bottle, and reuniting him with the nurse with<br />
whom he is in love.<br />
RED SNOW (Melodrama). Stars: Guy Madison, Gloria<br />
Saunders, Robert Peyton. Producer: Boris F^etroff.<br />
Director: Horry Franklin. Original Screenplay: Tom<br />
Hubbord.<br />
• The personnel of a U.S. air force bose in northern<br />
Alaska is assigned to track down o mysterious<br />
airplane which hos been noted over the territory.<br />
The plane, it develops, is Russian, due to test<br />
a secret new military weapon. However, the Russian<br />
pilot—hating the Red regime—sabotages the<br />
croft and the test is a failure.<br />
THE SABRE AND THE ARROW (Historical Western).<br />
Stars; Broderick Crawford, Borboro Hole, Lloyd<br />
Bridges. Producer: Buddy Adler. Director: Andre de<br />
Toth. Original Screenplay: Kenneth Garnet.<br />
• Broderick Crawford, a cavalry sergeant in 1876,<br />
and five troopers are the only survivors of a<br />
brutal raid by warring Comonches. Crawford ond<br />
his men, and o handful of civilians, seek refuge<br />
in on old Spanish mission, and monage to fight<br />
off the redskins until the timely arrival of reinforcements.<br />
SCANDAL SHEET (Drama). Stars; John Derek, Donna<br />
Reed, Broderick Crawford. Producer: Edword<br />
Small. Director: Phil Karlson. Original: Samuel<br />
Fuller. Screenplay: Ted Sherdeman, Eugene Ling,<br />
James Poe.<br />
• Broderick Crawford, ruthless ond dynamic newspaper<br />
editor, kills his wife, whom he had deserted,<br />
when she threatens to expose him. John<br />
Derek, a reporter on Crawford's paper, is assigned<br />
to the story, traces the dead woman's life<br />
bock two decades, and identifies Crawford as the<br />
murderer.<br />
THE SNIPER {Crime Drama). Stars: Arthur Fronz,<br />
Adolphe Menjou, Marie Windsor. Producer; Stanley<br />
Kramer. Director; Edward Dmytryk. Original: Edna<br />
and Edword Anhalt. Screenplay; Horry Brown.<br />
• Arthur Franz, ex-convict and mental case, is<br />
impelled, by something he cannot control, to go on<br />
a killing spree, selecting casual acquaintances and<br />
even strangers as his victims. He is finally captured<br />
by Adolphe Menjou, a police lieutenant, but<br />
not before the entire city is aroused and terrorstricken.<br />
THE SON OF DR. JEKYLL (Horror Melodrama). Stars;<br />
Louis Hay word, Jody Lawrance, Alexonder Knox.<br />
Producer: Charles R. Rogers. Director: Seymour<br />
Friedman. Original: Mortimer Braus, Jack Pol lexfen.<br />
Screenplay: Edward Huebsch.<br />
• Louis Hayward, son of the terrifying Dr. Jekyll<br />
(killed when Hayward was an infant), undertakes<br />
experiments to prove his father was not a sadistic<br />
lunatic. As o result, he is wrongfully accused of<br />
criminal attacks, but manages to clear himself and<br />
place the blame on Alexander Knox, who hod been<br />
his father's trusted friend.<br />
SOUND OFF (Comedy With Music). Stars: Mickey<br />
Rooney, Delores Sidener, Henry Slate. Producer:<br />
Jonie Taps. Director: Richard Quine. Original;<br />
No credits set. Screenplay; No credits set.<br />
• Mickey Rooney, an uninhibited New York nightclub<br />
entertainer, is drafted and sent to Fort Dix,<br />
where his shenonigans keep him in constant hot<br />
water. He foils in love with Delores Sidener, an<br />
army nurse, who promises to be his girl—if he starts<br />
acting like a mature individual ond good soldier,<br />
which Mickey does with conspicuous success.<br />
STORM OVER TIBET (Drama). Stars: Rex Reason,<br />
Diono Douglas, Myron Heoley. Producers: Laslo<br />
Benedek, Ivan Tore (Summit Productions). Director;<br />
Andrew Martin. Original: Ivan Tors. Screenplay:<br />
Ivan Tors, Sam Meyer.<br />
• Flying the "hump" in the Himalayas during<br />
World War 11, Myron Healey crashes in the uncharted<br />
wilderness, after stealing a sacred religious<br />
image. His buddy. Rex Reason, who marries<br />
Heo ley's widow, undertakes a dangerous attempt<br />
to locate Healey, only to learn definitely of the<br />
lotter's death.<br />
TEN TALL MEN (Dromo). Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jody<br />
Lawrence, Gilbert Roland. Producer: Harold Hecht<br />
(Norma Productions). Director; Willis Goldbeck.<br />
Original: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck.<br />
Screenplay; Frank Davis, Roland Kibbee.<br />
• Tossed into the guardhouse for trying to steal<br />
his superior officer's girl friend, Burt Lancaster<br />
persuades the officer to send him and seven fellowprisoners<br />
{all Foreign Legionnaires) on a suicidol<br />
mission to divert on army of Riffs. They are successful,<br />
ond Lancaster and his men are decorated<br />
for bravery.<br />
TERRY AND THE PIRATES (Action Drama). Stars: Not<br />
set. Producers; Sam Katzmon, Douglas Foirbanks<br />
jr. Director: Not set. Original: Comic strip. Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• Planned for Technicolor filming, this is a screen<br />
version of the syndicated comic strip, screen rights<br />
to which were acquired some years ago by Douglas<br />
Foirbanks jr.<br />
THIEF OF DAMASCUS (Costume Drama). Stars: Poul<br />
Henreid, Jeff Donnell, Lon Choney. Producer: Sam<br />
Kotzmon. Director: Lew Landers. Original Screenplay:<br />
Robert E. Kent.<br />
• In 643 A. D., bloodthirsty John Sutton tries to<br />
conquer Damascus, gateway to Persia, but is opposed<br />
by Sheherazade (Jeff Donnell) and a doshing<br />
general, Paul Henreid. Foiled in his plan to marry<br />
her, Sutton threatens to execute Sheherazade, but<br />
Henreid and his followers, in hand-to-hand combat,<br />
drive out the invaders.<br />
A YANK IN INDO-CHINA (Drama). Stars: Douglas<br />
Dick, Jean Willes, John Archer. Producer; Sam<br />
Kotzmon. Director; Wally Grissell. Original Screenplay:<br />
Sam Newman.<br />
• Three Americans, who operate an air cargo line<br />
in Indo-China, are taken prisoners by the Communists.<br />
Jimmy Durante<br />
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FBI GIRL (Droma). Sfors: Audrey Totter, Cesar Romero,<br />
George Brent. Producer-Director: William<br />
Berkc. Original: Rupert Hughes. Screenplay; Richard<br />
Landau, Dwight Bobcock.<br />
• The governor of a state where a senote crime<br />
committee probe is about to bo lounched is, in<br />
reolity, a wonted murderer. His efforts to steal his<br />
fingerprints from the FBI files lead to murder and<br />
intrigue, but a trop laid by Audrey Totter, an<br />
FBI girl, leads to his ultimate capture.<br />
FOR MEN ONLY {Droma). Stars: Paul Henreid, Margaret<br />
Field, Robert Sherman. Producer-Director:<br />
Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Louis Morheim.<br />
• Paul Henreid, a college professor, befriends a<br />
student about to be initiated into a fraternity.<br />
The student dies, o victim of a brutal hozmg, and<br />
Henreid is framed by a coed whose advances he<br />
had repulsed. However, Henreid is successful in<br />
having hazing outlawed and in clearing his own<br />
name.<br />
GALVESTON (Historicol Western). Stars: Not set. Producer-Director:<br />
Charles Marquis Warren. Original<br />
Screenploy: John Champion.<br />
• Frontier days in Texas provide the background<br />
for this action entry.<br />
THE GREAT ADVENTURE (Melodrama). Stars: Jack<br />
Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price. Producer:<br />
Aubrey Boring. Director: David MocDonald. Original<br />
Screenpla>: Robert Westerby.<br />
• Jack Hawkins returns from Africa's Boer War<br />
to find his fiancee, Siobhon McKenna, married to<br />
Dennis Price. Price accomponies Hawkins on a<br />
hazardous journey to recover a cache of diamonds,<br />
ond disappears. Accused of his murder by his<br />
friend, Peter Hammond, Hawkins perishes in o<br />
mine slide while attempting to kill Hammond.<br />
HELLGATE PRISON (Action Drama), Stars: Lloyd<br />
Bridges (incomplete). Producer-Director: Charles<br />
Marquis Warren. Original: Not set. Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• Concerns a prisoner-of-war camp during the<br />
Civil War<br />
LEAVE IT TO THE MARINES (Comedy). Stars: Sid<br />
Melton, Mara Lynn, Gregg Mortell. Producer: Sigmund<br />
Neufeld. Director; Samuel Newfield, Original<br />
Screenplay: Orville Hampton.<br />
• At city hall Sid Melton gets confused, and instead<br />
of obtoining the marriage license his sweetheart.<br />
Mora Lynn, is waiting for, gets himself enlisted<br />
in the marine corps. A heartless sergeont,<br />
Gregg Mortell, coveting Mara, assigns Sid to mind<br />
the camp mascot, but in the line of duty Sid wins<br />
o hero's medal.<br />
LOAN SHARK (Melodrama). Stors: George Raft, Dorothy<br />
Hart. Producer: Edward Levin. Director: Seymour<br />
Friedman. Original Screenplay: not set.<br />
• George Roft has the starring role in this copsond-robbers<br />
melodrama.<br />
MAN BAIT (Mystery Drama). Stars: George Brent,<br />
Marguerite Chapman. Producers: Robert L. Lippert,<br />
James Correros. Director: Terence Fisher.<br />
Original: Jamc$ Hadlcy Chase. Screenplay: Frederick<br />
Knott.<br />
• This murder mystery was filmed in England.<br />
MASSACRE (Historical Western). Stars: not set. Producer:<br />
Sig Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original:<br />
Thomas Blackburn. Screenploy: not set.<br />
• A story of covolry-vs-lndions worfare in the<br />
1880s, this IS adapted from on Argosy mogozine<br />
serial.<br />
NAVAJO (Adventure Drama). Stars: Froncis Kee Teller,<br />
John Mitchell, members of Navajo tribe. Producer:<br />
Hall Bortlett. Director: Norman Foster. Original<br />
Screenplay: Norman Foster.<br />
• With the fierce independence of the Navajo,<br />
Francis Kee Teller, a seven-year-old, resolves to<br />
live with his tribe forever far from the white mar.<br />
Forced into a hated government school, he escapes,<br />
vengefully luring his pursuers to certain death<br />
but recoils from the shaming impulse and mokes<br />
his peace,<br />
RING AROUND SATURN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers:<br />
Edword and William Nossour, Paul Henreid.<br />
Director. Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Paul<br />
Roder.<br />
• This is a drama of form life, dealing with a boy<br />
and his champion bull.<br />
SKY HIGH (Comedy). Stars: Sid Melton, Maro Lynn,<br />
Sam Flint. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld, Director:<br />
Samuel Newfield. Original Screenplay: Orville<br />
Hampton.<br />
• When his wartime commander. Major Doug<br />
Evans, arrives at a U.S. air force base, toil gunner<br />
Sid Melton is assigned to pose os on enemy<br />
agent. In spite of spy Margio Dean's somctime:><br />
irresistible allure, Sid's efforts help effect capture<br />
of the would-be soboteurs.<br />
STOLEN FACE (Melodroma). Stars: Paul Henreid,<br />
Lizobctn Scott. Producer: James Correros, Robert<br />
L. Lippert. Director: Terence Fisher. Original:<br />
Alex Pool. Screenplay: Martin Berkley, Richard<br />
Londau.<br />
• This cops-and-robbers dromo was produced in<br />
England.<br />
SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN (Melodrama).<br />
Stars. George Reeves, Phyllis Cootes. Producers:<br />
Bernard Luber, Robert MoxwcH. Director: Lee<br />
Sholcm. Original Screenplay: Richard Fielding.<br />
• Film version of the adventures of the comic<br />
strip charocter, the invincible Superman.<br />
TALES OF ROBINHOOD (Adventure). Stors: Robert<br />
Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavonagh. Producer:<br />
Hal Roach jr. Director: James Tinling. Original<br />
Screenplay: Leroy H. Zehren.<br />
• In 12th century Eng'ond, nobleman Robin Hood<br />
(Robert Clarke) and a loyal bond he'p redress the<br />
wrongs imposed on the defeated Soxons by their<br />
Norman conquerors. Near his headquarters deep in<br />
Sherwood Forest Robin Hood rescues the foir<br />
Moid Marian (Mary Hatcher) from robbers, ond<br />
wins her to his ideals and heart.<br />
UNKNOWN WORLD (Science-Fiction Drama). Stors:<br />
Victor Kihon, Bruce Kellogg, Jim Bonnon. Producers:<br />
J. R. Rabin, I. A. Block, Director: Terry<br />
Morse. Original Screenplay: Millard Koufmon.<br />
• Six men and a woman drill a hole into the<br />
depths of the earth, seeking a sofe retreat from<br />
a possible atomic war. They reach a vast subterraneon<br />
world but ore imperiled by on earthquake,<br />
and manage to escape just in time to ovoid<br />
being cought in a huge tidal wove.<br />
VARIETIES ON PARADE (Musical). Stars: Tom Neol,<br />
Eddie Dean, Jackie Coogan, Speciolty Acts. Producer-Director:<br />
Ron Ormond. Original Screenplay:<br />
Ron Ormond.<br />
• With Eddie Garr serving as master of ceremonies,<br />
this has Tom Neal, Jackie Coogan, Lyie Talbot and<br />
Iris Adrian appearing in a series of skits, interspersed<br />
with song numbers ond a number of vaudeville<br />
acts, including ocrobots, jugglers, dancers and<br />
magicians.<br />
tn<br />
H<br />
ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (Historical Western).<br />
Stars: Clark Gable, Mario Elena Marques, Ricordo<br />
Monfalbon. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Williom<br />
A. Wellmon. Original: Talbot Jennings, Frank<br />
Covett. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings.<br />
• Clark Gable, o tropper and Indian fighter in the<br />
1880s, morries Maria Elena Marques of the Blockfoot<br />
tribe, to gain borgoining power with her people.<br />
After she bears him a son, and he falls deeply<br />
in love with her, she is killed in a redskin attack<br />
upon Coble's party, ond Gable returns the baby to<br />
the Blackfoot people.<br />
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Musical).<br />
Stars: Gene Kelly, Danny Koye, Dean Stockwell.<br />
Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli.<br />
Original: Mark Twain. Screenplay: Donald<br />
Ogden Stewart, Alan Joy Lerner.<br />
• Mark Twain's classic story of the Mississippi in<br />
the 1840s comes to the screen as a Technicolor<br />
tunefilm, with Dean Stockwell title-roling as the<br />
youngster who journeys down the river on o raft<br />
with a Negro slave whom he eventually succeeds in<br />
setting free.<br />
AMERICAN BEAUTY (Comedy Dramo). Stars: Not set.<br />
Producer: Sidney Sheldon. Director: Not set. Original:<br />
Eiick Moll, Robert Jung. Screenplay: Margaret<br />
Fitts, Edith Sommer, Charles Lederer, Ken Englund.<br />
• In four episodes, this interweaves the stories of<br />
four American girls.<br />
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Musical). Stors: Gene<br />
Kelly, Leslie Coron, Oscar Levant. Producer: Arthur<br />
Freed. Director: Vincente Minelli. Original Screenplay:<br />
Alan Joy Lerner.<br />
• Gene Kelly, on ex-GI, stays in Paris after the<br />
war and dobbles at being o painter. Nina Foch,<br />
o wealthy, foot-loose American girl, falls in love<br />
with him and uses her money to help his career,<br />
but Gene falls madly in love with Leslie Coron, a<br />
pretty French girl—and, although poor, they plon<br />
to marry. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BANNERLINE (Drama). Stars: Keefe Brasselle, Sally<br />
Forrest, Lionel Borrymore. Producer; Henry Bermon.<br />
Director; Don Weis. Original: Samson Rophaelson.<br />
Screenplay: Charles Schnee.<br />
• An ambitious young reporter, Keefe Brasselle,<br />
is instrumental in rousing his community to the<br />
foct thot the city is controlled by racketeering<br />
grofters. After he is brutally beaten by the mobsters,<br />
the grand jury calls on emergency session and<br />
the fight begins for civic reform.<br />
BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE (Musical Comedy). Stars:<br />
Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, Spring Byington.<br />
Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Alexander Hall.<br />
Original; Joe Posternok, Screenplay: Ruth Brooks<br />
Flippen, Leonard Spigelgass, Karl Tunberg.<br />
• An opera star is drafted into military service.<br />
BELLE OF NEW YORK (Musical Comedy). Stars:<br />
Fred Astaire, Vero-Ellen, Keenan Wynn. Producer:<br />
Arthur Freed. Director: Chorles Walters. Original<br />
Screenplay; Jerry Davis, Irving Elingson, Robert<br />
O'Brien.<br />
• Fred Astaire has a proposing complex—especially<br />
where chorus girls ore concerned—and is now,<br />
unhappily, engoged to marry one. But he falls in<br />
love all over ogoin with Vero-Ellen, who is engaged<br />
in missionary work on the Bowery, forgets<br />
all about his own wedding and finally winds up<br />
with Vero-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BRIGADOON (Musical Comedy). Stars: Gene Kelly,<br />
Kathryn Grayson. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director:<br />
Not set. Original: Alan Lerner. Screenplay:<br />
Alan Lerner.<br />
• Film version of the stage success, this has o<br />
Scottish background and will be filmed in Technicolor.<br />
CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY {Comedy Western).<br />
Stars: Howard Keel, Fred MocMurroy, Dorothy Mc-<br />
Guire. Producer-Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin<br />
Frank. Original Screenplay; Norman Panama,<br />
Melvin Frank.<br />
• Howard Keel, hard-drinking cowboy star, is a<br />
hos-been until TV, running his old pictures, makes<br />
him a notional hero. Efforts to locate him are<br />
futile, but his double—a clean-living cowhand— is<br />
imported from the range. When the real cowboy star<br />
appears, he almost ruins the plot until his double<br />
disposes of him and wins the gal.<br />
CALLING BULLDOG DRUMMOND (Mystery Drama).<br />
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Morgaret Leighton, Robert<br />
Beotty. Producer: Hayes Goetz. Director: Victor<br />
Seville. Original: Gerald Fair lee. Screenplay: Gerald<br />
Fairlee, Emmett Rogers, Arthur Wimperis.<br />
• Prevailed upon by Scotland Yard to help solve<br />
a series of large-scale robberies. Bulldog Drummond<br />
(Walter Pidgeon) emerges from retirement,<br />
poses as a wanted criminal and joins the gang.<br />
At the risk of his own life, Drummond manages<br />
to cooture the ringleoder. Filmed in England.<br />
CARBINE WILLIAMS (Drama). Stars: James Stewart,<br />
Wendell Corey, Jeon Hagen. Producer: Armond<br />
Deutsch. Director: Richard Thorpe, Original Screenplay:<br />
William Bowers, Arthur Cohn.<br />
• A biogrophy of David Marshall Williams, who<br />
while serving a prison sentence— invented the carbine<br />
used by U.S. troops in World War II. James<br />
Stewart is cast as Williams and Wendell Corey as<br />
the prison warden who was instrumental in encouraging<br />
Williams to succeed in his achievement.<br />
DANGEROUS WHEN WET (Musical Comedy). Stars;<br />
Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Debbie Reynolds.<br />
Producer: George Wells. Director: Not set. Original:<br />
Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley.<br />
• Another tunefilm, in Technicolor, showcasing the<br />
oquotic talents of Esther Williams.<br />
DAYS BEFORE LENT (Drama). Stars: Gig Young,<br />
Keenan Wynn, Williom Campbell. Producer; John<br />
Houseman, Director: Gerald Mayer. Original: Hamilton<br />
Basso. Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides.<br />
• A surgeon tries to quit his profession but finds<br />
himself bound by ties that cannot be cut.<br />
EAGLE ON HIS CAP (Droma). Stars: Robert Taylor,<br />
Eleanor Parker, Morilyn Erskine. Producers and<br />
Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Original:<br />
Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay; Norman Ponoma,<br />
Melvin Frank, Beirne Lay jr.<br />
• This is a film biography of Col. Paul Tibbets,<br />
the air force pilot who dropped the first atomic<br />
bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.<br />
EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS (Musical). Stars: Red<br />
Skelton, Vero-Ellen (incomplete). Producer: George<br />
Wells. Director; Not set. Original Screenplay:<br />
George Wells.<br />
• This tunefilm will be photographed in Technicolor.<br />
FEARLESS FAGAN (Comedy). Stars: Debbie Reynolds,<br />
Corleton Carpenter (incomplete). Producer: Edwin<br />
H, Knopf. Director: Not set. Original; Sidney<br />
Franklin jr. Screenplay: Charles Lederer.<br />
• Taken from newspaper headlines is this story<br />
of o young mon who, when drafted, brought his<br />
trained lion into camp with him because he hod<br />
nowhere else to dispose of the animal.<br />
FLESH AND THE DEVIL (Romantic Drama), Stars:<br />
Ava Gardner, Ricardo Montalban, Fernando Lomos.<br />
Producer- Director: Clarence Brown. Original; Herman<br />
Sudermon. Screenploy: Not set.<br />
• A new version of the tempestuous love story<br />
which was first filmed by this company as a silent<br />
in 1927, co-starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.<br />
GHOST OF A CHANCE (Musical), Stars: Gene Kelly,<br />
Vero-Ellen (incomplete). Producer: Joe Pasternak.<br />
Director: Not set. Originol: Ned Young. Screenplay:<br />
Karl Tunberg, Leonard Spigelgass.<br />
• This musical, to be filmed in Technicolor, Is<br />
adopted from a novel of the same title by Ned<br />
Young.<br />
THE GIRL IN WHITE (Drama). Stars; June<br />
Arthur Kennedy, Gary Merrill. Producer:<br />
Allyson,<br />
Armond<br />
Deutsch. Director: John Sturges. Original: Emily<br />
Barringer. Screenploy: Irmgard von Cube, Philip<br />
Stevenson, Allan Vincent.<br />
• June Allyson portrays Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer<br />
in this film biography of the first woman<br />
ambulance doctor and surgeon in the history of<br />
American medicine.<br />
GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK (Musical). Cost: Gene<br />
Kelly, Vera-E'ien, Debbie Reynolds. Producer: Jack<br />
Cummmgs. Director; Not set. Original: Vera Cospory.<br />
Screenplay: Fronces Goodrich, Albert Hockett.<br />
• This Technicolor tunefilm has a Broadway locole.<br />
GLORY ALLEY (Drama). Stars: Ralph Meeker, Leslie<br />
Coron, Gilbert Roland. Producer: Nicholas Nayfack.<br />
Director; Raoul Walsh. Original Screenplay:<br />
Art Cohn.<br />
• This story of the U.S. marines casts Ralph<br />
Meeker as a prize-fighting champion.<br />
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GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (Musical). Stars; Kothryn Grayson<br />
(incomplete). Producer; Sidney Franklin. Director;<br />
Not set, Originol; James Hilton, Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• This is projected as a Technicolor musicol version<br />
of the James Hilton story about a beloved<br />
teacher in an English boys' school. It was first<br />
produced in dramatic form in 1939.<br />
INTERRUPTED MELODY (Dramo With Music). Stars;<br />
Lana Turner (incomplete). Producer: Jock Cummings.<br />
Director: Not set. Original Screenplay:<br />
Sonyo Levien, William Ludwig.<br />
• This troces the career of Morjorie Lawrence, on<br />
Australian farm girl who became a great concert<br />
ortist. A victim of polio, she overcame thot handicap<br />
to make a successful comeback. Filmed in<br />
Technicolor,<br />
INVITATION (Romantic Dromo). Stars: Dorothy<br />
McGuire, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern. Producer:<br />
Lowrence Weingarten. Director: Gottfried Reinhardt.<br />
Original: Jerome Weidman. Screenplay: Paul<br />
Osborne.<br />
• Dorothy McGuire, a plain girl and olmost an<br />
invalid, is prepared to go through life os o spinster,<br />
o fact which dismays her father. Learning she has<br />
only a year to live, he bribes Von Johnson to<br />
marry her. Dorothy learns the truth, but by this<br />
time Von is in love with her—and an operation<br />
restores her health.<br />
IT'S A BIG COUNTRY (Episodic Drama). Stars: Ethel<br />
Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson and others.<br />
Producer: Robert Sisk. Directors: George Cukor,<br />
Charles Vidor, William Wellman and others. Originals:<br />
Edgar Brooke, Dudley Schnabel, Carl Click<br />
and others. Screenplay: William Ludwig, Luther<br />
Dovis, Isobel Lenncrt and others.<br />
• Told in eight interrelated episodes, with seporote<br />
costs, directors and writers, this presents an<br />
insight into the U.S. at work and at play—the<br />
America of a Dakoto wheat-grower and that of o<br />
Pittsburgh steel puddler—the America of an old<br />
lady in Chicago and of the President of the United<br />
States<br />
IVANHOE (Costume Dramo). Stars: Robert Taylor,<br />
Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine. Producer: Pandro<br />
S. Bermon. Director; Richard Thorpe. Original:<br />
Walter Scott. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts.<br />
• In Technicolor, this is a story of England during<br />
the reign of Richard the Lion-Hearted. From<br />
Walter Scott's classic adventure novel, it has<br />
Robert Taylor in the title role and was produced<br />
in Britain.<br />
JUMBO (Musical Comedy). Stars: Red Skelton, Debbie<br />
Reynolds, Donald O'Connor. Producer: Roger Edens.<br />
Director: Not set. Original: Joseph Fields, Richard<br />
Rodgers, Lorenz Hart. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• Film version of the Broadway stage success,<br />
this will be photographed in Technicolor,<br />
THE LIGHT TOUCH (Drama). Stars: Stewart Granger,<br />
Pier Angeli, George Sanders. Producer: Pandro S.<br />
Berman. Director: Richard Brooks. Original Screenplay:<br />
Richard Brooks.<br />
• Stewart Granger steals a valuable religious painting<br />
from o museum in Sicily, then double-crosses<br />
his partner, George Sanders, by claiming it was<br />
burned in a fire. A copyist. Pier Angeli, is persuaded<br />
to produce an imitation, but she and<br />
Granger fall in love; he returns the original to<br />
the museum ond goes straight.<br />
LILLI (Drama). Stars: Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron,<br />
Ann Miller. Producer; Edwin H. Knopf. Director:<br />
Charles Walters. Original: Paul Gollico. Screenplay:<br />
Helen Deutsch.<br />
• This romantic drama concerns a traveling show<br />
troupe in Europe.<br />
LONE STAR (Historical Western). Stars: Clark Gable,<br />
Avo Gardner, Broderick Crawford. Producer: Z.<br />
Wayne Griffin. Director Vincent Sherman. Original:<br />
Borden Chase, Howard Estabrook. Screenplay:<br />
Borden Chose<br />
• Texas in 1845, having broken away from Mexico,<br />
has to choose between remaining a republic<br />
or annexing to the United States. Holding opposite<br />
views are Clork Gab'e, cattle-owner who favors<br />
onnexotion, and Broderick Crawford, o power in the<br />
Texas senate, who wants the republic maintained.<br />
Ultimotely Gable and his forces win,<br />
LOVE IS BETTER THAN EVER, Stars: Elizabeth Taylor,<br />
Lorry Porks, Ann Doran. Producer: William<br />
H. Wright. Director: Stanley Donen. Original<br />
Screenplay; Ruth Brooks FMppen.<br />
• Visiting New York, Elizabeth Taylor, a dancing<br />
school instructor from New Hoven, is shown the<br />
town by Larry Porks, a brosh young press agent,<br />
and falls in love with him. He professes to be<br />
allergic to marrioge, but through a series of ruses<br />
Elzabeth convinces him that he loves her^-and<br />
snogs her man,<br />
LOVELY TO LOOK AT (Musicol). Stars: Red Skelton,<br />
Kothryn Grayson, Howard Keel. Producer; Jack<br />
Cummings. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original<br />
Screenplay; George Wells, Horry RutDy, Andrew Solt.<br />
• This Technicolor tunefilm is a new version of<br />
"Roberta," the stage musical, first made os o motion<br />
picture in the 1930s by RKO Radio with Fred<br />
Astaire and Ginger Rogers as its co-stars.<br />
THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (Drama). Stors: Borboro<br />
Stonwyck. Joseph Gotten, Leslie Caron. Producer:<br />
Stephen Ames. Director: Fletcher Morkle. Original:<br />
John Dickson Carr. Screenplay: Frank Fenton.<br />
• In 1848 Leslie Caron orrives in New York from<br />
France to persuade Louis Calhern to provide funds<br />
for his estranged grandson. She is befriended by<br />
Joseph Gotten and they uncover ond defeat o plot<br />
whereby Colhern was to hove been murdered for<br />
his money. Later Calhern dies but provides for<br />
his grondson in his will.<br />
THE MERRY WIDOW (Musical). Stars: Lona Turner,<br />
Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel. Producer: Joe<br />
Pasternak, Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Original;<br />
Franz Lehor. Screenplay: Sonja Levien, William<br />
Ludwig.<br />
• Fronz Lehor's operetta comes to the screen as<br />
a Technicolor musical with Lano Turner in the title<br />
role.<br />
MR. CONGRESSMAN (Drama). Stars; Louis Calhern<br />
(incomplete). Producer; Dore Schory. Director: Robert<br />
Pirosh. Original Screenplay: Robert Pirosh.<br />
• From o nonpartisan approach, this tells the<br />
story of the people's elected representatives who<br />
serve their country as members of the nation's<br />
legislative body.<br />
THE ONE-PIECE BATHING SUIT (Musical). Stars:<br />
Esther Williams, Louis Calhern, Donna Corcoran.<br />
Producer: Arthur Hornblow jr. Director; Mervyn<br />
LeRoy. Original Screenplay; Everett Freeman.<br />
• Esther Williams portrays Annette Kellerman, who<br />
overcame a physical handicap to become o champion<br />
swimmer and international favorite. Filmed<br />
in Technicolor.<br />
PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (Drama).<br />
Stars: Avo Gaidner, James Moson, Nigel Patrick.<br />
Producers: Albert Lewin, Joseph Kaufman. Director:<br />
Albert Lewin. Original Screenplay: Albert<br />
Lewin.<br />
• Ava Gardner, an uphappy American girl living<br />
in Spain, falls in love with James Mason who.<br />
It develops, is the legendary "Flying Dutchman."<br />
Avo joins Mason in death when she proclaims her<br />
love ond he is at last released from hts centuriesold<br />
sentence to wander the earth until he finds<br />
a woman who will give her life for him.<br />
PAT AND MIKE (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Spencer<br />
Tracy, Katharine Hepburn (incomplete). Producer;<br />
Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George<br />
Cukor. Originol Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Gorson<br />
Konin.<br />
e This romantic comedy reunites the stars, writer<br />
and director responsible for a 1949-50 season hit,<br />
"Adam's Rib,"<br />
THE PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE (Historical Drama).<br />
Stars; Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson.<br />
Producer: Dore Schory. Director: William A. Weltman.<br />
Original: Ernest Gebler. Screenplay: Helen<br />
Deutsch.<br />
• From the novel by Ernest Gebler, this is a<br />
story of the voyage of the Mayflower and the<br />
landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts to found<br />
the colonies which later developed into the<br />
United States.<br />
QUO VADIS (Historical Drama). Stars: Robert Taylor,<br />
Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Producer; Sam<br />
Zimbalist. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original:<br />
Henryk Sienkiewicz. Screenplay: S. N. Behrmon,<br />
Sonya Levien, John Lee Mohin,<br />
• Filmed in Italy, this is said to be the costliest<br />
motion picture ever mode. It is laid in Rome in<br />
the reign of the Emperor Nero, and relates how<br />
a victorious warrior, Robert Taylor, embraces Christianity;<br />
how the populace turns against Nero and<br />
his borbarism, and how Nero is slain by a former<br />
mistress. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
SCARAMOUCHE (Costume Drama). Stars: Stewart<br />
Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Porker, Producer;<br />
Carey Wilson. Director: George Sidney. Original;<br />
Rafael Sabot ini. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings.<br />
• This is a new screen version of Rafael Sabotini's<br />
story obout the swashbuckling 17th century French<br />
swordsman ond lover.<br />
THE SELLOUT. Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Cameron<br />
Mitchell, Everett Sloone. Producer; Nicholas Noyfock.<br />
Director: Gerald Mayer. Original Screenplay:<br />
Charles Palmer, Matthew Rapf.<br />
• Walter Pidgeon, editor of a smoll community<br />
newspoper, tries unsuccessfully to fight editorially<br />
against grafting county political leoders. Intimidated<br />
by the mob, he nevertheless gives testimony<br />
at a murder trial which links his own son-in-law<br />
with the crooks, and the machine of corruption<br />
collapses.<br />
SHADOW IN THE SKY (Drama). Stars: James Whitmore,<br />
Nancy Davis, Ralph Meeker. Producer: William<br />
H. Wright. Director: Fred Wilcox, Originol:<br />
Fred Newhouse. Screenploy: Ben Maddow.<br />
• Ralph Meeker, a hospitalized war veteran, believes<br />
his fomiiy ond friends hove deserted him<br />
becouse his severe attacks of panic ore brought<br />
on during rainy periods. But the loyalty of his<br />
sister and brother-in-law, and the love of a girl,<br />
cure him of his trouble and return him to on<br />
active place in the wor'd.<br />
SKIRTS AHOY. Stars: Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine,<br />
Solly Forrest. Producer: Joe Posternok. Director:<br />
Sidney Lonfield. Original Screenplay: Isobel Lennort.<br />
• Three new WAVE recruits of the Great Lokes<br />
troining station ore Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine<br />
and Solly Forrest. Esther, a sophisticated society<br />
girl, Vivian, o brassy clerk, and Sally, o mild smalltown<br />
girl, satisfactorily complete their training,<br />
acquire boy friends ond ore ossigned to stotions<br />
in Ports<br />
SOMETIMES I LOVE YOU (Romantic Comedy). Stars:<br />
Clark Gable, Avo Gardner. Producer: Arthur Hornblow<br />
jr. Director: Robert Z. Leonord. Originol: Moss<br />
Hart. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg, Leonard Spigelgoss,<br />
Robert Ardrey,<br />
• Clark Goble portrays a film director and Avo<br />
Gardner o Hollywood star whom he discovers ond<br />
develops into o notional idol.<br />
THE STUDENT PRINCE (Musical). Stors: Jone Powell,<br />
Ricardo Montolban (incomplete). Producer: Joe<br />
Pasternak- Director; Robert Z. Leonard. Original:<br />
Sigmund Romberg. Screenplay: Sonyo Levien, Williom<br />
Ludwig.<br />
• Ricordo Montolbon is the title-roler in this<br />
Technicolor film version of the Sigmund Romberg<br />
operetta,<br />
TEXAS CARNIVAL (Musical Comedy). Stars: Esther<br />
Willioms, Red Skelton, Howard Keel. Producer;<br />
Jock Cummings. Director: Chorles Walters. Original:<br />
George Wells, Dorothy Kingsley. Screenploy:<br />
Dorothy Kingsley.<br />
• Esther Williams and Red Skelton, carnival performers,<br />
ore mistaken for on eccentric Texas millionaire<br />
and his sister. By the time the masquerade<br />
has been exposed, Esther has fallen in love with<br />
Howard Keel, ranch foreman, and Skelton with<br />
Ann Miller, the sheriff's doughter. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THREE LOVE STORIES (Romantic Drama). Stors; Pier<br />
Angeli, Fernando Lamas, Leslie Caron. Producer:<br />
Sidney Franklin. Director: Gottfried Reinhardt.<br />
Original: Loszlo Vojdo, I. A. R. Wylie, Arnold Phillips.<br />
Screenplay: George Froeschel, Jan Lustig.<br />
• Three separate plots will be interwoven into one<br />
feature-length film. Pier Angeli portrays o circus<br />
trapeze artist in one sequence.<br />
TOO YOUNG TO KISS (Romantic Comedy). Stars:<br />
June A Hyson, Von Johnson, Gig Young. Producer;<br />
Sam Zimbalist. Director: Robert Z. Leonord. Originol;<br />
Everett Freeman. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich,<br />
Albert Hockett.<br />
• Pianist<br />
tion with<br />
June Allyson,<br />
Von Johnson,<br />
unoble<br />
concert<br />
to secure on audi-<br />
manager, poses as<br />
o 1 4-year-old prodigy and wins a heoring ond a<br />
to tour.<br />
is<br />
this time<br />
hove fallen in love—and merge their coreers in<br />
contract<br />
eventually<br />
take<br />
revealed,<br />
an extended<br />
but by<br />
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she ond<br />
hoax<br />
Van<br />
marriage,<br />
TWO IF BY SEA (Dromo). Stars: Clark Goble (incomplete).<br />
Producer-Director; Clarence Brown.<br />
Original: Roger Box. Screenplay: Ronold Millar,<br />
George Froeschel.<br />
• An American correspondent in Russio during<br />
World War II marries a Russian ballet stor. After<br />
the war she is not permitted to leave with her<br />
husband, who then plans and corries out a dangerous<br />
mission whereby she is enabled to escape<br />
from the Soviet.<br />
THE UNKNOWN MAN (Crime Drama). Stars: Walter<br />
Pidgeon, Keefe Brosselle, Ann Hording. Producer:<br />
Robert Thomsen. Director; Richard Thorpe. Original<br />
Screenplay: Ronald Millar, George Froeschel.<br />
• Believing the boy innocent, Attorney Walter<br />
Pidgeon secures on ocquittol for Keefe Brosselle,<br />
on triol for murder, then is shocked to leorn<br />
Brosselle was guilty. His faith in o world of perfect<br />
law and justice shottered, Pidgeon becomes<br />
embroiled in a labyrinth of corruption and graft<br />
before the cose is satisfactorily settled.<br />
WESTWARD THE WOMEN (Historicol Western). Stars:<br />
Robert Taylor, Denise Dorcel, Julie Bishop. Producer:<br />
Dore Schary. Director; William A. Wellman. Original:<br />
Frank Copra. Screenplay: Charles Schnee.<br />
• To Robert Taylor, veteron guide and scout, is<br />
entrusted the task of transporting 200 women from<br />
Chicago to Colifornio to become the wives of<br />
ranchers in the new country He succeeds, but only<br />
after innumeroble quarrels, attacks by warring Indions<br />
and other troubles, and at the end of the<br />
trail is selected os o husband by Denise Dorcel.<br />
WHEN IN ROME (Comedy Dromo). Stors: Von Johnson,<br />
Paul Douglas, Joseph Colleio. Producer-Director:<br />
Clarence Brown, Original: Robert Buckner.<br />
Screenplay: Charles Schnee, Dorothy Kingsley.<br />
• Sailing to Rome during the Holy Year, Von Johnson,<br />
a Catholic priest, finds his roommate is Paul<br />
Douglas, wanted by the police. To elude the low,<br />
Douglas assumes Johnson's garb and identity,<br />
absorbs the faith and ultimotely joins o monostlc<br />
order in Italy.<br />
THE WILD NORTH (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Stewart<br />
Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Chonsse. Producer:<br />
Stephen Ames, Director: Andrew Morton. Original<br />
Screenplay; Frank Fenton,<br />
• Stewort Gronger, trapper in the north country,<br />
accidentally kills a man and is relentlessly pursued<br />
by Wendell Corey of the Canadian Northwest<br />
mounted police. Corey coptures him, but en route<br />
bock to heodguarters Granger soves Corey's life<br />
at the risk of his own, and is acquitted of the murder<br />
charge Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
YEARS AGO (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Spencer Tracy,<br />
Debbie Reynolds. Producer; Lawrence Weingorten.<br />
Director: George Cukor. Original: Ruth Gordon.<br />
Screenplay: Gorson and Ruth Konin.<br />
• A story of family life,<br />
YOUNG BESS (Historical Drama). Stars: Stewort Gronger,<br />
Jean Simmons, Chorles Loughton. Producer:<br />
Sidney Franklin. Director: George Sidney. Original:<br />
Margaret Irwin. Screenplay: Jon Lustig,<br />
Arthur Wimperis.<br />
• This costume dromo is loid in England during<br />
the reign of Henry VIII. The title character is<br />
Elizabeth, later to become queen. Scheduled for<br />
Technicolor filming.<br />
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ALADDIN AND HIS LAMP (Costume Drama). Stars<br />
Potncia Medina, Johnny Sondi, John Dehner, Producer<br />
Walter Wanger, Director; Lew Landers<br />
Original Screenplay Howard Dtmsdale, Millard<br />
Kaufman, Sam Roeca.<br />
• Aladdin {Johnny Sands}, a pickpocket, obtains o<br />
magic lomp and wishes for o palace so thot he<br />
may bid for the hand of a beautiful princess, Potricto<br />
Medino. His rival is a treacherous prince,<br />
John Dehner. but Aladdin—with the lamp's help<br />
outwits Dehner and wins Potncio in marnoge.<br />
Filmed in Cmecolor.<br />
ARMY BOUND (Drama). Stars: Stanley Clements (incomplete).<br />
Producer; Ben Schwalb. Director: not<br />
set. Original Screenplay: not set<br />
• Young Stanley Clements becomes a droftce in<br />
Uncle Sam's peacetime military forces.<br />
BOMBA SERIES (Jungle Dramas). Stars: Johnny Sheffield,<br />
Donno Mortell, Myron Healey ond others-<br />
Producer: Walter Mirisch, Director: Ford Beebe.<br />
Original; Roy Rockwood. Screenplays: Ford Beebe<br />
and others.<br />
• Young Johnny Sheffield portrays "Bombo, the<br />
Jungle Boy," based on the novels by Roy Rockwood,<br />
in three entries on the 1951-52 slate. They<br />
are titled "Elephant Stampede," "African Treasure"<br />
and "Jungle Girl, '<br />
BOWERY BOYS SERIES (Comedies). Stars: Leo Gorcey,<br />
Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins ond others. Producer:<br />
Jerry Thomos Director: William Beaudine. Original<br />
Screenploys: Jock Crutcher, Tim Ryan and others.<br />
• The Bowery Boys, led by Leo Gorcey and Huntz<br />
Hall, ore slated to star m at least five comedies<br />
for the 1951-52 slote, including "Hold That Line,"<br />
"Bowery Leathernecks," "Plough Jockey," "Flying<br />
Fools" and "Crazy Over Horses."<br />
COLLEGIATE SERIES (Sports Dramas). Stars: not set.<br />
Producer: Walter Mirisch. Director: not set. Original:<br />
not set. Screenploys: not set.<br />
• Scheduled for production at the rate of one<br />
a month ore 1 2 entries in o series devoted to<br />
collegiate sports octivities. The initialer is titled<br />
'Mr AIl-Americon," o footboll story.<br />
DESERT PURSUIT (Western). Stars: Wayne Morns,<br />
George Tobias, Emmett Lynn Producer: Lindsley<br />
Parsons. Director: George Blair. Original: Kenneth<br />
Perkins. Screenplay: W. Scott Darling, Warren<br />
Douglas.<br />
• This sogebrusher is one of a series of Woyne<br />
Morris storrers being produced for this company by<br />
Lindsley Parsons,<br />
DOWN PERISCOPE (Action Drama). Stars: Wayne<br />
Morris (incomplete). Producer; Lindsley Parsons.<br />
Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Sam Roeca,<br />
Warren D. Wandburg,<br />
• This story of the US, submarine training service<br />
is slated for filming partially on location at<br />
the training station in New London, Conn.<br />
FLIGHT TO MARS (Interplonetory Drama). Stars;<br />
Marguerite Chopmon, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia<br />
Houston. Producer; Walter Mirisch. Director: Lesley<br />
Selonder. Original: Walter Mirisch. Screenplay:<br />
Arthur Strawn.<br />
• Five civilians moke a successful rocket flight<br />
to Mars, but their return to Earth is hampered<br />
by the president of the Martian council, who<br />
plons to invade our plonet. However, his plans<br />
are thwarted and the party returns safely. Filmed<br />
in Cmecolor.<br />
FORT OSAGE (Western). Stars; Rod Cameron, }ane<br />
Nigh, Morris Ankrum. Producer: Walter Mirisch.<br />
Director; Lesley Selonder. Original Screenplay: Dan<br />
Ullmon<br />
• Hired to take o California-bound wagon train<br />
out of Fort Osage, Rod Cameron learns the Osage<br />
Indians ore on the warpath because of ill treatment<br />
of the honds of unscrupulous whites. With<br />
the Old of the Osoges, Cameron captures the<br />
crooks ond leads the train safely to its destination<br />
Filmed m Cmecolor<br />
JOE PALOOKA IN TRIPLE CROSS (Dromo) Stars: Joe<br />
Kirk wood jr., Cathy Downs, James Gleason. Producer;<br />
Hal E. Chester. Director: Reginald LeBorg.<br />
Original: Harold Bancroft. Screenplay: Jon Jeffries.<br />
• Based on the Ham Fisher syndicated comic strip,<br />
this involves Joe Palooka (Joe Kirk wood |r.) with<br />
gangsters who hold him, his wife and manager<br />
prisoners, with Joe's purse for on upcoming fight<br />
as the ransom At the lost second Joe manages<br />
to outwit the crooks and wins the bout in defense<br />
of his title.<br />
JOHNNY MACK BROWN SERIES (Western) Stars<br />
Johnny Mock Brown, Jimmy Ellison, Lois Hall and<br />
others Producer Vincent M. Fennelly. Directors:<br />
Derwin Abrohoms, Lewis D. Collins and others.<br />
Original Screenploys: Joseph Poland and others.<br />
• A minimum of five subjects starring Johnny Mack<br />
Brown ore on the docket for the 1 95 1 -52 seoson.<br />
Titles include "Texas City," "Gun Smoke Range,"<br />
"Man From the Black Hills," "Deed Man's Trail"<br />
and "Hired Guns"<br />
KIRBY GRANT SERIES (Outdoor Dramas). Stors;<br />
Kirby Grant, Chinook and others. Producer: Lindsley<br />
Parsons. Direiftor; not set. Originals: Jomes<br />
Oliver Curwood. Screenplays; William Raynor and<br />
others,<br />
• At leost two entries in this action series, based<br />
upon the novels by James Oliver Curwood, are<br />
planned for the 1951-52 season. Titles announced:<br />
"Yukon Gold," "Timber Wolf" and "Northwest<br />
Territory."<br />
THE LONGHORN (Western). Stors: "Wild Bill" Elliott,<br />
Myron Heolcy, Phyllis Cootes. Producer: Vincent<br />
M. Fennelly. Director; Lewis D. Collins Origmol<br />
Screenploy: Dan Ullmon.<br />
• Bringing a herd of Herefords from Oregon bock<br />
to his Wyoming ronch, "Wild Bill" Elliott hos his<br />
friend, Myron Heoley, ond Phyllis Coates, daughter<br />
of another rancher, in his party. Heoley is in<br />
reality o member of a gang of cattle thieves<br />
planning to ombush Elliott, but repents and sacrifices<br />
his life to sove Elliott and Phyllis<br />
MY WIFE IS MINE (Romontic Drama). Stars: Rod<br />
Comcron, Florence Marly. Producer; Scott R. Dunlap.<br />
Director; not sot. Original: Mory McCarthy.<br />
Screenplay: Thomas W. Blackburn.<br />
• This IS locoled in a small frontier town In<br />
Arizona, where Rod Comeron, o rancher, meets<br />
Florence Marly, an eosterner, when she is stranded<br />
there offer o train wreck.<br />
RODEO (Western). Stors: Jane Nigh, John Archer, Wallace<br />
Ford. Producer: Walter Mirisch, Director: Williom<br />
Beaudine. Originol Screenplay: Chorles R.<br />
Morion.<br />
• Jane Nigh manages a rodeo with great success,<br />
and gets herself engaged to John Archer, the top<br />
rider. A misunderstanding couses Wo I Ford,<br />
ex-champion rider, to try his stuff once more.<br />
He IS seriously injured, Jone is blamed, but cleors<br />
herself. Filmed in Cinecolor.<br />
THE ROSE BOWL STORY (Musical). Stors; not set<br />
Producer Walter Mirisch. Director; not set. Original<br />
Screenplay: not set.<br />
• This Cinecolor subject will feature the fomed<br />
annuel Tournament of Roses parade held every<br />
Jonuory I )•? Pasadena, Colif., and the accompanying<br />
New Year's day football gome staged in that<br />
city's Rose Bowl.<br />
THE SEA TIGER (Monne Drama). Stars: not set. Producer:<br />
Williom F. Broidy. Director; Jean Yorbrougb.<br />
Original: Charles Yerkow. Screenplay: Sam Roeca.<br />
• Adapted from o mogozine story, this concerns<br />
an abandoned freighter, loaded with Joponese war<br />
loot, which is found offer World Wor 1 the<br />
New Guinea coast.<br />
STEEL FIST (Drama). Stars: Roddy McDowoll, Kristine<br />
Miller, Horry Louter. Producer: William F. Broidy.<br />
Director: Wesley Barry. Original. Phyllis Parker.<br />
Screenplay: C. K. Kivori.<br />
• A student in Russia, and on anti-Communist,<br />
Roddy McDowall incites o riot, then flees with<br />
the help of the underground. He foils in love with<br />
Kristine Miller, o member of the underground, ond<br />
finally is successful in crossing the border—knowing<br />
she will join him to share the future in a free<br />
world.<br />
VENGEANCE TRAIL (Western). Stars: "Wild Bill"<br />
Elliott, Peggy Stewart, Lone Bradford. Producer:<br />
Vincent M. Fennelly, Director: Lewis D Collins.<br />
Origmol Screenplay: Don Ullmon.<br />
• "Wild Bill" Elliott returns to Konsos Territory,<br />
where he is wanted on a wrongful charge, to avenge<br />
the death of his brother and discovers the latter<br />
Kyut litest<br />
FOR A<br />
hod turned renegode. Pardoned by o U.S. marshal,<br />
Elliott sets out to cleon up the town and succeeds<br />
m trocking down his brother's slayer.<br />
WAGONS WEST (Western). Stars:<br />
Rod Comcron, Peggie<br />
Castle, Michael Chopin. Producer: Vincent M.<br />
Fennelly. Director: Ford Beebe. Original Screenplay;<br />
Dan Ullmon.<br />
• Guiding a wagon train west. Rod Cameron discovers<br />
some of the wogoneers ore smuggling rifles<br />
to the Cheyenne Indions. The Indians launch an<br />
attack on the train after Cameron forbids delivery<br />
of the weapons; the vilhons ore slain and Cameron<br />
mokes peace with the redskins. Filmed in Cmecolor.<br />
WALTER WANGER PRODUCTIONS (Comedies ond<br />
Dromes). Stars: John Sands ond others. Producer:<br />
Walter Wanger. Directors: Not set. Originols: Ben<br />
Hecht, Robert Ormond Cose and others, Screenplays:<br />
John Tucker Battle, Sherman Lowe ond<br />
others.<br />
• Under the Allied Artists banner, and as part of<br />
o multiple-picture commitment, Walter V/onger<br />
will deliver "Queen of the Universe," "Fiot Ttop,"<br />
"Beouty and the Beost" ond "The Yellow Knife,"<br />
for the 1951-52 season. All will be photographed<br />
in Cinecolor.<br />
WHIP WILSON SERIES (Westerns) Stors: Whip Wilson,<br />
Jim Bannon, Fuzzy Knight and others. Producer:<br />
Vincent M, Fennelly Directors: Howard<br />
Bretherton ond others. Originol Screenplays; Maurice<br />
Tombragel and others.<br />
• Whip Wilson is scheduled to star in at least<br />
five sagebrush sagos on the 1951-52 docket, with<br />
titles including "Land Grab," "Low less Cowboys,"<br />
"Stage From Amonllo," "Thundering Trail" and<br />
"Night Roiders."<br />
WILD STALLION (Outdoor Drama). Stars; Borboro<br />
Wooddell, Stanford Jolley, Ben Johnson. Producer:<br />
Walter Mirisch. Director: Lewis D. Collins. Originol<br />
Screenplay: Dan Ullmon.<br />
• Ben Johnson is obsessed with the idea that his<br />
pet colt survived on Indian raid in which Ben's<br />
parents were slam. When he grows to manhood,<br />
Ben recovers his horse, which saves his life in<br />
another Indian attack. Ben joins the cavalry and<br />
the stallion is given o life- long home at the post<br />
over which Ben takes command<br />
YELLOW FIN (Dromo). Stors: Wayne Morris, Adrian<br />
Booth, Gloria Henry. Producer: Lindsley Parsons.<br />
Director: Fronk McDonold. Originol Screenplay:<br />
Clint Johnson, Warren D. Wandburg.<br />
• Wayne Morris decides to sell his family's tunofishing<br />
boot after o series of accidents, the lost<br />
of which sends his father to the hospital in comatose<br />
condition. But a doctor prescribes one lost cruise<br />
to snap the older man out of his amnesia; the<br />
experiment is successful; and Wayne keeps the boot.<br />
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J-^ro6perou& and J-^eacefut 1932<br />
Jack Jungmeyer, Jr.<br />
Al Milton<br />
Bill Beaudine, Jr.<br />
Gene Anderson. Jr.<br />
Frank McDonald<br />
Irene Bagge<br />
Mnrjorie Carson<br />
Judith Sabin<br />
Leo Silver<br />
Sam Roeca<br />
George Troast<br />
Al Hackleman<br />
Since our advent into the television film field,<br />
complementing our feature motion picture activity,<br />
we have added many new friends to the old. It<br />
would be impossible to reach them all personally,<br />
to extend our sincere wishes for the coming year.<br />
Therefore, this message carries to all,<br />
including the<br />
friends we hope to make in 1952, the warmest<br />
greetings from our entire staff—TO YOU.<br />
WILLIAM F.<br />
BROIDY PRODUCTIONS, INC.<br />
William F.<br />
Broidy<br />
Wesley Barry<br />
Edward J. Kay<br />
Allen K. Wood<br />
David Milton<br />
John Martin<br />
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AARON SLICK FROM PUNKIN CRICK (Comedy With<br />
Music). Stors: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert<br />
Merrill. Producers: William Per I George Seoton.<br />
Director: Claude Binyon. Original: Beole Cormock.<br />
Screenplay: Claude Binyon.<br />
• Film version of what is soid to be one of the<br />
most popular plays in the repertoire of stage stock<br />
componies. The city slicker, Robert Merrill, ottempts<br />
to gain control of the farm owned by the<br />
widow, Dinah Shore, but is thwarted by the country<br />
bumpkin, Alan Young. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN (Comedy-Drama). Stars:<br />
Jose Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar. Producers:<br />
William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: George<br />
Seaton. Original: Helen and George Papashvily.<br />
Screenplay: George Seaton, George Oppenheimer.<br />
• Jose Ferrer and Kurt Kosznar, immigrants from<br />
Russia, seek U.S. citizenship. Ferrer falls in love<br />
with Kirr. Hunter, a court stenographer in New<br />
York, and pursues her to California, where he ends<br />
up OS an orange rancher. After a series of complications<br />
their romance ends happily and Ferrer<br />
becomes an American citizen.<br />
THE BLAZING FOREST (Action Drama). Stars: John<br />
Poyne, Susan Morrow, William Demo rest. Producers:<br />
William Pine, William Thomos. Director:<br />
Edward Ludwig. Original: William Wister Haines,<br />
Screenplay: Winston Miller.<br />
• John Payne is the hard-pushing boss of a timber-logging<br />
section, trying to moke good the wrongs<br />
done by a worthless brother, Richard Arlen. Payne's<br />
methods ore misinterpreted by Susan Morrow, niece<br />
of the woman who owns the timber land, but ultimately<br />
his motives are made clear. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BOTANY BAY (Historical Drama). Stars: Alan Lodd,<br />
James Mason, Patricia Medina. Producer: Joseph<br />
Sistrom. Director: John Farrow. Original: Charles<br />
Nordhoff, Jomes Norman Holl. Screenplay; Jonathan<br />
Latimer.<br />
• An American colonist in 1790 is unjustly convicted<br />
in England and sent to Australia at the time<br />
of the founding of that colony. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
CARIBBEAN GOLD (Action Drama). Stars: Rhonda<br />
Fleming, John Payne. Francis L. Sullivan. Producers:<br />
William Pine, William Thomas. Director: Edward<br />
Ludwig. Original: Ellery H. Clark. Screenplay;<br />
Curtis Kenyon, Morton Grant.<br />
• This story of treasure-hunting in West Indian<br />
woters will be photographed in Technicolor.<br />
CARRIE (Dromo). Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer<br />
Jones, Eddie Albert. Producer-Director: William<br />
Wyler. Original: Theodore Dreiser. Screenplay:<br />
Ruth and Augustus Goetz.<br />
• Laurence Olivier, middle-aged businessman, falls<br />
so desperately in love with Jennifer Jones that he<br />
sacrifices his wealth and family and becomes o<br />
Bowery bum. Meantime Jennifer leaves him, becomes<br />
successful on the stage and learns, too late,<br />
the depths of his affection for her.<br />
CROSSWINOS (Action Drama). Stars: John Payne,<br />
Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker. Producers: William<br />
Pine, William Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster.<br />
Original: Thompson Burtis. Screenplay: Lewis R.<br />
Foster.<br />
• John Payne, skipper of o South Seos schooner,<br />
is tricked out of his vessel and jailed by Forrest<br />
Tucker, double-crossing trader, who then steals o<br />
cargo of gold shipped by a mining concern. Payne<br />
gets out of jail, rescues the stolen gold and wins<br />
the love of Rhonda Fleming. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
DARLING, HOW COULD YOU! (Comedy) Stars: Joan<br />
Fontaine, John Lund, Mono Freeman. Producer;<br />
Harry Tugend. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Originol:<br />
Sir James Borrie. Screenplay; Dodie Smith, Lesser<br />
Samuels.<br />
• Joon Fontaine, on attractive mother, and her<br />
husband, John Lund, return home after being<br />
oway for several years to find their children ore<br />
practically strangers. The daughter. Mono Freeman,<br />
believes Joan is involved in an affair with a<br />
young man, and in straightening out the situation<br />
Joan reqoins her children's affection.<br />
THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE (Western) Stars: Edmond<br />
O'Brien, Sterling Hoyden, Dean Jogger. Producer;<br />
Not Holt. Director: Byron Haskin. Original<br />
Screenplay: Frank Gruber.<br />
• The Denver & Rio Grande rai'road is heading<br />
for a vital Royal Gorge pass route ocross the Rockies<br />
to Salt Lake City. Seeking the same route is the<br />
rival Canyon City and Son Juan railroad. After<br />
much skulduggery and sabotage, the D. & R. G.<br />
emerges victorious. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
DETECTIVE STORY (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas,<br />
Eleanor Porker, William Bendix. Producer-Director:<br />
William Wylor. Original: Sidney Kingsley. Screenplay:<br />
Philip Yordon, Robert Wyler.<br />
• In a New York police station Kirk Douglas, a<br />
tough detective, has to cope with a shoplifter, two<br />
cot burglars and o doctor whose speciality is illegal<br />
operations. Learning that his own wife once patronized<br />
the doctor, Douglas goes berserk and is fatally<br />
wounded when one of the burglars tries to escape.<br />
FLAMING FEATHER (Western). Stars; Sterling Hoyden,<br />
Barbara Rush, Forrest Tucker. Producer: Nat<br />
Holt. Director: Ray Enright. Original: Gerald Droyson<br />
Adams. Screenplay: Frank Gruber.<br />
• A mysterious outlaw is terrorizing the citizens<br />
of Arizona Territory in the 1870s. Rancher Sterling<br />
Hoyden, his holdings wiped out by the raider,<br />
goes on the trail and finally corners the outlaw<br />
ond his band of marauding Indians in a cliff dwelling.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
GENTLEMEN OF THE JUNGLE (Action Drama). Stars<br />
Rhonda Fleming. Producers; William Pine, William<br />
Thomas. Director; Lewis R. Foster. Original: Tom<br />
Gill. Screenplay; Not set.<br />
• This adventure drama is slated for filming in<br />
Technicolor on location in Guatemala.<br />
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (Musical Comedy). Stars; Tom<br />
Morton, Rosemary Clooney. Producer: William Hommerstein<br />
M. Director: Not set. Originol: Brett<br />
Morgan. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This tunefiim, with a Hollywood background,<br />
IS built oround the studio's "Golden Circle" of<br />
young controct players who ore groomed for stardom.<br />
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Circus Drama)<br />
Stars: Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde.<br />
Producer-Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Original<br />
Screenplay: Fredric Frank, Frank Covett, Barre<br />
Lydon.<br />
• This merges Hollywood personalities with the<br />
Ringling Bros.-Bornum & Bailey circus in a plot that<br />
spans love, hate, tragedy ond treachery in the<br />
world of spun candy and spangles. Betty Hutton<br />
is the trapeze artist, Jomes Stewart the clown and<br />
Cornel Wilde the daring aerialist. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
HONG KONG (Action Droma). Stars: Ronald Reagan,<br />
Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce. Producers: William<br />
Pine, William Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster.<br />
Originol: David Long. Screenplay: Winston Miller.<br />
• Ronald Reagan, American adventurer in China,<br />
is "adopted" by a 4-year-old Chinese orphan boy<br />
fleeing the Reds. The boy is hiding o voluoble<br />
jeweled idol which a wor lord covets. With the oid<br />
of Rhonda Fleming, who is in charge of a group<br />
of aged Chinese, Reagan outwits the war lord.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
JUMPING JACKS (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry<br />
Lewis, Robert Strauss. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director:<br />
Norman Tourog. Original Screenplay: Herbert<br />
Baker, John Grant.<br />
• !n which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—after<br />
previous adventures with the army and navy—become<br />
involved with Uncle Sam's paratroopers.<br />
THE MILITARY POLICEMAN (Comedy). Stars: Bob<br />
Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Moxwell (incomplete).<br />
Producer: Horry Tugend. Director: George<br />
Marshall. Original Screenplay: Jock Sher, Hoi<br />
Kanter.<br />
• Bob Hope is cast as a bungling MP in this story<br />
of army life.<br />
MY FAVORITE SPY (Comedy). Stars: Bob Hope, Hedy<br />
Lomarr, Francis Sullivan. Producer: Paul Jones.<br />
Director; Norman Z. McLeod. Original; Edmund<br />
Beloin, Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Edmund Hortmonn,<br />
Jock Sher.<br />
• Bob Hope enacts a dual role as on American<br />
burlesque comedian and a European spy. The latter,<br />
only link to a new type of pilotless aircraft,<br />
is shot, and government security agents substitute<br />
the comedian for him on a trip to Tangiers, where<br />
he outwits an espionoge ring and gets the needed<br />
data.<br />
MY SON, JOHN (Drama). Stars: Helen Hayes, Robert<br />
Wolker, Van Heflin. Producer-Director; Leo Mc-<br />
Carey. Original: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• Helen Hayes and Dean Jogger ore the typical<br />
American parents of three sons, of whom the<br />
youngest is Robert Walker. To their dismay they<br />
learn that Wolker has become involved in a Communist<br />
party conspiracy.<br />
RED MOUNTAIN (Western). Stars: Alan Lodd, Lizobeth<br />
Scott, John Ireland. Producer: Hal Wallis.<br />
Director: Williom Dieterle. Original; George W.<br />
George, George F. Slavin. Screenplay: John Meredyth<br />
Lucas, Edna and Edward Anhalt.<br />
• Alan Lodd, Confederate army captain, joins<br />
Ouontrell's raiders to aid the southern couse, falls<br />
in love with a northern girl, Lizobeth Scott, and<br />
disillusioned by Quantrell's cruelty ond treachery<br />
plots his defeat and kills the guerrilla chieftain.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
SAILOR BEWARE (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry<br />
Lewis, Marion Morsholl. Producer; Hot Wallis. Director:<br />
Hal Wolker. Original: Kenyon Nicholson.<br />
Screenploy: John Grant.<br />
• Navy pals ore Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.<br />
The latter is allergic to women's makeup but is<br />
tolked into accepting a bet that he con kiss the<br />
most beautiful girl in Honolulu. This couses trouble<br />
with his jealous girl friend, Marion Marshall, a<br />
WAVE, but Jerry manages to win the bet and square<br />
things with Marion.<br />
SCALPEL (Drama). Stars: Burt Lancaster (incomplete).<br />
Producer; Hal Wallis. Director; Not set. Original;<br />
Horace McCoy. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• A youth comes out of the coal mines to work<br />
his way through medical school and on to a great<br />
coreer, only to make his biggest sacrifice for the<br />
woman he loves.<br />
SHANE (Western). Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Von<br />
Heflin. Producer-Director; George Stevens. Original:<br />
Jock Schoefer. Screenplay; A. B. Guthrie.<br />
• Von Heflin and Jean Arthur, of o Wyoming<br />
homesteoding family, ore fighting a losing battle<br />
against the big ranchers, who \yant the small farms<br />
for grazing land. But when quick-drawing Alan<br />
Lodd arrives and joins the fight on behalf of the<br />
homesteaders, the ranchers are defeated. Filmeo<br />
in Technicolor.<br />
SILVER CITY (Western). Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Edmond<br />
O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer; Not Holt.<br />
Director: Byron Haskin. Original: Luke Short.<br />
Screenplay: Frank Gruber.<br />
• Edmond O'Brien, a mining engineer, helps Yvonne<br />
De Carlo and her father find o rich vein in a<br />
leased silver mine. Barry Fitzgerald, the mine<br />
owner, conspires to regain his property, but with<br />
Yvonne's love and help O'Brien is successful in defeating<br />
Fitzgerald. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
SOMEBODY LOVES ME (Musical Comedy). Stors: Betty<br />
Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Adele Jergens. Producers:<br />
William Perlberg, George Seaton. Directors; Irving<br />
Brecher. Original Screenplay: Irving Brecher.<br />
• This is based on the careers of Blossom Seeley<br />
and Benny Fields, vaudeville and nightclub entertainers.<br />
The film also etches the development of<br />
modern American music and includes numbers by<br />
Gershwin, Irving Berlin and other composers. Jack<br />
Benny appears briefly as a guest star. Filmed in<br />
Technicolor.<br />
SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR (Dramo). Stars; Roy Milland,<br />
Joan Fontoine, Teresa Wright. Producer-Director;<br />
George Stevens. Original Screenplay: Dwight<br />
Taylor.<br />
• Joan Fontaine, a stage actress, has become on<br />
alcoholic. Becoming involved with her is Ray<br />
Millond, a New York advertising executive, who<br />
helps to cure her weakness. Teresa Wright, Milland's<br />
wife, completes the tangled triangle.<br />
SON OF PALEFACE (Comedy Western). Stars: Bob<br />
Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers. Producer: Robert<br />
L. Welch. Director: Frank Tashiin. Original Screenplay:<br />
Robert L. Welch, Frank Toshlin, Joe Quillon.<br />
• Bob Hope is cost, in this sequel to "The Paleface,"<br />
as a Harvard graduate who goes to the<br />
wild west seeking the fortune presumably left him<br />
by his lote fother. Jane Russell is the leoder of<br />
o bandit gong and Roy Rogers a government agent.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE STOOGE (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry<br />
Lewis, Polly Bergen. Producer: Hoi Wallis. Director:<br />
Norman Tourog. Original: Fred F. Finklehoffe, Sid<br />
Silvers. Screenplay; Fred F. Finklehoffe, Mortin<br />
Rackin.<br />
• Dean Martin, doing a vaudeville act as a single,<br />
toys an egg, and hires Jerry Lewis, a dimwitted<br />
clerk, to sit in a box seat and interchange banter.<br />
The act is a huge success, but Dean foils to give<br />
Jerry credit—or billing—until forced to the realization<br />
of how important his stooge's contribution has<br />
been.<br />
THE STREETS WERE PAVED WITH GOLD (Action<br />
Drama). Stars; Rhonda Fleming, John Payne (incomplete).<br />
Producers: William Pine, William<br />
Thomas. Director; Not set. Original Screenplay;<br />
Geoffrey Homes.<br />
• A story of the Alaskan gold rush at the turn<br />
of the century, this will be photographed tn Technicolor.<br />
SUBMARINE COMMAND (Dromo). Stars; William<br />
Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix. Producer:<br />
Joseph Sistrom. Director; John Farrow. Original<br />
Screenplay; Jonothon Latimer.<br />
• William Holden is skipper of o submarine in<br />
World War II and, later, the Korean conflict. Brooding<br />
over o split-second decision which meant the<br />
loss of two of his crew, he nearly wrecks his marriage<br />
and career, but finds the answer to his<br />
doubts in a heroic, dangerous and successful mission.<br />
THIS IS DYNAMITE (Crime Drama). Stars: William<br />
Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O'Brien. Producer:<br />
Irving Asher. Director: Williom Dieterle. Originol;<br />
Horace McCoy. Screenplay; John Bright, W. R.<br />
Burnett.<br />
• William Holden, a crusoding reporter, is instrumental<br />
in breaking up on underworld syndicote<br />
which controls a major American metropolis.<br />
THUNDER IN THE EAST (Drama). Stars; Alan Lodd.<br />
Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer. Producer; Everett<br />
Riskin. Director; Charles Vidor. Original; Alon<br />
Mooreheod. Screenplay: Jo Swerling.<br />
• Aviator Alan Lodd flies guns ond ommunitton<br />
into the Indian province of Ghondohor, but is<br />
hampered by Charles Boyer, who believes the current<br />
insurrection con be stopped by love and kindness.<br />
Eventuoly Lodd decides money isn't everything<br />
and stands off the invaders while women<br />
ond children escope by plane.<br />
WAR OF THE WORLDS (tnterplonetory Dromo). Stars;<br />
Les Tremoyne (incomplete). Producer: George Pol.<br />
Director: Byron Haskin. Original: H. G. Wells.<br />
Screenplay: Borre Lyndon.<br />
• Producer George Pol, who has mode such recent<br />
spoce operas as "Destination Moon" ond<br />
"When Worlds Collide," continues in the sciencefiction<br />
vein with on adaptation of H. G. Wells'<br />
story of on invasion from Mors. Sloted for Technicolor.<br />
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Science-Fiction Dromo).<br />
Stars: Richard Derr, Barbaro Rush, Lorry Keating.<br />
Producer: George Pal. Director: Rudolph Mote.<br />
Original: Edwin Bolmer, Philip Wylie. Screenplay:<br />
Sydney Boehm.<br />
• Astronomers discover onother star and planet<br />
ore hurtling toward the earth and that the star<br />
will wipe out our world. A rocketship is built and<br />
40 people, chosen by lot, manage to escape to the<br />
oncoming planet, leaving only minutes before the<br />
earth is demolished. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BAROMETER Section
Thanhs—<br />
June Allyson<br />
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\NDROCLES AND THE LION (Costume Comedy).<br />
Stars: Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature.<br />
Producer; Gabriel Pascal. Director: Chester Erskine.<br />
Original: George Bernard Show. Screenplay; Chester<br />
Erskine, Noel Langley.<br />
• In eorly Roman days, Androcles {Alan Young)<br />
mokes friends with a lion by removing a thorn from<br />
his paw. When Caesar (Maurice Evons) has his<br />
captain, Victor Moture, round up some Christian<br />
martyrs including Jean Simmons and Androcles,<br />
the latter finds himself areno-bound. He is saved<br />
by his good friend, the lion.<br />
AT SWORD'S POINT (Adventure-Dramo). Stars: Cornel<br />
Wilde, Moureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas. Producer:<br />
Jerroid T. Brandt. Director: Lewis Allen.<br />
Originol; Alexandre Dumas. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• Urgently summoned by the Queen of France,<br />
Cornel Wilde and his musketeer companions— including<br />
brilliant swordswoman Maureen O'Hara—find<br />
the princess, Noncy Gates, in the power of dastardly<br />
Robert Douglas—who plans to slay her<br />
brother, Peter Miles. Surmounting desperate obstacles,<br />
the Musketeers rescue the royal victim.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BEHAVE YOURSELFI (Comedy). Stars: Shelley Winters,<br />
Farley Granger, Williom Demarest. Producers: Jerry<br />
Wald, Norman Krasna. Director: George Beck.<br />
Original: George Beck, Frank Tarloff. Screenplay:<br />
George Beck.<br />
• A dog, trained by gongsters to act as o gobetween,<br />
is mistaken by Shelley Winters as on anniversary<br />
gift from her husband, Farley Granger.<br />
The mobsters' efforts to get the dog back result<br />
in series of murders, of which Farley suspected,<br />
a but he ultimately maneges to<br />
is<br />
round up<br />
the crooks and is hailed as a hero.<br />
THE BIG SKY (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglos,<br />
Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Coyote Threott. Producer-Director:<br />
Howard Hawks. Original: A. B.<br />
Guthrie jr. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols.<br />
• In 1830 Kirk Douglas and his pal, Dewey Martin,<br />
join an adventure-ridden keelboat expedition<br />
into the midwest wilderness to establish a furtroding<br />
post. Aboard the boat is o beautiful Indian<br />
maiden, Elizabeth Coyote Threott, held hostage<br />
to ensure safety in the wild country. During<br />
the hazardous voyage Douglas wins Elizabeth as<br />
his mate.<br />
THE BLUE VEIL (Drama). Stars: Jane Wyman, Richard<br />
Carlson, Charles Laughton. Producers: Jerry<br />
Wold, Norman Krasna. Director: Curtis Bernhardt.<br />
Original: Francois Compaux. Screenplay: Norman<br />
Corwin.<br />
• Jane Wyman, who has lost a child of her own,<br />
devotes her life to the care of other people's children,<br />
sacrificing all chances for romonce ond a<br />
happy marriage. Ultimately she is reduced to poverty<br />
until one of her now-grown-up "children" finds<br />
her and takes her into his fomily as o permanent<br />
member.<br />
CLASH BY NIGHT (Droma). Stars: Barbara Stanwyck,<br />
Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan. Producers: Jerry Wald,<br />
Norman Krasna. Director: Fritz Long. Original:<br />
Clifford Odets. Screenplay; Alfred Hayes.<br />
• Adapted from a stage play by Clifford Odets,<br />
this has a Monterey, Calif., fishing industry bockground<br />
and deals with a man's betroyol by his<br />
wife and best friend.<br />
DOUBLE DYNAMITE (Comedy). Stars: Fronk Stnotro,<br />
Jone Russell, Groucho Marx. Producer: Irving<br />
Cummings jr. Director; Irving Cummings sr. Original:<br />
Lee Rosten. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson.<br />
• Frank Sinatra, a plodding clerk, is rewarded for<br />
rescuing a mystery man from a brawl—and automaticolly<br />
suspected of a coincidental bank theft.<br />
Cleared, he sets out with his sweetheart, Jane Russell,<br />
and pal Groucho Marx, on a prolonged spending<br />
spree which the internal revenue deportment<br />
abruptly terminates.<br />
DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH (Historical Drama). Stars:<br />
Guy Madison, Barbaro Payton, James Craig. Producers:<br />
Maurice ond Frank King. Director; William<br />
Cameron Menzies. Original: Hollister Noble. Screenplay;<br />
Philip Yordan, Sidney Harmon.<br />
• In the Civil Wor, James Craig, a Confederate, is<br />
assigned to man a mountain outpost in an effort<br />
to holt Sherman's march to the sea. Opposing him<br />
IS his pre-war northern friend, Guy Madison. Barbara<br />
Payton, who loves Craig, sacrifices her life<br />
in a vain effort to persuade him to surrender.<br />
Filmed in Supercinecolor.<br />
EXCLUSIVE MODEL (Droma). Stars: Not set. Producer;<br />
Jerry Wald, Norman Krasna. Director: Nat set.<br />
Original Screenplay: Ketti Frings.<br />
• A story of the Paris fashion industry, this is<br />
scheduled for Technicolor filming, partially on location<br />
in France.<br />
A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Comedy). Stars: Groucho<br />
Marx, William Bendix, Marie Wilson. Producers:<br />
Irwin Allen, Irving Cummings jr Director: Chester<br />
Erskine. Original: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan.<br />
Screenplay: Chester Erskine.<br />
• Sailors Groucho Marx and William Bendix<br />
wangle o leave of absence from the brig when<br />
Bendix ocquires a rocehorse. Upon sight of Marie<br />
Wilson they fall in love, but her heart belongs to<br />
Don DeFore. Brave men and true, they aid the<br />
romance and occidentally thwart a pair of soboteurs<br />
before settling back in the brig.<br />
THE HALF-BREED (Western). Stars: Robert Young,<br />
Jonis Carter, Jack Buetet. Producer: Irving Starr.<br />
Director: Edword Ludwig. Original Screenplay: Robert<br />
Hardy Andrews.<br />
• Jack Buetel, half-breed Indian leader, trusts<br />
Robert Young, a scout, until his people are<br />
preyed upon. Relations continue strained until<br />
Young proves Reed Hadley responsible for the<br />
villoiny. Buetel returns to his people to plead<br />
for understonding between the races. Filmed in<br />
Technicolor,<br />
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (Biographical Drama),<br />
Stars: Danny Kaye, Renee Jeanmaire, Farley Granger.<br />
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Charles<br />
Vidor. Original Screenplay: Moss Hart, Samuel<br />
Taylor.<br />
• Danny Kaye is cost as Hans Christian Andersen,<br />
the famed Danish author whose fairy tales hove<br />
been read by generations of children the world<br />
over. In Technicolor, the picture has Copenhagen<br />
in the 1830s as its locale.<br />
HIGH HEELS (Droma). Stars: Not set; Producers: Jerry<br />
Wald, Norman Krasna. Director; Not set. Original:<br />
Morva ond Lloyd Shearer. Screenplay: Marc Daniels.<br />
• This revolves around the giris who supply a<br />
minute of dancing pleasure to lonely men for<br />
1 2 cents a dance.<br />
I WANT<br />
YOU (Drama). Stors: Dona Andrews, Dorothy<br />
McGuire, For ley Granger. Producer: Samuel<br />
Goldwyn. Director: Mork Robson. Original: Samuel<br />
Goldwyn jr. Screenplay: Edward Newhouse, Joel<br />
Sayre, Irwin Shaw.<br />
• After a hitch in World War II, Dona Andrews<br />
marries, settles down to raise o family, and goes<br />
into business with his father and younger brother,<br />
Farley Granger. Comes the Korean conflict and<br />
Granger is drafted; and Andrews realizes he, too,<br />
must get into service to protect his family and<br />
country.<br />
JET PILOT (War Drama). Stars: John Wayne, Janet<br />
Leigh. Producer: Jules Furthman. Director: Josef<br />
von Sternberg. Original: Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay:<br />
Beirne Lay jr., Jules Furthman.<br />
o A story of how the U.S. air force trains its jet<br />
pilots and the work of jet aircraft in the Korean<br />
conflict. In Technicolor.<br />
THE KOREAN STORY (War Drama). Stars; Robert<br />
Mitchum, Ann BIyth, Charles McGrow. Producer:<br />
Edmund Grainger. Director; Toy Gornett. Original<br />
Screenplay: Milton Krims, William Wister<br />
Haines.<br />
• This dramotizes the activities of the United<br />
Nations' ground and air forces in the Korean theatre<br />
of conflict, with Robert Mitchum as a U.S.<br />
officer and Ann BIyth as a war correspondent. In<br />
Technicolor,<br />
THE LAS VEGAS STORY (Drama). Stars: Jane Russell,<br />
Victor Mature, Vincent Price. Producer: Robert<br />
Sparks Director: Robert Stevenson. Original; Jay<br />
Dratler, Screenplay: John Lorkin.<br />
• A girl thinks her husband has been fromed on<br />
a robbery chorge by a detective who was formerly<br />
her sweetheart. The three become involved when<br />
she sets out to establish her husband's innocence.<br />
MACAO (Droma). Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell,<br />
William Bendix. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director:<br />
Josef von Sternberg. Original: Bob Wlllioms.<br />
Screenplay: Bernard C. Schoenfeld.<br />
• On the island of Macao Robert Mitchum gets<br />
a yen for Singer Jane Russell, and becomes involved<br />
with Brad Dexter, o big-shot diamond smuggler.<br />
When William Bendix, a disguised plainclothesmon,<br />
is murdered, Mitchum outmaneuvers<br />
Dexter, turns him over to the authorities and wins<br />
the gol,<br />
MONTANA BELLE (Western). Stars: Jane Russell,<br />
George Brent, Scott Brady. Producer: Howard<br />
Welch. Director: Allan Dwon. Original: M. Coates<br />
Webster. Screenplay: Horace McCoy.<br />
• Scott Brady, a Dolton gong member, foils for<br />
Jane Russell, boss of o rival gang—as does George<br />
Brent, a saloon keeper, who hopes to marry ond<br />
reform her. Mistakenly believing a doublecross<br />
IS afoot, Jane betrays Brady, and regrets her action<br />
too late. He is trapped by Brent, and Jane dies<br />
in the subsequent gun fight.<br />
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Drama) Stars: Robert<br />
Ryan, Ido Lupino, Word Bond. Producer: John<br />
Houseman, Director: Nicholas Ray. Original: Gerald<br />
Butler. Screenplay: A, I, Bezzendes,<br />
• Robert Ryan, a detective by profession, is a lonely,<br />
embittered man, until his path crosses that of<br />
Ida Lupino- Despite the handicap of blindness,<br />
Ida's deep, protective devotion to her mentally<br />
defective brother is the factor that teaches Ryan<br />
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BAL TABARIN (Musical Comedy). Stars: William<br />
Ching, Munel -Lawrence, Clarie Carleton. Producer:<br />
Herman Millakowsky. Director: Philip Ford. Original<br />
Screenplay: Houston Branch.<br />
• When Muriel Lowrence's boss is murdered, and it<br />
is discovered he is a notorious international fence<br />
for stolen jewels, Muriel flees to Paris to ovoid<br />
being implicated. She becomes a singer of the<br />
famed Bal Tabarin and, with the aid of a young<br />
American composer, is finally enabled to clear<br />
herself.<br />
THE FABULOUS SENORITA (Comedy With Music).<br />
Stars: Estelita Rodriguez, Robert Clarke, Leon<br />
Belasco. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G.<br />
Springsteen. Original Screenplay: Jock Townley.<br />
• Estelita Rodriguez, rebelling against the old<br />
Sponish custom of parents selecting motes for their<br />
young, helps her sister elope with the young man<br />
she loves. In the ensuing complications she, too,<br />
falls in love—with an American college professor<br />
and marries him over parental objections.<br />
GOBS AND GALS (Musical Comedy). Stars: George<br />
and Bert Bernard, Cathy Downs. Producer: Sidney<br />
Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay:<br />
Arthur Mormon.<br />
• Home from a stint on a Pacific atoll, Navy Lieut.<br />
Robert Hutton gets mobbed by lovesick women<br />
a situation brought about by pronkish navy yeomen,<br />
George and Bert Bernard—which imperils his morriage<br />
to Cathy Downs. After sundry complications,<br />
including c hassle with spies, Hutton proves his<br />
loyalty.<br />
HONEYCHILE (Western). Stors: Judy Conovo, Eddie<br />
Foy jr., Alan Hale jr. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director:<br />
R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay;<br />
Charles Roberts, Jock Townley.<br />
• Judy Canovo, a Wyoming ranch girl, writes a<br />
popular song and submits it to a New York music<br />
publishing house, then decides she doesn't wont<br />
to sell it after all. Meantime, by mistake, the<br />
publisher records the number—then has to send<br />
his representative to Wyoming in an effort to<br />
persuade Judy to sign over the rights.<br />
HOODLUM EMPIRE (Drama). Stars: Claire Trevor,<br />
Forrest Tucker, Brian Donlevy. Producer-Director:<br />
Joseph Kane. Original: Bob Considine. Screenplay:<br />
Bob Considine, Bruce Manning.<br />
• A key witness in congressional hearings, aimed<br />
at destroying a nationwide racketeering empire,<br />
is a nephew of the gong leader, who had been<br />
groomed to toke over his uncle's spot os kingpin<br />
but rebelled and went straight. Despite threats<br />
to rub him out, the nephew comes through with<br />
vital testimony and is publicly acclaimed.<br />
THE HOT HEIRESS (Comedy). Stars: Judy Canova (incomplete).<br />
Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: Not<br />
set. Original Screenplay: Jack Townley.<br />
• One of a series of features starring Comedienne<br />
Judy Canova.<br />
LADY POSSESSED (Drama). Stars: James Mason,<br />
June Havoc, Stephen Dunne. Producer: James Mason.<br />
Directors: William Spier, Roy Kellmo. Original:<br />
Pomelo Kellino. Screenplay: Pamela Kellino,<br />
James Moson.<br />
• June Havoc and Stephen Dunne, on American<br />
couple, rent the English house of a famous pianist,<br />
James Mason. In time June acquires the mod<br />
obsession that she is destined to replace Mason's<br />
beloved dead wife. When she learns Mason is<br />
amusing himself with her affections she tries<br />
suicide, is saved by Dunne, and o reconciliation<br />
is effected.<br />
MINNESOTA (Dramo). Stars: Ruth Hussey, Rod Cameron,<br />
Jay C. Flippen. Producer- Director: Joseph<br />
Kane. Original: Charles Marquis Warren. Screenplay:<br />
Charles Marquis Warren, Norman Reilly Roine.<br />
• Historical drama, dealing with the development<br />
of the Mesabi iron range in Minnesota in 1892.<br />
OKLAHOMA ANNIE (Comedy With Music). Stars:<br />
Judy Canova, John Russell. Producer: Sidney Picker.<br />
Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay:<br />
Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo.<br />
• In Trucolor, this is another musical in hillbilly<br />
vein starring Judy Conovo.<br />
QUEEN OF THE COWGIRLS (Comedy Western). Stars:<br />
Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers. Producer:<br />
Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen.<br />
Original: Jock Townley, Charles E. Roberts. Screenplay:<br />
Jock Townley.<br />
• Granddaughter of a famous female sheriff, Judy<br />
Canova gets riled at the laxity of the law when<br />
her store is robbed, ond orgonizes a women's<br />
committee to oust the sheriff, John Russell. Her<br />
change of mind—at sight of his youth and masculinity—arouses<br />
the committee's wrath, until Russell<br />
proves himself by nailing the bandits. Filmed<br />
in Trucolor.<br />
THE QUIET MAN (Drama). Stars: John Wayne, Maureen<br />
O'Haro, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer-Director:<br />
John Ford. Original Screenplay: Frank Nugent.<br />
• John Wayne returns to his native Ireland, trying<br />
to put behind him the torturing memory of having<br />
killed a man in the prize ring. But tranquility<br />
eludes him; he finds himself surrounded by long<br />
standing, continuing feuds. After a forced fight<br />
with his sweetheart's brother, Wayne reconciles to<br />
a life of happy turbulence.<br />
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REX ALLEN SERIES (Westerns). Stars:<br />
Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens and others. Producer: Edward<br />
J. White. Director; William Witney. Original<br />
Screenplays: Eric Taylor, William Lively, John K.<br />
Butler and others.<br />
• Eight sagebrushers starring Rex Allen, the singing<br />
cowboy, are on the 1951-52 schedule. Their<br />
titles: "Colorado Sundown," "The Lost Musketeer,"<br />
"Song of the Pony Express," "Heart of the Pecos,"<br />
"Old Oklahoma Plains," "Border Saddlemotes,"<br />
"South, Pacific Trail" and "The Golden West."<br />
ROCKY LANE SERIES (Westerns). Stars: Rocky Lane,<br />
Penny Edwards, Roy Borcroft and others. Producer:<br />
Harry Keller. Directors: Harry Keller, Fred<br />
Bronnon and others. Original Screenplays: Richard<br />
Wormser, M. Cootes Webster and others.<br />
• Rocky Lane is the star of six westerns on the<br />
1951-52 slate, their titles being "Captive of Billy<br />
the Kid," "Leodville Gunslinger," "Black Hills<br />
Ambush," "Bandits' Outpost," "Thundering Caravans,"<br />
"Shadows of Jesse James" and "Desert of<br />
Lost Men."<br />
SONG OF YOUTH {Drama With Music). Stars: Bill<br />
Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy. Producer-<br />
Director: Allan Dwan. Original Screenplay: Alan<br />
LeMay.<br />
• A biography of Composer Stephen Foster, centered<br />
around the early days of his career.<br />
SOUTH OF CALIENTE (Western). Star^: Roy Rogers,<br />
Dole Evans, Douglas Fowley. Producer: Edward<br />
J. White. Director: William Witney. Original<br />
Screenploy: Eric Taylor.<br />
• Roy Rogers operates a racehorse transportation<br />
service. When a valuable steed owned by Dale<br />
Evans is stolen, he pins the crime on Douglas<br />
Fowley, her ranch foreman, who hoped the loss<br />
of the horse would force Dale to sell her ranch to<br />
him.<br />
STORMBOUND (Drama). Stars: Constance Dowling,<br />
Andrea Checchi, Aldo Silvoni. Producer: Aldo<br />
Raciti. Director: Luigi Capuono. Original: Luigi<br />
Capuano. Screenplay: Comenico Meccoli, Fulvio<br />
Palmieri, Corrodo Pavolini.<br />
• Constance Dowling, an adventure-seeking American<br />
journalist, meets an Italian outlaw, Andrea<br />
Checci, ond soon learns—when Checchi forces her<br />
to aid his escape—that he is not a romantic,<br />
modern Robin Hood, but a ruthless killer. After a<br />
frightening confinement with a family of peasants,<br />
Checchi is trapped by the law. Filmed in Italy.<br />
STREET BANDITS (Drama). Stars: Penny Edwards,<br />
Robert Clarke, Ross Ford. Producer: William Lackey.<br />
Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenploy:<br />
Milton Roison.<br />
• Ignoring the protests of his law partner, Ross<br />
Ford, Robert Clarke accepts Roy Barcroft os a<br />
client and gets involved in a mobster setup. When<br />
fancy fees make Clorke a rich man, he marries<br />
Penny Edwards. Fed up. Ford joins the D.A.'s<br />
office. His sense of ethics restored, Clarke oids<br />
in convicting the mob.<br />
A WAC FROM WALLA WALLA (Comedy). Stars:<br />
Judy<br />
Conovo (incomplete). Producer: Sidney Picker. Director:<br />
Not set. Original Screenplay: Jock Townley,<br />
John Butler, Arthur Hormon.<br />
• In which Judy Canova joins the peacetime army.<br />
THE WILD BLUE YONDER (Air Drama). Stars: Wendell<br />
Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker. Producer-Director:<br />
Allan Dwan. Original: Andrew Geer,<br />
Charles Grayson. Screenplay; Richard Tregoskis.<br />
• Wendell Corey is on enthusiastic B-29 pilot, Forrest<br />
Tucker a competent but flight-shy instructor.<br />
During the war they take part in the vital bombing<br />
of Japan. They both fall in love with a<br />
nurse. Vera Ralston. Following a major mission,<br />
Tucker, in an heroic try at a crash landing, dies.<br />
Corey succeeds in winning Vera.<br />
WOMEN IN THE DARK (Drama). Stars: Penny Edwards,<br />
Ross Elliott, Rick Vallin. Producer; Stephen<br />
Auer. Director: George Blair. Original: Nicholas<br />
Cosentino. Screenplay; Albert DeMond.<br />
• With the connivance of o crooked official, Peter<br />
Brocco arranges the theft of o fabulous jewel collection.<br />
In o squeeze ploy, Brocco involves Richard<br />
Benedict, knowing his elder brother. Rick Vallin,<br />
lawyer for the insurance company, will have to<br />
come across. Richard retrieves the jewels, but is<br />
killed in doing so.<br />
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ANNE OF THE INDIES (Pirate Drama). Stars: Jean<br />
Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debro Poget. Producer:<br />
George Jessel. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Original:<br />
Screenplay: Herbert Rovenolsass. Philip Dunne.<br />
• Jean Peters portrays Captain Providence, a ruthless,<br />
cut-throat pirate leader whose name in the<br />
early 1600s strikes terror from the ports of the<br />
West Indies to the trading houses, of London. A<br />
protege of Blockbeard, she is ultimately defeated<br />
by him in a sea battle, ond goes down to death<br />
with her ship.<br />
BELLES ON THEIR TOES (Comedy). Stars: Jeanne<br />
Cram, Myrna Loy, Barbara Botes. Producer: Samuel<br />
G. Engel. Director: Henry Levin. Original:<br />
Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth. Screenploy: Not set.<br />
• A sequel to lost season's "Cheaper by the<br />
Dozen," this relotes the further adventures of the<br />
Gilbreth family after the sudden deoth of the father.<br />
Taking over his work as an efficiency engineer, the<br />
mother, Myrno Loy, manages to keep the home<br />
together and steer her brood through their romantic<br />
and educational problems.<br />
CRY OF THE SWAMP (Dramo). Stars: Jean Peters,<br />
Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith. Producer: Robert<br />
Jocks. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original<br />
Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• While journeying through Georgia's Okefenokee<br />
swamp, Jeffrey Hunter encounters Walter Brennan,<br />
who has fled there to escape on unjust murder<br />
charge, ond the lotter's daughter, Constance<br />
Smith. Jeffrey and Constance fall in love and<br />
the boy is successful in seeing that Brennan is<br />
given a fair trial.<br />
DARLING, I AM GROWING YOUNGER (Romantic Comedy).<br />
Stars: Cory Grant, Ann Sothern (incomplete).<br />
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Howard Hawks.<br />
Originol: Jean Bernard Luc. Screenplay: L. Bush-<br />
Fekete, Mary Helen Fay.<br />
• A couple hos been ideally married for ten years<br />
—until a psychiotrist comes between them. From a<br />
French play.<br />
DEADLINE— U.S.A. (Drama). Stars: Humphrey Bogart,<br />
Ethel Borrymore, Kim Hunter. Producer: Sol C<br />
Siegel. Director: Richard Brooks. Original Screenplay:<br />
Richard Brooks.<br />
• Humphrey Bogart portrays a crusading newspaperman<br />
in this story of the Fourth Estate.<br />
DECISION BEFORE DAWN (Drama). Stars: Richard<br />
Basehart, Gory Merrill, Hildegarde Neff. Producer-<br />
Director: Anotole Litvak. Original: George Howe.<br />
Screenplay; Peter Viertel.<br />
• Adapted from the prize-winning novel, "Call It<br />
Treason," and filmed entirely in Germany, this is<br />
laid in the winter months of 1945, when U.S. -indoctrinated<br />
Nazi soldiers were used as members of<br />
on intelligence team to bring World War II to a<br />
speedier end.<br />
THE DESERT FOX (Biographical Drama). Stars: James<br />
Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy. Producer:<br />
Nunnally Johnson. Director: Henry Hathaway.<br />
Original: Desmond Young. Screenplay: Nunnally<br />
Johnson.<br />
• James Mason portrays Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,<br />
the so-called "Desert Fox," in this biographical<br />
subject, which traces Rommel's career from the<br />
North African campaign in World War tl to his<br />
death as a forced "suicide" offer his name was<br />
linked with a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf<br />
Hitler.<br />
DIPLOMATIC COURIER (Drama). Stars: Tyrone Power,<br />
Patricia Neal, Stehen McNolly. Producer: Casey<br />
Robinson. Director: Henry Hot ha way. Original<br />
Screenplay: Liam O'Brien, Casey Robinson.<br />
• Tyrone Power, top diplomatic courier for the<br />
state department, journeys to Salsburg to pick up<br />
an important document from a wartime buddy. The<br />
document proves to be the Soviet timetoble for<br />
World War III—and Power obtains it, but only after<br />
the trail leads to murder, romance and intrigue.<br />
DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (Suspense Drama). Stars:<br />
Richard Widmork, Marilyn Monroe (incomplete).<br />
Producer: Julian Bloustein. Director: Roy Baker.<br />
Original: Elick Moll. Screenplay: Frank Partes,<br />
Elick Moll.<br />
• A baby sitter protects her infant charge against<br />
a demented relet ive of the child.<br />
DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS (Comedy).<br />
Stars: William Lundigon, Jane Greer, David Woyne.<br />
Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: Edmund Goulding.<br />
Original: Edword Hope. Screenplay: Claude<br />
Binyon.<br />
• At the end of World War II, Capt. William<br />
Lundigon is given occupation duty on a South<br />
Pacific island, where he is appointed military governor.<br />
He promptly becomes involved with three<br />
beautiful gals—the daughter of a missionary, a<br />
war correspondent and a native princess—but<br />
eventually solves his problems.<br />
DREAM BOAT (Comedy). Stars: Clifton Webb, Ginger<br />
Rogers, Anne Francis. Producer; Sol C. Siegel.<br />
Director: George Binyon. Original: John D. Weaver.<br />
Screenplay; Not set.<br />
• A one-time movie star becomes popular all<br />
over again when his pictures ore revived on television.<br />
ELOPEMENT (Romantic Comedy). Stars; William Lundigon,<br />
Anne Francis, Clifton Webb. Producer: Fred<br />
Kohlmar. Director: Henry Koster. Original Screenplay:<br />
Bess Toffel.<br />
• Clifton Webb, a noted industrial designer with<br />
career ambitions for his daughter, Anne Francis, is<br />
furious when he learns she is eloping with a<br />
psychology professor, Williom Lundigon. After frantic<br />
attempts to sidetrack the marriage, he finally<br />
decides it is the right thing and gives his blessing.<br />
FIVE FINGERS (Drama). Stars: James Mason, Danielle<br />
Darneux, Michael Rennie. Producer: Otto Long.<br />
Director: Joseph Mankiewicz. Original: L. C. Moyzich.<br />
Screenplay: Michael Wilson.<br />
• This is said to be a factual account of "Operation<br />
Cicero," through which, in ]944, an espionage<br />
ring operated within the British embassy in Turkey<br />
and stole hundreds of top secrets, including<br />
plans for the allied invasion of Normandy, for<br />
transmission to the German high command.<br />
FIXED BAYONETS (War Drama). Stars: Richard Basehart,<br />
Gene Evans, Skip Homeier. Producer: Jules<br />
Buck. Director: Samuel Fuller. Original Screenplay:<br />
Samuel Fuller.<br />
• One Gl platoon in Korea is assigned to fight<br />
a reor-guord action to protect a battalion which<br />
is being withdrawn. Weathering Red motor-fire and<br />
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machine guns, o tank attack and an assault by<br />
Communist infantry, the platoon suffers many casualties<br />
and, hardened, toughened and exhausted,<br />
sofely reaches its own lines.<br />
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Comedy With Music).<br />
Stars: Not set. Producer; George Jessel. Director:<br />
Richard Sale. Original: Anita Loos. Screenplay:<br />
Mary Loos, Richard Sale.<br />
• From the best-seller of the 1920s and the recent<br />
musical stage hit based thereon, this will be<br />
filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (Comedy). Stars: June Haver,<br />
Don Dotley, Dennis Doy. Producer: Robert Bossier.<br />
Director: Richard Sale. Original; Louis Bush-Fekcte,<br />
Mary Fay. Screenplay: Isobel Lcnnort.<br />
• Dancing and singmg star June Haver has fome,<br />
fortune, everything— but the widower next door,<br />
Dan Dailey, doting parent of lO-yeor-old Billy<br />
Gray. Billy's jealousy ond oppositron cause June to<br />
withdrew until, in the hands of a designing moppet,<br />
Billy is won over to a more tolerant attitude<br />
toword true love.<br />
GOLDEN GIRL (Historical Drama). Stars: Mitzi Goynor.<br />
Dale Robertson, Dennis Day. Producer: George<br />
Jessel. Drrector: Lloyd Bacon. Qriginol: Albert<br />
and Arthur Lewis, Edword Thompson. Screenplay:<br />
Walter Bullock, Charles O'Neal, Glodys Lehman.<br />
• Film biography of Lotto Crabtree (portroyed by<br />
Mitzi Gaynor), the fomed entertainer known as<br />
the "Merry Madcap" during California's gold rush<br />
days a century ago. She wos the first to elevate<br />
the singing-dancing comedienne to the status of<br />
legitimate stardom. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU (Drome). Stars: Tyrone<br />
Power, Ann BIyth, Michael Rennie. Producer: Sol<br />
C. Siegel. Director: Roy Baker. Original: John Balderston.<br />
Screenplay: Ronald MacDougoll.<br />
• Tyrone Power, a scientist working in modern<br />
London, is able to transport himself back to the<br />
late 1 8th century, which he regords as "the oge<br />
of reason." Finding it to be, instead, on era of<br />
cruelty and prejudice, he manages to bridge back<br />
to the present through the aid and love of Ann<br />
BIyth.<br />
ISLAND IN THE SKY (Dramo). Stars: Richard Widmork<br />
(incomplete). Producer: Fronk Rosenberg.<br />
Director: Not set. Original: Ernest K. Gann. Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• A trans-Atlantic airplane pilot crashes in the<br />
northern wilderness but is ultimately rescued.<br />
JAPANESE WAR BRIDE (Romantic Drama). Stars:<br />
Don Toylor, Shirley Yamoguchi, Cameron Mitchell.<br />
Producers: Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond. Director:<br />
King Vidor. Original Screenplay: Kotherine Turney,<br />
Irving Shulmon.<br />
• On American Gl falls in love with ond marries a<br />
Japonese girl. This deals with their efforts to moke<br />
the marriage o successful one through mutual<br />
adjustments.<br />
JOURNEY INTO LIGHT (Drama). Stars: Sterling Hoyden,<br />
Viveco Lindfors, Thomas Mitchell. Producers:<br />
Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond, Director: Stuart<br />
Heisler. Original: Anson Bond. Screenplay: Stephanie<br />
Nordii, Irving Shulmon.<br />
• Sterling Hoyden, a small-town minister, becomes<br />
disgusted with the hypocrisy of his flock when his<br />
alcoholic wife commits suicide. He degenerates into<br />
o Skid Row bum but is rehabilitated through the<br />
love and faith of Viveco Lindfors, the blind daughter<br />
of the owner of a slum mission, and returns<br />
to his calling.<br />
KANGAROO (Action Dramo). Stors: Peter Lowford,<br />
Maureen O'Haro, Chips Rofferty. Producer: Robert<br />
Bossier. Director: Lewis Milestone. Original: Mortin<br />
M. Berkeley. Screenplay: Horry Kleiner.<br />
• First full-length Technicolor subject to be mode<br />
in Austrolia, this deals with the devastating drought<br />
of 1900-1903. It IS backgrounded on an Australian<br />
cottie ranch, whose owner, on o bender, meets two<br />
gentlemen of fortune who escort him home and plot<br />
unsuccessfully to steal his doughter and fortune.<br />
THE LADY IN THE IRON MASK (Costume Drama).<br />
Stars: Louis Hoyward, Patricio Medina, Alan Hole<br />
jr. Producers: Walter Wanger, Eugene Frenke. Director:<br />
Rolph Murphy. Original: Aubrey Wisberg,<br />
Jock Pollexfen. Screenplay: Not set,<br />
• Twin princesses ore born to the King of France<br />
and after his death one is bonished ond the other<br />
mode o claimant to the throne. A conspiracy to<br />
switch sisters is overthrown by D'Artognon (Louis<br />
Hoyward) and the Three Musketeers, and the right<br />
princesss rescued from torture. Filmed<br />
Kodok color.<br />
in Eostman<br />
LES MISERABLES (Drama). Stars: Michael Rennie,<br />
James Robertson-Justice, Elsa Lonchester. Producer:<br />
Fred Kohl mar. Director: Lewis Milestone.<br />
Original: Victor Hugo. Screenplay: Not set,<br />
• Adapted from Victor Hugo's classic novel, this<br />
is the story of a man's desperate effort to shake<br />
off pursuit by o relentless, unswerving and cruel<br />
police officer who odheres to the letter of the low<br />
ond does not toke mitigating circumstances into<br />
consideration.<br />
LET'S MAKE IT LEGAL (Romantic Comedy). Stars:<br />
Cloudette Colbert, Mocdonald Corey, Zachary Scott.<br />
Producer: Robert Bossier. Director: Richard Sole.<br />
Originol: Mortimer Brous. Screenploy: F. Hugh<br />
Herbert, I. A. L. Diamond.<br />
• After 20 years of marriage, Cloudette Colbert<br />
ond Mocdonold Corey ore divorcing, but on an<br />
amiable basis. Into her life pops Zochory Scott,<br />
who once proposed to her, and who now tries to<br />
rekindle the old romance. However, Carey puts up<br />
a vigorous battle and manoges a reconciliation.<br />
LOVE NEST (Comedy). Stars: Juno Hover, Witliom<br />
Lundigan, Fronk Foy, Producer: Jules Buck. Director:<br />
Joseph Newman. Original: Scott Corbctt.<br />
Screenploy: I. A. L. Diomond.<br />
• June Hover buys o ramshackle boarding house<br />
so her cx-Gt husbond, William Lundigan, will have<br />
Q place to come home to. The venture proves to<br />
be a constant series of heodoches, culminating with<br />
the arrests of Lundigon ond o swindling boarder,<br />
Frank Foy, but ultimately the situation is straightened<br />
out satisfactorily.<br />
LYDIA BAILEY (Historical Drama). Stars: Dole Robertson,<br />
Anno Francis, Chorles Korvin. Producer:<br />
Jules Schermer. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original:<br />
Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Michael Blankfort,<br />
Philip Dunne.<br />
• Adapted from the novel by Kenneth Roberts,<br />
this casts Dole Robertson os a two-fisted adventurer<br />
in the early 1800s who becomes involved in the<br />
efforts of Haiti to resist capture by Napoleon and<br />
aids that smol! country in smashing Bonaparte's<br />
attempted invosion. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
MABEL AND ME (Comedy). Stars: Don Dailey (incomplete).<br />
Producer: Somuel G. Engel. Director:<br />
Henry Levin. Originol: Robert Thoeren. Screenploy:<br />
Julius and Philip Epstein.<br />
• A group of GIs forms o syndicate to purchase<br />
o racehorse.<br />
THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER (Romantic<br />
Comedy). Stars: Jeanne Croin, Scott Brady,<br />
Thelma Ritter. Producer: Charles Brockett. Director:<br />
George Cukor. Original: Walter Reisch. Screenploy:<br />
Walter Reisch, Richord Breen, Charles Brockett.<br />
• Thelma Ritter, o marriage broker, has her<br />
offices in New York— "the loneliest city in the<br />
world." She becomes friendly with Jeonne Croin,<br />
a lingerie model, and tries to poir her off with<br />
Scott Brady, one of Thelma's dissatisfied clients.<br />
It's a tough bottle, but finally Jeanne ond Scott<br />
see the light and foil in love.<br />
ONE NIGHT STAND (Comedy-Dromo). Stars: David<br />
Wayne, Gloria DeHoven. Producer; George Jessel.<br />
Director: Not set. Original: Hunt Stromberg jr.<br />
Screenplay; George Jessel.<br />
• Concerns the adventures of a traveling roadshow<br />
company.<br />
OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (Outdoor Drama). Stars:<br />
Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Barbara Bates. Producer:<br />
Julian Bloustein. Director: Joseph Newman.<br />
Original: Bret Harte. Screenplay: Edmund North.<br />
• This is o new version of Bret Horte's classic odventure<br />
story of California in the gold rush days<br />
of 1849.<br />
PASS THE AMMUNITION (War Drama). Stars: William<br />
Lundigan (incomplete). Producer: Jules<br />
Schermer. Director Not set. Original: Ted Sherdemon.<br />
Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• William Lundigon is cast as Father McGuire, the<br />
U.S. navy choploin who during o World War It<br />
novol battle shouted, "Praise the Lord and pass<br />
the ommunition," o sentiment thot become universally<br />
fomous and the title for a popular song.<br />
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER (Drama). Stars:<br />
Bette Davis, Helen Westcott, Gary Merrill, Shelley<br />
Winters. Producer: Nunnolly Johnson. Director:<br />
Jeon Negulesco. Originol: I. A. R. Wylie. Screenplay:<br />
Nunnolly Johnson.<br />
• Believing his wife is faithless. Gory Merrill leaves<br />
her and boords o plane for Los Angeles on which<br />
there are three other passengers, oil of whom confide<br />
their problems to him. The plane crashes;<br />
Merrill, the only survivor, consoles the families of<br />
the dead passengers, then decides to give his morrioge<br />
onother try.<br />
THE PINWHEEL MAN (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producers;<br />
Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond, Director: Not<br />
set. Original: Anson Bond. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This is a story of the rocket-propelled, oneman<br />
helicopters which have been developed by<br />
the U.S. navy.<br />
PONY SOLDIER (Historical Western). Stars; Tyrone<br />
Power. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Director: Not<br />
set. Original: Gornett Weston. Screenplay: John<br />
C. Higgins.<br />
• This a story of the Royal Canodion Northwest<br />
Mounted Police during the time of the battle<br />
of the Little Big Horn, and how thot law enforcement<br />
organization handled the Cree Indions<br />
returning from the massacre of Gen. George<br />
Custer.<br />
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (Historicol Drama). Stars:<br />
Not set. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Not<br />
set. Original: Irving Stone. Screenplay: Leonard<br />
Fields.<br />
• From the biographical novel by Irving Stone,<br />
this is the story of President Andrew Jockson ond<br />
his wife, Rachel. To be filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (Boseboll Dramo). Stars:<br />
Don Doiley, Joanne Dru, Hugh Sanders. Producer;<br />
Jules Schermer. Director: Hormon Jones. Original<br />
Screenplay: Richard Murphy.<br />
• This is Q biography of Jerome Herman "Dizzy"<br />
Dean (portrayed by Don Doiley), who began his<br />
coreer as a sondlot showoff in Arkonsos, was discovered<br />
by a mcjor league tolent scout, and became<br />
known, as a St. Louis Cordinol pitcher, as the<br />
"strike-out king of the Notional League."<br />
RED SKIES OF MONTANA (Action Dromo). Stars: Richard<br />
Widmark, Constance Smith, Joseph Sawyer. Producer:<br />
Samuel G. Engel. Director: Joseph Newman.<br />
Original: Art Cohn. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner.<br />
• This is a story of the "Smoke Jumpers," the<br />
porachutc corps of the U.S. forest service. A<br />
parotroop crew chief, Richard Widmork, is suspected<br />
of cowardice, but in o heavy timberlond fire displays<br />
courage and heroism ond is redeemed in the<br />
eyes of his men, Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
RETURN OF THE TEXAN (Western). Stars: Dole<br />
Robertson, Joanne Dru, Wolter Brennon. Producer:<br />
Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: Delmer Doves. Original:<br />
Fred Gipson. Screenploy: Dudley Nichols.<br />
• Adapted from "The Home Place," o novel by<br />
Fred Gtpson, this tells the story of a young Texan<br />
returning to his form with his motherless boys after<br />
his beloved wife dies. After hard struggles, physical<br />
and finonciol, he achieves success ond happiness<br />
and the love of a neighboring form girl.<br />
ROSE OF CIMARRON (Western). Stars: Jock Buetel,<br />
Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Producer: Edword L,<br />
Alperson. Director: Horry Keller. Original Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• This story of the early west was photographed ir.<br />
the new Eastman three-color process.<br />
SALLY, IRENE AND MARY (Musical). Stars; June<br />
Hover, Mitzi Gaynor, Gloria DeHoven. Producer:<br />
Fred Kohlmar, Director; Not set. Original; Eddie<br />
Dowling, Cyris Wood. Screenplay; Bess Toffcl.<br />
• Stemming from the Broadway musical which was<br />
o hit in the eorly 1920s, this is a new version of<br />
the property, which has been filmed twice previously<br />
—once in 1925 as a silent, and again as o tunefilm<br />
in 1938.<br />
SNOW COVERED WAGONS (Historicol Western). Stars:<br />
Not set. Producer: Edward L. Alperson. Director:<br />
Not set. Originol: Julio Cooley Altrocchi. Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• This sago of the western pioneers is based on<br />
the ill-foted Donner Party expedition to Colifornio<br />
during the gold rush days.<br />
SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Action Dromo). Stars:<br />
Gregory Peck, Susan Hoyword, Hildegorde Neff.<br />
Producer: Darryl F. Zonuck. Director: Henry King.<br />
Original: Ernest Hemingway. Screenploy; Casey<br />
Robinson.<br />
• Gregory Peck is the mole topliner in this Technicolor<br />
film version of one of Ernest Hemingway's<br />
tales of rornonce ond adventure in Africa.<br />
THE STEEPER CLIFF (Dromo). Stors: Oscar Werner<br />
(incomplete). Producer: Frank Rosenberg. Director:<br />
Anotole Litvok. Originol: Dovid Dovidson. Screenplay:<br />
Horry Kleiner.<br />
• To be lensed on location in postwar Germony,<br />
this concerns the estoblishment of democrotic<br />
newspapers, under American supervision, in thot<br />
country.<br />
THE STORY OF ESTHER (Biblical Dromo). Stars: Not<br />
set. Producers; Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond. Director:<br />
Not set. Original: Old Testament. Screenplay:<br />
Frank and Doris Hursley.<br />
• This contribution to the cycle of religious films<br />
utilizes the Old Testament as it plot source and<br />
will be produced in Technicolor.<br />
VIVA ZAPATAI (Drama). Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean<br />
Peters, Anthony Quinn. Producer; Dorryl F. Zonuck.<br />
Director; Elia Kazan. Originol; Edgcumb Pinchon.<br />
Screenplay; John Steinbeck.<br />
• A biography of Emiliano Zopota, the Mexican<br />
military leader and oily of Poncho Villa, who fought<br />
untiringly to end the tryronnicol 34-year reign of<br />
the dictator-president, Porfirio Diaz, but ultimately<br />
wos bertayed and assassinated. Portraying the<br />
revolutionory zeolot is Morion Brando.<br />
WAIT TILL THE SUN SHINES, NELLIE (Romantic<br />
Drama). Stars; David Woyne, Jeon Peters, Hugh<br />
Morlow. Producer: George Jessel. Director: Henry<br />
King. Original; Ferdinand Reyher. Screenploy:<br />
Allon Scott.<br />
• A smoll midwestern town is celebrating its 50th<br />
anniversary. The town barber, David Wayne, thinks<br />
bock over the post ho If -century, reviewing his<br />
romance with Jeon Peters, who hated the ploce;<br />
how, through the yeors offer she is killed in an<br />
accident, Wayne successfully brings up his children<br />
and becomes a happy grandfather.<br />
THE WAY OF A GAUCHO (Drama). Stars: Rory Colhoun.<br />
Gene Tierney, Everett Sloone. Producer:<br />
Philip Dunne. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Original:<br />
Herbert L. Chi Ids. Screenplay: Philip Dunne.<br />
• This story of Argentina's famed cowboys wos<br />
produced entirely on location in thot South American<br />
country.<br />
WHAT PRICE GLORY (Wor Drama). Stars: James<br />
Cogney, Corinne Co I Don Dailey, Producer;<br />
Sol C. Siegel. Director: John Ford. Original: Maxwell<br />
Anderson, Lawrence Stollings. Screenplay:<br />
Henry and Phoebe Ephron.<br />
• This is o new version, in Technicolor, of the<br />
famed ploy obout World War I, first filmed in<br />
1926. Dan Doiley is Sergeant Quirt, James Cogney<br />
is his orch-rivol Goptoin Flogg, and Corinne Colvet<br />
is the French mademoiselle over whom they carry<br />
out their fobulous feudin' ond fightin'.<br />
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART (Blogrophicol Drama).<br />
Stors: Susan Hoyward, Dovid Wayne, Thelma Ritter.<br />
Producer: Lamar Trotti. Director: Walter Lang.<br />
Original Screenploy: Lamor Trotti.<br />
• Susan Hoyword portroys Jane Fromon in this<br />
film biography of the singer who stoged a courageous<br />
comeback after near-fatal injuries incurred<br />
in a plane crash while en route to entertain GIs in<br />
Europe in World War II. Believed hopelessly parolyzed,<br />
she leorns to walk again and re-establishes<br />
herself as a topflight entertoiner.<br />
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RADIO<br />
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"THE LAS VEGAS STORY"<br />
DOUGLAS<br />
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DIRECTOR<br />
Completed:<br />
"WEEK-END WITH FATHER"<br />
Starring<br />
Van Heflin and Patricia Neal<br />
In Preparation:<br />
'THE GREAT COMPANIONS"<br />
Starring<br />
Dan Dailey and Ann BIyth<br />
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SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS"<br />
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ACTORS AND SIN (Drama). Stars: Edward G. Robinson,<br />
Marsha Hunt, Don O'Herlihy. Producer: Sid<br />
Kuller. Director: Ben Hecht. Original Screenplay:<br />
Ben Hecht.<br />
• In two interrelated sequences, this etory of show<br />
business is adopted from short stories by Ben<br />
Hecht, who also directed.<br />
AFRICAN QUEEN (Dromo). Stars: Kotharine Hepburn,<br />
Humphrey Bogort, Robert Morley. Producer:<br />
Sam Spiegel (Horizon Pictures). Director: John<br />
Huston. Original: C. S. Forrester. Screenplay: John<br />
Collier.<br />
• From the novel by C. S. Forrester, this is the<br />
story of prim missionary (Kathcrrne Hepburn)<br />
and an earthy, convention-defying adventurer<br />
(Humphrey Bogort), who are thrown together when,<br />
oboard the "African C^ueen," a riverboot in the<br />
jungles, they successfully escape a native uprising.<br />
ANOTHER MAN'S POISON (Dromo). Stars: Bette<br />
Davis, Gory Merrill, Emiyn Williams. Producer:<br />
Daniel M. Angel. Director: Irving Ropper. Orig-<br />
[noi: Leslie Sands. Screenploy: Vol Guest.<br />
• Bette Dovis is forced to allow Gary Merrill to<br />
impersonate the estranged, blackmailing husband<br />
she has murdered, and soon unwittingly captivates<br />
him. But Bette desires her secretary's fiance.<br />
When Merrill tries to foil her designs, Bette poisons<br />
him, later ironically meets her own death from the<br />
some lethal flask.<br />
THE BIG NIGHT (Melodrama). Stars: John Barrymore<br />
jr., Joon Lor ring, Preston Foster. Producer:<br />
Philip Waxman. Director: Joseph Losey. Original:<br />
Stanley Ellin. Screenplay: Stanley Ellin, Joseph<br />
Losey.<br />
• John Barrymore jr., lust turned 17, is o witness<br />
when his father is mercilessly beaten by a newspaper<br />
columnist. Seeking revenge, the lad steals<br />
o gun, sets out after the journalist and wounds<br />
him. The father is picked up by the police os the<br />
shooting suspect ond protects the boy by "confessing."<br />
CAPTIVE CITY (Drama). Stars: John Forsythe, Joan<br />
Creers, Horold J. Kennedy. Producer: Theron Worth<br />
(Aspen Productions). Director; Robert Wise. Original:<br />
Alvin Josephy jr. Screenplay: Karl Komb.<br />
• John Forsythe ond his wife, Joan Creers, are<br />
forced to flee for their lives when Forsythe's newspaper<br />
uncovers evidence to prove local crime is<br />
linked to the big time and corrupting leading citizens.<br />
At a distant town, offer eluding the pursuing<br />
hoodlums, honest authorities enable Forsythe<br />
to tell his story before the senate crime committee.<br />
CATTLE QUEEN (Western). Stors: Maria Hart, Droke<br />
Smith, William Fawcett. Producer: Jack Schworz.<br />
Director: Robert Tansey. Original: Robert Emmett.<br />
Screenplay: Fronces Kovanough.<br />
• Morio Hart, feminine cattle baron, aided by<br />
Drake Smith, successfully battles against the efforts<br />
of villainous forces to wrest her land ond<br />
wealth away from her.<br />
CHICAGO CALLING (Dromo). Stars: Don Duryea,<br />
Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert. Producer: Peter<br />
Berneis. Director: John Reinhordt. Original Screenplay:<br />
Peter Berneis, John Reinhordt.<br />
• Angered at his drinking, Mory Anderson ond<br />
their doughter leave Dan Duryea and go to Chicago.<br />
En route they are in an accident, and Mary<br />
telegraphs that she will telephone him next day to<br />
give him the details. Then Don, broke, Is confronted<br />
with the problem of raising money to prevent<br />
his phone from being removed.<br />
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Classic Drama). Stars: Alastoir<br />
Sim, Kothleen Harrison, Clifford Mollison.<br />
AGAINST ALL FLAGS (Maritime Drama). Stars: Errol<br />
Flynn, Maureen O'Hora, Anthony Quinn. Producer:<br />
Howard Christie. Director: George Sherman. Original:<br />
Aeneas MocKenzie. Screenplay: Aeneas Moc-<br />
Kenzie.<br />
• Planned for Technicolor filming, this is locoled in<br />
Madagascar in the early 1 8th century and deals<br />
with o bond of pirates led by a woman.<br />
ALL-AMERICAN (Dromo). Stars: Tony Curtis. Producer:<br />
Not set. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay:<br />
Not set.<br />
• This Tony Curtis storrer has o collegiate football<br />
background- To be filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS (Western). Stars: John<br />
Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler. Producer:<br />
Leonord Goldstein. Director: George Sherman.<br />
Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adoms.<br />
• John Lund is a squore-shoonng covolry officer<br />
whose word is good with the Apaches. His efforts<br />
to mointain peace with the Indions ore hampered,<br />
however, by Bruce Cowling, on unscrupulous mining<br />
tycoon. Cowling is slain in the subsequent uprising<br />
and the Apache leaders inform Lund that<br />
warfare must inevitably continue.<br />
BEND OF THE RIVER (Outdoor Drama). Stars: James<br />
Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams. Producer:<br />
Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Anthony Mann. Original:<br />
William Gulick. Screenplay: Borden Chose.<br />
• James Stewart, a frontiersman, guides a wogon<br />
train of midwestern farmers into the Snake river<br />
country of Oregon in the 1850s, where they plan<br />
to settle. After staving off mutiny and winning<br />
on all-out battle against gold-hungry miners, the<br />
farmers settle down to a peaceful life. Filmed in<br />
Technicolor.<br />
Producer-Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Original:<br />
Chorles Dickens. Screenplay: Noel Langley.<br />
• When Scrooge (Alostair Sim), a notorious miser,<br />
is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob<br />
Martey (Michael Hordern), he becomes terrorized<br />
becouse of his wicked ways, feels remorse and<br />
sets about making amends— by rewarding those<br />
around him, and depriving Death of Tiny Tim<br />
(Glyn Deormon), son of folthful Bob Crotchit<br />
(Mervyn Johns.)<br />
ELEPHANT WALK (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer:<br />
Douglas Fairbanks jr. Director: Not set. Original:<br />
Robert Stondish. Screenplay: D. M. Morshmon jr.<br />
• To be filmed on location in Ceylon, in Technicolor,<br />
this drama of life in the Orient is adopted<br />
from a novel by Robert Stondish.<br />
FORT DEFIANCE (Western). Stars: Peter Graves, Ben<br />
Johnson, Done Clark. Producer: Fronk Melford.<br />
Director: John Rawlins. Original Screenplay: Lou<br />
Lontz.<br />
• Ben Johnson, a Civil Wor veteran, comes west<br />
on the trail of Dane Clark, a deserter, whose<br />
actions caused the annihilation of Johnson's company.<br />
Johnson meets Clark's blind brother, Peter<br />
Graves; they become fast friends, and Clark is slain<br />
in a battle with another group of gunfighters out<br />
to kill him. Filmed in Cinecolor.<br />
GOLD RAIDERS (Western). Stars: George O'Brien, the<br />
Three Stooges, Sheila Ryan. Producer: Bernard<br />
Glosser. Director: Edward Bernds. Original Screenplay:<br />
William Lively, Elwood Ullman,<br />
• George O'Brien sells an insurance policy to a<br />
mine owner and promises to protect his shipments.<br />
However, bandits headed by a saloon keeper learn<br />
where the gold has been stored after shipment and<br />
attempt to hijack it. The plot is foiled by O'Brien<br />
with the dubious assistonce of the Three Stooges.<br />
THE GREEN GLOVE (Dromo). Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine<br />
Brooks, Sir Cedric Hordwicke. Producer-Direstor:<br />
Rudolph Mate (Benogoss Productions). Original<br />
Screenplay; Charles Bennett.<br />
• This romantic drama was filmed entirely In<br />
Europe.<br />
HARRY SHERMAN SERIES (Westerns). Not set.<br />
Producer: Horry Sherman. Directors: Not set.<br />
Originals: W. C. Tuttle and others. Screenplays:<br />
Not set.<br />
• Producer Harry Sherman plans a series of sagebrushers,<br />
the titles of which are "Wherever the<br />
Grass Grows," "Tall Man From Texas" and "The<br />
Golden Lady." Also on the docket is a group based<br />
on the "Hoshknife Hartley" stones by W. C. Tuttle.<br />
Their titles: Valley of Vanishing Herds," "Tumbling<br />
River Range," "Horseshoe Luck," "The Mystery<br />
of Red Triangle," "The Big Pay-Off" and<br />
"Deception Trail."<br />
HIGH NOON (Western). Stars: Gory Cooper, Koty<br />
Jurado, Thomas Mitchell. Producer: Stanley Kramer.<br />
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Original screenplay:<br />
Carl Foreman.<br />
• Gary Cooper, peace officer in a frontier town<br />
in the 1870s, breaks up o gang ond sends its<br />
leader to prison, then plans to retire. Comes word<br />
that the outlaw has been pardoned and is en<br />
route bock for vengeance. In a foray on the<br />
deserted street Cooper slays the gunfighter, then<br />
leaves town with his bride.<br />
I WANT TO BE LOVED (Romantic Comedy). Stars:<br />
Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson.<br />
Producer: Benedict Bogeous. Director: Peter Godfrey.<br />
Original Screenplay: George Bricker, Francis<br />
Swonn, Leo Townsend.<br />
• This story of a romantic triangle was lensed<br />
entirely on location in Mexico.<br />
BRONC BUSTER (Western). Stars: John Lund, Scott<br />
Brody, Joyce Holden. Producer: Ted Richmond. Director:<br />
Budd Boetticher. Original: Peter B. Kyne.<br />
Screenplay: Horace McCoy.<br />
• John Lund is a popular world's champion cowboy<br />
who sees great possibilities in cocky newcomer<br />
Scott Brady. Brady becomes o showoff, resorts<br />
to unethical practices, and even steals Lund's girl,<br />
Joyce Holden. He comes to his senses after a wild<br />
contest on a Brahma bull and wins Lund's forgiveness.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
CAVE OF OUTLAWS (Western). Stars: Macdonold<br />
Corey, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: William Castle. Original<br />
Screenplay: Elizabeth Wilson.<br />
• After serving time for a payroll robbery Macdonold<br />
Corey tries to locate the loot hidden by confederates<br />
in a cove. Meanwhile he buys a newspaper<br />
edited by Alexis Smith, whose husband has<br />
disappeared. In time Corey uncovers the gold,<br />
which Victor Jory is also seeking, and unmasks<br />
Jory as the murderer of Alexis' husband. Filmed<br />
in Technicolor.<br />
THE CIMARRON KID (Western). Stors: Audie Murphy,<br />
Beverly Tyler, James Best. Producer: Ted Richmond.<br />
Director: Budd Boetticher. Original Screenplay:<br />
Louis Stevens.<br />
• Audie Murphy is jailed for aiding the notorious<br />
Dolton gong ond upon release joins the mob. When<br />
he falls in love with Beverly Tyler he agrees to<br />
pull one lost job and go straight. In hot pursuit<br />
of the gang, an unscrupulous detective, Dovid<br />
Wolfe, eventuolly shoots Murphy in the bock.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE CITY AND JASON EDWARDS (Drama). Stars:<br />
Not set. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director:<br />
Not set. Original Screenplay: Irving Shulmon, Max<br />
Lief.<br />
• An aged recluse finds on underground home<br />
for himself in the New York subway.<br />
THE LADY SAYS NO (Romontic Comedy). Stars: Joan<br />
Caul field, David Niven, James Robertson Justice.<br />
Producers: Frank Ross, John Stillman jr. Director:<br />
Frank Ross. Original Screenplay; Robert Russell.<br />
• Joan Coalfield writes a book which criticizes<br />
men and urges her sex to resist them. Her attitude,<br />
it develops, stems from a youthful association with<br />
on incompatible aunt and uncle, and when her<br />
relatives ore reunited Joan casts off her inhibitions<br />
and falls in love with David Niven, a picture-magazine<br />
photographer.<br />
LIMELIGHT (Dromo With Music). Stars: Charles Chaplin,<br />
Clore Bloom, Chorles Chaplin jr. Producer-<br />
Director: Charles Chaplin. Original Screenplay:<br />
Charles Chaplin.<br />
• This IS Charles Chaplin's first picture-making<br />
effort since "Monsieur Verdoux" and has o ballet<br />
background, telling the story<br />
rises to fame in that field.<br />
of a dancer who<br />
THE LOUDEST LAUGH OF ALL (Romantic Comfedy).<br />
Stars: John Payne [incomplete). Producer; Aubrey<br />
Schenck. Director: Not set. Original: Harold<br />
Greene, Burt K el ley. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This IS the initioler in o series of six pictures<br />
to be produced for UA release by Associated Artists<br />
and Producers, headed by Sol Lesser, Edward Small<br />
and Sam Briskin.<br />
MIRACLE FROM MARS (Interplanetary Drama). Stars:<br />
Andrea King, Bigelow Sovre, Peter Graves (incomplete).<br />
Producers: Donald Hyde, Anthony Veiller.<br />
Director: Horry Horner. Original: John L. Bolderston,<br />
John H. Hoore. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller.<br />
• A scientist succeeds in making radio contact<br />
with the planet Mars and causes a world upheaval.<br />
THE RIVER (Dromo). Stars: Arthur Shields, Nora<br />
Swinburne, Thomas E. Breen. Producer: Kenneth<br />
McEldowney. Director: Jean Renoir. Original:<br />
Rumer Godden. Screenplay; Rumer Godden, J eon<br />
Renoir.<br />
• Made in India, this is the story of a British<br />
family in Bengal, being visited by Thomos E. Breen,<br />
an American who lost a leg in World War II. He<br />
becomes involved in romantic complications with<br />
two teenaged girls in the family and finally foils<br />
in love with a beautiful holf-caste. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE THIEF (Suspense Dromo). Stars: not set. Producer:<br />
Horry Popkin (Clorence Greene, Russell<br />
Rouse). Director: Russell Rouse. Original Screenploy:<br />
Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse.<br />
• This suspense adventure will be turned out by<br />
the some production orgonization which supplied<br />
"The Well" for distribution by this company during<br />
1951.<br />
TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS (Drama). Stars: John<br />
Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Jomes Hoyter. Producer:<br />
Brian Desmond-Hurst. Director: Gordon<br />
Parry. Original: Thomas Hughes. Screenplay: Noel<br />
Langley.<br />
• Filmed in England, this is o new version of the<br />
novel by Thomas Hughes about life at the British<br />
school, Rugby, a century or more ago. The story<br />
attacks the public school system of that time but<br />
points up the efforts of zealous educators to bring<br />
about needed reforms.<br />
THE WELL (Drama). Stars: Richard Rober, Barry<br />
Kelly, Christine Larson. Producer: Horry Popkin.<br />
Directors: Leo Popkin, Russell Rouse. Original<br />
Screenplay: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene.<br />
• A Negro child falls into on abandoned well and,<br />
learning she is missing, it is rumored she hos been<br />
kidnapped by a white man. Mob violence and race<br />
riots threaten but, when she is located, these feelings<br />
ore dispersed in a united and successful effort<br />
by whites and Negroes to rescue her.<br />
THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK (Western). Stors: Faith<br />
Domergue, Audie Murphy, Stephen McNolly. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Don Siegel.<br />
• Audie Murphy, a fast-shooting young westerner,<br />
saves a marshal's life and avenges the murder of<br />
his father. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
FINDERS KEEPERS (Comedy). Stors: Tom Ewell, Julio<br />
Adams, Evelyn Vorden. Producer: Leonard Goldstein.<br />
Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original<br />
Screenplay: Richard H. Morris.<br />
• Smollfry Dusty Henley finds o cache of bills<br />
which his grandma, Evelyn Vorden, is oil for keeping.<br />
But his mother, Julio Adams, threatens to<br />
leave his father, Tom Ewell, a parolee, unless the<br />
money is handed over to the police. Grandma,<br />
captured by the robbers, changes her tune, ond<br />
Dusty, a lo Hopolong Cassidy, comes to her rescue.<br />
FLAME OF ARABY (Adventure Dromo). Stars: Maureen<br />
O'Haro, Jeff Chandler, Richord Egon. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Charles Lomont.<br />
Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adams.<br />
• Jeff Chandler, son of on Arobion sheik, and<br />
Maureen O'Hora, a princess, fall in love. Her<br />
cousin. Maxwell Reed, hoping to gain the kingdom,<br />
poisons her father, then tries to marry Maureen<br />
off to either of two villains, Lon Choney or Buddy<br />
Boer. Chandler, however, wins a horse race to<br />
determine the winner of her hand. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
FRANCIS, RACKET BUSTER (Comedy). Stars:<br />
Donald O'Connor, Nancy Guild, Yvette Dugcy. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Arthur Lubin.<br />
Original Screenplay: Oscar Brodney.<br />
• Receiving "scoops" from police horses, Francis,<br />
the "talking mule," passes them on to Donald<br />
O'Connor, who becomes a sensational reporter.<br />
When rival newsman Lorry Gates frames Donald<br />
for murder, Francis, irked by O'Connor's neglect<br />
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of Yvette Dugoy for scheming Noncy Guild, lets<br />
him stew, but fJnaHy tokes the witness stand<br />
to clear him.<br />
THE GOLDEN HORDE (Costume Drama). Stars: Ann<br />
BIyth, David Farror, George Macready. Producers:<br />
Howard Christie, Robert Arthur. Director: George<br />
Sherman. Original: Harold Lamb. Screenplay; Gerald<br />
Drayson Adams.<br />
• In 1220 Genghis Khan and his hordes sweep<br />
westword across Asia to capture Somcrkcnd, gateway<br />
to Persia. They meet opposition from the<br />
city's princess, Ann BIyth, and a group of English<br />
crusaders, led by David Farror. Through strategy<br />
and hand-to-hand combat the invaders are<br />
repulsed. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE GREAT COMPANIONS (Drama). Stars: Don<br />
Oailey (incomplete). Producer: Albert J. Cohen.<br />
Director: Douglos Sirk. Original: Gene Morkey.<br />
Screenplay: Martin Berkeley.<br />
• A medicine man befriends an orphan boy in<br />
Michigan in 1904.<br />
THE HAIR-TRIGGER KID (Historicol Western). Stars:<br />
Audie Murphy (incomplete). Producer: Albert J.<br />
Cohn. Director: Not set. Original: Mox Brond,<br />
Screenplay: Louis Stevens.<br />
• A story of Texas just after the Civil Wor, this<br />
IS sloted for photography in Technicolor.<br />
HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL? (Comedy). Stars:<br />
Charles Coburn, Piper Laurie, Gigi Perreau. Producer:<br />
Ted Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk.<br />
Origtnat Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman.<br />
• Multimillionaire Chorles Coburn wilts the bulk<br />
of his fortune to a family in an obscure Vermont<br />
village, then— posing as a starving artist—goes to<br />
live with them to view the effects of this sudden<br />
wealth. Coburn gets them out of one scrape after<br />
onother before they come to their senses. Filmed<br />
in Technicolor.<br />
HEAR NO EVIL (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Jon<br />
Sterling, Mono Freeman. Producer: Leonard Goldstem.<br />
Director: Joseph Pevney. Original Screenplay:<br />
Bernord Gordon.<br />
• Tony Curtis, although deaf and dumb, is o<br />
natural welterweight boxer. Under the guidance<br />
of Walloce Ford he moves toword the championship,<br />
and Mono Freemen, o magazine writer, orranges<br />
for on operation to restore his hearing.<br />
Tony goes on to win the championship and ditches<br />
gold-digging Jon Sterling for Mono.<br />
HERE COME THE NELSONS (Comedy-Drama). Stars:<br />
Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Rock Hudson. Producer:<br />
Aoron Rosenberg. Director: Frederick de<br />
Cordova. Original Screenplay: Ozzie Nelson, Don<br />
Nelson, Bill Davenport.<br />
• When Borbara Lawrence visits Ozzie and Harriet<br />
Nelson she has not quite gotten over a<br />
schoolgirl crush on Ozzie, much to Harriet's<br />
chagrin. Rock Hudson moves in, causing Ozzie such<br />
discomfiture he neglects his job, and the children,<br />
David and Rickey, get involved with gangsters;<br />
but peace and prosperity eventually come back to<br />
the household.<br />
IT GROWS ON TREES (Comedy). Stars: Irene Dunne,<br />
Dean Jogger. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director:<br />
Arthur Lubin. Original Screenplay: Leonard<br />
Proskins, Borney Slater.<br />
• In which Irene Dunne portrays a mystified<br />
housewife whose two garden trees begin to produce<br />
crops of $5 and $10 bills.<br />
THE LADY FROM TEXAS (Comedy-Drama). Stars:<br />
Josephine Hull, Howard Duff, Mono Freeman. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Joseph Pevney.<br />
Original: Harold Shumate. Screenplay: Gerald<br />
Drayson Adorns, Connie Lee Bennett.<br />
• Howard Duff, o carefree cowboy, gives up his<br />
roaming ways to help on eccentric old lady, Josephine<br />
Hull, who owns o rundown ranch. In an<br />
effort to seize her property, the villoins try to<br />
hove her declared insane, but Duff and Mono<br />
Freeman thwart the plot. Filmed in Technicolor,<br />
THE LADY PAYS OFF (Comedy Drama). Stars; Linda<br />
Darnell, Stephen McNolly, Gigi Perreau. Producer:<br />
Albert J. Cohen. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original<br />
Screenplay: Albert J. Cohen, Frank Gill jr.<br />
• Linda Darnell, a school teacher hailed as America's<br />
ideal "mother away from home," innocently<br />
becomes involved with a Reno gambling casino,<br />
loses $7,000 and has to earn the money by trying<br />
to rehabilitate the gambler's unhappy and motherless<br />
little doughter.<br />
LOST IN ALASKA (Comedy). Stors: Bud Abbott, Lou<br />
Costollo, Mi*zi Green. Producer; Howard Christie.<br />
Director: Jeon Yorbrough. Original Screenplay:<br />
Leonard Stern, Martin Rogaway.<br />
• A comedy of Alaska during the gold rush days,<br />
with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cast os prospectors<br />
and Dcnise Dorcel as a saloon entertomer.<br />
MA AND PA KETTLE AT THE FAIR (Comedy) Stors:<br />
Mar)orio Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson. Producer:<br />
Lconord Goldstein. Director: Charles Barton.<br />
Original Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• Their doughter wants to go to college, so Ma<br />
Kettle (Marioric Mom) enters a cooking contest ot<br />
the county fair, hoping to bag the prize money.<br />
At the some time Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride)<br />
ocquires o broken-down trotting horse. After mony<br />
complications they are successful in acquiring the<br />
necessary funds.<br />
MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI (Comedy)<br />
Stors:<br />
Marjoric Mam, Percy Kilbndo (incomplete). Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lee Sholem.<br />
• In which the Kettles continue their trovels with<br />
o junket to the land of the ukulele and gross skirt.<br />
MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO PARIS (Comedy).<br />
Stars:<br />
Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Roy Collins. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director Charles Lomont.<br />
Original Screenploy: Jock Henley, Elwood Ullmon.<br />
• Gifted with plone tickets to Pons, Mo and Po<br />
Kettle (Marjorie Mom end Percy Kilbride) run<br />
afoul of an international spy ring when Pa attempts<br />
to deliver some important papers which a passenger<br />
oboord the plane gave him to hold for him.<br />
With the oid of Mo and the secret service the<br />
spies ore captured.<br />
MEET DANNY WILSON (Dromo With Music). Stars:<br />
Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Joseph Pevney.<br />
Original Screenplay: Don McGuire.<br />
• Under the guidance of Alex Nicol, his accompanist<br />
and manager, Frank Sinatra skyrockets to<br />
fame as a night club, radio and screen star. His<br />
heodstrong ways involve Sinatra with gongsters, but<br />
he finally comes to his senses after Nicol is seriously<br />
wounded by a gang leader.<br />
MY TRUE LOVE (Romantic comedy). Stars: Tony<br />
Curtis, Piper Laurie (incomplete). Producer: Ted<br />
Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: Darwin<br />
Teilhet. Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman.<br />
• Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie elope to Los<br />
Vegas, over the objections of Piper's mother, but<br />
complications set in when Tony has to leave for<br />
Korea with his army unit.<br />
THE RAGING TIDE (Drama). Stars: Richard Conte,<br />
Shelley Winters, Stephen McNolly. Producer; Aaron<br />
Rosenberg. Director: George Sherman. Original:<br />
Ernest K. Gonn. Screenplay: Ernest K. Gonn.<br />
• Richard Conte murders a competitive racketeer<br />
and escapes to sea in Charles Bickford's fishing<br />
boat. A detective, Stephen McNolly, is on his<br />
trail, and Conte entrusts Bickford's son, Alex Nicol,<br />
with his money matters ond his girl. Nicol doublecrosses<br />
Conte, who has become o changed man and<br />
gives his life to rescue Nicol from death.<br />
RED BALL EXPRESS (War Drama). Stars: Jeff Chandler,<br />
Susan Cabot, Alex Nicol. Producer: Aaron<br />
Rosenberg. Director: Bud Boetticher. Original: Marcel<br />
Klouber, Bill Grady jr. Screenplay: Richard<br />
Tregoskis, John Hoyes.<br />
• This glorifies the motor transport corps, which<br />
drove huge, highly-explosive gasoline and oil trucks<br />
during the Normondy invasion in World War II and<br />
helped spark Generol Potton's drive into Germony.<br />
SCARLET ANGEL (Costume Drama). Stars: Yvonne<br />
DeCorlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Sidney Salkow.<br />
Originol Screenplay: Oscar Brooney.<br />
• At the close of the Civil War, Yvonne DeCorlo,<br />
a saloon girl on the lam from the law, meets Rock<br />
Hudson, a merchont ship captain, and assumes<br />
the identity of a deod war widow to escape pursuit.<br />
She becomes involved with the widow's infant<br />
son ond wealthy parents, but abandons the masquerode<br />
to marry Rock.<br />
THE SECRET OF SALLY O'MALLEY (Drama. Stors:<br />
Ann BIyth, (incomplete). Producer: Leonord Goldstein.<br />
Director: Rudolph Mate. Originol Screenplay:<br />
Jomes O'Hanlon.<br />
• This story of faith and devotion has a religious<br />
motif.<br />
SON OF ALI SABA fCostume Dramo). Stars: Ton/<br />
Curtis, Piper Loune, Suson Cabot. Producer: Leon<br />
ord Goldstein. Director: Kurt Ncumonn. Originol;<br />
Ed Eorl Repp. Screenploy: Ceroid Drayson Adams<br />
• Victor Jory kidnops and imprisons Piper Louno<br />
and her mother, Kotherinc Warren. Seeing o mcon^<br />
of oppropriatmg the wealth of Ah Babo (Morn-,<br />
Ankrum) he puts the blame on him. But the bold<br />
strategy of Tony Curtis, Ali's son, rescues the victims<br />
and poves the way for romonce. Filmed in<br />
Technicolor.<br />
STEEL TOWN (Romantic Dromo). Stars: John Lund,<br />
Ann Sheridon, Howard Duff. Producer: Leonard<br />
Goldstein. Director: George Shermon. Original:<br />
Gerald Droyson Adams. Screenploy: Lou Breslow.<br />
• Cocky John Lund, heir to the steel corporotion<br />
owned by his uncle, decides to leorn the business<br />
from the ground up. In doing so he incurs the<br />
enmity of Howard Duff, a steelworker in love with<br />
Ann Sheridan; wins Ann's love, and eventually<br />
proves himself to be a right guy. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
THE STRANGE DOOR (Costume Dromo). Stars: Charlc<br />
Laughton, Boris Korloff, Sally Forrest. Producer<br />
Ted Richmond. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay; Jerry Sackheim<br />
• For having morned the woman desired by crazed<br />
Charles Loughton, Paul Cavonogh, his brother, is<br />
imprisoned. Twenty years later Laughton tries to<br />
morry Cavonogh's daughter, Solly Forrest, to Richard<br />
Stopley, o supposedly drunken knave. When<br />
the two fall in love Laughton imprisons them also,<br />
and is finally killed by Boris Korloff, a holf-witted<br />
servant.<br />
THE TREASURE OF LOST CANYON (Dromo). Stars:<br />
Williom Powell, Julia Adams, Rosemary DeComp.<br />
Producer: Leonord Goldstein. Director: Ted Tetzloff.<br />
Story: Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay:<br />
Broinerd Duffield, Emerson Crocker.<br />
• Done out of a fortune by Henry Hull, Tommy<br />
Ivo, at the age of 10, finds refuge with William<br />
Powell and his kindly wife, Rosemary DeCamp.<br />
But Hull catches up with him ond has him sent<br />
away. Tommy turns up ogoin in time to pull Powell<br />
out of a hole, and becomes a permonent member<br />
of the household. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
UNTAMED (Western). Stars: Joseph Gotten, Shelley<br />
Winters, Scott Brady. Producer; Leonard Goldstein.<br />
Director: Hugo Fregonese. Onginol: Houston<br />
Branch, Eugenio Night. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This Technicolor western concerns two powerful<br />
individualists who clash in a struggle for control of<br />
o vast ranching empire.<br />
WEEKEND WITH FATHER [Comedy). Stars: Van<br />
Heflin, Patricio Neal, Gigi Perreau. Producer: Ted<br />
Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: James<br />
Edward Grant, Thomas Russell. Screenplay: Joseph<br />
Hoffmon.<br />
• Patricia Neol, a widow, and Van Heflin, a<br />
widower, visit o summer camp to reconcile their<br />
respective offspring to their proposed morriage.<br />
Both sets of children hove individualist ideas obout<br />
selecting adopted parents, but after a series of complicotions<br />
and fiascos the moppets permit their<br />
parents to do theif own choosing.<br />
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (Costume Dromo). Stors:<br />
Gregory Peck, Ann BIyth, Anthony Quinn. Producer:<br />
Aaron Rosenberg. Director; Rooul Walsh.<br />
Original: Rex Beach. Screenploy; Borden Chose.<br />
• In the 1850s, Gregory Peck, owner of o sealing<br />
boat, falls in love with Ann BIyth, Russian<br />
noblewoman fleeing a prince whom she does not<br />
wont to morry. Peck and his crew ore captured<br />
by the Russians, but escape in time to rescue Ann<br />
from a wedding to the prince. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Comedy Fontosy). Stors:<br />
Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake. Producer:<br />
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lou Breslow. Originol:<br />
Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Lou Breslow, Dovid Chondler.<br />
• King, a German shepherd dog, inherits a fortune<br />
and Peggy Dow is named his coretaker.<br />
Charles Droke secretly poisons King in order to<br />
gain control of the fortune, but the dog comes<br />
bock to earth— in the form of a humon detective,<br />
Dick Powell—and exposes Drake's criminal machinations.<br />
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ABOUT FACE (Musical Comedy). Stars: Eddie Bracken,<br />
Gordon MocRoe, Aileen Stanley. Producer: Williom<br />
Jacobs. Director: Roy Del Ruth. Onginol: John<br />
Monks jr., Fred Finklehoffe. Screenplay: Peter<br />
Milne.<br />
• In violation of the rules, Eddie Bracken, a cadet<br />
at Southern Military Institute, is married—and<br />
dozed to learn he's soon to be a father. His classmates<br />
roily around to keep the secret from leaking<br />
out; after numerous intrigues and threats of<br />
expulsion Bracken monoges to graduate. Filmed<br />
in Technicolor.<br />
ALEXANDER, THE BIG LEAGUER (Sports Drama).<br />
Stars: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy.<br />
Producer; Bryan Foy. Director: Not set. Original:<br />
Seelig Lester, Merwin Gerard. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• A biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander, one<br />
of boseball's pitching immortols.<br />
APRIL IN PARIS (Musicol Comedy). Stars: Doris Day<br />
(incomplete). Producers: William Jacobs, Sammy<br />
Cohn. Director: David Butler. Original; Norman<br />
Krasna. Screenplay: William S. Roberts, Mel Shorelson,<br />
Jock Rose.<br />
• A new version of "Princess O'Rourke," the romantic<br />
comedy filmed several seasons ago by this<br />
company.<br />
THE BIG TREES (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas,<br />
Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan. Producer;<br />
Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Felix Feist. Original<br />
Screenplay: Jomes Webb.<br />
• In the early 1900s Kirk Douglas, an unscrupulous<br />
logging operator, covets rich redwood timberlands<br />
in northern California, but his plans to steal<br />
the lond from settlers go awry when he learns to<br />
respect them for their industry and religious beliefs.<br />
Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
BLOWING WILD (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer:<br />
Milton Sperling (United States Pictures). Director:<br />
Not set. Original: John Twist. Screenplay: James<br />
Idward Grant.<br />
• Action drama with on oil fields background.<br />
BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON (Historical Western).<br />
Stars: Roy Millond, Helena Corter, Forrest Tucker.<br />
Producer: William Cogney. Director: Roy Rowland.<br />
Onginol: Ernest Hoycox. Screenplay; Horry Brown.<br />
• Here is another film version of the battle of<br />
the Little Big Horn, with Roy Millond cast as a<br />
covolry sergeant who, olthough not with Custer's<br />
forces, Is on eye-witness to the massacre. Millond<br />
enlists in a successful effort to cleor his nome of<br />
a wrongful charge. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
CARSON CITY (Historical Western). Stars: Randolph<br />
Scott, Lucille Normon, Raymond Mossey, Producer:<br />
David Weisbart. Director: Andre de Toth.<br />
Original Screenplay: Sloan Nibley, Winston Miller.<br />
• Randolph Scott is hired by a Son Francisco<br />
banker to construct a railroad to hondle gold and<br />
silver shipments from the Comstock Lode because<br />
of frequent stagecoach robberies. Scott succeeds<br />
offer overcoming bitter opposition by the holdup<br />
gong, headed by Roymond Mossey, supposedly respectable<br />
mine owner.<br />
CLOSE TO MY HEART (Drama). Stors: Gene Tierney,<br />
Roy Millond, Foy Bointer. Producer: William Jacobs.<br />
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Director: Williom KeJghley, Original: James Webb,<br />
Screenplay: Frank Davis.<br />
• Unoble to have o boby of her own. Gene Tirney<br />
decides to adopt a foundling, but her husband, Ray<br />
Milland, is dubious obout the baby's heritage. He<br />
discovers the child's mother is deod and the father<br />
is a cnminol about to be executed. Convinced there<br />
IS no inherent weakness in the child, he arranges<br />
for the odoption to go through.<br />
COME FILL THE CUP (Oromo). Stars: James Cagney,<br />
Phyllis Thoxter, Gig Young. Producer: Henry Blanke.<br />
Director: Gordon Douglos. Original: Harlan Ware.<br />
Screenploy: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts.<br />
• Newspaperman Jomes Cagney, o rehabilitated<br />
alcoholic, is given the ossignment of trying to<br />
straighten out his publisher's nephew, Gig Young,<br />
o drunk who is married to Cagney's former girl<br />
friend. Cagney successfully accomplishes the mission<br />
end reunites Young with his wife, who has<br />
left him in disgust.<br />
THE CRIMSON PIRATE (Costume Droma). Stars: Burt<br />
Loncaster, Torin Thatcher, Nick Cravat. Producer:<br />
Harold Hecht (Norma Productions). Director; Robert<br />
Siodmok. Originol Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• Burt Lancaster stars as a swashbuckling buccaneer<br />
in this Technicolor subject, filmed on location<br />
in Italy and England.<br />
DISTANT DRUMS (Historicol Dramo). Stors: Gary<br />
Cooper, Man Aldon, Richard Webb. Producer;<br />
Milton Sperling. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original:<br />
Don Totheroh. Screenplay: Martin Rackin, Niven<br />
Busch.<br />
• The Seminole Indian war in Florido has been<br />
raging for seven years when, in 1840, a daring<br />
operation to end the conflict is initiated. Gory<br />
Cooper, deadly swamp fighter, and a picked crew<br />
lead the redskins into a trap where they are captured<br />
by an army brigode. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />
FOUR CHAPLAINS (Drama). Stars; Not set. Producer;<br />
Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Gordon Douglos. Originol:<br />
Daniel Poling. Screenplay: Seymour Gomberg.<br />
• Concerns four heroic navy chaplains who gave<br />
their lives in the South Pacific in World War II.<br />
GETTING MOTHER MARRIED (Comedy). Stars: Not<br />
set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Not set.<br />
Original: Mildred S. Topp. Screenplay: Devery<br />
Freeman, Robert Riley Crutcher.<br />
• Concerns the experience of a woman photog-<br />
ropher in a small southern town early in the<br />
century.<br />
THE GRACE MOORE STORY (Droma With Music).<br />
Stars: Not set. Producer:: Henry Blanke. Director:<br />
Not set. Original Screenplay: John Monks jr.<br />
• A biography of the singing star, from her childhood<br />
in Tennessee to success in night clubs, musical<br />
comedy, motion pictures and the Metropolitan<br />
Opera.<br />
THE HELEN MORGAN STORY (Drama With Music).<br />
Stars: Doris Day (incomplete). Producer: Robert<br />
Arthur. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay:<br />
Dean Reisner, Lou Breslow.<br />
• A biography of the noted torch singer and<br />
cabaret entertainer.<br />
HERE COME THE GIRLS (Comedy With Music). Stars:<br />
Not set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: H.<br />
Bruce Humberstone. Original Screenplay: Francis<br />
Swann, Leonard Proskins.<br />
• Two actresses entertain GIs in the Philippines<br />
offer World War II.<br />
I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Musical). Stars: Doris<br />
Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy. Producer:<br />
Louis F. Edelman, Director: Michael Curtiz. Original<br />
Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This costs Danny Thomas as Gus Kahn in a<br />
film biography of the songwriter. He marries Doris<br />
Day, employed by a music publishing firm, who<br />
guides him to success in his field. The market crash<br />
of 1 929 wipes him out, but with Dons to give<br />
him courage and inspiration he again hits his<br />
stride in Hollywood.<br />
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (Comedy Fantasy). Stars:<br />
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Boer. Producer:<br />
Alex Gottlieb. Director: J eon Yorbrough. Original:<br />
Fairy tale. Screenplay: Not set.<br />
• This fantasy in Supercinecolor costs Lou Costello<br />
as "Jack" of the Mother Goose tale.<br />
THE JAZZ SINGER (Drama With Music). Stars; Danny<br />
Thomas (incomplete). Producer: Louis F. Edelman.<br />
Director: Michael Curttz. Original Screenplay: Lewis<br />
Meltzer.<br />
• This is a new version of the film which, in 1927,<br />
starred the late Al Jolson ond demonstrated the<br />
commercial practicability of talking pictures.<br />
THE LION AND THE HORSE (Outdoor Drama). Stars;<br />
Steve Cochron, Roy Teal, Bob Steele. Producer:<br />
Bryan Foy Director: Louis King. Original Screenplay:<br />
Crane Wilbur.<br />
• Steve Cochran coptures a magnificent wild stallion<br />
which is later sold for use in rodeos. Subsequently<br />
Cochran regains possession of the animal,<br />
breaks it ond uses it in ranch work. An<br />
escaped circus lion terrorizes the community, but<br />
in o fierce battle the stallion kills it. Filmed in<br />
color.<br />
A LION IS IN THE STREETS (Drama), Stars: James<br />
Cagney (incomplete). Producer: William Cagney.<br />
Director: Not set. Original: Adria Locke Langley.<br />
Screenplay; Charles Bennett.<br />
• A one-time peddler rises to the position of<br />
governor of the mythical state of Magnolia through<br />
the use of slogans ond tricks. His wife, like others,<br />
IS foscinated by his rise but not forever blind<br />
to the faults which eventually result in his downfoll.<br />
MAN WITH A GUN (Costume Drama). Stars: Rondolph<br />
Scott, Patrice Wymore, Philip Carey. Producer:<br />
Robert Sisk. Director: Felix Feist. Originol:<br />
Robert Buckner. Screenplay: John Twist.<br />
• This historical drama has eorly-day Los Angeles<br />
OS its background.<br />
MARA MARU (Drama). Stars: Errol Flynn, Ruth<br />
Roman, Paul Picerni. Producer: David Weisbort.<br />
Director: Gordon Douglas. Original: Philip Yordon,<br />
Sidney Harmon, Hollister Noble. Screenplay: Ivan<br />
Goff, Ben Roberts, Richard Nash.<br />
« With a Philippine Islonds background, this concerns<br />
the adventures of a group of men who endeavor<br />
to recover a treasure lost at sea aboard<br />
a PT boot which was sunk while attempting to<br />
escape thot area during World War II.<br />
THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA (Religious<br />
Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Bryan Foy.<br />
Director: Jonn Brahm. Original Screenplay: Crone<br />
Wilbur, James O'Hanlon.<br />
• Based on miracles reported in the village of<br />
Fotimo, Portugol, where in 1917 three shepherd<br />
children claimed the Virgin Mary appeared before<br />
them and prophesied the coming of World War II<br />
and the spread of Communism. A surviving child,<br />
now a cloistered nun, wrote down a third prophecy<br />
which is not to be disclosed until 1960.<br />
MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND (Musical). Stars: Jo<br />
Stafford, Dennis Morgon. Producer: Howord Welsch<br />
(Fidelity Pictures), Director; Not set Original:<br />
Alan Campbell, Hunt Stromberg jr. Screenplay;<br />
Dorothy Parker, Jerome Chodorov.<br />
• This tunefilm, one of a multiple-picture commitment<br />
between Fidelity Pictures and this company,<br />
will be lensed in Technicolor. It stars Jo<br />
Stafford, radio and resording vocalist.<br />
PAWNEE BILL (Historical Western). Stars: Not set.<br />
Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Not set. Original<br />
Screenplay; John Twist.<br />
• In Technicolor, this highlights the career of<br />
Pawnee Bill, the Indian fighter ond scout, who was<br />
born Gordon Lillie in Illinois.<br />
RETREAT, HELL! (Drama). Stars; Frank Lovefoy, Anito<br />
Louise, Richord Carlson. Producer: Milton Sperling<br />
(United States Pictures). Director; Joseph Lewis.<br />
Original Screenplay: Martin Rackin, Ted Sherdeman.<br />
• A story of the Korean war, this deols principally<br />
with the heroic First Morine Division and<br />
its bitterly-fought retreat from the Chongjin reservoir,<br />
during which the division commander declared;<br />
"Retreot, hetl! We're just advancing in another<br />
direction"<br />
ROOM FOR ONE MORE (Drama). Stars: Cory Grant,<br />
Betsy Drake, Ins Mann. Producer; Henry Blanke.<br />
Di rector: Norman Taurog. Original; Anno Perrott<br />
Rose. Screenplay: Mel Shovelson, Jock Rose.<br />
• Alreody the parents of three healthy, uninhibited<br />
youngsters, Cory Grant and Betsy Droke adopt another<br />
girl and o crippled boy, although over Grant's<br />
protests. But the realization that he has a family<br />
that loves and honors him convinces Grant that<br />
the ideo is worthwhile, even though it ties him down,<br />
THE SAN FRANCISCO STORY (Droma). Stars: Joel<br />
McCreo, Yvonne DeCorlo, Sidney Blockmer. Producer:<br />
Howard Welsch (Fidelity Pictures). Director;<br />
Robert Parrish. Original; Richard Summers. Screenploy:<br />
Harold Shumate.<br />
• A tale of Son Francisco at the turn of the<br />
century, this is adopted from "Vigilante," a novel<br />
by Richard Summers.<br />
THE SEA CHASE (Action Dramo) Stars: John Wayne<br />
(incomplete). Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Not<br />
set. Original: Andrew Geer. Screenplay: James<br />
Warner Belloh.<br />
• This moritime adventure drama, to star John<br />
Wayne, is from a novel by Andrew Geer.<br />
SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE<br />
(Musicol Comedy). Stars; Virginio Moyo, Ronald<br />
Reagan, Gene Nelson. Producer: Louis F. Edelman.<br />
Director: Bruce Humberstone. Original; Irving Woltace,<br />
Screenploy: I. A. L. Diamond, Mac Benoff.<br />
• Virginia Moyo earns her way through college<br />
by working—unbeknownst to the educational institution—OS<br />
o burlesque queen.<br />
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (Historical Western). Stars: Not<br />
set. Producer; Louis F. Edelman. Director: Not<br />
set. Original Screenplay: Sloon Nibley, Charles<br />
Marquis Warren.<br />
• Deals with the pioneers who pushed the American<br />
frontier westward, and the importont part<br />
played in their lives by the Springfield rifle.<br />
STARLIFT (Musical). Stors: Doris Day, Ruth Roman,<br />
Dick Wesson. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director:<br />
Roy Del Ruth. Original Screenplay: John Klorer,<br />
Karl Komb.<br />
• This is Q fictionalized version of the trips mode<br />
by Hollywood players to the Travis oir base ot<br />
Fairfield, Colif ., to entertain troops being shipped<br />
to Korea and the wounded Gl's returning from the<br />
bottlefront. The trips hove been dubbed "Operation<br />
Storlift."<br />
STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME (Comedy With Music).<br />
Stars, not set. Producer: Louis F. Edelman. Director,<br />
Roy Del Ruth. Originol Screenplay; Henry<br />
Gorson,<br />
• This is a mystery comedy with musical interludes.<br />
THE STORY OF EDDIE CANTOR (Drama With Music).<br />
Stars: Not set. Producer; Sidney Skolsky. Director;<br />
Not set- Original: Sidney Skolsky. Screenplay: Ted<br />
Sherdemon.<br />
• The career of one of the greats of show business<br />
will come to the screen in this biography of Eddie<br />
Cantor, who has been successful in every entertainment<br />
medium—the stage, motion pictures, radio,<br />
ond television,<br />
THE TANKS ARE COMING (War Drama). Stars: Steve<br />
Cochran, Philip Corey, Paul Picerni, Producer:<br />
Bryan Foy, Director: Lewis Seiler. Original: Joseph<br />
I, Breen jr. Screenplay; Samuel Fuller.<br />
• The U.S. third armored division begins its big<br />
push into Nozi-dominoted Europe in July, 1944,<br />
reoches Mons in September ond there fights o<br />
battle against German convoys which changes the<br />
c;urse of World Wor II. This is the story of one<br />
tank plotoon and how it does its port m smashing<br />
the vounted Siegfried line.<br />
TARGET ZERO (Drama). Stars; Not set. Producer;<br />
Robert Sisk, Director: Not set Original Screenplay:<br />
James Warner Belloh.<br />
• A story of the Korean war, this has o woman<br />
correspondent as its pnncipol character.<br />
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS (Drama) Stars: Joan<br />
Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian. Producer:<br />
Robert Sisk, Director: Felix Feist. Original: Bernard<br />
Girord. Screenplay; Karl Komb, Don Moinworing,<br />
George W. Yates, Ted Sherdeman.<br />
• Joan Crawford, leader of o holdup gong, falls<br />
in love with Dennis Morgan, on eye specialist, after<br />
he operates to save her failing eyesight. Her<br />
leolous boy friend, David Brian, sets out to trail<br />
and kill Morgan, but is captured by the low os<br />
Joan, wounded, faces o joil term, knowing Morgan<br />
will wait for her.<br />
WHERE'S CHARLEY? (Comedy With Music). Stars:<br />
Ray Bolger, Allyn McLerie. Producer; Not set. Director;<br />
David Butler, Original: Brandon Thomas,<br />
George Abbott. Screenplay: John Monks jr.<br />
• Film version of the stage musical, on adaptation<br />
of the perennial force, "Charley's Aunt," this was<br />
produced in England<br />
THE WILL ROGERS STORY (Drama). Stars: Will Rogers<br />
jr., Jane Wymon (incomplete). Producer: Robert<br />
Arthur. Director; Michael Curtiz, Original Screenplay:<br />
Frank Davis.<br />
• Biography of the one-time cowboy who become<br />
Q Ziegfeld Follies star, screen celebrity and one of<br />
America's most beloved humorists. In Technicolor.<br />
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Essential Data on 1950-51 Releases FEATURE<br />
INDEK<br />
AstOT<br />
Holy Year at the Vatican, The<br />
(66> Oct. 1. '50<br />
Documentary. Preface narrated by Kenny<br />
Delmar. Shows everyday scenes and procedures<br />
in the Vatican, and the Pope receiving<br />
a group of Holy Year pilgrims.<br />
Commentary by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen.<br />
(March of Time.)<br />
Border Fence... (59) Sept. 15<br />
Western. Young rancher serves a term for<br />
his rustler friend. Later when he gives the<br />
friend employment he is betrayed and<br />
further crimes falsely laid at his door. Walt<br />
Wayne, Lee Morgan, Mary Nord, Steve<br />
Raines, Henry Garcia. Directors: Norman<br />
Sheldo, H. W. Kier.<br />
(REISSUES)<br />
Bridge of San Luis Key, The (110). ..Apr. 15<br />
Drama. Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis<br />
Lederer, Nazimova.<br />
Captain Boycott (93) Oct. 1<br />
Drama. Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan,<br />
Robert Donat, Cecil Parker.<br />
Dark Waters.... (93) Jan. 15<br />
Mystery Drama. Merle<br />
Tone, Thomas Mitciiell.<br />
Oberon, Franchot<br />
Follow the Leader. (67) Nov, 1, '50<br />
Melodrama. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel<br />
Dell, BUly Benedict, Joan Marsh.<br />
Great John L., The (96) Aug. 1<br />
Drama. Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton,<br />
Greg McClure.<br />
HiUbilly Blitzkrieg (67) Oct. 1<br />
Comedy. Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy.<br />
India Speaks. ...(70) May 1<br />
Travelog. Richard Halliburton, narrator.<br />
Kit Carson... (97) Aug. 1<br />
Outdoor Melodrama. Dana Andrews, Lynn<br />
Bari, Jon Hall.<br />
Last of the Mohicans, The. (96) Aug.!<br />
Historical Drama. Randolph Scott, Binnie<br />
Barnes, Bruce Cabot.<br />
Lucky the Outcast (formerly "A Boy, A<br />
Girl and a Dog") ...(75) Aug. 15<br />
Comedy Drama. Jerry Hunter, Sharyn<br />
Moffett, Harry Davenport, Lionel Stander.<br />
(A W. R. Frank Production.)<br />
Million Dollar Kid... (67) Nov. 1, '50<br />
Melodrama. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel<br />
DeU, BUly Benedict.<br />
Mr. Ace... (85) June 15<br />
Melodrama. George Raft, Sylvia Sidney.<br />
Private Snuffy Smith. (67) Oct. 1<br />
Comedy. Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy,<br />
Sarah Padden.<br />
Sinners Holiday... (93) Feb. 15<br />
Drama. George Raft. Randolph Scott.<br />
©Smugglers, The. (86) Oct. 1<br />
Technicolor Drama. Michael Redgrave.<br />
Jean Kent. Richard Attenborough, Joan<br />
Greenwood.<br />
Explanatory<br />
Statistical and summary data<br />
on feature releases arranged alphabetically<br />
under company headings.<br />
PRODUCTION NUMBER follows<br />
title.<br />
RUNNING TIME in parentheses.<br />
RELEASE DATE at end of title<br />
line is 1951 unless otherwise stated.<br />
TYPE of picture and color indicated<br />
in boldface.<br />
STAR and DIRECTOR credits<br />
conclude each summary.<br />
REISSUES ore listed separately<br />
under each company heading.<br />
Symbol « indicates BOXOFHCE<br />
Blue Ribbon Award Winner.<br />
Symbol ® indicates color photography.<br />
Columbia<br />
(August, 1950 through October, 1951)<br />
©Al Jennings of Oklahoma....327....(79) Mar.<br />
Technicolor Western. Screen version of<br />
autobiography of Al Jennings, Oklahoma<br />
outlaw, who served time, was paroled and<br />
returned to hi-s home state to become a<br />
successful lawyer. Dan Duryea, Gale<br />
Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry, Guinn<br />
"Big Boy" Williams. Director: Ray Nazarro.<br />
Between Midnight and Dawn.. ..328<br />
(89) , Oct. '50<br />
Melodrama. Police prowl car team balks<br />
juvenile delinquents in attempted robbery<br />
and has run-in with killer who later goes<br />
gunning for them. Mark Stevens, Edmond<br />
O'Brien, Gale Storm. Director: Gordon<br />
Douglas.<br />
Big Gusher, The. .306. ..(68) „ July<br />
Action Drama. Two oil workers on a drinking<br />
spree buy an oil lease believed to be<br />
worthless. To their surprise they discover<br />
oil and become rich men. Wayne Morris,<br />
Preston Foster, Dorothy Patrick, Paul E.<br />
Burns. Director: Lew Landers.<br />
Blazing Sun, The. .246.... (70) _ Nov. '50<br />
Sepiatone Western. Hero trails two bandits,<br />
one of whom kills the other. In a battle<br />
on top of a train the remaining bandit<br />
is taken. Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne<br />
Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Alan Hale jr. Director:<br />
John English. (1949-50.)<br />
Bonanza Town. .367 (56) July<br />
Western. A criminal, believed dead, is hiding<br />
out and leading a robber gang. A<br />
government agent and his pal are watching<br />
him and catch the gang after they commit<br />
a murder. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette.<br />
Luther Crockett, Fred F. Sears. Director:<br />
Fred F. Sears.<br />
Born Yesterday. .344.... (103) Feb.<br />
Comedy. Wealthy, crooked junk dealer decides<br />
to give beautiful but uneducated blond<br />
girl friend an intellectual poUsh. He hires<br />
newswriter for the job but the two combine<br />
against him. Judy Holliday, Broderick<br />
Crawford, William Holden. Director:<br />
George Cukor.<br />
Brave Bulls, The... 321... (108) May<br />
Drama. After the death of his mistress<br />
and his manager In an accident, a bullfighter<br />
loses his courage. He sees his<br />
brother, a young beginner, injured and regains<br />
his old skill and bravery. Mel Ferrer,<br />
Miroslava, Anthony Quinn, Eugene Iglesias.<br />
Director: Robert Rossen.<br />
Chain Gang... 313 (70) Nov. '50<br />
Melodrama. Masquerading as a guard, reporter<br />
exposes revolting chain gang conditions<br />
and those who profit from the use<br />
of such labor. Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie<br />
Lord, Emory Parnell, William "Bill" Phillips.<br />
Director: Lew Landers.<br />
Chain of Circumstance. .309. ...(68) Aug.<br />
Melodrama. Couple who adopted a baby<br />
loses it when the husband is innocently<br />
involved in a jewel theft. They are able<br />
to prove he is not guilty and regain the<br />
child. Richard Grayson, Margaret Field.<br />
Marta Mitrovich, Harold J. Kennedy. Director:<br />
Will Jason.<br />
China Corsair .316... (67) June<br />
Action Drama. Chinese pirate queen pursues<br />
and captures the murderer of her<br />
uncle who has stolen the family treasures.<br />
The loot is saved by a seaman but the<br />
girl loses her life. Jon Hall, Lisa Ferraday,<br />
Ron Randell, Douglas Kennedy. Director:<br />
Ray Nazarro.<br />
Convicted. .324.... (91) _ Aug. "50<br />
Melodrama. Man, sent to prison for an accidental<br />
murder, is gradually ground into<br />
a hardened termer. After witnessing a<br />
murder he is trapped between the convict's<br />
code and the code of the law. Glenn<br />
Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell,<br />
Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Frank<br />
Faylen, Will Geer. Director: Henry Levin.<br />
Corky of Gasoline Alley ...302. ..(70) Sept.<br />
Comedy. Sequel to the first picture based<br />
on the comic strip. Black sheep cousin of<br />
Corky's wife complicates things for the<br />
whole family, practically wrecking the restaurant<br />
and the fix-it shop. The boys<br />
finally get rid of him. Jimmy Lydon,<br />
Scotty Beckett, Patti Brady, Don Beddoe.<br />
Director: Edward Bernds.<br />
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard.. ..307<br />
(67) _ Feb.<br />
Mystery Melodrama. Scotland Yard investigator,<br />
working with America's counterspy<br />
division, discovers secrets of guided<br />
missile experiments are being divulged<br />
by secretary, under the influence of drugs,<br />
to spy posing as psychiatrist. Howard St.<br />
John, Ron Randell, Amanda Blake. Lewis<br />
Martin. Director: Seymour Friedman.<br />
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Cyclone Fury. ...368... (54) _ Aug.<br />
Western. iDurango Kid series.) Hero assists<br />
Indian boy, adopted son of a murdered<br />
rancher, to win a contract to supply<br />
horses to the army and forces the boy's<br />
competitor to confess the crime of murder.<br />
Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Fred F.<br />
Sears, Clayton Moore. Director: Ray<br />
Nazarro.<br />
Emergency Wedding .332. .(78) Nov. '50<br />
Comedy. Rich man's son marries woman<br />
doctor. His jealousy nearly wrecks the marriage<br />
but he builds hospital in which foreign<br />
doctors may get experience and they<br />
are reconciled. Larry Parks, Barbara Hale,<br />
Willard Parker, Una Merkel, Alan Reed.<br />
Director: Edward Buzzell.<br />
Five .371.... (93) „ Oct.<br />
Drama. Five people survive a worldwide<br />
atomic explosion. There is conflict among<br />
them but at the last a woman and man<br />
start out to found a new civilization. William<br />
Phipps, Susan Douglas. James Anderson.<br />
Charles Lampkin. Director: Arch<br />
Oboler.<br />
Flame of Stamboul ..314....(68) Mar.<br />
Melodrama. American girl is induced to<br />
impersonate a famous cafe dancer to protect<br />
the interests of a master criminal. She<br />
is rescued by an American agent and the<br />
Egyptian police. Richard Denning, Lisa<br />
Ferraday, Norman Lloyd. Director: Ray<br />
Nazarro.<br />
Flying Missile, The ...335... (92) Jan.<br />
Drama. Navy submarine commander engages<br />
in guided missile experiments which<br />
result in the death of one of his men. He<br />
blames himself for the mishap and develops<br />
psychotic symptoms. Glenn Ford.<br />
Viveca Lindfors, Henry O'Neill, Joseph<br />
Sawyer. Director: Henry Levin.<br />
Fort Savage Raiders. .365.... (54) Mar.<br />
Western. Army officer goes AWOL. joining<br />
a criminal gang. The hero and two<br />
friends are sent to take him into custody,<br />
which they do after a gun battle. Charles<br />
Starrett, Smiley Bm-nette, John Dehner,<br />
Trevor Bardette, Dusty Walker. Director:<br />
Ray Nazarro.<br />
FuUer Brush Girl, The .239 (85) Oct. '50<br />
Comedy. Heroine takes job with Fuller<br />
Brush Co. to finance marriage. Helterskelter<br />
adventures follow involving her in<br />
murder but she finally establishes her innocence.<br />
Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Jeff<br />
Donnell, Jerome Cowan. Director: Lloyd<br />
Bacon. (1949-50.)<br />
Fury of the Congo. ...329... (69) Apr.<br />
Jungle Drama. Smugglers, pretending to<br />
search for a missing professor lost in the<br />
jungle, force Jungle Jim and men of the<br />
Amazon tribe to lead them to a herd of<br />
sacred animals whose glands secrete a powerful,<br />
narcotic fluid. Johnny WeissmuUer,<br />
Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot.<br />
Director: William Berke.<br />
Gasoline Alley. .301 ..(77) Jan.<br />
Comedy. Based on popular comic strip<br />
characters. "Corky" surprises his family by<br />
his marriage while still in college and proceeds<br />
to set himself up in the restaurant<br />
business. Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon,<br />
Don Beddoe, Patti Brady, Madelon Mitchell.<br />
Director: Edward Bernds.<br />
Gene Autry and the Mounties....35I.... (70)..Jan.<br />
Action Drama. Two U.S. marshals, looking<br />
for bank robbers, cross into Canada where<br />
they find a wounded Mountie. They meet<br />
the niece and nephew of one of the robbers<br />
and convert them from admiration of<br />
the outlaws. Gene Autry, Pat Buttrani,<br />
Elena Verdugo. Carleton "Voung. Director:<br />
John English.<br />
Great Manhunt, The (formerly "State<br />
Secret"). .331. ..(97)<br />
Jan.<br />
Drama. Political regime seeks to conceal<br />
death of European dictator after American<br />
doctor operates. Marked for death, he<br />
flees with showgirl, but is freed when dictator's<br />
double is assassinated. Douglas Fairbanks<br />
jr., Glynis Johns, Herbert Lom, Jack<br />
Hawkins. Director: Sidney Gilliat. (Alexander<br />
Korda.)<br />
Harriet Craig.... 323... (94) Nov. '50<br />
Drama. Selfish wife dominates and eventually<br />
sacrifices her husband and his busine.ss<br />
interests to her own fanatical devotion<br />
to her beautiful home. Joan Crawford,<br />
Wendell Corey, K. T. Stevens, AUyn Joslyn,<br />
Lucile Watson, William Bishop. Director:<br />
Vincent Sherman.<br />
Her First Romance. .358. ...(73)<br />
May<br />
Comedy. Teen-ager develops crush on popular<br />
schoolmate. At summer camp she gets<br />
into trouble trying to help him win title<br />
of camp "King." Before long she gets a<br />
new crush. Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin<br />
jr., Jimmy Hunt, Sharyn Moffett. Director:<br />
Seymour Friedman.<br />
He's a Cockeyed Wonder....340.. (77). Dec. '50<br />
Comedy. Orange sorter inherits magician's<br />
equipment and strives unsuccessfully for<br />
vaudeville career. Rehearsing in company<br />
warehouse, he and girl trap bandit gang<br />
and save orange juice payroll. Mickey<br />
Rooney, Terry Moore, William Demarest,<br />
Ross Ford. Director: Peter Godfrey.<br />
Hills of Utah....356....(70) Sept.<br />
Western. A doctor is caught in a feud between<br />
copper miners and cattlemen. He<br />
operates on the son of a mine owner. The<br />
boy dies but the doctor is cleared of blame.<br />
Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley,<br />
Donna Martell, Onslow Stevens. Director:<br />
John English.<br />
©Hurricane Island. .349.... (72)<br />
July<br />
Supercinecolor Costume Drama. This concerns<br />
the search for the fountain of youth<br />
in Florida in 1513 by Ponce de Leon and<br />
the love story of one of his captains and<br />
a beautiful lady pirate. Jon Hall, Marie<br />
Windsor, Romo Vincent, Edgar Barrier,<br />
Karen Randle. Director: Lew Landers.<br />
KiUer That Stalked New York, The<br />
(formerly "Frightened City"). ...338<br />
(79) Dec. '50<br />
Drama. A woman becomes the object of<br />
a gigantic manhunt, unaware that she is<br />
the carrier of a deadly infectious malady<br />
which threatens a city of 8,000,000 people.<br />
Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William<br />
Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright.<br />
Director: Earl McEvoy.<br />
Lady and the Bandit, The....337 ..(79)....Sept.<br />
Melodrama. Dramatic events leading to<br />
Dick Turpin's famous ride of 200 miles from<br />
London to York to protect his wife, in<br />
medieval England. Based on the well-known<br />
Alfred Noyes poem. Louis Hayward, Patricia<br />
Medina, Suzanne Dalbert. Director:<br />
Ralph Murphy.<br />
©Last of the Buccaneers... 341... (79)... Oct. '50<br />
Technicolor Melodrama. Jean Laffite wins<br />
War of 1812 for U.S. but returns to piracy.<br />
In love with niece of powerful merchant<br />
who opposes him, he overcomes many obstacles<br />
to win her. Paul Henreid, Jack<br />
Oakie, Karin Booth, Mary Anderson. Director:<br />
Lew Landers.<br />
Lightning Guns .361. ..(55) Dec. '50<br />
Western. Suspected of murder and a raid<br />
on a dam, an innocent man is rescued from<br />
a mob by the hero. He is vindicated when<br />
the real criminal is captured. Charles<br />
Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gloria Henry,<br />
Edgar Dearing, Jock O'Mahoney, Director:<br />
Fred F. Sears.<br />
©Lorna Doone,...336.... (84)<br />
June<br />
Technicolor Costume Drama. Returned soldier<br />
of the English king overcomes the<br />
outlaw Doone family which has levied high<br />
taxes on the people and saves the daughter,<br />
Lorna, from a loveless marriage. Barbara<br />
Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid,<br />
William Bishop, Ron Randell. Director:<br />
Phil Karlson.<br />
"M"....347....(88)<br />
Mar.<br />
Drama. Underworld leader seeking to make<br />
a trade with police to divert attention from<br />
his own activities, has his henchmen catch<br />
and "try" the perpetrator of a series of<br />
child murders. David Wayne, Howard<br />
da Silva, Luther Adler, Glenn Anders,<br />
Martin Gabel. Director: Joseph Losey.<br />
©Mask of the Avenger.. .359.... (83) July<br />
Technicolor Adventure Drama. In the Italy<br />
of 1848 a returned war hero masquerades<br />
as the Count of Monte Cristo to arouse<br />
the townspeople against a local tyrant. John<br />
Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance,<br />
Arnold Moss. Director: Phil Karlson.<br />
My True Story....308. .. (67) Mar.<br />
Drama. Girl jewel thief is paroled to gang<br />
who want her to steal valuable formula for<br />
a perfume base from an elderly woman.<br />
Girl reforms and helps in capture of the<br />
criminals. Helen Walker, Willard Parker,<br />
Elisabeth Risdon, Emory Parnell. Director:<br />
Mickey Rooney.<br />
Never Trust a Gambler. .326 (79) Aug.<br />
Drama. Hunted as witness to a murder,<br />
gambler hides out in the apartment of his<br />
ex-wife. When he kills a detective it is<br />
discovered he, himself, was the murderer.<br />
Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell, Tom Drake,<br />
Jeff Corey, Myrna Dell. Director: Ralph<br />
Murphy.<br />
Operation X....333.... (79)<br />
Feb.<br />
Drama. British-made. Powerful industrialist<br />
sees his dream of world domination<br />
spoiled by a journalist whom his idolized<br />
daughter loves. His ruin is complete when<br />
he is told she is not his child. Edward G.<br />
Robinson, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene,<br />
Nora Swinburne. Director: Gregory Ratoff.<br />
©Petty Girl, The 317... (87) Sept. '50<br />
Technicolor Comedy With Music. Wacky<br />
romance of young school teacher and struggling<br />
creator of the Petty Girl drawings, as<br />
artist attempts to win acceptance in the<br />
commercial art world. Robert Cummings,<br />
Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville<br />
Cooper. Audrey Long. Director: Henry<br />
Levin.<br />
Pickup. .357.,.. (78)<br />
Aug.<br />
Drama. Story of a lonely, hardworking<br />
widower who meets a girl in town who<br />
marries him as a way out of her sordid<br />
existence. She is unfaithful and tries to<br />
have him murdered. Beverly Michaels,<br />
Hugo Haas, Allan Nixon. Director: Hugo<br />
Haas.<br />
Prairie Roundup.. ..363.... (53)<br />
Jan.<br />
Western. (Durango Kid series.) Erstwhile<br />
Texas Ranger, framed on a murder charge,<br />
escapes and finds "murdered" man heading<br />
a gang of ruthless rustlers. He rounds<br />
up gang and clears himself on the murder<br />
count. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette,<br />
Mary Castle, Frank Fenton, Forrest<br />
Taylor. Director: Fred P. Sears.<br />
Pygmy Island ...342... (69) _ Nov. '50<br />
Jungle Drama. Jungle Jim leads a party<br />
into the wilds to find a missing WAC captain<br />
who is searching for a plant, developed<br />
by pygmy tribes, valuable as war<br />
material. Johnny WeissmuUer, Ann Sav-<br />
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William Berke.<br />
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek.. ..362<br />
(55) Oct. '50<br />
Western. iDurango Kid series.) Five ranchers<br />
own mysterious silver rings, and are<br />
killed by tomahawks. Durango discovers<br />
rings show location of a silver mine in<br />
Indian territory and routs the gang. Charles<br />
Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Edgar Dearing,<br />
Kay Buckley. Director: Fred F. Sears.<br />
Revenue Agent. ...312... (72) J"eb.<br />
Melodrama. Discovering his wife's affair<br />
with his employer, a husband is murdered<br />
when he tries to report the man for tax<br />
evasion. Revenue agent solves the killing<br />
and the tax racket. Douglas Kennedy,<br />
Jean Willes, Onslow Stevens, Lyle<br />
Talbot. Director: Lew Landers.<br />
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail .364 (56) Feb.<br />
Western, i Durango Kid series.) An outlaw<br />
is murdered and loot of $20,000 in gold<br />
taken from him. The criminals plot to dispose<br />
of it by using a blacksmith and an<br />
old prospector as dupes. Charles Starrett,<br />
Smiley Burnette, Sunny Vickers, Edgar<br />
Dearing. Director: Fred F. Sears.<br />
Rookie Fireman. .311. ...(63) Oct. '50<br />
Melodrama. Young merchant seaman takes<br />
temporary job as rookie fireman. His hazardous<br />
experiences turn him into a veteran<br />
fire-fighter and he keeps job on a permanent<br />
basis. Bill Williams, Barton Mac-<br />
Lane, Marjorie Reynolds, Gloria Henry.<br />
Director: Seymour Friedman.<br />
©Santa Fe....330....(89)<br />
Apr.<br />
Technicolor Action Drama. Three brothers.<br />
Confederate veterans, go west. One becomes<br />
a construction assistant in building the<br />
Santa Pe railroad. The others become renegades<br />
and the brother joins a posse to bring<br />
them in. Randolph Scott, James Craig, Jerome<br />
Courtland, Peter Thompson, John<br />
Archer, Warner Anderson. Director: Irving<br />
Pichel.<br />
Silver Canyon ...355... (70)<br />
June<br />
Western. A band of deserters from the<br />
Union army holds up army wagon trains.<br />
The chief scout of a military post tracks<br />
them down and they are buried under an<br />
avalanche from an explosion. Gene Autry,<br />
Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Bob Steele. Director:<br />
John English.<br />
Sirocco.. .348... (98)<br />
July<br />
Melodrama. Experiences of a gun runner in<br />
Damascus during the French-Syrian War<br />
of 1925. He supplies the ragged Syrians<br />
and is opposed by a French intelligence<br />
officer, who is also his romantic rival.<br />
Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J.<br />
Cobb, Onslow Stevens. Director: Curtis<br />
Bernhardt.<br />
May<br />
Smuggler's Gold. ...315... (64)<br />
Adventure Drama. Deep-sea diver believes<br />
he has killed a member of a smuggling<br />
gang and is forced to dive for sunken gold<br />
through threat of exposure. He is rescued<br />
by the coast guard. Cameron Mitchell,<br />
Amanda Blake, Carl Benton Reid. Director:<br />
William Berke.<br />
Snake River Desperadoes. .366. ...(54) May<br />
Western, Hero is sent to stop rifle-running<br />
by evil white men who sell to the Indians,<br />
then foster war between Indians and white<br />
ranchers. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette,<br />
Don Reynolds, Tommy Ivo, Monte Blue.<br />
Director: Fred F. Sears.<br />
©Stage to Tucson. .334. ..(82)<br />
Jan.<br />
Technicolor Western. Just before the Civil<br />
War, two partners expose a gang which is<br />
hijacking stagecoaches and selling them to<br />
Conifederate sympathizers. In a running<br />
battle the leader is killed. Rod Cameron,<br />
Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Sally Eilers.<br />
Director: Ralph Murphy.<br />
©Texan Meets Calamity Jane, The. ...303<br />
(71) Nov. '50<br />
Cinecolor Western. Girl battles lawyer to<br />
establish her ownership of a saloon. She<br />
wins him to belief in her claim but loses<br />
his love to her rival. Evelyn Ankers, James<br />
Ellison, Lee "Lasses" White, Ruth Whitney,<br />
Jack Ingram. Director: Ande Lamb.<br />
Texans Never Cry....352 . Mar.<br />
Western. Texas ranger gives aid to a representative<br />
of the Mexican government who<br />
is sent to investigate a gang counterfeiting<br />
Mexican lottery tickets. The gang is wiped<br />
out. Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Mary Castle,<br />
Russ Hayden, Gail Davis. Director:<br />
Frank McDonald.<br />
©Texas Rangers, The. ...325... (74) June<br />
Supercinecolor Western. Released from<br />
prison to help the Rangers rid the state<br />
of outlaws, hero wins love of woman newspaper<br />
publisher, traps the crime leader with<br />
a gold shipment and the Rangers close<br />
in. George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome<br />
Courtland, Noah Beery jr. Director:<br />
Phil Karlson.<br />
Touglier They Come, The. 305... (69). ..Dec. "S")<br />
Sepiatone Action Drama. Two pals, one of<br />
whom inherits a lumber camp, have difficulty<br />
in operating it due to the activities<br />
of a foreman in the pay of unscrupulous<br />
competitors. Wayne Morris, Preston Poster,<br />
Kay Buckley, Gloria Henry, Frank McHugh.<br />
Director: Ray Nazarro.<br />
Two of a Kind....350.... (75)<br />
July<br />
Melodrama. Hero is engaged by crooks to<br />
pose as the long-lost son of a millionaire.<br />
He gets away with the hoax but the father<br />
disinherits him. Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth<br />
Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox. Director:<br />
Henry Levin.<br />
©Valentino. ...320.... (105)<br />
Apr.<br />
Technicolor Biographical Drama. Life of<br />
the great silent movie star of the '20s. His<br />
rise to fame, his unhappy love life and early<br />
death. Anthony Dexter, Eleanor Parker,<br />
Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina, Dona<br />
Drake. Director: Lewis Allen.<br />
©When the Redskins Rode 339. (78) May<br />
Supercinecolor Action Drama. Delaware<br />
Indian prince wavers between Frencli and<br />
American Colonists, flattered by beautiful<br />
French spy. When the French murder nis<br />
father, the Delawares ride to the defense<br />
of young General Washington's army. Jon<br />
Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John<br />
Ridgely. Director: Lew Landers.<br />
When You're Smiling. .304... (75) Sept. '50<br />
Comedy With Music. Young Texan with<br />
singing ambitions, is mistaken for a cattle<br />
millionaire, and nearly "shanghaied"<br />
into marriage with daughter of recording<br />
company head, who is in financial straits.<br />
Jerome Courtland. Frankie Laine, Lola Albright,<br />
Margo Woode, Robert Shayne. Director:<br />
Joseph Santley.<br />
Whirlwind... .354... (70)<br />
Apr.<br />
Western. Two postal inspectors, on the trail<br />
of a crime syndicate, discover its leader<br />
has murdered his brotlier and robbed<br />
his niece of the estate. Gene Autry, Smiley<br />
Burnette, Gail Davis, Thurston Hall. Director:<br />
John English.<br />
Whistle at Eaton Falls, The .322 (96) Aug.<br />
Drama. When the owner of only Industry<br />
in a small town dies, his widow asks the<br />
head of the union to manage the factory.<br />
He finds the problems of management almost<br />
too much for him. Lloyd Bridges,<br />
Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray<br />
Hamilton. Director: Robert Siodmak.<br />
Yank in Korea. A....346. ..(73) Feb.<br />
War Drama. Experiences of an enlisted<br />
man in Korea. He becomes a herp and,<br />
when wounded, returns to the U.S. bringing<br />
the letter of a dead buddy to the man's<br />
bereaved children. Lon McCallister, William<br />
"Bill" Phillips. Brett King, Larry<br />
Stewart. Director: Lew Landers.<br />
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Rex, King of the Wild Horses....310 .(S6). Apr.<br />
Western. "Rex," William Janney, Dorothy<br />
Appleby, Wallace MacDonald.<br />
Lippert<br />
(December 22, 1950 through October 26, 1951)<br />
As You Were....5023....(57) Sept. 28<br />
Comedy. Ex-GI re-enlists at recruiting station<br />
where he meets his old sergeant, who<br />
considered him a jinx to his army life.<br />
Flashbacks show what happened, then the<br />
two are shown together again as drill<br />
sergeant and new recruit. William Tracy,<br />
Joe Sawyer, Russell Hicks, John Ridgely.<br />
Director: Fred Guiol.<br />
Bandit Queen. 5011 (72) Dec. 22. '5fl<br />
Western. Spanish beauty becomes partner<br />
of early California "Robin Hood" to avenge<br />
the murder of her parents and bring about<br />
the downfall of the leaders of a robber<br />
gang. Barbara Britton, Willard Parker,<br />
Philip Reed, Barton MacLane. Director:<br />
William Berke.<br />
Danger Zone .5017... (56) Apr. 20<br />
Melodrama. Two separate mystery stories<br />
built around the same characters. Designed<br />
to be cut in half for subsequent use on<br />
television. Each is the account of a case<br />
handled by a private detective. Hugh Beaumont,<br />
Pamela Blake, Richard Travis, Edward<br />
Brophy, Tom Neal. Director: William<br />
Berke.<br />
Fingerprints Don't Lie. ...5015.. ..(56) Feb. 23<br />
Mystery Drama. Innocent man is being sent<br />
to the electric chair because of forged<br />
fingerprints on the weapon used to murder<br />
the mayor. His sweetheart and a scientific<br />
investigator pin the crime on the commissioner<br />
of police. Richard Travis. Sheila<br />
Ryan, Tom Neal, Sid Melton, Margia Dean.<br />
Director: Sam Newfield.<br />
G.I. Jane. .5012. ..(62) July 6<br />
Comedy With Music. TV producer, putting<br />
on a recruiting show for the WAC, receives<br />
news he has been drafted. He faints and,<br />
while unconscious, has a dream about<br />
events in a mythical army camp. Jean<br />
Porter, Tom Neal, Iris Adrian, Jimmie<br />
Dodd. Director: Reginald LeBorg.<br />
Highly Dangerous. .5029 (81) Oct. 26<br />
Melodrama. British-made. A woman entomologist<br />
is assigned to espionage investigating<br />
an Eastern country's germ factory.<br />
She is assisted by a newspaperman<br />
in love with her. Together they set fire to<br />
the place and escape. Dane Clark, Margaret<br />
Lockwood, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne.<br />
Director: Roy Baker.<br />
Kentucky Jubilee....5007 . May 18<br />
Comedy With Music. A plot in which gangsters<br />
try to take over financial control of<br />
the state celebration is int«r
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Lynn, Greg Martell. Director: Sam Newfield.<br />
Little Big Horn .5003 . June 18<br />
Drama. Two cavalry officers, rivals in love,<br />
are sent on a mission to warn General<br />
Custer that the Sioux will attack. Both are<br />
killed in a suicidal charge against the<br />
Indians. Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie<br />
Windsor. Director: Charles Marquis Warren.<br />
Lost Continent. .5004. (82) Aug. 17<br />
Science-Fiction. A group of scientists fly<br />
to investigate when an atom-powered<br />
rocket misfires. They find a lost world of<br />
prehistoric animals which, at length, is destroyed<br />
by an e.xplosive disintegration.<br />
Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke. Chick<br />
Chandler, John Hoyt. Director: Sam Newfield.<br />
Mask of the Dragon.. ..5013.... (53) Mar. 10<br />
Mystery Drama. GI in Korea sends home<br />
curio containing valuable mineral. When<br />
he returns he and a TV entertainer are<br />
both murdered by villain who wants it. A<br />
private detective solves the crimes. Richard<br />
Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Michael<br />
Whalen. Director: Sam Newfield.<br />
Pier 23. .5018 ..(58) Apr. 27<br />
Drama. Two episodes involving a waterfront<br />
adventurer. In one he uncovers a plot<br />
which had resulted in the murder of a<br />
wrestler. In the second he solves the murder<br />
of an escaped convict by the man's sister<br />
and an accomplice. Hugh Beaumont, Ann<br />
Savage, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis.<br />
Director: William Berke.<br />
Roaring City .5016. (58) May 4<br />
Drama. Young man places a bet on an<br />
old-time fighter and finds himself accused<br />
of a murder. In trying to clear himself he<br />
becomes involved in further killings. Hugh<br />
Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis,<br />
Joan Valerie. Director: William Berke.<br />
Savage Drums 5001 (70) June 22<br />
Action Drama. Hero, an Indonesian prizefighter<br />
in<br />
the United States, returns to his<br />
native island when the king, his brother, is<br />
killed. There he fights against Communist<br />
plotters. Sabu. Lita Baron, H. B.<br />
Direc-<br />
Warner. Sid Melton, Steven Geray.<br />
tor: William Berke.<br />
Sky High. 5024 . (60) Oct. 12<br />
Comedy. Tail gunner is a.ssigned to pose<br />
as enemy agent at air force base. His<br />
efforts help in the capture of saboteurs.<br />
Sid Melton, Mara Lynn, Sam Flint. Director:<br />
Sam Newfield.<br />
Steel Helmet, The. .5006 ...(84) Feb. 2<br />
War Drama. Wounded soldier in Korea is<br />
befriended by a war orphan and a Negro<br />
medic. They join a patrol in establishing<br />
an observation post and experience an<br />
enemy attack. Robert Hutton, Gene Evans.<br />
Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo.<br />
Director: Samuel Fuller. (A Deputy Corporation<br />
Production.)<br />
Stop That Cab. 5014... (56) Mar. 31<br />
Comedy. Hectic adventures of a Hollywood<br />
cab driver with his nagging wife, an expectant<br />
mother who gives birth to a baby<br />
on the way to a hospital, and a gunman<br />
who robs him. Sid Melton, Iris Adrian,<br />
Tom Neal, Marjorie Lord, Greg McClure.<br />
Director: Eugenic DeLiguoro.<br />
3 Desperate Men. .5009.... (71) Jan. 12<br />
Western. Three brothers, forced into a life<br />
of crime, terrorize the countryside, but<br />
meet their downfall at the hands of a brave<br />
town marshal and his posse. Pre.ston<br />
Foster, Virginia Grey. Jim Davis,<br />
Latimer. Director: Sam Newfield.<br />
Ross<br />
Varieties on Parade. .5020 (67) Aug. 10<br />
Musical. Series of vaudeville acts with<br />
Coogan and Garr as masters of ceremonies,<br />
who also offer a burlesque of Charley<br />
Chaplin's "The Kid." Talbot, Adrian and<br />
Neal appear in skits between acts. Jackie<br />
Coogan, Eddie Garr. Tom Neal, Iris Adrian,<br />
Lyle Talbot, Eddie Dean. Director: Ron<br />
Ormond.<br />
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones 5019 (53) July 13<br />
Variety Musical. Lost boy wanders into rest<br />
home for retired minstrel men. They<br />
reminisce for him and scene fades into a<br />
complete minstrel show. Gary Jackson,<br />
Cotton and Chuck Watts. F. E. Miller, Billy<br />
Green. Director: Ron Ormond.<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
(September 1, 1950 through August 31, 1951<br />
Cause for Alarm ...118 .... (73) Feb. 23<br />
Drama. Invalid husband, suffering from a<br />
persecution complex, writes a letter to the<br />
district attorney charging his wife is trying<br />
to kill him. He dies, and after wife's futile<br />
attempt to recover letter, it is returned for<br />
insufficient postage. Loretta Young. Barry<br />
Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore.<br />
Director: Tay Garnett.<br />
Devil's Doorway .102 (84) Sept. 15, '50<br />
Western Drama. Indian Civil War hero<br />
seeks peace and quiet on his family's ranch<br />
after the conflict, but greedy whites wipe<br />
out the men of his tribe and overrun the<br />
land. Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula<br />
Raymond, Marshall Thompson. Director:<br />
Anthony Mann.<br />
Dial 1119. .107 ...(75) Nov. 3, '50<br />
Melodrama. Escaped lunatic barricades a<br />
bar and threatens the occupants. Police<br />
rescue them after vain attempt by department<br />
psychiatrist to quiet terrorist. Marshall<br />
Thompson. Keefe Brasselle, Virginia<br />
Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene. Director:<br />
Gerald Mayer.<br />
©Excuse My Dust. .133. (82) June 22<br />
Technicolor Comedy With Music. Smalltown<br />
inventor of an early automobile wins<br />
the big race and daughter of the proprietor<br />
of the local livery stable. Red Skelton.<br />
Sally Forrest. Macdonald Carey, William<br />
Demarest, Monica Lewis, Raymond Walburn.<br />
Director: Roy Rowland.<br />
WFather's Little Dividend .124. (81). Apr. 13<br />
Comedy. Father of the bride sets out on<br />
a new series of difficulties with the advent<br />
of his first grandchild. Caring for the baby<br />
he loses and then recovers him. Spencer<br />
Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don<br />
Taylor. Director: Vincente Minnelli.<br />
Go for Broke!.... 129... (93) May 25<br />
Drama. Factual record of exploits of the<br />
442nd regimental combat team of American-born<br />
Japanese. They win acclaim in<br />
the Italian campaign, move on to Prance<br />
where they rescue the 36th Texas division.<br />
Van Johnson, Warner Anderson, Lane Nakano,<br />
George Miki, Akira Fukunaga, Director:<br />
Robert Pirosh.<br />
vOGreat Caruso, The....l27. .. (709) Apr. 27<br />
Technicolor Operatic Biography. Life story<br />
of the great operatic tenor. Enrico Caruso.<br />
His sensational career, his happy marriage,<br />
and his deatli in the wings of the Metropolitan<br />
Opera House. Mario Lanza, Ann<br />
Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna,<br />
Richard Hageman. Director: Richard<br />
Thorpe.<br />
Grounds for Marriage....ll4. ... (89) Jan. 19<br />
Comedy With Music. Ex-wife, still in love<br />
with her husband, devises every po.ssible<br />
means to see him and succeeds in breaking<br />
up his new romance. Van Johnson,<br />
Kathryn Grayson, Paula Raymond, Barry<br />
Sullivan. Director; Robert Z. Leonard.<br />
Home Town Story....l28....(61) JWay 18<br />
Drama. Small-town newspaper editor, defeated<br />
for state legislature by son of industrialist,<br />
fights big business. When his<br />
sister is rescued from a mine cave-in by<br />
use of equipment lent by the big company,<br />
he reverses his opinion. Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie<br />
Reynolds, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale<br />
jr. Director: Arthur Pierson.<br />
Inside Straight. ...123... (87) Mar. 16<br />
Historical Drama. Life story of a shrewd<br />
adventurer as he rises to fortune in the<br />
San Francisco of 1860. He learns at last<br />
the .satisfaction of using money for a good<br />
cause. David Brian, Barry Sullivan, Arlene<br />
Dahl, Paula Raymond, Lon Chaney jr. Director:<br />
Gerald Mayer.<br />
U©Kim...ll5....(113) Jan. 26<br />
Technicolor Adventure Drama. Film version<br />
of Kipling's novel. Orphan boy becomes<br />
attendant to Hindu holy man. In this guise<br />
he serves as messenger for an underground<br />
group protecting India from invaders.<br />
Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas,<br />
Robert Douglas. Director: Victor Saville.<br />
Kind Lady... 134 (78) June 29<br />
Drama. Wealthy, elderly woman befriends<br />
impoverished artist, his wife and child.<br />
They imprison her. liquidate her possessions<br />
and try to murder her. Ethel Barrymore.<br />
Maurice Evans. Angela Lansbury,<br />
Keenan Wynn. Director: John Sturges.<br />
U©King Solomon's Mines. .109<br />
(102) JVov. -24, '50<br />
Technicolor Drama. Produced in Africa.<br />
Renowned hunter falls in love with woman<br />
who hires him to guide her in .search for<br />
her lost husband in darkest Africa. Husband's<br />
death is proved and lovers are<br />
united. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr,<br />
Richard Carlson, Native African Tribesmen.<br />
Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew<br />
Marton.<br />
Law and the Lady, The. .136... (104). July 20<br />
Comedy. English ne'er-do-well and brainy<br />
house maid combine talents to become<br />
international jewel thieves. They realize<br />
their love when the law catches up with<br />
them ajid they are being returned to England.<br />
Greer Garson. Michael Wilding,<br />
Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main. Director:<br />
Edwin H. Knopf.<br />
Life of Her Own, A. .101. ..(108) Sept. 1, '50<br />
Drama. Small-town girl becomes a successful<br />
cover girl, only to share an ill-fated<br />
romance with a married Montana copper<br />
magnate. Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom<br />
Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry<br />
Sullivan, Jean Hagen. Director : George<br />
Cukor.<br />
Magnificent Yankee, The ...116 . .(88)....Feb. 9<br />
Biographical Drama. Life of Oliver Wendell<br />
Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice,<br />
famous for his dissenting opinions. Depicts<br />
his happy marriage, his wife's death and<br />
his retirement. Louis Calhern, Ann Harding,<br />
Eduard Franz. Director: John Sturges.<br />
M-G-M Story, The .145 .. (56) Mar.<br />
Compilation. Free trailer to MGM accounts<br />
including scenes from 25 pictures, with 58<br />
of the company's stars and featured players.<br />
Produced by Herman Hoffman. Edited<br />
by Laurie Vejar, Ira Heymann.<br />
Miniver Story, The .106 (104) Oct. 20. '50<br />
Drama. Mrs. Miniver, in failing health,<br />
faces a new set of problems in peace. She<br />
gently persuades family toward ways of<br />
life she believes best for them. Greer Garson,<br />
Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Cathy<br />
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(92)<br />
O'Donnell. Henry Wilcoxon. Director;<br />
Henry C. Potter. (MGM British Studio.)<br />
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. MaIone....lll<br />
(69) Dec. 8, '50<br />
Comedy. Radio prize-winning widow and<br />
debt-ridden attorney team up on transcontinental<br />
train to hide body of murder<br />
victim and solve the crime. Majorie Main.<br />
James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak. Fred Clark.<br />
Dorothy Malone. Director: Norman Taurog.<br />
Next Voice You Hear . . ., The ...110<br />
(83) Oct. 27, '50<br />
Drama. Story of an average middle-class<br />
American family whose routine existence<br />
is upset when God speaks to them on the<br />
radio. James Whitmore, Nancy Davis, Gary<br />
Gray, Tom D'Andrea, Jeff Corey. Director:<br />
William A, Wellman.<br />
. Night Into Morning:. .130. (86) June 8<br />
Drama. Young college professor becomes<br />
an alcoholic after the tragic death of his<br />
wife and child. He is saved from suicide<br />
by the intervention of two friends. Ray<br />
Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis<br />
Stone, Jean Hagen. Director: Fletcher<br />
Markle.<br />
No Questions Aslied .132....(81) June 15<br />
Drama. Involved in legal but unethical<br />
dealings with racketeers, hero decides to<br />
clear himself by a tipoff to the police.<br />
Marked for death by the gangsters, he is<br />
rescued and reforms. Barry Sullivan.<br />
Arlene Dahl, George Murphy. Jean Hagen.<br />
Director: Harold F. Kress.<br />
©Pagan Love Song....ll2....(76) Dec. 29, '50<br />
Technicolor Musical. Romance on a tropical<br />
island between young American, who has<br />
inherited a run-down plantation, and<br />
American girl he mistakes for a Tlhitian.<br />
Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell,<br />
Charles Mauu, Rita Moreno. Director:<br />
Robert Alton.<br />
©Painted Hills, The 125... (68) _...May 4<br />
Technicolor Drama. Lassie's master is<br />
killed by his partner and the dog is<br />
poisoned. She haunts the murderer with<br />
her death wail and he follows her up a<br />
canyon and falls to his death. "Lassie,"<br />
Paul Kelly, Gary Gray, Ann Doran, Bruce<br />
Cowling. Director: Harold F. Kre.ss.<br />
©Rich, Young and Pretty .138. . Aug. 3<br />
Technicolor Musical. Texas rancher takes<br />
daughter to Paris where they meet his<br />
estranged actress wife. The girl is drawn<br />
to her mother, finds romance and the father<br />
and mother are reconciled. Jane<br />
Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey,<br />
Fernando Lamas, Vic Damone. Director:<br />
Norman Taurog.<br />
Right Cross. .104. ..(90) Oct. 6, '50<br />
Drama. Prizefight story of the rise of a<br />
Mexican-born, middleweight champion, in<br />
love with his manager's daughter, who also<br />
is loved by a sports writer. June Allyson,<br />
Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel<br />
Barrymore, Teresa Celli. Director: John<br />
Sturges.<br />
W©Royal Wedding. ,121.... (92) Mar. 23<br />
Technicolor Musical. Brother-sister musical<br />
comedy team goes to London for the season<br />
of the royal wedding. Both find romance,<br />
she with a nobleman and he with an English<br />
actress. Fred Astaire, Jane Powell,<br />
Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan<br />
Wynn. Director: Stanley Donen.<br />
©Show Boat. ..135. ..(108) July 13<br />
Technicolor Musical. When leading lady on<br />
.show boat withdraws, the captain's daughter<br />
replaces her. She marries the leading<br />
man and leaves but later returns when he<br />
deserts her. Many years later they are reunited<br />
when he learns they have a daughter.<br />
Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Kathryn<br />
Grayson, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead,<br />
Marge and Gower Champion. Director:<br />
George Sidney.<br />
Soldiers Three. .126 (92) Apr. 20<br />
Comedy. Adventures of three British army<br />
privates and their two commanding officers<br />
in India, adapted from the Rudyard Kipling<br />
stories. The three are always in trouble<br />
but good soldiers in time of stress. Stewart<br />
Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven,<br />
Robert Newton. Cyril Cusack. Director:<br />
Tay Garnett.<br />
Strictly Dishonorable .131... (94) July 6<br />
Comedy With Music. Troubles of an opera<br />
singer which involve his sweetheart, his<br />
press agent, a man who tries to blackmail<br />
him and a sweet young thing from the<br />
south. Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh. Millard<br />
Mitchell, Gale Robbins. Directors: Melvin<br />
Frank, Norman Panama.<br />
Strip, The .140.. ..(85) Aug. 31<br />
Mystery With Music. Ex-GI drummer in a<br />
nightclub falls for a dancer, but a racketeer<br />
steals his girl. When the gangster is killed<br />
and the girl wounded, the drummer is accused<br />
but her deathbed confession clears<br />
him. Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, Wil^<br />
liam Demarest, James Craig. Director:<br />
Leslie Kardos.<br />
Tall Target, The .139. .. (78) Aug. 17<br />
Drama. Police detective discovers plot<br />
to assassinate President Lincoln when he<br />
makes a speech in Baltimore on the way<br />
to his inauguration. He sets out by himself<br />
to prevent the crime. Dick Powell.<br />
Paula Raymond. Adolphe Menjou, Marshall<br />
Thompson. Director: Anthony Mann.<br />
Teresa 137.... (105) July 27<br />
Drama. Maladjusted, neurotic GI brings<br />
Italian war bride to live with his parents in<br />
U.S. Finding their life together intolerable,<br />
she leaves, but they are reunited through<br />
aid from the Veterans Administration.<br />
Pier Angeli. John Ericson, Patricia CoUinge.<br />
Richard Bishop, Peggy Ann Garner, Bill<br />
Maulden. Director: Fred Zinnemann.<br />
Three Guys Named Mike 119 (90) Mar. 9<br />
Romantic Comedy. Airline hostess finds<br />
herself the romantic interest of three men<br />
—a pilot, science student and an advertising<br />
executive, all named "Mike." It proves a<br />
difficult choice. Jane Wyman. Van Johnson,<br />
Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan. Director:<br />
Charles Walters.<br />
To Please a Lady. .105 . Oct. 13, '50<br />
Drama. Kill-or-be-killed attitude of auto<br />
race driver revolts girl columnist. She<br />
learns to care when he crashes in Indianapolis<br />
speed event rather than cause the<br />
death of a fellow driver. Clark Gable,<br />
Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou. Director:<br />
Clarence Brown.<br />
©Toast of New Orleans, The....l03<br />
(97) Sept, 29, '50<br />
Technicolor Musical. Plot centers around<br />
romance of opera star and brash young<br />
fisherman with a beautiful voice, against a<br />
turn-of-the-century New Orleans setting.<br />
Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David<br />
Niven, J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell. Director:<br />
Norman Taurog.<br />
©Two Weeks With Love....l08<br />
(92) Nov. 10, '50<br />
Technicolor Comedy With Music. In 1913,<br />
vacationing teen-ager vies for attentions of<br />
young man against her friend, without benefit<br />
of corset which stern father forbids.<br />
Achieved at last, corset traps her, but she<br />
wins favor of hero. Jane Powell. Ricardo<br />
Montalban, Louis Calhern. Ann Harding.<br />
Director: Roy Rowland.<br />
©Vengeance Valley.. .117. ...(82) Feb. 16<br />
Technicolor Super-Western. Cattle ranch<br />
foreman is beset by difficulties and accused<br />
of being the father of an illegitimate<br />
child. In a showdown he kills his<br />
foster brother who is the real culprit. Burt<br />
Lancaster, Robert Walker. Joanne Dru,<br />
Sally Forrest. Director: Richard Thorpe.<br />
Watch the Birdie ...113 (71) Jan. 12<br />
Comedy. Part-time, free lance news photographer,<br />
engaged to cover opening of real<br />
estate project, accidentally snaps proof<br />
that the villain plans to fleece the owner.<br />
Complications ensue. Red Skelton. Arlene<br />
Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames. Director:<br />
Jack Donohue.<br />
Monogram<br />
(October 15. 1950 through October 28, 1951)<br />
Abilene Trail ...4946. ...(64) Feb. 4<br />
Western. Two fugitives find themselves involved<br />
in their friends' fight with rival<br />
cattle outfit. They get their herd through<br />
to Abilene and are cleared of horse stealing<br />
charges. Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Noel<br />
Neill. Tommy Farrell. Director: Lewis D.<br />
Collins. (1949-50.)<br />
According to Mrs. Hoyle... 5122. .. (60)....May 20<br />
Drama. Retired school teacher becomes involved<br />
with gangsters who hide stolen property<br />
in her room and cause her to be suspected<br />
of the crime. Spring Byington, Brett<br />
King, Tanis Chandler, Anthony Caruso.<br />
Director: Jean Yarbrough.<br />
Blazing Bullets. .5142... (51) May 6<br />
Western. Rancher is kidnaped and unsuccessful<br />
suitor of his daughter is charged<br />
with the crime. Hero finds a cache of<br />
stolen gold and the missing man, clearing<br />
the path for the sweethearts. Johnny Mack<br />
Brown, Lois Hall, House Peters jr.. Stanley<br />
Price. Director: Wallace W. Fox.<br />
©Blue Blood. 4904... (72) Jan. 28<br />
Cinecolor Drama. Old-time trainer, down<br />
on his luck, is befriended by two daughters<br />
of wealthy race horse breeder. They<br />
buy derelict horse and turn him into a<br />
winner again. Bill Williams, Jane Nigh,<br />
Arthur Shields, Audrey Long, Harry Shannon.<br />
Director: Lew Landers. (1949-50.)<br />
Bowery Battalion .5111. (69) Jan. 21<br />
Comedy. The Bowery Boys join the army<br />
and tangle with spies after information<br />
on a secret weapon. They round up the<br />
gang but end up in the guard house. Leo<br />
Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bowery Boys, Virginia<br />
Hewitt. Director: William Beaudine.<br />
Call of the Klondike .4920 (67) ..Dec. 17, '50<br />
Action Drama. Northwest Mountie solves<br />
disappearance of mine owner. Culprit is a<br />
supposed friend, who sets off a dynamite<br />
explosion in an attempt to kill hero. Kirby<br />
Grant, Chinook, Anne Gwynne, Lynne Roberts,<br />
Tom Neal. Director: Frank McDonald.<br />
(1949-50.)<br />
Canyon Raiders.... 5151. ...(54) Apr. 8<br />
Western. Three horse thieves gather a herd<br />
in a secret canyon, planning to sell to the<br />
army. The hero and a girl .sheriff combine<br />
forces to defeat them. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy<br />
Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon. Director:<br />
Lewis D. Collins.<br />
Casa Manana....5116....(73) June 10<br />
Musical. Experiences of a private secretary<br />
who tries to break into show business.<br />
Love triangle develops with her former<br />
boss and a night club operator, complicating<br />
affairs. Virginia Welles, Robert Clarke,<br />
Robert Karnes, Tony Roux. Director: Jean<br />
Yarbrough.<br />
©Cavalry Scout... 5101... (78) May 13<br />
Cinecolor Western. Civilian scout sets out<br />
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1949 "BARKLEY'S OF BROADWAY"<br />
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to find guns stolen from arsenal. With<br />
help of army officers, he uncovers illicit<br />
trade in arms with Indians and captures<br />
trader. Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim<br />
Davis, James Millican, Cliff Clark. Director:<br />
Lesley Selander.<br />
Colorado Ambush. .4955.... (52) Jan. 14<br />
Western. Ranger conceals identity to solve<br />
murders of Wells Fargo payroll messengers.<br />
Clever woman saloonkeeper and robber<br />
gang are killed when he completes his<br />
assignment. Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall.<br />
Tommy Farrell, Christine Mclntyre. Director:<br />
Lewis D. Collins. (1949-50.)<br />
Disc Jockey. ..AA21.... (77) Sept. 30<br />
Comedy With Music. Radio platter spinner<br />
embarks on campaign to prove to principal<br />
sponsor that such entertainers are<br />
still a good draw. Sponsor develops a romantic<br />
interest in a girl singer. Ginny<br />
Simms, Michael O'Shea, Jane Nigh, Tom<br />
Drake, Guest Disc Jockeys. Director: Will<br />
Jason. (Allied Artists.)<br />
Elephant Stampede. .5110. (71) Oct. 28<br />
Jungle Melodrama. The jungle boy discovers<br />
the body of a guide, murdered by<br />
avaricious ivory hunters. When the villains<br />
capture him, he is freed by a stampede.<br />
Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, Edith<br />
Evanson, Martin Wilkins. Director: Ford<br />
Beebe.<br />
Father Takes the Air 5126 (61) June 17<br />
Comedy. Father and his friend, the mayor,<br />
assist in management of a flying school.<br />
By accident they capture a criminal when<br />
they run out of gas while flying him out<br />
of town. Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett,<br />
Florence Bates, Gary Gray, Barbara<br />
Brown. Director: Prank McDonald.<br />
Father's Wild Game. 5125 ... (61). ..Dec. 3, '50<br />
Comedy. Deciding to whip the high cost<br />
of meat. Father goes hunting. Shooting<br />
a cow is only the first mistake he makes.<br />
Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, Gary<br />
Gray, Jane Darwell, Barbara Brown. Director:<br />
Herbert I. Leeds.<br />
Ghost Chasers....5112....(69) Apr. 29<br />
Drama. The Bowery Boys bring justice<br />
down on two crooks who are operating as<br />
spiritualists. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bowery<br />
Boys, Jan Kayne. Director: William<br />
Beaudine.<br />
Gypsy Fury....5192....(63) JVIar. 18<br />
Costume Drama. Swedish-made. English<br />
dialog added. Tragic story of nobleman's<br />
love for a gypsy. They marry but separate,<br />
find each other again years later but she<br />
is killed and he loses his mind. Viveca<br />
Lindfors, Chi'istopher Kent, Romney Brent,<br />
Johnny Chambot. Director: Christian<br />
Jaque. (A Terrafilm Production.)<br />
©Highwayman, The. AA20.... (82) Oct. 21<br />
Cinecolor Historical Drama. In pre-revolutionary<br />
England, the highwayman is a<br />
friend of the poor, for whom he robs the<br />
rich. He is finally defeated by the wicked<br />
noblemen and put to death. Charles Cobum,<br />
Wanda Hendrix, Philip Friend, Cecil Kellaway.<br />
Director: Lesley Selander. (Allied<br />
Artists.)<br />
I Was an American Spy....AA19.... (85)....Apr. 15<br />
Drama. Life of Claire Phillips, undercover<br />
agent for America during the Japanese occupation<br />
of the Philippines in World War<br />
II. She opens a night club as a means of<br />
obtaining military information. Ann Dvorak,<br />
Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard<br />
Loo. Director: Lesley Selander. (Allied Artists.)<br />
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle<br />
5117.... (65) Nov. 5. '50<br />
Melodrama. Joe Palooka witnesses a murder<br />
and thereafter is a marked man. The<br />
killers carry their pursuit of the young<br />
fighter even into the ring. Joe Kirkwood<br />
jr.. James Gleason, Lois Hall, Robert Coogan,<br />
Myrna Dell. Dan Seymour. Director:<br />
Reginald LeBorg.<br />
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross.. .5118<br />
(60) - Sept. 16<br />
Action Drama. The fighter picks up three<br />
hitchhikers. Their leader blackmails him<br />
through threats against his sweetheart. At<br />
the championship fight, hero knocks out the<br />
villain and the contender. Joe Kirkwood<br />
jr.. Cathy Downs, James Gleason, John<br />
Emery. Director: Reginald LeBorg.<br />
Let's Go Navy. .5113... (68) July 29<br />
Comedy. Adventures of the boys when they<br />
enlist in the navy to find a sailor who held<br />
them up and robbed them of the receipts<br />
of a chowder party. They end up on a<br />
tropical island. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall,<br />
Allen Jenkins, Tom Neal, Bowery Boys.<br />
Director: William Beaudine.<br />
Lion Hunters, The .5109... (75) Mar. 25<br />
Jungle Drama. Bomba series. The jungle<br />
boy. single-handed, defeats hunters seeking<br />
to trap lions for export. He saves his<br />
friends, the lions, as well as a girl and her<br />
father, endangered by the hunters. Johnny<br />
Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Ann Todd, Douglas<br />
Kennedy, "Woody" Strode. Director:<br />
Ford Beebe.<br />
Man From Sonora....5141.... (54) Mar. 11<br />
Western. Hijackers take a shipment of<br />
bullion, setting off an unhappy series of<br />
events for the hero, who is falsely accused<br />
by the gang leader, a prominent citizen<br />
of the town. Johnny Mack Brown, House<br />
Peters jr., Lyle Talbot, Phyllis Coates. Director:<br />
Lewis D. Collins.<br />
Modern Marriage, A. 5199. . (66). ..Oct. 15, '50<br />
Documentary Drama. Psychological reaction<br />
of a young bride to marriage. Her<br />
inability to adjust is traced to a too possessive<br />
mother. Reed Hadley, Margaret<br />
Field, Robert Clarke, Nana Bryant. Director:<br />
Paul Landres. (EIndorsed by the American<br />
Institute of Family Relations.)<br />
Montana Desperado....5143.. .. (51)..._ June 24<br />
Western. Hero discovers a respected mining<br />
engineer is the masked murderer of<br />
several ranchers whose valuable mining<br />
property was the motive for the crimes.<br />
Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Virginia<br />
Herrick. Marshall Reed. Director:<br />
Wallace W. Fox. (A Frontier Pictures Production.)<br />
Navy Bound....5120....(61) Mar. 4<br />
Drama. Boxing champion leaves U.S. navy<br />
to help foster father who is in financial<br />
difficulties with his fishing boat. The son<br />
stages a match to raise the needed money,<br />
then re-enlists. Tom Neal, Regis Toomey,<br />
John Abbott, Murray Alper, Wendy Waldron.<br />
Director: Paul Landres.<br />
Nevada Badmen .. .5152... (58) JVIay 27<br />
Western. The hero and two friends go to<br />
the aid of a girl who.se father has been<br />
murdered, after he had discovered gold, by<br />
crooks seeking a map revealing the location<br />
of the strike. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy<br />
Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon. Director:<br />
Lewis D. Collins,<br />
Oklahoma Justice. .5144. ..(56) Aug. 19<br />
Western. Posing as an outlaw to catch a<br />
robber band, a U.S. marshal is aided by<br />
a bank clerk and his girl. The gang is<br />
rounded up and the sweethearts get the<br />
reward. Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Ellison,<br />
Phyllis Coates, Barbara Allen. Director:<br />
Lewis D. Collins.<br />
Outlaw Gold .4954... (51) Nov. 26, '50<br />
Western. Two U.S. rangers discover that<br />
Mexican government gold has been stolen.<br />
cast into type in a newspaper office and<br />
shipped east. They round up the gang responsible<br />
for the robbery. Johnny Mack<br />
Brown, Jane Adams, Myron Healey, Milburn<br />
Morante. Director: Wallace W. Fox.<br />
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Outlaws of Texas .4945 (56) Dec. 10, '50<br />
Western. U.S. marshal poses as outlaw to<br />
•solve stage holdups. Discovers girl Ls leader<br />
of highwaymen as front for her father.<br />
With partner he captures the band. Whip<br />
Wilson, Andy Clyde, Phyllis Coates, Terry<br />
Frost. Director: Thomas Carr. (1949-50.)<br />
Rhythm Inn 5115. ..(73) Feb. 11<br />
Musical. A band in financial difficulties is<br />
assisted by a young amateur songwriter.<br />
They feature his songs and introduce his<br />
girl friend as vocalist. Jane Frazee, Kirby<br />
Grant, Lois Collier, Dixieland Band. Director:<br />
Paul Landres.<br />
Short Grass ..AA18.... (82) Dec. 24, '50<br />
Western. Hero, once an outlaw, is able to<br />
repay girl and older man who had befriended<br />
him in past, by helping them break<br />
the grip of ruthless forces on their town.<br />
Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Johnny Mack<br />
Brown, Alan Hale jr. Director: Lesley<br />
Selander. (Allied Artists.)<br />
Sierra Passage. .5107. (81) Jan. 7<br />
Western Drama. Young lad joins a traveling<br />
show troupe, and for ten years conducts<br />
a relentless search for the two murderers<br />
of his father. Catching up with one<br />
of the criminals, he maims him for life.<br />
Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale jr.<br />
Director: Frank McDonald.<br />
Southside 1-1000 AA17... (73) Nov. 12, '50<br />
Melodrama. Secret service agent tracks<br />
down a counterfeit ring after tracing the<br />
notes to a convicted counterfeiter serving<br />
time in a Federal prison. Don DeFore,<br />
Andrea King, George Tobias, Barry Kelley.<br />
Director: Boris Ingster. (Allied Artists.)<br />
Stagecoach Driver. .5153. ..(52) July 15<br />
Western. Two pony express riders tangle<br />
with a pair of crooked stagecoach owners,<br />
out to wreck their line, and who try to<br />
frame them for murder. They save the<br />
line and expose the crooks. Whip Wilson,<br />
Fuzzy Knight, Jim Bannon, Gloria Winters.<br />
Director: Lewis D. Collins.<br />
Vicious Years, The. .5191. ..(81) Feb. 18<br />
Drama. In a war-torn Italian city, leader<br />
of a "wolf pack" of orphan boys witnesses<br />
a murder. With this knowledge he forces<br />
the murderer to give him shelter in his<br />
home. Tommy Cook, Gar Moore, Sybil Merritt,<br />
Eduard Franz. Director: Robert Florey.<br />
(An Emerald Production formerly released<br />
through Eagle Lion Classics.)<br />
Wanted: Dead or Alive. .5154 . (59) Sept. 9<br />
Western. U.S. marshal poses as an escaped<br />
convict to trap a gang which has been<br />
cashing in on wanted men, bringing them<br />
in "dead." Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight,<br />
Christine Mclntyre. Jim Bamion. Director:<br />
Thomas Carr. (A Frontier Pictures Production.!<br />
Whistling Hills ...5145... (58) Oct. 7<br />
Western. Hired to investigate holdups of<br />
gold shipments, the hero sees a ghostlike<br />
rider who seems to lead each raid. When<br />
the gang is broken up this rider is discovered<br />
to be a girl. Johnny Mack Brown,<br />
Jimmy EUison, Noel Neill, Lee Roberts.<br />
Director: Derwin Abrahams.<br />
Yellow Fin. .5108.... (74) Oct. 14<br />
Drama. A series of accidents to tuna fishing<br />
vessel results in amnesia for its elderly<br />
captain. His son decides to sell the ship but<br />
on one last voyage the father recovers.<br />
Wayne Morris. Adrian Booth, Gloria Henry,<br />
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Donald.<br />
Ynkon Manhunt ...5123. (63) July 8<br />
Outdoor Melodrama. Canadian Mountie<br />
and his dog are assigned to investigate<br />
a series of payroll robberies at a mining<br />
camp. The arch criminal is the mine owner<br />
who had actually planned the thefts. Klrby<br />
Grant, Chinook, Margaret Field, Gail Davis.<br />
Paul McGuire. Director: Frank McDonald.<br />
Paramount<br />
(September 1950 through August 1951)<br />
.Appointment With Danger....5019....(89) May<br />
Drama. Postal inspector runs down a gang<br />
perpetrating large scale mail robberies,<br />
aided by a nun who witnessed the murder<br />
of one of his associates and identifies the<br />
criminals. Alan Ladd, PhylUs Calvert, Paul<br />
Stewart, Jan Sterling. Director: Lewis<br />
Allen.<br />
At War With the Army. 5014... (93) .Jan. 17<br />
Comedy. Adventures of two buck privates<br />
in today's army. Gags and songs in episodes<br />
rather than a well-defined plot. Dean<br />
Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen. Tommy<br />
Farrell. Director: Hal Walker.<br />
Big Carnival, The (formerly "Ace in the<br />
Hole"). ...5023... (112) July 4<br />
Drama. Once big-time newsman is reduced<br />
to reporting on small western paper. He<br />
makes a news sensation of the victim of<br />
a cave-in, but dies with the subject of his<br />
sensational journalism. Kirk Douglas, Jan<br />
Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall. Director:<br />
Billy Wilder.<br />
©Branded. ...5009 (94) Jan.<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Posing as the<br />
long-lost son of a wealthy rancher, a wandering<br />
cowboy reforms when he learns to<br />
love the man's daughter. He finds and returns<br />
the true heir. Alan Ladd, Charles<br />
Bickford, Mona Freeman, Jo.seph Calleia.<br />
Director: Rudolph Mate.<br />
Cassino to Korea. .5008.... (58) Oct. 12, '50<br />
Documentary. Narrated by Quentin Reynolds.<br />
Traces North African and Italian<br />
campaigns. Highlights achievements of<br />
two American soldiers, Sgt. James M. Logan<br />
and Capt. David Ludlum. Stars are Allied<br />
and U.N. troops. Director: Edward Genock.<br />
©Copper Canyon .5003 .. (83) Oct. '50<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Ex-Confederate<br />
soldiers, seeking to mine copper, tangle<br />
with a crooked deputy sheriff plotting to<br />
buy the mining claims cheap. Famous Confederate<br />
colonel, posing as a trick-shot<br />
artist, arrives on the scene to help the<br />
soldiers. Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald<br />
Carey, Mona Freeman, Harry Carey<br />
jr. Director: John Farrow.<br />
Dark City....50O4 (97) „ Oct. '50<br />
Drama. Three men know they are marked<br />
for murder by a vengeance-seeking maniac,<br />
but do not know the man stalking them.<br />
He strikes twice, and corners the third before<br />
the police close in. Charlton Heston,<br />
Lizabeth Scott, Vlveca Llndfors, Dean Jagger,<br />
Don DeFore. Director: William<br />
Dieterle.<br />
Dear Brat....5021 ....(82) May 30<br />
Drama. Teen-ager organizes a society for<br />
the rehabilitation of criminals and brings<br />
an ex-convict into the household as gardener,<br />
to her father's embarrassment since<br />
he was the judge who .sentenced him. Mona<br />
Freeman. Edward Arnold, Billy De Wolfe,<br />
Lyle Bettger. Director: William A. Selter.<br />
WOFancy Pants... .5001. ...(92) Sept. '50<br />
Technicolor Comedy. Stranded actor poses<br />
as an English butler for a family in New<br />
Mexico. The fireworks start when the<br />
townspeople mistake him for the daughter's<br />
titled suitor. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce<br />
Cabot, Jack Klrkwood. Director: George<br />
Marshall.<br />
©Great Missouri Raid, The .5013<br />
(85) Feb. 22<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Frank and<br />
Jesse James, forced to become outlaws by<br />
a vindictive northern officer, stage many<br />
holdups. Frank goes straight but Jesse is<br />
killed by a member of his own gang. Wendell<br />
Corey. Macdonald Carey, Ellen Drew,<br />
Ward Bond, Ann Revere. Director: Gordon<br />
Douglas.<br />
OLaat Outpost, The. .5020... (89) May<br />
Technicolor Historical Western. Two brothers,<br />
one serving the north, the other the<br />
south, try to control the Santa Fe trail<br />
during the Civil War. They combine forces<br />
to defeat an Indian uprising. Ronald<br />
Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett,<br />
Noah Beery, Bill Williams. Director: Lewis<br />
R. Foster. (Pine-Thomas Productions.)<br />
Lemon Drop Kid, The. .5018. ..(91) Apr.<br />
Comedy. Race-track tout stages a drive for<br />
funds to build an old people's home, planning<br />
to use the money himself. He experiences<br />
a change of heart and starts to<br />
build the home. Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell,<br />
Lloyd Nolan, Andrea King, Jane Darwell.<br />
Director: Sidney Lanfield.<br />
©Let's Dance... 500«.... (112) Nov. 23, '50<br />
Technicolor Musical Comedy. Dancer, left<br />
a war widow with a young son, becomes involved<br />
In court difficulties when her inlaws<br />
try to take the child from her. Her<br />
old boy friend and former dancing partner<br />
comes to the rescue. Betty Hutton, Fred<br />
Astaire, Roland Young, Ruth Warrick. Director:<br />
Norman Z. McLeod.<br />
Mating Season, The. .5016. ..(101) Mar. 24<br />
Comedy. Bride mistakes her mother-in-law<br />
for a maid from an employment agency.<br />
Anxious to help the new marriage succeed,<br />
the mother persuades her son to let the<br />
arrangement continue. Gene Tierney, John<br />
Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan<br />
Sterling. Director: Mitchell Leisen.<br />
Molly (formerly "The Goldbergs") ...,5011<br />
(83) Apr.<br />
Comedy. Molly Goldberg entertains an old<br />
suitor and successfully plays the matchmaker<br />
between him and an attractive<br />
widow. Gertrude Berg, Philip Loeb, Eli<br />
Mintz, Arlene McQuade. Eduard Franz. Director:<br />
Walter Hart.<br />
Mr. Music. .5007. ...(113) Dec. 28, '50<br />
Comedy With Songs. Composer comes up<br />
with hit musical at long last with help of<br />
girl and group of actor friends who stage<br />
tryout in college auditorium and snag an<br />
"angel." Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles<br />
Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Tom Ewell, Robert<br />
Stack. Director: Richard Haydn.<br />
©Passage West... .5022... (80) July<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Brutal leader<br />
of a gang of escaped convicts is reformed<br />
through the Influence of a minister and a<br />
beautiful woman whom he meets when he<br />
takes unlawful command of a wagon train.<br />
John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen<br />
Whelan, Frank Faylen, Mary Anderson.<br />
Director: Lewis R. Foster, fPine-Thomas<br />
Productions.)<br />
Peking Express... 5024... (85) Aug.<br />
Melodrama. On the international train, assorted<br />
characters, deep in intrigue, are captured<br />
by armed rebels. Through the clever<br />
ruse of a United Nations doctor among<br />
them, they are rescued. Joseph Cotten,<br />
Corinne Calvet, Edmund Qwenn.<br />
William Dieterle.<br />
Director:<br />
©Quebec... 5017.... (85) - Apr.<br />
Technicolor Historical Drama. In Canada<br />
in 1837 a son takes over leadership of a<br />
rebellion when his father is killed. His life<br />
is saved by his unknown mother, the wife<br />
of a British officer. John Barrymore jr..<br />
Corinne Calvet, Patric Knowles, Barbara<br />
Rush. Director: George Templeton.<br />
Kedhead and the Cowboy, The.. ..5015<br />
(82) JWar.<br />
Western Drama. In post-Civil War New<br />
Mexico, a cowboy meets a beautiful Confederate<br />
agent and is drawn into a conflict<br />
over secret messages and an attempt to<br />
clear himself of a murder charge. Glenn<br />
Ford, Edmond O'Brien, Rhonda Fleming,<br />
Alan Reed. Director: Leslie Fenton.<br />
©Samson and Delilah. .5010 ...(128).... Mar. 28<br />
Technicolor Spectacle Drama. Story from<br />
the Book of Judges. Philistine beauty plots<br />
destruction of Danite she loves amid intrigue<br />
that sets two civilizations against<br />
each other. Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature.<br />
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry<br />
Wilcoxon. Director: Cecil B. DeMlUe.<br />
September Affair ...5012.... (104) Feb.<br />
Drama. Married engineer and concert pianist,<br />
mistakenly listed as lost when a plane<br />
falls into the ocean, start a new life together.<br />
"Widow" discovers them and romance<br />
ends. Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten,<br />
Jessica Tandy, Francoise Rosay. Director:<br />
William Dieterle.<br />
That's My Boy....5026....(98)<br />
Aug.<br />
Comedy. Ineffective son of ex-football hero<br />
attains position on the college team because<br />
of his wealthy father's financial contribution.<br />
A failure in the first game, he later<br />
redeems himself by successfully replacing<br />
the team's star. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,<br />
Polly Bergen, Ruth Hussey. Director: Hal<br />
Walker.<br />
Trio... 5030... (92) June<br />
Dramas. British-made. Maugham's three<br />
short stories. "The Verger" — Illiterate<br />
church verger dismissed after long service<br />
becomes chain store tycoon. "Mr. Knowall"<br />
—Egotistical smart aleck Involves himself<br />
and assorted characters in shipboard<br />
drama. "Sanatorium" — Romance among<br />
tuberculosis patients. "The Verger": James<br />
Hayter, Kathleen Harrison. "Mr. Knowall":<br />
Anne Crawford. "Sanatorium": Jean Simmons.<br />
Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold<br />
French. (J. Arthur Rank.')<br />
©Tripoli. .5005..., (95) Nov. 11, '50<br />
Technicolor Adventure Drama. In war with<br />
Tripoli, a band of marines is sent to capture<br />
seaport. They meet a treacherous desert<br />
leader but are warned by girl of his entourage<br />
and win the objective. Maureen<br />
O'Hara. John Payne, Howard da Silva,<br />
Philip Reed. Director: Will Price. (Pine-<br />
Thomas Productions.)<br />
Union Station, .5002. (80) Sept. '50<br />
Drama. Action takes place in New York's<br />
Union Station, where kidnapers arrange a<br />
meeting place with a millionaire whose<br />
blind daughter they are holding for ransom.<br />
William Holden. Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald,<br />
Lyle Bettger, Allene Roberts. Director:<br />
Rudolph Mate.<br />
©Warpath... .5025.... (95)<br />
Aug.<br />
Technicolor Action Drama. Ex-army captain<br />
enlists as' a private In cavalry regiment<br />
where two bandits, whom he has<br />
sought for years, serve. The Indians attack<br />
and one outlaw deserts and the other is<br />
killed. Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest<br />
Tucker, Harry Carey Jr., Polly Bergen.<br />
Director: Byron Haskin.<br />
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W©Alice in Wonderland... (75) July 28<br />
Technicolor Cartoon. The English classic,<br />
by Lewis Carroll, about a little girl who follows<br />
a rabbit down its hole into Wonderland.<br />
She has marvelous adventures and<br />
awakens in time to save herself from the<br />
wicked Queen of Hearts. Directors: Clyde<br />
Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson.<br />
(Walt Disney.)<br />
©Best of the Badmen....l76....(84) June 16<br />
Technicolor Western. Adventures of former<br />
members of QuantriU's Raiders with an ex-<br />
Union officer who becomes theii- leader in<br />
outlawry. Leader finally surrenders to<br />
authorities to clear his name. Robert Ryan.<br />
Claire Trevor. Jack Buetel, Robert Preston.<br />
Walter Brennan. Director: William D. Russell.<br />
Border Treasure. ..105... (60) Sept. 16, '50<br />
Western. Cowboy trails gang leader when<br />
treasure collected for stricken Mexican<br />
village by beautiful girl is stolen. The loot<br />
is recovered and started on its errand of<br />
mercy. Tim Holt, Richard Martin. Jane<br />
Nigh, Inez Cooper, House Peters jr. Director:<br />
George Archainbaud.<br />
Born to Be Bad. .101. ...(94) Aug. 30, '50<br />
Drama. Ruthless female love pirate, who<br />
hides her avariciousness behind a smile of<br />
innocence, ultimately reveals her true self<br />
to the two men who loved her and loses<br />
them both. Joan Fontaine. Robert Ryan,<br />
Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer. Director:<br />
Nicholas Ray.<br />
Bunco Squad. ...104.... (62) Sept. 4, '50<br />
Drama. Exposes fake mediums who prey on<br />
wealthy, bereaved persons, with murder no<br />
obstacle. Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon,<br />
Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley, Elisabeth<br />
Ri.sdon. Director: Herbert I. Leeds.<br />
Company She Keeps, The....l09 (83). Jan. 13<br />
Drama. Two women, one a parole officer,<br />
the other a parolee, are in love with the<br />
same man. The officer makes the sacrifice<br />
so parolee may find happiness and a new<br />
life. Lizabeth Scott. Jane Greer, Dennis<br />
O'Keefe. Director: John Cromwell.<br />
Cry Danger. .115. ...(79) Feb. 10<br />
Melodrama. Man, falsely convicted on a<br />
murder charge, is freed from prison by a<br />
phony alibi. Seeking revenge, he proves his<br />
innocence by forcing a confession from the<br />
actual murderer. Dick Powell, Rhonda<br />
Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad.<br />
Director<br />
: Parrish.<br />
Double Deal 112. (65) Jan. 15<br />
Drama. Murder is done for the rights to<br />
an oil well, which, when it finally is<br />
brought in, proves to be water. Richard<br />
Denning, Marie Windsor. Taylor Holmes,<br />
Fay Baker. Director: Abby Berlin.<br />
Edge of Doom. .152... (9) Sept. 30, '50<br />
Drama. Tragic story of a grief-stricken<br />
tenement lad who murders a priest for refusing<br />
to give his mother an elaborate<br />
funeral. Dana Andrews, Farley Granger,<br />
Joan Evans, Mala Powers, Robert Keith.<br />
Director: Mark Robson. (Samuel Goldwyn.)<br />
Experiment Alcatraz ...107 (58).,. Nov. 21, '50<br />
Drama. Atomic medical research experiment<br />
on a group of convicts is used as an<br />
excuse for deliberate murder by one of the<br />
participants. John Howard. Joan Dixon,<br />
Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter. Director:<br />
Edward L. Cahn.<br />
Foothght Varieties. .116 (61) Apr, 14<br />
Variety Revue. With Jack Paar as master<br />
of ceremonies, this presents a series of<br />
comedy and specialty acts and clips from<br />
past RKO films. Leon Errol. Jack Paar. The<br />
Sportsmen. Liberace, Harmonicats, Frankie<br />
Carle, Red Buttons. Director: George Bilson.<br />
Gambling House. ..110... (80) Jan. 27<br />
Melodrama. Paid stand-in for a murderer is<br />
tried and acquitted. He is threatened with<br />
deportation as an alien but pleads for a<br />
chance to become a citizen. Victor Mature,<br />
William Bendix, Terry Moore, Zachary A.<br />
Charles. Director: Ted Tetzlaff.<br />
Gunplay. .120 (60) June 7<br />
Western. The two heroes befriend a lad<br />
whose father has been murdered. A man<br />
who controls the town, terrorizing the people,<br />
is proved to be the killer. Tim Holt,<br />
Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Harper Carter.<br />
Director: Lesley Selander.<br />
Hard, Fast and Beautiful... 119.... (78)....June 29<br />
Drama. Ruthlessly ambitious mother pushes<br />
her daughter into amateur championship<br />
tennis play. The girl discovers her mothers<br />
ulterior motives and abandons tennis for romance.<br />
Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton<br />
Young, Robert Clarke. Director: Ida<br />
Lupino. (A Filmakers Production.)<br />
Hunt the Man Down....llL... (68) Jan. 8<br />
Mystery Drama. Public defender seeks to<br />
solve a killing with which an innocent man<br />
is charged. He brings an insane witness<br />
into court and frightens the killer into a<br />
confession. Gig Young, Lynne Roberts.<br />
Mary Anderson, Willard Parker. Director:<br />
George Archainbaud.<br />
0Joan of Arc. .165. ..(118) Nov. 1, '50<br />
Technicolor Historical Drama, Based on<br />
history's tragic figure of 15th century<br />
France, the famous Maid of Orleans, who<br />
led the French army to victory, then was<br />
burned at the stake. Ingrid Bergman, Jose<br />
Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish,<br />
Gene Lockhart. Director: Victor Fleming.<br />
(Sierra Pictures.)<br />
©Jungle Headhunters. .177....(65) May 26<br />
Technicolor Travelog. An expedition to the<br />
interior of South America by Explorer Lewis<br />
Cotlow. At the headwaters of the Amazon,<br />
he films the everyday existence of the<br />
Jivaro tribe of headhunters. All-native<br />
cast. Narration by Cotlow.<br />
Kon-Tiki....l73....(73) May 7<br />
Documentary Travelog. The 101-day voyage<br />
made by six scientists in a raft to prove<br />
that it is possible to go from South America<br />
to the Polynesian Islands using just wind<br />
and sea currents. Thor Hyerdahl, Knut<br />
Haugland, Erik Hesselberg, Torstein Raaby.<br />
Introduction: Ben Grauer. (An Art Film,<br />
A. B.)<br />
Law of the Badlands.. ..113.. ..(60) Feb. 24<br />
Western. Two Texas Rangers masquerade<br />
as outlaws to round up a gang of counterfeiters.<br />
Tim Holt. Richard Martin, Joan<br />
Dixon, Robert Livingston. Director: Lesley<br />
Selander.<br />
Mad Wednesday (formerly "The Sin of<br />
Harold Diddlebock")....166.... (77)....Oct. 28, '50<br />
Comedy. Milquetoast bookkeeper fired after<br />
years of service with the same firm, takes<br />
his first drink, and finds himself with a<br />
circus on his hands. Harold Lloyd. Frances<br />
Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin. Raymond Walburn,<br />
Edgar Kennedy. Arline Judge. Director:<br />
Pi-eston Sturges. (Howard Hughes.)<br />
My Forbidden Past. .114.... (70) Apr. 21<br />
Drama. Socially ostracized heroine is<br />
crushed when doctor she loves marries another.<br />
She inherits a fortune and plots to<br />
break up the marriage, inadvertently<br />
bringing about the death of the wife.<br />
Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn<br />
Douglas, Janis Carter. Director: Robert<br />
Stevenson.<br />
Never a Dull Moment....l06 (89). ..Nov, 22, '50<br />
Romantic Comedy. Sophisticated New<br />
York songwriter marries widowed rancher<br />
with two daughters. They quarrel when<br />
she accidentally kills a prize bull belonging<br />
to a neighbor, but are reconciled. Irene<br />
Dunne. Fred MacMurray. WiUiam Demarest,<br />
Andy Devine. Gigi Perreau, Natalie<br />
Wood. Director: George Marshall.<br />
Our Very Own. .151... (93) Aug. 5, '50<br />
Comedy Drama. Envious girl, in a moment<br />
of anger, tells her older sister that<br />
.she is an adopted child. Stunned, the girl<br />
goes through a period of self-pity and unhappiness<br />
until she realizes her blessings.<br />
Ann Blyth, Farley Granger. Joan Evans,<br />
Jane Wyatt. Donald Cook. Natalie Wood.<br />
Ann Dvorak. Director: David Miller. (Samuel<br />
Goldwyn.)<br />
Outrage....l03 (75) Oct. 7, '50<br />
Drama. Girl's life is wrecked by criminal<br />
attack. Crazed by fear she almost commits<br />
murder, but through friendship of<br />
young minister is given chance to make a<br />
new start. Mala Powers. Tod Andrews,<br />
Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Rita Lupino.<br />
Director: Ida Lupino. (A Filmakers<br />
Production.)<br />
Payment on Demand... .171... (90) Mar. 3<br />
Drama. After 20 years a husband asks his<br />
wife for a divorce. Flashback story of the<br />
marriage show causes for their unhappiness.<br />
At the end there is hope of a reconciliation.<br />
Bette Davis. Barry Sullivan. Jane Cowl,<br />
Kent Taylor, Frances Dee. Du-ector: Curtis<br />
Bernhardt. (Skirball-Manning.)<br />
Rio Grande Patrol. .108. ..(60) Oct. 21, '50<br />
Western. Two members of U.S. border patrol,<br />
assigned to work with the Mexican<br />
Rurales in a gun-smuggling case, mix it up<br />
with the crooks who operate a dance hall<br />
as a front for their activities. Tim Holt.<br />
Richard Martin, Jane Nigh. Director: Lesley<br />
Selander.<br />
Saddle Legion ...117... (60) Apr. 7<br />
Western. Two cowpunchers thwart a plot<br />
to make it appear a herd of cattle is infected.<br />
They outwit the gang and the villain<br />
is killed. Tim Holt, Richard Martin,<br />
Dorothy Malone, Cliff Clark. Director:<br />
Lesley Selander.<br />
Sealed Cargo ...118, ... (90) May 19<br />
Melodrama. In World War II fishing vessel<br />
rescues captain of a Danish ship who claims<br />
he was abandoned by his crew. Actually a<br />
mother ship for Nazi submarines, it is<br />
destroyed by the fishermen. Dana Andrews.<br />
Carla Balenda, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn.<br />
Director: Alfred Werker.<br />
Tarzan's Peril. .172... (79) Mar. 17<br />
Drama. Agent of a foreign power smuggles<br />
guns and ammunition to a tribe of African<br />
natives which wages war. taking peaceful<br />
villagers captive. Tarzan frees them and<br />
kills the foreign agent. Lex Barker. George<br />
Macready, Virginia Huston. Director:<br />
Byron Haskin.<br />
Thing From Another World, The. .174<br />
(87) Mar. 31<br />
Melodrama. Being from another planet arrives<br />
in a space ship, terrorizing a U.S.<br />
scientific research station in the Arctic<br />
Circle. It is killed when lured into a high<br />
voltage electrical current. Jim Arness. Sally<br />
Creighton, Kenneth Tobey, Eduard Franz.<br />
Director: Christian Nyby. (A Winchester<br />
Production.)<br />
Tokyo File 212....175....(84) May 5<br />
Melodrama. Experience of U.S. Army Intelligence<br />
officer checking into suspected<br />
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woman, partly implicated, and a Japanese,<br />
formerly a college pal. Florence Marly,<br />
Robert Peyton, Katsuhaiko Haida, Relko<br />
Otani. Directors: Dorrell and Stuart Mc-<br />
Gowan. (A Breakston-McGowan Production.)<br />
U©Treasure Island .191 ...(96) July 29, '50<br />
Technicolor Drama. Made in England.<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of pirates<br />
in search of hidden treasure comes to life<br />
on the screen. Bobby DriscoU. Robert Newton,<br />
Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis<br />
O'Dea. Director: Byron Haskin. (Walt<br />
Disney.)<br />
Vendetta... 167... (84) J>ec. 30. '50<br />
Drama. In an effort to wreak vengeance<br />
on the family responsible for their father's<br />
murder, a brother and sister accomplish<br />
their purpose but the girl pays with her<br />
life. Faith Domergue, George Dolenz. Hillary<br />
Brooke. Nigel Bruce, Joseph Calleia. Director:<br />
Mel Ferrer.<br />
Walk Softly, Stranger. 102. . (81) .Oct. 10, '50<br />
Drama. Small-time crook sees the error of<br />
his ways through love of crippled girl.<br />
Makes narrow escape from gamblers he has<br />
robbed. Joseph Gotten, Valli, Spring Byington,<br />
Paul Stewart, Jeff Donnell, John<br />
Mclntire. Director: Robert Stevenson.<br />
Where Danger Lives....024....(84)....Nov. 23, '50<br />
Drama. Story of a dangerous woman, on<br />
the verge of insanity, who almost ruins the<br />
career of a young doctor who falls in love<br />
with her. Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue,<br />
Claude Rains, Maureen O'SuUivan.<br />
Director: John Farrow. (1949-50.)<br />
(REISSUES)<br />
Bombardier. .J161.... (99) Sept. '50<br />
Melodrama. Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott,<br />
Anne Shirley.<br />
China Sky.. .162... (78) Sept. '50<br />
Melodrama. Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick,<br />
Ellen Drew.<br />
Lady Takes a Chance, A....164....(86)....Aug. '50<br />
Comedy. Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles<br />
Winninger.<br />
Mr. Lucky. .163... (100) Aug. '50<br />
Comedy Drama. Gary Grant, Laraine Day.<br />
Charles Bickford.<br />
Show Business... .168... (92) Nov. 16, '50<br />
Musical. Eddie Gantor, George Murphy,<br />
Joan Davis. Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore.<br />
Tarzan and the Amazons.. ..170<br />
(76) Dec. 2, '50<br />
Melodrama. Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda<br />
Joyce, Johnny Sheffield.<br />
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. ...169<br />
(72) Dec. 2, '50<br />
Melodrama. Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda<br />
Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta.<br />
They Got Me Covered. .352. ..(94) Feb. 15<br />
Comedy. Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour.<br />
Up in Arms. .452. ..(105) Feb. 15<br />
Comedy Musical. Danny Kaye, Dana<br />
Andrews, Dinah Shore.<br />
(All<br />
Realart<br />
Are Reissues)<br />
Back Street.... (89) „ June<br />
Drama. Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan,<br />
Richard Carlson.<br />
Badlands of Dakota... (74)<br />
June<br />
Western. Broderick Crawford, Lon Chaney<br />
jr., Robert Stack.<br />
Black Angel.... (80) Jan.<br />
Murder Mystery. Broderick Crawford, Dan<br />
Duryea, June Vincent.<br />
Bride of Frankenstein... (74) June<br />
Horror Drama. Boris Karloff, Valerie<br />
Hobson, Colin Clive.<br />
June<br />
Drama. George Raft, Broderick Crawford,<br />
Janet Blair.<br />
Broadway ....(91)<br />
June<br />
Buck Privates... (84)<br />
Comedy. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. Andrews<br />
Sisters.<br />
California Straight Ahead.... (67) June<br />
Action Drama. John Wayne, Louise Latimer,<br />
Robert McWade.<br />
Cohens and Kellys in Africa... (82) Oct.<br />
Comedy. George Sidney, Charlie Murray,<br />
Vera Gordon.<br />
Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood. ... (78) Oct.<br />
Comedy. George Sidney, Charlie Murray,<br />
Lew Ayres, Boris Karloff.<br />
Condemned to Hang (formerly "Phantom<br />
Lady").... (76)<br />
Feb.<br />
Drama. Franchot Tone, Alan Curtis, Ella<br />
Raines.<br />
Confessions of a Model (formerly "Rage<br />
of Paris").... (78) Apr.<br />
Comedy. Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks<br />
jr., Louis Hayward.<br />
Criminals of the Underworld (formerly<br />
"Eyes of the Underworld").... (61) Apr.<br />
Melodrama. Richard Dix, Lon Chaney,<br />
Wendy Barrie.<br />
Deadly Enemies (formerly "The<br />
Runaround") .... (86) Feb.<br />
Drama. Rod Cameron, Broderick Crawford,<br />
Ella Raines.<br />
Diamond Jim.... (91)<br />
June<br />
Comedy Drama. Edward Arnold, Cesar<br />
Romero, Jean Arthur.<br />
Fighting Sullivans, The (formerly<br />
"The SulUvan8")....(lll) Jan.<br />
Drama. Anne Baxter. Thomas Mitchell,<br />
Selena Royle.<br />
Fighting the Racketeers (formerly<br />
"Big Town Czar") ....(66)<br />
Apr.<br />
Action Drama. Ed Sullivan, Jack LaRue,<br />
Frank Jenks.<br />
Flame of New Orleans, The. (79) June<br />
Romantic Comedy. Marlene Dietrich. Bruce<br />
Cabot, Roland Young.<br />
Guerrillas of the Underground (formerly<br />
"Paris Underground").. ..(97) May<br />
War Drama. Constance Bennett, Gracie<br />
Fields, George Rigaud.<br />
Hired Wife... (96) June<br />
Comedy Drama. Rosalind Russell, Brian<br />
Aherne. Virginia Bruce.<br />
Hit the Road... (61) June<br />
Melodrama. Dead End Kids, Little Tough<br />
Guys, Evelyn Ankers, Barton MacLane.<br />
House of Dracula .. (67) Oct. '50<br />
Horror Melodrama. Lon Chaney, John Carradine.<br />
House of Frankenstein.... (71) Oct. '50<br />
Horror Melodrama. Boris Karloff, Lon<br />
Chaney jr.<br />
Idol of the Crowds. (62) June<br />
Action Drama. John Wayne, Sheila Bromley.<br />
Billy Burrud.<br />
Jungle Woman... (67) June<br />
Melodrama. Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish,<br />
Lois Collier, Acquanetta.<br />
Letter of Introduction.... (103) June<br />
Melodrama. George Murphy, Ann Sheridan,<br />
Rita Johnson. Edgar Bergen and Charlie<br />
McCarthy.<br />
Little Giant.... (91) May<br />
Comedy. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda<br />
Joyce.<br />
Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The<br />
(82) June<br />
Melodrama. Claude Rains, Joan Bennett,<br />
Wallace Ford, Lionel Atwill.<br />
Massacre in the Orient (formerly<br />
"Danger in the Pacific"). .(60) May<br />
Melodrama. Leo Carrillo, Turhan Bey, Don<br />
Terry.<br />
Mob Town... (60)<br />
June<br />
Comedy Drama. Dead End Kids, Little<br />
Tough Guys, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne.<br />
Murders in the Rue Morgue. ...(62) June<br />
Horror Drama. Bela Lugosi, Sidney Pox.<br />
Bert Roach.<br />
Phantom of Paris. ..(60)<br />
Mar.<br />
Mystery Melodrama. Maria Montez, Patric<br />
Knowles, John Litel.<br />
Prison Break ....(72)<br />
June<br />
Melodrama. Barton MacLane, Constance<br />
Moore, Glenda Farrell. Ward Bond.<br />
Raven, The... (61) June<br />
Horror Drama. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi.<br />
Irene Ware.<br />
River Gang (64) Oct. '50<br />
Drama. Gloria Jean. John Qualen.<br />
Salerno Beachhead (formerly "A Walk in<br />
the Sun") ... ,(117) Jan.<br />
War Drama. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte,<br />
John Ireland.<br />
San Francisco Docks. ..(66) Oct. '50<br />
Drama. Barry Fitzgerald, Burgess Meredith.<br />
Scarlet Street... (102) June<br />
Drama. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett,<br />
Dan Duryea.<br />
Secrets of a Sinner (formerly<br />
"Sinners in Paradise"). .. (63) Apr.<br />
Drama. John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Madge<br />
Evans.<br />
Seven Sinners... (86) June<br />
Drama. John Wayne, Broderick Crawford.<br />
Marlene Dietrich.<br />
Son of Frankenstein. (94) June<br />
Horror Drama. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff.<br />
Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill.<br />
South of Tahiti... (75) June<br />
Comedy Drama. Broderick Crawford, Maria<br />
Montez, Brian Donlevy.<br />
Spoilers, The... (87) June<br />
Action Drama. John Wayne. Randolph<br />
Scott, Marlene Dietrich.<br />
Stormy... (68)<br />
June<br />
Drama. Noah Beery jr.. Jean Rogers, J.<br />
Farrell MacDonald.<br />
Sutter's Gold... (94) June<br />
Drama. Edward Ai-nold, Lee Tracy, Binnie<br />
Barnes.<br />
Tangier. .. (76) Jan.<br />
Melodrama. Maria Montez, Sabu, Robert<br />
Paige, Preston Foster.<br />
Time of Their Lives, The. (82) May<br />
Comedy. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie<br />
Reynolds.<br />
Tower of London... (92) June<br />
Historical Drama. Basil Rathbone, Boris<br />
Karloff. Vincent Price, Nan Grey.<br />
Trail of the Vigilantes (75) June<br />
Western. Broderick Crawford, Franchot<br />
Tone, Peggy Moran.<br />
Warden of the Big House (formerly<br />
"The Big Guy") (78) June<br />
Melodrama. Victor McLaglen, Jackie<br />
Cooper, Peggy Moran.<br />
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Werewolf of London... (76) Mar.<br />
Mystery Melodrama. Henry Hull, Valerie<br />
Hob.son. Warner Oland.<br />
Wolf Man, The. .(70)<br />
June<br />
Horror Melodrama. Claude Rains, Ralph<br />
Bellamy. Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney jr.,<br />
Evelyn Ankers.<br />
Republic<br />
(September 15, 1950 through October 15, 1951 ><br />
Arizona Manhunt .5068. ..(60) Sept. 15<br />
Western. Orphaned daughter of outlaw is<br />
cared for by the sheriff when she is found<br />
by his grandson. She learns to respect the<br />
law and helps sheriff capture the outlaw<br />
leader. Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen,<br />
James Bell, Lucille Barkley. Director: Fred<br />
C. Brannon.<br />
Belle Le Grand. ...5006 ... (90) Jan. 27<br />
Action Drama. Notorious woman gambler<br />
becomes involved in mining stock speculation<br />
and falls in love with the mine owner.<br />
She and her sister become rivals for his<br />
affections. Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Hope<br />
Emerson, Grant Withers, Stephen Chase,<br />
John Qualen. Director: Allan Dwan.<br />
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas ...5066... (60). May 1<br />
Western. First of series featuring child<br />
actors. A conflict over land bearing rich<br />
bauxite deposits, leads to kidnaping and a<br />
murder. Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen,<br />
James Bell. Director: Philip Ford.<br />
Bullfighter and the Lady. .5009. ..(87). ...May 15<br />
Drama. Made in Mexico. American sportsman<br />
learns bullfighting from leading matador,<br />
who is gored to death when he rescues<br />
his pupil in the ring. American stages<br />
benefit for the widow and becomes public<br />
idol. Robert Stack. Joy Page, Gilbert Roland,<br />
Virginia Grey, John Hubbard. Director:<br />
Oscar Boetticher.<br />
California Passage .5005... (90) Dec. 15, '50<br />
Western. Two partners in a saloon love the<br />
same girl. One is secretly the leader of a<br />
holdup gang and plots to kill his partner,<br />
gain control of saloon, a gold mine and the<br />
girl. Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita<br />
Rodriguez, Jim Davis, Peter Miles. Director:<br />
Joseph Kane.<br />
Cuban Fireball... 5007... (78) Mar. 5<br />
Comedy. Cuban heiress disguises herself as<br />
old, ugly "aunt" to avoid wolves who might<br />
marry her for her money, creating entanglements<br />
with immigration authorities and<br />
police when she is suspected of murder.<br />
Estelita Rodriguez, Warren Douglas, Mimi<br />
Aguglia, Leon Belasco. Director: William<br />
Beaudine.<br />
Dakota Kid, The. .5067. ..(60) July 1<br />
Western. Second of series featuring child<br />
actors. Kindly sheriff, his grandson and<br />
the boy's playmate reform an escaped convict<br />
who is brought to town by a ruthless<br />
saloonkeeper to aid in his crooked operations.<br />
Michael Chapin, Eilene Jans.sen,<br />
James Bell, Dann Morton. Director- Philip<br />
Ford.<br />
Fighting Coast Guard 5010 .<br />
June 1<br />
Drama. Veteran, determined to stay out of<br />
service and make money in a shipyard, is<br />
forced to join the Coast Guard rather than<br />
be drafted. Almost in spite of himself, he<br />
becomes a hero. Brian Donlevy, Forrest<br />
Tucker, Ella Raines, Richard Jaeckel. Director:<br />
Joseph Kane.<br />
Fort Dodge Stampede... .5062... (60) Aug. 24<br />
Western. Deputy sheriff arrives in a ghost<br />
town searching for $30,000 in loot. A group<br />
of pioneers resettle the place and hero<br />
finds the money and the gang who stole it.<br />
Allan "Rocky" Lane, Chubby Johnson, Mary<br />
Ellen Kay, Roy Barcroft. Director: Harry<br />
Keller.<br />
Fugitive Lady... 5011... (78) July 15<br />
Melodrama. Made in Italy. Young wife of<br />
a wealthy industrialist is discovered to have<br />
plotted his murder which had first been<br />
judged an accident. Janis Paige, Binnie<br />
Barnes, Massimo Serato, Eduardo Ciannelli.<br />
Director: Sidney Salkow.<br />
Heart of the Rockies 5042 (67) Mar. 30<br />
Western. Engineer constructing highway<br />
using prison labor thwarts the rascally foreman<br />
of a ranch who has framed the workmen<br />
for his own crimes. Roy Rogers, Penny<br />
Edwards, Ralph Morgan. Gordon Jones.<br />
Director: William Witney.<br />
Hit Parade of 1951 5002 (85) Oct. 15, '50<br />
Musical. Professional gambler, whose<br />
double is a Hollywood radio singing star,<br />
maneuvers latter into taking his place In<br />
Las Vegas while he goes to Hollywood to<br />
get away from big-money troubles. A<br />
comedy of errors results from the mistaken<br />
identities. John Carroll, Marie McDonald,<br />
Estelita Rodriguez, The Firehouse Five Plus<br />
Two, Bobby Ramos and His Rumba Band.<br />
Director: John H. Auer.<br />
In Old AmariUo. 5043....(67) May 15<br />
Western. Young cattleman bests an unscrupulous<br />
ranch manager who seeks to buy<br />
herds cheap by depriving their owners of<br />
water sources. Hero employs artificial rainmaking<br />
devices to aid the ranchers. Roy<br />
Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards.<br />
Roy Barcroft. Director: William Witney.<br />
Insurance Investigator... .5026... (60) Mar. 23<br />
Melodrama. Hero solves a series of "accidental"<br />
deaths, which have been costing<br />
his company heavily, by proving that<br />
gamblers have been committing the murders<br />
and collecting insurance benefits. Richard<br />
Denning, Audrey Long. John Eldredge, Hillary<br />
Brooke. Director: George Blair.<br />
Macbeth. .5003 (85) Oct. 29, '50<br />
Drama. Screen dramatization of the<br />
Shakespearean tragedy in familiar story of<br />
the murderous Scot and his ambitionridden<br />
wife. Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan.<br />
Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier, Dan<br />
O'Herlihy. Director: Or.son Welles. (Mercury<br />
Productions.)<br />
Million Dollar Pursuit. .5028 ...(60) May 30<br />
Drama. Planning a big robbery, a smalltime<br />
crook is forced to take two partners.<br />
They bring it off but his ex-sweetheart informs<br />
the police. He kidnaps her but she<br />
is rescued. Penny Edwards, Grant Withers,<br />
Steve Flagg, Norman Budd. Director: R. G.<br />
Springsteen.<br />
'.<br />
Missing Women. .5025.... (60)<br />
Feb. 23<br />
Melodrama. A girl sets out to find the<br />
killers, when her bridegroom of an hour is<br />
shot to death by members of a gang dealing<br />
in stolen cars. Penny Edwards, James<br />
Millican, John Gallaudet, John Alvin, Fritz<br />
Feld. Director: Philip Ford.<br />
Night Riders of Montana. 5059. (60). ...Feb. 28<br />
Western. Hero traps a gang of cattle<br />
rustlers against whom ranchers have organized<br />
a company of state rangers. He<br />
clears one of the rangers of a false murder<br />
charge. Allan "Rocky" Lane, Claudia Barrett,<br />
Chubby Johnson, Roy Barcroft. Director:<br />
Fred C. Brannon.<br />
©Oh! Susanna....5008 ... (90) Mar. 10<br />
Trucolor Historical Western. A cavalry<br />
company guards Sioux territory from<br />
marauding gold-rushers. Masquerading as<br />
Indians, the rushers raid ranches and the<br />
soldiers retaliate, leaving a small group to<br />
meet the real Indian attack. Rod Cameron,<br />
Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills,<br />
James Lydon. Director; Joseph Kane.<br />
Pride of Maryland .5023.... (60) Jan. 20<br />
Drama. The hectic career of a jockey culminates<br />
in his riding in a race against a<br />
horse owned by the girl he loves. She<br />
respects his integrity and forgives him for<br />
defeating her horse. Stanley Clements,<br />
Peggy Stewart, Frankie Darro, Joe Sawyer.<br />
Director: Philip Ford.<br />
Ray Robinson-Randolph Turpin<br />
Fight, The .5095.... (53) July 20<br />
Sport Film. British-made. This presents<br />
the full Ray Robinson-Randolph Turpin<br />
fight in London where Robinson lost the<br />
middleweight championship. Narrator:<br />
Jimmy Powers. (Adelphi Films.)<br />
Rio Grande... 5004... (105) Nov. 15, '50<br />
Western Drama. Estranged when he fights<br />
for the North in Civil War, army officer<br />
and his wife are reunited when son serves<br />
under his command in the Indian Wars.<br />
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson,<br />
Claude Jarman jr., Harry Carey jr.,<br />
Victor McLaglen. Director: John Ford.<br />
(Argosy Pictures.)<br />
Rodeo King and the Senorita....5053<br />
(67) July 15<br />
Western. New rider joins wild west show<br />
and is able to expose plot to kill one of the<br />
owners and gain financial control of the<br />
enterprise. Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay,<br />
Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft. Director:<br />
Philip Ford.<br />
Bough Riders of Durango..5058.. .(60)....Jan. 30<br />
Western. Hero foils a plot to steal money<br />
advanced to farmers for adequate guard to<br />
protect their shipments of produce to<br />
market. Allan "Rocky" Lane, Aline Towne,<br />
Walter Baldwin, Steve Darrell, Ross Ford.<br />
Director: Fred C. Brannon.<br />
Secrets of Monte Carlo....5030.... (60)....June 20<br />
Melodrama. American traveling by plane<br />
• to the Orient, becomes involved in the<br />
doings of a jewel-smuggling gang, when he<br />
carries a suitcase for a fellow passenger.<br />
Warren Douglas, Lois Hall, June Vincent,<br />
Robin Hughes. Director: George Blair.<br />
Silver City Bonanza. 5051. (67) Mar. 1<br />
Western. Unscrupulous men try to oust<br />
woman rancher, believing treasure is buried<br />
at the bottom of a lake on her property.<br />
Hero exposes gang and kUls leader in an<br />
underwater fight. Rex Allen, Buddy Ebsen,<br />
Mary Ellen Kay. Director: George Blair.<br />
Spoilers of the Plains. .5041. ..(67) Feb. 2<br />
Outdoor Musical. Oil company superintendent<br />
thwarts a gang of foreign agents seeking<br />
control of a rocket weather forecaster.<br />
Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones,<br />
Grant Withers. Director: William Witney.<br />
Surrender....5001....(90) Sept. 15, '50<br />
Drama. Beautiful golddigger ditches husband<br />
and starts to acquire gambling house<br />
proprietor to replace him. She switches to<br />
a newspaper man with more money but<br />
husband turns up and she kills him. John<br />
Carroll, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan,<br />
Francis Lederer. Director: Allan Dwan.<br />
Thunder in God's Country. .5052<br />
(67) Apr. 8<br />
Western. Hero prevents a band of criminals<br />
from turriing a peaceful community into<br />
a wide-open gambling resort, aided by the<br />
daughter of a crusading newspaper editor<br />
whom they had murdered. Rex Allen, Mary<br />
Ellen Kay, Buddy Ebsen, Ian MacDonald.<br />
Director: George Blair.<br />
©Trail of Robin Hood. .4946<br />
(67) Dec. 15, '50<br />
Trucolor Western. A Christmas tree production<br />
contract gives crooks an opportunity<br />
to try to establish a racket, which<br />
is foiled by the Soil Conservation Service.<br />
Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Jack Holt and<br />
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Monte Hale. Director: William Witney.<br />
(1949-50.)<br />
Utah Wagon TTaiii....5054....(67) Oct. 15<br />
Western. Hero's uncle is mysteriously murdered<br />
when he leads a wagon train over<br />
a trail unused for 100 years. Nephew takes<br />
uncle's place with wagon party to find the<br />
motive and the murderer. Rex Allen. Pemiy<br />
Edwards. Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft,<br />
Grant Withers. Director: Philip Ford.<br />
Wells Fargo Gunmaster....5061 (60) ...May 15<br />
Western. Posing as a stick-up man, a special<br />
investigator for the express company<br />
is able to track down and capture a gang<br />
of outlaws who have been holding up stage<br />
coaches. Allan "Rocky" Lane, Chubby Johnson.<br />
Mary Ellen Kay. Michael Chapin. Director:<br />
Philip Ford.<br />
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Lost Planet Airmen. .5031.... (65) July 25<br />
Fantasy. (Re-edited from the serial,<br />
"King of the Rocket Men.") Mad scientist,<br />
seeking to gain control of the earth through<br />
machines he has invented, is opposed by<br />
sane scientist and two newspaper people.<br />
He is prevented from destroying New York<br />
City. Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don<br />
Haggerty, House Peters jr. Director: Fred<br />
C. Brannon.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
(September, 1950 through September, 1951)<br />
AH About Eve. .030., ..(138) Nov. '50<br />
Drama. As actress receives award for her<br />
work, story flashes back to her rise as a<br />
star. Shows her as avaricious girl, masquerading<br />
under a cloak of innocence, who<br />
realizes her ambitions at the expense of<br />
those who had befriended her. Bette Davis,<br />
Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm,<br />
Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe. Director:<br />
Joseph L. Mankiewicz.<br />
©American Guerrilla in the Philippines<br />
032... (105) Dec. '50<br />
Technicolor Drama. A few survivors of the<br />
squadron which helped General MacArthur<br />
escape from Corregidor, become underground<br />
guerrillas. After stirring adventures<br />
they are rescued by MacArthur's forces.<br />
Tyrone Power, Micheline Prelle, Tom Ewell,<br />
Bob Patten. Director: Fritz Lang.<br />
As Young as You Feel. .120.... (77) June<br />
Comedy. Discharged as too old, a printer<br />
completely disorganizes the company he has<br />
long served by posing as its eastern president<br />
on an inspection tour. Monty Woolley,<br />
Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters,<br />
Contance Bennett. Director: Harmon Jones.<br />
©Bird of Paradise. ...109. ...(100) Mar.<br />
Technicolor Drama. Romance of a Frenchman<br />
and a native South Sea island girl.<br />
Tragedy intervenes when she throws herself<br />
into a volcano as a sacrifice to the<br />
island gods. Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget,<br />
Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane, Maurice<br />
Schwartz. Director: Delmer Daves.<br />
©Call Me Mister....l04.. .. (95) Feb.<br />
Technicolor Musical Comedy. Estranged<br />
husband and wife, a former song-anddance<br />
team, are reunited when she plays<br />
with a theatrical troupe in Japan where<br />
he is stationed with the army of occupation.<br />
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny<br />
Thomas. Director: Lloyd Bacon.<br />
©David and Bathsheba. 147<br />
'^15)<br />
Pre-release<br />
Technicolor Biblical Drama. (Roadshow engagements<br />
only.) Old Testament story of<br />
King David's love for the wife of one of<br />
his captains. Drought strikes the land and<br />
the adulteress is blamed. David repents<br />
and is forgiven by Jehovah. Gregory Peck,<br />
Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron<br />
Moore, Jayne Meadows. Director: Henry<br />
King.<br />
Day the Earth Stood Still, The... 129<br />
(92) Sept.<br />
Fantasy. Ambassador from an outer planet<br />
arrives in a space ship accompanied by<br />
an all-powerful atomic robot. The ambassador<br />
is killed but the robot revives him<br />
and they leave with parting threats.<br />
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe,<br />
Sam Jaffe. Director: Robert Wise.<br />
Farewell to Yesterday. .028. ..(90) Sept. '50<br />
Documentary. World history from the treaty<br />
of Versailles, giving the background of<br />
events leading to World War II and Korea.<br />
Narration by Sidney Blackmer, John<br />
Larkin, Kermit Murdock, William Post jr.<br />
(A Movietonews Production.)<br />
Fireball, The ...023. ... (84) Oct. '50<br />
Drama. Story of a runaway orphan lad<br />
who rises to success as a skating champ,<br />
but Tjecomes too cocky. An attack of polio<br />
makes him gain humility. Mickey Rooney,<br />
Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, Marilyn Monroe,<br />
James Brown. Director: Tay Garnett.<br />
(A Thor Production.)<br />
Follow the Sun...ll2....(90)<br />
May<br />
Biographical Drama. Life story of professional<br />
golfer, Ben Hogan. After a nearfatal<br />
accident he makes a sensational<br />
comeback and wins the plaudits of the<br />
crowd. Glenn Ford, Arme Baxter, Dennis<br />
O'Keefe, June Havoc. Director: Sidney<br />
Lanfield.<br />
For Heaven's Sake... 033... (92) Dec. '50<br />
Comedy. An angel is assigned to help a<br />
little girl be born to a theatrical couple.<br />
He materializes as a rich rancher and<br />
succumbs to earthly temptations. Clifton<br />
Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings,<br />
Edmund Gwenn, Joan Blondell. Director:<br />
George Seaton.<br />
14 Hours.. ..114... (92) Apr.<br />
Drama. Heroic struggle of a patrolman to<br />
save the life of a young would-be suicide,<br />
perched on the ledge of a New York hotel<br />
high above the street. Paul Douglas, Richard<br />
Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes. Debra<br />
Paget. Director: Henry Hathaway.<br />
uFrogmen, The. .122. ...(96)<br />
July<br />
Melodrama. An account of the problems of<br />
an officer directing operations of one of<br />
the navy's underwater demolition teams.<br />
At first unpopular, he wins confidence of<br />
his men by personal sacrifice. Richard<br />
Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill.<br />
Director: Lloyd Bacon.<br />
Guy Who Came Back, The....ll8 (91) July<br />
Drama. Professional football player, unable<br />
to accept the fact he is slipping, tries to<br />
be an entertainer and later a wrestler, but<br />
without success. He makes a sensational<br />
comeback in a football game and is reunited<br />
with his family. Paul Douglas, Joan<br />
Bennett, Linda Darnell, Don DePore. Director:<br />
Joseph Newman.<br />
©Half Angel. .116 ..(80) June<br />
Technicolor Comedy. Victim of a split personality,<br />
a normally prim girl becomes a<br />
siren and leaves her stodgy fiance to pursue<br />
a more compelling romantic interest.<br />
Marriage to the man she really loves cures<br />
her. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil<br />
Kellaway. Director: Richard Sale.<br />
©Halls of Montezuma... 103... (113) Jan.<br />
Technicolor Drama. Exploits of a battalion<br />
of U.S. marines in the invasion of an<br />
island in the South Pacific held by the<br />
Japanese. Depicts the grim hon-ors of war.<br />
Richard Widmark, Walter Palance, Reginald<br />
Gardiner, Robert Wagner. Director:<br />
Lewis Milestone.<br />
House on Telegraph Hill. .117.. ..(93) June<br />
Drama. Woman steals a friend's identity<br />
after her death in a concentration camp.<br />
She comes to America to claim the dead<br />
woman's son and his inheritance and prevents<br />
his murder by a villainous guardian.<br />
Valentina Cortesa, William Lundigan, Richard<br />
Basehart. Director: Robert Wise.<br />
I<br />
Can Get It For You Wholesale<br />
111.... (90) Apr.<br />
Drama. Ambitious model builds up a garment<br />
business with a young salesman as<br />
partner. She is about to accept a wealthy<br />
lover when she realizes she loves her partner.<br />
Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George<br />
Sanders, Vicki Cummings. Director: Michael<br />
Gordon.<br />
©I'd Climb the Highest Mountain<br />
105.... (88) Feb.<br />
Technicolor Drama. Rural minister and his<br />
bride go to a Blue Ridge mountain community<br />
where the difficulties seem insurmountable.<br />
Before they leave the people<br />
are completely won over. Susan Hayward,<br />
William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun,<br />
Lynn Bari, Barbara Bates. Director: Henry<br />
King.<br />
©I'll Get By... .027. ...(83) Oct. '50<br />
Technicolor Musical. Partnership of publisher<br />
and song writer succeeds with aid<br />
of two girl songsters. Publisher's romance<br />
hits the rocks but smooths out when all<br />
four meet in the South Pacific. June Haver,<br />
William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven, Dennis<br />
Day, Harry James. Director: Richard Sale.<br />
Jackpot, The..031....(87) JJov. '50<br />
Comedy. Hilarious complications when<br />
small town business executive answers radio<br />
quiz question. He suffers while trying to<br />
raise income tax and convince wife he is<br />
true. James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Patricia<br />
Medina, Fred Clark, Natahe Wood.<br />
Director: Walter Lang.<br />
Kefauver Senate Crime Investigation, The<br />
138.... (52) Apr.<br />
News Feature. Highlights of Senate Crime<br />
Investigation committee hearings held in<br />
New York and Washington, photographed,<br />
compiled and edited by Movietone News.<br />
Frank Costello, Virginia Hill, Ambassador<br />
William O'Dwyer and otliers. Senators<br />
Kefauver, Tobey, O'Conor and Rudolph<br />
Halley, committee's chief counsel. Narration<br />
by Joe King.<br />
Lucky Nick Cain. .108.... (87)<br />
Mar.<br />
Melodrama. American gambler in Italy<br />
finds himself the prey of an international<br />
counterfeit gang. He is framed on a bogus<br />
murder charge. George Raft, Coleen Gray,<br />
Charles Goldner, Walter Rilla. Director:<br />
Joseph Newman. (Kaydor Pi-oductions.i<br />
Man Who Cheated Himself,<br />
The<br />
102.... (81) Jan.<br />
Drama. Cheating wife shoots her husband<br />
and her paramour seeks to cover up the<br />
crime. His brother uncovers evidence<br />
against the two and the wife is brought to<br />
trial. Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt.<br />
Director: Felix E. Feist.<br />
©Meet Me After the Show. .125.... (86). ...Aug.<br />
Technicolor Musical. Broadway producer<br />
has made his wife a successful star. They<br />
quarrel and separate when she finds he has<br />
a wealthy female backer. She suffers from<br />
amnesia but recovers and they are reconciled.<br />
Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey,<br />
Eddie Albert, Rory Calhoun, Irene Ryan.<br />
Director: Richard Sale.<br />
Millionaire for Christy, A. .127.... (91) Sept.<br />
Comedy. Secretary sets out to marry man<br />
who has inherited a fortune but is already<br />
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''Singin' in the Rain"
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engaged. After many complications she<br />
wins the man but he loses the fortune.<br />
Eleanor Parker, Fred MacMurray, Richard<br />
Carlson, Una Merkel. Director: George<br />
Marshall. (A Thor Production.)<br />
WMister 880... .024. ..(90) Oct. '50<br />
Comedy Drama. Lovable old junk dealer,<br />
whose desire to help others leads him to<br />
print $1 counterfeit bills. Treasury agent,<br />
working on the case, meets the old gent and<br />
they become fast friends, each unaware of<br />
the other's identity.<br />
Burt Lancaster, Dorothy<br />
McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, Minor Watson.<br />
Director: Edmund Goulding.<br />
Mr. Belvedere Ringrs the Bell... 124... (87). Aug.<br />
Comedy Drama. An author enters a home<br />
for the aged, stirs up a lively interest<br />
among the inmates, thereby proving that<br />
life can be wonderful at eighty. Clifton<br />
Webb, Joanne Dru, Hugh Marlowe, Zero<br />
Mostel. Director: Henry Koster.<br />
Mudlark, The....l01....(99) _ Jan.<br />
Historical Drama. Produced in England.<br />
A waterfront waif is the instrument by<br />
which Prime Minister Disraeli arouses the<br />
grieving Queen Victoria to a renewed interest<br />
in the affairs of her countrymen.<br />
Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Finlay Currie,<br />
Andrew Ray. Director: Jean Negulesco.<br />
No Way Out... 025....(10«) Oct. '50<br />
Drama. When a white man dies in a prison<br />
ward, his brother charges the Negro doctor<br />
murdered him. A race riot results from<br />
the false accusation. Richard Widmark,<br />
Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney<br />
Poitier. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.<br />
Of Men and Music. .137. .. (85). Special—Mar.<br />
Classical Music. The art of Rubinstein.<br />
Heifetz, Peerce, Conner and the New York<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in sound<br />
and sight for future generations. Narrated<br />
by Deems Taylor. Mitropoulos and<br />
Orchestra directed by Alex Hammid. Director:<br />
Irving Reis. (A World Artists Production.)<br />
WOOn the Riviera. 115 (90) May<br />
Technicolor Comedy With Music. Entertainer,<br />
who is aviator's double, is persuaded<br />
to take his place while he leaves on a<br />
secret business trip. Complications result,<br />
involving the aviator's wife and the entertainer's<br />
sweetheart. Danny Kaye, Gene<br />
Tlerney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio. Director:<br />
Walter Lang.<br />
.<br />
People Will Talk. .126 (110) Sept.<br />
Comedy. Struggles of a professor of medicine<br />
to defend his radical theory that a<br />
physician should concern himself with human<br />
emotions. He saves a girl student from<br />
suicide and marries her. Cary Grant,<br />
Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn,<br />
Walter Slezak. Director : L. Mankiewicz.<br />
Rawhide. .113. .(86) May<br />
Outdoor Drama. When troopers stop a<br />
stagecoach at a relay station seeking<br />
desperadoes, a young tenderfoot assi.sts a<br />
woman passenger. The desperadoes arrive<br />
and imprison them but are outwitted by<br />
the inexperienced hero. Tyrone Power,<br />
Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Edgar<br />
Buchanan, Dean Jagger. Director: Henry<br />
Hathaway.<br />
Secret of Convict Lake, The ...123 .. (83) Aug.<br />
Drama. Founded on a true incident in<br />
1871. Five escaped convicts from Carson<br />
City penitentiary make their way to a community<br />
of women whose men are away<br />
prospecting. Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney,<br />
Ethel Barry more, Zachary Scott. Director;<br />
Michael Gordon.<br />
©Sword of Monte Cristo, The.. .106<br />
(80) Mar.<br />
Supercinecolor Historical Drama. Woman<br />
underground leader, masked and costumed<br />
as a man, comes to the aid of Louis<br />
Napoleon in putting down a rebellion in<br />
the Prance of 1858. George Montgomery,<br />
Paula Corday, Berry Kroeger. Director:<br />
Maurice Geraghty. (An Edward L. Alperson<br />
Production.)<br />
©Take Care of My Little Girl 119<br />
(93) July<br />
Technicolor Drama. Co-ed pledges a sorority.<br />
Romance with an ex-GI, who doesn't<br />
believe in the sorority-fraternity system,<br />
develops, and she decides they are snobbish<br />
and resigns. Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson,<br />
Mitzi Gaynor, Jean Peters. Director: Jean<br />
Negulesco.<br />
13th Letter, The. ...107. .(85)<br />
Feb.<br />
Mystery Drama. Poison-pen writer demoralizes<br />
a whole town by sending a series<br />
of letters containing malicious gossip. The<br />
finger of guilt ultimately points to an<br />
aging doctor who is jealous of his young<br />
wife. Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael<br />
Rennie, Constance Smith, Francoise Rosay.<br />
Director: Otto Preminger.<br />
Two Flags West... 029... (92) „...NoT. '50<br />
Outdoor Drama. Leader and group of Confederate<br />
prisoners, granted amnesty to fight<br />
Indians, desert fort where they are assigned.<br />
When it is attacked, and commander<br />
sacrifices his life, they return to<br />
fight. Joseph Gotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff<br />
Chandler, Cornel Wilde. Director: Robert<br />
Wise.<br />
You're in the Navy Now (formerly<br />
"U.S.S. Teakettle") ...110..,. (93) Apr.<br />
Comedy. Engineer, after a short training<br />
period, is placed in command of an experimental<br />
submarine chaser by the navy. The<br />
crew is equally inexperienced and the vessel<br />
suffers repeated breakdowns. Gary<br />
Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie<br />
Albert. Director: Henry Hathaway.<br />
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©Jesse James. .157. ...(106) July<br />
Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Tyrone Power,<br />
Nancy Kelly, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott.<br />
©Kentucky. .150. ..(96)<br />
July<br />
Technicolor Melodrama. Loretta Young,<br />
Richard Greene, Walter Brennan.<br />
©My Friend Flicka....l52....(89) June<br />
Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Roddy Mc-<br />
Dowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson.<br />
©Return of Frank James, The<br />
158.... (92) July<br />
Technicolor Outdoor Melodrama. Henry<br />
Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper.<br />
©Smoky. .143. ..(87)<br />
June<br />
Technicolor Outdoor Melodrama. Fred<br />
MacMurray, Anne Baxter. Bruce Cabot.<br />
©Thunderhead—Son of Flicka....l51<br />
(78) June<br />
Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Roddy Mc-<br />
Dowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson.<br />
United Artists<br />
(September 1, 1950 through October 21, 1951)<br />
Badman's Gold. ...262. ..(56) Apr. 3<br />
Western. Assigned to catch a gang stealing<br />
shipments of gold en route to the mint,<br />
a representative of the law is aided by a<br />
girl, her brother and a dog. They win in<br />
an open gunfight. Johnny Carpenter, Alyn<br />
Lockwood, Troy Tarrell, Kenne Duncan.<br />
Director: Robert Tansey.<br />
Blue Lamp, The. .016.... (84) Mar. 1<br />
Melodrama. How the British police combat<br />
crime, as seen through the experiences<br />
of a rookie London "bobby." Dirk<br />
Bogarde. Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley,<br />
Peggy Evans, Pa trie Doonan. Director:<br />
Basil Dearden. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
Border Outlaws 260... (58) Nov. 2, '50<br />
Western. Two cowboys seek a "Phantom<br />
Rider" and his gang of cattle thieves only<br />
to discover they are actually narcoticssmugglers<br />
and murderers. Spade Cooley,<br />
Maria Hart, Bill Edwards, Bill Kennedy.<br />
Director: Richard Talmadge. (A United<br />
International Picture.)<br />
Circle of Danger. .207... .(86) Mar. 22<br />
Drama. British-made. American goes to<br />
England seeking the reason why his brother<br />
was the only one killed in a World War 11<br />
raid. Learns brother was shot because he<br />
had endangered the whole mission. Ray<br />
Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring,<br />
Naunton Wayne. Director: Jacques Tourneur.<br />
(Released in England under title of<br />
"White Heather.")<br />
Cyrano de Bergerac. 660. (112) July 20<br />
Drama. The great poet-swordsman, of the<br />
huge nose, wins his cousin Roxane, whom<br />
he loves, for another man. Only at his<br />
death does she realize she has always loved<br />
Cyrano. Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, Morris<br />
Carnovsky, William Prince. Director:<br />
Michael Gordon. (Stanley Kramer.)<br />
Fabiola....651....(96) June 1<br />
Drama. Italian-made. English dialog<br />
dubbed in. Persecution of the Christians<br />
in Rome, and their deliverance by the<br />
legions of the Emperor Constantine.<br />
Michele Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel<br />
Simon, Gino Cervi. Director: Alessandro<br />
Blasetti. (Jules Levey.)<br />
First Legion, The .648.... (86) May 11<br />
Drama. Agnostic doctor fakes a miracle<br />
within the ranks of the Jesuit Order. When<br />
pilgrims flock to the monastery a real<br />
miracle occurs, restoring the faith of the<br />
doctor. Charles Boyer, Leo G. Carroll, Walter<br />
Hampden, William Demarest, H. B.<br />
Warner: Director: Douglas Sirk.<br />
Four in a Jeep .1139... (97) Aug. 17<br />
Drama. Filmed in Vienna against the<br />
background of Allied occupation of Austria.<br />
The relationship of four soldiers representing<br />
each of the great powers as they patrol<br />
the city in a jeep of the international military<br />
police. Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker,<br />
Joseph Yadin, Michael Medwin, Dinan.<br />
Director: Leopold Lindtberg.<br />
Gold Raiders. .ai72.... (56) Sept. 14<br />
Western. Hero makes a deal with mine<br />
owners to protect their ore shipments.<br />
Aided by three zany proprietors of a variety<br />
store he captures the marauders<br />
and writes insurance on all the mines.<br />
George O'Brien, The Three Stooges,<br />
Sheilah Ryan, Clem Bevans. Director: Edward<br />
Bernds.<br />
Golden Salamander, The. ...271<br />
(96) Dec. 1, '50<br />
Drama. British-made and filmed in North<br />
Africa. English archeologist discovers a<br />
gun-smuggling ring in Algiers. At first Indifferent,<br />
he is spurred to act against the<br />
criminals by a Greek proverb he reads on<br />
a small statue. Anouk, Trevor Howard,<br />
Herbert Lom. Miles Malleson, Walter Rilla.<br />
Director: Ronald Neame. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
He Ran All the Way. .646.... (77) July 13<br />
Drama. A thug kills a policeman during a<br />
payroll holdup and hides out in the apartment<br />
home of a girl he has picked up. He<br />
terrorizes her family and when he tries to<br />
kidnap her she shoots him. John Garfield,<br />
Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena<br />
Royle, Gladys George. Director: John<br />
Berry. (A Roberts Production.)<br />
Hoodlum, The 653... (61) July 27<br />
Melodrama. Paroled convict, feeling the<br />
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world is against him, repays his brother's<br />
kindness in giving him a job by stealing<br />
his girl and staging a robbery. He is slain<br />
by the police. Lawrence Tierney, Allene<br />
Roberts, Marjorie Riordan. Director: Max<br />
Nosseck. (Jack Schwarz Productions.)<br />
Hotel Sahara .1143... (87) Oct. 15<br />
Comedy Drama. British-made. A North<br />
African luxury hotel is taken over by<br />
French, Italian, British, German and<br />
American soldiers at different intervals<br />
during the war. The proprietor has a struggle<br />
to retain his property and his sweetheart.<br />
Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov,<br />
Mirielle Perrey, David Tomlinson. Director:<br />
Ken Annakin. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
Kangaroo Kid, The .037 (73) Oct. 22, '50<br />
Western. Made in Australia. American<br />
range detective goes to Australia in search<br />
of a fugitive and to solve gold mine robberies.<br />
First suspected of the crime himself,<br />
eventually he traps the criminals. Jock<br />
O'Mahoney, Veda Ami Borg, Douglass Dumbrille,<br />
Alan Gifford. Director: Lesley<br />
Selander.<br />
Korea Patrol .211. .. (57) Jan. 15<br />
War Drama. A patrol of American and<br />
Korean soldiers is instructed to hold a<br />
bridge near the 38th parallel. After all<br />
but one are wounded, the last man blows<br />
up the bridge. Richard Emory, Benson<br />
Fong, Al Eben, Li Sun, Teri Duna. Director:<br />
Max Nosseck. (Jack Schwarz Productions.)<br />
Long Dark Hall, The. ..214... (86) Apr. 10<br />
Drama. British-made. A philandering husband<br />
is convicted of the murder of his<br />
paramour. The real criminal writes the<br />
police a gloating letter and is caught in<br />
time to save the innocent man. Rex Harrison,<br />
Lilli Palmer, Denis O'Dea, Raymond<br />
Huntley. Co-directors: Anthony Bushell,<br />
Reginald Beck.<br />
Man From Planet X, The .647 . ..Apr. 27<br />
Fantasy. Man from another planet arrives<br />
in a space ship. Inclined to be friendly at<br />
first, when he is abused he terrorizes the<br />
countryside and is destroyed by artillery<br />
fire. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond<br />
Bond, William Schallert. Director:<br />
Edgar G. Ulmer. (Mid-Century Films.)<br />
Man With My Face, The 659 .. (75) .June 8<br />
Mystery Drama. Filmed in Puerto Rico.<br />
Double po.ses as an American accountant,<br />
usurping his position in his home with<br />
the assistance of the man's own wife. They<br />
plan to kill him but with the aid of an<br />
ex-sweetheart the plot is turned against the<br />
villain. Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews,<br />
John Harvey. Lynn Ainley. Director: Edward<br />
J. Montaigne. (Edward F. Gardner.)<br />
Mister Drake's Duck. .655. ..(76) Sept. 21<br />
Comedy. Honeymooning couple discovers<br />
one duck among five dozen on their farm<br />
lays eggs containing uranium. Great turmoil<br />
results when the government steps<br />
in to try to isolate the atomic duck, Douglas<br />
Fairbanks jr., Yolande Donlan, A. E.<br />
Matthews, Reginald Beckwith, Director:<br />
Val Guest. (Douglas Fairbanks-Daniel M.<br />
Angel.)<br />
Mister Universe. .208.... (90) Jan. 10<br />
Comedy. Small-time barker manages winner<br />
of the Perfect Man contest as a wrestler.<br />
He and the promoter outsmart themselves<br />
and end up as wrestlers themselves,<br />
working out their betting losses. Jack Carson,<br />
Janis Paige, Bert Lahr, Robert Alda,<br />
Vincent Edwards. Director: Jo.seph Lerner.<br />
(Laurel Films.)<br />
Mr. Peek-a-Boo 1146. ..(74) Oct. 21<br />
Fantasy Comedy. French-made. Exploits<br />
of a middle-aged clerk who discovers he can<br />
walk through solid walls. He falls in love<br />
with a beautiful thief and sets out to prove<br />
to her that crime does not pay. Joan<br />
Greenwood, Bourvil, Marcel Arnold, Roger<br />
Treville. Director: Jean Boyer. (Arthur<br />
Sachson Enterprises.)<br />
My Outlaw Brother (formerly "My<br />
Brother, the Outlaw"). ...209. ..(82). ...Mar. 15<br />
Melodrama. In Mexico about 1900, a young<br />
man, trying to help a Texas Ranger catch<br />
a famed bandit, discovers the bandit is his<br />
own brother in disguise. Mickey Rooney,<br />
Wanda Hendrix. Robert Preston, Robert<br />
Stack. Director: Elliott Nugent. (Benedict<br />
Bogeaus.)<br />
Naughty Arlette .<br />
(86) Mar. 9<br />
Comedy. British-made. Middle-aged professor<br />
falls for charms of a teen-age student.<br />
At first he plans to desert his family<br />
but later sees the error in the new<br />
relationship. Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams,<br />
Margot Grahame, Petula Clark. Director:<br />
Edmond T. Greville.<br />
©New Mexico. .649. ..(78) Aug. 24<br />
Ansco Color Western. Sacrifice of his own<br />
life by a cavalry captain as he deliberately<br />
blows up a large ammunition cache rather<br />
than allow it to fall into the hands of<br />
Indians in the rebellion of 1860. Lew Ayres,<br />
Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton.<br />
Director: Irving Reis. (Irving Allen.)<br />
Obsessed... 1188. ..(77) Sept. 7<br />
Drama. British-made. The rich, dominating<br />
wife of a schoolteacher dies, freeing<br />
her husband to marry his clandestine mistress.<br />
Poison is discovered in the body<br />
and the lovers accuse each other of the<br />
murder. David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald,<br />
Roland Culver, Jean Cadell. Director:<br />
Maurice Elvey.<br />
Odette. .652... (105) May 15<br />
Autobiographical Drama. British-made.<br />
True story of Odette Sanson's experiences<br />
as a British military intelhgence agent in<br />
World War II. She is sent to Ravensbruck<br />
concentration camp and liberated when the<br />
Allies invade France. Anna Neagle, Trevor<br />
Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov. Director:<br />
Herbert Wilcox. (Released earlier<br />
in year by Lopert Films.)<br />
Oliver Twist. .216. ..(105) Apr. 27<br />
Drama. Based on the Charles Dickens classic<br />
familiar to all. John Howard Davies,<br />
Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Alec Guinness,<br />
Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson. Director:<br />
David Lean. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
One Minute to Twelve. 203... (75) ...Oct. 1, '50<br />
Drama. Made in Sweden, with English<br />
dialog. Atomic scientist destroy.^ him.self<br />
and his laboratory rather than allow sinister<br />
interests to gain control of his discoveries<br />
for ulterior uses. Lars Hanson, Gunnel<br />
Brostrom, Olaf Bergstrom, Nils Dahlgren,<br />
Anna Lindahl. Director: Goran Gentele.<br />
Paper Gallows. .220. ..(69) Sept, 22, '5D<br />
Drama. British-made. One of two brothers<br />
who collaborate in writing mystery<br />
stories, becomes so obsessed with idaas on<br />
crime that he commits a murder. Jealousy<br />
then drives him to plot to make his brother's<br />
sweetheart his second victim. Dermot<br />
Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley. Director:<br />
John Guillermin. (Adelphi Films,<br />
Ltd.)<br />
NOTE: "Paper Gallows," though originally<br />
released by Eagle Lion Classics, has<br />
since been turned back to the producers.<br />
Pardon My French....l402....(81) Auf. 10<br />
Comedy. Boston schoolteacher inherits a<br />
French chateau but finds it is occupied by<br />
squatters led by a young composer and his<br />
four motherless children. Romance develops<br />
between the two. Paul Henreid, Merle<br />
Oberon, Paul Bonifas, Jim Gerald. Director:<br />
Bernard Vorhaus. (Cusick International.)<br />
OPrehistoric Women. .205.... (74) Nov. 1, '50<br />
Cinecolor Drama. Six cave women must<br />
find husbands. They capture several men<br />
who know the secret of fire. Love comes<br />
to the two leaders and a new tribe is<br />
formed. Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Mara<br />
Lynn. Director: Gregg Tallas. (Alliance<br />
Productions.)<br />
Prowler, The 650. (92) May 25<br />
Melodrama. Called to investigate a prowler,<br />
policeman falls in love with the housewife.<br />
After an illicit affair he kills her husband.<br />
Tliey marry, a baby is born, but he is<br />
killed in a battle with police. Evelyn Keyes,<br />
Van Heflin, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren,<br />
Emerson Ti-eacy. Director: Joseph<br />
Losey. (Horizon Pictures.)<br />
Queen for a Day (alternate title<br />
"Horsie")....645....(107) July 7<br />
Drama. Stories of the dream fulfillment<br />
three different women achieve by becoming<br />
winners of the Mutual Network radio<br />
show and "Queen for a Day." Phyllis<br />
Avery, Darren McGavin, Rudy Lee, Adam<br />
Williams, Edith MeLser, Dan Tobin. Director:<br />
Arthur Lubin. (Robert Stillman Productions.)<br />
©River, The... (99) Special—Sept. 10<br />
Technicolor Drama. Events here stem from<br />
the crushes three adolescent girls have<br />
on an American amputee war veteran, visiting<br />
his cousin in India. Each girl responds<br />
differently to the attachment and<br />
all recover when the hero leaves. Nora<br />
Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields,<br />
Thomas E. Breen, Suprova Mukerjee, Patricia<br />
Walters, Radha. Director: Jean<br />
Renoir.<br />
©R«gue River... 201... (79) Nov. 15, '50<br />
Cinecolor Western. Father and son engage<br />
in deadly combat for possession of a fortune<br />
in gold dust, the loot from a bank robbery.<br />
Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Prank Fenton,<br />
Ellye Marshall. Director: John Rawlins.<br />
(Ventura Pictures.)<br />
Scarf, The....644.... (86) j\pr. 6<br />
Drama. Deals with the efforts of a man,<br />
unjustly committed to an asylum for the<br />
criminally insane, to prove himself both<br />
sane and innocent of the crime charged<br />
against him. Emiyn Williams, John Ireland,<br />
Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton.<br />
Director: E. A. Dupont. (Goldsmith-<br />
Caspary.)<br />
Second Face, The 204 (72) Oct. 15, '50<br />
Drama. Unattractive girl, transformed into<br />
a beauty through plastic surgery, finds true<br />
love through her former employer who had<br />
made the operation possible. Ella Raines,<br />
Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson, John Sutton,<br />
Patricia Knight. Director: Jack Bernhard.<br />
Second Woman, The... 639... (91) Mar. 16<br />
Drama. Young architect becomes mentally<br />
depressed over a series of misfortunes that<br />
beset him. Girl with a statistical mind<br />
unearths facts proving architect is the victim<br />
of a group of sinister schemers. Robert<br />
Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Henry<br />
O'Neill, Florence Bates. Director: James<br />
V. Kern. (Harry M. Popkin.)<br />
Skipalong Rosenbloom... 213. .. (72) Apr. 20<br />
Novelty Western. Outlaw and his gang are<br />
bested by an amateur peace officer, the<br />
nephew of a man they plan to fleece by<br />
taking control of his property for his gambling<br />
debts. Maxie Rosenbloom, Max Baer,<br />
Jackie Coogan, Fuzzy Knight, Hillary<br />
Brooke, Jacqueline Fontaine. Director: Sam<br />
Newfield.<br />
So Long at the Fair... 270. (85) Mar. 29<br />
Mystery. Plot centers around unique chain<br />
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MARK ROBSON
Charles<br />
of events surrounding the disappearance<br />
of a young man who, with his sister, had<br />
arrived in Paris to attend the Exposition<br />
of 1889. Young artist helps girl find her<br />
brother, and a romance develops. Jean<br />
Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson,<br />
Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer. Directors:<br />
Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough. (J.<br />
Arthur Rank.)<br />
St. Benny, the Dip .658. .(80) Aug. 24<br />
Comedy Drama. The regeneration of three<br />
confidence men after they disguise themselves<br />
as priests to escape the law. One<br />
devotes himself to good works, one returns<br />
to his deserted family and the third finds<br />
romance. Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland<br />
Young, Lionel Stander. Director: Edgar G.<br />
Ulmer. (Danziger Bros.)<br />
Sun Sets at Dawn, The.. .046.. ..(71) Jan. 22<br />
Melodrama. Short circuit in the electric<br />
chair delays execution of irmocent man,<br />
convicted of murder, and real killer is<br />
trapped into confession by a prison trusty.<br />
Sally Parr, Philip Shawn, Walter Reed.<br />
Director: Paul H. Sloane.<br />
Taming of Dorothy, The.. ..224<br />
(75) Sept. 20, '50<br />
Comedy. British-made. Domineering wife<br />
of mild-mannered bank clerk is subjugated<br />
by his gangster double. When the<br />
cops and robbers chase is over, husband<br />
continues as a caveman and captivates<br />
wife. Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Margaret<br />
Rutherford. Director: Mario Soldati. (Renown-Lux.)<br />
They Were Not Divided. .275 (102). ...Feb. 8<br />
Drama. British-made. Experiences of two<br />
soldiers, one English, the other American,<br />
in World War II. When the American is<br />
wounded the Englishman refuses to leave<br />
him and they die together. Edward Underdown,<br />
Ralph Clanton, Michael Brennan,<br />
Helen Cherry. Director: Terence Young.<br />
(J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
Three Husbands....642....(78) Nov, 3, '50<br />
Comedy. At death bachelor leaves letters<br />
indicating he has had affairs with wives<br />
of three friends. Wives inherit his fortune<br />
and husbands at last reverse the condemning<br />
attitudes they have assumed.<br />
Emlyn Williams. Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick,<br />
Howard da Silva. Director: Irving Reis.<br />
(Goldsmith-Caspary.)<br />
Three Steps North. .657... (85) June 15<br />
Drama. Made in Italy. Sordid experiences<br />
of dishonorably discharged GI who returns<br />
to Italy to recover a fortune made in the<br />
black market during the war, which he had<br />
buried in a field later converted into a military<br />
cemetery. Lloyd Bridges, Aldo<br />
Fabrizi, Leo Padovani. Director: W Lee<br />
Wilder.<br />
Try and Get Me (formerly "The<br />
Sound of Fury"). ...643 (92) May 4<br />
Melodrama. Ex-GI drifts into petty crime.<br />
When his partner murders a kidnaped boy,<br />
the two are lynched by a mob inflamed by<br />
a newspaperman's radical articles. Frank<br />
Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan. Richard<br />
Carlson,<br />
Lloyd Bridges. Director: Cyril Endfield<br />
(Robert Stillman Productions.)<br />
Two Gals and a Guy. ,654.... (70) Aug. 31<br />
Comedy With Music. Complications which<br />
result when a TV husband-and-wife team<br />
breaks up because he stops her adoption of<br />
a child. The difficulties are worked out<br />
and they adopt a family of four. Robert<br />
Alda, Janls Paige, James Gleason. Director:<br />
Alfred E. Green. (Weisner Bros.)<br />
Two Lost Worlds...202. .(60)...„ Oct. 29, '50<br />
Adventure Drama. A group of people, shipwrecked<br />
on an uncharted island, encounter<br />
prehistoric monsters and survive an erupting<br />
volcano. Laura Elliot, Jim Arness,<br />
Gloria Petroff, William Kennedy. Director:<br />
Norman Dawn. (Sterling Productions.)<br />
Well, The. .. 1145. .. (85) Pre-release—Sept.<br />
Drama. Negroes and whites become aroused<br />
over the disappearance of a little Negro<br />
girl. When race riots are imminent the<br />
child is found to have fallen into an abandoned<br />
well. Richard Rober, Barry Kelly,<br />
Henry Morgan, Christine Larson. Directors:<br />
Leo Popkin, Russell Rouse.<br />
When I Grow Up... .215. ..(90) Apr. 20<br />
Drama. Unhappy boy reads his grandfather's<br />
boyhood diary and realizes he is not<br />
the only one who has ever been in trouble<br />
and that his parents really love him. Bobby<br />
Driscoll, Robert Preston, Martha Scott,<br />
Charley Grapewin, Henry Morgan. Director:<br />
Michael Kanin. (Horizon Pictures.)<br />
Wicked City, The... 206... (76) Jan. 2<br />
Melodrama. French-made with English dialog.<br />
Canadian seaman meets and loves a<br />
French cafe girl. Her bad character and<br />
criminal associates lead him to murder her.<br />
Maria Montez, Jean Pierre Aumont, Lilli<br />
Palmer, Marcel Dalio. Director: Francois<br />
Villiers.<br />
(REISSUE)<br />
City Lights. .635.... (85) Sept. 1, '50<br />
Comedy. Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill,<br />
Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann.<br />
(Celebrated Films.)<br />
Universal-In ternational<br />
(September 1950 through October 1951)<br />
Abbott and Costello Meet the<br />
Invisible Man. .116.... (82) Mar.<br />
Comedy. As amateur detectives the comics<br />
catch the real criminal when a fighter is<br />
falsely accused of murdering his manager.<br />
By a miracle serum the fighter is made<br />
invisible and assists in the proceedings.<br />
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild,<br />
Adele Jergens. Director : Lamont.<br />
Air Cadet....ll5....(94)<br />
JWar.<br />
Comedy Drama. Three air cadets are sent<br />
to Arizona for jet training under an officer<br />
who is a hard taskmaster. After misunderstandings<br />
and misadventures the men<br />
become friends. Stephen McNally, Alex<br />
Nicol, Gail Russell, Richard Long. Director:<br />
Joseph Pevney.<br />
©Apache Drums.. ..123.. ..(75)<br />
June<br />
Technicolor Western. Gambler is run out<br />
of town, persecuted by a minister and the<br />
mayor. He returns to lead the fight against<br />
an Apache raid. Stephen McNally, Coleen<br />
Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields. Director:<br />
Hugo Pregonese.<br />
Bedtime for Bonzo 112 (83) Feb.<br />
Conxedy. In an effort to prove environment<br />
is stronger than heredity, young psychology<br />
professor undertakes experiment to bring<br />
up a baby chimpanzee as a child. Ronald<br />
Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Jesse<br />
White. Director: Frederick de Cordova.<br />
©Cattle Drive.. ..128... .(77)<br />
Aug.<br />
Technicolor Western. Spoiled 14-year-old<br />
son of railroad magnate joins a cattle drive.<br />
Association with a veteran cowhand makes<br />
a man of him. Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell,<br />
Leon Ames, Chill Wills. Director:<br />
Kurt Neumann.<br />
Comin' Round the Mountain.. ..127. ..(77)... .July<br />
Comedy. The boys go to Kentucky where<br />
they become involved in an old feud between<br />
the McCoys and the Winfields. The<br />
various characters drink a "love potion"<br />
which adds considerably to the confusion.<br />
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay,<br />
Kirby Grant. Director: Charles Lamont.<br />
Deported. .103 (88) Nov. '50<br />
Action Drama. Filmed in Italy. American<br />
gangster, deported to his native Italy, tries<br />
to gain control of the Italian black market<br />
ring. Love for a widowed countess<br />
causes him to do an about-face and smash<br />
the ring. Marta Toren, Jeff Chandler,<br />
Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti. Director:<br />
Robert Siodmak.<br />
©Double Crossbones ...119....(75)<br />
Apr.<br />
Technicolor Comedy With Music. Shop<br />
clerk, by accident, finds himself master of<br />
a pirate ship deserted by the crew. He<br />
organizes labor prisoners into a crew and<br />
turns buccaneer. Donald O'Connor, Helena<br />
Carter, Will Geer, John Emery. Director:<br />
Charles T. Barton.<br />
May<br />
Fat Man, The. ..120... (77)<br />
Melodrama. Detective solves murder of a<br />
dentist who had X-rayed the teeth of a<br />
crook and would have been able to identify<br />
his body. Murderer, a circus clown, is<br />
trapped on a high wire. J. Scott Smart,<br />
Julie London. Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg,<br />
Emmett Kelly. Director: William<br />
Castle.<br />
Francis Goes to the Races... 125.... (88). ...July<br />
Comedy. The "talking" mule makes friends<br />
with racehorses at the track, supplying<br />
tips to his youthful companion which enable<br />
him to win a seven-horse parlay.<br />
There is conflict with a gang of crooks.<br />
Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway,<br />
Jesse White. Director: Arthur Lubin.<br />
©Frenchie....l08. ... (80) Jan.<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Woman owner<br />
of a gambling casino, seeking the two<br />
men who killed her father, is assisted by<br />
the local sheriff. When one of the men is<br />
murdered, the sheriff is suspected. Joel<br />
McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa<br />
Lanchester. Director: Louis King.<br />
©Golden Horde, The. .134... (76) Oct.<br />
Technicolor Melodrama. The forces of<br />
Genghis Khan storm Samarkand where its<br />
beautiful princess plans to defend herself<br />
by intrigue. When the situation seems<br />
hopeless, a band of English Crusaders<br />
comes to her rescue. Ann BIyth, David<br />
Parrar, George Macready, Richard Egan,<br />
Peggie Castle. Director: George Sherman.<br />
Groom Wore Spurs, The....ll4....(81) Mar.<br />
Comedy. Woman lawyer, engaged to get a<br />
cowboy star out of a gambling debt jam,<br />
falls for, and marries, him. He is charged<br />
with murder and she clears him. Ginger<br />
Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Mira Mc-<br />
Kinney. Director: Richard Whorf. (Fidelity<br />
Pictures.)<br />
UHarvey....l07....(104) „ Jan.<br />
Comedy. Amiable alcoholic captivates<br />
everyone with his imaginary companion, a<br />
giant white rabbit named Harvey. Even<br />
the doctors at a mental institution decide<br />
he should be allowed to keep his delusion.<br />
James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow,<br />
Jesse White, Cecil Kellaway. Director:<br />
Henry Koster.<br />
Hollywood Story ...124... (77) June<br />
Mystery Drama. In an abandoned Hollywood<br />
studio a New York stage producer<br />
prepares to make a picture about an unsolved<br />
murder committed there years before.<br />
He solves the crime and captures the<br />
killer. Richard Conte, Julia Adams, Henry<br />
Hull, Fred Clark. Director: William Castle.<br />
Iron Man.. ..130... (82)<br />
Aug.<br />
Drama. Prizefighter discovers his wife and<br />
his promoter-brother have arranged to<br />
have a fight thrown in his favor. He breaks<br />
with them, loses an important match,<br />
but is reconciled with his wife. Jeff Chandler,<br />
Evelyn Keyes. Stephen McNally, Rock<br />
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Producer<br />
In<br />
Preparation:<br />
'Kansas City Story'<br />
For<br />
Columbia<br />
SAM KATZMAN<br />
PRODUCER<br />
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Hudson, Joyce Holden. Director: Joseph<br />
Pevney.<br />
©Kansas Raiders .104.... (80) Nov. '50<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. The James<br />
brothers join Quantrill's guerrillas, looting<br />
and burning in the attack on Lawrence,<br />
Kas. Quantrill saves Jesse's life at the sacrifice<br />
of his own. Brian Donlevy, Audie<br />
Murphy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady,<br />
Richard Ai-len. Director: Ray Enright.<br />
Katie Did It ...122... (81) May<br />
Comedy. Girl upsets a staid New England<br />
town when she poses for an artist. Believing<br />
he is married, she plans to wed her<br />
home-town suitor but the arti.st wins her<br />
in a split-second finish. Ann Blyth, Mark<br />
Stevens, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Craig<br />
Stevens. Director: Frederick de Cordova.<br />
©Lady From Texas, The. .136. (78) Oct.<br />
Technicolor Comedy Western. Hero and<br />
heroine strive to prevent a crafty ranch<br />
owner from gaining control of the property<br />
of a kindly but eccentric old widow,<br />
by having her declared mentally incompetent.<br />
Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, Josephine<br />
Hull, Craig Stevens. Director: Joseph<br />
Pevney.<br />
Little Ballerina. .182. ..(60) Not set<br />
Dramatic Musical. British-made. The<br />
strugggles of an earnest young dancing<br />
pupil to continue her studies and win recognition.<br />
Includes several ballet sequences.<br />
Yvonne Marsh, Marion Chapman, Doreen<br />
Richards, Margot Fonteyn, Martita Hunt.<br />
Director: Lewis Gilbert. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
©Little Eg:ypt....l31....(82) Sept.<br />
Technicolor Comedy Drama. Tobacco magnate<br />
puts up cash to transplant a street<br />
of old Cairo to the Chicago Fair in 1893.<br />
A "hootchy-kootchy" dance by the girl<br />
friend of the promoter becomes a hit.<br />
Rhonda Fleming, Mark Stevens, Nancy<br />
Guild. Charles Drake. Director: Frederick<br />
de Cordova,<br />
OLouisa....926.... (90) Sept. '50<br />
Comedy. Bossy mother-in-law is suddenly<br />
transformed by a romance with the local<br />
storekeeper, and the whole household is<br />
thrown into one mirthful situation after<br />
another. Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn,<br />
Ruth Hussey. Edmund Gwenn. Spring<br />
Byington. Director: Alexander Hall (1949-<br />
50.)<br />
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm<br />
117.... (80) Apr.<br />
Farce. Ma and Pa become grandparents<br />
and, to make room for the baby and its<br />
fu.ssy nurse, the family moves back to the<br />
farm. Discovery of uranium on the property<br />
brings complications. Marjorie Main,<br />
Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall,<br />
Ray Collins. Director: Edward Sedgwick.<br />
Madeleine. .983. ..(101) Sept. '50<br />
Murder Mystery. British-made film based<br />
on a murder case of 1857 in Scotland, in<br />
which a girl goes to trial for the fatal<br />
poisoning of her clandestine lover. Ann<br />
Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie<br />
Banks. Director: David Lean. (J. Arthur<br />
Rank.) — (1949-50.)<br />
Magnet, The. .181... (78) „ Feb.<br />
Comedy Drama. British-made. A boy executes<br />
a series of childish "trades," acquiring<br />
and later losing ownership of a powerful<br />
magnet, in the course of which he<br />
sparks a campaign for raising funds for<br />
an iron lung. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh,<br />
William Fox, Meredith Edwards. Director:<br />
Charles Frend. (J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
©Mark of the Renegade ...129... (81) -Aug.<br />
Technicolor Drama. Mexican pirates are<br />
forced into the battle between those trying<br />
to establish early California as a republic<br />
and a despot who wishes to become<br />
its emperor. Richardo Montalban, Cyd<br />
Charisse, J. Carrol Nai.sh, Gilbert Roland,<br />
Andrea King. Director: Hugo Fregonese.<br />
Milkman, The 102 (87) JJov. '50<br />
Comedy With Music. Playboy, son of<br />
wealthy dairy owner, goes to work as a<br />
milkman for a rival dairy, under the wing<br />
of his buddy—a milkman veteran of 25<br />
years. The two become involved in all<br />
sorts of zany goings-on, including a brush<br />
with gangsters. Donald O'Connor, Jimmy<br />
Durante, Joyce Holden, Piper Laurie, Elisabeth<br />
Risdon, Henry O'Neill. Director:<br />
Charles T. Barton.<br />
Mystery Submarine 106 (78) Dec. '50<br />
Melodrama. Nazi U-boat, still active after<br />
World War II, is found by U.S. Navy Intelligence<br />
officer. By a ruse he rescues its<br />
two captives and causes it to be destroyed.<br />
Macdonald Carey, Marta Toren, Robert<br />
Douglas, Ludwig Donath, Carl Esmond. Director:<br />
Douglas Sirk.<br />
Operation Disaster .113 (100) Feb.<br />
Drama. British-made. Events following a<br />
peacetime submarine disaster. Eight survivors<br />
are trapped and after seven days<br />
of work by a salvage crew, a storm makes<br />
it necessary to abandon the effort. John<br />
Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick,<br />
James Hayter. Director: Roy Baker.<br />
(J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
Pool of London. .183. ..(86) Sept.<br />
Drama. British-made. Man engaged in<br />
smuggling asks his friend to make a delivery<br />
for him. Package contains diamonds<br />
and friend is arrested. Hero gives himself<br />
up to clear the friend. Bonar Colleano.<br />
Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Earl Cameron,<br />
Moira Lister. Director : Basil Dearden.<br />
(J. Arthur Rank.)<br />
Prelude to Fame .180. .. (77 '4) Nov. '50<br />
Drama With Music. British import. Child,<br />
exceptionally gifted musically, is dominated<br />
and exploited by a selfish woman for her<br />
own aggrandizement. She seeks, unsuccessfully,<br />
to alienate him from his family.<br />
Jeremy Spenser, Kathleen Byron, Guy<br />
Rolfe, Henry Oscar. Director: Fergus Mc-<br />
Donell. (J. Ai-thur Rank.)<br />
©Prince Who Was a Thief, Tlie....l26<br />
(88) July<br />
Technicolor Romantic Drama. Stolen in<br />
babyhood, the real prince grows up as a<br />
thief. He raids the royal treasure house,<br />
is recognized as the true heir and ousts<br />
the false ruler. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie,<br />
Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey. Director: Rudolph<br />
Mate.<br />
Reunion in Reno... .135... (80) Oct.<br />
Drama. Little girl goes to Reno to divorce<br />
her parents. She is befriended by a young<br />
lawyer, a court stenographer and a kindly<br />
judge, who are able to arrange a reconciliation<br />
for the family. Mark Stevens, Peggy<br />
Dow, Gigl Perreau, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson.<br />
Director: Kurt Neumann.<br />
©Smuggler's Island... 121... (75) May<br />
Technicolor Melodrama. Adventuress forces<br />
a captain to use his ship and diving equipment<br />
to recover sunken gold and smuggle<br />
it into Hong Kong. Through her weakling<br />
husband they lose the gold but find each<br />
other. Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip<br />
Friend. Director: Edward Ludwig.<br />
Target Unknown. 111. (90) Feb,<br />
War Drama. Crew of a bomber, shot down<br />
over Germany, unwittingly discloses a<br />
planned raid on a fuel dump. They escape<br />
and radio information to American bombers<br />
on changed location of target. Mark<br />
Stevens, Robert Douglas, Alex Nicol, Don<br />
Taylor, Joyce Holden, Oig Young. Director:<br />
George Sherman.<br />
Thunder on the Hill 133 (84) Sept.<br />
Mystery Drama. Group of flood sufferers<br />
takes refuge in a convent. A nun interests<br />
herself in a young girl among them<br />
who is accused of murder. Turning detective,<br />
she finds the real murderer. Claudette<br />
Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas,<br />
Anne Crawford, PhiJip Friend, Gladys<br />
Cooper. Director: Douglas Sirk.<br />
©Tomahawk .110... (82) Feb.<br />
Technicolor Super -Western. Indian scout<br />
and army officer are enemies and rivals<br />
for a girl. They fight together to quell<br />
a Sioux uprising and the officer is killed.<br />
Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Preston Foster,<br />
Jack Oakie. Director: George Sherman.<br />
Under the Gun... .109 (83) Jan.<br />
Drama. Gangster, convicted on evidence<br />
given by a woman, plots vengeance. He<br />
engineers the escape of a fellow convict,<br />
then shoots him in a bid for a pardon.<br />
Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John Mc-<br />
Intire, Sam Jaffe. Director: Ted Telzlaff.<br />
Undercover Girl 105 (82) Dec. '50<br />
Drama. Girl becomes policewoman to track<br />
down her father's killer. She poses as a<br />
dope peddler, is found out, but makes good<br />
and carries through to her objective. Alexis<br />
Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan. Gladys<br />
George. Director: Joseph Pevney.<br />
Up Front... .118... (92) Apr.<br />
War Comedy. Adventures of two foot soldiers<br />
in Italy, where they battle with the<br />
military police more often than with the<br />
enemy. David Wayne. Tom Ewell, Jeffrey<br />
Lynn, Marina Berti. Director: Alexander<br />
Hall.<br />
Woman on the Run. .932 (77) Oct. '50<br />
Melodrama. Beautiful wife of artist who<br />
disappears after witnessing a murder, enlists<br />
the help of a reporter to find him.<br />
Reporter is the actual murderer and is<br />
shot by astute detective. Ann Sheridan,<br />
Dennis O'Keefe. Robert Keith, Frank Jenks,<br />
John Qualen. Director: Norman Foster.<br />
(Fidelity Pictures.)—(1949-50.)<br />
©Wyoming Mail. .931.... (87) _ Oct. *50<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Barnstorming<br />
pugilist in post-Civil War days becomes<br />
undercover agent for railway mail<br />
system and wipes out an organized band<br />
of mail train robbers. Stephen McNally,<br />
Alexis Smith, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley.<br />
Director: Reginald LeBorg. (1949-50.)<br />
You Never Can Tell. .132.... (78) Sept.<br />
Comedy. Dog inherits a fortune and is<br />
cared for by a beautiful girl. He is poisoned<br />
but returns from dog heaven in<br />
human form to solve his murder and develop<br />
a romance with the girl. Dick Powell,<br />
Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Joyce Holden.<br />
Director: Lou Breslow.<br />
Warner Bros.<br />
(September 2, 1950 through August 11, 1951)<br />
Along the Great Divide ...025... (88) June 2<br />
Western Drama. U.S. marshal, interrupts<br />
a lynching and crosses the desert with the<br />
accused man in custody, to bring him to<br />
trial. When a quick conviction follows, the<br />
marshal is able to prove the man innocent.<br />
Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar,<br />
Walter Brennan. Director: Raoul Walsh.<br />
Breaking Point, The....005.... (97) Sept. 30, '50<br />
Drama. Fishing boat skipper, with a mortgage,<br />
a plain wife and two small daughters,<br />
gets involved in smuggling and murder<br />
when he tries to to earn some easy money.<br />
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John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter,<br />
Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford. Director:<br />
Michael Curtiz.<br />
Breakthrough....010....(91) Dec. 9, '50<br />
War Drama. Infantry lieutenant, whose<br />
feud with his colonel is forgotten in battle,<br />
ultimately is recommended by the colonel<br />
to succeed to his command when he is<br />
transferred to headquarters. David Brian,<br />
John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, Suzanne Dalbert.<br />
Director: Lewis Seller.<br />
ueCaptain Horatio Hornblower....030<br />
(117) Aug. 11<br />
Technicolor Drama. Exploits of an English<br />
sea captain in the war against Napoleon<br />
in 1807. Receiving help from a Spanish<br />
rebel ship, he turns a captured Spanish<br />
warship over to them. Later, learning of an<br />
English-Spanish treaty he recovers the warship.<br />
Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert<br />
Beatty. Director: Raoul Walsh.<br />
©Dallas. .011. ...(94) Dec. 30, '50<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Ex-Confederate<br />
officer assumes identity of an eastern<br />
dude U.S. marshal in order to stalk the<br />
three men who wiped out his family and<br />
fortune. Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve<br />
Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton.<br />
Director: Stuart Heisler.<br />
Enforcer, The....015....(87) Feb. 24<br />
Melodrama. Assistant district attorney<br />
seeking evidence against a murder ring, discovers<br />
a girl witness to an unsolved killing.<br />
He has to smash the entire ring before she<br />
agrees to testify. Humphrey Bogart, Ted de<br />
Corsia, Zero Mostel, Roy Roberts, Everett<br />
Sloane. Director: Bretaigne Windust. (A<br />
United States Pictures Production.)<br />
©Fort Worth. .028... (80) July 14<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Crusading<br />
newspaper editor seeks to bring railroad into<br />
frontier town. He quarrels with his best<br />
friend, a cattleman who wants to keep the<br />
railroad out, but wins the fight. Randolph<br />
Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena<br />
Carter. Director: Edwin L. Marin.<br />
GlassMenagerie, The...007 .(107)....Oct. 28, '50<br />
Drama. Based on Tennessee Williams' stage<br />
play. Shy, crippled girl, living in her own<br />
little world surrounded by a collection of<br />
miniature glass animals, awakens to reality<br />
when love comes into her life. Jane Wyman.<br />
Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur<br />
Kennedy. Director: Irving Rapper.<br />
Goodbye, My Fancy. .024. ..(107) May 19<br />
Comedy. Congresswoman returns to college<br />
where she had been involved in scandal with<br />
its president when both were students, to<br />
accept honorary degree. Romance blooms<br />
again but a current suitor wins her. Joan<br />
Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy,<br />
Eve Arden. Director: Vincent Sherman.<br />
Highway 301. ...012... (83) Jan. 13<br />
Melodrama. Young girl falls in love with a<br />
mobster, unaware that he is a member of<br />
the notorious Tri-State gang. She discovers<br />
his identity and the gang leader tries to kill<br />
her. Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby<br />
Andre, Edmon Ryan, Robert Webber. Director:<br />
Andrew Stone.<br />
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I 023<br />
(83) May 5<br />
Drama. The actual experience of Matt<br />
Cvetic who posed as a Communist for years.<br />
Eventually he testified against Red leaders<br />
before a Congressional committee and at the<br />
same time cleared his own name. Frank<br />
Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James<br />
MUlican. Director: Gordon Douglas.<br />
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. ...026<br />
(87) June 16<br />
Drama. Semi-documentary account of the<br />
last chapters in Folsom's bloody history before<br />
successful prison reforms were instituted.<br />
Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip<br />
Carey, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Hart. Director:<br />
Crane Wilbur.<br />
Lightning Striites Twice... .019... (91) Mar. 10<br />
Drama. Girl meets and marries a man recently<br />
acquitted of murdering his wife. She<br />
learns another woman loves him and is the<br />
real murderer. The killer dies in an escape<br />
attempt. Ruth Roman, Richard Todd,<br />
Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott. Director:<br />
King Vidor.<br />
©Lullaby of Broadway. .020. ..(92) Mar. 24<br />
Technicolor Musical. Daughter of a fading<br />
musical comedy star moves into servants<br />
quarters of large home believing it belongs<br />
to her mother and has been leased. A comedy<br />
of errors results. Doris Day, Gene Nelson,<br />
S. Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys<br />
George. Director: David Butler.<br />
©On Moonlight Bay....029.... (95) July 28<br />
Technicolor Musical. In 1917 a girl moves<br />
to a small town with her young brother and<br />
her father who objects to her romance with<br />
a "radical" college student. Boy enlists and<br />
the father allows the marriage. Doris Day,<br />
Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Jack Smith,<br />
Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp. Director:<br />
Roy Del Ruth.<br />
Only the Valiant....022....(105) Apr. 21<br />
Historical Western Drama. U.S. cavalry<br />
captain and his lieutenant are rivals in love.<br />
The captain, a strong disciplinarian, is<br />
hated by his men until he proves himself in<br />
Indian fighting. Gregory Peck, Barbara<br />
Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon<br />
Chaney. Director: Gordon Douglas.<br />
Operation Pacific... 013. ...(109) Jan. 27<br />
War Drama. Story of undersea warfare in<br />
the Pacific between American submarines<br />
and enemy surface craft. Romance supplied<br />
by a navy nurse and a submarine commander.<br />
John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward<br />
Bond, Philip Carey, Scott Forbes. Director<br />
George Waggner.<br />
Pretty Baby ...004... (92) Sept. 16, '50<br />
Comedy. Innocent hoax by young stenographer,<br />
who uses a life-size doll to get a<br />
seat on a crowded subway, involves her in<br />
all sorts of complications with a baby food<br />
tycoon. Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake,<br />
Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn. Director:<br />
Bretaigne Windust.<br />
Raton Pass... .021... (84) Apr. 7<br />
Western. Ranch owner marries a ruthless<br />
adventuress. He sells out to her but after a<br />
battle with her renegade ranch hand partner,<br />
in which she is killed, he regains his<br />
property. Dermis Morgan, Patricia Neal,<br />
Steve Cochran. Director: Edwin L. Marin.<br />
Rocky Mountain 008 (83) Nov. 11, '50<br />
Drama. Massacre by Indians of a band of<br />
Confederate soldiers who set out to<br />
gain control of the West during the Civil<br />
War. Errol Flynn. Patrice Wymore, Scott<br />
Forbes. Director: William Keighley.<br />
Storm Warnlng....014....(91) Feb. 10<br />
Melodrama. Girl visiting in the south is involved<br />
in a lynching case wherein a crusading<br />
district attorney seeks to indict the<br />
Ku Klux Klan. Ginger Rogers, Ronald<br />
Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran. Director:<br />
Stuart Heisler.<br />
Strangers on a Train. 027 ... (101) June 30<br />
Melodrama. Two men meet on a train. One<br />
suggests a murder pact in which he will kill<br />
the unwanted wife of the other, in return<br />
for the killing of his own father. Though<br />
the sane man refuses the pact, the maniac<br />
carries out his part of the bargain. Farley<br />
Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo<br />
G. Carroll. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.<br />
©Sugarfoot....016.... (80) Mar. 3<br />
Technicolor Western Drama. Ex-Confederate<br />
officer seeks to build new life in Arizona.<br />
Dance hall girl and a merchant befriend<br />
him and together they fight the<br />
forces of evil in the town. Randolph Scott,<br />
Adele Jergens, Raymond Massey, S. Z.<br />
Sakall. Director: Edwin L. Marin.<br />
©Tea for Two... 001... (98) Sept. 2, '50<br />
Technicolor Musical. Trials and tribulations<br />
of a group of show people during the depression<br />
days of '29, as they attempt to find<br />
an "angel" to finance their musical production.<br />
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene<br />
Nelson, Patrice Wymore, Eve Arden, Billy<br />
De Wolfe, S. Z. Sakall. Director: David<br />
Butler.<br />
Three Secrets....006....(98) Oct. 14, '50<br />
Drama. Three women from widely divergent<br />
walks of life, who five years previously had<br />
given up their sons at birth, come together<br />
after a mountain plane crash in which the<br />
sole survivor is a little boy who might be<br />
the child of any one of the three. Eleanor<br />
Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank<br />
Lovejoy, Leif Erickson. Director: Robert<br />
Wise. (A United States Pictures Production.)<br />
West Point Story, The....009<br />
(107) Nov. 25, '50<br />
Musical. Broadway director, with impressive<br />
war record, goes to West Point to stage<br />
musical starring two cadets. He imports<br />
Hollywood actress for lead and romance<br />
with cadet follows. James Cagney, Virginia<br />
Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene<br />
Nelson, Alan Hale jr. Director: Roy Del<br />
Ruth.<br />
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Alcatraz Island....002.... (64) Sept. 9, '50<br />
Melodrama. Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Gordon<br />
Oliver.<br />
Dodge City....017....(104) Mar. 17<br />
Outdoor Drama. Errol Flyrm, Olivia de<br />
Havilland, Ann Sheridan.<br />
San Quentin....003....(70) Sept. 9, '5*<br />
Melodrama. Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart,<br />
Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane.<br />
Virginia City....018....(121) Mar, 17<br />
Outdoor Drama. Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins,<br />
Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart.<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
Again . . . Pioneers!<br />
(90) Protestant Film Commission<br />
Drama. Produced at MGM and Nassour<br />
studios. Presents the reaction of an American<br />
community to the encroachment of a<br />
migrant camp and resulting social problems.<br />
Colleen Townsend, Tom Powers,<br />
Regis Toomey, Pat Gleason, Jimmy Hunt.<br />
Director: William Beaudine. (Available<br />
only in 16mm. ><br />
©Alice in Wonderland<br />
(81) Souvalne Selective Picts.<br />
Ansco Color Fantasy With Puppets. Produced<br />
in France by Lou Bunin. This version<br />
of the Lewis Carroll classic employs a live<br />
Alice with puppets portraying the Wonderland<br />
animals and characters. There is a<br />
live-action prologue. Carol Marsh, Stephen<br />
Murray, Pamela Brown, Felix Aylmer,<br />
Ernest Milton. Director: Dallas Bower.<br />
Appointment With Crime<br />
(90) Four Continents<br />
Drama. British-made. Thief serves term<br />
for a robbery and commits a revenge murder.<br />
He again plunges into the underworld<br />
and is caught, after another big robbery, by<br />
a Scotland Yard inspector. William Hartnell,<br />
Robert Beatty, Joyce Howard, Raymond<br />
Lovell. Director: John Howard.<br />
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Derek Bond. Director: Charles Prank. (A<br />
J. Arthur Rank film relea.sed in England<br />
in 1947 as "Uncle Silas.")<br />
Interrupted Journey... (80) Snader Prods.<br />
Melodrama. British-made. English author<br />
elopes with a married woman. On the train<br />
he dreams of a hectic series of adventures,<br />
awakens and returns to his wife. Valerie<br />
Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden,<br />
Tom Walls. Director: Daniel Birt.<br />
It's Hard to Be Good. (93) Pentagon Picts.<br />
Comedy Drama. British-made. War hero<br />
falls in love with his nurse and decides to<br />
devote his life to preaching peace and<br />
goodwill, which course leads him into a<br />
series of mishaps. Jimmy Hanley, Anne<br />
Crawford, Raymond Huntley. Director:<br />
Jeffrey Dell.<br />
King of the Bullwhip<br />
(59) Western Adven. Prods.<br />
Western. Two U.S. marshals set out to<br />
trap a masked bandit who is an expert<br />
with the bullwhip. Climax is a duel with<br />
whips between the bandit and the hero.<br />
Al "Lash" LaRue, Al "Fuzzy" St. John,<br />
Jack Holt, Tom Neal, Anne Gwynne. Director:<br />
Ron Ormond.<br />
Last Holiday. .(88)<br />
Stratford Picts Nov. 3, '50<br />
Comedy Drama. Salesman, told he has<br />
only a few weeks to live, spends his savings<br />
at a swank hotel, helps many persons and<br />
turns down financial opportunities offered<br />
him, only to learn that he is not going<br />
to die. As the hotel guests await him at<br />
a testimonial dinner, he is killed in an auto<br />
crash. Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell,<br />
Kay Walsh. Director: Henry Cass.<br />
Look Before You Love. .(96) Bell Picts.<br />
Drama. British-made. A good woman marries<br />
a con man and tries unsuccessfully to<br />
reform him. He shakes down her wealthy<br />
suitor, offering a divorce as the bait. Margaret<br />
Lockwood, Griffith Jones, Norman<br />
Wooland, Phyllis Stanley. Director: Harold<br />
Huth.<br />
Lost People, The<br />
(89) Pentagon Picts Oct. '50<br />
Melodrama. British-made. Romance of<br />
two displaced persons in group torn by dissension.<br />
Grievances are forgotten when<br />
threat of plague develops among them.<br />
Dennis Price. Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough,<br />
Maxwell Reed. Siobhan Mc-<br />
Kenna, William Hartnell. Director: Bernard<br />
Knowles.<br />
Mail Order Brides. .. (65) ...Distinguished Films<br />
Drama. French-made film with Englishdubbed<br />
dialog. Young bride is found<br />
stranded on a desert by natives. How she<br />
got there is told in flashback. George<br />
Marcel. Renee Faure, Helen Vita. Director:<br />
Serge De Poligny. (Originally a French film<br />
titled, "Torrent.")<br />
Man on the Run... (82)<br />
Stratford Picts Aug. 29<br />
Drama. Story of army deserter who is<br />
implicated in a murder. Girl befriends him<br />
and aids in tracking down the killers.<br />
Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins. Edward Chapman.<br />
Laurence Harvey. Director: Lawrence<br />
Huntington.<br />
Maniacs on Wheels... .2C<br />
(76) Infl Ret. Org July 11<br />
Action Drama. British-made. Experiences<br />
of a professional motorcycle racer. He<br />
finally concludes he is too old and retires<br />
from the sport. Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano,<br />
Renee Asherson, Bill Owen. Director:<br />
Jack Lee.<br />
Massacre Hill (formerly "Eureka Stockade")<br />
1C...(72) Infl Rel. Org June<br />
Drama. Australian-made. Gold miners fight<br />
for rights against governor and police<br />
troops. They are defeated and leaders tried,<br />
but public opinion forces reforms. Chips<br />
Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Peter lUing, Gordon<br />
Jackson, Sydney Loder. Director:<br />
Harry Watt.<br />
Matter of Murder, A. (52) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Melodrama. British-made. Worthless<br />
woman, for whom a clerk has embezzled his<br />
employer's funds, is murdered. He is used<br />
as a decoy by Scotland Yard to trap the<br />
killers. John Barry, Maureen Riscoe, Ivan<br />
Craig, Ian Fleming. Director: John Gilling.<br />
Medium, The. ..(85)<br />
Lopert Films<br />
Musical Drama. Produced in Italy, with<br />
dialog in song. Fake medium is terrified<br />
by cold hands at a seance. She blames a<br />
deaf mute boy, who assists her, and kills<br />
him, but is never sure it was not a spirit.<br />
Marie Powers. Anna Maria Alberghetti,<br />
Leo Coleman, Belva Kibler. Director: Gian-<br />
Carlo Menotti.<br />
Midnight Blonde.... (77)<br />
Arthur Davis<br />
Associates Aug. 15<br />
British-made. Stars Frances Day. Director:<br />
Kurt Bernhardt.<br />
Murder Without Crime... (76)<br />
Stratford Picts May 25<br />
Mystery Drama. Dennis Price, Derek Farr.<br />
Native Son. ..(90) Classic Picts.<br />
Drama. Made in Argentina. Screen version<br />
of Richard Wright's novel of a Negro who<br />
accidentally kills his employer's daughter.<br />
He flees with his sweetheart but murders<br />
her when he believes she has turned him in<br />
to the police. Jean Wallace, Richard Wright,<br />
Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison. Director:<br />
Pierre Chenal.<br />
No Orchids for Miss Blandish<br />
(95) Renown Picts Feb.<br />
Melodrama. British-made. Abducted by<br />
jewel thieves, heroine is stolen from them<br />
by another gang to be held for ransom.<br />
Romance develops with the gang leader<br />
and when he is shot -she kills herself. Jack<br />
LaRue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers,<br />
Leslie Bradley. Director: St. John L.<br />
Clowes.<br />
No Place for Jennifer... (90)<br />
Stratford Picts June 22<br />
Drama. Domestic drama highlighting the<br />
effects of divorce and remarriage of her<br />
parents on a 12-year-oId girl. Leo Genn,<br />
Beatrice Campbell, Rosamund John. Director:<br />
Henry Cass.<br />
Outsider, The .. (95) Ballantine Picts.<br />
Drama. British-made. Wounded veteranteacher<br />
in upper-class English "public<br />
school" befriends boy from the lower classes<br />
sent there as a student. Through his efforts<br />
a scholarship is established for such boys.<br />
Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard<br />
Miles, Robert Flemyng. Director: Roy<br />
Boulting.<br />
Pancho Villa Returns. ..(95) Hispano Cont'l<br />
Historical Adventure Drama. Made in<br />
Mexico with English dialog. His marriage<br />
prevented by the outbreak of revolution, a<br />
soldier deserts his garrison to prevent<br />
forced marriage of his sweetheart, and is<br />
sentenced to be shot. Leo Carrillo, Esther<br />
Fernandez, Jeanette Comber, Rudolfo<br />
Acosto. Director: Miguel Contreras Torres.<br />
©Pinafore... (70)<br />
Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Kodachrome 16mm Operetta. Screen presentation<br />
of Gilbert & Sullivan's most<br />
famous operetta. Features The California<br />
Light Opera Company. Arthur Lane, Mary<br />
Patrick, Vickie Vale, Tommy Glynn, Jim<br />
Hamilton. (Produced in the Republic<br />
Studios, Hollywood, by Film Operettas, Inc.)<br />
Pink String and Sealing Wax<br />
(75) Pentagon Picts Oct. '50<br />
Drama. British-made. Maladjusted son falls<br />
in love with married woman who involves<br />
him in the murder of her husband. His<br />
father saves him and woman commits<br />
suicide. Google Withers, Mervyn Johns,<br />
Gordon Jackson, Catherine Lacey, Garry<br />
Marsh. Director: Robert Hamer.<br />
Clare<br />
(100) Stratford Picts May 18<br />
Drama. Grandmother tells story of her<br />
three marriages in flashback to her granddaughter,<br />
seeking to prevent the girl from<br />
Portrait of<br />
marrying ill-advisedly. Margaret Johnston,<br />
Robin Bailey, Richard Todd, Ronald Howard.<br />
Director: Lance Comfort.<br />
Rats of Tobruk, The . (85) David Brill<br />
War Drama. Australian-made. Adventures<br />
of three .soldiers in World War II. They<br />
survive campaigns in North Africa and New<br />
Guinea. Only one lives to return to Australia,<br />
a hero. Chips Rafferty, Grant Taylor.<br />
Peter Finch, Pauline Garrick, Mary<br />
Gray. Director: Charles Chauvel.<br />
Reluctant Widow, The (86) Fine Ar's Films<br />
Costume Drama. British-made. On the<br />
eve of the Battle of Waterloo, England is<br />
riddled by French spies. At a seacoast<br />
tavern a beautiful woman becomes involved<br />
in a tangled web of Intrigue. Jean Kent.<br />
Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Lana Morris,<br />
Paul Dupuis, Julian Dallas. Director: Bernard<br />
Knowles.<br />
Secrets of Nature<br />
(80) Oxford Films. ..Sept. '50<br />
Documentary. (English commentary.) Mode<br />
of living of wild animals is recorded in<br />
four sequences, "Biography of a Fish,"<br />
"Experiment at the Zoo," "Duel to the<br />
Death" and "Stork Story." Secjuences directed<br />
by Boris Pavlov and Boris Dolin.<br />
Seven Days to Noon<br />
(93) Distinguished Films<br />
Drama. British-made. Religious worker in<br />
an atom bomb plant threatens, anonymously,<br />
to blow up the city of London unless<br />
manufacture of the atom bomb is<br />
stopped. Residents are ordered evacuated.<br />
Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, Andre Morelle,<br />
Sheila Manahan. Directors: Roy and John<br />
Boulting.<br />
Sin of Esther Waters. 3C<br />
(65) Int'l Rel. Org Sept.<br />
Drama. British-made. Kitchen maid,<br />
seduced by butler in wealthy home where<br />
both are employed, has an illegitimate son,<br />
and he marries another. Years later they<br />
meet again and marry. He dies and she returns<br />
to the home where she had first met<br />
him. Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde. Cyril<br />
Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton. Directors:<br />
Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud. (J.<br />
Arthur Rank.i<br />
Striptease Murder Case. ..(40) Classic Picts.<br />
Mystery Musical. Underworld character,<br />
who threatens romance of two young nightclub<br />
entertainers, is murdered. Boy is suspected<br />
but drug addict confesses killing.<br />
Dennis Harrison, Janie Ford, Al Sanford,<br />
Denise Darnell. Director: Hugh Prince.<br />
©Tales of Hoffmann<br />
(138) Lopert Films<br />
Technicolor Opera Ballet. British-made.<br />
With dialog in recitative manner of opera<br />
and singing voices dubbed in, this tells the<br />
story of Hoffmann's four tragic love affairs.<br />
Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert<br />
Helpmann. Pamela Brown, Ludmilla<br />
Tcherina. Directors: Michael Powell,<br />
Emeric Pressburger. (London Films.)<br />
Third Time Lucky. ...4C<br />
(87) Int'l Bel. Org Nov. '51<br />
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pect in shooting of gambler, reveals herself<br />
as his partner and the helpless victim<br />
in his feud with a rival gambler. She is<br />
freed. Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh, Charles<br />
Goldner. Harcourt Williams, Yvonne Owen.<br />
Director: Gordon Parry.<br />
Tony Draws a Horse. ..(90). .Fine Arts Films<br />
Farce. British-made. A physician and his<br />
wife differ about the upbringing of their<br />
son. They separate and she goes to live<br />
with her parents, whose home she di.srupts<br />
before she comes to her senses and makes<br />
amends. Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford,<br />
Derek Bond, Joan Parsons. Director: John<br />
Paddy Carstairs.<br />
With These Hands... (50)<br />
Classic Picts.<br />
Documentary Drama. Originally produced<br />
by International Ladies' Garment Workers<br />
union for its members. Cloakmaker, applying<br />
for retirement pension, reminisces about<br />
his early days with the union as a crusading<br />
garment worker who ultimately sees<br />
his dreams realized. Sam Levene, Arlene<br />
Francis, Joseph Wiseman, Louis Sorin,<br />
Rudy Bond. Director: Jack Arnold.<br />
Wooden Horse, The. (98) Snader Prods.<br />
Drama. British-made. A group of British<br />
officers escape from a German prison camp<br />
by concealing a man in a wooden gymnasium<br />
horse. Smuggled into the compound,<br />
the hidden worker digs an escape<br />
tunnel. Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony<br />
Steel, David Greene. Director: Jack<br />
Lee.<br />
You Can't Fool an Irishman<br />
(67) Bell Picts July<br />
Comedy. Made in Ireland. Self-styled<br />
Hollywood genius moves in on Irish countryside<br />
to produce St. Patrick film. Money<br />
mixups follow close on love mixups. Tommy<br />
Duggan, Shamus Locke, Shirl Conwa,y,<br />
Josephine Fitzgerald. Director: Alfred<br />
Travers.<br />
Foreign Language<br />
(All have English subtitles unless otherwise<br />
stated. Foreign dialog indicated after<br />
film title.)<br />
Blue Angel, The.. ..German<br />
(97) Classic Picts Reissue<br />
Comedy Drama. Revised from the German<br />
film released in the early '30's. High school<br />
teacher falls in love with beer hall singer.<br />
He marries her, travels with the troupe and<br />
at length discovers she is unfaithful to him.<br />
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron,<br />
Rosa Valetti. Director: Josef von<br />
Sternberg.<br />
Buried Alive. ...Italian<br />
(83) Casolaro Films.. ..Jan. 12<br />
Historical Melodrama. In 1860 an Italian<br />
Royalist buries his mother alive to inherit<br />
lier estate. His sister is rescued from him<br />
by her sweetheart, a soldier in Garibaldi's<br />
army. Milly Vitale, Paul Muller, Evi Maltagliati,<br />
Tina Lattanzi, Piero Palermini. Director:<br />
Guido Brignone.<br />
Cheat, The French... (87) Discina Int'l<br />
Drama. Unfaithful wife of owner of riding<br />
academy is crippled in an accident. Flashbacks<br />
reveal story of their marriage, his<br />
self-sacrifice and her mercenary, ruthless<br />
ambition. Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret.<br />
Jane Marken, Frank Villard. Director:<br />
Yves Allegret.<br />
Christina ("Das Madchen Christine")<br />
Italian. ..(85) Central Cinema ...Jan. 13<br />
Historical Drama. Romance and adventure<br />
in Germany during the Thirty-Year War.<br />
Petra Peters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Tilly<br />
Lauenstein, Use Hulper. Director: Arthur<br />
Maria Rabenalt. (DEFA Deutsche Film<br />
A. G.I<br />
Crossroads of Passion.. ..French<br />
(96) Films Int'l<br />
Melodrama. Motivated by revenge, Italian<br />
girl becomes an espionage agent for the<br />
Germans. She regrets her activity when<br />
her own friends are killed through information<br />
she has obtained. She seeks to escape<br />
but is caught and shot. 'Viviane Romance,<br />
Valentina Cortesa, Clement Duhour, Fosco<br />
Giachettl. Director: Jacques Companeez.<br />
Desert Bride. ..French... (90). ...Hoffl)erg Prods.<br />
Drama. A murderer, a detective on his trail<br />
and a professional soldier down on his luck<br />
enlist in the Foreign Legion. One man marries<br />
a native girl. They volunteer for a<br />
dangerous mission and only the detective<br />
survives. Jean Gabin, Annabella, Almos,<br />
LeVigan. Director: Julien Duvivier.<br />
Difficult<br />
Years. ...Italian<br />
(90) Lopert Films Sept. '50<br />
Drama. Traces the experiences of a lower<br />
middle class Sicilian family through a<br />
decade of fascism under Mussolini. Umberto<br />
Spadaro, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi,<br />
Odette Bedogni. Director: Luigi Zampa.<br />
Doctor, Beware!. ...Italian<br />
(90) Academy Films<br />
Comedy. Young doctor takes a job in an<br />
orphans' home to pay off debts acquired<br />
in dissipation. A girl inmate learns to love<br />
him and helps him to solve his difficulties.<br />
Vittoria de Sica, Anna Magnani, Irasema<br />
Dillian, Adriana Benedetti. Director: Vittorio<br />
de Sica.<br />
Face to the Wind. ..French<br />
(85) Souvaine Selective Picts.<br />
Comedy Drama. A group of street urchins<br />
embark on a. career of dog-snatching. With<br />
the rewards they play Robin Hood to the<br />
impoverished adults of the community.<br />
Jackie Gencel. Pierre Larquey, Armontel,<br />
Georges Gosset, Laurence Aubray. Director:<br />
Robert Vernay.<br />
Film Without a Name....German<br />
(79) Oxford Films. ...Oct. 10, '50<br />
Drama. An actor, an author and a director<br />
discuss making a picture of the life of a<br />
young girl. Three possible versions of the<br />
plot are presented. Hildegarde Neff, Willy<br />
Fritsch, Hans Sohnker, Irene von Meyendorff.<br />
Director: Rudolph Jugert.<br />
Flame of Paris, The. ...French<br />
(60) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Musical Comedy. French author goes to<br />
Tunisia where he becomes interested in a<br />
girl of the streets, whom he brings back<br />
to Paris to introduce as a princess. She<br />
captivates the city. Josephine Baker, Albert<br />
Prejean, Robert Arroux, Germaine Aussey.<br />
Director: Edmond T. Greville.<br />
Formosa. Chinese... (80) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Drama. First modern Chinese dramatic<br />
production shown in the U.S. Story deals<br />
with a young graduate doctor who comes<br />
to the hills intent on bringing better standards<br />
of living to the primitive mountainfolk.<br />
His love for an island princess is opposed<br />
by her father, and the girl drowns<br />
herself in the sea. Shen Min, Tsung Yao,<br />
Lin Tse Hou, Chow Yin Yun, Sou Hu. Director:<br />
Ho Fei-Kwong.<br />
French White Cargo.. ..French<br />
(89) Distinguished Films<br />
Drama. How two competing European<br />
newspaper reporters, one a man, the other<br />
a girl, capture a dangerous white slave ring,<br />
and find romance together. Jean Pierre<br />
Aumont, Dalio, Suzy Prim, Kathryn De-<br />
Nagy, Jules Berry, Charles Granval. Director:<br />
Robert Siodmak.<br />
From Little Acorns. ...French<br />
(98) Souvaine Selective Picts.<br />
Comedy Drama. Adapted from the world<br />
famous Goncourt Prize novel, "La Maternelle,"<br />
by Leon Frapie. Filmed some 20<br />
years ago, but with a different version, by<br />
Jean Benoit-Levy. This one depicts the<br />
little comedies and tragedies in the lives<br />
of a group of nursery school children from<br />
the slums of Paris. Jackie Gencel, Blanchette<br />
Brunoy, Pierre Larquey, Yves 'Vincent,<br />
Marie Dea. Director: Henri Diamant-<br />
Berger.<br />
God Needs Men....French....(90)....A.F.E. Corp.<br />
Drama. Troubles of inhabitants of a small<br />
island when their priest deserts them and<br />
an arch criminal goes unchecked. Church<br />
sexton tries to take priest's place and turns<br />
the criminal over to police who arrive to<br />
investigate. Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine<br />
Robinson, Daniel Gelin, Andree Clement,<br />
Jean Brochard. Director: Jean Delarmoy.<br />
Hidden River. ..Spanish.... (98) ....Clasa-Mohme<br />
Drama. Mexican-made. Schoolteacher in<br />
a Mexican village opposes a tyrannical rich<br />
man and battles a smallpox epidemic, with<br />
aid of young medical student. Maria Felix,<br />
Fernando Fernandez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma.<br />
Director: Emilio Fernandez.<br />
Hoboes in Paradise. ..French<br />
(84) Distinguished Films<br />
Comedy Fantasy. Killed in an accident,<br />
two men, dressed as saints for a masquerade,<br />
go first to Hell and then to Heaven,<br />
but are returned to life to profit by their<br />
experience. Raimu, Fernandel, Alerme.<br />
Armand Bernard. Director: Rene Le Henaff.<br />
(Produced by Gaumont Productions.)<br />
Ignace....French....(78) Mot. Pict. Sales<br />
Musical Comedy. Orderly serves his colonel<br />
well, speaking of nothing he sees. He even<br />
masquerades as the colonel, in his absence,<br />
to impress the general. Fernandel, Alice<br />
Tissot, Saturnin Fabre, Nita Raya, Dany<br />
Lorys, Charpin. Director: Pierre Colombier.<br />
L' Affaire.. ..French. (92). Int'l Film Associates<br />
Drama. Loyal wife allows herself to be<br />
drawn into a compromising situation. Her<br />
husband discovers her indiscretion but forgives<br />
her. Claude Dauphin, Anne Vernon,<br />
Henri Guisol, Jacqueline Francois. Director:<br />
E. E. Reinert.<br />
La Ronde....French ...(83)....Commercial Picts.<br />
Drama. A cycle of scenes between two people,<br />
in each case a man and a woman,<br />
depicting love episodes. The whole is loosely<br />
tied together by the proprietor of a carousel<br />
who touches the lives of all. Anton Walbrook,<br />
Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux,<br />
Isa Miranda, Fernand Gravet, Jean-Louis<br />
Barrault. Director: Max Ophuls.<br />
Lady Paname... .French. ...(97) Discina Int'l<br />
Comedy. Singer, combining an impromptu<br />
strip tease with a song to which she has no<br />
legal right, becomes a sensation. As a<br />
result, her sweetheart becomes involved in<br />
a duel but all ends well. Louis Jouvet, Henri<br />
Guisol, Suzy Delair, Monique Melinand.<br />
Director: Henri Jeanson.<br />
Last Illusion, The. ... German.. (89)..Films Int'l<br />
Melodrama. Plight of a professor who returns<br />
from America to teach in his old<br />
German university. He is defeated by anti-<br />
Semitism. Frizt Kortner, Johanna Hofer,<br />
Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens, Ernst<br />
Schroder. Director: Josef von Baky.<br />
Lovers of Verona, The. ..French<br />
(94) Souvaine Selective Picts.<br />
Melodrama. Stand-ins working with a motion<br />
picture company making a film version<br />
of "Romeo and Juliet" have an ill-starred<br />
and tragic romance paralleling the immortal<br />
Shakespearean play. Serge Reggiani,<br />
Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimee, Louis<br />
Salou. Director: Andre Cayatte.<br />
Mad Queen, The... Spanish<br />
(107) Azteca Films<br />
Historical Romantic Drama. The Spanish<br />
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queen discovers her husband's infideUties.<br />
Overwrought, she is the victim of a court<br />
intrigue which seeks to prove she is mad.<br />
Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Sara Montiel.<br />
Jorge Mistral, Jesus Tordesillas. Director:<br />
Juan de Orduna.<br />
Manon...,French ....(91) Dlscina Int'l<br />
Drama. Modern version of Prevost's novel,<br />
"Manon Lescaut." Tragic story of a young<br />
girl who is unfaithful to her lover in the<br />
mistaken idea that she is helping him.<br />
Cecile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani.<br />
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot.<br />
Marie of the Port. ...French<br />
(90) Bellon-Ffoulke<br />
Drama. Love triangle develops between a<br />
middle-aged cafe owner, his mistress, and<br />
the woman's younger unsophisticated sister.<br />
The girl turns from her rustic suitor to the<br />
older man. Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy,<br />
Nicol Courcel, Carette. Claude Romain. Director:<br />
Marcel Came.<br />
Mill on the Po, The ('11 MuUno del Po")<br />
Italian (96) Lux Films. ..Oct. '51<br />
Drama. Story of a love doomed to tragedy<br />
on the banks of the river Po. Based on<br />
Riccardo Bacchelli's novel of Italian life at<br />
the turn of the century. Carla del Poggio,<br />
Jacques Sernas. Director: Alberto Lattuada.<br />
Minne. ...French (82) Commercial Picts.<br />
Comedy Drama. Married to her stodgy<br />
cousin, a beautiful French woman grows<br />
bored and has several affairs. When her<br />
husband says she must choose between<br />
losing him and behaving herself, she reforms.<br />
Daniele Delorme. Frank Villard,<br />
Jean Tissier, Claude Nicot. Director: Jacqueline<br />
Audry.<br />
Miquette. ..French... (83) Discina Int'l<br />
Farce. A timid youth is betrothed to an<br />
heiress to break up his romance with a<br />
girl his guardian also loves. The girl runs<br />
away but after many misunderstandings<br />
they are reunited. Louis Jouvet, Daniele<br />
Delorme, Bourvil, Saturnin Fabre. Director:<br />
Henri-Georges Clouzot.<br />
Monticello Here We Come... Yiddish and<br />
English... (74)<br />
Cinema Service<br />
Novelty Musical Comedy. Songs, sketches,<br />
and folklore arranged and performed in<br />
separate acts by Jewish artists. Jokes between<br />
acts are told in English. Larry<br />
Daniels, Burton Sisters, Menasha Skulnick,<br />
Michel Rosenberg. Director: Joe Seiden.<br />
My First Love.. ..French<br />
(89) Arthur Davis Associates. ...June 15<br />
Comedy Drama. A young man, with a<br />
mother complex, finds it difficult to believe<br />
she is a woman who could, and, in<br />
fact, does, fall in love. Gerard Nary, Jacqueline<br />
Delubac. Aime Clariond. Director:<br />
Berthomieu.<br />
My Widow and I. ...Italian<br />
(81) Distinguished Films.. ..Aug. 29, '50<br />
Comedy. Man, mistakenly pronounced dead,<br />
goes on a trip with his wife, and is forced<br />
to pose as his brother-in-law while a<br />
former suitor pays court to his wife. Vittorio<br />
de Sica, Isa Miranda, Gino Cervi,<br />
Dina Galli, Luigi Almiranti. Director: Aldo<br />
de Benedetti.<br />
Oh, Amelia.. ..French<br />
(86) Lux Films.. ..Oct. '51<br />
Comedy. Announcing his betrothal to his<br />
friend's mistress in order to gain an inheritance,<br />
the hero is forced to go through<br />
with the marriage and amusing and risque<br />
complications result. Danielle Darrieux,<br />
Jean Desailly, Andre Bervil, Armontel. Director:<br />
Claude Autant-Lara.<br />
Original Sin, The.. ..German<br />
(90) Lopert Films<br />
Fantasy. Wealthy manufacturer, in the<br />
center of a wife-mistress triangle, dreams<br />
he is Adam in the Garden of Eden and his<br />
mistress is Eve. All Hell breaks loose when<br />
Eve persuades him to pick up the apple.<br />
Bettina Moissi, Bobby Todd, Joana Maria<br />
Gorvin. Director: Helmut Kautner.<br />
Orpheus... French. ..(86) Discina Int'l<br />
Fantasy. Four people experience death and<br />
restoration to life, in a modern version of<br />
the Orpheus myth, and conclude that death<br />
is to be preferred to life. Narration by<br />
Romney Brent. Jean Marais, Francois<br />
Perier, Maria Casares, Maria Dea. Director:<br />
Jean Cocteau.<br />
Paris 1900 French... (76) Mayer-Kingsley<br />
Documentary. Compilation of French newsreel<br />
clips dealing with pre-World War I<br />
epoch (1900-1914). Maurice Chevalier,<br />
Sarah Bernhardt, Leon Blum, Georges<br />
Carpentier, Claude Debussy. Andre Gide,<br />
Edmond Rostand, Buffalo Bill. Narrator:<br />
Monty WooUey.<br />
Path of Hope, The.. ..Italian<br />
(104) Lux Films. ..Fall '51<br />
Drama. Story of a group of Sicilian<br />
peasants searching for a means of livelihood.<br />
When the sulphur mine in their<br />
village is closed, they wander across Europe<br />
and are finally admitted to France.<br />
Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Franco Navarra,<br />
Luciana Coluzzi, Angelina Scaldaferri. Director:<br />
Pietro Germi.<br />
©Rancho Grande. ...Spanish<br />
(100) Azteca Films.. ..June 7<br />
Cinecolor Drama With Music. Young ranch<br />
foreman quarrels with his employer when<br />
he mistakenly believes the latter has compromised<br />
his sweetheart. He learns the<br />
truth and all ends happily. Jorge Negrete,<br />
Lilia del Valle, Eduardo Noriega, Trio<br />
Calavaras, Lupe Inclan. Director: Fernando<br />
de Fuentes.<br />
Red Angel, The. French (97) Spalter Int'l<br />
Melodrama. Ex-criminal opens a night club<br />
in Paris with his South American paramour<br />
as the star. A love triangle develops<br />
and both are killed. Tilda Thamar, Paul<br />
Meurisse, Berval, Paul Demange. Director:<br />
Jacques Danial-Norman.<br />
Rendezvous With Tomorrow. ..French<br />
(102) Souvaine Selective Picts.<br />
Comedy. Story of postwar French youth,<br />
their lives and loves, hopes, dreams and<br />
ambitions. Also, the problems that confront<br />
them in a world different than thenparents<br />
knew. Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Auber,<br />
Nicole Courcel. Director: Jacques<br />
Becker.<br />
Riptide. French. (75) Films Int'l<br />
Melodrama. Series of character studies of<br />
associates of a murderer in flight, who takes<br />
refuge for a short time in a seaside resort<br />
before he kills himself. Gerade Philipe,<br />
Madeleine Robinson, Jane Marken, Jean<br />
Pervars. Director: Yves Allegret.<br />
FROM COAST<br />
TO COAST!<br />
Seven Journeys. German... (84)<br />
Bell Pictures June<br />
Drama. An old car, being stripped for junk,<br />
"tells" the highlights of its life with seven<br />
owners. Bettina Moissi, Winnie Markus.<br />
Karl John, Erica Balque, Eva Gotthardt,<br />
Hermann Speelmanns, Fritz Wagner. Director:<br />
Helmut Kautner. (Formerly distributed<br />
by Vogue Pictures, i<br />
Sinners, The. ...French.. ..(98) Lopert Films<br />
Drama. Innocent girl is placed in reform<br />
school under the supervision of a cruel directress.<br />
Her lover, with aid of inmates,<br />
helps her to escape, but she dies while police<br />
pursue them. Serge Reggiani, Suzanne<br />
Cloutier, Jean Davy, Suzy Prim. Director:<br />
Julien Duvivier.<br />
Song of Dolores.. ..Spanish<br />
(85) Lux Films. ..June<br />
Musical Melodrama. Peasant girl is res-<br />
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priest. He goes to prison and she marries<br />
an innkeeper. When he is released she<br />
must make a choice between them. Imperio<br />
Argentina. Enrique Diosdato. Manolito<br />
Diaz, Ricardo Canales. Director; Benito<br />
Perojo.<br />
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL<br />
Showplacc of the Nation Rockefeller Center, N. Y.<br />
Sontr of My Heart. ..Italian<br />
(86) Crown Prods.<br />
Operatic Comedy. Bored small-town wife<br />
follows a visiting operatic tenor back to<br />
the city. Her husband arrives and the tenor<br />
assists in bringing about the reconciliation.<br />
Giuseppe Lugo, Ruby D'Alma, Ugo Ceseri,<br />
Guglielmo Sinaz. Director: Guido Brignone.<br />
Souvenir French... (100) Pathe Cinema<br />
Romantic Drama. After a lovers' parting<br />
girl attempts suicide. She becomes an airplane<br />
hostess and lover must overcome a<br />
rival when he seeks to win her again. Michele<br />
Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Chevrier.<br />
Director: Jean Delannoy.<br />
Sylvie and the Phantom.. ..French<br />
(85) Discina Int'l<br />
Fantasy. Ghost, loved by young girl, enters<br />
into the fun at her birthday party. When<br />
she falls for a living man he returns to<br />
heaven. Odette Joyeux, Francois Perier,<br />
Louis Salou, Julien Carette, Jacques Tati.<br />
Director: Claude Autant-Lara.<br />
Thrill That Kills, The....ItaUan<br />
(80) Distinguished Films<br />
Drama. (Added English sound track.) Story<br />
of a boy dope peddler. His real father befriends<br />
him and persuades him to join a<br />
merchant ship as a sailor, but never reveals<br />
their relationship. Posco Giachetti,<br />
Jacques Sernas, Olga Villi, Vittorio SanipoU.<br />
Director: Giorgio Bianchi.<br />
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Treasured Earth... Hungarian<br />
(100) Artkino<br />
Drama. A peasant tries to cultivate a small<br />
tract of land against great odds in the opposition<br />
of a wealthy landholder and a severe<br />
drought. Adam Szirtes. Agi Meszaros,<br />
Arpad Lehotay. Director: Frigyes Ban.<br />
Two Madonnas, The ("Le Due Madonne")<br />
Italian (92) Casolaro Films. Dec. 1, '50<br />
Stars Eva Nova.<br />
Two Orphans, The.. ..Italian<br />
(92) Globe Film Distrs.<br />
Costume Melodrama. Blind girl is separated<br />
from her sister and lost in Paris. She suffers<br />
great hardships but is rescued and a<br />
doctor restores her sight. Valli. Maria<br />
Denis, Osvaldo Valenti, Roberto Villa.<br />
Otello T0.S0. Director: Carmine Gallone.<br />
isnes<br />
Under the Olive Tree. ...Italian<br />
(107) Lux Films....Oct. "51<br />
Melodrama. Tribulations of a shepherd,<br />
returned from the war, to find the villain<br />
has stolen his sheep and his girl. In the<br />
struggle between the men the girl's younger<br />
sister is murdered. Raf Vallone, Lucia<br />
Bose, Falco Lulli, Maria Grazia Francia.<br />
Dante Maggio. Director: Giuseppe De<br />
Santis.<br />
Ways of Love. ...French and Italian<br />
(120) Joseph Burstyn<br />
Episodic Dramas. Three separate stories<br />
with different casts and directors.<br />
"A Day<br />
in the Country": Young girl has affair with<br />
stranger during a family outing. "Jofroi":<br />
An old man's fanatical devotion to trees he<br />
has planted. "The Miracle": Demented girl<br />
is seduced by man she believes to be St.<br />
Joseph. Sylvia Bataille, Georges St. Saens.<br />
Jeanne Marken. Vincent Scotto, Annie<br />
Toinon, Henri Poupon, Anna Magnani. Directors:<br />
Jean Renoir, Marcel Pagnol, Roberto<br />
Rossellini.<br />
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What's the Use of Money ("A Che Servono<br />
Quest! Quattrini")... .Italian<br />
(83) Continental Picts Oct. 13, '50<br />
Stars Eduardo and Peppino de Pilippo,<br />
Paolo Stoppa.<br />
Where Is Zaza? ("Dove Sta Zaza"). Italian<br />
(99) Casolaro Films. ..Nov. 3, '50<br />
Stars Nino Taranto.<br />
White Legs.. ..French<br />
(99) Noel Meadow Associates<br />
Drama. Story of a woman of endless affairs<br />
sipping at many cups in her thirst for<br />
love. Locale is a sedate fishing village<br />
somewhere in Brittany. Suzy Delalr, Fernand<br />
Ledoux, Arlette Thomas. Director;<br />
Jean Gremillon.<br />
White Line,<br />
The.. ..Italian<br />
(87) Lux Films...Fall '51<br />
Drama. New frontier line, drawn between<br />
two nations at the end of World War II,<br />
divides a peaceful country in two parts.<br />
Both dramatic and comical incidents result<br />
when the existence of the inhabitants becomes<br />
at once impossible. Gina LoUobrigida,<br />
Raf Vallone, Erno Grisa, Enzo<br />
Staiola. Director: Luigi Zampa.<br />
Women Without Names.. ..Italian, English,<br />
French... (93) Lopert Films<br />
Drama. Struggle of a young widow to escape<br />
from a refugee camp in order that her child<br />
may not be born in prison. She dies in<br />
childbirth but a guard takes the child to<br />
raise. Simone Simon. Valentina Cortesa,<br />
Francoise Rosay, Gino Cervi, Vivi Gioi. Director:<br />
Geza Radvanyi.<br />
Wonderful Times.. ..German<br />
(86) Academy Films<br />
Documentary. Compilation of old newsreels.<br />
History of Germany from World War<br />
I through Hitler. Commentator: Willy<br />
Fritsch. Director: Gunter Neumann.<br />
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ASSORTED AND ALL-STAR COiMEDIES<br />
A Slip and a Miss .3422. .. (16) Nov. 9. '50<br />
Hugh Herbert tells his marital woes to a<br />
divorce judge, the trouble all having started<br />
when he learned his wife could not cook<br />
and was having her mother fix the meals.<br />
Awful Sleuth. The. .3425. ..(16) Apr. 19<br />
Bert Wheeler's hobby as a crime magazine<br />
f.in pays off when he accidentally stumbles<br />
onto a gang of thieves. But his mother-inlaw<br />
collects the reward.<br />
Blonde Atom Bomb .3415 ..(17) Mar. 8<br />
Andy Clyde tries to buy off a night club<br />
dancer nmning around with his nephew,<br />
and winds up with everyone, including his<br />
wife, after him.<br />
Blunderful Time. A 3411 .(16'i) Sept.7,'50<br />
Andy Clyde, in a dual role as himself and<br />
his drunkard twin brother, gets things so<br />
mixed up that no one knows whose wife is<br />
whose.<br />
Foy Meets Girl. 3412... (16%) Oct. 5, '50<br />
Eddie Foy beomes involved with a wrestler's<br />
wife and her husband.<br />
Fun on the Run 3416 (16) May 10<br />
Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan start their<br />
own vaudeville act, but go broke after meeting<br />
a couple of goodtime golddiggers.<br />
He Flew the Shrew 3413 (16' o) Jan. 11<br />
Henpecked Wally 'Vernon hits the road with<br />
gentleman tramp Eddie Quillan in his<br />
search for the carefree life of a hobo.<br />
Innocently Guilty 3423 (16) Dec. 21, '50<br />
Bert Wheeler's jealous wife follows him on<br />
a business trip. He innocently becomes involved<br />
when he tries to help the wife of<br />
a client.<br />
Two Roaming Champs. ..3421<br />
(16>-) Oct. 12. '50<br />
Ex-world champs Max Baer and Maxie<br />
Rosenbloom as private-eyes who get a real<br />
"workout" in a haunted house.<br />
Wedding: Yells 3414. (16) Feb. 8<br />
Eddie Foy, engaged to a big, burly brunet,<br />
becomes involved in a hilarious mixup when<br />
he acts as stand-in at a friend's wedding.<br />
Wine. Women and Bong!....3424<br />
(15!-i) Feb. 22<br />
Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom lie to<br />
their wives about their absence the night<br />
before, but are "crossed up" by television,<br />
which shows them at a night club.<br />
Woo Woo Blues. .3426 (16) July 12<br />
Hugh Herbert's post -honeymoon is almost<br />
ruined when an old flame attempts to blackmail<br />
him with a batch of old love letters.<br />
CANDID MICROPHONE<br />
(One-Reel Specials—Series 3)<br />
Candid Microphone No. 1....3551<br />
(11) Oct. 12, '50<br />
Candid Microphone No. 2. ...3552<br />
(10) Dec. 14, '.50<br />
Candid Microphone No. 3. ...3553<br />
(10'/2) Feb. 15<br />
Candid Microphone No. 4.. ..3554<br />
(11) Apr. 12<br />
Candid Microphone No. 5.. ..3555<br />
(10! 4) June 14<br />
Candid Microphone No. 6. ...3556<br />
(10) Aug. 15<br />
CAVALCADE OF BROADWAY<br />
(With Danton Walker, Columnist)<br />
China Doll, The 36.52 (11) Dec. 28, '50<br />
Explanatory<br />
Statistical and summary data<br />
on the season's short subjects, arranged<br />
alphabetically under company<br />
groupings. Dates are 1951<br />
unless otherwise stated.<br />
PRODUCTION NUMBER immediately<br />
foUo-ws title, except on<br />
those listed in numerical order by<br />
production number first.<br />
RUNNING TIME (in parentheses)<br />
follo'ws production number, or title.<br />
RELEASE DATE at end of the<br />
title<br />
line.<br />
Symbol ® indicates color photography.<br />
New York's exotic night spot featuring<br />
Oriental beauty and talent, including Ming<br />
& Ling and Toy & Ling. Irwin Kent's<br />
band furnishes the music.<br />
Havana-Madrid....3653....(10) Apr. 12<br />
One of Broadway's night clubs where the<br />
rhumba is done in distinctive Latin style.<br />
Features Jo.se Curbelo and His Band, singing<br />
.star Dorothy Claire, mambo experts<br />
Horacio and Lana, and comedian Henny<br />
Nadell.<br />
New York After Midnight .3654 ...(11). June 28<br />
Night club personalities, such as Matty<br />
Malneck, Margot Powers and Ann McCormack,<br />
go to Freddie Robbins' Nest, where<br />
they entertain each other.<br />
Versailles, The 3651 ..(10) Oct. 26, "50<br />
A tour through one of New York's most<br />
glamorous night spots. Features crooner<br />
Johnny Johnston and dance team Copsey<br />
and Ayres.<br />
COLOR FAVORITES (Re-Releases)<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
3601. ...Happy Tots' Expedition. ...(7). Sept. 7, '50<br />
3602 ..Land of Fun... (7) Oct. 5, '50<br />
3603 Peaceful Neighbors.... (8
3404.<br />
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Cueball<br />
Droopy's<br />
3860. ..The Great Director... (9) July 19<br />
(Movie history of Cecil B. DeMille. Narrated<br />
by Joel McCrea.i<br />
SPECIAL FEATURETTES<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
Day With the F.B.I.. A. ...3440 (19) July 21<br />
Produced by Louis de Rochemont. Shows<br />
the FBI at work in the laboratory and in<br />
the field.<br />
Vatican, The... (38) Special<br />
Documentary. Points of interest in and<br />
around<br />
Vatican City, with shots of the Swiss<br />
Guard at drill and in procession. Directors:<br />
Giuliano Tomei, Hans Nieter. (An<br />
International Phoenix-Seven League Production.)<br />
STOOGE COMEDIES<br />
Baby Sitters' Jitters ...3406. ..(16) Mar. 1<br />
Stooges find baby-sitting a difficult job.<br />
especially when the baby belongs to a divorcee<br />
whose ex-husband is trying to sneak<br />
off with him.<br />
Don't Throw That Knife .3407. (16) May 3<br />
Stooges are census takers who go through<br />
some merry paces when they meet up with<br />
"vaudevillains" who do a knife-and-sword<br />
act.<br />
Scrambled Brains. ...3408. (16) July 5<br />
One of the Stooges has hallucinations and<br />
wants to marry an ugly duckling whom he<br />
thinks is a ravishing beauty.<br />
Slap Happy Sleuths .3403. . (16) Nov. 9, '50<br />
Stooges are cops who, in their own hilarious<br />
fashion, solve the Great Onion Oil<br />
Co. robbery.<br />
Snitch in Time, A .<br />
.(16Vi) Dec. 7, '50<br />
Stooges, while delivering furniture, become<br />
involved with thieves and get stuck in a<br />
stickup.<br />
Studio Stoops... 3402. (16) Oct. 5, '50<br />
Stooges as termite exterminators for a movie<br />
studio, rub out kidnapers of actress.<br />
Three Arabian Nuts... .3405... (16) Jan. 4<br />
Stooges accidentally run into an Aladdin's<br />
Lamp and a friendly Genii appears, who<br />
grants them their wacky wishes.<br />
Three Hams on Rye. .3401<br />
(15>/i) Sept. 7, '50<br />
Stooges make all sorts of zany attempts to<br />
keep a critic from viewing the opening<br />
night performance of their show.<br />
VARIETY FAVORITES<br />
(Re -Releases)<br />
3951... .Korn Kobblers... (11) Sept. 21, '50<br />
"Little Brown Jug" and "Casey Jones."<br />
(Film Vodvil, Series 2. No. 4)<br />
3952....Drug Store FolUes....(10>/2). ..Nov. 23, '50<br />
The Leslies. Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone<br />
Star Cowboys.<br />
3953 .Milt Britton and Band. (11) ..Dec. 21, '50<br />
(Film Vodvil, Series 3. No. 1)<br />
3954... Brokers' Follies. .. (11) Feb. 22<br />
Martha Tilton.<br />
WORLD OF SPORTS<br />
(Commentaries by Bill Stern)<br />
Anglers Aweigh. .3810. (10) July 26<br />
Canada's top hockey players, Maurice Richard.<br />
Doug Harvey and Jerry McNeil, exchange<br />
their hockey sticks for rods and<br />
reels and go fishing in the scenic Laurentian<br />
mountain district of Canada.<br />
Army's All-American....3805.... (10)... Feb. 22<br />
Typical day for Dan Foldberg, Ail-American<br />
great of the Army's 1950 football team.<br />
Champion Jumpers....3804....(10) Dec. 28, '50<br />
A camera tour of the Joseph Bragg horse<br />
farm in Long Island, and shots of the Piping<br />
Rock Horse Show.<br />
Future Major Leaguers. .3808. ..(11). ...May 31<br />
Behind the scenes with the New York<br />
Giants at their training camp, under the<br />
guidance of the famous Carl Hubbell.<br />
King of the Pins. .3802. ..(9) Oct. 26, '50<br />
American champ Joe Wilman gives a bowling<br />
exhibition.<br />
Mat Masters. 3803... (10) Nov. 30, '50<br />
Features Primo Camera and other famous<br />
men of the mat.<br />
Quebec Sports Holiday 3806 (8'a) Apr. 12<br />
Various types of sports, such as the Scotch<br />
game of curling and toboggan sliding, with<br />
the emphasis on skiing.<br />
Snow Fiesta. ...3801 (9) Sept. 28, '50<br />
A winter carnival is held at a ski resort in<br />
the Laurentian mountains of Quebec.<br />
Sunshine Sports. .3809... (10) June 28<br />
Winter vacationists at Florida's Hollywood<br />
Beach hotel enjoy the varied sports activities<br />
offered.<br />
Mr. Tennis. 3807... (9) Apr. 26<br />
Pancho Segura. national professional tennis<br />
champ, is matched against Bob Junior<br />
Stobbs, national teaching professional<br />
champ.<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
CARTOONS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
W-231 The Hollywood Bowl (7). Sept. 16, '50<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-232 Garden Gopher. (6) Sept. 30, '50<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-233 The Framed Cat... (7) Oct. 21, '50<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-234 The Chump Champ... (7) Nov. 4, '50<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-235 . Cat... (7) Nov. 25, "50<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-236 The Peachy Cobbler... (7). ...Dec. 9, '50<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-237. ..Casanova Cat... (7) Jan. 6<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-238 Fresh Laid Plans... (9) Jan. 27<br />
W-239 Cock-A-Doodle Dog (7) Feb. 10<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-240 Jerry and the Goldfish (7) ..Mar. 3<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-241 Daredevil Droopy. (6) Mar. 31<br />
Tex Avery)<br />
W-242. Jerry's Cousin... (7) Apr. 7<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-243 . Good Deed. (7) May 5<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-244 ..Sleepy-Time Tom... (7) May 26<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-245.... Symphony in Slang.... (7) June 16<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-246 His Mouse Friday... (7) July 7<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
GOLD MEDAL REPRINT CARTOONS<br />
(Technicolor Reissues)<br />
W-261 The Zoot Cat. (7) Oct. 7, '50<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-262 The Early Bird Dood It!<br />
(9) Dec. 2, '50<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-263 The Million Dollar Cat. ..(7). ...Feb. 24<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
W-264 .The Shooting of Dan McGoo<br />
(8) Apr. 14<br />
(Tex Avery)<br />
W-265....Gallopin' Gals... (7) June 2<br />
W-266 The Bodyguard... (7) Aug. 4<br />
(Tom and Jerry)<br />
PEOPLE ON PARADE<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
P-211 Egypt Speaks. (8) Jan. 6<br />
P-212. ..Voices of Venice... (8) Feb. 3<br />
P-213.. .Springtime in the Netherlands<br />
(9) Apr. 21<br />
P-214 Land of the Zuider Zee (9) ...Apr. 28<br />
P-215 A Word for the Greeks... (8) ...May 12<br />
P-216.. Romantic Riviera (9) June 23<br />
P-217... Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers<br />
(8) Aug. 4<br />
P-218....Visiting Italy... (8) Aug. 25<br />
PETE SMITH SPECIALTIES<br />
Bandage Bait....S-259....(9) June 16<br />
"Wrong Way Butch" illustrates how accidents<br />
can be avoided by a few simple precautions.<br />
Bargain Madness. ..S-260.... (9) July 14<br />
Lampoons bargain buying by women.<br />
Camera Sleuth... .8-258. ..(10) Apr. 28<br />
Follows the work of a private-eye as he<br />
gathers photographic evidence against a<br />
false insurance claim.<br />
Curious Contests. ...S-254.... (8) Nov. 11, '50<br />
Odd types of contests, including a diapering<br />
contest, pie-eating and "putting out the<br />
cat."<br />
Fixin' Fool....S-257....(8) Mar. 24<br />
Dave O'Brien, as Mr. Average-Husband, attempts<br />
to fix a door, and calamities follow.<br />
Football Thrills No. 13 S-252 (9) Sept. 9, '50<br />
Scenes from 18 contests are shown in this<br />
compilation of the last .season's major collegiate<br />
football games.<br />
Sky Skiers... .S-256.... (8) Feb. 17<br />
Preston Peterson and Karl Easterly perform<br />
water-ski tricks, including ski-stunting<br />
from a helicopter.<br />
Table Toppers ...S-253.... (8) Oct. 21, '50<br />
Billiard wizards. Messrs, Caras Peterson<br />
and Mosconi. do some fancy tricks.<br />
Wanted: One Egg....S-255....(9) Dec. 16, '50<br />
Mother has all sorts of mishaps trying to<br />
save one egg needed to bake a birthday cake<br />
for her little daughter.<br />
Wrong Way Butch... .S-251... (10) Sept. 2, '50<br />
Dave O'Brien shows how things should not<br />
be done in the home work shop.<br />
Paramount<br />
CASPER CARTOONS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
BlO-1 ...Casper's Spree Under the Sea<br />
(8) Oct. 13, '50<br />
BlO-2. Once Upon a Rhyme. (8). ..Dec. 15, '50<br />
B10-3....BOO Hoo Baby... (8) Mar. 30<br />
BlO-4 To Boo or Not to Boo... (7) June 8<br />
BlO-5.. Boo Scout. (8) July 27<br />
BlO-6 Casper Comes to Clown (8).... Aug. 10<br />
GRANTLAND RICE SPORTLIGHTS<br />
Big Little Leaguers ..RlO-8... (9) Mar. 16<br />
The Little League, comprised of lads from<br />
9 to 12 years of age, and numbering some<br />
1.500 coast-to-coast teams, have their world<br />
.series game at Williamsport, Pa.<br />
City of Ball Tossers RlO-ll. (10) June 22<br />
How the city of Denver develops its basketball<br />
stars. Youngsters are trained from<br />
elementary school on.<br />
Close Decisions.. RIO- 10. (10) May 25<br />
Student umpires are shown as they learn<br />
baseball inside and out at Bill McGowan's<br />
school for American league umpires and at<br />
George Barr's school for National league<br />
umpires.<br />
Desert Hi-Jinks RlO-l. (9) Oct. 6, '50<br />
Unusual sports shots of skiing, tobogganing,<br />
polo (in which lariats are used), and a tortoise<br />
race.<br />
Dobbin Steps Out... RlO-5 (10) Dec. 8, '50<br />
Scenes from Kansas City's American Royal<br />
horse show, plus shots of surrounding horse<br />
farms.<br />
Follow the Game Trails....R10-12..(9'/i)..July 20<br />
How the U.S. government protects fish and<br />
wild game, as well as provides approved<br />
hunting and fishing areas for .sportsmen.<br />
Glacier Fishing. ..RlO-3.. (10)... Oct. 6, '50<br />
Interesting bouts with trout are shown,<br />
against the scenic setting of Jasper National<br />
Park in the Canadian Rockies.<br />
Isle of Sport .RlO-7.. (10) Feb. 16<br />
Bermuda, its beaches, tennis courts, golf,<br />
fishing and sailing.<br />
Jumping Off Place, The ...R10-9....(10)..May 11<br />
Ski jumping with Gordon Wren, former<br />
U.S. Olympic champ, and shots of other expert<br />
skiers.<br />
Outboard Shenanigans.. ..RlO-2<br />
(10) Oct. 6, '50<br />
A streamlined, outboard motorboat race is<br />
shown, with unusual feats performed by<br />
aquatic cowboys.<br />
Targets on Parade....R10-4.... (10)....Nov. 24, '50<br />
Demonstrations by bow and arrow champs<br />
Walt and Ken Wilhelm, skeet shooting by<br />
Alex Kerr, and expert casting by Cliff<br />
Wyatt. are shown.<br />
Top Flight Tumblers RlO-6. (9) Dec. 29, '50<br />
Big tumblers, little tumblers, all ages and<br />
sizes, demonstrate their dexterity at acrobatics.<br />
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(Technicolor Reissues!<br />
FF10-l....iVI:ir(ii C.ras (Ifll Oct. 6, '50<br />
FFlO-2 Caribbean Romance (19) Oct. 6. "SO<br />
FFlO-3 Showboat Serenade (20) Oct. 6, '50<br />
FFlO-4 You Hit the Spot. (18) Oct. 6, '50<br />
FFlO-5 Bombalera .119) Oct. 6, '50<br />
FFIO-H llaltwa.v to Heaven (19) Oct. 6. '.'iO<br />
NOVKI.TOONS<br />
(Technicolor I<br />
PIO-I Voice of the Turkey (6) Oct. 13, '50<br />
PlO-2 ...Mice Meeting You... (7) Nov. 10, '50<br />
FlO-3 ..Sock A-Bye Kitty... (7) Dec. 22, '.^O<br />
PlO-4 One Quack Mind... (7) Jan. 12<br />
PlO-5. Mice Paradise. (7) Mar. 9<br />
PlO-6 Hold the Lion, Please (7) Apr. 27<br />
1 Little Audrey<br />
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PlO-7 Land of Lost Watches ... (9) May 4<br />
PlO-8. ...\s the Crow Lies (6) lune 1<br />
PlO-9. .Slip Us Some Redskin... (7) July 6<br />
PIO-IO Party Sniarty..(8) Aug. 3<br />
iBaby duck Hueyi<br />
P.ACEMAKERS<br />
City of Beautiful Girls, The ..JilO-2<br />
(10) Oct. 27, '50<br />
Cypress Gardens in Florida, popular with<br />
tourists for its tropical flowers, thrilling<br />
water shows and beautiful girls.<br />
Country Cop KlO-3 . Dec. 8, '50<br />
Young man realizes his boyhood dream of<br />
becoming a policeman.<br />
Just Fur Fun KlO-1 (10) Oct. 6, '50<br />
Shows the activities of a p.iir of playful,<br />
young raccoons.<br />
Kids and Pets. K10-5....(ll) Mar. 23<br />
Children stage their own pet show, with<br />
dogs, birds, monkeys, rabbits and horses,<br />
and see to it that each wins a prize.<br />
Littlest Expert, The KlO-6 (10) Apr. 13<br />
Charley Hankinson. 9-year-old baseball expert,<br />
tells about the outstanding achievements<br />
of baseball greats of the past and<br />
present, as each appears on the screen.<br />
Music Circus KlO-4.. (11) Feb. 2<br />
Two house painters, fascinated by the rehearsals<br />
of St. John Terrell's Music Circus,<br />
neglect their work.<br />
POPEYE CARTOONS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
ElO-l Quick on the Vigor ....(7) Oct. 6, '50<br />
ElO-2 Riot in Rhythm (7) Nov. 10, '50<br />
E10-3....The Farmer and the Belle<br />
(7) Dec. 1, '50<br />
ElO-4.... Vacation With Play... (7)... Jan. 26<br />
ElO-5. ...Thrill of Fair . Apr. 20<br />
ElO-6... Alpine for Y'ou .<br />
May 18<br />
ElO-7 ...Double Cross Country Race<br />
(7) ! June 15<br />
ElO-8 Pilgrim Popeye...(7) July 13<br />
POPEYE CHAMPIONS (Reissues)<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
ZlO-l.Her Honor, the Mare (7) Oct. 6, 50<br />
Z10-2....We're On Our Way to Rio<br />
(7) Oct. 20, '50<br />
ZlO-3 Pop-Pie a la Mode....(6) Nov. 3, '50<br />
ZlO-4 ...Shape Ahoy (6) Nov. 17, '50<br />
SCREEN SONGS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
XlO-1 ...Fiesta Time... (7) Nov. 17, '50<br />
XlO-2.... Fresh Yeggs... (7) Nov. 17, '50<br />
XlO-3 Tweet Music. ..(7) Feb. 9<br />
XlO-4.. ..Drippy Mississippi... (7) Apr. 13<br />
XlO-5Miners Forty Niners. ...(7) May 18<br />
XlO-6. Sing Again of Michigan. (7). ..June 29<br />
SPECIALS<br />
Cinematographer, The....T10-2.. .<br />
Shows the important part played by the<br />
cameraman in the making of a film. lA<br />
part of "The Movies and You" series.)<br />
New Pioneers, The . T10-l....(20) Sept. 1, '50<br />
(10) ...Jan. 15<br />
Filmed in Israel. A glimpse of life in Tel<br />
Aviv and on a communal farm settlement<br />
known as the "kibbutz." Narrator: David<br />
Vaile. Director: Baruch Dienar. (Produced<br />
by Baruch Dienar and Richard<br />
Czinner.i<br />
(LARK &<br />
RKO Radio<br />
McC ll.LOl (ill<br />
(Reissues!<br />
13,(>01 Fits in a Fiddle ...(15) Sept. 8, .50<br />
13.602 Hey, Nanny Nanny (15) Oct. 20, '50<br />
13.603 Alibi, Bye Bye (21) Nov. 17, '50<br />
13.604 Jitters the Butler (20) Dec. 29, ',50<br />
COMEDY' SPECIALS<br />
Newlyweds' Boarder, The. ..13,403<br />
(15) Jan. 19<br />
The newlyweds. threatened with a visit<br />
from in-laws, take in a boarder. Tliis leads<br />
to mixups when latter turns out to be a<br />
bank robber.<br />
Newlyweds' Easy Payments. .13,405<br />
(15) May 11<br />
The newlyweds have their first quarrel.<br />
They patch things up, then start worrying<br />
about meeting payments on a new car he<br />
promises her.<br />
Night Club Daze 13,402 (16) Nov. 24, "50<br />
Gil Lamb wanders into a blood donor<br />
agency and is "transformed" by a transfusion.<br />
It all turn.s out to be a dream.<br />
Rogues to Riches 13,406.(15) July 6<br />
Jack Kirkwood and Wally Brown, escaping<br />
a detective, stumble into an audience participation<br />
show. Amusing complications<br />
follow when they have to sell a vacuum<br />
cleaner to get the $250 prize.<br />
Tinhorn Troubadours....l3,404 .. .. (16)....Mar. 16<br />
Jack Kirkwood and Wally Brown as old<br />
troupers behind in their rent, get on a<br />
television program the hard way.<br />
Waiting for Baby 13,401 (17). Sept. 22, '50<br />
Newlywed Robert Neil mistakenly believes<br />
his wife. Suzi Crandall, is going to have<br />
a baby, and enrolls in a class for expectant<br />
fathers.<br />
DISNEY' CARTOONS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
14,101 -Hook, Lion and Sinker (7). Sept. 1, "50<br />
Donald Duck)<br />
14,102. Camp Dog ..(7) Sept. 22, '50<br />
I<br />
(Pluto<br />
14.103 Bee at the Beach (7) Oct. 13, '50<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14.104 ..Hold That Pose (7) Nov. 3, '50<br />
(Goofy I<br />
14,105. Morris, the Midget Moose<br />
(8) Nov. 24, "50<br />
14,106 Out on a Limb....(7) Dec. 15, '50<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14, 107. ...Lion Down... (7) Jan. 5<br />
(Goofy I<br />
14.108 Chicken in the Rough. (7) Jan. 19<br />
(Chip and Dalei<br />
14.109 ...Cold Storage. ...(7) Feb. 9<br />
1<br />
14.110 Dude Duck (7) Mar. 2<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14, 111. Home Made Home. ..(7) Mar, 23<br />
(Goofy)<br />
14.112 .Corn Chips ..(7) Apr. 6<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14.113 Cold War (7) Apr. 27<br />
(Goofy)<br />
14.114 Plutopia (7) May 18<br />
(Pluto and Mickey Moase)<br />
14.115 Test Pilot Donald ..(7) June 8<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14.116 Tomorrow We Diet. (7) June 29<br />
(Goofy)<br />
14.117 Lucky Number (7) July 20<br />
(Donald Duck)<br />
14.118 R'Coon Dawg...(7) Aug. 10<br />
Pluto and Mickey Mouse)<br />
DISNEY CARTOONS (Reissues)<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
14.701 The Moth and the Flame<br />
(8) Oct, 27, '50<br />
14.702 Donald's Golf Game... (8). ..Dec, 29, '50<br />
14,703. ..Merbabies... (9) Feb. 23<br />
14.704 The Practical Pig. ..(8) Jipr. 20<br />
14.705 Polar Trappers. ... (8) July 6<br />
(Donald and Goofy)<br />
14,706. The Old Mill... (9) Aug. 24<br />
EDGAR KENNEDY COMEDIES<br />
(Reissues)<br />
13,.501 Act Your Age (18) Sept. 1, '50<br />
13^0> 'Taint Legal (16) Sept. 29, ',50<br />
13.503 Kennedy the Great. (19)....Oct, 27. ',50<br />
13.504 Mutiny in the County<br />
(17) Dec. 22. '.50<br />
LEON ERROL COMEDIES<br />
Chinatown Chump 13,703 (16) Jan. 26<br />
Errol's lies to his wife backfire and he<br />
becomes involved with a Chinese counterfeiter.<br />
Deal Me In. .13,706. .. (16) Aug. 3<br />
Errol's attempts to get a signed contract by<br />
allowing his prospective client to win at<br />
poker, backfire when his daughter slips in<br />
a loaded deck.<br />
One Wild Night 13,705 (17) May 25<br />
Errol's wile tries to stop his philandering<br />
by pretending to philander herself.<br />
Punchy Pancho .13,704 (16) Mar. 30<br />
Errol buys his wife a diamond ring, then<br />
po.ses a-s Punchy Pancho. the bandit, to<br />
steal it back. Plot backfires when real bandit<br />
.shows up.<br />
Spooky Wooky 13,702 (15) Dec. 1, '50<br />
Errol's teen-age daughter resorts to "ghostly"<br />
measures to keep her folks from buying<br />
a house in the suburbs.<br />
Texas Tough Guy. 13,701. .<br />
Sept. 15, '50<br />
Errol exposes his daughter's snobbish fiance<br />
and saves her for the man she really loves.<br />
MY PALS<br />
Pal. Fugitive Dog 13,201. (21) Oct. 6, '50<br />
Two boys adopt a wounded dog who, unbeknown<br />
to them, had been trained to help<br />
in robberies. Dog later leads them to the<br />
robber. Gary Gray, Gordon Gebert, Anne<br />
Nagel. "Flame."<br />
Pal's Gallant Journey 13,202 (22) ..Feb. 16<br />
Dog. sold to a movie studio, travels 200 miles<br />
to return to his boy master. Studio signs<br />
latter to a contract so they can get the dog<br />
back. Gary Gray, Gordon Gebert, "Flame."<br />
SCREENLINERS<br />
14,201 It's Only Muscle .<br />
Sept. 8, '50<br />
14,202... Fairest of the Finest... (8). ..Oct. 6, '50<br />
14.203 The Big Appetite (9) Nov. 3, '50<br />
14.204 Package of Rhythm... (10) Dec. 1, '50<br />
14,205. ..Research Ranch.... (8) Dec. 29, '50<br />
14.206 Movie Oldies... (9) _ Jan. 26<br />
14.207 ..Lifeguard (8) Feb. 23<br />
14,208. Flying Padre... (9) Mar. 23<br />
14,209 Your Fate Is in Your Hands<br />
(8) Apr. 20<br />
14,210. Florida Cowhands... (9) May 18<br />
14.211 Card Sharp (9) June 15<br />
14.212 Cleopatra's Playground... (9). ...July 13<br />
14,213... Antique Antics... (8) Aug. 10<br />
SPECIALS<br />
Basketball Headliners of 1951... 13,801<br />
(16) Apr. 13<br />
Highlights of the season's ten big games.<br />
A le.sson in the arts of dribbling and passing<br />
is given by the Harlem Globetrotters.<br />
Football Headliners of 1950 13,901<br />
(17) Dec. 8, '50<br />
Highlights the big games of the 1950 college<br />
football season, and the defeat by Navy of<br />
the Army.<br />
You Can Beat the A-Bomb .13,001<br />
(20) Sept. 29, '50<br />
Use of the atom bomb as a weapon, and<br />
steps to take in case of a sui-prise attack.<br />
SPORTSCOPES<br />
Big House Rodeo. ..14,306... (8) Feb. 9<br />
Inmates of a Texas prison help put on a<br />
rodeo, open to the public, proceeds of which<br />
go to the prison fund.<br />
Big Shoot, The. .14,307. .(8) Mar. 9<br />
World's biggest trapshooting meet, held annually<br />
in Vandalia, Ohio, finds the women<br />
walking off with the top honors.<br />
Bridle Belles. .14,313. (8) Aug. 24<br />
Girls, at a swank, private school in Texas,<br />
are shown as they train in the art of<br />
"horsemanship."<br />
BOXOFFICE<br />
149
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Preparations<br />
3103<br />
Canadian Snow Fun. 14,305 ...(81 Jan. 12<br />
Daredevils do .some tricky high altitude<br />
skiing in Canada's Banff National park.<br />
Connie Mack .14,304. (8) Dec. 15, '50<br />
Highlights in the career of baseball's "grand<br />
old man." the former manager of the<br />
Philadelphia Athletics.<br />
. Crocodile Hunters .14,301 (9) Sept. 22, '50<br />
Natives of northern Australia hunt crocodiles<br />
in their primitive fashion.<br />
Diving Dynasty. .14,303 .. (8) Nov. 17, '50<br />
Champions Joe Marino and Bruce Harlan<br />
of Ohio State university demonstrate their<br />
diving technique.<br />
First Lady of the Turf. .14,309. (8) May 4<br />
Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and her fine<br />
stable of racehorses are shown at her Virginia<br />
farm and at winter headquarters in<br />
Florida.<br />
Footballs Mighty Mustang. .14,302<br />
(8) Oct. 20, '50<br />
Kyle Rote, Southern Methodist university<br />
football star, is shown at practice on the<br />
campus and as he plays against Notre<br />
Dame.<br />
Lake Texoma....l4,311 ..(8) June 29<br />
Shows the four largest man-made lakes<br />
in the world on the Red river, where water<br />
sports are a main attraction.<br />
Rainbow Chasers. .14,312 (8) July 27<br />
Trout fishing in southern Chile with expert<br />
fisherman Federico Weisner and his<br />
host, August Edwards.<br />
Slammin' Sammy Snead... .14,308... (9).... Apr. 6<br />
The famous golfer demonstrates a variety<br />
of shots on the course at 'White Sulphur<br />
Springs. 'W. 'Va.<br />
Ted Williams 14,310..(8) June 1<br />
Shows the Boston Red Sox outfielder as he<br />
bats, fishes and sits in his business office.<br />
THIS IS AMERICA<br />
(Series 9)<br />
13.101. Pinkerton Man (16) Sept. 15, '50<br />
(Private-eyes of the famous Pinkerton<br />
agency.)<br />
13.102. ..Seven Cities of Washington<br />
(15) Oct. 15, '50<br />
(Seven different "view points" of<br />
our capital<br />
city.)<br />
13.103. Whereabouts Unknown<br />
(15) Nov. 10, '50<br />
How the Missing Persons Bureau operates.)<br />
13,104 Letter to a Rebel<br />
(16) Dec. 8, '50—Reissue<br />
(Re-edited since its first release.)<br />
13,105. ...Airlines to Anywhere... (16) Jan. 5<br />
(Story of the U.S. airlines.)<br />
13.106 Lone Star Roundup. ... (15) Feb. 2<br />
(An ultra-modern cattle ranch in Texas.)<br />
13.107 ...Cruise Ship... (16) Mar. 2<br />
(A Caribbean and South American cruise<br />
on the luxurious Santa Paula, i<br />
13,1C8 Day of the Fight. (16) Mar. 30<br />
for the big day by the average<br />
professional fighter.)<br />
13,109. The MacArthur Story... (16). ...Apr. 27<br />
(Life and career of the famous general.)<br />
13.110 They Fly With the Fleet (16) June 22<br />
(Building recruits into navy and marine<br />
pilots.)<br />
13.111 Ambulance Doctor (16) July 20<br />
(Pays tribute to the internes who save<br />
countless lives in emergency calls.)<br />
13.112 Prison With a Future (14) Aug. 17<br />
(Marysville Reforatory for Women, in<br />
(Ohio.)<br />
Republic<br />
THIS WORLD OF OURS<br />
(Trucolor)<br />
England ...5074... (9) Apr. 15<br />
The country in Shakespeare's day and today;<br />
modern industries; an interview with<br />
the English people brings out their determination<br />
to remain free.<br />
Greece. .5076... (9) June 15<br />
Country of ancient art and culture, with<br />
its clean, well designed streets and neat<br />
homes; king designates 1951 as "Greek<br />
Homecoming Year."<br />
Hawaii. ...5075.. ..(9) May 15<br />
Camera visit to the islands at various seasons<br />
of the year; Aloha week. Lei day and<br />
other festival celebrations; shots of pineapple<br />
and sugar plantations.<br />
London... .5071... (9) Jan. 15<br />
Famous landmarks of the capital British<br />
city; a visit to Windsor castle, and changing<br />
of the guard at Buckingham palace and<br />
at Whitehall.<br />
Portugal. .5072 (9) Feb. 15<br />
Fabulous tower of Belem; a visit to Li.sbon<br />
and the fishing village of Nazare; cork<br />
forests; grape festival of Douro valley.<br />
Spain. ..5073.... (9) Mar. 15<br />
'Visits to Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Toledo,<br />
Granada, Majorca and Gibraltar;<br />
gypsy dances performed by the dancers of<br />
Granada.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
LEW LEHR<br />
(Re-Releases)<br />
9001... Monkeys Is the Cwaziest People<br />
(9) Aug. '50<br />
9002. Monkey Doodle Dandies... (9). ...Aug. '50<br />
MARCH OF TIME<br />
No. l....(Vol. 17). ..(17"o) Feb.<br />
Strategy for Victory.<br />
No. 2.... (Vol. 17). ..(18'-) Mar.<br />
Flight Plan for Freedom.<br />
No. 3. ..(Vol. 17). ..(19) Apr.<br />
The Nation's Mental Health.<br />
No. 4... (Vol. 17). (18) June<br />
Moroccan Outpost.<br />
No. 5... (Vol. 17) .... (19) July<br />
Crisis in Iran.<br />
No. 6... (Vol. 17).... (17) Aug.<br />
Formosa.<br />
THE MOVIES AND YOU<br />
Screen Writer, The... 9702 (9'.) Nov. '50<br />
Work of the men and women who write the<br />
screenplays, and the introduction to movie<br />
audiences of those .screen writers who rose<br />
to top executive positions.<br />
SPECIAL<br />
(Two -Reel)<br />
©Magnetic Tide, The 7903 (21) Feb.<br />
Cinecolor Documentary. The new nation<br />
of Israel, its people at work and at play.<br />
and Biblical landmarks in the Arab and<br />
Jewish sections of Jerusalem. Produced and<br />
directed by Dorothy Silverstone. Narrated<br />
by Dennis King.<br />
SPECIALS<br />
(Three Reels)<br />
Guest, The ...7180... (32)<br />
Aug.<br />
From Tolstoy's tale of a lonely, embittered<br />
shoemaker whose faith is restored in God<br />
through a series of happenings in the course<br />
of a day's events. David Wolfe. Warner<br />
Anderson, Ludwig Donath.<br />
Why Korea?... 7101... (30) Jan.<br />
Movietone News Documentary. New.sreel<br />
clips show how Nazi and Italian invasion<br />
plans prior to World War II clo.sely parallel<br />
today's movements of the Soviet Union.<br />
Narrator: Joe King. (Produced by Edmund<br />
Reek.)<br />
SPORTS<br />
Accent on Balance... (3105)... (8) Oct.<br />
Beautiful bathing beauties do a ballet on<br />
water skis at Cypress Gardens, Fla.<br />
Arrow Artistry....3101.... (9) Jan.<br />
Archery champ Andy Vail performs in<br />
spectacular fashion with the bow and arrow.<br />
Football Winning Ways....3104....(10) Aug.<br />
Highlights of 1950 gridiron games, including<br />
scenes featuring Vic Janowitz of Ohio<br />
State, Babe Parilli of Kentucky, and Kyle<br />
Rote of Southern Methodist. Famous<br />
coaches are also shown in action.<br />
©Let's Go Marlin Fishing 3102. .. (10) Mar.<br />
Technicolor. Fishing in the Bahamas.<br />
Shows the skill and endurance required in<br />
capturing a 449-pound blue marlin.<br />
Mister Ba.sketball . (9) June<br />
George Mikan. who guides the Minneapolis<br />
Lakers, world champion professional basketball<br />
team, is shown at home with his family<br />
and with the team in action.<br />
Surf Riding .3106.... (9) Dec.<br />
TERRYTOONS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
5101 The Talking Magpies in Rival<br />
Romeos. (7) Jan.<br />
5102. Nutsy in Squirrel Crazy.... (7) Jan.<br />
5103 Little Roquefort in Three Is a<br />
Crowd... (7)<br />
Feb.<br />
5104 Woodman Spare That Tree (7). Feb.<br />
5105 Half Pint in Stage Struck (7) Mar.<br />
5106. ..Mighty Mouse in Sunny Italy<br />
(7) Mar.<br />
5107....Gandy Goose in Songs of Erin<br />
(7) Mar.<br />
5108. The Talking Magpies in Bulldozing<br />
the Bull... (7) Apr.<br />
5109. Gandy Goose in Spring Fever.... (7). .Apr.<br />
5110. ..Mighty Mouse in Goons From<br />
the Moon.... (7) May<br />
5111. Little Roquefort in Musical<br />
May<br />
Madness.... (7)<br />
5112 Half Pint in the Elephant Mouse<br />
(7) June<br />
5113 The Talking Magp'es in the<br />
Rainmakers... (7)<br />
June<br />
5114 ...Mighty Mouse in Injun Trouble<br />
(7) June<br />
51 15. ...Little Roquefort in Seasick Sailors<br />
(7) July<br />
5116 ..The Terry Bears in Tall Timber<br />
Tale.... (7)<br />
July<br />
51 17... Aesop's Fable in Golden Egg<br />
Goosie. ..(7)<br />
Aug.<br />
5118. Mighty Mouse in a Swiss Miss<br />
(7) Aug,<br />
5119. ..The Talking Magpies in Steeple<br />
Jacks.... (7)<br />
Sept.<br />
5120 The Terry Bears in Little Problems<br />
(7) Sept.<br />
5121.. ..Little Roquefort in Pastry Panic<br />
(7) Oct.<br />
5122. ..The Helpful Geni ..(7) Oct.<br />
5123. ..The Talking Magpies in 'Sno Fun<br />
(7) Nov.<br />
5124. ..Mighty Mouse in a Cat's Tale<br />
(7) Nov.<br />
5125. ...Beaver Trouble... (7) Dec.<br />
5126. Little Roquefort in the Haunted<br />
Cat.... (7)<br />
Dec.<br />
TERRYTOONS (Reissues)<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
5127. ..The Lucky Duck. (7) Jan.<br />
5128. ..The Bird Tower. (7) Feb.<br />
(Memorial Tower in Florida)<br />
5129. -Shipyard Symphony... (7) Apr.<br />
5130 Temperamental Lion... (7) May<br />
Universal-International<br />
CARTOON MELODIES<br />
(Features the King's Men Quartet,<br />
With Special Cartoon Animation)<br />
6381. Brother John (10) Nov. 20, .50<br />
6382. ...Peggy, Peg and Polly... (10) Jan. 22<br />
6383 Lower the Boom .. (10) Mar. 19<br />
6384 Bubbles of Song (10) May 7<br />
6385....Readin', Writin' and 'Rithmatic<br />
(10) May 28<br />
6386 ...Hilly Billy. .. (10) June 25<br />
6387 MacDonald's Farm... (10) July 30<br />
6388 Down the River ..(10) Sept. 10<br />
LANTZ CARTUNES (Reissues)<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
6321 Life Begins for Andy Panda<br />
(7) JJov. 6, '50<br />
6322 ..Three Lazy Mice... (7) Dec. 4, '50<br />
6323 Chew Chew Baby. (7) Dec. 25, '59<br />
(Wally Walrus and Woody Woodpecker)<br />
6324. ...Dippy Diplomat ..(7) Jan. 15<br />
(Wally Walrus and Woody Woodpecker)<br />
6325. ...Adventures of Tom Thumb, Jr.<br />
(7) Feb. 12<br />
6326 Woody Dines Out (7) Mar. 19<br />
(Woody Woodpecker)<br />
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Scent-imental<br />
(20)<br />
C327 ...Andy Panda Goes Fishing<br />
(7) Apr. 23<br />
6'i'iH Sprinptime Serenade.... (7) May 14<br />
ci;>'.!!l Jungle Jive (7) June 18<br />
(a;iO Who's Cookin' Who?.... (7) July 1«<br />
I<br />
(Woody Woodpecker<br />
i;331. Pied Piper of Basin Street<br />
(7) Aug. 20<br />
6332... 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda<br />
(7) Sept. 17<br />
6333 The Fox and the Rabbit... (7)... .Oct. 15<br />
NAME BAND MUSICALS<br />
6301 The Harmonit-uts & Miguelito<br />
Valdes" Orchestra (15) Nov. 8, '50<br />
6302 Jerry Gray & the Band of<br />
Today (151 Dec. 20, '59<br />
6303 Sugar Chile Kobinson, Billy HoUiday.<br />
Count Basie & His Sextet... .(15) Jan. 3<br />
6304....Frankie Carle & His Orchestra<br />
(15) Jan. 31<br />
6305. ..Ray Anthony & His Orchestra<br />
(15) Feb. 28<br />
6306.. ..Tex Williams' Western Varieties<br />
(15) Mar. 28<br />
6307. ...Frank DeVol & His Orchestra<br />
(15) May 2<br />
6308 Eddie Peabody & Sonny Burke's<br />
()rchestra(15) May 23<br />
6309 The Sportsmen & Ziggy Elman's<br />
Orchestra (151 June 13<br />
6310. Teresa Brewer & the Firehouse<br />
Five Plus Two (15) June 27<br />
SPECIALS<br />
(Two Reels)<br />
.Arnold the Benedict. 6202... (16) Aug. 8<br />
Homely Arnold Stang join.s a lonely hearts<br />
club, through which he ultimately meets<br />
his "dream" girl.<br />
Fun at the Zoo .6201 (18) Nov. 8, '50<br />
Shots of reactions and facial expressions<br />
of children as they watch the animals at<br />
a St. Louis zoo.<br />
VARIETY VIEWS<br />
6341 Battle of the Bulge (9) Jan. 22<br />
6342. Brooklyn Goes to Beantown<br />
(9) Feb. 19<br />
6343 Springboard to Fame... (9) Mar. 5<br />
6344 Jlickory Holiday (9) Apr. 30<br />
6345 Finny Business... (9) May 21<br />
6346 Clubby Cub ..(9) June 18<br />
6347 Romeo Land... (9) _ Aug. 6<br />
6348... Monkey Island. (9) Sep. 10<br />
WOODY WOODPECKER CARTUNES<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
6351. ...Puny Express... (7) Jan. 22<br />
6352. Sleep Happy (7) Mar. 26<br />
6353 Wicket Wacky ....(7) May 28<br />
6354 Sling Shot 6"»..(7) July 23<br />
6355 Redwood Sap ...(7) Oct. 1<br />
6356 Woody Woodpecker Polka<br />
(7) Oct. 29<br />
Warner Bros<br />
BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE<br />
.<br />
(Technicolor Reissues)<br />
7301....Fagin's Freshmen. ..(7) Sept. 16, '.50<br />
iBlackie. the cati<br />
7302. Slightly Daffy... (7) Oct. 14, '50<br />
iPorkv Pig)<br />
7303. ..The Aristo Cat. .(7) Nov. 11, '50<br />
7304 The Unbearable Bear (7) Dec. 9, '50<br />
7305 Duck Soup to Nuts. ...(7) Jan. 6<br />
Porky Kg and Daffy Duck)<br />
7306 Flowers for Madame... (7) Feb. 3<br />
7307 ..Life With Feathers... (7) Mar. 3<br />
Birds)<br />
7308 Peck Up Your Troubles... (7) Mar. 24<br />
Woodpecker)<br />
7309 ..Odor-Able Kitty.... (7) Apr. 21<br />
7310 ..Book Revue ..(7) May 19<br />
(Daffy Duck)<br />
7311. Stagefright (7) June 23<br />
7312... Sioux Me (7) July 21<br />
7313 The Stupid Cupid... (7) Sept. 1<br />
(Daffy Duck)<br />
"BUGS BUNNY" SPECIALS<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
7719 Rabbit of SeviUe....(7) Dec. 16, '50<br />
7720 Hare We Go... .(7) Jan. 6<br />
7721 Rabbit Every Monday ..(7) Feb. 10<br />
77'22. Bunny Hugged (7) Mar. 10<br />
7723 Fair-Haired Hare ..(7) Apr. 14<br />
7724 Rabbit Fire .. (7) May 19<br />
(Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck)<br />
7725. ..French Rarebit (7) June 30<br />
7726 His Haro Raising Tale... (7) Aug. 11<br />
FEATURETTES<br />
(Classics of the Screen)<br />
.Ace of Clubs 7103 (20) Jan. '27<br />
A re-edited golf short, showing Bobby<br />
Jones, the golf king, on the links.<br />
Barbershop Ballads. .7102<br />
(20) Nov. 18, '50—R«issue<br />
Favorite ballads of yesteryear a.s rendered<br />
in minstrel shows, by singing waiters and<br />
others.<br />
Hunting the Hard Way... 7105<br />
(20) May 26—Reissue<br />
Howard Hill .shows his prowess with the<br />
bow and arrow in cougar hunting.<br />
Law of the Badlands. .7106<br />
(20) July 7—Reissue<br />
How a captain in Colonel Custer's army,<br />
discharged from the service on a murder<br />
charge, redeems himself years later wlien<br />
he runs onto the man who had framed<br />
him.<br />
Roaring Guns. .7104. .. (20) Mar. 31—Reissue<br />
Robert Sliayne helps the ranchers fight<br />
ruthless mine owners in the California<br />
post-gold rush era of tlie 1877's.<br />
Wagon Wheels West. 7101<br />
(20) Sept. 9, '50—Reissue<br />
Robert Shayne and Nina Poch in a western<br />
tale of vengeance.<br />
HIT PARADE OF GAY NINETIES<br />
7801 When Grandpa Was a Boy<br />
(10) Oct. 7, '50<br />
(Minstrel shows of yesteryear.<br />
7802 The Old Family Album (10) Dec. 16, '50<br />
(The dust-covered album in the attic.<br />
7803...The Naughty 20's....(10) Aug. 18<br />
(Features President Wilson, the doughboys,<br />
and entertainers of that era.i<br />
7804 Childhood Days (10) Feb. 10<br />
(Features the California Junior Symphony<br />
with songs and dances by Patsy Hale.i<br />
7805 In Old New York(lO) Apr. 28<br />
(Songs of the nickelodeon and carriage<br />
days.<br />
I<br />
7806 Musical Memories ..(10) June 30<br />
(Popular vaudeville songs of the 1890 to<br />
1920 era.)<br />
JOE McDOAKES COMEDIES<br />
So You Want a Raise 7401 (10) Sept. 23, '50<br />
George O'Hanlon earns a raise from tlie<br />
bo.ss. but loses out when he misinterprets a<br />
conversation he overhears.<br />
So You Want to Be a Cowboy. ...7404<br />
(10) Apr. 14<br />
While watching a movie. McDoakes puts<br />
himself in the cowboy hero's place and<br />
goes through a series of imaginary adventures.<br />
So You Want to Be a Handy Man... 7403<br />
(10) Jan. 13<br />
McDoakes' attempts to become a liandy<br />
man result in chaos.<br />
So You Want to Be a Paperhanger....7405<br />
(10) June 2<br />
McDoakes, as an amateur paperhanger,<br />
puts everything into his work, including<br />
a salesman who gets tangled up in the<br />
paste-up job.<br />
So You Want to Buy a Used Car. .7406<br />
(10) _ July 28<br />
McDoakes runs into a series' of troubles<br />
after being hornswoggled into buying back<br />
his old car. repainted, and then wrecking<br />
it on his way out of the lot.<br />
So You're Going to Have an<br />
Operation... 7402 (10) Dec. 2, '50<br />
A case of indigestion gets Joe involved<br />
with a quack doctor, who performs several<br />
operations.<br />
MERRIE<br />
MELODIES—LOONEY TUNES<br />
(Technicolor<br />
Cartoons)<br />
7701... Stooge for a Mouse. ..(7) Oct. 21, .50<br />
7702 Pop "Im Pop! (7) ..Oct. 28. ',50<br />
(Sylvester Cat)<br />
7703Caveman Inki....(7) Nov. 25, "50<br />
7704 Dog Collared... (7) Dec. 2, "50<br />
(Porky Pig)<br />
7705 Two's a Crowd... (7) Dec. .30, '.50<br />
(Claude Cat)<br />
7706 A Fox in a Fix.... (7) Jan. 20<br />
7707 Canned Feud... (7) Feb. 3<br />
(Sylvester Cat)<br />
7708 Putty Tat Trouble... (7) Feb. 24<br />
(Tweety Pie. the canary)<br />
7709. Corn Plastered. .. (7) Mar. 3<br />
(Crow and the farmer)<br />
7710 . Romeo... (7) Mar. 24<br />
7711 A Bone for a Bone... (7) Apr. 7<br />
7712 A Hound for Trouble... (7) Apr. '28<br />
7713 Early to Bet. (7) May 12<br />
7714 Room and Bird (7) June 2<br />
(Tweety Pie and Sylvester Cat)<br />
7715. Chow Hound (71 June 16<br />
7716 Wearing of the Grin... (7) July 14<br />
(Pork Pig(<br />
7717 Leghorn Swaggled ... (7) July 28<br />
(Henery the Hawk)<br />
7718. Cheese Chasers (7) Aug. 25<br />
(Claude Cat)<br />
THE MOVIES AND YOU<br />
Screen Director, The 7901 (9) Mar.<br />
Shows the highly complex job of the director<br />
as he deals with budget, photography,<br />
costume and editing problems, in<br />
addition to his main job of directing the<br />
players and shooting the film.<br />
SPORTS PARADE<br />
(Technicolor)<br />
Birds and Beasts Were There, The .7508<br />
(10) June 16<br />
The camera visits a rare bird farm south<br />
of Miami, a monkey jungle and a parrot<br />
farm.<br />
Grandad of Races 7502... (10) Sept. 2, '50<br />
Picturesque shots of the famous annual<br />
festival of the Palio races held in Siena,<br />
Italy.<br />
Hawaiian Sports 7507 (10) May 12<br />
Cliaracteristic sports of the island, such as<br />
surf riding, fishing, swimming, football,<br />
archery, golf and wrestling.<br />
Kings of the Outdoors 7510 .. (10) Aug. 18<br />
A tribute to the horse, witli newsreel clips<br />
included which are centered around the<br />
animals.<br />
Making Mounties....7509.... (10) July 14<br />
Sliows future mounties in training at the<br />
Royal Canadian Mounted Police School.<br />
Your Own Canoe....7503<br />
(10) Oct. 21. '50<br />
How canoes are built and used on the<br />
North American continent; Carl Laurier<br />
demonstrates the art of canoeing with<br />
trick stunts.<br />
Paddle<br />
Rocky Eden. .7506.... (10) Apr. 7<br />
Camera shots of the area in the Canadian<br />
Rockies set aside by the government for<br />
the preservation of wild life.<br />
Ski in the Sky. .7504. (10) Jan. 13<br />
Skiing in the Canadian Rockies against a<br />
beautiful, .scenic background.<br />
Wild Water Champions 7501 (10) Dec. 9, '50<br />
Shots of expert Austrian boatmen as they<br />
ride the raging rapids of mountain rivers<br />
in collapsible boats.<br />
Will to Win, The. .7505 ..(10) Feb. 24<br />
Story of America's champion jockey, Gordon<br />
Glisson. who rode 46 winners during<br />
his first year.<br />
TECHNICOLOR SPECIALS<br />
Enchanted Islands. .7008. .<br />
Aug. 4<br />
Camera tour of Hawaii, which covers the<br />
scenic wonders of the island, as well as the<br />
customs, dances and songs of its natives.<br />
My Country 'Tis of Thee .7004 (20) Feb. 17<br />
Pictorial history of America, from the<br />
landing of the Pilgrims tlirough the ratification<br />
of the North Atlantic Pact.<br />
Neighbor Next Door, The 7005 (20) Mar. 17<br />
Our Canadian neighbors—with views of<br />
their towns, cities and industrial centers.<br />
BOXOFFICE 151
Royal Rodeo 7002 ... (20) Nov. 4, '50<br />
Child ruler of imaginary kingdom loves<br />
western stories, and when the rodeo comes<br />
to town, he orders a command performance.<br />
Scotty Beckett. John Payne, Cliff<br />
Edwards.<br />
Sons of the Plains. .7007 .(20) June 9<br />
Story of baby twins, one taken by Indians<br />
and the other raised by whites. They meet<br />
years later and together prevent a massacre<br />
of both Indians and whites.<br />
Stranger in the Lighthouse. ...7006<br />
(20) May 5<br />
Filmed in the fabulous Northland, this is<br />
the tale of a gii'l and her pet seal.<br />
Wanderers' Return, The. .7003<br />
(20) Dec. 23, '50<br />
Story of modern Israel, its people, customs<br />
and industries, as well as its ancient landmarks.<br />
Wish You Were Here .7001 (20). July 29, '50<br />
Famous places in Florida, as viewed on a<br />
sightseeing river cruise.<br />
VITAPHONE NOVELTIES<br />
7601. ..Slap Happy. (10) Oct. 14, '50<br />
(Misadventures of Ben Turpin, early day<br />
hero of the Mack Sennett comedies.)<br />
7602 Those Who Dance (10). ..Nov. 25, '50<br />
(Top dances by top Hollywood hoofers.)<br />
7603. ..Blaze Busters... (10) Dec. 30, '50<br />
(Fire fighters who risk life and limb.)<br />
7604. ..Animal Antics. ...(10) Jan. 20<br />
(Clips from Mack Sennett and Larry Semon<br />
comedies of two decades ago.)<br />
7605. ..Horse-Hide Heroes. ...(10) Mar. 10<br />
(Career highlights of ba.seball kings.)<br />
7606... Anything for Laughs... (10) Apr. 21<br />
("The Show," an old Larry Semon comedy,<br />
is given a modern version.)<br />
7607 World of Kids. ..(10) June 23<br />
(Reactions of small fry as they play games<br />
and get their first haircut.)<br />
7608. ...Disaster Fighters,(10) Aug. 11<br />
(Rescuers at work during floods and hurricanes.)<br />
Serials<br />
COLUMBIA<br />
Overland With Kit Carson ("Fearless<br />
Frontier Fighter") 3140<br />
(15 chapters) Feb. 15—Reissue<br />
Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske,<br />
Bobby Clack. Directors: Sam Nelson. Norman<br />
Deming.<br />
Pirates of the High Seas ("Phantom<br />
Raiders of the Deep") 3120<br />
(15 chapters) Nov. 2, '50<br />
Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell.<br />
William Fawcett. Directors: Spencer Bennet.<br />
Thomas Carr.<br />
Roar of the Iron Horse ("Rail-Blazer of<br />
the Apache Trail") 3160<br />
(15 chapters) May 31<br />
Jock O'Mahoney. Virginia Herrick, William<br />
Fawcett, Hal Landon. Directors:<br />
Spencer Bennet, Thomas Carr.<br />
REPUBLIC<br />
Desperadoes of the West 5081<br />
(12 chapters) Dec. 23, '50<br />
Richard Powers, Judy Clark, Roy Barcroft,<br />
I. Stanford JoUey. Director; Fred C.<br />
Brannon.<br />
Don Daredevil Rides Again 5084<br />
(12 chapters) Sept. 1<br />
Ken Curtis, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft,<br />
Lane Bradford. Director; Fred C. Brannon.<br />
Flying Disc Man From Mars 5082<br />
(12 chapters) Mar. 17<br />
Walter Reed, Lois Collier, Gregory Gay,<br />
James Craven. Director; Fred C. Brannon.<br />
Perils of the Darkest Jungle (formerly<br />
"The Tiger Woman") 5083<br />
(12 chapters) June 9—Reissue<br />
Allan Lane. Linda Stirling, Duncan Renaldo,<br />
George J. Lewis, LeRoy Mason,<br />
Crane Whitley. Directors: Spencer Bennet,<br />
Wallace Grissell.<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
Apple Blossom Time in Poland<br />
(17) Films of the Nations<br />
Travel film. Inhabitants of the Tatra<br />
Mountains in Poland participate in their<br />
annual spring festival of folk singing and<br />
dancing.<br />
©As Old as the Hills<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
Technicolor. Study of the formation of oil<br />
on the ocean becl, its chemical transformation,<br />
and areas where it can be found.<br />
Balzac. ...(22) A. F. Films... July<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Beautiful Blue Danube, The<br />
(121.) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Austrian-made. The Vienna Staatsopera<br />
Ballet, with Erika Hanka as choreographer,<br />
dance in the background to the strains of<br />
the famous Strauss waltz played by the<br />
Vienna Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Britain's New Aircraft<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
Britain displays her achievements in aircraft<br />
manufacture at an annual exhibition<br />
held at Farnborough Airfield, near London.<br />
(Available in 16mm only.)<br />
Budapest Symphony... (9) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Musical documentary of the Danube river.<br />
Features the Budapest Symphony Orchestra,<br />
also Hungarian dances.<br />
Cadet Holiday<br />
(11) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On series.) Army cadets<br />
are shown in training at Ipperwash on<br />
Lake Huron, which is one of five similar<br />
camps across Canada. (Available in 35mm<br />
and 16mm, either in color or black and<br />
white.)<br />
Canada's Awakening North<br />
(32) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Kaleidoscopic review of the topography,<br />
resources, development and settlement of<br />
the Mackenzie District frontier of the<br />
Northwest Territories. Also depicts the life<br />
of the Eskimo and Indian. (Available in<br />
35mm and 16mm.)<br />
©Caribou Hunters<br />
(18) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Color 16mm film. The camera follows a<br />
group of Indian hunters of northern Manitoba<br />
in their search of caribou, their main<br />
source of food.<br />
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, The<br />
(9) Lux Films<br />
(English narration.) Camera study of the<br />
Michelangelo painting on the ceiling of the<br />
Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Bach and<br />
Beethoven background music.<br />
Challenge, The (30)<br />
Semi-documentary. A reporter and a photographer,<br />
assigned to do a .series of articles<br />
based on the President's Committee on<br />
Civil Rights learn what is being done to<br />
correct injustices as to human rights and<br />
liberty, and the job that yet remains to be<br />
done. (16mm print distributed by the<br />
March of Time, and 35mm distributed by<br />
the Motion Picture Division of the American<br />
Jewish Committee, and the Motion<br />
Picture Division of the Anti-Defamation<br />
League.)<br />
©Cheers for Chubby<br />
(8) MetropoHtan Life Ins.<br />
Animated color cartoon on overweight produced<br />
by Jerry Fairbanks. Tells the story<br />
of little Chubby who ate too much and<br />
grew sideways when he reached manhood.<br />
(Gratis to theatres.)<br />
Christian Dior Story<br />
(15) A. F. Films ...Dec. '50<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
City in Siege<br />
(16) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
The flood that hit Winnipeg, Canada, several<br />
years ago, the work done to meet it,<br />
the damage, and subsequent work of rebuilding<br />
and rehabilitation.<br />
©Color Keying in Art and Living<br />
(10) Encyclopaedia Britannica Films<br />
Full color educational film. A study of<br />
color relationships, as applied to art subjects<br />
and to the aspects of everyday life<br />
such as hair, eyes, complexion, dress and<br />
home decoration.<br />
Composers in Clay... (17) Canton-Weiner<br />
Shows the works of 15 modern sculptors,<br />
and a glimpse of each at work in his studio.<br />
Concert Hall Favorites<br />
(16 and 9) Gordon Films<br />
Filmed in a longer and a shorter version.<br />
Features concert stars Eugene List, Yfrah<br />
Neaman and Susan Reed. Director: Israel<br />
M. Berman.<br />
©Coral Wonderland<br />
(25) Australian News and Inf. Bureau<br />
Kodachrome 16mm film. (Great Barrier<br />
Reef .series. > Microscopic photograph shots<br />
of coral growths on islands off the Great<br />
Barrier Reef.<br />
Crucifix Carvers, The ("Die<br />
Herrgottschnitzer")....(10) Casino Films<br />
(With German spoken commentary.) Story<br />
of the woodcarving art and the artists in<br />
the village of Oberammergau. also famous<br />
for its Passion play. (A Hochland Film<br />
Production.)<br />
Dances of Tibet. (20) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Filmed in the Himalayan Mountains. A<br />
collection of native Sino-Tibetan folk<br />
dances.<br />
©Dancing Fleece, The... (15) Arthur Mayer<br />
Technicolor. British-made. In ballet fashion,<br />
this tells the .story of a wool worker<br />
who goes to the fair and dreams of being<br />
a great dre.ss designer for beautiful girls.<br />
Debate Continues, The<br />
(30) British Information Services<br />
Documentary. Formal reopening and dedication<br />
of the bombed House of Commons,<br />
with speeches by King George, Clement<br />
Attlee and Winston Churchill.<br />
Desire to Live (12) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
The unseen battlefield where the war of<br />
the atom bomb vs. man is relentlessly being<br />
waged.<br />
Earthquake in Ecuador<br />
(15) United Nations Films<br />
Work of the UN in rescue operations and<br />
in food and medical aid to the people.<br />
Narrated by Sam Wanamaker. (Available<br />
in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Every Drop to Drink<br />
(20) British Information Services<br />
Produced for the Metropolitan Water<br />
Board. Shows how the Board met the<br />
problem of supplying pure water to the<br />
vast population of London. (Available in<br />
16mm only.)<br />
Family Portrait<br />
(25) British Information Services...May<br />
16mm documentary. Past and present are<br />
juxtaposed to present an overall picture of<br />
the achievements of the great nation of<br />
Britain.<br />
Father Cuyten (16) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Story of one of the unsung heroes of the<br />
war.<br />
©Feathered Fishes<br />
(15) Australian News and Inf. Bureau<br />
Kodachrome 16mm film. (Great Barrier<br />
Reef series.) Deals with bird life on the<br />
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)<br />
coral islands off the Australian mainland.<br />
©Fifth Freedom, The<br />
(10) Nat'l Screon Service<br />
Technicolor documentary. Freedom of<br />
choice in industry is emphasized as an innate<br />
part of the American system. (Gratis<br />
I<br />
film.<br />
Fight in Malaya. The<br />
(ill British information Services<br />
A report of the combined efforts of Great<br />
Britain and Malaya in waging war against<br />
Communist aggre.ssion in Asia. (Available<br />
in 16mm only.)<br />
©Folk Song Fantasy<br />
(10) Natl Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Color 16mm film. Animated puppets and<br />
birds enact the stories contained in three<br />
folk songs: "Tlie Riddle Song." "Who<br />
Killed Cock Robin?" and "The Cooper of<br />
Fife."<br />
Four Songs by Four Gentlemen<br />
"<br />
(7)<br />
Natl Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Male quartet sings as the words are flashed<br />
on the screen: "Camptown Races." "Bury<br />
Me Not on the Lone Prairie." "Grandfather's<br />
Clock" and "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay."<br />
French School of Painting<br />
(17) A. F. Films. ..June<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Genius of Turner. The. ..(10) Lux Films<br />
Works of the 19th century English painter,<br />
J. M. Turner.<br />
Grand Design, The<br />
(9) .United Nations Films<br />
How the UN was born and what it has<br />
accomplished in six years in its handling<br />
of international problems.<br />
©Grandma Moses<br />
(22) A. F. Films. ..Dec. '50<br />
Technicolor featurette. Shows the famous<br />
90-year-old artist at her home in Eagle<br />
Bridge. New York. Narration by Archibald<br />
MacLeish, the poet.<br />
Hamburg Believes in Its Future<br />
("Hamburg Glaubt an Seine Zukunft")<br />
15) Casino Films<br />
(<br />
(With German spoken commentary.) History<br />
of the famous city of Hamburg, her<br />
destruction during World War II and her<br />
rebuilding determination.<br />
Hamburg at Night Is Beautiful<br />
("Hamburg bei Nacht 1st Schoen")<br />
(14) Casino Films<br />
(With German spoken commentary.) A<br />
couple plays hide-and-seek through the<br />
famous night-spot area of St. Pauli. near<br />
Hamburg's waterfront. (A Walter Schneider-Roemheld<br />
Production.)<br />
Haunted Palaces. (29) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Shaw Desmond, international authority on<br />
the supernatural, tells about ghosts.<br />
Hong Kong<br />
(15) British Information Services<br />
A study of the small but strategic and important<br />
colony of Hong Kong, both from<br />
within and in relation to the problems of<br />
the Far East, (Available in 16mm only.)<br />
How Britain Votes<br />
(18) British Information Services<br />
Shows the British election machinery in<br />
action, step by step, before the nation went<br />
to the polls on October 25. 1951.<br />
Hunting With Bow and Arrow<br />
(17) Cornell Films<br />
Braving dangers in the wilds of the Tampiqua<br />
jungles of Mexico to hunt with bow<br />
and arrow.<br />
Irish Melody... (36) Bell Picts,<br />
Barry Keegan tells the story of his life<br />
and success as an Irish .singer. Shots of<br />
famous .scenic spots of Ireland are shown<br />
and Keegan sings two Irish .songs.<br />
Killers of the Deep... (22) Astor Picts.<br />
Two fishermen after game fish off the Bahamas,<br />
around the Panamanian coast, encounter<br />
sharks and other dangerous fish.<br />
Lesson in Anatomy, A....(lli,j) Lux Films<br />
Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg<br />
(10) A, F, Films. Dec. '50<br />
Narrator covers events up to and including<br />
the famous Lincoln address, entirely<br />
from paintings and drawings of the Civil<br />
War period.<br />
OLittle Gray Neck. 326<br />
(20) Official Films<br />
Kodachrome<br />
i<br />
animated cartoon, in<br />
black and white.) A little bird regains her<br />
ability to fly, and then enjoys .secret revenge<br />
on the sly old fox.<br />
©Little Red Riding Hood 325<br />
(10) Official Films<br />
Kodachrome. (Also in black and white.)<br />
16mm. three dimensional film, that brings<br />
the familiar story of Red Riding Hood to<br />
the .screen, in a new form—with neither<br />
animated cartoons nor live characters.<br />
Looking at Sculpture<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
A camera visit to the Victoria and Albert<br />
Museum, where three objects of art are<br />
separately and carefully explored. (Available<br />
in 16mm only.)<br />
Love on Skis... (29) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
A condensed version of the 67-minute feature.<br />
"Slalom." Romance on skis at St.<br />
Moritz.<br />
Loves of Franistan, The....(7)....Canton-Weiner<br />
Lampoons film producers who hold up the<br />
picture by consumhig valuable time listing<br />
screen credits.<br />
Man's Life, A. .. (25). Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Ti-aining naval recruits for the Royal Canadian<br />
Navy, ending with a realistic demonstration<br />
of battle maneuvers. (Available<br />
in 16mm only, either in color or black and<br />
white.)<br />
©Marvels in Miniature<br />
(35) Australian News and Inf. Bureau<br />
Kodachrome 16mm film. (Great Barrier<br />
Reef series.) Shows underwater life of<br />
the reef as seen under a magnifying lens.<br />
Memory Box... (10)<br />
A. F. Films. ...Aug.<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Milk-Made<br />
(27) Natl Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Compares modern milk production and processing<br />
with dairy methods used in pioneer<br />
days. (Available in 16mm only, either in<br />
color or black and white.)<br />
.Monastery<br />
(20) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Benedictine monks are shown as they pursue<br />
their life of prayer, service and devotion<br />
in the quiet confines of their monastery<br />
at Saint-Benoit-du-Lac. Quebec.<br />
(Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
More .\bout Me... (7) Canton-Weiner<br />
The late George Bernard Shaw wrote, directed,<br />
produced and acted in this film,<br />
wherein he expounds on various subjects<br />
in his own inimitable, sarcastic fa.shion<br />
Mother of Parliaments<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
A shorter version of "The Debate Continues,"<br />
this highlights scenes of the reopening<br />
of the House of Commons.<br />
Mozart and Barrios on Six Strings<br />
(10) A. F. Films.. ..Nov. '50<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Mystery of Leonardo da Vinci, The<br />
(8) Lux Films<br />
(English narration.) A study of some of<br />
the painter's most famous works.<br />
Mystery of the Flying Saucers<br />
(8) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Fifty years ago H. G. Wells de.scribed flyuig<br />
.saucers, which were first reported .seen<br />
in 1947. Shows actual shots of the .saucers<br />
and eye-witness accounts by people who<br />
have .seen them.<br />
ONew Iron Horse, The. ..(10) Al O, Bondy<br />
Cinecolor, A General Electric "Excursions<br />
in Science" short on the history of the<br />
steam locomotive. Stresses the importance<br />
of electricity in present day operations.<br />
(Gratis film.)<br />
New Ways for Old Morocco<br />
(20) A. F. Films... .Sept. '50<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Of Human Rights<br />
(21) United Nations Films<br />
Dramatizes the UN's Univer.sal Declaration<br />
of Human Rights by citing an incident in<br />
a small town. (A 35mm film.)<br />
Old Crafts, New Graces<br />
(11) British Information Services<br />
Shows the skill and careful craftsmanship<br />
applied by British artisans and craftsmen<br />
in making, by hand, the finest harnessing<br />
and saddles, fishing rods and treasured<br />
silverware. (Available in 16mm only.)<br />
Organ, Queen of Instruments, The<br />
("Die Orgel, Koenigin der Instrumente")<br />
(23) Casino Films<br />
(With German spoken commentary.) History<br />
of the organ, against a background of<br />
landscape and pictorial art, climaxed by a<br />
concert with the "Wiener Sangerknaben"<br />
and Bruckner's Te Deum. (An Euram Film<br />
Production.<br />
Outlaw Within, The<br />
(11) Nat'l Film Bd, of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On .series.) Deals with<br />
the subject of cancer and the progress of<br />
.science toward a .solution. (Available in<br />
35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Oyster Man, The<br />
(18) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Oyster farming in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,<br />
from their first stages of cultivation to the<br />
final grading and ,shipping. ( Available in<br />
16mm.)<br />
35mm and<br />
Pacific 231 (10) Pathe Cinema<br />
Documentary. Made in France. Sound effects<br />
and music are used in place of dialog<br />
or narration in this story of the journey<br />
of a train from start to finish. Musical<br />
background by Arthur Honegger.<br />
Padirac....(18)<br />
dialog.)<br />
A. F. Films. ..Aug.<br />
©Partner Perkins... (lO'i)... .Nat'l Screen Serv.<br />
Technicolor. Commercial reel for Chesterfield<br />
cigarets. Arthur Godfrey. Perry<br />
Como and Bing Crosby appear briefly.<br />
(Theatres are paid to run this.)<br />
©Pattern for Survival... (20) Cornell Films<br />
Kodachrome. Civilian defense measures to<br />
be used in case of an atomic bomb attack.<br />
(Produced in cooperation with the army,<br />
navy and air force. Available in 35mm<br />
and 16mm.)<br />
People, Cities, Rails<br />
("Menschen, Staedte, Schienen")<br />
(18) Casino Films<br />
(With German .spoken commentary.)<br />
Shows Germany's famous Alpine-North<br />
Sea Express on its journey from Munich<br />
to Bremerhaven. (A Report-Film Production.)<br />
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Polkas... (12'/i)<br />
Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Austrian-made. The Vienna Symphony<br />
Orchestra plays a selection of Strauss<br />
polkas as dances are performed in animated<br />
fashion by the Vienna Staatsopera<br />
Ballet.<br />
Rescue Mission<br />
(11) Nat'I Film Bd. of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On series.) Deals with<br />
the mercy flights of the Search and Rescue<br />
Squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air<br />
Force. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Rodin... (21)<br />
Canton-Weiner<br />
Study of the work of the great sculptor,<br />
Rodin.<br />
©Run, Sheep, Run... .606<br />
(20) Official Films<br />
Kodachrome. Story of Nell, a champion<br />
sheep dog. Illustrates the dog's ingenuity,<br />
and the patience with which she is taught<br />
her duties.<br />
Sailor Is Born, A<br />
(20) British Information Services<br />
Produced for the Admiralty. Describes the<br />
training the next generation of sailors go<br />
through before they move on to maneuvers<br />
at sea, and their first shore leave. (Available<br />
in 16mm only.)<br />
Salzburg Fiesta... (I21/2) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Austrian-made. Folk songs and dances are<br />
presented against the setting of an Austrian<br />
beer garden.<br />
Science in the Orchestra<br />
(34) British Information Services<br />
A scientific study of sound and music, with<br />
simple demonstrations used to explain the<br />
principles involved. Divided into three<br />
parts: (1) "The Nature of Sound"; (2) "Exploring<br />
the Instruments"; (3) "Looking at<br />
Sounds."<br />
Scotland Yard at Work<br />
(22) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Scotland Yard men re-enact crime scenes<br />
and show how they track down criminals.<br />
Screaming Jets<br />
(11) Nat'I Film Bd. of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On Series.) Shows Canada's<br />
progress in jet aviation as seen in<br />
comparison with that of other countries.<br />
(Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Shawinigan<br />
(26) Nat'! Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Story of life in an industrial city of Quebec,<br />
as seen through the routine activities<br />
of a French Canadian family. (Available<br />
in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Sing a Little... (9) ...Nat'I Film Bd. of Canada<br />
Allan Mills is shown as he broadcasts his<br />
familiar program of songs from inside a<br />
CBC studio. Animated puppets enact the<br />
story told by each of the three ballads.<br />
(Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Singers of<br />
Israel<br />
(10) Central Cinema Service<br />
The Malavsky Family Choir sing Israeli<br />
and Jewish hymns and folk songs.<br />
Singing Germany ("Singendes Deutschland"<br />
.'<br />
(15) Films<br />
Compilation of the most beloved folk songs<br />
of the German people. (A Fritz Boehmer<br />
Production.)<br />
Ski Chase, The. ..(24) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
Features Hannes Schneider, the world's<br />
champion skier, in some .ski thrills in the<br />
Bavarian Alps.<br />
Song of the Prairie ...(18) Official Ulnis<br />
Czech-made satii'e on American wesii^-n<br />
movies. Puppets portray the characters of<br />
the villain, hero and heroine.<br />
Spanish Texas. .. (10). ... Nation-Wide Pictures<br />
Historical film, with English and Spanish<br />
versions. Shows historical and traditional<br />
spots of Texas, plus famous landmarks.<br />
Produced and directed by H. K. Carrington.<br />
Commentary by Jake Rodriguez.<br />
Lawrence Coasters<br />
(11) Nat'I Film Board of Canada<br />
Narrated in the first person by a skipper<br />
who takes his nephew on his first trip<br />
aboard a river freighter, the film follows<br />
the course of the voyage along the St.<br />
Lawrence river. (Available in 35mm and<br />
16mm.)<br />
St.<br />
Story of a City ("Darmstadt")<br />
(19) Casino Films<br />
(With German spoken commentary.) A<br />
camera tour of the important points of<br />
interest in the world-famous city of Darmstadt,<br />
well-known also as the residence of<br />
Hessian princes.<br />
©Story of Time, The. ..(10) C. S. Goetz<br />
Technicolor. British-made. Animated puppets,<br />
cartoons, drawings and trick photography<br />
are used to illustrate the evolution<br />
of clocks and man's progress in his efforts<br />
to tell time.<br />
Strauss Festival... (5)<br />
Films Int'I<br />
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted<br />
by Oscar Strauss, presents the music<br />
of the conductor and that of his famous<br />
relative. Johann Strauss.<br />
Struggle for Oil. ..(20). British Inform. Serv.<br />
16mm documentary. History of the world<br />
struggle for oil resources is traced from its<br />
beginning, prior to World War I. to date.<br />
Filmed in the heart of the oil land of Iran.<br />
Student in Paris, A<br />
(20) Noel Meadow Associates<br />
Spoken in French with English subtitles,<br />
also portions narrated in English.<br />
Suite of Faces... (10) A. F. Films. ..Aug.<br />
(English dialog.)<br />
Survival Under Atom Attack<br />
(10) Castle Films. ..Mar.<br />
Non-commercial film officially approved by<br />
the Federal Civil Defense Authority. Available<br />
to various industries for sliowing to its<br />
personnel. (Availabi" in 16mm and 8mm.<br />
sound or silent.)<br />
Target: U.S.A (20) Cornell Films<br />
What to do before, during and after an<br />
atomic attack on an industrial area. (Available<br />
both in Kodachrome and black and<br />
white; also in either 35mm or 16mm.)<br />
Thunder in the East<br />
(11) JiJat'l Film Board of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On series.) Traces the<br />
events leading up to the Korean conflict,<br />
and shows the unrest in Asia in its struggle<br />
for nationhood. (Available in 35mm and<br />
16mm.)<br />
Tiepolo Skies... (11)<br />
Lux Films<br />
(English narration.) Work of Giambatista<br />
Tiepolo, Venetian painter of the 18th century<br />
famed for his beautiful skies.<br />
Toronto: Boom Town<br />
(10) Nat'I Film Board of Canada<br />
(Canada Carries On series.) A comparison<br />
between Toronto of half a century ago and<br />
the thriving, expanding metropolis it is<br />
today. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Touch of the Shamrock, A... (28). ...Bell Picts.<br />
Irish tenor Cavan O'Connor sings Irish<br />
songs and folklore while the camera covers<br />
scenic beauties of the Emerald Isle.<br />
Trade on the Move—Port of Hamburg<br />
("Drehscheibe des Handels—Hafen Hamburg")<br />
... (14) Casino Films<br />
(With German spoken commentai-y.) A<br />
camera tour of one of the world's largest<br />
and busiest ports. (A Hannes Richter F*roduction.)<br />
©Triptych. (14) Lux Films<br />
Technicolor film with English dialog. Illustrates<br />
through the use of three famous<br />
paintings the important phases in the life<br />
of Jesus. Beniamino Gigli and chorus supply<br />
the musical background. (Pi'oduced in<br />
1950 by the English branch of the Society<br />
of St. Paul in Italy.)<br />
©Trooping the Colours<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
Technicolor 16mm film. Welsh Guards go<br />
through the annual traditional ceremony<br />
of trooping the colours on the king's birthday.<br />
Tropical Lowlands ... (12)... United World Films<br />
A camera visit down the Amazon river, into<br />
the Brazilian lowlands. Constant rains pre-<br />
.sent a food-growing problem. Shows how<br />
a typical river family feeds and clothes<br />
itself.<br />
United Nations Screen Magazine No. 5<br />
(10) UN Film Distribution<br />
(This Is the United Nations.) First half of<br />
film shows how UN Secretariat members<br />
get together to learn about the cultures of<br />
other lands; singing and dancing by Indian<br />
students; background history of Libya.<br />
(Available in 35mm.)<br />
United Nations Screen Magazine No. 6<br />
(10) UN Film Distribution<br />
(This Is the United Nations. 1 half of<br />
film shows how a London laboratory keeps<br />
check on influenza epidemics throughout<br />
the world; second portion explains the work<br />
of the UN Narcotics Division in New York.<br />
(Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
United Nations Screen Magazine No. 8<br />
(10) UN FUm Distribution<br />
(This Is the United Nations.) Study of the<br />
work being done to establish a universal<br />
system of road signs in Europe and America;<br />
problems of the UN Commission in<br />
Eritrea. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.)<br />
Village Tale, The. (35) Palestine Films<br />
Featurette. Pi'oduced in Israel. Tale of an<br />
immigrant family from Yugoslavia who settle<br />
in the new Israel. Ernest Stoessel, Shoshanna<br />
Honig-Cohen. Director: George L.<br />
George.<br />
W. B. Yeats—A Tribute.. (24). Brandon Films<br />
Camera shots of scenes of Ireland are<br />
shown as patriotic poems of W. B. Yeats<br />
are recited.<br />
Water for the Prairies<br />
(19) Nat'I Film Board of Canada<br />
A study of the need for conservation of<br />
Canada's dwindling water resources, which<br />
is of urgent concern to the Federal and<br />
Alberta governments. (Available in 16mm<br />
only, either in color or black and white.)<br />
©West of England<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
Technicolor. The place where for hundreds<br />
of years some of the best cloth in the world<br />
has been produced. Shows the beautiful<br />
Stroud valleys, looms and skilled valley<br />
weavers. (Available in 16mm only.)<br />
What the Stars Foretell<br />
(27) Hoffberg Prods.<br />
The world-renowned astrologist. R. H. Naylor,<br />
explains horoscopes and the stars as<br />
they relate to human destinies.<br />
What's the Name of That Song?<br />
(19) Charles R. Dorety Prods.<br />
Two holdup men, fleeing police, hide out in<br />
a radio studio and get on a quiz program<br />
by mistake. They win the jackpot just as<br />
the police arrive.<br />
Wonder Jet... (19) ...British Information Serv.<br />
An account of Britain's development in the<br />
field of jet propulsion. Highlights the careers<br />
of the scientists in their 18 years of<br />
research on the project.<br />
(Available in 16mm<br />
only.)<br />
Wonders of the Deep<br />
(10) British Information Services<br />
Underwater shots of a sunken troopship<br />
and the actual firing of a torpedo from a<br />
submarine. (Available in 16mm only.)<br />
©World Garden (11). British Inform. Serv.<br />
Technicolor 16mm film. Features the first<br />
springtime blooms in the world-renowned<br />
Kew Gardens, with a camera tour of other<br />
public and private gardens in England.<br />
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