Boxoffice-Feburary.09.1957

BAROMETERSECTION

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1957 TOO! 

Here are candidates for the )ie.\t 

issue of 

"Boxoffice Barometer." We predict many 

of them will merit Poll leadership. 

"THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON" 

(Cinema Scope — Metrocolor) 

Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo, Eddie Albert, 

Paul Ford, Jun Negami, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Mitsuko 

Sawamura. 

{From the Broadway comedy success.) 

"JULIE" 

Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank 

Lovejoy. An Arwin Production. 

(Jealous husband attempts to murder wife.) 

"THE IRON PETTICOAT" 

(Vista Vision — Technicolor") 

Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, 

James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann. A Remus 

FUm. 

(Comedy of Russian woman flier converted to democracy.) 

"THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME" 

Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller. 

(Little League Baseball comedy.) 

"EDGE OF THE CITY" 

John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen 

Maguire, Ruby Dee. A Jonathan Production. 

(Action drama laid in railroad yards and other locales of N.Y.) 

"THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET" 

(CinemaScope-Metrocolor) 

Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia 

McKenna. 

(Love story based on the famed play.) 

"LIZZIE" 

Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Hugi.> 

Hass. A Bryna Production. 

(Drama of woman with three personalities.) 

"THE WINGS OF EAGLES" 

(Metrocolor) 

John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond. 

i^Story of "Spig" Wead, Navy hero.) 

"RAINTREE COUNTY" 

(In M-G-M Camera 65 — Metrocolor) 

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, 

Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes 

Moorehead, Walter Abel, Jarma Lewis, Tom Drake. 

(Epic drama of America in Civil War period.) 

"THE VINTAGE" 


Mel Ferrer, Pier Angeli, John Kerr, Michele Morgan, 

Theodore Bikel, Leif Erickson. 

(Drama filmed in French vineyards.) 

"SOMETHING OF VALUE" 

Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano 

Hernandez, William Marshall, Sidney Poitier. 

(The Mau Mau uprising in Africa.) 

"TEN THOUSAND BEDROOMS" 


Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, 

Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak, Paul Henreid, Jules 

Munshin. 

(Romance, comedy and music in 

Rome.) 

"DESIGNING WOMAN" 

(CinemaScope — Metrocolor) 

Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Jack Cole, 

Tom Helmore, Sam Levene, Mike Shaughnessy, Chuck 

Connors. 

(Comedy romance of sports writer and fashion designer.) 

"GUN GLORY" 

(CinemaScope — Metrocolor) 

Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve 

Rowland. 

{Action Western.) 

HUT" 

"THE LITTLE 

Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Walter 

Chiari. A Herbson, S. A. Production. 

{Comedy of shipwrecked girl and two men.) 

"SLANDER" 

Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie 

Rambeau, Richard Eyer. 

(Expose of scandal magazines.) 

"THE HAPPY ROAD" 

Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Michael Redgrave, Bobby 

Clark, Brigitte Fossey. A Kerry Production. 

(Search for runaway children leads to romance.) 

'Happy 

Box-office 

To YOU" 

"THE LIVING IDOL" 

(Cinema Scope — Color) 

Steve Forrest, Liliane Montevecchi, James Robertson 

Justice, Sara Garcia, Eduardo Noriega. An Albert 

Lewin Production. 

(Drama of love and reincarnation.)

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BIROOTER 

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contents 

1957: Year for Industry Readjustments 11 

Impressive Production Outlook for 1957 15 

The All-Americon Favorites of 1956 19 

Cartoon, Travel Shorts Dominant in '57 38 

Broader U. S. Market for Foreign Films 41 

Showmandising in '56 Was Specialized 46 

Grosses— Ratings at the Boxoffice 48 

Blue Ribbon Winners of 1955-56 60 

Blue Ribbon Winners of Past Years 73 

Blue Ribbon Honor Roll Call 74 

Roster of the National Screen Council 80 

Producers of the 1955-56 Hit Films 84 

Directors of the Season's Big Hits 88 

Looking Ahead at Coming Features 91 

Alphabetical Index and Review Digest 120 

Feature Index of the 1955-56 Releases 123 

Shorts Index of the 1955-56 Releases 155 

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A REVIEW OF 1956 

A PREVIEW OF 1957 

Published by Associated Publications as a section of BOXOFFICE of 825 Van Brunt Blvd., 

Kansas City 24, Mo. Ben Shiyen, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief; Donald M. Mersereau, Associate 

Publisher and General Manager; Nathan Cohen, Executive Editor; Al Steen, Eastern Editor; 

Jesse Shiyen, Monagmg Editor; E. S. Nelson, Velma West Sykes, Associate Editors; Ivan Spear, 

Hollywood Editor. Easlern Office, 45 Rockefelle.- Plaza, New York 20, N. Y, Central Office, 920 

North Michigan Ave., Chicogo, III. Western Office, 6404 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif.

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Michael Todd's show makes this a better worlc 

. . . and 

the whole world loves it! 

Murlr Borron— All9Ci0li 

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Motion Piclurt Criticf lov. 

"Spectacular Entertainment— 

Mr. Todd outdoes the movies 

with 'Around the H'orld in SO 

" 

Days '. 

Crow(/i«r-N. Y. TIMES 

"••••! A SMASH err. 

The most star -studded lilm ol 

all 

time!" 

Cam«ron-NEW YORK DAIIY NEWS 

'Will be playing there the rest of 

our lives... don't miss it!" 

»Cup(.rb./-g-N. Y. HERALD-TRIBUNE 

"Absolutely tops. ..earth-shaking 

beauty. Niven is simply perfect." 

Peli»;clt-N.Y. JOURNALAMERICAN 

'TITANIC, TITILLATING, and 

THRILLING... IT'S A PIP!" 

Gilbert-N.Y. MIRROR 

'BREATHTAKING 

SUPERSPECTACLE." 

Wii,j(en-N.Y. POST 

"WHEE-EEEE. Romping 

farce. ..dazzling picture... 

a solid delight." 

Cool-N. Y. WORIDTELEGRAM & SUN 

Orsfflo Critics soy. 

"The only unponderous spectacle in show 

business. Conlinflos' performance is one of 

Ihegreatcomic ballets."jOHN chapman 

"It is a downright joy. The Cameo 

roles are played beautifully and 

completely part of the whole." 

Gaver-UNITEO PRESS 

'/tp/i^htful fun and an Absolute 

Triumph of IniaOinalion, d'aiply 

and ShowmanKhip.' 

RICHARD WATTS, JR. 

"It's a rewarding show—full of 

variety and excitement." 

WARD MOREHOUSE 

Rorfio and TV soy. 

"Great, great nhotr 

...a neir epir!" 

WALTER WINCHELL 

"The whole world must see 

'Around the World in 80 

Days'." LOUELLA PARSONS 

"The best I ever viewed. This is a 

Classic of classics. Furthermore, 

iCs the best show on Broadway, 

stage or screen. " 

e. v. durling 

"Purely wonderful funf 

ROBERT SYLVESTER 

'Loved it! Go, take the kids, 

the maiden aunt, and your 

raffish old Uncle Jake!" 

BOBCONSIDINE 

"Around The World' 

is out of this world!* 

IRV KUPCINET 

The Big Show 

Tht Mogozines soy. 

'A REIMARKABLE FEAT 

OF MOVIE- MAKING!" 

life 

The world's liveliest showman 

has made Hollywood's liveliest 

movie. There is 

only one Todd." 

THIS WEEK 

EXTRAVAGANTI... 

"Funny! Spectacular!" 

time 

"Entertainment at its best!" 

REDBOOK 

"Big, splashy. The actors are 

all fine, and the scenic effects 

are tremendous!" 

THE NEW YORKER 

"Theyear's hesf-class I rip! " 

COLLIER'S 

"Recommended to lovers of I 

"THc greatest shoW CVCr 

unvlhint; lM-.-u»»e it han j..»t 

ggg^ ^^ ^^ ^^ screen." 

ulxiut evcrylliiiif;. HOLIDAY HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 

'Not'l Board of Ktvitw says.. 

'The human race has never 

before seen entertainment 

such as this. Greatest show 

now on earth!" 

NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW 

Public figurts soy. 

"I'm overwhelmed!" 

JOHN RINGLING NORTH 

"I Stamped, clapped 

| 

and raised hurrahs." 

ROBERT MOSES 

"Staggering! A most unique 

and wonderful film." 

MOSS HART 

'SOLID SHOWMANSHIP... 

A JUMBO EXTRAVAGANZA.' 

MOTION PICTURE HERALD 

"Ranks among the greatest motion 

pictures... pure joy all the way." 

Tho Fan Magozints soy. 

"One nt the hent 

pirturen I ever Hair. " 

MODERN SCREEN 

"OPENS UP A NEW DIMENSION 

IN MOTION PICTURES." PHOTOPLAY 

"A rare delight to the eyes, ears 

and mind; the most spectacular 

of the motion picture medium 

today and the film classic of 

tomorrow!' 

MOVIELAND 

The Literory Circle says. 

".\ good show. .. replete with 

comedy, circus attractions, spectacles 

. . . Go see it I" 

SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE 

"Simply wonderful." 

BENNETT CERF 

"One of the greatest shows 

I've ever seen." 

WILLIAM SAROYAN 

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The Fomily Mogoiines say. 

"FAMILY MEDAL AWARD, 

RATED EXCELLENT." 

PARENTS' MAGAZINE 

"A fantastic movie. Good 

Housekeeping gives it not 4 

but 40 stars." 

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 

"/ predict that we will take our 

grandchildren to see it 20 or even 

more years hence." 

EVERY WOMAN'S MAGAZINE 

"The miracle of all miracles." 

Max liebmon — NBC 

''''A 

great wide, wide 

tvonderfid smash!" 

Dave Gorrowoy-NBC 

"It's Dan-Dan-Dandy!" 

J6clci'a Gleoton-CBS 

^ 80 a$tj^ '^ 

"A fantasy.. .merry and 

magnificently scenic." 

WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION 

"Equals at least 5 of the 

best pictures of any year." 

MADEMOISELLE 

Columnists soy. 

"A smashing triumph 

...hits the jackpot!" 

ED SULLIVAN 

"The most spectacular, most 

entertaining picture we have had 

in years and years and years." 

HEDDA HOPPER 

"'BODays'isasmashhit!" 

EARl WILSON 

"Who ever thought he'd live to 

see the day when tickets to a 

movie would be as difficult to 

scrounge as those to 'My Fair 

Lady'?" 

inezrobb 

'Mivbiifl Titdd's 'Ml /Ja.v.s' 

is a iiia.sffrpipfp, any iiiay 

you tafie it." danton walker 

"The bi);f;est and tlie most siiccessfiii 

movies ordinarily create 

little stir on Broadway. Bill Mike 

Todd's lantastic'\N'hat-i.s-it?...so 

new that nobody could describe 

it...does just that!" newsweek 

"SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT 

FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!" 

CORONET 

"/ am still in a state of wonder 

at your remarkable film— perfection 

in every department.'* 

Tho Show Pross soys. 

COLE PORTER 

"SntaMhvrow! Sure tire 

hit of the year.'' 

VARIETY 

' 

Tho fntcrnationol Press 1 

wn 

"A spectacle — ailislic, 

full of humor and grace!' 

LA PRENSA 

"The craziest and most wonderful thing 

thot I hove ever seen. 'LONDON EXPRESS 

"It leaves an immense 

and profound impression." 

FRANCE AMERIOUE 

Michael Todd presents the big show 

ASOVND THE WORLD 

IN 80 DAYS 

DAVID NIVEN 

CANTINFLAS 

ROBERT NEWTON 

SHIRLEY MacLAINE 

Featuring the following 'Cameo' Stars: Charles Boyer • Joe E. Brown • Martine Carol 

John Carradine • Charles Cobiiin Ronald Colman • Melville Cooper • Noel Coward 

Finlay Currie • Reginald Denny • Andy Devine • Marlene Diefrich • Luis Dominguin 

Fernandel • Walter Filigerald • Sir John Gielgud • Hermione Gingold • Jose Greco • Sir 

Cedric Hardwicke • Trevor Howard • Glynis Johns • Buster Keaton • Evelyn Keyes 

Beatrice Lillie • Peter Lorre • Edmund Lowe • Col Tim McCoy • Victor McLaglen • A. E. 

Matthews • Mike Mazurki • John Mills • Robert Morley . Alan Mowbray • Ed 

Murrow • Jack Oakie • George Rail • Gilbert Roland • Cesar Romero • Frank Sinatra 

Red Skelton • Ronald Squire • Basil Sydney • Richard Wattis • Harcouit Williams 

TECHNICOLOR'S' • From the Cloisic by JULES VERNE • Screenploy by S. J. PERELMAN Directed by MICHAEL ANDERSON • Produced by MICHAEL TODD

AROUND 

THE WORLD 

IN 80 DAYS 

Todd-AO Technicolor 

Starring David Niven • Cantinflas • Robert 

Newton • Shirley MacLaine 

• Directed by 

Michael Anderson • Prod, by Michael Todd.

»ANCE WITH ME 

HENRY 

arring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 

rected by Ctiarles Barton • Produced 

by Bob Goldstein. 

DRANGO 

starring Jeff Chandler • Joanne Dru 

• Julie 

London • Directed by Hall Bartlett and 

Jules Bricken • Produced by Hall Bartlett 

Executive Producer Meyer MIshkin • A 

Hall Bartlett Production 

• An Earlmai 

Productions Presentation. 

ENEMY 

FROM SPACE 

starring Brian Donlevy • Executive Producer 

Michael Carreras • Produced by 

Anthony Hinds • Directed by Val Guest 

A Hammer Film Production. 

FIVE 

TO D/ 

starring Ruth Roman • ^)teriint 

Produced and Dif-.ted by Henry o 

HIS FATHER'S 

GUN 

arring Dane Clark 

• Ben Cooper • Lori 

ilson 

• Ellen Drew • Directed by Lesley 

lander • Produced by Howard W. Koch 

ecutive Producer Aubrey Schenck • A 

Bel-Air Production 

HIT AND RUN 

starring Hugo Haas • Cleo Moore 

Produced and Directed by Hugo Haas 

JUNGLE HEAT 

starring Lex Barker 

• Marl Blanchard 

Glen Langan • Directed by Howard W. 

Koch • Executive Producer Aubrey 

Schenck • A Bel-Air Production. 

LADY OF 

VENGEANCE 

starring Dennis O'Keefe • Produced and 

Directed by Burt Balaban. 

OPERATION PHARAOH'S 

MURDER 

CURSE 

rrlng Tom Conway • Directed by Ernest 

)rris Produced • by The Danziger Bros. 

starring Mark Dana • Ziva Shapir • Diane 

Brewster • Directed by Lee Sholem • Produced 

by Howard W. Koch • Exec. Prod. 

Aubrey Schenck • A Bel-Air Production. 

REVENGE 

SAINT JOAN 

starring Mark Stevens • Directed by Mark 

Stevens Produced • by Harry Jackson. Burton 

starring Richard Widmark • RIcliard 

• Jean Seberg • Anton Walbrook 

Barry Jones 

• Directed and Produced by 

Otto Preminger. 

SWEET SMELL 

OF SUCCESS 

THE BACHELOR 

PARTY 

THE BIG 

BOODLE 

THE 

BIG CAPER 

rring Burt Lancaster • Tony Curtis 

lan Harrison • Directed by Alexander 

ckendrick • Produced by James Hill • A 

;ht, Hill and Lancaster Presentation. 

starring Don Murray • E. G. Marshall 

Jack Warden • Phil Abbott 

• Larry BIyden 

Patricia Smith Carolyn Jones • Directed 

by Delbert Mann • Prod, by Harold Hecht 

Associate Prod. Paddy Chayefsky • A 

Norma Productions, Inc. Picture • A 

Hecht, Hill and Lancaster Presentation. 

starring Errol Flynn • Pedro Armendariz 

Rosanna Rory 

• Gia Scala • Directed by 

Richard Wilson • Produced by 

Lewis F. BJumberg. 

starring Rory Calhoun 

• 

Mary Costa 

James Gregory • Directed by Robert 

Stevens • Prod, by William C. Thomas & 

Howard Pine • A Pine-Thomas Production. 

THE 

DELINQUENTS 

THE DEVIL'S 

DISCIPLE 

THE FUZZY PINK 

NIGHTGOWN 

THE GIRL IN 

BLACK STOCKINGS! 

arring Tommy Laughlin • Peter Miller 

:k Bakalyan • Directed by Robert 

man 

• An Imperial Productions, Inc. 

Presentation. 

Color 

Starring Burt Lancaster • Sir Laurence 

Olivier • Dir. by Alexander Mackendrick 

A Hecht, Hill and Lancaster Presentation. 

Color 

Starring Jane Russell • Directed by 

Norman Taurog • Produced by Robert 

Waterfield • A Russ-Field Production. 

Starring Lex Barker 

• Anne Bancroft 

Mamie Van Doren • Ron Randell • Marie 

Windsor • John Dehner • Directed by 

Howard W. Koch • Executive Producer 

Aubrey Schenck • A Bel-Air Production. 

THE MONSTER 

THAT CHALLENGED 

THE WORLD 

Starring Tim Holt • Audrey Dalton 

• Hans 

Conreid • Directed by Arnold Laven • Produced 

by Arthur Gardner and Jules Levy 

A Gramercy Pictures Production. 

THE MONTE CARLO 

STORY 

Technirama • Technicolor 

Starring Marlene Dietrich • Vittorio De 

Sica • Arthur O'Connell • Natalie Trundy 

Renato Rascel • Dir. by Samuel A. Taylor 

Produced by Marcello Girosi • A Titanus 

Film Production. 

THE PHOENIX 

Produced by James and Michael Carreras 

An Exclusive Filnis Production. 

THE WILD PARTY 

THE TRIAL OF 

nry Fonda • An Orion-Nova Production. 

BENJIE GALT 

starring Anthony Quinn • Carol Ohmart 

Directed by Harry Horner • Produced by 

irring Sterling Hayden • John Dehner 

nstance Ford • Dir. by Sidney Salkow 

Produced by Jerome C. Robinson 

A Grand Production. 

Pictures, Inc. Presentation. 

12 ANGRY MEN VOODOO 

irring Henry Fonda • Lee J. Cobb • Ed 

ISLAND 

gley • E. G. Marshall • Jack Warden 

acted by Sidney Lumet • Associate 

starring Boris Karloff • Dir. by Reginald 

3ducer Reginald Rose Le Borg 

• Produced by 

• Executive Producer Aubrey 

Sidney Harmon • A Philip Yordan and 

Sidney Harmon Production • A Security 

Schenck • Produced by Howard W. Koch 

A Bel-Air Production. 

THEY CAN'T 

HANG ME 

THIEVES 

starring Terence Morgan • Yolande 

MARKET 

starring Gregory Peck • Produced by 

Donlan 

• Andre Morell • Ursula Howells 

Sy Bartlett A • Melville Production. 

Directed by Val Guest 

• Produced by 

WAR DRUMS 

WITNESS 

FOR THE 

Howard W. Koch • A Bel-Air Prod. 

Color by Deluxe 

Starring Lex Barker • Joan Taylor • Ben 

Johnson 

• Directed by Reginald Le Borg 

Exec. Prod. Aubrey Schenck • Prod, by 

PROSECUTIO»^ 

starring Tyrone Power • Marie'" 

Directed by Billy Wilder • F: . 

Arthur Hornblow, Jr. • An bi, 

Production,

SOON TO BE RELEASED 

THRU UN/TED ART/STS 

THE BACHELOR PARTY 

NOW IN PRODUCTION 

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 

IN PREPARATION 

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE 

THE RABBIT TRAP 

SEPARATE TABLES 

BANDOOLA 

THE WAY WEST 

LUCY CROWN 

THE FIRST LOVE 

THE CATBIRD SEAT

1^57: [yjear Jôr ^ndustrii fêacliustments 

By AL STEEN 

THERE 

used to 

be a standard expression 

to the effect that motion pictures 

were in their infancy. Even 

when the so-called flickers had become 

an established form of entertainment, the 

reference to the industry's infancy was a 

popular bromide. It was sort of an alibi 

for any shortcomings. It's like tlie actor 

who always had played juvenile roles and 

was good at It. Years later when somebody 

questioned his interpretation of a 

role, he retorted, "You're telling me how 

to play this part! Look, I've been a juvenile 

for 40 years." 

H.AS BEEN 'PRECOCIOUS' BABY 

In comparison with the legitimate stage, 

this industry really is in its swaddling 

clothes, but it's always been a precocious 

baby. It may have been a little slow in 

learning to talk, but that was no fault of 

the infant. The parents felt that action 

spoke louder than words. Even depressions 

and a multiplicity of other hazards 

did not stunt its growth. Coddled by a 

doting public and fond parents, it grew 

and grew and grew. No neighbor's kids 

were going to brow-beat this youngster. 

Slowly, however, the neighbor's kids 

started to compete with the baby for 

public favor and once again the problem 

of raising a problem child became more 

acute. The situation has been licked before 

and we can do it again, said the 

guardians. We'll keep those neighbor's 

kids in their own back yard. But, the 

bosses admitted, "we've got to use new 

methods of discipline." 

That is where the industry is today and 

the challenge is going to be exciting. That 

old V for Victory is just as symbolic as 

it was during World War II, but let's be 

realistic. There are going to be some 

changes and they will start in 1957. 

ATTITUDE MUST BE CHEERFUL 

Most industry leaders realize that the 

mental attitude of those engaged in production, 

distribution and exhibition must 

be a cheerful one because, as one executive 

said, "our principal preoccupation 

is with entertainment, and if we permit 

gloom to permeate our business, it is 

bound to find its way to our screens." 

In other words, the erstwhile infant must 

have a happy home which must be created 

by greater intra-mural harmony. With 

Allied States Ass'n and Theatres Owners 

of America apparently seeing eye-to-eye 

to a greater degree on major exhibition 

problems, the chances are good for healthier 

relations within that branch of the 

industry. 

Prospects for New Year 

• An arbitration system 

• Close relationship between Theatre 

Owners of America and Allied 

States 

Ass'n 

Streamlining of the industry's distribution 

system 

Stiffen competition from major 

company feature releases to television 

Acceleration of industry businessbuilding 

promotions 

But exhibition lined up in battle formation 

against production-distribution 

does not make for a happy home or a 

cheerful mental attitude. Maybe we'll 

never have a Utopian industry, but some 

of the better minds believe that a fair 

arbitration system would go a long way 

toward healing many of the wounds and 

reduce, if not eliminate, the messy court 

actions now pending. There is every reason 

to believe that 1957 will see the establishment 

of an industry arbitration system. 

Maybe that's just wishful thinking, 

but, at this writing, the odds are in favor 

of it. Instead of washing our dirty linen 

in public, as the saying goes, perhaps arbitration 

can serve as a modern electric 

washer strictly within the privacy of the 

home. Those electric gadgets can dry and 

iron the articles, too, so that the clothes 

line can be dispensed with and the outside 

world will not be aware of what had 

to be washed. 

NEW DISTRIBUTION METHODS 

Looming in a big way on the horizon 

are neW methods of distribution. Like the 

weather, people within the industry have 

been talking about it for decades but 

nobody has done anything about it . . 

. 

or at least, not much. Just how these 

changes will shape up still is problematical. 

The consolidation of shipping facilities 

by several of the companies in a majority 

of the exchange cities already has 

started and it has been predicted that the 

meshing of branch territories will be a 

major project for this year, depending, 

of course, on the efficiency or lack 

thereof 

in spots where the experiment has 

been launched. This may reduce distribution 

costs— the goal of all distributors—and 

exhibitors will want to know 

if the savings will be passed on to them 

in rentals and percentage terms. 

Glowing forecasts, dripping with optimism, 

for the new year would be shortchanging 

the exhibitors. 

In discussing the 

situation with top figures in the industry, 

we have found the opinions to have been 

pretty much the same. Methods must be 

adopted to build up the gross and that 

should be the prime objective for 1957. 

One buyer for a large independent circuit 

said recently that unless the grosses are 

increased, it doesn't make much difference 

what the film terms are. If the terms are 

low, the profit potentials will 

be negligible 

unless the theatre is playing to big audiences. 

EVERY EXHIBITOR MUST HELP 

The various business-building projects 

now being devised are encouraging, but 

they might as well be poured down the 

drain unless every exhibitor jumps on the 

band wagon and does his part to make 

them work. The exhibitor who thinks he 

can sit back and let the promotion plans 

carry the load by themselves is due for 

a sad awakening. 

At the same time, however, 

he must put into practice certain 

economies that will reflect on his books 

but not in the operation of his theatre nor 

the attractiveness and comfort thereof. 

Exhibitors have tightened their belts before 

and, through their own ingenuity, 

have let them out again. 

Regardless of all the reasons that have 

been advanced for the current lull in 

theatre attendance, only one stands out 

as the real bugaboo—television. Rain, 

sleet, snow, mediocre pictures and the 

gloom of night have had temporary adverse 

effects on theatre business ever 

since the days when a two-reeler was a 

feature. But today the motion picture theatre 

is competing with the living room 

arm chair. And the competition will grow 

this year, because of the sale of more 

recent backlogs to the parlor screen. 

It's a moth-eaten bromide to say that 

greater showmanship is needed. But if 

that isn't the solution, what is? Increased 

production to offset the product shortage 

may help a bit. but it's not going to pry 

people out of their easy chairs. 

NO LONGER IN 'DIAPERS' 

All of this has been said before. 

But the 

point is that motion pictures no longer 

are in diapers, whereas, in a comparative 

span of years, television is. But it has 

matured rapidly by using the methods to 

attract attention that once belonged to 

the motion picture theatre. TV is hardly 

dry behind the rabbit ears. 

Therefore, whether exhibitors like it or 

not, they're going to have to take a page 

from Darwin and admit that it's 

be the survival of the fittest in 1957. 

going to 

BOXOFFICE 11

Outstanding mas&"giffpeal 

iikt 

le superior entertainments o 

bring out of tlie fiomes^tDo 

selective^^r their Ulhi ^B and w^hf 

sonmthing far betfter than the routine... 

^TCintillating p^fovmanAA^-.l" F/ilhDA/LY 

Y 

tertainment..: 

FILM BULLETIN 

errer and Universal have done themselves 

proud with a powerful drama... no punches pulled... 

adult, racy... Anyone who likes to get solidly entertained, 

and millions of people do, will find this film a richly 

satisfying evening..! "mot/on picture herald 

''...holds strong emotional appeal... should interest 

and entertain adult audiences..!'' showmen's trade review 

and ED WYNN with JIM BACKUS • RUSS MORGAN 

• 

ROBERT FOULK

S 7HB WORO 

FOR. Ao4?tStn€/»> 

CO-STARRING 

DEAN JAGGER 

KEENAN WYNN 

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Outlook for 1957 

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No recapitulation of the big ones to 

come would be complete without some 

mention, however sketchy, of what's afoot 

within the C. V. Whitney organization. 

With Merian C. Cooper functioning as executive 

producer, this outfit lists among its 

upcoming enterprises "The Valiant Virginians." 

a Civil War epic stemming from 

a novel by James Warner Bellah, and 

"Grass," a nature documentary, the stars 

of which are wild tribesmen in Iran. 

ASSORTMENT OF BIG ONES 

Warners has a super -colossal on the 

way in "Damn Yankees." a musical based 

on the broadway stage smash, and is high, 

too, on a couple of others — "The Old Man 

and the Sea," starring Spencer Tracy in 

a film version of Ernest Hemingway's 

novel, and "The Spirit of St. Louis," in 

which James Stewart portrays none other 

than Charles A. Lindbergh. 

Hollywood, of course, isn't resting its 

entire case on the longies. The ensuing 

year will see the usual assortment of more 

conventionally-lengthed photoplays, and 

there is every indication that they will be 

in substantially better supply than during 

1956. Among them—and in more-orless 

standard proportions— will be dramas, 

comedies, stage hits, novels, musicals, the 

time-honored westerns, chillers, space 

operas, those lusty newcomers the rock- 

'n'-rollers, and what would you like to 

book come midyear? 

In the realm of stage vehicles, for example, 

probably it would be simpler to 

tally only the ones that haven't been 

bought for filmization. At 20th Century- 

Fox alone, the docket shows seven projects 

which had their genesis in Broadway 

plays — "Bernardine," "Desk Set," 

"The Diary of Anne Frank," "Kiss Them 

for Me," "Oh Men, Oh Women," "Will 

Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and—last 

but by no means least insofar as — controversial 

overtones are concerned "A 

Hatful of Rain," which, since it deals with 

a naixotics addict, is a cinch to engender 

a couple of hatfuls of pro-and-con argument 

once it reaches the screen. 

STAGE HITS ADAPTED 

For release through Paramount, Don 

Hartman—who not too long ago was the 

studio's production chief and left to form 

his own unit—has rounded up the screen 

rights to "The Matchmaker" and Eugene 

O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," while 

Hal Wallis, whose "The Rainmaker" is now 

in distribution under the Paramount aegis, 

is readying "Summer and Smoke," a product 

of the fruitful pen of Tennessee Williams. 

The Warner lineup carries, in addition 

to the aforementioned "Damn 

Yankees," the Army comedy, "No Time for 

Sergeants," while MGM's release chart 

includes "The Reluctant Debutante," from 

a London stage success, and a sex-'n'-sin 

entry called "The Little Hut." About this 

one, what more need be said than that 

Ava Gardner finds herself stranded on a 

desert i.sland with only her husband and 

their best friend (male) ? 

Destined for full-scale coverage—which 

isn't surprising in view of the widespread 

popularity enjoyed by early celluloid entries 

in the category during the season 

just passed—is that strange new phenomenon, 

rock-'n'-roll. Forthcoming for the 

enjoyment and custom— it is hoped—of 

the leather-jacket set are such rhythmic 

morsels as "Hot Rod Jamboree," which 

will carry the Allied Artists label, and a 

whole passel of pelvis-rota ters from American 

International, boasting such titles as 

"Dragstrip Girl," "Rock All Night" and 

"Rock 'n' Roll Kid." Assuming that he 

doesn't fulfill a previous engagement with 

Uncle Sam in the meantime, the dean of 

the hep hipsters—Elvis himself— is due to 

report to Hal Wallis for a Paramount 

project once known as "The Lonesome 

Cowboy" but later and more aptly titled 

"Running Wild." Universal-International 

has a contribution to the new look in jive 

in "Rock, Pretty Baby." 

The younger set, sans the R&R garnishment, 

is being subjected to the discerning 

eye of the motion picture camera 

in other topical subjects that treat—with 

varying degrees of violence—with juvenile 

and adolescent delinquency. A teen-age 

lad is the protagonist in RKO Radio's 

"The Young Stranger," and— to docket 

only a trio of others—erring youngsters 

supply the motivation for "Untamed 

Youth," a forthcoming Warner release, 

and Republic's "The Wayward Girl," while 

American International, with considerable 

adroitness, combines Dead Enders and 

spine-tingling in "I Was a Teen-Age 

Werewolf." 

HORROR FILMS DUE, TOO 

Speaking of the horror school, it's for 

sure that there will be no dearth of chillers 

to titillate the backbones of the folks 

who like their movie entertainment on the 

scary side. What more, for example, could 

audiences ask than a bill that includes 

such entries as Allied Artists' "Daughter 

of Dr. Jekyll" or "Attack of the Crab 

Monsters"? Then there's a paii' from U-I, 

"The Incredible Shrinking Man" and 

"Curucu, Beast of the Amazon," plus a 

Columbia contribution, "Zombies of Mora- 

Tua." The United Artists lineup includes 

"Pharaoh's Curse" and "Voodoo Island." 

and RKO Radio will handle the release of 

a hunk of celluloid called "X the Unknown." 

produced by Sol Lesser. 

There are certain tried-and-true staples 

without which Hollywood just wouldn't be 

Hollywood. One of them is the galloper, 

which over the years has very probably 

maintained its popularity to a degree unmatched 

by any other film category. Possibly 

that happy cuxumstance obtains because 

the more astute among picturemakers 

have recognized and acted upon 

the necessity for instilling in them, along 

with the expected shoot-'em-up elements, 

a more mature approach to plot and 

characterization than was required back 

in the days when Bronco Billy Anderson 

was in his prime. To record, with any 

degree of thoroughness, all of the sagebrush 

sagas that exhibitors can look forward 

to booking during the coming season 

would be impossible in this limited space. 

Mention must be made, however, of a 

few— including Paramount's "Gunfight at 

the OK Corral," a story of those noted 

frontier gunslingers. Doc Holliday and 

Wyatt Earp, 20th Century-Fox's "The 

True Story of Jesse James," MGM's "Gun 

Glory," Warners' "Yellowstone Kelly"— 

starring none other than John Wayne 

and the Hecht -Hill-Lancaster biggie, "The 

Way West," a Pulitzer prize novel. 

TV AS STORY SOURCE 

Ever alert to tap all available sources 

of possible film fare, the movie moguls 

are maintaining their sharp interest in 

what that ol' debbil television has to offer. 

If a video vehicle, following its original 

presentation via that small-screen medium, 

is judged worthy of conversion into 

the vastly more flexible and satisfactory 

theatrical film medium, there's no hesitation 

about snatching the movie right 

thereto. Over at 20th-Fox, for example, 

reposes "Black Wings," first disseminated 

via TV's Alcoa Hour, while the MGM 

agenda Includes "The Return of Johnny 

Burro," initially telecast on the Robert 

Montgomery show. The Alcoa program 

also contributed "Doll Face," bought by 

U-I. 

As is the case with stage plays, there's 

no discernible dissipation of interest in 

best-sellers—fiction or otherwise—as fodder 

for the movie mills. In addition to 

such tomes as "Andersonville" and "The 

Old Man and the Sea," cited above, the 

filmmakers have pounced on such popular 

literary works as "The Nun's Story," purchased 

by Warners; "Peyton Place" and 

"The River's Edge," both ow^ned by 20th- 

Fox; "The Wreck of the Mary Deare," to 

be produced and directed for Metro by 

Alfred Hitchcock; Erich Maria Remarque's 

"A Time to Love and a Time to Die," 

to be brought to the screen by U-I; and 

Edwin O'Connor's Atlantic Monthly prizewinning 

novel, "The Last Hurrah." which 

is in preparation over at Columbia. 

PLENTY OF VARIETY DUE 

Regrettably, it's impossible to devote 

further detailed attention to individual 

entries in other celluloid categories. As 

cited earlier in this discussion, showmen 

can anticipate—and, it is reasonably safe 

to predict, in more abundant quantity 

than was the case throughout 1956— 

wide range of attractions embracing comedies 

(be they slapstick, sophisticated and/ 

or romantic); action dramas finding their 

source in World Wars I and II and the 

Korean conflict; biographies running the 

gamut from actors isuch as the late Lon 

Chaney and Jean Harlow 

i baseball 

heroes (Jim Piersalli to nightclub comics 

ijoe E. Lewis) and politicians (one-time 

New York mayor Jimmy Walken; opulent 

musicals; Biblical and religious subjects; 

whodunits; documentaries and hot-fromthe-headlines 

topical subjects. 

Yes, let's face it. Moviedom has its 

worries and its problems. But there are 

few among the industry at this critical 

time in its extravagant history who won't 

agree with a modernized paraphrase of 

that timeworn cliche: 

"There's nothing wrong with this business 

that lots of good pictures won't cure." 


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,ME of Hollywood's most evergreen legends— the 

phenomenon of "overnight" stardom and almost 

mstantaneous enthronement in the favor of the 

public—has reared its alluring head again as poll 

members lilted blonde and ethereal Kim Novak to the 

top movie star favorite spot in BOXOFFICE BAROM- 

ETER'S 20th annual All-American Screen Favorites poll. 

Miss Novak, who placed 21st on the Runners-Up list in 

1955, captured the affections of poll members on the 

strength of three pictures, "Picnic," "The Man With the 

Golden Arm" and "The Eddy Duchin Story. 

Miss Novak's leap to the top is only the most 

dramatic facet of a balloting which saw five new 

faces (four of them feminine) join the top 12 gallery. 

At the same time, last year's favorite, June Allyson, 

dropped to 11th position, and Gary Cooper was outside 

the charmed circle for the first time in 20 years, 

however, he still retains a high position in the vote by 

exhibitors. 

An emphatic switch was the rise of William 

Holden from sixth spot last year to second place in the 

general voting and to the top of the male contingent 

for 1956. Holden was viewed with evident appreciation 

in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," "Picnic," "The 

Proud and Profane" and "Toward the Unknown." He 

has appeared on the winners' list the past three years. 

A definite gain in popularity for the year came 

to Doris Day, the number three winner (and voted 

number one by the exhibitor segment of the balloters). 

Miss Day has appeared on the winners' list since 1951, 

with the single exception of 1954. She has been the 

darling of the exhibitors for several years, consistently 

rating several positions higher with them than in the 

general poll. Her career, v/hich gained a new dimension 

with "Love Me or Leave Me," has continued 

to accumulate luster with "The Man Who Knew Too 

Much" and her current film, "Julie." 

Marilyn Monroe, with "The Seven Year Itch" and 

"Bus Stop" to her credit, won fourth place among the 

top 12, placing third among the top 12 females. Thus, 

she won back the same position she held in 1954, but 

lost in 1955 when she was "out of the money" in the 

winners' circle and seventh among the feminine stars. 

Miss Monroe has won critical acclaim in her recent 

roles to add to the glamour quotient which accounted 

for her earlier popularity. 

Susan Hayward moves up to fifth in the top 

winners' circle, a "comeback" triumph after a year's 

absence from the top list on which she had appeared 

since 1951. Miss Hayward is another who is especially 

dear to exhibitors (who voted her their number three 

favorite). Her Academy Award nomination for "I'll 

Cry Tomorrow" and her exotic role in "The Conqueror" 

have added to her long-standing popularity. 

Another spectacular rise this year is that of 

Deborah Kerr, who burst from 17th on the Runners-Up 

list for 1955 to sixth on the winners' list and fifth among 

the feminine stars. Miss Kerr had three highly regarded 

pictures to her credit this year, "The King and I," "The 

Proud and Profane" and "Tea and Sympathy." 

Marlon Brando dropped from fourth place in 1955 

to seventh place this year. However, he retains second

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THE ALL-AMERICAN SCREEN FAVORITES 

—=^= of 1956— 

THE WINNERS: 

1. KIM NOVAK 

2. WILLIAM HOLDEN 

3. DORIS DAY 

4. MARILYN MONROE 

5. SUSAN HAYWARD 

6. DEBORAH KERR 

1. William Holden 

2. Marlon Brando 

3. Frank Sinatra 

4. John Wayne 

1. Kim Novak 

2. Doris Day 

3. Marilyn Monroe 

4. Susan Hayward 

THE RUNNERS-UP: 

MALE 

5. James Stewart 

6. Gary Cooper 

7. Burt Lancaster 

8. Glenn Ford 

FEMALE 

5. Deborah Kerr 

6. Grace Kelly 

7. Elizabeth Taylor 

8. June Allyson 

7. MARLON BRANDO 

8. FRANK SINATRA 

9. GRACE KELLY 

10. ELIZABETH TAYLOR 

11. JUNE ALLYSON 

12. JOHN WAYNE 

9. Gregory Peck 

10. Rock Hudson 

U. Clark Gable 

12. Humphrey Bogart 

9. Jane Wyman 

10. Audrey Hepburn 

11. Debbie Reynolds 

12. Ava Gardner 

(Listed in Order of Highest Number ol Vote.s Received! 

Ernest Borgnine 

Yul Brynner 

James Dean 

Bing Crosby 

Jeif Chandler 

James Cagney 

Alec Guinness 

Kirk Douglas 

Henry Fonda 

Cary Grant 

Spencer Tracy 

Gina LoUobrigida 

Eva Marie Saint 

Jennifer Jones 

Cyd Charisse 

Judy Hollidcy 

Bette Davis 

Natalie Wood 

Jean Simmons 

Barbara Stanwyclc 

Joan Crawford 

Jane Russell 

Esther William.^-, 

fnnet Loigii 

MALE 

Audie Murphy 

Alan Ladd 

Tony Curtis 

Tyrone Power 

Dean Martin- 

Jerry Lewis 

Montgomery Clift 

Charlton Heston 

Richard Widmark 

Bob Hope 

Jose Ferrer 

FEMALE 

Anna Magnani 

Leslie Caron 

Anita Ekberg 

Katharine 

Hepburn 

Judy Garland 

Pier Angeli 

Julie Harris 

Rosalind Russell 

Dorothy Malone 

Mitzi Gaynor 

Eleanor Parker 

Danny Kaye 

Jack Lemmon 

Stewart Granger 

Tab Hunter 

Robert Mitchum 

Randolph Scott 

Gordon MacRae 

Fredric March 

James Mason 

Rod Steiger 

Joseph Gotten 

Paul Newman 

Olivia de 

Havilland 

Lucille Ball 

Ann Blyth 

Dana Wynter 

Ingrid Bergman 

Greer Garson 

Shelley Winters 

Ethel Barrymore 

Sheree North 

Donna Reed 

Lana Turner 

Shirley Jones 

HOW THE EXHIBITORS VOTED 

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By FRANK LEYENDECKER 

As 

in recent years, the shorts for 1957 

programs will be primarily divided 

into two categories, the 6-7 minute 

cartoons, all of them in color, and the 

travel or scenic shorts, also all in color, 

some of them in VistaVision. The Cinemascope 

shorts on travel or outdoors, 

which 20th Century-Fox introduced late 

in 1953, have apparently been dropped, 

except for a few special subjects. 

A new entry in 1956 was RKO's new 

nature series. Wildlife Album, while Walt 

Disney, although he has discontinued 

making new cartoon shorts, is continuing 

with his outstanding People and Place.s 

series. 

Also as in previous years, the slapstick 

comedy two-reelers are again decreasing, 

with only Columbia's long-lived Three 

Stooges comedies and All-Star comedies 

and Warner Bros.' Joe McDoakes comedies 

still being produced in Hollywood. RKO. 

which reissued two series of uproarious 

two-reelers, one starring the late Leon 

Errol and the other, starring Edgar Kennedy, 

has also discontinued their release. 

To make up for this slack. MGM is reissuing 

old Robert Benchley two-reelers, 

all gems of their kind. 

However, almost all the distributors of 

the color cartoons have a reissue series 

each season, including MGM's "Tom and 

Jerry." 20th Century-Fox's Terrytoon Toppers, 

Columbia's Color Favorites, Paramount's 

Cartoon Champions, Universal's 

Walter Lantz Reissues and Warner Bros.' 

Blue Ribbon Hit Parade cartoons. 

In the scenic or travel shorts field, there 

have been changes, the most important 

being the absence of James FitzPatrick, 

who produced these scenic reels for MGM 

release for many years. In addition to 

RKOs' Wildlife Album and Disney's People 

and Places 30-minute shorts, Universal's 

Color Favorites, .some made by Beeland 

Film Productions, others by Dudley Picture.s, 

are well produced and will continue 

on the U-I schedule for 1957. Most of these 

are ten minutes in length. Warner Bros.' 

Color Specials have been running a little 

longer (17 to 19 minutes) and deal with 

outdoor subjects, although not strictly 

scenic. And Paramount is releasing 'Vista- 

Vision Specials, showing the scenic 

wonders of various lands, while Columbia 

has several Cinemascope featurettes, ranging 

from 16 to 20 minutes in length, one of 

which dealt with the wonders of a close-by 

spot, Manhattan. 

Also in the scenic field, although tied in 

with a topical event which made the news 

1—VistaVision Specials (Para) 

2—Tom and Jerry Cartoons (MGM) 

3-Wildlife Album (RKO) 

4-Variety Views (U I) 

5-UPA Mr. Magoo Cartoons (Col) 

1— VistaVision Visits Austria {Para) 

2— World in a Marsh (RKO Wildlife Album) 

THE TEN BEST SHORTS SERIES 

6— People and Places (Bueno Vista) 

7— Merrie Melodies Cartoons (WB) 

8-Terrytoons 

(20th-Fox) 

9— Popeye Cartoons (Para) 

10-Walter Lantz 

THE TEN BEST SHORT SUBJECTS 

3— Busy Buddies (M(^M CinemaScope Tom and 

Jerry Cartoons) 

Cartunes (U-I) 

6— Brooklyn Goes to Son Francisco !U-1 Variety 

View) 

7— Out of the Desert (Warner Bros, color special) 

8— Wedding in Monaco [MGM color featurette) 

4 Wonders of Manhattan (Columbia color feo- 9— Uranium Blues (20th Century-Fox Terryturetfe) 

toons) 

5— Man in Space (Buena Visto Disney Featurette) 10— Niogara Fools (Walter Lantz Cartunes) 

headlines, was MGM's "Wedding in 

Monaco," dealing with the Grace Kelly- 

Prince Rainier nuptials, which received 

marquee billing in the majority of theatres. 

In its Manhattan first run, MGM 

coupled it with "Gettysburg," an Eastman 

Color featurette showing paintings or 

places where the Revolutionary battle 

took place. Columbia's "Wonders of 

Manhattan" and "April in Portugal," the 

latter with narration by Trevor Howard 

and with the Latin rhythms of George 

Melachrino and Amalia, a singing star, 

were other 1956 short subjects which were 

given marquee mention by many exhibitors. 

Black-and-white is still used for sports 

reels, such as Columbia's World of Sports, 

Grantland Rice Sportlights, distributed 

by Paramount; RKO's Sportscopes, Warner 

Bros.' Sports Parade and Universal's 'Variety 

Views, a few of the latter in the 

scenic or comedy vein. RKO's Screen- 

Uners and Universal's Musical Featurettes, 

featuring name bands and nightclub 

performers, are also in black-andwhite. 

The most neglected in 

the entire shorts 

field is the once-popular form of entertainment 

for the youngsters and adventure 

fans—the 15-episode serials. During 1956, 

only Columbia Pictures released two new 

serials, "Perils of the Wilderness," with 

Dennis Moore, and "Blazing the Overland 

Trail," with Dennis Moore and Lee Roberts 

—a far cry from the days when such .serial 

queens as Pearl White, Ruth Roland, Neva 

Gerber and Jack Hoxie were boxoffice 

names to action-minded moviegoers. 

However. Columbia also reissued two 

serials, "The Monster and the Ape," with 

Robert Lowery, Carole Mathews, George 

Macready and the late Ralph Morgan, and 

"Hop Harrigan," starring William Henry 

and Jennifer Holt. Tlie company will 

continue to release two new serials and 

two reprints during 1957. 

Republic Pictures is still releasing 

serials, but all of them are reprints. The 

four for 1956 were: "Manhunt of Mystery 

Island," "The Adventures of Frank and 

Jesse James," "King of the Rocket Men" 

and "Federal Operator 99," with such 

little-known stars as Clayton Moore, 

Richard Baily and Martin Lamont. 

In the independent field, George K. 

Arthur has been distributing some fine 

British-made shorts which are scoring 

long runs in the art houses. Among these 

are the dramatic "The Bespoke Overcoat" 

which has been entered for an Academy 

Award; Marcel Marceau's "Pantomimes" 

and "In the Park," and others. British 

Information Services is continuing to release 

fine British documentary and scenic 

shorts which are excellent for art house 

audiences, one of the best being "West 

Country Journey." "The Face of Lincoln," 

distributed by Cavalcade Pictures, and a 

fine ballet short made in Denmark, "Ballet 

Girl," are other noteworthy art house 

shorts. 


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JUDY HOLLIDAY • RICHARD CONIE 

FULL OF LIFE 

KIM NOVAK • lEFF CHANDLER 

introducing SALVATORE BACCALONI 

In GEORGE SIDNEY'S Production of 

JEANNE EAGELS 

with ESTHER MINCIOTTI • JOE DeSANTIS • SILVIO MINCIOTTI 

Written by DANIEL FUCHS 

Screen Ploy by JOHN f ANTE • Based on the Novel by JOHN FANTE 

Directed by GEORGE SIDNEY 

TYRONE POWER 

Z[TIERLING • LLOyO WILLIAM HOLOEN • ALEC GUINNESS • JACK HAWKINS 

SEVEN WAVES AWAY 

(Tentative Title) 

co-starring 

STEPHEN BOYD • MOIRA LISTER • JAMES HAYTER 

Written and Directed by RICHARD SALE • Produced by JOHN R. SLOAN 

Executive Producer TED RICHMOND • A COPA PRODUCTION 

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI 

Screen Play by PIERRE BOULLE and CALDER WILLINGHAM 

Produced by SAM SPIEGEL • Directed by DAVID LEAN 

A HORIZON PICTURE 

CinemaScope • Technicolor® 

RITA HAYWDRTH- ROBERT MITCHOM- JACK LEMMON RITA HAYWDRTH • FRANK SINATRA • KIM NOVAK 

FIRE DOWN BELOW PAL JOEY 

Screen Ploy by IRWIN SHAW • Directed by ROBERT PARRISH 

Produced by IRVING ALLEN ond ALBERT R. BROCCOLI 

A WARWICK PRODUCTION 

CinemaScope • Technicolor® 

Screen Play by DOROTHY KINGSLEY • Based on the Stories by JOHN O'HARA 

Stoge Play by RODGERS ond HART • Produced by FRED KOHLMAR 

Directed by GEORGE SIDNEY 

An ESSEX ond GEORGE SIDNEY Production 

CinemaScope • Technicolor®

COCKLESHELL HEROES 

JOSE FERRER / TREVOR HOWARD 

VICTOR MATURE / 

SAFARI 

JANET LEIGH 

ZARAK 

VICTOR MATURE / ANITA EKBERG / MICHAEL WILDING 

MACDONALD CAREY / 

ODONGO 

RHONDA FLEMING 

FIRE DOWN BELOW 

RITA HAYWORTH / ROBERT MITCHUM / JACK LEMMON 

THE MOST WANTED WOMAN 

VICTOR MATURE / ANITA EKBERG 

AN ENGLISHMAN IN LAS VEGAS 

NORMAN WISDOM / ANITA EKBERG / GEORGE JESSEL 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: IRVING ALLEN i ALBERT R. 

RELEASED THROUGH COLUMBIA PICTURES 

BROCCOLI 

THE DEATH OF UNCLE GEORGE 

SCREENPLAY BY JOHN PAXTON 

THE GOLDEN CITY 

MUSICAL BY JOHN TORRE 

THE NAKED LADY 

NOVEL BY BERNARD FALK 

THE LONG SHIPS 

NOVEL BY FRANS BENGTSSON 

THE BROAD ARROW 

BASED ON THE NOVEL "THE WARDS OF OUTER MARSH" 

ADAMSON OF AFRICA 

BASED ON THE BOOK "AFRICAN BUSH ADVENTURES" 

FIGHTER STATION 

SCREENPLAY BY JACK DAVIES 

NO TIME TO DIE 

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY RONALD KEMP 

SCREENPLAY BY SY BARTLETT AND TERENCE YOUNG

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Rank Film 

Distributors

of America Inc. 

will be operating 

from its new 

headquarters 

at 

729 7th Avenue 

New York 19, 

N.Y. 

starting April 1957 

with branch offices 

to follow in selected 

exchange centers 

coast to coast

Broader U. S. Market 

For Foreign Films 


Richard Mason, which Betty Box will 

produce on location in India: and the 

heroic drama of the sinking of the Titanic. 

"A Night to Remember." 

In addition to the Rank product, other 

producers in England will be making 

features available through deals with distributors 

in the United States. Sir Michael 

Balcon. who is to release through Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer, plans to make five 

features during the year. The first of these 

is "Davy." a music hall story with Harry 

Secombe. one of England's top radio-TV 

stars. Balcon's big picture of the year will 

be "Dunkirk," to get under way in April. 

FULL WARWICK SLATE 

Warwick Pictures, which produced the 

current "Zarak" for Columbia distribution, 

as well as "Cockleshell Heroes," will have 

a full production slate in 1957. Although 

many Americans in the industry are not 

aware of the fact, Warwick considers itself 

a British company. Irving Allen and 

Albert Broccoli, who own the company, 

have shown over a five-year period that 

they can produce pictures in England 

which will have worldwide appeal. 

Upcoming in the company's schedule are 

such pictures as "The Most Wanted 

Woman," with Anita Ekberg and Victor 

Mature; "Fire Down Below," Rita Hayworth, 

Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum; 

"An Englishman in Las Vegas," 

with George Jessel, Ekberg and Norman 

Wisdom: and eight others for which casts 

have not been set. 

Another British producer who is aiming 

at the U. S. market is Fred Feldkamp 

whose first film, due for RKO release, is 

"The Silken Affair," starring David Niven 

and Genevieve Page. He also is preparing 

"The Man Across the Water," which deals 

with some World War II heroics. The 

English counterpart to the U. S. action 

film will come from Anglo-Amalgamated 

Film Distributors which has an arrangement 

with American Releasing Corp. In 

1957, Nat Cohn and Stuart Levy, the 

owners, will produce eight top features and 

four to six Scotland Yard stories. 

FRENCH WILL BE ACTIVE 

The French will be active in the American 

market in 1957, too. Whereas, Britain's 

big bolt will come largely from a single 

company, the French product will come 

via a national approach. A French Film 

Office has been established in New York 

as a means of promoting the exhibition 

of that country's films in America. French 

films were the first foreign-language pictures 

to score at the U. S. boxoffice in 

pre-World War II days. In the postwar 

era, however, the revitalization of the 

Italian film industry, the entry of IFE as 

a distribution arm of a government-subsidized 

effort, enabled the Italians to 

overshadow the Gallic imports. The 

Italians dominated the foreign-language 

scene for a half dozen years. In 1956, 

however, the French started to come up 

with some topnotch boxoffice pictures. 

After playing second fiddle for almost a 

decade, they took charge during the last 

year by introducing a variety of features 

which not only had art house values but 

surprised even the large circuits with 

their draw in general-appeal theatres. 

"Diabolique," a chilling crime drama, got 

more playdates than any previous French 

import and the year's gross was expected 

to run over $600,000. This was followed 

by "Rififi," a tightly drawn thriller about 

a bank robber, and it, too, has been doing 

well in general playdates. 

With an eye on the American market, 

the French are going in heavily for Cinemascope 

and color and subjects which 

should appeal to U. S. audiences. Some of 

the pictures are being handled by major 

distributors. Columbia, for example, has a 

special international department to handle 

foreign pictures, including some of the 

French. One of these is the Cannes Film 

Festival Golden Palm winner, "The Silent 

World." Buena Vista is to handle "If AD 

the Guys in the World ..." as its second 

foreign release, the first being Japan's 

"Yang Kwei Fei." Alhed Artists, in the 

spring or summer, will release "The 

Hunchback of Notre Dame," starring Gina 

LoUobrigida and Anthony Quinn, filmed 

in Cinemascope and produced in both 

English and French-language versions. 

BERGMAN FILM FOR WB 

In addition, Warner Bros, will distribute 

"Elena et Les Hommes," the Ingrid Bergman 

feature which Jean Renoir directed. 

Its English version will have the title 

"Strange Night." Still another French 

film will be handled here by 20th Century- 

Fox, "Oasis" which stars the German 

actress, Cornell Borchers and the French 

actress, Michele Morgan. The picture 

offers the choice of German, French or 

English dialog dubbing. 

Pictures which are just getting into the 

U. S. distribution channels include "Nana," 

which stars Charles Boyer and Martine 

Carol, a Times Film Corp. entry; "The 

Snow Was Black," starring Daniel Gelin, 

on the releasing schedule of Continental 

Distributing Corp.; and "Pantaloons," a 

comedy with the favorite Fernandel in his 

first Technicolor production. 

Other films in which U. S. exhibitors 

can be expected to show interest because 

of story material, stars or off-beat treatment 

are: "Follies Bergere," which stars 

Jeanmaire, who was first seen by American 

filmgoers in "Hans Christian Andersen," 

and "Anything Goes," "Michael 

Strogoff," a Jules Verne classic; "The 

Adventures of Arsene Lupine," based on 

the life of the noted French criminologist. 

The big entries from the Italian industry 

in 1956 were "La Strada," a drama with 

a circus background which introduced a 

wistful Chaplinesque actress named Giulietta 

Masina; and "Umberto D." a touching 

drama about the tribulations of an 

old man. Both played general dates as 

well as the art houses. 

The Italian filmmakers have entered 

into a number of coproduction deals with 

producers in other countries, and have 

broadened theii- horizons considerably by 

casting players with special appeal for the 

United States. An example of this is "The 

Monte Carlo Story" which Marcello Girosi 

has produced for Titanus Films and 

United Artists distribution. This picture 

has been done in Technirama, a new widescreen 

process developed by Technicolor, 

which can be screened at ratios extending 

from 1.66-1 to 2.65-1. For UA release, it 

will be in the Cinemascope ratio. The 

picture has a Monaco background and 

stars Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio de Sica 

and Arthur O'Connell. 

ADDITIONAL GIROSI PRODUCT 

Girosi will also have several other films 

for U. S. distribution. He has just finished 

"The Roof," a neo-realistic drama in black 

and white which was directed by de Sica. 

He also has produced "Scandal in Sorrento," 

made with Titanus, which DCA 

will handle in this country. The picture 

stars Sophia Loren and de Sica. Still 

another of his pictures is "Gold of Naples" 

with Miss Loren and Silvana Mangano. 

Titanus continues as Italy's major film 

producer. The company has entered into 

a number of coproduction deals, with investments 

in 16 pictures. The Italian industry 

has been favoring this type of joint 

production interest as a means of preventing 

a wholesale exodus of such stars as 

Gina LoUobrigida, Sophia Loren, Rosanna 

Podesta and others in which Hollywood has 

shown an interest. 

Among the completed product which 

U. S. exhibitors may expect during the 

year which have boxoffice potential are: 

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," 

Italy's most popular picture of the year, 

in which Gina LoUobrigida is starred 

along with Roberta Alda; "Santorella," 

with Pier Angeli; "The Last Five Minutes," 

starring Linda Darnell, Rossana Brazzi 

and Vittorio de Sica; "Prohibited" with 

Mel Ferrer; "Attila," a Ponti-deLaurentiis 

production, with Anthony Quimi and 

Sophia Loren; and "Joan at the Stake," 

directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring 

Ingrid Bergman. 

Next to the French and Italians, the 

Japanese are the most active in seeking 

U. S. outlets for foreign-language pictures. 

While the Japanese are now the largest 

producers of feature films in the world 

about 500 a year— less than a dozen are 

considered good enough for the world 

market and only two or three a year 

get to the United States. This year the 

successful entries were "The Golden 

Demon," a romance; "The Phantom 

Horse," the story of a boy's love for horses; 

"Sumarai," which deals with warriors in 

medieval times, and "Yang Kwei Fei," 

also a medieval story, set in an emperor's 

household. All have had substantial playdates 

in art houses. 

GERMAN IMPORTS SMALL 

Germany provides about a half dozen 

entries annually for general art house 

showings, although many more play theatres 

in German neighborhoods. Sweden 

has one or two, and a half dozen other 

countries supply a single feature each to 

give the U. S. market its choice of about 

50 pictures. In 1957, however, this figure 

may run as high as 75 and possibly higher. 

Italy may have as many as 30 releases 

available, depending on the distribution 

deals which can be consummated. The 

French are hoping to get about 22 into 

the release channels and Germany has 

hopes for about ten. Japan's outlook is for 

a half dozen starters and Mexico has a 

trio of Spanish-language films which are 

being dubbed with English dialog. 


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Producer: Marcello Gifosi 

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By HUGH FRAZE 

THE 

trend of motion picture showmanship 

in 1956 was toward selectivity, 

specific objectives and concentration 

of effort. Reports published in 

the BOXOFPICE Showmandiser section 

through the year disclose that the quality 

of industry exploitation and promotion 

attained new high levels as both exhibitors 

and distributors tried to obtain more 

substantial grosses to meet continuing increases 

in operating costs and greater 

competition. 

On the local level, theatre owners, managers 

and circuit ad-publicity offices gave 

sharp evidence they were seeking out all 

profit possibilities as they put over current 

attraction campaigns via every media 

imaginable—from helicopters, piano-playing 

marathons, calliopes, free vacations, 

breakfast matinees to co-op pages and 

other time-proven gimmicks. 

STRESS LOCAL ANGLES 

Evident in the Showmandiser accounts 

of 1956 film campaigns—fewer in number 

than in former years because of fewer 

pictures and faster playoff times—was an 

effort to increase the effectiveness of local 

selling and decrease the per-patron. adexploitation 

cost. This was shown by the 

fact that there was a pin-pointing of appeal 

in ads, publicity copy and special 

promotions—particularly in the latter— to 

specific groups based on selected aspects 

of the films being promoted. 

The rock-and-roll fans, senior citizens, 

music and art lovers, science-fiction addicts, 

teenagers, parents, the foreignlanguage 

groups, mothers, and especially 

the kids, all were objects of hai-d-selling 

efforts on individual films as well as via 

public relations promotions. There were 

fewer of the blunderbuss, catch-all campaigns; 

more with "localized" appeal. 

Of major significance was the increase, 

both in number and quality, of promotions 

in the public relations and institutional 

class, whose objective is to keep the public 

theatre and movie conscious. From all sections 

of the industry came promotions 

defending motion pictures from the TV 

challenge to the screen's position as the 

world's greatest mass entertainment. 

PUBLIC RELATIONS AID 

Producers—the Ass'n of Motion Picture 

Producers and the Motion Picture Export 

Ass'n—distributed a letter written by Alfred 

F. Corwin, public relations expert, 

emphasizing the importance of the theatre 

to the community business health. 

The Kansas-Missouri Theatre Ass'n prepared 

a mat campaign with such copy as, 

"It's Your Theatre With a Million Dollar 

Inventory . or Democrat, 

These People Are Really on a Magic Carpet." 

There were other campaigns of a 

similar nature. 

Movies found staunch allies among the 

newspaper amusement page editors. Showmandiser 

reported several examples of 

cooperation in this field. Norman Shavin 

of the Jackson (Miss.) State Times told 

readers last summer in his Cavalcade 

annual movie section: "The magnetizing 

pull of the movies is a phenomenon of 

our time. And this great medium, buffeted 

by the attacks of radio, TV and other 

diversions, remains no less great in its 

concept outlook, capsuled in the 

. 

industry's design to make movies better 

than ever, remains no less great in its 

concept . . . Let's all go to the movies." 

Another example came from Maurice 

Guillerman of the Item in New Orleans, 

in which the Item's "Progress Through 

Promotion" policy with motion pictures 

was credited with helping maintain a high 

level of movie patronage at the Crescent 

City. Guillerman asked increased cooperation 

through star tours from distributors. 

Twenty-six theatres in Denver, Colo., 

obtained the cooperation of the Denver 

Post in a 30-day Moviegoer-of-the-Month 

contest. A trip to Hollywood was awarded 

to the writer of the best letter on "Going 

to the movies is 

because ..." 

my best entertainment 

United Detroit Theatres conducted its 

sixth annual New Faces contest in conjunction 

with the Detroit Free Press. 

Readers were asked to select the new film 

players they liked best. The Michigan 

Theatre constructed a block-long display 

of photos of young players introduced 

by UDT and the Free Press in the last six 

years. 

VARIETY IN PROMOTIONS 

Institutional and profit-making motives 

gave new life to numerous theatre standbys 

such as kiddy matinees, baby contests, 

bathing beauty competitions. Schoolboy 

Safety Patrol tieups, etc. Among such was 

the Patrol Boy Honor award executed last 

spring by Hugh Borland, then manager 

of the Embassy, a Chicago neighborhood 

theatre. He arranged with schools in the 

Embassy area for presentation of the 

awards to selected members of the school 

safety patrols on the stage. Each award 

was good for a year's free admission. 

Staging probably the year's biggest baby 

contest, Carl Rogers of Loew's at Dayton, 

Ohio, received 1,115 photos in a promotion 

he extended through six weeks in cooperation 

with a photographer's studio 

and a radio station. Two of the singing 

McGuire sisters appeared at the downtown 

theatre for the judges' announcement 

and the presentation of the prizes. 

The most noteworthy development in 

the newspaper ad field did not take place 

on the drawing boards but at exhibitor 

forums. Showmandiser noted that most 

theatremen (first run) over the country 

used the distributor layouts which necessarily 

emphasize the general, national appeal, 

without major changes. However 

a greater number of exhibitors than ever 

before displayed proficiency in localizing 

their film ads, a step advocated by exhibitor 

leaders. 

Speakers at the Theatre Owners of 

America showmanship clinic held during 

the TOA convention in New York early 

in the fall stressed the need for "Do-It- 

Yourself" skill to make film advertising 

more effective and help obtain more substantial 

grosses on the "nervous pictures 

. . . the less than the best" product. 

The local theatre advertising is the responsibility 

of the exhibitor, said Norris 

Hadaway, supervisor for the 'Wilby-Kincey 

circuit in Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. 

He called exhibitor reliance for advertising 

on the distributors the "unpardonable 

sin of our business," and called on 

showmen to study their market, learn good 

ad writing and use the pressbooks only as 

aids in preparing creative selling copy 

aimed at the local groups who are the 

logical ticket buyers for specific films. 

DISTRIBUTORS HELP TOO 

Distributors also took part in the industry 

push to obtain more time and work 

at the theatre level on selling. Starting 

with "Love Me Tender," 20th-Fox started 

a "RoU-Your-Own—Do-It-Yourself" advertising 

mat kit service to exhibitors. 

MGM developed a concentrated program 

of promotion on its class offering, "Lust 

for Life," providing exhibitors booking this 

film with a kit with accessories, booklets 

and procedure of promotion aimed at 

school, art and similar groups. 

United Artists announced its "greatest" 

showmanship contest, offering $2,500 and 

an expense-paid trip to Hollywood to the 

manager executing the best campaign on 

"The King and Four Queens." 

Otto Preminger and UA conducted a 

worldwide talent search for a new actress 

to play the title role in "Saint Joan." Six 

million entry blanks, 11,000 posters and 

9,000 trailers were distributed in this. 

Paramount provided exhibitors voluminous 

kits in behalf of '"War and Peace." 

Warner Bros., RKO, Universal, Columbia, 

Allied Artists, the above and other companies 

all effected national merchandise 

tieups, vacation trip contests and preselling 

magazine and newspaper campaigns 

on a scale not previously equaled. 

AMONG 1956 HIGHLIGHTS 

Following are some promotion highlights 

of 1956 selected at random from the more 

than 200 pages of the Showmandiser: 

More than 23,000 entered a "King and 

I" contest arranged by Bill Wilson, manager 

of the Paramount Theatre in Edmonton, 

Can. A $400 refrigerator offered 

as top prize for guessing how many homes 

lumber used in studio sets would build. 

Edward F. Fadal, Texas Theatre at 

Waco, booked some sad melodramas and 

advertised a Tearjerker Week. 

A complete funeral was advertised by 

Rufus Honeycutt, Brunson Theatre, Baytown, 

Tex., in promoting a Halloween 

show. The winner couldn't sell or mortgage 

the burial service. 

Buzz Blondell, Capitol, Niagara Falls, 

Ont., achieved an ambition—he sold two 

full-page co-op ads in three days. 

A Movie Money premium stamp deal 

was successfully developed especially for 

theatres by Arthur Turner, Lebanon, Ore. 


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the current belieis of some, however, 

present boxoffice conditions in comparison with 

those of a decade ago do not merit the pessimism 

of the gloom-spreaders among producers, 

distributors and exhibitors. A study of first run 

reports in key cities shows this. In fact, checking 

back over the information published in the 

BOXOFFICE BAROMETER for 1945-46, surprising 

data come to light. 

For instance, that season there were 87 hit 

features compared to 101 this last season. "The 

Bells of St. Mary's," top hit of the 1945-46 

season, registered 209 per cent at the boxoffice, 

whereas "Guys and Dolls," top hit of the 1955- 

56 season, scored 357 per cent. Moreover, there 

were 17 pictures which registered more than 

200 per cent, while ten years ago "The Bells of 

St. Mary's" was the only one which scored 

more than 200 per cent. 

There were only 18 that grossed 150 per cent 

or more in 1945-46. The 1955-56 season had 46 

registering in that bracket, more than twice as 

many as ten years ago. Yet this is the way the 

lead of the article about the top hits for that 

season reads: "Business at the nation's boxoffices 

for the 1945-46 season continues to level 

off from the high marks of a few seasons ago. 

The upswing that continued to rise through '41, 

'42 and '43 is definitely on the downward trend." 

Coming down to one year ago, for the season of 

1954-55 there were 115 hits out of 333 features, whereas 

in the 1955-56 season, there were only 101 hits out of 

345 features, 14 less. In 1954-55, there were 210 features 

which did average business or better out of 333, 

whereas in 1955-56, only 187 did average or better, 

which is 23 less. The highest score at the boxoffice in 

1954-55 was 291 per cent for "Lady and the Tramp," 

while in 1955-56, "Guys and Dolls" scored 357 per cent. 

However, it was the only one which hit 300 or better. 

In both seasons, releases reported on included those 

playing pre-release engagements and they are so 

indicated. 

There are many significant pictures, too. "Oklahoma!" 

has come to the screen in both the new Todd- 

AO process and in CinemaScope. "The King and I" 

rivals—some say surpasses—the original stage production. 

"War and Peace" captures the spirit of the 

immortal Tolstoy classic. "Helen of Troy" and "Ulysses" 

bring Homer to life with modern techniques and 

"Moby Dick" is psychologically true to the old classic. 

Company credits for the past year show Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer leading with 17, the same number it 

had in the previous season, the other companies following 

in this order; 20th-Fox and Paramount, 13 each; 

United Artists and Warner Bros,, 10 each; Buena Vista 

and Universal, 3 each; Allied Artists, RKO and Republic, 

1 each; and Miscellaneous 17. 

AVfAY ALL BOATS (U-I) 162 

PARDNERS (Para) 160 

SECRETS OF THE REEF (Confl) 160 

COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL, THE (WB) 159 

MADAME BUTTERFLY (IFE) 156 

HTEA AND SYMPATHY (MGM) 156 

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (U-I) 155 

HEARTH vs FLYING SAUCERS (Col) 

INDIAN FIGHTER, THE (UA) 

.154 

154 

DOCTOR AT SEA (Rep)) 153 

RAINS OF RANCmPUR. THE (20lh-Fox) 152 

MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS (MGM) 150 

UBIue Ribbon Award 

HPfe-Release 

(These Grossed 150% or More) 

UGUYS AND DOLLS (MGM) 357 

I'LL CRY TOMORROW (MGM) 274 

OKLAHOMA] (Magna) 259 

HIGH SOCIETY (MGM) 253 

TRAPEZE (UA) 251 

«KING AND I, THE (20th-Fox) 244 

CONQUEROR, THE (RKO) 237 

MOBY DICK (WB) 235 

UHWAR AND PEACE (Para) 223 

TO CATCH A THIEF (Para) 221 

HLUST FOR LIFE (MGM) 219 

PICNIC (Col) 216 

UCAROUSEL (20th-Fox) 213 

MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, THE (UA) 207 

HBAD SEED, THE (WB) 203 

SEARCHERS, THE (WB) 202 

TALL MEN, THE (20th-Fox) 201 

UAFRICAN LION, THE (BV) 

191 

OffEDDY DUCHIN STORY. THE (Col) 

LADYKaLERS, THE (Cont'l) 

MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE (Col) 

ROSE TATTOO, THE (Para) 

191 

191 

188 

188 

BUS STOP (20th-Fox) 187 

HELEN OF TROY (WB) 185 

TENDER TRAP, THE (MGM) 183 

«MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE (Para) 181 

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (WB) 180 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT (UA) 178 

tiMAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT. THE 

(20lh-Fox) 178 

DIABOLIQUE (Confl) 176 

ARTISTS AND MODELS (Para) 172 

UBENNY GOODMAN STORY, THE (U-I) 169 

PRIVATE'S PROGRESS (DCA) 167 

PROUD AND PROFANE, THE (Para) 165 

48 

BAROMETER Section

Wbat Ttiev Did in First Kuns • Outslnndinir Hits 

Baltimore 

Key Cities 

From Which Averages Were Computoa. 

(These Grossed 140°'o or More) 

FASTEST GUN ALIVE, THE (MGM) 

ttSOLID GOLD CADttLAC, THE (Col) 

TRIAL (MGM) 

DAY THE WORLD ENDED (AIP) 

LITTLEST OUTLAW, THE (BV) 

PRISONER, THE (Col) 

LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS 

SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS (UMPO) 

FORBIDDEN PLANET (MGM) 

ULYSSES (Para) 

(Trans-Lux) 


HATTACK! (UA) 

PROUD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, THE (Kingsley) 

NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP. THE (Confl) 

DESPERATE HOURS. THE (Para) 

V.McCONNELL STORY, THE (WB) 

COURT JESTER. THE (Para) 

JOHNNY CONCHO (UA) 

OSWAN, THE (MGM) 

THAT CERTAIN FEELING (Para) 

ANYTHING GOES (Para) 

GABY (MGM) 

LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS. THE (20fh-Fox) 

MAN WITH THE GUN (UA) 

OTHELLO (UA) 

GODZILLA. KING OF THE MONSTERS (Embassy) 

BHOWANI JUNCTION (MGM) 

BLACK SLEEP, THE (UA) 


CHANCE MEETING (Pacemaker) 

REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, THE (20th-Fox) 

SAMURAI (Jacon) 

ttBETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (20th-Fox) 

FRISKY (DCA) 

HOT ROD GIRL (AIP) 

NAKED NIGHT. THE (Times) 

SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (MGM) 

ftOPPOSITE SEX. THE (MGM) 

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK (Col) 

T+TOWARD THE UNKNOWN (WB) 

HELL ON FRISCO BAY (WB) 

LONE RANGER. THE (WB) 

BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE. THE (20th-Fox) 

VIEW FROM POMPEYS HEAD. THE (20lh-Fox) 

GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE. THE (BV) 

UMY SISTER EttEEN (Col) 

TOO BAD SHE'S BAD (Geti-Kingsley) 

JUBAL (Col) 

GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES (UA) 

LAST TEN DAYS, THE (Col-Inl'l) 

BLOOD ALLEY (WB) 

CATERED AFFAIR, THE (MGM) 

D-DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE (20th-Fox) 

FOREVER DARLING (MGM) 

LOVER BOY (20th-Fox) 

RETURN OF JACK SLADE, THE (AA) 

TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE (Para) 

BOXOFFICE 

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148 

148 

143 

141 

141 

140 

140 

139 

139 

138 

.137 

.137 

136 

135 

134 

.134 

133 

133 

133 

132 

132 

131 

130 

130 

129 

129 

129 

128 

127 

127 

127 

127 

.126 

126 

126 

125 

125 

123 

123 

122 

122 

122 

121 

121 

121 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120

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BOXOFFICE 51

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Cy#IfOSAeA- 

—c— 

Calling Homicide (AA) 106 

Canyon River (AA) 96 

-. 

Carousel (20th-Fox) 213 

Cash on Delivery (RKO) : 90 

Catered Affair, The (MGM) 120 

Chance Meeting (Pacemaker) 129 

Circus Girl (Rep) * 

Cockleshell Heroes (Col) 103 

Comanche (UA) 98 

Come Next Spring (Rep) 100 

Come On, The (AA) 98 

Congo Crossing (U-I) 77 

Conqueror, The (RKO) 237 

Count Three and Pray (Col) 100 

Court Jester, The (Para) 136 

Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The (WB) 159 

Crashing Las Vegas (AA) 91 

Creature Walks Among Us, The (U-I) 96 

Creeping Unknown (UA) 108 

Crime Against Joe (UA) 83 

Crime in the Streets (AA) 

Ill 

Crooked Web, The (Col) 97 

—D— 

D-Day the Sixth of June (20th-Fox) 120 

Dakota Incident (Rep) 102 

Dance Little Lady (Trans-Lux) 109 

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (Rep) * 

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (BV).... 93 

Day of Fury, A (U-I) 90 

Day the World Ended (AIP) 148 

Deadliest Sin, The (AA) * 

Deep Blue Sea, The (20th-Fox) 

Ill 

Desperate Hours, The (Para) 137 

Devil Goddess (Col) * 

Diabolique (ContT) 176 

Diane (MGM) 100 

Dig That Uranium (AA) 99 

Doctor at Sea (Rep) 153 

Duel on the Mississippi (Col) 106 

Dynamiters, The (Astor) * 

—E— 

tt Earth vs the Flying Saucers (Col) 154 

H-Eddy Duchin Story, The (Col) 191 

Edge of Hell (U-I) * 

Emergency Hospital (UA) 100 

—F— 

Fastest Gun Alive, The (MGM) 149 

Fear (Astor) * 

Female Jungle (AIP) 108 

Fighting Chance, The (Rep) 88 

First Texan, The (AA) 107 

Fighting Trouble (AA) * 

Flame of the Islands (Rep) 89 

Footsteps in the Fog (Col) 95 

Forbidden Planet (MGM) 140 

Foreign Intrigue (UA) 94 

Forever Darling (MGM) 120 

Fort Yuma (UA) 90 

Francis in the Haunted House (U-I) 104 

Frisky (DCA) 127 

Frontier Gambler (AFRC) * 

Frontier Woman (Top Pix) * 

Fury at Gunsight Pass (Col) 94 

Fury in Paradise (Gibraltar) * 

—G— 

Gaby (MGM) 133 

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (UA) 121 

Ghost Town (UA) 100 

Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (20th-Fox) 115 

Girl Rush, The (Para) 96 

Girls in Prison (AIP) 107 

Glory (RKO) 92 

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (Embassy).... 131 

Good Morning, Miss Dove (20th-Fox) 116 

Good-Bye, My Lady (WB) 85 

Great Day in the Morning (RKO) 85 

Great Locomotive Chase, The (BV) 122 

Gun Brothers (UA) * 

Gun That Won the West, The (Col) 89 

Gunslmger (AIP) * 

Guys and Dolls (MGM) 357 

—H— 

Harder They Fall, The (Col) 110 

Heidi and Peter (UA) 96 

Helen Keller in Her Story (de Rochemont).... * 

Helen of Troy (WB) 185 

Hell on Frisco Bay (WB) 125 

Hell's Horizon (Col) HI 

Hidden Guns (Rep) 108 

High Society (MGM) 253 

Hilda Crane (20th-Fox) 94 

Hold Back the Night (AA) 105 

Hold Back Tomorrow (U-I) 93 

Hot Blood (Col) 91 

Hot Cars (UA) 91 

Hot Rod Girl (AIP) 127 

Houston Story, The (Col) 93 

Huk! (UA) 93 

—I— 

1 Died a Thousand Times (WB) 97 

ril Cry Tomorrow (MGM) 274 

Illegal (WB) 98 

Indestructible Man (AA) 95 

Indian Fighter, The (UA) 154 

Inside Detroit (Col) 101 

Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (AA) 112 

It's a Dog's Life (MGM) 107 

I've Lived Before (U-I) 105 


4 

NOW 

IN RELEASE 

. . . And 

Soon To Be 

Released 

Waut

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— J— 

laguar (Rep) * 

Jedda the Uncivilized (DCA) * 

loe Macbeth (Col) 95 

Johnny Concho (UA) 135 

lubal (Col) 121 

—K— 

Kettles in the Ozarks (U-I) 93 

Killer Is Loose, The (UA) 88 

Killer's Kiss (UA) 94 

Killing, The (UA) 104 

t+King and I, The (20th-Fox) 244 

King of the Coral Sea (AA) 90 

Kismet (MGM) 116 

Kiss Before Dying, A (UA) 93 

—L— 

Lady Godiva (U-I) 100 

Ladykillers, The (ContT Distrs.) 191 

Last Frontier, The (Col) 112 

Last Hunt, The (MGM) 

Ill 

Last of the Desperados (AFRC) 88 

Last Ten Days, The (Col-lnfl) 121 

Lawless Street, A (Col) 106 

Lease of Life (IFE) 100 

Leather Saint, The (Para) 88 

Let's Make Up (UA) 100 

Lieutenant Wore Skirts, The (20th-Fox) 133 

Lisbon (Rep) 104 

Littlest Outlaw, The (BV) 148 

Living North, The (Arlan) * 

Lone Ranger, The (WB) 125 

Lost Continent (IFE) * 

Lover Boy (20th-Fox) 120 

Lovers and Lollipops (Trans-Lux) 141 

Lucy Gallant (Para) 

HI 

t+Lust for Life (MGM) 219 

—M— 

Madame Butterfly (IFE) 156 

Magic Fire (Rep) 116 

Magnificent Roughnecks (AA) 100 

Man From Laramie, The (Col) 188 

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (20-Fox)..178 

Man Is Armed, The (Rep) * 

Man Who Never Was, The (20th-Fox) 107 

Man Who Knew Too Much, The (Para) 181 

Man With the Golden Arm, The (UA) 207 

Man With the Gun (UA) 132 

Manfish (UA) 104 

Massacre (20th-Fox) 86 

Maverick Queen (Rep) 89 

McConnell Story, The (WB) 137 

Meet Me in Las Vegas (MGM) 150 

Men of Sherwood Forest (Astor) * 

Miracle in the Rain (WB) 103 

H Moby Dick (WB) 235 

Mohawk (20th-Fox) 102 

Murder on Approval (RKO) 112 

My Seven Little Sins (Kingsley) 101 

My Sister Eileen (Col) 122 

—N— 

Naked Dawn, The (U-1) 89 

Naked Hills, The (AA) 102 

Naked Night, The (Times) 127 

Naked Sea, The (RKO) 97 

Navy Wife (AA) 97 

Never Say Goodbye (U-1) 101 

Night My Number Came Up, The (Cont'l) 138 

Nightmare (UA) 90 

No Place to Hide (AA) * 

—O— 

^+ Oklahoma! (Magna) 259 

Oklahoma Woman (AIP) * 

On the Threshold of Space (20th-Fox) 105 

One-Way Ticket to Hell (Eden) * 

++ Opposite Sex, The (MGM) 126 

Othello (UA) 132 

Our Miss Brooks (WB) 84 

Outside the Law (U-I) 81 

Over-Exposed (Col) 91 

—P— 

Pardners (Para) 160 

Paris Follies of 1956 (AA) 93 

Passport to Treason (Astor) * 

Patterns (UA) 103 

Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (AIP) 105 

Picasso (Van Wolf-API) * 

Picnic CCol) 216 

Pillars of the Sky (U-I) 97 

Please Murder Me (DCA) 79 

Postmark for Danger (RKO) 94 

Price of Fear, The (U-I) 85 

Prisoner, The (Col) 143 

Private's Progress (DCA) 167 

Proud and the Beautiful, The (Kingsley) 139 

Proud and Profane, The (Para) 165 

Proud Ones, The (20th-Fox) 102 

-Q- 

Queen Bee (Col) 105 

Queen of Babylon (20th-Fox) 95 

Quentin Durward (MGM) 98 

Quincannon, Frontier Scout (UA) 88 

—R— 

Rains of Ranchipur, The (20th-Fox) 152 

Ransom! (MGM) 112 

Raw Edge (U-1) 93 

Rawhide Years, The (U-I) 99 

Rebel in Town (UA) 95 

Rebel Without a Cause (WB) 180 

Red Sundown (U-1) 94 


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BLOCKBUSTER NO. 5 -DECEMBER NAKED PARADISE and FLESH AND THE SPUR - Both in COLOR! 

BLOCKBUSTER NO. 6 -JANUARY 

THE UNDEAD and BLACK VOODOO 

COMING IN 1957 THE ROCK 'N' ROLL KID and THE JUVENILE DELINQUENT 

HELL RAIDERS and JET SQUADRON 

I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and DRAG STRIP GIRL and MORE! 

SEE YOUR LOCAL 

yimanlaan, A ^ntEwiatioruzL EXCHANGE

Icture Cy/roA6eA- 

Return of Jack Slade, The (AA) 120 

Revolt of Mamie Stover, The (20th-Fox) 129 

River Changes, The (WB) 92 

Rock Around the Clock (Col) 126 

Rose Tattoo, The (Para) 188 

Run for the Sun (UA) 109 

Running Wild (U-1) 110 

—S— 

Safari (Col) 107 

Samurai (Jacon) 129 

Santiago (WB) 108 

Satellite in the Sky (WB) 100 

Savage Princess (UA) * 

Scandal, Inc. (Rep) * 

Scarlet Hour, The (Para) 79 

Screaming Eagles (AA) 101 

Sea Shall Not Have Them, The (UA) 88 

Searchers, The (WB) 202 

Second Greatest Sex, The (U-1) 

Ill 

Secrets of the Reef (Cont'l) 160 

Secret of Treasure Mountain (Col) * 

Secret Venture (Rep) * 

Serenade (WB) 110 

Seven Men From Now (WB) 105 

Shack Out on 101 (AA) 95 

Shadow of Fear (UA) * 

Shadow of the Eagle (UA) * 

She-Creature, The (AlP) * 

W Sheep Has Five Legs, The (UMPO) 141 

Showdown at Abilene (U-1) 90 

Silent Fear (Gibraltar) * 

Simon and Laura (U-1) 114 

Sincerely Yours (WB) 101 

Slightly Scarlet (RKO) 98 

ttSolid Gold Cadillac, The (Col) 149 

Somebody Up There Likes Me (MGM) 127 

Special Delivery (Col) 95 

Spoilers, The (U-1) 115 

Square Jungle, The (U-1) 98 

Star in the Dust (U-I) 

Star of India (UA) 88 

Steel Jungle, The (WB) 92 

Storm Fear (UA) 96 

Storm Over the Nile (Col) 89 

Strange Adventure, A (Rep) 96 

Strange Intruder (AA) * 

Stranger at My Door (Rep) .98 

Strangers (Fine Arts) * 

Sudden Danger (AA) 98 

Svengali (MGM) 97 

Swamp Women (Woolner Bros.) 90 

Swan, The (MGM) 

I34 

—T— 

Tall Men, The (20th-Fox) 201 

Tarantula (U-I) 112 

Target Zero (WB) 98 

gi 

++Tea and Sympathy (MGM) 156 

Teen-Age Crime Wave (Col) 107 

Tender Trap, The (MGM) 183 

Tennessee's Partner (RKO) 97 

Terror at Midnight (Rep) 93 

Texas Lady (RKO) 83 

That Certain Feeling (Para) 134 

There's Always Tomorrow (U-I) 106 

These Wilder Years (MGM) 98 

Three Bad Sisters (UA) 94 

Three for Jamie Dawn (AA) 97 

Three Outlaws, The (AFRO * 

Three Stripes in the Sun (Col) 

Ill 

Thunder Over Arizona (Rep) 80 

Thunderstorm (AA) 83 

Timetable (UA) 90 

To Catch a Thief (Para) 221 

Too Bad She's Bad (Getz-KingsleyJ 122 

Top Gun (UA) 95 

Touch and Go (U-I) 116 

Toughest Man Alive (AA) 93 

tt Toward the Unknown (WB) 126 

Toy Tiger (U-I) 99 

Track the Man Down (Rep) * 

Trapeze (UA) 251 

Treasure of Poncho Villa, The (RKO) 106 

Trial (MGM) 149 

Tribute to a Bad Man (MGM) 105 

Trouble With Harry, The (Para) 120 

23 Paces to Baker Street (20th-Fox) 93 

Two-Gun Lady (AFRC) * 

—U— 

Ulysses (Para) 140 

Unidentified Flying Objects (UA) 102 

Uranium Boom (Col) 95 

—V— 

Vanishing American, The (Rep) 92 

View From Pompey's Head, The (20th-Fox)..123 

—W— 

Wages of Fear (DCA) 114 

Walk the Proud Land (U-I) 104 

-. * 

tt 

War and Peace (Para) 223 

Way Out, The (RKO) 84 

Wetbacks (Banner) * 

When Gangland Strikes (Rep) 

While the City Sleeps (RKO) 92 

Wicked Wife (AA) * 

Wild Dakotas (AFRC) * 

Wiretapper (Embassy) 89 

World in My Corner (U-I) 94 

World Without End (AA) 110 

—Y— 

Young Guns, The (AA) 108 

—Z— 

Zanzabuku (Rep) 96 


JEFF 

CHANDLER 


THIS INSIGNE OF OUTSTANDING MERIT 

is awarded eacn montn ty tne National Screen 

Council to tLe picture wnicn, in tne opinion of 

its 

memters, comnines totn outstanding merit as 

a motion picture and wnolesome entertainment 

for tLe entire family. 

The National Screen Council, 

now in its twenty-fiftn year, is comprised or 

motion picture editors, radio film commentators 

and representatives of tetter films councils and 

civic and educational organizations.

kz^^ 

(From September 1955 through August 1956) 

1955-193 b 

September 

The McConnell Story 

.Warner Bros. 

October 

The African Lion 

.Buena Vista 

November My Sistei Eileen 

.Columbia 

December 

Good Moming, Miss Dove 

.20th 

Century-Fox 

January 

Guys and Dolls 

.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

February The Benny Goodman Story Unlversal-Intemational 

March Carousel .20th Century-Fox 

April The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 20th Century Fox 

May. 

The Swan 

.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

June.. 

The Man Who Knew Too Much 

.Paramount 

July.. 

The King and I. 

....20th 

Century-Fox 

August 

The Eddy Duchin Story 

.Columbia 


The 

McConnell 

Story 

A Warner Bros 

Production 

The Cast 

Mac 

Alan Ladd 

Butch 

June Allyson 

Ty Whitman 

James Whitmore 

Sykes 

Fânk Faylen 

Bob 

Robert Ellis 

Newton Bass 

Willis Bouchey 

Mom Sarah Selby 

1st M. P 

Gregory Walcott 

A Mechanic 

Prank Ferguson 

Production Staff 

SEPTEMBER 

WINNER 

Executive Producer 

Producer 

Director 

Jack L. Warner 

Henry Blanke 

Gordon Douglas 

Screenplay Ted Sherdeman, 

Sam Rolfe 

Story by 

Ted Sherdeman 

Director of Photography 

John Seitz, A.S.C. 

Art Director 

John Beckman 

Film Editor Owen Marks, A.C.E. 

Sound by 

Charles B. Lang 

Set Decorator William L. Kuehl 

Makeup Artist Gordon Bau, S.M.A. 

Music by 

Max Steiner 

Orchestrations by Murray Cutter 

Technical Advisors: 

Col. William L. Orris, Capt. Manuel 

J. Fernandez, USAP 

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The 

African 

Lion 


Producer 

Photographed by 

Walt Disney 

Alfred G. Milotte, 

Elma Milotte 

Print by Technicolor 

Associate Producer 

Ben Sharpsteen 

Directed by James Algar 

WritteJi by James Algar 

Winston Hibler, 

Ted Sears, 

Jack Moffitt 

Narrated by 

Winston Hibler 

Music by Paul Smith 

Orchestration 

Production Manager 

Special Process 

Joseph Dubin 

Edwin Verity 

Ub Iwerks 

Film Editor 

Music Editor 

Animation Effects 

Sound Director 

Norman Palmer, a.c.e. 

Evelyn Kennedy 

Joshua Meador, 

Art Riley 

Robert O. Cook 

. . The 

(This True Life Adventure feature was 

three years in the making. It is an anther 

tic camera record of actual happenings. 

The story is nature's own . 

OCTOBER 

WINNER 

actions of her creatures, entirely spontaneous.) 

en^tiaatma^- 


My Sister 

Eileen 

The Cast 

Eileen Sherwood Janet Leigh 

Ruth Sherwood 

Betty Garrett 

Bob Baker 

Jack Lemmon 

Frank Lippencott 

Robert Fosse 

Appopolous 

Kurt Kasznar 

Wreck 

Richard York 

Helen Lucy Marlow 

Chick Clark 

Tommy Rall 

Helen's Mother 

Barbara Brown 

Lonigan 

Horace McMahon 

Drunk 

Henry Slate 

Drunk 

Hal March 

Brazilian Consul 

Alberto Morin 

Alice Queenie Smith 

George Richard Deacon 

Police Sergeant 

Ken Christy 

NOVEMBER 

WINNER 



Harry Cohn 

Producer 

Fred Kohlmar 

Director Richard Quine 

Screenplay 

Blake Edwards, 

Richard Quine 

Based on Stage Play by Joseph Fields. 

Jerome Chodorov 

Original Stories by Ruth McKenney 

Color by Technicolor 

Photographed in Cinemascope 


Charles Lawton jr., A.S.C. 

Color Consultant 

Henri Jaffa 

Music Supervised and Conducted by 

Morris Stoloff 

Art Director 

Walter Holscher 

Film Editor Charles Nelson, A.C.E. 

1 

BOXOFFICE 

mm 

63

Good 

Morning, 

Miss Dove 

^ 

A 20th Century-Fox 

Production 

The Cast 

Miss Dove 


Tom Baker 

Robert Stack 

Jincey Baker 

Kipp Hamilton 

Mr. Porter 

Robert Douglas 

Billie Jean 

Pegcy Knxjdsen 

Mr. Pendleton Marshall Thompson 

Bill Holloway 

Chuck Connors 

Alex Burnham 

Biff Elliot 

Maurice Jerry Paris 

Miss Ellwood 

Mary Wickes 

David Burnham 

Ted Marc 

Dr. Temple 

Dick Stewart 

Annabel Cheryl Callaway 

Markie 

Mark Engel 

Bobsie 

Tim Cagney 

Peggy 

Linda Bennett 


Executive Producer Darryl F. Zanuck 

Producer 

Samuel G. Engel 

Director 

Henry Koster 

Screenplay Eleanore Griffin 

FroTn the novel bi/....PRANCES Gray Patton 

Music 

IiEIGH Harline 

Conducted by Lionel Newman 


Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. 

Art Direction 

Lyle R. Wheeler, 

Mark-Lee Kirk 

Set Decorations Walter M. Scott, 

Paul S. Pox 

Special Photographic Effects 

Ray Kellogg 

Film Editor William Reynolds, A.C.E. 

Color by 

De Luxe 


Leonard Doss 

Costumes Designed by Mary Wills 

DECEMBER 

WINNER 


Guys 

and Dolls 

^ 

Samuel Goldwyn Production 

Released Through 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The 

Benny 

Goodman 

Story 

A Universal-International 

Production 

The Cast 

Benny Goodman 

Steve Allen 

Alice Hammond 

Donna Reed 

Mom Goodman 

Berta Gersten 

John Hammond Herbert Anderson 

Pop Goodm.an 

Robert F. Simon 

Fletcher Henderson Sammy Davis sr. 

Gil Rodin 

Dick Winslow 

Benny Goodman (16 years) ..Barry Truex 

Benny Goodman (10 years) ..David Kasday 

Mr. Hammond 

Wilton Graff 

Harry James 

Harry James 

Gene Krupa 

Gene Krupa 

Martha Tilton 

Martha Tilton 

Lionel Hampton Lionel Hampton 

Ziggy Elman 

Ziggy Elman 

Ben Pollack 

Ben Pollack 

Teddy Wilson 

Teddy Wilson 


Producer Aaron Rosenberg 

Director 

Valentine Davies 

Screenplay by 

Valentine Davies 

Music Supervision by. .Joseph Gershenson 

Music Recorded by Benny Goodman 


Color Consultant William Fritzsche 


William Daniels, A.S.C. 

Art Direction by Alexander Golitzen, 

Robert Clatworthy 

Film Editor. .Russell Schoengarth, A.C.E. 

Set Decorations Russell A. Gausman, 

Julia Heron 

Sound Leslie I. Carey, 

Robert Pritchard 

Additioiial Music Henry Mancini 

FEBRUARY 

WINNER 

I'f^! 1^ 


Carousel 


Production 

The Cast 

Gordon MacRae 

Billy 

Julie 

Shirley Jones 

Jigger 

Cameron Mitchell 

Carrie Barbara Ruick 

Cousin Nettie 

Claramae Turner 

Mr. S710W 

Robert Rounseville 

Starkeeper 

Gene Lockhart 

Mrs. Mullin Audrey Christie 

Louise 

Susan Luckey 

Heavenly Friend William Le Massena 

Mr. Bascombe 

John Dehner 

Louise's Dancing Partner 

Jacques D'Amboise 

Captain Watson Frank Tweddell 

MARCH 

WINNER 



Produced by 

Henry Ephron 

Directed by 

Henry King 

Screenplay by Phoebe Ephron, 

Henry Ephron 

Music by 

Richard Rodgers 

Book and Lyrics by..Oscar Hammerstein II 

Choreography by Rod Alexander 


Alfred Newman 

Associate 

Ken Darby 

Orchestration Edward B. Powell, 

Herbert Spencer, Earle Hagen, Nelson 

Riddle, Bernard Mayers, Gus Levene 

Color by 

De Luxe 

Color Consultant Leonard Doss 


Charles G. Clarke. A.S.C. 

Art Direction Lyle R. Wheeler, 

Jack Martin Smith 


Chester Bayhi 


Ray Kellogg 

Film Editor William Reynolds, A.C.E 

Wardrobe Direction Charles Le Maire 

Costumes Designed by Mary Wills 

Assistant Director Stanley Hough 

Sound 

Bernard Fêericks, 

Harry M. Leonard 

BOXOFFICE 67

The Man 

in the Gray 

Flannel Suit 

^ 


Production 

The Cast 

Tom Rath 

Gregory Peck 

Betsy Jennifer Jones 

Hovkins Predric March 

Maria 

Marisa Pavan 

Judge Bernsteiyi Lee J. Cobb 

Mrs. Hovkins Ann Harding 

Caesar Gardella 

Keenan Wynn 

Hawthorne 

Gene Lockhart 

Susa7i Hopkins Gigi Perreau 

Janie Portland Mason 

Walker Arthur O'Connell 

Bill Ogden 

Henry Daniell 

Mrs. Manter 

Connie Gilchrist 

Edward Schultz 

Joseph Sweeney 

Barbara 

Sandy Descher 

Pete 

Mickey Maga 



Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck 

Directed by 

Nunnally Johnson 

Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson 

From the Novel by Sloan Wilson 

Music Bernard Herrmann 


Charles G. Clarke, A.S.C. 

Art Direction 

Lyle R. Wheeler, 

Jack Martin Smith 


Stuart A. Reiss 


Ray Kellogg 

Film Editor Dorothy Spencer, A.C.E. 

Wardrobe Direction Charles Le Maire 

Color by 

De Luxe 


Leonard Doss 

APRIL 

WINNER 


The Swan 

4- 

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

Production 

The Cast 

Princess Alexandra Grace Kelly 

Prince Albert Alec Guinness 

Dr. Nicolas Agi 

Louis Jourdan 

Queen Maria Dominika 

Agnes Moorehead 

Princess Beatrix Jessie Royce Landis 

Father Hyacinth 

Brian Aherne 

Caesar 

Leo G. Carroll 

Symphorosa 

Estelle Winwood 

George 

Van Dyke Parks 

Arsene Christopher Cook 

Capt. Wunderlich 

Robert Coote 

Countess Sibenstoyn Doris Lloyd 

Beatrix's Maid 

Edith Barrett 

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MAY 

WINNER 


Production Chief 

Dore Schary 

Produced by 

Dore Schary 

Directed by Charles Vidor 

Screenplay by 

John Dichton 

From the Play by Ferenc Molnar 

Music by Bronislau Kaper 

Photographed in Eastman Color 

Color Consultant Charles K. Hagedon 

Directors of Photography 

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. 

Robert Surtees, A.S.C. 

Art Directors Cedric Gibbons, 

Randall Duell 

Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis, 

Henry Grace 

Women's Costumes by Helen Rose 

Film Editor John Dunning, A.C.E. 

BOXOFFICE 69

The Man 

Who Knew 

Too Much 

^ 

A Paramount 

Production 

The Cast 

Ben McKenna 

James Stewart 

Jo McKenna 

Doris Day 

Mrs. Drayton 

Brenda d2 Banzie 

Mr. Drayton 

Bernard Miles 

Buchanan 

Ralph Truman 

Louis Bernard 

Daniel Gelin 

Ambassador 

Mogens Wieth 

Val Parnell 

Alan Mowbray 

Jan Peterson 

Hillary Brooke 

Hank McKenna Christopher Olsen 

Rien— Assassin Reggie Nalder 

Assistant Manager Richard Wattis 

Woburn 

Noel Willman 

Helen Parnell 

Alix Talton 

Cindy Fontaine 

Carolyn Jones 

Police Inspector 

Yves Brainville 


Vice-President in Charge of 

Production Y. Frank Freeman 

Producer and Director..Alfred Hitchcock 

Screenplay John Michael Hayes 

Based on a Story by Charles Bennett. 

D. B. Wyndham-Lewis 


Robert Burks, A.S.C. 


Color Consultant Richard Mueller 

Art Direction 

Hal Pereira, 

Henry Bumstead 

Edited by George Tomasini, A.C.E. 

Costumes 

Edith Head 

Technical Adviser Constance Willis. 

Abdelhaq Chraibi 

Sou7id Recording by 

Paul Franz. 

Gene Garvin 

"Storm Cloud Cantata" by Arthur 

Benjamin, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis 

(Performed by London Symphony Orchestra, 

Conducted by Bernard Herrmann. 

Covent Garden Chorus a7id Barbara 

Howitt, Soloist: Songs— "Whatever Will 

Be" and "We'll Love Again" by Jay LiviJigst07i 

and Ray Evans.) 

J 

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JUNE 

WINNER 


The King 

and I 

^ 


Production 

The Cast 

Anna 

Deborah Kerr 

The King 

Yul Brynnbr 

Tuptim 

Rita Moreno 

Krulahome 

Martin Benson 

Lady Thiang 

Terry Saunbers 

Louis Leonowens Rex Thompson 

Lun Tha 

Carlos Rivas 

Prince Chulalongkorn Patrick Adiarte 

British Ambassador Alan Mowbray 

Ramsay 

Geoffrey Toone 

Eliza 

YuRiKO 

Simon Legree Marion Jim 

Ship's Captain Charles Irwin 

Uncle Thomas 

Dusty Worrall 

i 

i 

JULY 

WINNER 



Producer Charles Brackett 

Director 

Walter Lang 

Screenplay Ernest Lehman 

Miisic by Richard Rodgers 

Book and Lyrics by. .Oscar Hammerstein II 

From their musical play based on 

"Anna and the King of Siam" 

by 

Margaret Landon 

Dances and Musical Numbers 

Staged by Jerome Robbins 

Music Supervised and Conducted 

by 

Alfred Newman 

Ballet Arrangements by Trude Rittman 

Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff 


Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. 

Art Direction Lyle R. Wheeler, 

John De Cdir 


Paul S. Fox 

Film Editor Robert Simpson, A.C.E. 

Color by 

De Luxe 


Leonard Doss 

BOXOFFICE 71

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The 

Eddy Duchin 

Story 

";Huv v>hh'^"^» 

I 

The Cast 

Eddy Duchin 

Tyrone Power 

Marjorie Oelrichs 

Kim Novak 

Chiquita Victoria Shaw 

Lou Sherwood 


Peter Duchin (12 years) ....Rex Thompson 

Peter Duchin (5 years) Mickey Maga 

Mr. Wadsworth Shepperd Strudwick 

Mrs. Wadsworth Frieda Inescort 

Mrs. Duchin Gloria Holden 

Leo Reisman Larry Keating 

Mr. Duchin 

John Mylong 

Philip Gregory Gay 

Native Boy Warren Hsieh 

Piano Tuner Jack Albertson 

Doctor Carlyle Mitchell 

1st Boy Richard Sternberg 

2nd Boy Andy Smith 

Nurse IiOis Kimbrell 



Harry Cohn 

Producer Jerry Wald 

Director George Sidney 

Screenplay Samuel Taylor 

Color by 

Technicolor 


Henri Jaffa 


Harry Stradling, A.S.C. 


Morris Stoloff 

Piano Recordings bi/....Carmen Cavallaro 

Art Director Walter Holscher 

Film Editors Viola Lawrence, A.C.E., 

Jack W. Ogilvie, A.C.E. 

Set Decorators William ICiernan, 

Robert Priestley 

Gowns by Jean Louis 

Recording Supervisor John Livadary 

AUGUST 

WINNER 


I Remember 

. .RKO 

. , . .RKO 

EL mu Wiinnerd 

in paslUears 

(In seasonal order, from September 

through August) 

1932 

(Inaugurated March 1932, Therefore Only 6 

Awards This Season) 

Business and PIcosuro Fox 

Tarzan, The Ape Mon MGM 

No Greater Love Columbia 

The Doomed Battalion Universol 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook 

Bring 'Em Back Alive 

Form Fox 

RKO Radio 

1932-33 

A Successful Calamity Warner Bros. 

Phontom President Poramount 

Little Orphan Annie RKO Radio 

Uptown New York World Wide 

They Just Had to Get Married Universal 

State Fair Fox 

Oliver Twist Monogram 

King Kong RKO Radio 

Adoroble 

Fox 

Gold Diggers of 1933 

Werner Bros. 

Stranger's Return MGM 

Tugboat Annie 

MGM 

1933-34 

One Man's Journey 

RKO Radio 

The Bowery 

United Artists 

Only Yesterday Universal 

Little Women RKO Radio 

Roman Scandols United Artists 

The Cot ond the Fiddle MGM 

David Harum Fox 

Torron ond His Mate MGM 

Vivo Villo MGM 

Little Miss Marker Paramount 

Here Comes the Novy Werner Bros. 

Treasure Island MGM 

1934-35 

One Night of Love Columbio 

Judge Priest Fox 

White Porode Fox 

Flirtation Wolk First Notional 

David Copperfield MGM 

Little Colonel Fox 

Roberta 

RKO Radio 

Naughty Marietta 

MGM 

G-Men Warner Bros. 

The Informer RKO Rodio 

Love Me Forever Columbia 

Alice Adams RKO Radio 

1935-36 

Top Hot RKO Radio 

O'Shoughnessy's Boy MGM 

Mutiny on the Bounty MGM 

Ah, WildernessI 

MGM 

A Tale of Two Cities MGM 

Story of Louis Pasteur Warner Bros. 

The Country Doctor 20fh-Fox 

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia 

Show Boot Universol 

MGM 

San Froncisco 

The White Angel Worner Bros. 

The Green Postures Warner Bros. 

1936-37 

The Lost of the Mohicans United Artists 

A Midsummer Night's Dream Warner Bros. 

Charge of the Light Brigade Warner Bros 

Winterset 

RKO Radio 

The Plainsman Paramount 

Maid of Solem Poramount 

Moytime 

MGM 

Romeo and Juliet MGM 

The Prince and the Pauper Warner Bros. 

Captains Courageous MGM 

Wee Willie Winkle 20th-Fox 

The Good Earth 

MGM 

1937-38 

Lost Horizon 

Columbia 

The Life of Emile Zola Warner Bros. 

The Firefly 

MGM 

Tovorich Warner Bros. 

Wells Forgo Poramount 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. . . .RKO Radio 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Form 20th-Fox 

In Old Chicago 20th-Fox 

Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros. 

Holidoy 

Columbia 

Love Finds Andy Hardy 

MGM 

Alexonder's Ragtime Bond 20th-Fox 

1938-39 

Boys Town MGM 

You Can't Take It With You Columbia 

The Citadel MGM 

A Christmas Carol 

MGM 

Sweethearts 

MGM 

Gunga Din 

RKO Rodio 

Pygmalion 

MGM 

Wuthering Heights United Artists 

Union Pacific Paramount 

Young Mr. Lincoln 20th-Fox 

On Borrowed Time 

MGM 

Stanley and Livingstone 20th-Fox 

1939-40 

MGM 

The Wizard of Oz 

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia 

Drums Along the Mohawk 20th-Fox 

Gulliver's Travels Paramount 

The Great Victor Herbert Paramount 

Pinocchio RKO Radio 

Young Tom Edison MGM 

Rebecca United Artists 

Edison, the Man MGM 

The Mortol Storm MGM 

All This, ond Heaven Too Warner Bros. 

Pride ond Prejudice MGM 

1940-41 

The Howords of Virginia Columbia 

The Great Dictotor United Artists 

Northwest Mounted Police Paramount 

Tin Pan Alley 20th-Fox 

Philadelphia Story MGM 

Virginia 

Paramount 

The Lady Eve Paramount 

Men of Boys Town 

MGM 

Thot Hamilton Woman! United Artists 

1 Wanted Wings Paramount 

Caught in the Droft Paramount 

Blossoms in the Dust MGM 

1941 -42 

Citizen Kane RKO Radio 

Sergeant York Warner Bros. 

One Foot in Heaven Warner Bros. 

H. M. Pulhom, Esq MGM 

How Green Was My Volley 20th-Fox 

Womon of the Year MGM 

To Be or Not to Be United Artists 

Fantasia 

RKO Radio 

Tortilla Flat MGM 

They All Kissed the Bride Columbia 

This Afcove All 20th-Fox 

The Pied Piper 20th-Fox 

1942-43 

Mrs. Miniver MGM 

The Major and the Minor Paramount 

Tales of Manhattan 20th-Fox 

George Washington Slept Here. . . .Warner Bros. 

Yonkee Doodle Dandy Worner Bros. 

Stor Spangled Rhythm Paramount 

Pride of the Yankees RKO Radio 

Random Harvest MGM 

The More the Merrier Columbia 

Stoge Door Canteen United Artists 

The Human Comedy 

MGM 

This Is the Army Warner Bros. 

1943-44 

So Proudly We Hail Paramount 

Thank Your Lucky Stars Warner Bros. 

Guadalcanal Diary 20th-Fox 

Lassie Come Home MGM 

Destination Tokyo 

Warner Bros. 

Madame Curie 

MGM 

A Guy Named Joe MGM 

See Here, Private Hargrove MGM 

For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount 

The White Cliffs of Dover MGM 

The Story of Dr. Wossell Paramount 

Going My Way Paramount 

1944-45 

The Seventh Cross MGM 

Arsenic and Old Lace Warner Bros. 

Since You Went Away United Artists 

Mrs. Parkington MGM 

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 

MGM 

The Keys of the Kingdom 20th-Fox 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 20th-Fox 

Notional Velvet 

MGM 

The Enchonted Cottage RKO Radio 

The Clock MGM 

Volley of Decision MGM 

Wilson 

20th-Fox 

1945-46 

Story of G.I. Joe United Artists 

Our Vines Hove Tender Gropes MGM 

The House on 92nd Street 20th-Fox 

Spellbound 


The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Rodio 

The Lost Weekend Paramount 

Tomorrow Is Forever RKO Radio 

Saratoga Trunk Worner Bros. 

Dragonwyck 

20th-Fox 

Two Sisters From Boston MGM 

The Green Years 

MGM 

Anna and the King of Slam 

20th-Fox 

1946-47 

Caesar and Cleopatra United Artists 

Three Wise Fools 

MGM 

Sister Kenny RKO Radio 

Blue Skies Paramount 

The Jolson Story Columbio 

Song of the South RKO Rodio 

The Beginning or the End MGM 

It Happened in Brooklyn MGM 

The Farmer's Daughter 

The Yeorling 

RKO Rodio 

MGM 

Miracle on 34th Street 

Welcome Stranger 

20th-Fox 

Paramount 

1947-48 

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxcr. . Radio 

The Unfinished Dance MGM 

Secret Lite of Walter Mitty RKO Radio 

Where There's Life Paramount 

My Wild Irish Rose Warner Bros. 

Cass Timberlone MGM 

The Bishop's Wife... ...RKO Radio 

Momo. . Radio 

Stotc of the Union MGM 

Green Gross of Wyoming 20th-Fox 

Easter Parade MGM 

The Best Years of Our Lives RKO Radio 

1948-49 

The Babe Ruth Story Monogram 

Aportment for Peggy 20th-Fox 

Johnny Belinda Warner Bros. 

The Three Musketeers 

MGM 

The Snake Pit 20th-Fox 

The Boy With Green Hoir RK6 Radio 

So Dear to My Heart RKO Rodio 

Take Me Out to the Ball Game MGM 

Little Women MGM 

The Berkleys of Broadway MGM 

The Strotton Story 

MGM 

Look for the Silver Lining Warner Bros. 

1949-50 

Come to the Stoble 20th-Fox 

Was a Mole Wor Bride 20fh-Fox 

I 

Ichabod and Mr. Toad RKO Radio 

Adam's Rib MGM 

On the Town MGM 

All the King's Men Columbio 

Twelve O'Clock High 20th-Fox 

Cinderella 

RKO Radio 

Cheaper by the Dozen 20th-Fox 

The Jackie Robinson Story United Artists 

Father of the Bride 

MGM 

Treasure Island RKO Radio 

1950-51 

Louiso 

Universol-lnt'l 

Fancy Ppnts Poromount 

Mister 880 20th-Fox 

King Solomon's Mines 

MGM 

Harvey 

Universal-lnt'I 

Kim 

MGM 

Royal Wedding MGM 

Father's Little Dividend MGM 

The Great Caruso MGM 

On the Riviera 20th-Fox 

The Frogmen 20th-Fox 

Alice in Wonderland RKO Radio 

1951 -52 

Captain Horatio Hornblower Warner Bros. 

Angels in the Outfield MGM 

An Americon in Poris MGM 

A Christmas Carol United Artists 

I'll See You in My Dreams Worner Bros. 

Room for One More Warner Bros. 

The African Queen United Artists 

With o Song in My Heort 20th-Fox 

The Pride of St. Louis 20th-Fox 

Belles on Their Toes 

20th-Fox 

The Greotest Show on Earth Paramount 

The Story of Will Rogers Warner Bros. 

1952-53 

The Merry Widow MGM 

The Miracle of Fotimo Warner Bros. 

Because You're Mine MGM 

Plymouth Adventure MGM 

Stars and Stripes Forever 20th-Fox 

Peter Pan RKO-Disney 

The Stors Are Singing Poramount 

Hons Christian Andersen 

RKO-Goldwyn 

Titanic 

20th-Fox 

A Queen Is Crowned Universol-lnt'l-Ronk 

Lili 

Shone 

1953-54 

MGM 

Poramount 

Romon Holiday 

Paramount 

The Robe 20fh-Fox 

So Big Warner Bros. 

How to Marry a Millionaire 20th-Fox 

Knights of the Round Table MGM 

The Glenn Miller Story Universal-lnt'I 

The Long, Long Trailer MGM 

Rose Morie MGM 

Executive Suite MGM 

Three Coins in the Fountain 20th-Fox 

The High and the Mighty 

Worner Bros. 

Magnificent Obsession Universal-lnt'I 

1954-55 

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers MGM 

Brigadoon 

MGM 

White Christmas Poramount 

The Little Kidnappers Ronk-UA 

There's No Business Like Show Business. .20th-Fox 

The Bridges of Toko-Ri 

Paramount 

The Long Gray Line Columbia 

A Mon Called Peter 20th-Fox 

Daddy Long Legs 20th-Fox 

Strategic Air Command Paramount 

The Seven Little Foys Paramount 

Mister Roberts Warner Bros.

djlue rîbbon ^Jônor /sott 

lâli 

Recipients of Two or More Awards From March 1932, Through August 195G Are Herein Cited 

Pioduceis 

13 Awords 

Pandro S. Bermon 

1 1 Awards 

Walt Disney 

10 Awards 

Henry Blanke 

8 Awards 

Arthur Freed 

7 Awards 

Samuel Goldwyn 

David O. Selznick 

Hunt Stromberg 

Hal B. Wallis 

6 Awards 

Samuel G. Engel 

Sidney Fronklin 

Sol C. Siegel 

5 Awards 

Cecil B. DeMille 

Kenneth Mticgowan 

Joe Pasternak 

Dorryl F. Zanuck 

4 Awards 

John W. Considine Jr. 

Joseph L. Monkiewicz 

Dore Schory 

George Stevens 

3 Awords 

Robert Arthur 

Charles Brackett 

Frank Copra 

Jack Cummrngs 

Louis F. Edelmon 

Bryan Foy 

Leon Gordon 

Arthur Hornblow jr. 

Bernard H. Hyman 

Jesse L. Losky 

Mervyn LeRoy 

Louis D. Lighton 

Williom Perlberg 

Aaron Rosenberg 

Jerry Wold 

Sam Zimbalist 

2 Awards 

Irving Asher 

Robert Bossier 

Clarence Brown 

Merion C. Cooper 

Orville O. Dull 

S. P. Eagle 

Lucien Hubbard 

Nunnolly Johnson 

Paul Jones 

Edwin K. Knopf 

Albert Lewin 

David Lewis 

Samuel Marx 

Leo McCarey 

Harriet Parsons 

Williom H. Pine 

Everett Riskin 

A. L. Rockett 

Frank Ross 

Directors 

9 Awards 

Henry Koster 

Mervyn LeRoy 

8 Awords 

Clarence Brown 

Henry King 

7 Awords 

Michael Curtiz 

John Ford 

Norman Tourog 

6 Awards 

David Butler 

Frank Copra 

George Cukor 

Walter Long 

George Stevens 

5 Awards 

Cecil B. DeMille 

William Dieterle 

William Keighley 

Vincente MinnelM 

Jean Negulesco 

4 Awards 

Clyde Geronimi 

Alexander Hall 

Anatole Litvak 

William Wyler 

3 Awards 

Frank Borzage 

John Cromwell 

Stanley Donen 

Alfred Hitchcock 

Wilfred Jackson 

Robert Z. Leonard 

Hamilton Luske 

George Sidney 

King Vidor 

Charles Walters 

2 Awards 

Jomes Algar 

Toy Garnett 

Alfred E. Green 

Howard Hawks 


Anthony Mann 

George Marshall 

Leo McCorey 

John Robertson 

Alfred Santell 

Victor Saville 

George Seoton 

Lewis Seller 

Richard Thorpe 

Charles Vidor 

Rooul Walsh 

Billy Wilder 

Robert Wise 

ActOTS 

17 Awards 

Spencer Tracy 

13 Awords 

Lionel Borrymore 

10 Awards 

Charles Coburn 

Donald Crisp 

Cory Grant 

James Stewart 

8 Awords 

Gory Cooper 

James Gleason 

Gene Lockhart 

Gregory Peck 

Mickey Rooney 

7 Awords 

Fred Astaire 

Sing Crosby 

Von Johnson 

George Tobias 

Keenan Wynn 

6 Awards 

James Cogney 

Edmund Gwenn 

Thomas Mitchell 

Henry O'Neill 

Walter Pidgeon 

Basil Rothbone 

Willard Robertson 

5 Awords 

Charles Bickford 

Errol Rynn 

Henry Fonda 

Sir Cedric Hordwicke 

Bob Hope 

Edward Everett Horton 

Gene Kelly 

Peter Lowford 

Fredric March 

Joel McCreo 

Roddy McDowoll 

Lloyd Nolan 

Laurence Olivier 

Tyrone Power 

Akim Tomiroff 

4 Awords 

Mischo Auer 

Brian Donlevy 

Bobby Driscoll 

William Holder 

Danny Kaye 

Fred MacMurrcy 

Ray Milland 

Reginald Owen 

Dick Powell 

Vincent Price 

Claude Rains 

Frank Sinatra 

Webb 

Clifton 

Henry Wilcoxon 

Robert Young 

3 Awords 

Eddie Anderson 

Robert Arthur 

Lew Ayres 

William Bendix 

Roy Bolger 

Ward Bond 

Charles Boyer 

Walter Brennan 

Felix Bressart 

Eddie Cantor 

Jack Carson 

Lee J. Cobb 

Ray Collins 

Ronald Colman 

Jackie Cooper 

Joseph Gotten 

Hume Cronyn 

Tom Droke 

Jimmy Durante 

Nelson Eddy 

Barry Fitzgerald 

Preston Foster 

John Garfield 

Billy Gilbert 

Thomas Gomez 

Jack Holey 

Richord Haydn 

Von Heflin 

Ian Hunter 

Jackie Jenkins 

Allan Jones 

Cecil Kellawoy 

Potric Knowles 

Alexander Knox 

Alon Ladd 

Frank McHuoh 

Grant Mitchell 

Dickie Moore 

Paul Muni 

David Niven 

Jock Oakie 

Pat O'Brien 

Randolph Scott 

Robert Stack 

Dean Stockwell 

Fronchot Tone 

Henry Trovers 

Robert Wogner 

David Wayne 


Monty Woolley 

2 Awords 

Dana Andrews 

Scotfy Beckett 

Bruce Bennett 

Sidney Blockmer 

Humphrey Bogort 

Eddie Bracken 

James Brown 

Edgar Buchanan 

Rory Calhoun 

Phil Carey 

Richard Carlson 

Hoogy Cormichael 

Leo Corrillo 

Leo G. Corroll 

James Craig 

Dan Doiley 

William Demarest 

Melvyn Douglas 

Paul Douglas 

Robert Douglas 

Charles Drake 

Mel Ferrer 

Williom Frawley 

Clark Gable 

Reginald Gardiner 

Leo Genn 

Stewart Granger 

Rex Harrison 

Sterling Hoyden 

John Howard 

Jeffrey Hunter 

Burl Ives 

Sam Joffe 

Dean Jogger 

Victor Jory 

Louis Jourdon 

Kurt Kosznor 

Howard Keel 

Bert Lahr 

Fernando Lomos 

Richard Lane 

Glenn Longon 

Mario Lonza 

Charles Laughton 

Jock Lemmon 

Oscor Levant 

Frank Lovejoy 

Paul Lukos 

Barton MocLone 

Gordon MocRae 

Hugh Morlowe 

Alon Morshol 

Louritz Melchior 

Adolphe Menjou 

Burgess Meredith 

Gory Merrill 

Cameron Mitchell 


Dennis Morgan 

Henry Morgan 

Alan Mowbray 

Jutes Munshin 

John Poyne 

William Powell 

Robert Preston 

Ronald Reagon 

Edword G. Robinson 

Don Taylor 

Danny Thomas 

Marshall Thompson 

Rudy Vallee 

Johnny Weissmuller 

Orson Welles 

William A. Wellman 

Actresses 

8 Awards 

Katharine Hepburn 

7 Awards 

June Allyson 

Spring Byington 

Claudette Colbert 

Greer Garson 

Agnes Moorehead 

6 Awards 

Jean Arthur 

Gladys Cooper 

Irene Dunne 

Jeanette MocDonold 

Ginger Rogers 

Shirley Temple 

Jane Wymon 

5 Awards 

Beuloh Bond! 

BMlle Burke 

Olivia de Havillond 

Moureen O'Sullivon 

4 Awards 

Fay Bainter 

Ingrid Bergman 

Judy Garland 

Paulette Goddard 

Signe Hasso 

Ruth Hussey 

Joon Leslie 

Anito Louise 

Myrna Loy 

Dorothy McGuire 

Morgoret O'Brien 

Barbara Stanwyck 

Elizabeth Taylor 

Loretta Young 

3 Awards 

Mory Astor 

Joan Bennett 

Leslie Caron 

Jeanne Crain 

Frances Dee 

Alice Faye 

Joan Fontaine 

Betty Garrett 

Fay Holden 

Marsha Hunt 


Veronica Lake 

Dorothy Lamour 

Elso Lanchester 

Angela Lansbury 

Janet Leigh 

Virginia Mayo 

Ann Miller 

Mary Nash 

Maureen O'Horo 

Donna Reed 

Thelmo Ritter 

Flora Robson 

Ann Rutherford 

Ann Sheridan 

Gale Sondergoard 

Gloria Stuart 

Gene Tierney 

Lano Turner 

Lucille Watson 

Virginio Weidler 

Teresa Wright 

2 Awards 

Elizabeth Allon 

Lucille Ball 

Binnie Barnes 

Barbara Bates 

Kathryn Beaumont 

Joan Blondell 

Ann BIyth 

Madeleine Carroll 

Joan Caulfield 

Cyd Charisse 

Rosemory Clooney 

Jane Darwell 

Bette Davis 

Doris Day 

Laraine Day 

Joanne Dru 

Geraldine Fitzgerald 

Betty Grable 

Kathryn Grayson 

Sara Hoden 

Angel Heather 

Celeste Holm 

Josephine Hull 

Betty Button 

Rita Johnson 

Grace Kelly 

Deborah Kerr 

Hedy Lamarr 

Vivien Leigh 

Mary Martin 

Aline MacMohon 

Marjorie Main 

Una Merkel 

Ethel Merman 

Marilyn Monroe 

Mildred Notwick 

Una O'Connor 

Barbaro O'Neil 

Debra Paget 

Luana Potten 

Jean Peters 

Jane Powell 

Anne Revere 

Rosalind Russell 

Martha Scott 

Jean Simmons 

Randy Stuort 

Margaret Sullavon 

Jessica Tandy 

Claire Trevor 

Beverly Tyler 

Vera-Ellen 

Ruth Warrick 

Esther Williams 

Notolie Wood 

Writers 

(Original Stories) 

3 Awords 

Robert Considine 

Oscar Hammerstein II 

2 Awards 

Charles Bennett 

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 

Edna Ferber 

C. S. Forester 

Paul Gallico 

Frank B. Gilbreth jr. 

Otto Harbach 

Ben Hecht 

James Hilton 

George S. Kaufman 

Morgoret London 

Leo McCarey 

Dore Schory 

Phil Stong 

(Screenplays) 

1 1 Awards 

Sonya Levien 

6 Awards 

Helen Deutsch 

Henry Ephron 

Phoebe Ephron 

Albert Hockett 

Talbot Jennings 

5 Awards 

Valentine Dovles 

George Froeschel 

Frances Goodrich 

Casey Robinson 

4 Awards 

Sidney Buchmon 

Philip Dunne 

Ben Hecht 

Nunnolly Johnson 

Noel Longley 

Dudley Nichols 

Melville Shavelson 

3 Awards 

Hugo Butler 

Charles Brackett 

Myles Connolly 

Dclmer Doves 

Howard Estobrook 

Julien Josephson 

Jesse Lasky |r. 

Beirne Lay jr. 

Alan Jay Lerner 

William Ludwig 

John Lee Mohin 


Jane Murfin 

Jack Rose 

Allan Scott 

Arthur Sheekmon 

Donald Ogden Stewart 

Dalton Trumbo 

Horry Tugend 

2 Awards 

Robert Ardrey 

John Tucker Bottle 

Sally Benson 

Dewitt Bodeen 

Oscar Brodney 

Betty Comden 

Marc Connelly 

William Conselmon 

Ion Dolrymple 

Frank Davis 

John Dighton 

Bradbury Foote 

Melvin Frank 

Everett Freeman 

Sheridan Gibney 

Leon Gordon 

Adolph Green 

Eleonore Griffin 

Victor Heerman 

Elizabeth Hill 

John Huston 

Dorothy Kingsley 

Ernest Lehman 

Alan Le May 

Anita Loos 

Jan Lustig 

Borre Lyndon 

Ben Markson 

Sara Y. Mason 

John Meehon 

Seton I. Miller 

James O'Honlon 

Paul Osborn 

Norman Panama 

Ernest Pascal 

Norman Reilly Raine 

Walter Reisch 

Stanley Roberts 

George Seoton 

Sidney Sheldon 

R. C. Sherriff 

Tess Slesinger 

Leonard Spigelgoss 

Jo Swerling 

Korl Tunberg 

Anthony Veiller 

George Wells 

Billy Wilder 

Companies 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.89 

20th Century-Fox. . . .54 

Warner Bros 36 

RKO Radio 35 

Poromount 33 

United Artists 17 

Columbia 16 

Universal 10 

Allied Artists (Mono). . 2 

Buena Vista 1

READING TIME IH MINUTES 

We sincerely believe that this editorial 

tram the Waynesboro News ^Virginian 

is 

oi vital interest to every person in 

the industry » particularly exhibitors. 

tu Old Arm Chair n^^\^:f^ 

with Louis Spilman 

Whatever criticism we may have had 

in the past several years about motion 

pictures is 

dispelled in one fell swoop by 

the Allied Artists' production, 

Persuasion" 

''Friendly 

that began a week's engagement 

at the Wayne Theatre. This is a 

fine, clean comedy-drama, replete with 

gentle 

humor, high comedy, drama, romance 

and spurts of exciting action. In 

nearly a quarter of a century of "Arm 

Chair" comment we have recommended 

less than half-a-dozen pictures. But we 

go overboard to commend "Friendly Persuasion." 

Those of us who have grown understandably 

weary of the grotesque wriggling 

of 

studies of 

and the sordid 

mental twists and psychoses 

offered in so many modern films, find 

"Friendhi I'ersiiasion" a gentle breeze 

...a refreshing zephyr. Motion pictui'cs 

should i)rimariiy 

provide entertainment 

and leave Ihe viewei- feeling uplifted and 

inspired. "Friendly Persuasion" does 

that . . . and more. From start to finish 

it is worth seeing. 

"Friendly Persuasion" has brought 

a brighter era to the screen. It 

might be 

considered as a quick cure for whatever 

ails you. It has honesty and humor, 

charm and chuckles, good old faces and 

bright new ones. The most jaded of the 

metropolitan critics acclaim the picture 

and the most unsophisticated of us in the 

hinterlands do likewise. It's 

just such a 

picture that will revive your spirits, renew 

your enthusiasm and relegate whatever 

virus you may have to a negligible 

place in the scheme of things. 

Some afternoon . 

. . some 

evening 

. . . during the seven days that "Friendly 

Persuasion" will be at the Wayne, you 

should set aside the time to see the picture 

. . . and take your whole family with 

you, because it's 

that kind of entertainment. 

Better count on going the first two 

or three days because it is conceivable 

you may want to see it twice! We've been 

crying for better pictures. Well, here is 

one in 

answer to those cries. If we demonstrate 

a willingness to support better 

pictures, the chances are we'll get more. 

PROPUCTIOH). itit.

William 

Wyler 

Producer -Director 

''Friendly Persuasion" ''Thieves' Market" 

Allied Artists United Artists 


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SPECTACULAR ADVENTURE... 

Unmatched for Sheer Tension . . . Terror. . . Treachery/ 

JOHN H. BURROWS • HAROLD SCHUSTER • WARREN DOUGLAS • OLIVER DRAKE 

ROBERT RYAN 


ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS 

NOT OF THIS EARTH 

GUNSLINGER 

Allied 

Artists 

THE UNDEAD 

THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED 

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD 

FIVE GUNS WEST 

MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR 

THE BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES 

APACHE WOMAN 

OKLAHOMA WOMAN 

NAKED PARAD;SE 

ROCK ALL NIGHT 

> American International Pictures 

SWAMP WOMAN Woolner Bros. Pictures 

SHARK REEF } James 0. Radford, Inc. 

Produced and Directed by ROGER CORMAN 

BOXOFFICE 79

1 M. 

ROSTER OF THE 

National Screen Council 

WHICH SELECTS THE 

Bine Ribbon Winners 

Members of the Notional Sceen Council select the picture 

eocn month to receive the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award. 

This is done by mail. A list of the current releases is sent on 

a post card ballot for marking and returning by a specified 

aate. The picture receiving the most votes receives the 

Award and Honorable Mention is given those that so impressed 

the rrembers as to receive a sizable number of votes. A space 

on the ballot for comment has resulted in an interesting 

exchonge of opinion on a page devoted to the Council's 

aoproisal of pictures. 

VELMA WEST SYKES, Chairman 

Membership in the National Screen Council comes under 

three classifications: Editors of newspapers and magazines, 

radio commentators, and members of clubs, film councils, 

social, civic ond educationol organizations. The Council and 

the Award it selects have a threefold purpose. BOXOFFICE 

sponsors them to encourage the production of motion pictures 

with appeal to the mass of regular patrons of all ages, to 

foster a greater public oppreciation of the more wholesome type 

ot motion picture entertainment, and to stabilize motion 

picture theatre attendance on a higher average level. 

VARJORY L. ADAMS, Boston Globe 

H VIGGO ANDERSEN, Hartford (Conn.) Courant 

NEVART APIKIAN, Syracuse iN.Y.) Post Standord 

ANTHONY ARMS, Hornsburg (Pa.) Patriot-News 

H. M, BALLIF, Boise (Ida.) Statesmen 

RICHARD T. BANKS, Charlotte (N. C.) Observer 

GRACE L BARNETT, Freeport (III.) Journal Standard 

MILTON R. BASS, Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass. 

KAY BATES, BOXOFFICE correspondent. Phoenix 

ROBERT BATTLE, Nashville Banner 

FRED BEERS, Perry (Okla.) Journal 

CLAIRE BEHAN, Lamar (Colo.) Daily News 

WILLARD L. BENJAMIN, Canton (Ohio) Repository 

BROOKS H. BICKNELL, Alva (Okla.) Review Courier 

AMALIA MENDEZ DE BITTERLIN, Hollywooc Correspondent, 

Panamanian Newspapers 

LOUIS V. BLAY, Steubenville (Ohio) Herald Star 

JOHN H. BOOKER, Tulsa Tribune 

SAM BORNSTEIN, Boston Sunaoy Advertiser 

GEORGE BOURKE, Miami (Flo.) Herald 

HELEN C, BOWER, Detroit Free Press 

ALAN GREY BRANIGAN, Newark Evening News 

ED BROOKS, New Orleans Times-Picayune 

ELSTON BROOKS, Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram 

FRED BROOMFIELD, San Fernando Valley Times, North 

Hollywood 

HOWARD C. BROWN, Hollywood correspondent, 

"Movie Life" (Australia) 

PAUL M. BRUNN, columnist, Florida Sun, Miami 

Beach 

MAXINE BUREN, Oregon Statesman, Salem 

HAROLD L. CAIL, Portland (Me.) Press Herald- 

Express 

GOWAN H CALDWELL, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal 

LILY MAY CALDWELL, Birmingham News-Age-Herald 

KATE CAMERON, New York News 

ROBERT W. CARR, Grand Rapids Herald 

CHARLES L, CARTER, Colorado Springs Free Press 

VANCE CHANDLER, Authenticated News Service, 

Hollywood 

LEONARD CLAIRMONT, Hollywood correspondent, 

Swedish press 

MARION CLIFFORD, Pottsville (Po.) Republican 

PAUL DE SAINTE COLOMBE, Hollywood correspondent 

Pans ond Montreal publications 

LLOYD M. COMBS. Danville (III.) Commercial-News 

EVELYN COMER, Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette 

GLENN CONDON, KRMG Tulsa 

THERESA LOEB CONE, Oakland Tribune 

SARAH BOOTH CONROY, Knoxville News-Sentinel 

ALTON COOK, New York World-Telegram 

CARL E. COOPER, Konsos City Star 

JOHN R. COOPER, Clarksburg (W. Va.) Telegram 

ALLEN COWPERTHWAITE, Helena (Mont.) Independent-Record 

W. F. DAGON, Springfield (III.) State Journol & Register 

HENRY DECKER, Frederick (Md.) News-Post 

PATSY DINAN, Amarillo Globe-Times 

AMADO E. DINO, Hollywood correspondent Manila 

Post-Herald 

DON DORNBROOK, Milwaukee Journal 

PEGGY DOYLE, Boston American 

ALBAN A. DUBE, Fall River (Mass.) Herald News 

DOROTHY DUNBAR, Annapolis (Md.) Evening Capitol 

LOUIS A. ECKL, Florence (Ala.) Times 

RUTH ELGUTTER, Toledo Times 

MRS. EDITH EVERETT, Indionolo (Miss.) Enterprise 

ANDREW A. FARLEY, Danville (Va.) Register & Bee 

LOIS FEGAN, Jersey Journal, Jersey City 

PAT FLEMING, Casper (Wyo.) Morning Star 

JEANNE FRANKE, Fort Wayne Journal Gozette 

FRANK FRAZER, Long Islond Daily Advocate 

DALE FREEMAN, Springfield (Mo.) News & Leoder 

MARILLA WAITE FREEMAN, Library Journal New 

York Cifv 

GENE FRETZ, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock 

JOE FITZ GERALD, Nebraska State Journal 8. Star, 

Lincoln 

LESTER CLARK GIFFORD, Hickory (N.C.) Doily Record 

NELL GILLMAN. Port Arthur (Tex.) News 

ANDREW GLAZE, Birmmghom Post-Herold 

RALPH GREEN, Sioux Falls (S. D.) Argus-Leoder 

DANIEL S. GREENBURG. Wilmington (Del.) News 

Journol 

MOTON PICTURE EDITORS 

FRANK GROSJEAN, Shreveport Journal 

BILL HAGAN, Chattanooga News-Free Press 

JACK HAMILTON, Look Magazine, New York City 

MARIE HAMILTON, "Film Music," New York 

DOROTHY F. HAMLIN, Portland (Me.) Press-Herald 

P. WALTER HANAN, Binghomton (N.Y.) Press 

EVELYN HARTNAGEL, Doily Ploinsmon, Huron, S.D. 

PHILIP T. HARTUNG, Commonweal Mogozine, New 

York Citv 

ARNOLD HEDERMAN, Jackson (Miss.) Doily Clarion 

Ledger 

RUTH HENDERSON, Doily Kennebec Journol, Augusto 

(Me.) 

PAUL HOCHULI, Houston Press 

HEDDA HOPPER, Hollywood columnist 

PAUL B. HOWLAND, Providence (R.I.) Sunday Journol 

ELINOR HUGHES, Boston Herald 

INGRID HULT, Hollywood correspondent Swedish press 

ARCH W. JARRELL, Grand Island (Neb.) Doily Independent 

EMILY JERGER, Thomosville (Go.) Doily Times-Enterprise 

HELEN JOHNSON, Decatur (Ala.) Doily 

BOBBIE JOHNSTON, Phoenix Gazette 

ANN JONES, Fort Worth Stor-Telegrom 

DOROTHY KALIL, Arizona Daily Stor, Tucson 

EARL C. KELLEY, Concord (N. C.) Tribune 

HERBERT B. KRONE, Loncaster (Po.) New Era 

KARL KRUG, Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph 

VIRGIL D. LANGDON, Tocoma News Tribune 

BUCK LANIER, Clovis (N.M.) News-Journal 

JAMES LEE, Worcester (Moss.) Gazette 

WILLIAM LEWIN, Film and Radio Discussion Guide, 

Newark 

EDITH LINDEMAN, Richmond (Va.) Times Dispotch 

W. H. LYTTLETON, Peoria (111.) Journal-Star 

LOUISE MACE, Springfield (Mass.) Union 

GEORGE J. MACFARLANE, Manitowoc (Wis.) Herold- 

Times 

HARRY MADISON, Hollywood correspondent Manchester 

Guardian and Evening News, Ltd., British 

press 

ARNOLD MARKS, Portland (Ore.) Journol 

BOYD MARTIN, Louisville Courier-Journal 

MILDRED MARTIN, Philodelphio Inquirer 

NAZIH MASSAAD, editor Egyption and Arobion news, 

Hollywood Magazine 

JUDGE J. MAY, Florido Times-Union, Jocksonville 

JEANNETTE MAZURKI, Glendole (Calif.) News Press 

DON LEE McCULTY, Clarksburg (W. Va.) Exponent 

TED F. McDANIEL, Emporio (Kos.) Gozette 

DAVE MclNTYRE, Son Diego Evening Tribune 

FRANCES MELROSE, Rocky Mountoin News, Denver 

LEONARD MENDLOWITZ, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegroph 

LOUISE MERRILL, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times 

HARTLAND MERSHON, New Brunswick (N.J.) Doily 

Home News-Sunday Times 

E. B. MILLER. Plainview (Tex.) Evening Herald 

LYNN S. MILLER, Royal Oak (Mich.) Doily Tribune 

MALCOLM MILLER, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journol 

MADGE A. MILLIKIN, Adrion (Mich.) Doily Telegram 

G. E. MITCHELL, Dayton Doily News 

KASPAR MONAHAN, Pittsburgh Press 

ARMANDO DEL MORAL, Servicio Periodistico Orbe, 

Hollywood 

BOB MURPHY, Minneopolis Stor & Tribune 

CALVIN D. MYERS, Newburgh (N.Y.) News 

IRIS L. MYERS, Wallo Wollo, Union-Bulletin 

ISADORA NELSON, Rockford (111.) Morning Star 

MARK NICHOLS, Coronet Mogozine, New York 

JAMES O'NEILL JR., Woshington Doily News 

BEN S. PARKER, Memphis Commerciol Appeal 

HOWARD PEARSON, Salt Loke City Deseret News 

TOM PECK, Chorleston (SO News & Courier 

DOMINIC PEPP, Wotertown (N.Y.) Doily Times 

DOROTHY ROCHON POWERS, Spokone Spokesman 

Review 

E. B. RADCLIFFE. Cincinnoti Enquirer 

WARREN C. RAITT, Lewistown (Mont.) News 

C. W. RATLIFF, Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal 

HERB RAU, Miami Daily News 

J. RICHARD RAUTH, Hogerstown (Md.) Doily Moil 

SALLY REESE. Texorkono Gozette 

BERT REISFELD, Hollywood correspondent German and 

::C3nainavion press 

JULIA RISHEL, Torentum (Po.) Valley Daily News 

JIMMY ROBINSON, Albany (Ga.) Herald 

AGNES E. ROCKWOOD, Bennington (Vt.) Bonner 

ALFRED W. ROSE, Camden (Ark.) News 

JAMES F. ROURKE, Lexington (Ky.) Herold-Leoder 

FRED H. RUSSELL, Bridgeport (Conn.) Post & Telegrom 

ROBERT SANDERS, Lorain (Ohio) Journol 

BETTIE J. SAWYER, Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News 

FRANCES SAYWARD, Portland (Me.) Sundoy Telegram 

LEW SCHATZMANN, Moysville (Ky.) Doily Independent 

FRANK G. SCHMIDT, South Bend Tribune 

ROBERT SCHWARZ, Hollywood correspondent Foreign 

press 

LUCILE M. SCOTT, Atlanto Doily World 

WILLIAM E. SEIFERT JR., Spartanburg (S.C.) Journol 

MAHMUD SHAIKHALY, Hollywood correspondent AW 

Sobah Magazine 

NORMAN SHAVIN, Jackson (Miss.) Stote Times 

CELESTINE SIBLEY, Atlanto Constitution 

HERM SITTARD, Minneapolis suburban papers 

B. J. SKELTON, Clorksdole (Miss.) Press Register 

PATRICA SMITH, Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic 

MRS, JACKIE FREERS STAHL, Indianopolis News 

JIMMY STARR, Los Angeles Herald & Express 

A. KENNETH STOCK, Sioux City Sunday Journal 

MILDRED STOCKARD, Houston Chronicle 

R. MARSHALL STROSS, Dayton Journal-Herald 

NADINE SUBOTNIK, Cedar Ropids Gazette 

BRADFORD F. SWAN, Providence Journal 

BYRON G. TAFT, Yankton (S.D.) Press and Dokoton 

LAWRENCE B. THOMAS, American Magazine, New 

York City 

R. K. TINDALL, Shenandoah (Iowa) Evening Sentinel 

NEWTON I. TOWNSEND, Topeko Doily Capitol 

GENEVIEVE M. TRELLA, Bristol (Conn.) Press 

GLENN TRUMP, Omaha World-Herald 

CORNELIA McDUFFIE TURNER, Mobile Press Register 

WARNER TWYFORD, Norfolk Virginion-Pilot 

FIELDS VARNER, Montgomery (Alo.) Advertiser- 

Journal 

JOHN L. VOORHEES, Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

LESLIE A. WAHL, Soginow (Mich.) News 

KENNETH G. WALLACE, Hockensock (N.J.) Bergen 

Evening Record 

HARRY WARNER JR., Hogerstown (Md.) Morning 

Herald 

ARTHUR B. WATERS, Philadelphia Gazette Democrot 

HELEN WATERS, Long Islond Daily Advocote 

MACK WEBB, Durhom (N.C.) 

Sun 

T. H. WENNING, Newsweek Mogozine, New York City 

ALICE PARDOE WEST, Ogden (Utoh) Stondord- 

Examiner 

ALLEN W. WIDEM, Hartford (Conn.) Times 

ALTON WILLIAMS, Richmond (Va.) News-Leoder 

DICK WILLIAMS, Los Angeles Mirror 

EMERY WISTER, Charlotte (N.C.) News 

MICHAEL ZANDAN, Springfield (Moss.) Free Press 

RADIO COMMENTATORS 

WILLIAM J. ADAMS, WHEC, Rochester, N.Y. 

BENJAMIN BARTZOFF, WVOM, Boston 

PATTY CAVIN, WRC, Woshington, D. C. 

JANE DALTON. WSPA, Spartanburg, S.C. 

ELAINE A. DROOZ, WPTR, Albony, N.Y. 

JOANN FILLINGHAM, KANS, Wichita 

HERBERT FONTAINE, WCOU, Lewiston, Me. 

HENRY GUERRA, WOAI, Son Antonio 

LEO HIGHAM, KID, Idaho Foils 

FERN JOHNSON, KSUB, Cedar City, Utah 

ROBERT LAURENCE, WIP, Philodelphio 

MINA OWEN, KLRA, Little Rock 

ART PRESTON, WSPR, Springfield, Moss. 

BERT REISFELD, Voice of Americo for Germany 

JACK ROCKWELL, KFJI, Klamath Falls, Ore. 

FLO BEACH ROWE, WSLB, Ogdensburg, N.Y. 

DOROTHY R. SHANK, WEBR, Buffolo 

CAL SMITH, KROC, Rochester, Minn. 

GEORGE STUMP, KCMO, Konsos City, Mo. 

TAYLOR, WEBQ, Harrisburg, III. 

PHIL VOGEL, WKNA. Chorleston. W.Vo. 

VIRGINIA WELCH, KWBB, Wichito, Kos. 


F.C.A., 

REPRESENTATIVES OF SOCIAL, CIVIC, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

LYSLA I. ABBOTT, Children's Theatre, Portland, Me. 

MRS, A. E. ANDERSON, G.F.W.C, Wadena, Minn. 

MRS. W. H, ANDREWS, Brooklyn Council of New 

England Women 

MRS. HENRY AUGUSTINE, Sheboygon BFC 

MRS. RICHARD G, AUSPITZER, I.F.C.A., Long Islond, 

N.Y. 

MRS. HAROLD W. BAIN, Milwaukee County BFC, 

Wauwatoso, Wis. 

MRS. LESLIE T. BARCO, Greater St. Louis BFC 

MRS. W. H. BARKER, Women's Breakfast Club, Son 

Antonio 

MRS. ALLEN BARTON, Berkeley MFC 

VIRGINIA M. BEARD, curator of films, Cleveland 

public library 

DR. CAMPTON BELL, chairman Division Fine Arts, 

University of Denver 

MRS. CHARLES R. BELTZ, Grosse Pointe MP & TV 

Council 

MRS. CHARLES H. 

BERENGER, Milwoukee BFC 

MRS. J. K. 8ERETTA, G.F.W.C, San Antonio 

CATHARINE ROSS BETRY, Columbus and Franklin 

County BFC, Ohio 

ROSEMARY BEYMER, Art Director, Konsos City (Mo.) 

public schools 

MRS. M. B. BRAY, Son Francisco MP.&TV Council 

MRS. W. W. BREWER, G.F.W.C, Omar, W.Va. 

MRS, E. N. Brough, D.A.R., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

MRS. JAMES D. BROWN, American Concer Society, 

West Covina, Calif. 

MRS. WILLIAM A. BURK, pres. So. Calif. MPC, Los 

Angeles 

MRS. C R. BUCKERIDGE, president Sheboygan BFC 

MRS. E. L. BURNETT, Indionopolis NSC group 

MRS. A. F. BURT, G.F.W.C, Greater St. Louis BFC 

MRS. F. ALLEN BURT, nationol motion picture chairman 

D.A.R-, Brookline, Moss. 

MRS. ROBERT CARLETON, I.FC.A., Palisade, N.J. 

MRS. EDWARD F. CARRAN, G.F.W.C, Lakewood, Ohio 

MRS. GEORGE E. CHICK, G.F.W.C, Madison, N.H. 

MRS. B. C. CHRISTOPHER, Compfire Girls Council, 

Kansas City, Mo. 

ELSIE CLANAHAN, G.F.W.C, Belleville, III. 

LILLIAN COHEN, Nat'l Conference Christians and 

Jews, New York City 

MRS. VIRGINIA ROLLWAGE COLLIER, M. P. and TV 

Council, District of Columbia 

MRS. JULIAN S. COLYER, Larchmont-Mamaroneck MPC 

MRS. C W. CONRAD, Cleveland Cinema Club 

MRS. J. J. COWAN, Knoxviile, Tenn., BFC 

MRS, EMORY W. COWLEY, Indianapolis NSC Group 

CAROL COX, Cinema Study Club, Denver 

MRS, PAUL H. CRANE, Harrison (N.Y.) MPC 

KATHLEEN CROWLEY, probation officer superior 

court, Waterbury, Conn. 

MRS. CHARLES J. CUNNINGHAM, I.F.C.A., New York 

City 

MRS. E. G. CURRIN JR., G.F.W.C, Meredifhville, Vo. 

MRS. SAMUEL B. CUTHBERT G.F.W.C, Atlantic City 

MRS. JOHN H. DAILINGER, Larchmont—Momaroneck 

(N.Y.) MPC 

MRS, WILLIAM DALTON, I.F.C.A., Avon, N.J. 

ClEO DAWSON, writer ond lecturer, Lexington, Ky. 

MRS. M. HENRY DAWSON, Film 

Not'l Organizations, New York 

Estimate, Board of 

MRS. LAWRENCE DELAY, Springfield 

MRS. JOHN E. DERANJA, Sonto Clara County MPC, 

Calif. 

BERNADETTE DOLAN, I.F.C.A., Brooklyn 

MRS. W, B. DURST, Better Films Board, Sacramento 

(Mass.) MPC 

MRS. DEAN GRAY EDWARDS, Notional Council of 

Women, East Orange, N.J. 

EDDY G, ERICKSON, Theatre Enterprises, Inc., Dallas 

MRS. HENRY ERTELT, Women's Federation, Edgewood 

Congregation Church, New Haven 

MRS. N. J. EVERSOLL, Greater St. Louis BFC 

PROFESSOR SAWYER FALK, Drama Department, 

Syracuse (N.Y.) University 

MRS. VERNON FARQUHAR, So. Calif. Council of 

Church Women, Hollywood 

MRS. W. ROBERT FLEMING, Indiano Indorsers of 

Photoplays, Fort Wayne 

EMMA S. FORSTER, Women's Chamber of Commerce, 

Censor Board, Little Rock 

MRS. BERNARD A. FOSTER, Sportonburg (S.C) MPC 

MRS, TEMPLE FRAKER, G.F.W.C, Knoxviile, Tenn. 

MRS, CLAUDE FRANKLIN, Nat'l Council of Women, 

Indianapolis 

MRS, ELI FREYBERG, Notional Board of Review, Harrison, 

N.Y. 

MRS. PAUL GEBHART, Cleveland Cinema Club 

MRS. HAROLD L. GEE, Woman's City Club, Berkeley, 

Calif. 

H. H. GILES, Center for Human Relations Study, New 

York City 

CHRISTINE SMITH GILLIAM, Atlanta (Ga.) censor 

MRS. ELMORE GODFREY JR., P.T.A., G.F.W.C, Knoxviile, 

Tenn. 

MRS. GEORGE 5. GRAVES, A.A.U.W., Son Diego 

MRS. WALTER LEE GRAY, Charlotte (N.C) MPC 

MRS. SHIRLEY GUNNELS, G.F.W.C, Fowler, Ind. 

JOHN W. HARDEN, director public relations, Burlington 

Mills, Greensboro, N.C 

MRS. DANIEL HEMBEL, Greater Detroit MPC 

MRS. FRED HIRE, Fort Wayne (Ind.) Indorsers of 

Photoplays 

MRS. J. B. HOFFMAN, Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, 

Indianapolis 

ETHEL W. HOLLINGER, So. Calif. Council of Church 

Women, Hollywood 

MRS. CLARENCE A. 

H05SLEY, Memphis BFC 

MRS. JEROME W. HUGHES, G.F.W.C, Bereo, Ky. 

RUTH JEFFRIES, author, Kansas City, Mo. 

MRS. ALVIN C JOHNSON, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis 

MRS. C F. JOHNSTON, Jacksonville (Flo.) MPC 

MRS. ARTHUR D. KERWIN, Greoter Detroit MPC 

MRS. HAROLD E. KERWIN, Greater New Bedford 

(Moss) BFC 

MRS. ALBERT M. KING, Oakland (Calif.) East Bay 

MPC 

MRS. KARL KING, Dean of Women, University of 

Tampa, Flo. 

MRS. B. F. KNISELEY, P.T.A., Dallas 

MRS. EMMA KOMINERS, Notional Council of Jewish 

Women, Indionopolis 

MRS, WILLIAM F. KUEBLER, Kansas City Athenaeum 

THOMAS LAM, Rome (Ga.) exhibitor 

MRS. HERBERT LANGNER, American Jewish Committee, 

New York City 

MRS. MARJORIE G. LAWRENCE, pres. Cleveland 

Cinema Club 

MRS. FRANK B. LEITZ, P.T.A. , Kansas City, Mo. 

MRS. THOMAS LEONARD, Dumont (N. J.) MPC 

MRS. P. A. LEY, Federation of MPC, Youngstown, Ohio 

MRS. J. W. LIVINGSTON, Grand Ropids and Kent 

County MPC 

MRS. FERD LUCAS, G.F.W.C, Indiana Indorsers of 

Photoploys, Greencastle 

MRS. JAMES E. LUTTRELL, G.F.W.C, Craig, Colo. 

MRS. E. ROBERT MANNING, I.F.C.A., Jackson Heights, 

N.Y. 

JOSEPH F. MARRON, Free Public Library, Jacksonville, 

Flo. 

ELLIS L. McAllister, Ogden (Utah) BFC 

MRS. JOHN J. McCarthy, Fond du Lac BFC 

MRS. M. C McGAHERAN, G.F.W.C, Owotonna, Minn. 

MRS. EDITH McKINNIES, Milwaukee BFC 

DELLA McMYLER, Chairman Cleveland MPC 

INEZ MERZ, Int'l Travel Study Club, Indionopolis 

MRS. CHARLES G. MILLER, Greater Seattle MPC 

MRS. MILDRED W. MILLER, East Boy MP & TV 

Council 

MRS. W. HAYDEN MILLER, Pres. Motion Picture 

Advisory & Reviewing Boord, Son Antonio 

MRS. LEROY MONTGOMERY, D.A.R., South Norwolk, 

Conn. 

MRS. A, L. MURRAY, Kappa Kappa Gommo, Long 

Beach, Calif. 

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WILLIAM DOZIER 

Vice-Presidenf in Charge of Production 

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•THE producer of one hit picture each 

season is always to be congratulated, the 

public's taste being as changeable as it is. 

And when three producers are responsible 

for the making of three hit pictures each, 

they merit an industry ovation. This is 

merited by Buddy Adler, Alfred Hitchcock 

and Fred Kohlmar—the three who 

had the skill to keep the boxoffice active 

during the past difficult season. 

Adler started out as a magazine writer 

after his graduation from the University 

of Pennsylvania and became a writer-producer 

for MGM shortly before he began 

serving in the U. S. Signal Corps from 

1941-45. In 1947 he went to Columbia 

where he produced a number of hits before 

going to 20th-Fox in 1955, where he is 

now in charge of production and which 

company released his hits this season. 

Glamour girls who star in his hit productions 

are Marilyn Monroe ("Bus 

Stop"), Sheree North r'Lieutenant Wore 

Skirts"! and Jane Russell ("The Revolt 

of Mamie Stover"), in vehicles which are 

tolerantly sprinkled with sex. 

Hitchcock's three hits comprise two 

murder mysteries and a crime romp. 

James Stewart and Doris Day carry the 

"The Man Who Knew Too Much," 

ball in 

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in "To Catch 

a Thief" and Edmund Gwenn in "The 

Trouble With Harry." The usual technical 

perfection and split-second timing which 

characterize a Hitchcock production are 

notable in these films. 

Two of the three hits by Fred Kohlmar, 

all Columbia releases, are gay comedies. 

"My Sister Eileen" gave Jack Lemmon a 

boost and "The Solid Gold Cadillac" 

helped Judy HoUiday repeat her "Born 

Yesterday" success. "Picnic," a small 

town social study on the acidulous side, 

was routine excellence for William Holden, 

and added considerable stature to Kim 

Novak's career. 

This season's producers of two hits each 

are all veterans in the production field 

(as are those with three to their credit), 

with the possible exception of Henry 

Ephron, who with his wife Phoebe has 

written so many screenplays. Charles 

Schnee is another writer recently turned 

producer, a pattern fairly 

in 

the industry. 

well established 

An English producer. Sir Michael Balcon, 

is a knight and was appointed head 

of the Ealing Studios in 1937. He has been 

a film producer since 1920. He founded 

Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. and became 

director of production for British-Gaumont 

Studios in 1931. Alec Guinness is 

starred in "The Ladykillers" but it is 

generally felt that in this farcical murder 

mystery, the 77-year-old Katie Johnson 

stole 

the picture from the star. 

The tense drama in "The Night My 

Number Came Up" was skillfully portrayed 

by Michael Redgrave and Alexander 

Knox, but it was the unusual and 

timely punch in a story which gripped the 

audiences, 

Balcon's productions are helping 

to break up the tradition that British 

pictures will only go well in art houses, 

particularly as the overseas stars become 

better known and the hard-to-understand 

accent becomes more acceptable to 

average American ears. 

Norman Panama and Melvin Frank 

doubled as co-producers and co-directors 

for "The Court Jester" and "That Certain 

Feeling." Both are comedies, the first 

starring Danny Kaye and the second Bob 

Hope. Another who doubled as producer 

and director for two pictures is Mervyn 

LeRoy. "The Bad Seed" was about as 

controversial a theme as a motion picture 

could tackle and "Toward the Unknown" 

was another tender subject. Both pictures 

came off with flying colors at the boxoffice 

and proved there are few subjects which 

cannot be handled in a picture if done with 

intelligent understanding. 

Those who produced the highest topgrosser 

and three others in the top six, 

rested on their laurels with just one hit 

each— but sockdolagers. They were Sam 

Goldwyn ("Guys and Dolls"), Arthur 

Hornblow jr. ("Oklahoma!"), Sol Siegel 

("High Society"), James Hill ("Trapeze"). 

Still, any one of these alone may be considered 

a good season's work. 

While 16 

producers made 33 of the season's 

top hits, some, like "The Court 

Jester" and "Ulysses," had co-producers. 

Three of the Warner Bros, hits had no 

producer credits. These are "Helen of 

Troy," "Hell on FYisco Bay" and "The 

Searchers." Independent producing companies 

that release through the majors 

have been especially active in recent years. 

Producers credited with 1955- 

56 top boxoffice attractions 

are listed below: 

Three Winners 

BUDDY ADLER: Bus Stop (20th- 

Fox); The Lieutenant Wore Skirts 

(20th-Fox); The Revolt of Mamie 

Stover (20th-Fox). 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: The Man 

Who Knew Too Much (Poro); To 

Catch a Thief (Para); The 

Trouble With Harry (Para). 

FRED KOHLMAR: My Sister Eileen 

(Col); Picnic (Col); The Solid 

Gold Cadillac (Col). 

Two Winners 

MICHAEL BALCON: The Ladykillers 

(Cont'l); The Night My Number 

Come Up (IFE). 

PANDRO S. BERMAN: Bhoviiani 

Junction (MGM); Tea and Sympathy 

(MGM). 

CHARLES BRACKETT: D-Day the 

Sixth of June (20th-Fox); The 

King and I (20th-Fox). 

DING DeLAURENTIIS: Ulysses 

(Para); War and Peace (Para). 

HENRY EPHRON: The Best Things 

in Life Are Free (20th-Fox); Carousel 

(20th-Fox). 

MELVIN FRANK: The Court Jester 

(Para); That Certain Feeling 

(Para). 

MERVYN LeROY: The Bad Seed 

(WB); Toward the Unknown (WB). 

NORMAN PANAMA: The Court 

Jester (Poro); That Certoin Feeling 

(Pore). 

JOE PASTERNAK: Meet Me in Los 

Vegos (MGM); The Opposite Sex 

(MGM). 

CHARLES SCHNEE: Somebody Up 

There Likes Me (MGM); Trial 

(MGM). 

HAL WALLIS: Artists and Models 

(Para); The Rose Tattoo (Paro). 

DAVID WEISBART LARRY WEINGARTEN

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BUDDY ADLER MICHAEL BALCON PANDRO S. BERMAN CHARLES BRACKETT OINO DE LAURENTIIS 

LAWRENCE WEINGARTEN: I'll Cry 

Tomorrow (MGM); The Tender 

Trop (MGM). 

DAVID WEISBART: Between Heaven 

and Hell (20th-Fox); Rebel Without 

a Cause (20th-Fox). 

One Winner 

ROBERT ALDRICH: Attack' (UA). 

ANTHONY HAVELOCK ALLAN: 

Chance Meeting (Pacemaker). 

SAMUEL GOLDWYN: Guys and Dolls 

(MGM). 

SAMUEL GOLDWYN JR.: 

the 

Gun (UA), 

Man With 

PAUL GRAETZ: Lover Boy l20th- 

Fox), 

CLARENCE GREENE: The Fastest 

Gun Alive (MGM). 

NORMAN HERMAN: Hot Rod Girl 

(AlP). 

DICK POWELL: The Conqueror 

(RKO). 

OTTO PREMINGER: The Man With 

the Golden Arm (UA). 

RIZZOLI-TOHO-GALLONE: 

Butterfly (IFE). 

Madame 

AARON ROSENBERG: The Benny 

Goodman Story (U-l), 

FRANK ROSS: The Rams of 

Ranchipur 

(20th-Fox), 

HENRY 

EPHRON 

DESI ARNAZ: Forever Darling 

(MGM), 

WILLIAM A. BACHER; The Tall 

Men (20th-Fox). 

HENRY BLANKE: The McConnell 

Story (WB). 

ROY BOULTING: Private's Progress 

(DCA). 

JAMES HILL: Trapeze (UA). 

ARTHUR HORNBLOW JR.: Oklahoma! 

[Magna] 

JOHN HOUSEMAN: Lust for Life 

(MGM). 

ROSS HUNTER: All That Heaven 

Allows (U-l), 

ROBERT ROSSEN: Alexonder the 

Great (UA), 

RICHARD SALE: Gentlemen Marry 

Brunettes (UA). 

DORE SCHARY: The Swan (MGM). 

CHARLES H. SCHNEER: Earth vs 

Flying Saucers (Col), 

BETTY E. BOX. Doctor at Sea (Rep). 

ALFRED BUTTERFIELD: Secrets of 

the Reef (Conf'l). 

HOWARD CHRISTIE; Away All Boots 

(U-l). 

Dia- 

HENRI-GEORGES-CLOUZOT: 

bolique (Cont'l). 

ROGER CORMAN: Day the World 

Ended (AlP). 

VIVIAN A, COX: The Prisoner (Col), 

WALT DISNEY: The African Lion 

(BV). 

ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN: Anything 

Goes (Pare). 

PHILIP DUNNE: The View From 

Pompey's Head (20th-Fox). 

MORRIS ENGEL: Lovers and Lollipops 

(Trons-Lux). 

WILLIAM FADIMAN: Jubal (Col), 

BRYAN FOY: Battle Stations (Col), 

WILLIAM GOETZ: The Man From 

Laramie (Col). 

WILLIAM GOLDBECK: The Lone 

Ranger (WB). 

JOHN HUSTON: Moby Dick (WB) 

PAUL JONES: Pordners (Para), 

SAM KATZMAN: Rock Around the 

Clock (Col), 

EDWIN H, KNOPF: Goby (MGM), 

HORWARD W, KOCH: The Black 

Sleep (UA), 

LARRY LANSBURGH: The Littlest 

Outlaw (BV), 

ANATOLE LITVAK: The Deep Blue 

Sea (20th-Fox). 

NINO MISIANO: Frisky (DCA), 

NICHOLAS NAYFACK: Forbidden 

Planet (MGM), 

RUTH ORKIN: Lovers and Lollipops 

(Trans-Lux). 

LINDSLEY PARSONS: The Return 

of Jock Slade (AA). 

WILLIAM PERLBERG: The Proud 

and Profane (Para). 

RAOUL PLOQUIN: The Sheep Has 

Five Legs (UMPO), 

CARLO PONTI: Ulysses (Poro). 

WILLIAM SCHORR: The Indian 

Fighter (UA), 

SOL C, SIEGEL: High Society (MGM), 

FRANK SINATRA: Johnny Concho 

(UA), 

MILTON SPERLING: The Court- 

Mortiol of Billy Mitchell (WB). 

CARL SZOKOLL: The Last Ten Days 

(Col-lnt'l). 

TOMOYUKI TANAKA: Godzilla, 

King of the Monsters (Embassy). 

JERRY WALD: The Eddy Duchin 

Story (Col), 

ROBERT WATERFIELD: Gentlemen 

Marry Brunettes (UA), 

LAWRENCE EDWARD WATKIN: The 

Great Locomotive Chose (BV). 

ORSON WELLES: Othello (UA). 

WILLIAM WYLER: The Desperate 

Hours (Para). 

DARRYL F. ZANUCK: The Man in 

the Gray Flannel Suit (20th-Fox). 

SAM ZIMBALIST: The Catered Affair 

(MGM). 

MELVIN FRANK 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK 

FRED 

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Thi' Guiding Hands of the Bigger Hits 

DIRECTORS 

They Co-ordinate the Showmanship Ingredients 

n 2^lrect 27 Dop Miti of '55-36 

IJMONG the directors of top hits this 

season, only Alfred Hitchcock, who is 

also the producer of his films, directed 

three. Hitchcock is an English writer who 

made his debut in motion pictures as a 

junior technician in 1920 for the British 

Studios of Famous Players-Lasky. He 

progressed to script writer, to production 

writer and art director of the Gainsborough 

Studios and finally to director. 

Coming to Hollywood, he now releases 

through Paramount and has become famous 

for his expert handling of the better 

type of mystery drama where psychological 

angles are introduced into the suspense 

technique. The light touch he gives somber 

plots keeps his pictures entertaining 

along non-depressive lines, without sacrificing 

the dramatic impact of murder or 

other sinister crime aspects. 

Thirteen directors had two top hit 

winners 

each. Thus 14 directors megged 27 

of the season's best from the boxoffice 

viewpoint. Melvin Frank and Norman 

Panama, co-producers and directors, had 

sure-fire stars to work with like Danny 

Kaye in "The Court Jester" and Bob Hope 

in "That Certain Feeling," both for Paramount. 

Mervyn LeRoy both produced and directed 

his two hits, "The Bad Seed" and 

"Toward the Unknown," for Warner Bros. 

The first was a shocker about an amoral 

child and the other dramatized the problems 

of Air Force test pilots—quite different 

in theme. 

Joshua Logan directed "Bus Stop" for 

20th-Pox and "Picnic" for Columbia. While 

not too different in their objectives, the 

handling of Marilyn Monroe in the first 

must have been less arduous than that of 

Rosalind Russell in "Picnic." Or could it 

have been the other way around? 

Daniel Mann directed two heavy dramas, 

one for MGM, "I'll Cry Tomorrow" and 

one for Paramount, "The Rose Tattoo." 

Susan Hayward distinguished the first and 

Anna Magnani the second, in somewhat 

different 

fashion. 

Vincente Minnelli handled a stormy biographical 

drama of a great but erratic 

artist 

in "Lust for Life," and an explosive 

subject with taste and delicacy in "Tea 

and Sympathy"—both for MGM. 

There is a wide variance in Otto Preminger's 

two hits. "The Court-Martial of 

Billy Mitchell" for Warner Bros, is a biographical 

drama of the air 

pioneer's fight 

for reasonably safe air force conditions, 

whereas "The Man With the Golden Arm" 

for United Artists deals with a highly 

controversial subject from the censorship 

angle, drug addiction. Frank Sinatra gives 

a convincing performance in sordid surroundings, 

showing the star has come a 

long way from the voice that made the 

earlier bobby-soxers swoon. 

Richard Quine's two comedies for Columbia 

were fast-paced and, while Janet 

Leigh starred competently with Jack Lemmon 

in "My Sister Eileen," Judy Holliday 

was a riot in "The Solid Gold Cadillac." 

Certainly there was a change of pace for 

Fred P. Sears in his two Columbia hits, 

"Earth vs Flying Saucers" and "Rock 

Around the Clock." The first is a space 

spasm and the other features teenagers 

in Terpsichorean spasms, but both clicked. 

Prank Tashlin's "Artists and Models" for 

Paramount and "The Lieutenant Wore 

Skirts" for 20th-Fox are both light-hearted 

entertainment. The first stars the zany 

pair, Martin and Lewis. The second has 

cheesecake in the luscious forms of Sherree 

North and Rita Moreno. 

Raoul Walsh directed voluptuous Jane 

Russell in two hits, "The Revolt of Mamie 

Stover" with Richard Egan's support and 

"The Tall Men" with a definite assist 

from the old he-man maestro of rugged 

romance, Clark Gable. 

Charles Walters had plenty of star power 

in the two hits he dii-ected for MGM: 

"High Society" starred Bing Crosby, Grace 

Kelly and Frank Sinatra while "The 

Tender Trap" top-roled Sinatra, Debbie 

Reynolds, David Wayne and Celeste Holm. 

Robert Wise directed "Helen of Troy" 

for Warners and "Somebody Up There 

Likes Me" for MGM. Not only are they 

widely apart in history but in the type 

of action depicted—one a classic war over 

a beautiful woman and the other a personal 

battle fought by a potential delinquent 

who became a world-champion 

prize-fighter. 

Of the directors with only one hit, some 

in cooperation with another, Walter Lang 

should be commended for "The King and 

I," John Huston for "Moby Dick," Henry 

King for "Carousel," George Sidney for 

"The Eddy Duchin Story" and King Vidor 

for "War and Peace." In fact, it is hard 

to pick out only a few, for these hit pictures 

are all worth seeing for one reason 

or another—and their direction was a 

major factor in their success at the boxoffice. 

Directors credited with 1955- 

56 hit films are listed below: 

Three Winners 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: The Man 

Who Knew Too Much (Para); To 

Catch Q Thief (Para); The Trouble 

With Horry (Poro). 

Two Winners 

MELVIN FRANK: The Court Jester 

(Pora); That Certain Feeling 

(Para). 

MERVYN LeROY: The Bad Seed 

(WB); Toword the Unknown (WB). 

JOSHUA LOGAN: Bus Stop (20th- 

Fox); Picnic (Col). 

DANIEL MANN: I'll Cry Tomorrow 

(MGM); The Rose Tattoo (Poro). 

VINCENTE MINNELLI: Lust for Life 

(MGM); Tea and Sympathy 

(MGM). 

NORMAN PANAMA: The Court 

Jester (Para); That Certain Feeling 

(Poro). 

OTTO PREMINGER: The Court- 

Martial of Billy Mitchell (WB); 

The Man With the Golden Arm 

(UA). 

RICHARD QUINE: My Sister Eileen 

(Col); The Solid Gold Cadilloc 

(Col), 

FRED F. SEARS: Earth vs Flying 

Saucers (Col); Rock Around the 

Clock (Col). 

FRANK TASHLIN: Artists and 

Models (Para); The Lieutenant 

Wore Skirts (20th-Fox). 

RAOUL WALSH: The Revolt of 

Mamie Stover (20th-Fox); The 

Toll Men (20th-Fox). 

CHARLES WALTERS: High Society 

(MGM); The Tender Trap (MGM). 

ROBERT WISE: Helen of Troy (WB); 

Somebody Up There Likes Me 

(MGM). 

One Winner 

ROBERT ALDRICH: Attack! (UA). 

JAMES ALGAR: The African Lion 

(BV). 

ROBERT WISE CHARLES WALTERS

MELVIN FRANK ALFRED HITCHCOCK MERVYN LcROY JOSHUA LOGAN 

YVES ALLEGRET: The Proud and 

the Beautiful (Kingsley). 

STUART HEISLER: The Lone Ranger 

(WB). 

DICK POWELL: The Conqueror 

(RKO). 

ANTHONY ASQUITH: Chance Meeting 

(Pacemoker). 

ISHIRO HONDA: Godzillo, King of 

the Monsters (Embassy). 

NICHOLAS RAY: Rebel Without o 

Cause (WB). 

CURTIS BERNHARDT: Goby (MGM). 

ALESSANDRO BLASETTI: Too Bod 

She's Bod (Getz-Kingsley). 

JOHN BOULTING: Private's Progress 

(DCA). 

RICHARD BROOKS: The Catered Affair 

(MGM). 

MARIO CAMERININ: Ulysses (Para). 

RENE CLEMENT: Lover Boy (20th- 

Fox). 

Dio- 

HENRI-GEORGES-CIOUZOT: 

bolique 

(Cont'l). 

LUIGI COMENCINI: Frisky (DCA). 

ROGER CORMAN: Day the World 

Ended (AlP). 

GEORGE CUKOR: Bhowoni Junction 

(MGM). 

MICHAEL CURTIZ: The Best Things 

in Life Are Free (20th-Fox). 

DELMAR DAVES: Jubal (Col). 

VALENTINE DAVIES: The Benny 

Goodman Story (U-l). 

ANDRE DeTOTH: The Indian Fighter 

(UA). 

GORDON DOUGLAS: The McConnell 

Story (WB). 

PHILIP DUNNE: The View From 

Pompey's Head (20th-Fox). 

MORRIS ENGEL: Lovers and Lollipops 

(Trans-Lux). 

RICHARD FLEISCHER: Between 

Heoven and Hell (20th-Fox). 

JOHN FORD: The Seorchers (WB). 

ROBERTO GAVALDON: The 

Outlaw (BV). 

Littlest 

CARMINE GALLONE: Modome Butterfly 

(IFE). 

PETER GLENVILLE: The Prisoner 

(Col). 

ALEXANDER HALL: Forever 

(MGM). 

Dorling 

JOHN HUSTON: Moby Dick (WB). 

HIROSHI INAGAKI: Samurai (Jacon). 

NUNNALLY JOHNSON: The Man in 

the Gray Flannel Suit (20th-Fox). 

HENRY KING: Carousel (20th-Fox). 

HENRY KOSTER: D-Day the Sixth 

of June (20th-Fox). 

WALTER LANG: The King and I 

(20th-Fox). 

REGINALD LeBORG: The Black Sleep 

(UA). 

MURRAY LERNER: Secrets of the 

Reef (Cont'l). 

ROBERT LEWIS: Anything Goes 

(Poro). 

ANATOLE LITVAK: The Deep Blue 

Sea (20th-Fox). 

FRANCIS D. LYON: The Great Locomotive 

Chose (BV), 

ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK: The 

Lodykillers (Cont'l). 

JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ: Guys and 

Dolls (MGM). 

ANTHONY MANN: The 

Laramie (Col). 

Man From 

LESLIE MARTINSON: Hot Rod Girl 

(AlP). 

DON McGUIRE: Johnny Concho (UA). 

DAVID MILLER: The Opposite Sex 

(MGM). 

TERRY MORSE: Godzilla, King of 

the Monsters (Embassy). 

JEAN NEGULESCO: The Rains of 

Ronchipur (20th-Fox), 

LESLIE NORMAN: The Night My 

Number Came Up (Cont'l). 

RUTH ORKIN: Lovers and Lollipops 

(Trans-Lux). 

G. W. PABST: The Lost Ten Days 

(Col-lnfl). 

JOSEPH PEVNEY: Awoy All Boots 

(U-l). 

CAROL REED: Tropeze (UA). 

LLOYD RITTER: Secrets of the Reef 

(Cont'l). 

MARK ROBSON: Triol (MGM). 

ROBERT R05SEN: Alexander the 

Great (UA). 

RUSSELL ROUSE: The Fostest Gun 

Alive (MGM). 

ROY ROWLAND: Meet Me in Los 

Vegas (MGM). 

RICHARD SALE: Gentlemen Morry 

Brunettes (UA). 

HAROLD SCHUSTER: The Return of 

Jock Slode (AA), 

GEORGE SEATON: 

Profane (Para). 

The Proud and 

LEWIS SEILER: Battle Stations (Col). 

GEORGE SIDNEY: The Eddy Duchin 

Story (Col). 

DOUGLAS SIRK: All That Heoven 

Allows (U-l). 

NORMAN TAUROG: Pardners (Paro). 

RALPH THOMAS: Doctor of Sea 

(Rep). 

FRANK TUTTLE: Hell on Frisco Boy 

(WB). 

HENRI VERNEUIL: The Sheep Has 

Five Legs (UMPO). 

CHARLES VIDOR: The Swon (MGM). 

KING VIDOR: War and Peoce (Poro). 

ORSON WELLES: Othello (UA). 

WILLIAM A. WELLMAN: Blood Alley 

(WB) 

FRED McLEOD WILCOX: Forbidden 

Planet (MGM). 

RICHARD WILSON: Man With the 

Gun (UA). 

WILLIAM WYLER: The Desperate 

Hours (Para). 

ROBERT YOUNG: Secrets of the 

Reef (Cont'l). 

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^c\v Season Current and Cuniino Fealnres 

Essential Data on Films: In Release Irom Beginning of 

Each Company's Season Through December 1956; 

or in Production lor Release After January I, /957. 

Completed 

Title, Cast and Other Changes Will be Published in the 

Feature Chart and the News Sect/on of BOXOFFICE. 

(For ;955-56 Release, See Feature Index, Page 123.) 

LOOKIHG 

DHEflD 

Allied Artists 

(October 14 through December 23, 1956) 

BLONDE SINNER (Melodroma), Stars: Diana Dors, 

Michael Croig, Yvonne Mitchell. Producer: Kenneth 

Horper for Associated British. Director: J. Lee 

Thompson. Original: Joan Henry. Screenplay: John 

Cresswell, Joan Henry. 

• Based on Joan Henry's novel, "Yield to the 

Night," this presents blonde Diana Dors as a 

jealous playgirl who kills her socialite rival and is 

tried ond convicted of murder. When she realizes 

the significance of what she has done she becomes 

terror stricken. It is only in the finolity of the 

death cell, when the last hope has gone, that she 

finds Q strange peace that dissolves the bitterness 

and torment which tortured her soul. Nov. 

18, 1956. 

THE CRUEL TOWER (Action Drama). Stars: John 

Ertcson, Mori Blonchard, Charles McGrow. Producer: 

Lindsley Parsons. Director: Lew Landers. 

Original: William Brown Hartley. Screenplay; Warren 

Douglas. 

• Based on a novel, this is the story of a sufferer 

from acrophobia (fear of heights) who inadvertently 

falls in with o bond of roving steeplejacks. 

Oct. 28, 1956. 

FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Period Comedy-Drama). 

Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie 

Mom. Producer-Director: William Wyler. Original: 

Jessamyn West. Screenplay: No credit given. 

• Attention is focused on a Quaker family and 

its moment of crisis when caught in the backlash 

of the Civil War. Filmed in De Luxe Color. Nov. 

25, 1956. 

HIGH TERRACE (Mystery). Stars: Dale Robertson, 

Lois Maxwell, Producer: Robert S. Baker. Director: 

Henry Cass. Original: A. T. Weisman. Screenplay: 

Alfred Shaughnessy, Normon Hud is. 

• In this murder mystery with theatrical background, 

the impresorio is the victim, and all the 

cast ore under suspicion. Dec. 9, 1956. 

HOT SHOTS (Comedy). Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley 

Clements, Phillip Phillips. Producer: Ben Schwalb. 

Director: Jean Yarbrough. 

• Another Bowery Boys comedy. Dec. 23, 1956. 

YAQUI DRUMS (Western). Stars; Rod Cameron, Mary 

Castle, J. Carrol Naish. Producer: Wm. F. Broidy. 

Director; Jean Yarbrough. Originol; Paul Peil. 

Screenploy: D. D. Beauchamp, Jo Pogano. 

• Filmed in sepia tone, it is the story of a man 

who, bent upon revenge for the murder of his 

brother, finds himself kidnaped and taken to Mexico 

before justice is done. Oct. 14, 1956. 

Com ing 

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (Science-Fiction). 

Stars. Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell 

Johnson. Producer-Director: Roger Corman (independent). 

Original and Screenplay: Charles Griffith. 

• It will be released as half of a complete 

science-fiction program with Roger Gorman's "Not 

of This Earth." 

BRANDED LADY (Modern Western). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Jack Milner. Director; Dan Milner. Original: 

Richard Bernstein, Jack Milner, Dan Milner. 

Screenplay; Richard Bernstein. 

• After walking out on an unhappy morriage, a 

young woman comes to o smoll town to see her 

father, only to learn he has mysteriously disappeared. 

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE (Mystery). Stars: Bill Elliott, 

James Lydon, Don Hoggerty. Producer: Ben 

Schwalb. Director; Paul Landres. Original Screenplay: 

Elwood Ullman. 

• An erstwhile cowboy dons mufti and the bodge 

of the law to portray a sheriff's detective tracking 

down the culprit in a murder case. 

CHISERA (Western). Stars: not set. Producer: Hayes 

Goetz. Director: not set. Originol Screenplay: 

Clark Reynolds. 

• Backgrounded in the Texas cattle country, this 

stampede story is slated for lensing in CinemaScope. 

DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL {Horror Drama). Stars: 

John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields. Producer: 

Jack Pollexfen for Film Ventures, Inc. Director; 

Edgar Ulmer. Originol Screenplay; Jack 

Pollexfen. 

• As indicated in the title, this horror film deals 

with Dr. Jekyll's offspring who, like her father, 

had a split personality. 

THE DESPERATE WOMEN (Historical Drama). Stars; 

not set. Producer; Lindsley Parsons. Director: not 

set. Original; James D. Horan. Screenplay: Warren 

Douglas. 

• Concerns the exploits of femme espionage 

agents during the Civil War, including Pouline 

Cushman, a southern-born actress who served os 

a spy for the north. 

DINO (Drama). Stars; Soi Mineo, Brion Keith, Susan 

Kohner. Producer; Bernice Block. Director; Thomas 

Corr. Original and Screenplay; Reginald Rose. 

• The story deals with the reformation of a 

juvenile delinquent under the guidance of a psychiatrist. 

DRAGOON WELLS MASSACRE (Western). Stars: Barry 

Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mono Freeman. Producer: 

Lindsley Parsons. Director; Harold Schuster. 

Original Screenplay: Oliver Blake, Warren Douglas. 

• This historical action drama deals with the 

massacre of passengers on o Butterfield stagecoach 

in Arizona's Apache country in the 1860s. Cinema- 

Scope and De Luxe Color. 

THE FAR WANDERER (Outdoor Droma). Stars; Sterling 

Hoyden (incomplete). Producers; Lindsley 

Parsons and Sterling Hoyden. Director: Greg Tallas. 

Original and Screenplay: Turnley Walker. 

• An outdoor drama concerning seal hunting, it 

IS scheduled for filming largely aboard Sterling 

Hoyden's schooner on location around Monterey, 

California. 

FOOTSTEPS IN THE NIGHT (Mystery). Stars; Bill 

Elliott, Eleanore Tanin, Ann Griffith. Producer: 

Ben Schwalb. Director; Jean Yarbrough. Original 

Screenplay; Albert Bond. 

• A Los Angeles motel serves as the background 

of this murder mystery. 

FROM HELL IT CAME (Science-Fiction). Stars: not 

set. Producer; Jack Milner for Milner Bros. Productions. 

Director: Dan Milner. Original: Richard 

Bernstein, Jack Milner, Dan Milner. Screenplay: 

Richard Bernstein. 

• Slated for widescreen treatment, the setting of 

this story is an island, where a legendary monster 

becomes a reality. 

HOLD THAT HYPNOTIST (Comedy). Stars: Huntz 

Hall, Stanley Clements, Jane Nigh. Producer; Ben 

Schwalb. Director; Austen Jewell. Original Screenplay; 

Dan Pepper. 

• Another entry in the Bowery Boys series, this 

one deals with scoffing at a doctor's power to regress 

a subject under hypnosis and also involves 

a search for buried jewels. 

HOT ROD RUMBLE (Action Drama). Stars; Dick 

Hortunian, Leigh Snowden. Producer; Norman 

Herman tor Nocirema Productions. Director: Les 

Martinson. Screenplay: not set. 

• This entry deals with the adventures of the 

wild-wheeling younger set. 

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Costume Melodrama). 

Stars; Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigido. Producers; 

Robert ond Raymond Hakim (Pans Films). 

Director; Jean Delannoy. Original: Victor Hugo. 

Screenplay: Ben Hecht. 

• Both French and English versions were filmed 

in France, in CinemoScope and color. Filmed under 

the title "Hunchback of Pans" until title clearance 

could be obtained for the latest version of the 

Hugo novel which served Lon Chaney as a silent 

vehicle and Charles Loughton in the RKO '39 

production. 

I LOVE LUCIFER [Comedy). Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley 

Clements (incomplete). Producer: Ben Schwalb. 

Director: not set. Original Screenplay: jock 

Townley. 

• Another Bowery Boys comedy. 

JACK SLADE IN MONTANA (Western). Stars: John 

Ericson (incomplete). Producer; Lindsley Parsons. 

Director: not set. Original Screenploy: Warren 

Douglas. 

• It concerns an episode in the life of the onetime 

notorious district manager of the early western 

stoge company. 

JEANNIE (Musical). Stars: Vero-Ellen, Tony Martin, 

Robert Flemyng. Producer; Marcel Hellmon for 

Associated British Films. Director: Henry Levin. 

Original Screenplay; Dorothy Cooper. 

• CinemaScope-Technicolor treatment has been accorded 

this tunefilm, which wos lensed in England 

and Scotland. 

LAST OF THE BAD MEN (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

George Montgomery, Meg Randall, Keith Larsen. 

Producer: Vincent M. Fennelly. Director: Paul 

Londres. Original Screenplay; David Chandler. 

• This relates the adventures of a sleuth with 

the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Filmed in Cinema- 

Scope and color. 

LOOKING FOR DANGER (Comedy). Stars: Huntz Hall, 

Stanley Clements. Producer: Ben Schwalb. Director; 

not set. Original Screenplay; Elwood Ullman. 

• A further entry in the veneroble Bowery Boys 

series. 

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Comedy-Drama). Stars; 

Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier. 

Producer-Director; Billy Wilder. Original; Claude 

Anet. Screenplay; I. A. L. Diamond. 

• From the Claude Anet novel, "Anone," this 

story of a young woman's romance with an older 

man was lensed on location in Paris. Filmed in 

color. 

THE OKLAHOMAN (Frontier Drama). Stars; Joel Mc- 

Crea, Gloria Talbott, Peter Votrion. Producer; 

Walter Minsch. Director: Francis Lyon. Original 

and Screenplay: Daniel B. Ullman. 

• In CinemaScope and color, this is the story of 

a frontier physician. 

NOT OF THIS EARTH (Science-Fiction). Stars: Beverly 

Garland, Paul Birch, Morgan Jones. Producer-Director: 

Roger Corman (independent). Original and 

Screenplay; Mark Hanna, Chorles B. Griffith. 

• A series of horrible murders plagues a western 

city, in which the victims ore drained of their 

blood. The killings ore traced to a man from the 

planet Dovanna whose people are dymg of o 

disease causing blood evaporation. Planned for 

release with "Attack of the Crab Monsters." 

THE PERSUADER (Frontier Drama). Stors: William 

Tolman, Knstine Miller, James Craig. Producer- 

Director: Dick Ross (World Wide Pictures). Original 

Screenplay: Dick Ross, Curtis Kenyon. 

• Filmed on the Republic lot for Allied Artists release, 

this deals with events in a lawless frontier 

town after a member of the clergy settles there to 

become a potent factor in the community reformation. 

RIO BRAVO (Adventure Drama). Stars: John Ericson 

(incomplete). Producer: Lindsley Parsons. Director; 

not set. Original; Gordon Shirreffs. Screenplay 

Gordon Shirreffs. 

• In CinemaScope, this romantic story is based on 

a Fowcett Gold Medal novel. In color. 

SPOOK CHASERS (Comedy), Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley 

Clements. Producer; Ben Schwolb. Director: not 

set. Original Screenplay; Elwood Ullman. 

• It is another Bowery Boys comedy. 

STORM OUT OF THE WEST (Western). Stars Dole 

Robertson, Brian Keith, Rossono Rory. Producer: 

Frank Woods for Jerold Zukor Productions. Director: 

Max Glandbard. Screenplay: not set. 

• Three king-size outlaws terrorize o town in this 

sagebrush entry. 

THE VICTOR RIESEL STORY (Biographical Drama). 

Stars; not set. Producer: Richord Heermonce. Director; 

Joseph Newman. Original Screenplay: 

Milton Krims. 

• It is the story of Victor Riesel, labor columnist, 

who was blinded lost spring by acid hurled in his 

face. Slated for filming on location in New York 

City. 

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(August through November 1956) 

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (Science-Fiction). Stars; 

Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Von Cleef. 

Producer-Director: Roger Corman. Original Screenplay; 

Charles B. Griffith, Mark Hanna. 

• When a brain from another planet endeavors 

to take over the world, the plan is thwarted by 

a young scientist. Aug. 1956. 

RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS (Drama). Stars; Maria English, 

Adele Jergens, Mork Andrews. Executive Producer; 

Samuel Z. Arkoff. Producer: Alex Gordon 

for Golden State Productions. Director: Edward L. 

Cahn. Original Screenplay: Lou Rusoff. 

• This entry deals with teenage delinquency. 

Nov. 1956. 

SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROCK (Musical) Stars; Lisa 

Gaye, Touch Connors, Fats Domino. Producer: 

James H. Nicholson for Sunset Productions. Director: 

Edward L. Cahn. Original and Screenplay; 

Lou Rusoff. 

• In this rock 'n' roll musical, teenagers make an 

effort to gain understanding from the previous 

generation. Nov. 1956. 

Coming 

DRAGSTRIP GIRL (Drama). Stars; Fay Spain, Steven 

Terrell, John Ashley. Executive Producer: Samuel 

Z. Arkoff. Producer: Alex Gordon for Golden State. 

Director: Edward L. Cohn. Original Screenplay: 

Lou Rusoff. 

• Teenage hotrodders are the subject of this 

feature. 

THE LITTLE GUY (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer- 

Director: Roger Gorman for Sunset Production. 

Original: David Harmon. Screenplay; not set. 

• A screen adaptation of a teleplay which was 

originally presented on "Jane Wyman's Fireside 

Theatre." 

MOTORCYCLE GIRLS (Action Dramo). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Norman Herman for Nacirema Productions. 

Director; not set. Original Screenplay: John 

McGreevey. 

• It deals with female juvenile delinquents, who 

travel the country on motorcycles. 

NAKED PARADISE (Melodrama). Stars: Beverly Garlond, 

Richard Denning, Lisa Montell. Executive 

Producer; James H. Nicholson. Producer-Director: 

Roger Corman for Sunset Productions. Original 

Screenplay; R. Wright Campbell. 

• Filming of this melodrama was done on location 

m Hawaii. 

RECEPTION (Drama). Stars: John Lund, Dorothy 

Malone (incomplete). Producer-Director: Roger 

Corman. Original Screenplay: Jean Howell. 

• This is the story of a Confederate hero who 

brings his northern bride to his home town in 

Georgia. 

ROCK ALL NIGHT (Musical). Stars: Dick Miller (incomplete). 

Producer-Director: Roger Corman for 

Sunset Productions. Original Screenplay: Charles B. 

Griffith. 

• This entry is another of the currently popular 

teenage rock 'n' roll musicals. 

THE UNDEAD (Horror Dramo). Stars: Bruno Ve Soto, 

Nel Welles, Aaron Soxon. Producer-Director: Roger 

Cormon. Original Screenplay; Mark Honno, Charles 

Griffith. 

• It's Q horror story obout a woman who lived o 

thousand years. 

UNDERWATER GIRL (Crime Droma). Stars: Mora 

Cordoy, Pot Conway, Florence Marly. Producer: 

Norman Herman for Nocirema Productions. Director: 

John Peyser. Original Screenplay: Arthur V. 

Jones. 

• A search for treasure buried beneath the sea 

is launched by two competitive bonds of thieves. 

VOODOO WOMAN (Horror Drama). Stars: Mario English, 

Tom Conway, Touch Connors. Executive Producers; 

Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson. 

Producer: Alex Gordon for Cormel Productions. 

Director: Edward L. Cahn. Originol Screenplay: 

Russell Bedner, V. I. Voss. 

• While an expedition is seeking lost treasure, o 

scientist in the jungle tronsforms a girl into o 

voodoo monster. 

Buena Vista 

(November through December 1956) 

SECRETS OF LIFE (Semi-Documentary). Narrator: 

Winston Hibler. Producer; Ben Shorpsteen for Walt 

Disney Productions. Director: James Algor. Original 

Screenplay: James Algar. 

• Amazing sequences depicting many of nature's 

little-known creatures on land and in the sea ore 

presented in this true life adventure dromo, per- 

tions of which were lensed in CinemoScope, ond 

all of which was filmed in Technicolor. Nov. 1956. 

WESTWARD HO, THE WAGONS (Western). Stars: 

Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York. Producer; 

Walt Disney. Director: William Beoudin 

Original; Mary Jane Corr. Screenplay; Tom Blackburn. 

• CinemoScope and Technicolor were utilized in 

the screen version of this story of hardy pioneers 

ond their families moking their way westward 

through Indion territory to Oregon. Dec. 1956. 

Coming 

BABES IN TOYLAND (Musical Fantasy). Stars: not 

set. Producer: Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. 

Director; Sidney Miller. Originol: Glen Mac- 

Donough, Victor Herbert. Screenplay; Sally Benson. 

• Based on Glen MacDonough's book ond Victor 

Herbert's timeless musicol ploy, the celluloid version 

will be in live-action ond Technicolor. 

COMANCHE (Biographical Droma). Stars; not set. 

Producer; Walt Disney. Director: not set. Original: 

David Appel. Screenplay: Lillie Hoyword. 

• From David Appel's book, this is the true life 

story of Comanche, famous battle horse end 

legendory charger of the old 7th Cavalry Indian 

fighting regiment. 

DISNEYLAND, U.S.A. (Travelog). Stars; none. Producer; 

Walt Disney. Director: Homilton S. Luske. 

Originol Screenploy: Lorry Clemmons, Winston Hibler. 

• A complete tour of the 160-acre ottroction in 

Anaheim (Calif.) is presented in this featurette, 

which opens with a helicopter flight, and moves 

into the realms of Frontierlond, Tomorrowlond, Adventureland 

and Fontasyland. In CinemoScope and 

Technicolor. 

JOHNNY TREMAINE (Action Dromo). Stars: Hal 

Stalmaster, Jeff York, Luono Patten. Producer; 

Walt Disney. Director; Robert Stevenson. Original: 

Esther Forbes. Screenplay: not set. 

• in Technicolor and widescreen, it is the stor 

of a Boston youth who, porticipoting in historical 

odventures culminated by the battles of Lexington 

and Concord, discovers why his countrymen fight. 

OLD YELLER (Frontier Drama). Stars: Fess Parker, 

Dorothy McGuire, Jeff York, Tommy Kirk, Producer: 

Walt Disney. Director; Robert Stevenson. 

Original and Screenplay: Fred Gipson, William 

Tunberg. 

• Scheduled to be made os o live-action vehicle, 

it is the story of a frontier fomily of the old west, 

and of an ugly yellow dog that strayed into their 

lives to give them love, laughter and heartache. 

In Technicolor. 

OPERATION DEEPFREEZE (Documentary). Producer: 

Walt Disney. Photographers; Lloyd Beebe, Elmo 

Jones. 

• In CinemoScope and color, this is planned as 

a feature-length documentary dealing with the 

four-year Antarctic expedition being undertoken 

by Adm. Richard E. Byrd. Two Disney cameromen 

are attached to the Byrd expedition. 

YANG KWEI FEI (Costume Dromo). Stars: Mochiko 

Kyo, Mosoyuki Mori, So Yamomura. Producer; 

Doiei Productions. Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Original: 

Eighth century legend. Screenplay; To Chin, 

Matsutoro Kowoguchi, Yoshikato Yoda, Mosashige 

Norisowo. 

• Adapted from o Chinese eighth century legend, 

it is the story of on Emperor's concubine, who is 

eventually killed by jealous, scheming court ministers. 

Japanese mode. Eastman Color. 

Columbia 

(July through December 1956) 

AUTUMN LEAVES (Drama). Stars: Joan Crawford, 

Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles. Producer: William 

Goetz. Director; Robert Aldrich. Original and 

Screenplay: Jack Jevne, Lewis Meltzer, Robert 

Blees. 

• The story of a romance between an older woman 

and o man whose unhappy first marriage almost 

rums their own morrioge. She risks their happiness 

to effect his cure in on institution. Aug. 1956. 

CHA-CHA-CHA BOOM! (Musical). Stars: Mary Koye 

Trio, Perez Prodo and his orchestra, Helen Groyco. 

Producer: Sam Kotzman (Clover Productions). Director; 

Fred F. Seors. Originol Screenplay: Jomes B. 

Gordon. 

• Feoturing many top recording artists, this musical 

involves a story of a talent scout who is in love 

with o femme platter promoter of a competitive 

record company. Oct. 1956. 

EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (Science-Fiction 

Melodrama). Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, 

Donald Curtis. Producer: Charles H. Schneer (Sam 

Kotzman Productions). Director: Fred F. Sears. 

Screenplay: George Worthing Yates and Roymond 

T. Marcus. 

• Army research scientist is whisked off to outer 

space when flying saucers, manned by humonoids, 

invade Earth and dictate surrender terms before 

sending him bock. Scientist then builds a new 

supersonic weapon, destroys the soucers and saves 

civilization. July 1956. 

THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY (Biographical Droma 

With Music). Stars; Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, 

James Whitmore. Producer; Jerry Wold. Director: 

George Sidney. Screenplay; Samuel Taylor. 

• Told in CinemoScope and Technicolor, this is 

the film biography of the musician whose socialite 

first wife engineered his start at Centrol Park 

Casino, but dies after his son's birth. An English 

governess unites him with his neglected son and 

marries him shortly before he dies. July 1956. 

THE GAMMA PEOPLE (Melodrama). Stars; Paul 

Douglas, Eva Bar to k, Leslie Phillips. Producer: 

John Gossage (Warwick Productions). Director: 

John Gilling. Original: Louis Pollock. Screenploy: 

John Gilling and John Gossoge. 

• Two troveling newspopermen discover a mad 

Bolkon scientist who uses a gammo ray mochine 

thot turns children into either geniuses or murderous 

robots. They arouse the villagers to stop the 

scientist's operations. Dec. 1956. 

HE LAUGHED LAST (Comedy With Music). Stors: 

Fronkie Lame, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter. Producer; 

Jonie Taps. Director: Blake Edwards. Original: 

Richard Quine and Bloke Edwords. Screenplay: 

Bloke Edwards. 

• This comedy is laid in the roaring 20s and tells 

the story of o gangland czor of the proctical 

joker type who pulls one lost laugh before he is 

rubbed out. He leaves his holdings to o night club 

singer, ond o series of hilarious situations develop. 

Photographed in Technicolor. Aug. 1956. 

THE LAST MAN TO HANG (Drama). Stars: Tom Conway, 

Elizabeth Se liars, Eunice Goyson. Producer: 

John Gossage for A. C. T. Films. Director: Terence 

Fisher. Original; Gerald Bullett, Maurice Elvey. 

Screenplay: Ivor Montagu, Max Trell. 

• Based on the novel "The Jury" by Gerald Bullett 

ond on odoptation by Bullett ond Maurice 

Elvey, it concerns o man who occidentolly shoots 

h.s wife, and is brought to trial. Dee. 1956. 

MIAMI EXPOSE (Crime Dromo). Stors: Lee J. Cobb, 

Patricio Medina, Edward Arnold. Producer: Sam 

Kotzman (Clover Productions). Director Fred F. 

Searj. Original Screenplay: James B. Gordon. 

• Producer Sam Kotzman, hoving blasted big-city 

crime and racketeering in "The Houston Story" 

ond "Inside Detroit," turns his attention to mobster 

manipulations in the Florida metropolis. Sept. 1956. 

1984 (Drama). Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Jon Sterling, 

Michael Redgrave. Producer: N. Peter Rothvon 

(Holiday Productions). Director: Michael Anderson. 

Original: George Orwell. Screenplay; William P. 

Templeton, Ralph Bettinson. 

• Mode in England, this is o story of the world 

in 1984, when o totolitorion regime governs with 

on oll-encompassing power never before known in 

history. Poverty and ignoronce ore rampant everywhere, 

and the government successfully beats down 

ony efforts by thinking people to overthrow the 

rule. Sept. 1956. 

ODONGO (Outdoor Dromo). Stars; Rhondo Fleming, 

Mocdonald Corey, Juma. Executive Producers: 

Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli. Producer: Islin 

Auster for Warwick Productions. Director: John 

Gilling. Original: Islin Auster. Screenplay; John 

Gilling. 

• With the African frontier os the locole, this 

adventure story tells about o trapper who delivers 

wild animals on order, o lody veterinarian ond a 

native boy. In CinemoScope and Technicolor. 

Nov. 1956. 

PORT AFRIQUE (Mystery). Stars: Pier Angeli, Philip 

Carey, Dennis Price. Producer: John R. Sloon (Dovid 

E. Rose Productions). Director: Rudy Mote. Original: 

Bernard V. Dryer. Screenploy: Fronk Portos, 

John Cresswell. 

• Filmed on location in North Africa, this is a 

murder mystery in which o night club singer aids 

a returned f/or veteran in finding his wife's killer. 

Photographed in Technicolor. Oct. 1956, 

REPRISAL! (Outdoor Drama). Stors" Guy Modison, 

Felicia Forr, Kothryn Grant. Producer: Lewis J. 

Rochmil. Director: George Sherman. Original 

Arthur Gordon. Screenplay; Dovid Harmon. 

• Guy Madison, on Indion, passes as o white 

mon in Oklahoma in the 1890s, and is the central 

figure in a fight to wipe out the lynch law in the 

territory. Photographed in Technicolor. Nov. 1956. 

RUMBLE ON THE DOCKS (Crime Dromo). Stars: 

James Darren, Laurie Carroll, Jerry J anger. Producer: 

Sam Kotzman (Clover Productions). Director: 

Fred F. Seors. Original: Fronk Foley. Screenplay: 

Lou Morheim, Jack DeWitt. 

• Picturizotion of a book by Frank Poley, who is 

with the youth bureau. Kings County district attorney's 

office, New York, and based his novel on 

experiences with Brooklyn's youthful waterfront 

gongs. Dec. 1956. 


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7TH CAVALRY {Outdoor Drama). Stors: Randolph 

Scott, Barbara Hale, Joy C. Flippen. Producer: 

Horry Joe Brown for Scott-Brown Productions. Director; 

Joseph H. Lewis. Original; Glendon F. 

Sworthout. Screenplay: Peter Packer. 

• This frontier tale concerns a man's seorch for 

the truth behind the tragedy immortalized as 

"Custer's Last Stand." In color. Dec. 1956. 

THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC (Comedy). Judy Hollidoy, 

Paul Douglas, Arthur O'Connell. Producer; 

Fred Kohlmcr. Director: Richord Qume. Original; 

Howard Teichman, George S. Kaufman. Screenplay; 

Blake Edwards. 

• Judy Holliday, on aspiring actress, owns a small 

block of stock in the giant International Products 

Corp. She becomes a thorn in the side of management, 

which is out to line its pockets, and 

ultimately defeats the board of directors by forcing 

the return of honest Paul Douglas as president 

and, parenthetically, her new husband. Oct. 1956. 

SPIN A DARK WEB (Crime Dramo). Stars; Faith 

Domergue, Lee Potterson, Rona Anderson. Producer; 

George Maynord, Director; Vernon Sewell. 

Originol; Robert Westerby. Screenplay: Ion Stuart 

Block. 

• A jobless Canadian army veteran innocently 

gets caught in on international crime web spun 

by a beautiful girl ond her brother. Oct. 19S6. 

STORM CENTER (Drama). Stars: Bette Davis, Kim 

Hunter, Brian Keith. Producers; Julian Blaustein 

ond Daniel Torodash for Phoenix Productions. Director: 

Daniel Tarodosh. Original Screenplay; Daniel 

Torodash, Elick Moll. 

• Bette Dovis, a small-town librarian who believes 

in the principle of free speech, refuses to remove 

G controversial book from the shelves. Led by a 

bigoted minority, the townsfolk see that she loses 

her job, but when on imaginative youngster accidentally 

sets tire to the library, the citizens come 

to their senses. Sept. 1956. 

SUICIDE MISSION (Semi-documentary Dramo). Stars: 

Leif Lorsen, Michael Aldridge, Atle Lorsen. Producer: 

North Sea Films. Director: Michael Forlong. 

Original: David Howorth. Screenplay: Sidney Cole, 

Michael Forlong. 

• Based on David Howorth's book, "The Shetland 

Bus," it concerns activities during World War II 

off the coast of Norway. Nov. 1956. 

THE WEREWOLF (Horror Drama). Stars; Don Megowon, 

Joyce Holden, Steven Rifch. Producer; Sam 

Kotzman (Clover Productions). Director: Fred F. 

Sears. Original and Screenplay; Robert E. Kent and 

James B. Gordon. 

• Experimenting scientists use wolf serum on an 

on injured mon, which changes him into a fonged 

killer-onimol. The unfortunate man's family wait 

for his return, unaware of the tragedy, as the 

sheriff is forced to shoot him down. July 1956. 

THE WHITE SQUAW (Western). Stars: David Brian, 

May Wynn, William Bishop. Producer; Wolloce 

MocDonold. Director: Roy Nozorro. Original; 

Lorobie Sutter. Screenplay: Les Sovoge jr. 

• When the water is being poisoned on o Sioux 

reservation, a holf-breed Indian maiden sets out 

to find the culprit responsible. She encounters 

problems with her half sister, foils in love with 

o wealthy young roncher, and ultimately brings 

the heavy to justice. Nov. 1956. 

YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT (Romantic Comedy 

With Music). Stars: June Allyson, Jock Lemmon, 

Charles Bickford. Producer-Director: Dick Powell. 

Originol: Samuel Hopkins Adoms. Screenplay: 

Claude Binyon, Robert Riskin. 

• This musical version of the 1934 comedy success 

costs June Allyson as the madcap daughter of 

on industrial tycoon who—to her father's fury 

elopes with o fortune-hunter. Fleeing parental 

wroth, she hops oboard a transcontinental bus, 

meets Jock Lemmon, a brosh reporter, and marries 

him offer her earlier marriage is annulled. Photographed 

in Cinemascope and Technicolor. Nov. 

1956. 

ZARAK (Adventure Drama). Stars; Victor Mature, 

Anita Ekberg, Michael Wilding. Producers; Irving 

Allen and Albert R. Broccoli for Warwick Productions. 

Director; Terence Young. Original: A. J. 

Bevan. Screenplay: Richard Moiboum. 

• After being banished by his father, a native 

ruler of northern India, Zarok (Victor Mature) becomes 

a bandit and runs afoul of Michael Wilding, 

British political agent. After several brushes with 

the British, Zorok flees into the desert where he 

kills the holy Mullah. Tormented by his blasphemous 

deed, Zorak endeavors to atone by sacrificing 

his life for that of Wilding. Dec. 1956. 

Coming 

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (Adventure Drama). 

Stars; Kenneth More, Diana Cilento, Cecil Parker. 

Producer: Ion Dolrymple for Modern Screenplay 

Productions. Director; Lewis Gilbert. Original; J. M. 

Borrie. Screenplay: Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert. 

• Filmed in Bermuda and London, this deals with 

on aristocratic British family who, with their butler, 

are shipwrecked on o desert islond, where their 

stations in life become reversed. Eostmon Color. 

Torodash. 

ANDERSONVILLE (Historical Drama). Stars; not set. 

Producer; George Sidney Productions. Director; not 

set. Original; MocKinley Kontor. Screenplay; Daniel 

• A Book-of-the-Month selection, this tome deals 

with a Yankee prisoners' stockade in Georgia during 

the Civil War. Four southerners, oil with good 

reason to hate the Yanks, rebel ogoinst a plan by 

o psychotic Confederate general to kill 17,000 

northern prisoners through starvation and inhuman 

treatment. 

BEYOND MOMBASA (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Donna Reed, Cornel Wilde, Leo Genn. Producer: 

Tony Owen (Todon Productions). Director: George 

Marsholl. Original: James Eostwood. Screenplay: 

Richard English, Gene Levitt. 

• Lensed on location in Mombasa, Nairobi and 

Zanzibar, this is the story of adventurer Cornel 

Wilde's efforts to rediscover o lost uranium mine 

which hod belonged to his murdered brother. Donno 

Reed, niece of missionary Leo Genn, tries to aid 

Wilde, but they are thwarted ond endangered at 

every turn by lurking "leopard men." CinemoScope 

and color. 

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Drama). Stars: Alec 

Guinness, Jack Hawkins, William Holden. Producer: 

Sam Spiegel for Horizon-American Productions. 

Director: David Leon. Original; Pierre 

Boulle. Screenplay; Pierre Boulle. 

• Guinness portrays Colonel Davidson, a British 

military leader, who was captured with his troops 

by the Japanese in World War II ond forced to 

labor in building a bridge. It is scheduled for 

filming in Ceylon. 

THE BROTHERS RICO (Crime Drama). Stars; Richard 

Conte, Dianne Foster, James Darren. Producer: 

Lewis J. Rochmil (William Goetz Production). Director: 

Phil Korlson. Original; Georges Simenon. 

Screenplay: Peter Viertel. 

• An ex-rocketeer goes straight, but his post 

catches up with him when the mob orders him to 

track down ond deliver his younger brother, who is 

about to turn state's evidence. In Technicolor. 

THE CHAIN (Drama). Stars; not set. Producer: William 

Fodimon. Director; Gottfried Reinhardt. Original; 

Paul Wellmon. Screenplay: Edmund Morris, 

Horry Brown. 

• Picturizotion of the experiences of a protestont 

minister in o small town in Kansas. 

DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK (Musical). Stars; Bill 

Holey and His Comets, Alan Freed, Alan Dole. 

Producer; Sam Kotzman (Clover Productions). Director: 

Fred F. Seors. Original Screenploy; Robert 

E. Kent, James B. Gordon. 

• A sequel to the company's previous release 

cerning the current rock 'n' roll music croze. 

con- 

AN ENGLISHMAN IN LAS VEGAS (Musical). Stars; 

Norman Wisdom, Anito Ekberg. Producer; George 

Jessel for Warwick Pictures. Director; not set. 

Original Screenplay; William Roberts. 

• Slated for lensing in color, this musical comedy 

will be shot on location in Los Vegas and London. 

FIRE DOWN BELOW (Adventure Dromo). Stars; Rito 

Hoyworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon. Producers: 

Irving Allen ond Albert R. Broccoli for 

Warwick Productions. Director; Robert Porrish. Original; 

Max Cotto. Screenplay: Irwin Show. 

• Based on the Mox Cotto novel of adventure in 

the Coribbeon, this was filmed on location in 

Trinidod. Technicolor and CinemoScope. 

FLIGHT (Dromo). Stars: Roger Smith (incomplete). 

Producer: Lewis J. Rochmil. Director: Phil Korlson. 

Originol; Joe London. Screenplay: David Davidson, 

• This deols with the U. S. Air Force and new 

developments in jet flight. 

FRIDAY THE 13TH (Drama). Stars: Von Johnson, 

Betsy Palmer. Producer; Bryan Foy. Director: William 

Dieferle. Original; H. Vernor Dixon. Screenploy: 

not set. 

• This deals with o man falsely accused of 

murder. 

FULL OF LIFE (Comedy). Stars: Judy Holliday, 

Richard Conte, Salvotore Boccoloni. Producer: Fred 

Kohlmor. Director; Richard Quine. Original; John 

Fonte. Screenplay: John Fonte. 

• From a novel by John Fonte, this is the story 

of o wife expecting her first child, and of the 

complications brought about by her anxious husbond 

ond his stubborn Italian father, who moves 

in with them. 

THE GARMENT JUNGLE (Dromo). Stars; Lee J. Cobb, 

Kerwin Mathews, Gio Scoto. Producer: Horry 

Kleiner. Directors; Robert Aldrich, Vincent Sherman. 

Original; Lester Velie. Screenplay; Horry 

Kleiner. 

• It's an expose of racketeering 

gorment monufocturing industry. 

in New York's 

THE GIANT CLAW (Horror Drama). Stars; not set. 

Producer: Sam Kotzman for Clover Productions. 

Director; Fred F. Sears. Original; Paul Gongslin. 

Screenplay; Paul Gangslin. 

• In this entry, a prehistoric monster appears, 

threatening to destroy the world. 

THE GOLDEN VIRGIN (Dromo). Stors: Joan Crawford, 

Rossono Brozzi, Heather Sears. Producers: John 

and James Woolf for Valiant Films Ltd. Director; 

David Miller. Original; Nicholas Monsorrot. Screenplay; 

Charles Kaufman. 

• A young Irish girl is severely handicapped by 

an accident. Her porents ore unable to core for 

her, but a wealthy widow offers to have her cured. 

The cose is exploited until on act of kindness 

turns into o repulsive racket. 

THE GREAT SEBASTIANS (Comedy-Dromo). Stars: 

not set. Producer; Fred Kohlmor for George Sidney 

Productions. Director; George Sidney. Original; 

Howord Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Screenplay; Bella 

and Sam Spewock. 

• A backstage story about two old-time voudevillions 

who become innocently involved in Communist 

intrigue behind the Iron Curtain. 

GUARD OF HONOR (Dromo). Stors; not set. Producers; 

Julian Blaustein and Doniel Torodash for 

Phoenix Productions. Director: Richard Murphy. 

Original; James Gould Cozzens. Screenploy: Richard 

Murphy. 

• Incidents which take place during o three-doy 

period ot o Florida air base during World War II 

form the plot of this film version of the Pulitzer 

Prize winning novel by James Gould Cozzens. 

GUNS OF FORT PETTICOAT (Outdoor Dromo). Stars: 

Audie Murphy, Kothryn Grant, Hope Emerson. 

Producer; Horry Joe Brown. Director; George 

Morsholl. Original; C. William Horrison. Screenploy; 

Walter Doniger. 

• Pioneer women harassed by Indian ottocks ore 

drilled and trained by Audie Murphy, on army 

scout, into a fighting force that holds off the 

redskins until the cavalry rides to the rescue. In 

Technicolor. 

THE HARD MAN (Historical Outdoor Drama). Stars: 

Guy Modison (incomplete). Executive Producer; 

Wolloce MocDonold. Producer: Helen Ainsworth 

(Romson Productions). Director: not set. Original; 

Mory McCall jr. Screenploy; Leo Kotcher. 

• This story of o Texas low officer who is too 

quick on the draw will be mode under the banner 

of Guy Madison's Romson Productions. 

THE HAUNTED (Mystery). Stars; Dono Andrews, 

Peggy Cummins, Nioll MacGinnis. Producer: Hoi E. 

Chester. Director; Jacques Tourneur. Original: 

Montague R. Jomes. Screenplay; Charles Bennett. 

• Filmed in London, ond bosed on Montogue R. 

James "Casting the Runes," this suspense vehicle 

concerns psychical reseorch of the supernatural. 

HELD'S ANGELS (Musical). Stars; not set. Producer: 

Jonie Tops. Director: Richard Quine. Original: 

John Held jr., Frank Gilbreth jr. Screenploy: James 

Whitfield Ellison, Bloke Edwards. 

• This roaring '20s filmusicol is based on an 

anthology of the celebrated flopper-ero cartoons 

by John Held jr. 

HELLCATS OF THE NAVY (Drama). Stars: Ronald 

Reogon, Noncy Dovis, Arthur Fronz. Producer; 

Charles Schneer (Morningside Productions). Director; 

Nathan J. Juron. Original; Admiral Chorles 

Lockwood, Colonel Hans Christion Adomson. 

Screenplay: Edmund North, David Long. 

• Celluloid version of Admiral Lockwood's and 

Colonel Adomson's book of the some title. 

JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL (Drama) Stars; 

not set. Producer; not set. Director; Gottfried 

Reinhardt. Original: Fronz Werfel, S. N. Behrmon. 

Screenplay; S. N. Behrmon. 

• This will be the celluloid version of Fronz 

Werfel's story and S. N. Behrmon's legitimate 

stage play. 

JEANNE EAGELS (Biographical Dromo). Stars: Kim 

Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Mooreheod. Producer; 

George Sidney Productions. Director: George 

Sidney. Original Screenplay: Daniel Fuchs. 

• Biofilm of on octress who skyrocketed to Broodwoy 

tome in the 1920s. 

THE LAST ANGRY MAN (Dromo). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Fred Kohlmor. Director: not set. Original: 

Gerald Green. Screenploy; not set. 

• It is the story of Dr. Som Abelmon, on aging 

general practitioner who hos never been able to 

progress beyond the Brooklyn slums because he 

has devoted his life to the slum dwellers. Almost 

by accident, he becomes the subject of a new and 

highly publicized notionol television progrom. 

THE LAST HURRAH (Dromo). Stars; James Cagney, 

Jock Lemmon. Producer; not set. Director: John 

Ford. Original: Edwin O'Connor. Screenplay; Frank 

Nugent. 

• Adapted for the screen from on Atlantic 

Monthly prize-winning novel, it is o fictional study 

of the lost of the old-time political bosses, locoled 

in a present-day New Englond city. 


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LUCK IS A WOMAN (Mystery). Stars: Jack Hawkins, 

Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price. Producers: Frank 

Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Director: Sidney Gilliat. 

Original: Winston Graham. 

• In this British-made mystery, an insurance company 

officiol becomes involved with a married 

woman ond is wrongfully accused of murder. 

THE LONG CHANCE (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original: 

David Mark. Screenplay; Samuel Fuller. 

• A horse ployer spends one last nightmarish 

day at the track, trying vainly to recoup his losses 

and stave off inevitable ruin. Between races, his 

life and the lives of the women who have been associated 

with him pass in review before him. 

LOST HORIZON (Drama With Music). Stars: not set. 

Fred Kohlmar. Director: not set. Original: James 

Hilton. Screenplay: not set. 

• Based on James Hilton's novel, this will be 

presented as o droma with music. 

THE MAN WHO TURNED TO STONE (Horror 

Drama). 

Stars: Victor Jory, Williom Hudson, Ann Doran. 

Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: Leslie Kardos. 

Original Screenplay: Raymond T. Marcus. 

• In this horror yarn, a group of scientists experiment 

with longevity and inadvertently develop a 

petrified man. 

MARK HELLINGER STORY (Biographical Drama). 

Stars: not set. Producer; Jonie Taps. Director: nat 

set. Original: Leo Katcher. Screenplay: Leo 

Katcher. 

• It is biofilm about the famed newspaperman 

and film writer-producer, whose career covered 

two decades of Broadway ond Hollywood history. 

THE MOST WANTED WOMAN (Crime Drama). Stars: 

Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard. Producer: 

Phil C. Samuel for Warwick Productions. 

Director: John Gilling. Original: A. J. Forrest. 

Screenplay: John Paxton. 

• With material from the files of the International 

Police Force serving as the basis for this story, 

it was filmed in CinemaScope on locations abroad. 

THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED (Science-Fiction) 

Stars; Williom Leslie, Kathryn Grant, Raymond 

Green leaf . Producer; Som Katzman. Director: 

Fred F. Sears. Original and Screenplay; Lou Morheim. 

• A science-fiction story, peering into the future 

of the atomic age. 

NIGHTFALL (Suspense Drama). Stars; Aldo Ray, 

Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith. Producer: Ted Richmond 

for Copa Productions. Director: Jacques 

Tourneur. Original: David Goodis. Screenplay: 

Sterling Silliphant. 

• With Los Angeles and San Francisco locales, 

this suspense drama concerns a robbery-andmurder 

suspect who is pursued by persons on both 

sides of the law. 

NO TIME TO BE YOUNG (Drama). Stars: Robert 

Vaughn, Roger Smith, Tom Pittman. Producer; 

Wallace MacDonald. Director i^^- David Rich. Original: 

Philip Yordan. Screenplay: John McPartland, 

Raphael Hayes. 

• Set in present time, it deals with problems of 

juvenile delinquency. 

NO TIME TO DIE (Action Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producers: Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli for 

Warwick Productions. Director: not set. Original: 

Ronald Kemp. Screenplay: 5y Bartlett and Terence 

Young. 

• A story of the North African campaign against 

Rommel in World War II. 

THE NOTORIOUS TENANT (Drama). Stars; Glenn 

Ford. Producer; Fred Kohlmar. Director: Richard 

Quine. Original; Margery Sharpe. Screenplay: Alec 

Coppel. 

• When a foreign correspondent learns he is being 

sent to the Middle East, he sublets his London 

apartment to a demure widow, who is subsequently 

suspected of having shot her husband. 

PAL JOEY {Drama With Music). Stars: Rita Hayworth, 

Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak. Producer; Fred Kohlmar 

for George Sidney Productions. Director; George 

Sidney. Originol: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, 

John O'Haro. Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley. 

• Film version of the Rodgers ond Hart Broadway 

musical. 

THE PHANTOM STAGECOACH (Western). Stors; 

Kathleen Crowley, Williom Bishop, Richard Webb. 

Producer: Wallace MacDonald for S.G.S. Corporation. 

Director: Ray Nazarro. Original Screenplay: 

David Lang. 

• In this tale of the old west, competition between 

two stagecoach lines results in conspiracy, 

murder and romance. 

RIDE THE HIGH IRON (Drama). Stars: Don Taylor, 

Sally Forrest, Raymond Burr. Producer: William 

Self. Director: Don Weis. Original Screenplay: 

Milton Gelman. 

• Dissotisfied with his humble home after returning 

from the Korean War, a veteran seeks brighter 

horizons among New York's socio! set. 

THE SEA WALL (Drama). Stars: Silvona Mangano, 

Richard Conte, Anthony Perkins, Jo Van Fleet. Producer; 

Dino De Laurent i is for Fredericks Productions, 

Inc. Director: Rene Clement. Originol Screenplay: 

Irwin Shaw. 

• Backgrounded in French Indo-China during the 

1 930s, it concerns two young people who become 

adults in working out their separate conflicts about 

their dreamy, domineering mother, who dies, with 

her function and dream fulfilled. Filmed in 

Thailand. 

SEVEN WAVES AWAY (Drama). Stars: Tyrone Power, 

Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan. Executive Producers: 

Tyrone Power, Ted Richmond. Producer: John R. 

Sloan for Copa Productions. Director; Richard Sale. 

Original Screenplay: Richard Sale. 

• On the first lap of a worldwide cruise, a luxury 

liner explodes and sinks. Most of the film 

deals with the experiences of the few survivors. 

CinemoScope and Technicolor. 

THE SHADOW ON THE WINDOW (Suspense 

Drama). 

Stars: Betty Garrett, Philip Carey, John Barry mo re 

jr. Producer; Jonie Taps. Director: William Asher. 

Originol: John and Word Hawkins. Screenplay: 

Blake Edwards. 

• Based on a Cosmopolitan magazine novelette, 

it concerns the disappearance of a boy who is the 

eye-witness to a murder. 

SIERRA STRANGER (Western). Stars: Howard Duff, 

Gloria McGhee, Dick Foran. Producer; David T. 

Yokozeki. Director: Lee Sholem. Original Screenplay: 

Richard Dorso. 

• This frontier drama has a gold- mining background, 

and was filmed under the title "Count the 

Dead." 

THE SILENT WORLD (Undersea Documentary). Stars; 

Jacques-Yves Costeau, Louis Malle, Frederic Dumas 

and the divers and crew of the Calypso, Produced 

and Directed by Jacques- Yves Costeau and Louis 

Malle. 

• Invented by Captain Costeau and engineer 

Emil Gognon, the aqua-lung enables Costeau 's 

divers to penetrate to the seas' depths in the Red 

Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, Winner 

of the 1 956 Cannes Festival top award. Filmed 

in Technicolor. 

SONS AND LOVERS (Romantic Drama). Stars: Montgomery 

Clift (incomplete). Producer: William J. 

Fodiman, Director: Peter Glenville. Original: D. H. 

Lawrence. Screenplay: Irving Ravetch. 

• This film version of the D. H. Lawrence novel, 

to be filmed in England, costs Montgomery Cliff 

OS a British youth, son of a cool miner, who comes 

under the influence of two women^-one a gentle, 

religious mystic; the other, a lonely wife separated 

from her husband. 

THE STRANGE ONE (Drama). Stars: Ben Gozzoro, 

James Olson, Arthur Storch. Producer: Sam Spiegel 

for Horizon-American Productions. Director: Jack 

Garfein. Original: Colder Willmgham. Screenplay: 

Colder Willinghom. 

• From the novel and stage ploy "End As a Man," 

by Colder Willinghom, this is the story of young 

codefs in a southern military school, 

THE TALL RIDER (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Randolph 

Scott, Maureen O'Sullivan, Richard Boone. Producer; 

Harry Joe Brown (Producers-Actors Corp,). 

Director: Budd Boetticher. Original: Elmore Leonard. 

Screenplay: Burt Kennedy. 

• From on Argosy magazine story, this outdoor 

drama is locoled in northern California in the 

1880s, Miss O'Sullivan plays the role of the 

daughter of o wealthy copper mine owner, who is 

held for ransom, while Scott portrays the former 

ramrod of a cattle outfit. 

THREE-TEN TO YUMA (Western). Stars: Glenn Ford, 

Von Heflin, Felicia Forr, Leora Dona. Producer; 

David Heilweil. Director: Del mar Daves. Originol; 

Elmore Leonard. Screenplay: Halsteod Welles. 

• A poor rancher, Van Heflin, finds himself a oneman 

posse, trying to escort a bandit,' Glenn Ford, 

to jail. 

TOWN ON TRIAL (Drama). Stars; Borbara Bates, 

John Mills, Charles Coburn. Executive Producer: 

Maxwell Setton. Producer: William Weedon for 

Marksman Films. Director: John Guillermin, Original 

Screenplay: Ken Hughes, Robert Westerby. 

• A hospital nurse foils in love with a relentless 

Scotland Yard detective who, it appears, is concerned 

only in tracking down o murderer. Their 

relationship is complicated by the fact that the 

sleuth suspects her father, the town's respected 

doctor, of being the killer, 

TWENTY MILLION MILES TO EARTH (Science-Fiction). 

Stars: Joan Taylor, William Hopper, John 

Zarembo. Producer; Chorles Schneer for Morningside 

Productions. Director: Nathan J. Juran. Original 

Screenplay; Robert Williams, Christopher 

Knopf. 

• A science-fiction yarn scheduled for shooting 

both in Rome and the United States. 

THE 27TH DAY (Science-Fiction). Stars: Valerie 

French, George Vaskovec, Gene Barry. Executive 

Producer; Lewis J. Rochmil. Producer; Helen Ainsworth. 

Director; William Asher. Original: John 

Mantley. Screenplay: John Mantley, 

• Based on John Mantley's science-fiction book, 

it concerns communication between the earth and 

another planet. 

UNCLE GEORGE (Drama). Stars: Nigel Patrick, 

Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller. Producer; John 

pQxton. (Warwick Productions). Director; Nigel 

Patrick. Original: Didier Daix. Screenplay: John 

Paxton. 

• Relatives conspire to murder their wealthy 

uncle. 

UTAH BLAINE (Western). Stars: Rory Calhoun, Susan 

Cummings, Angela Stevens. Producer: Sam Katzman 

(Clover Productions). Director: Fred F. Sears. 

Original: Louis L'Amour. Screenplay: James B. 

Gordon, Robert E. Kent. 

• It deals with a fight by ranchers with landhungry 

gunmen. 

WALK WITH THE DEVIL (Action Dramo). Stars: not 

set. Producer; Philip Yordan. Director: Vincent 

Sherman. Original: Elliot Arnold. Screenplay: Edmund 

Morris. 

• During the World War II campaign in Italy, 

a U, S. intelligence officer is forced to sacrifice his 

principles and resort to gangster tactics, seeking 

the help of his brother, a notorious deported exmobsfer, 

for the sake of military expedience. 

WICKED AS THEY COME (Drama). Stars: Arlene 

Dahl, Phil Corey, Herbert Marshall. Producer: Maxwell 

Setton. Director: Ken Hughes. Original: William 

S. Bollinger. Screenplay: Robert Westerby, 

Sigmund Miller, Ken Hughes. 

• Based on William S. Bollinger's novel, "Portrait 

in Smoke," it concerns a beauty contest entrant 

who wins a trip to Europe, using it as a springboard 

to victimize men. 

THE YOUNG DON'T CRY (Drama) Stars: James 

Whit more, Sal Mineo, J. Carrol Noish. Producer: 

Philip Woxman (independent). Director: Alfred 

Werker. Original and Screenplay: Richard Jessup. 

• This suspense drama was filmed entirely in 

Georgia. 

ZOMBIES OF MORA-TUA (Horror Drama). Stars: 

Allison Hayes, Gregg Palmer, Autumn Russell. Producer; 

Som Katzman. Director: Edward L. Cahn. 

Original: George Plympton. Screenplay; Raymond 

T. Marcus. 

• Obviously a chiller. 

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THE BABY AND THE BATTLESHIP (Comedy). Stars: 

John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Lisa Gaston i. 

Producer: Anthony Dornborough (Jay Lewis Productions). 

Director: Jay Lewis. Original: Anthony 

Thorne. Screenplay: Joy Lewis, Gilbert Hackforth 

Jones. 

• This British-made comedy frolic follows the 

frantic efforts of British seamen John Mills and 

Richard Attenborough to conceal the presence of 

o baby oboard one of Her Majesty's battleships 

during maneuvers in Mediterranean waters. In 

color, the film includes location shots of Naples. 

Distributed by DCA. 

LOSER TAKES ALL (Romontic Comedy). Stars; Rossono 

Brazzi, Glynis Johns, Robert Morley. Producer: John 

Stafford. Director: Ken Annakin. Original Screenplay: 

Graham Greene. 

• This is frivolous, romantic tale of midd lee lass 

English just-marrieds who are treated to a wedding 

trip to Monte Carlo aboard the yacht of the groom's 

tycoon employer. The poir must put their wits to 

work when the employer fails in his promise to 

meet them—and their funds quickly run out. 

Filmed in CinemaScope and color on the Riviera. 

Distributed by DCA, 

MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER (Drama). Stars; Anna 

Neoglc, Sylvia Syms, Norman Woolond, Wilfrid 

Hyde White. Producer-Director: Herbert Wilcox. 

Original Screenplay; Felicity Douglos. 

• Anna Neogle, fiction editor of a teenagers' 

magazine, finds all efforts to guide and counsel 

her own teenage daughter futile. Helplessly she 

stands by while the girl involves herself with a 

society no-good, attending jive sessions in afterhours 

"bottle clubs." It takes a brush with the 

low and a timely rebuke by the magistrate to 

bring the young lady to her senses. Distributed 

by DCA. 


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ROCK, ROCK, ROCK (Rock 'n' roll Musical). Stars: 

Alan Freed and orchestra, Tuesday Weld, LoVern 

Baker. Producers: Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky 

{Vanguard Productions). Director: Will Price. 

Original: Milton Subotsky, Phyllis Coe. Screenplay: 

Milton Subotsky. 

• This rock 'n' roller, aimed at the teenage trade, 

tells the story of o teenager who wants a strapless 

gown to weor to the high school prom and goes 

through all kinds of agonies to raise the price of 

the coveted dress. Liberally laced with musical 

numbers. Distributed by DCA. 

Metro-Goldwyn-MayeT 

(September through December 1956) 

THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME (Comedy). Stars: 

Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller. Producer: 

Henry Berman, Director: Herman Hoffman. Original 

Screenplay: Nathaniel Benchley. 

• A well-intentioned father tries to help his son 

by managing a little league baseball team, getting 

into hot water with a number of interfering parents 

and practically alienoting his family before the 

complications are resolved. Dec. 1956. 

THE IRON PETTICOAT (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Bob 

Hope, Kathorine Hepburn, Noelle Mlddleton. Producer: 

Betty Box (Romulus Films). Director: Ralph 

Thomas, Original Screenploy: Ben Hecht, 

• Katharine Hepburn, a Russian army ace, disgruntled 

because promotion has passed her by, 

flies to the Western zone. Army brass, seeking 

to capitalize on her defection, assign pilot Bob 

Hope to "convert" her. After the two hove fallen 

in love, she is kidnaped by Russian agents, 

charged with treason and flown to her homeland 

to be executed. But the cold wor warms up and 

she and Hope are free to marry. Filmed in Technicolor, 

largely on location in London. Dec. 1956. 

JULIE {Suspense Drama). Stars: Doris Day, Louis 

Jourdan, Barry Sullivan. Producer: Marty Melcher 

(Arwin Productions). Director: Andrew L. Stone. 

Original Screenplay: Andrew L. Stone. 

• Doris Day, on her honeymoon with concert 

pianist Louis Jourdan, leorns that his obsessive, 

neurotic jealousy has led him to murder her first 

husband. As she seeks to escape and bring him to 

justice, he tries to bring about her deoth also, 

and very nearly succeeds. Nov. 1956. 

LUST FOR LIFE (Biographical Drama). Stars: Kirk 

Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Pomelo Brown. Producer: 

John Houseman. Director: Vincente Minnelli- 

Original: Irving Stone. Screenplay: Norman 

Corwin. 

• Filmed on location in France, Holland ond 

Belgium, this troces the life and artistic growth 

of the Belgian painter, Vincent Van Gogh, based on 

the Irving Stone biography. The story highlights 

two love affairs, his friendship with pointer Paul 

Gauguin and the frustrations ond self-doubts that 

led to two suicide attempts and an early death. 

Many of the painter's works are displayed through 

the medium of Metrocolor, used for the first time 

in this production, and CinemaScope. Sept. 1956. 

THE OPPOSITE SEX (Comedy With Songs), Stars: 

June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Groy. Producer: 

Joe Pasternak. Director: Dovid Miller, Original: 

Clare Boothe. Screenplay: Fay and Michael Kanln. 

• This is o musical version of "The Women," the 

no-holds-borred Clare Boo the comedy which was 

filmed by MGM in 1939. The new production has 

added the males as well as several songs and 

guests stars and retains the original story which 

is devoted mainly to the petty gossip, bickerings, 

jealousy and even hair-pulling altercations of a 

group of sophisticated, well-to-do Manhattan matrons. 

In CinemaScope and Technicolor. Oct. 1956. 

THE POWER AND THE PRIZE (Drama). Stars: Robert 

Taylor, Elisabeth Mueller, Burl Ives. Producer: 

Nicholas Nayfock. Director: Henry Koster. Original: 

Howard Swiggett. Screenplay: Robert 

Ardrey. 

• Robert Taylor, being groomed to take over where 

Burl Ives leaves off as head of a gigantic American 

compony, is sent to London to pull a ruthless 

mining deal. He meets Elisabeth Mueller, o refugee 

girl, who persuades him to drop the deal and to 

make his choice in favor of good business ethics. 

Photographed in black-and-white CinemaScope. 

Oct. 1956. 

THE RACK (Droma). Stars: Paul Newman, Walter 

Pidgeon, Anne Francis. Producer: Arthur Loew jr. 

Director: Arnold Loven. Original: Rod Serling. 

Screenplay: Stewart Stern. 

• Paul Newman, young veteron of the Korean 

War, returns home after two years In a Red 

prison camp to be greeted warmly by his Army 

father, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Froncis, widow 

of his brother who was killed In Korea. When 

Newman is court-mortialed on charges of collaborating 

with the enemy, Pidgeon refuses to stand 

by him. His appointed defender, Edmond O'Brien, 

does a valiant job on his behalf, showing that 

hundreds of others might have done the some 

under duress. Pidgeon, moved, is reunited with 

Newman even though the jury finds him guilty. 

Nov. 1956. 

TEA AND SYMPATHY (Drama). Stars: Deborah Kerr, 

John Kerr, Leif Erickson. Producer: Pandro S. 

Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli, Orlglnol: 

Robert Anderson. Screenplay: Robert Anderson. 

• A misunderstood youth, accused by his schoolmates 

of homosexual tendencies, is comforted and 

guided to maturity by the understanding wife of 

the school's master. Photographed in CinemaScope 

and Technicolor. Sept. 1956. 

THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (Comedy) 

Stars: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Mochiko Kyo. 

Producer: Jack Cummings. Director: Daniel Mann. 

Original: Vern Snelder, John Patrick. Screenplay: 

John Patrick. 

• This story of a U. S. army captain's efforts to 

rehabilitate o war-torn Oklnawon village is based 

on Vern Sneider's book and John Patrick's ploy, 

which became a success on Broadway. In Metrocolor 

and CinemaScope. Dec. 1956. 

Coming 

ACTION OF THE TIGER (Droma). Stars: Martine 

Corol, Von Johnson, Herbert Lom. Producer: Kenneth 

Harper fClorldge Productions). Director: Terence 

Young. 

• Filmed on location In Spain and England, this 

story is based on the novel by James Williard. 

Photographed in color. 

BANNON (Drama). Stars: Spencer Tracy, Montgomery 

Clift. Producer: John Houseman. Director: 

Robert Wise. Original Screenplay: James Bart low 

Martin, Millard Kaufman. 

• Dealing with labor in American industry, It will 

be a sequel to "Executive Suite." 

THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET (Romantic 

Drama). Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill 

Trovers. Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Sidney 

Franklin. Original: Rudolf Bessier. Screenplay; 

John Dighton. 

• From the play, this costs Jennifer Jones as 

Elizabeth Barrett, the poetess wooed and won by 

poet Robert Browning, and whose love story Is one 

of the most famous In history. Produced once 

previously by this company in 1934, the story this 

time was filmed on location in London in Cinema- 

Scope and Metrocolor. 

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (Drama). Stars: not 

set. Producer: Pondro S. Berman. Director: 

Richord Brooks. Original: Feodor Dostoevski. 

Screenplay: Richard Brooks. 

• A classic in literature, it i a psychological 

study of three types of men 

1 soldier, on intellectuol, 

and a religious mystic -all of whom are 

brothers. 

THE COMPANY OF COWARDS (War Drama). Stars 

not set. Producer: Charles Schnee. Director: not 

set. Original: William Chamberlain. Screenplay: 

Jock Schaefer. 

• A group of officers, dishonored in their first 

battle in World War II, struggle to redeem themselves 

in a second conflict. 

DESIGNING WOMAN (Comedy). Stars: Gregory Peck, 

Lauren Baca II, Dolores Gray. Producer: Dore 

Schory. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original 

Screenplay: George Wells. 

• Whirlwind courtship Is the theme of this yarn 

about a fashion designer who marries a brash 

sports writer while on vocation In Florido. Photographed 

in CinemaScope and Metrocolor, 

DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER (Comedy-Droma). Stars: 

Glenn Ford, Anna Koshf i. Producer: Lawrence 

Weingarten. Director: Charles Walters. Original: 

William Brinkley. Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley. 

• Based on William Brinkley's novel, it Is the 

story of a navy public relations unit in the South 

Pacific during World War M. 

EDGE OF THE CITY (Drama). Stars: John Cassavetes, 

Sidney Poitler, Kathleen Maguire. Producer: David 

Susskind (Jonothon Productions). Director: Martin 

Ritt. Original Screenplay: Robert Alan Aurthur. 

• John Cassavetes, newly hired truck loader, runs 

afoul of vicious hiring boss Jock Warden, but finds 

o friend in Negro co-worker Sidney Poitier. Then 

Warden kills Sidney, and John, an army deserter, 

must decide whether to save his own skin or go 

to the police. 

THE FEMALE (Historical Drama). Stars: Avo Gordner 

(incomplete). Producer: John Houseman, Director: 

George Cukor. Original: Poul Wellmon. 

Screenploy: John Lee Mohln. 

• Paul Wellman's novel about a conniving charmer 

in Constantinople In the sixth century will serve 

as a starring vehicle for Avo Gardner. 

GUN GLORY (Western), Stars: Stewart Granger, 

Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills. Producer: Nicholas 

Nayfock. Director: Roy Rowland. Original: Philip 

Yordon. Screenplay: Frank Fenton. 

• This frontier droma concerns itself with outlaws 

endeavoring to drive peaceful settlers out of a 

valley. CinemaScope and Metrocolor. 

THE HAPPY ROAD (Comedy). Stars: Gene Kelly, Barbara 

Looge, Michael Redgrave. Producer-Director: 

Gene Kelly (Kerry Productions.) Associate Producer: 

Noel Howard. Original: Arthur Julien, Horry Kurnitz. 

Screenplay: Arthur JuMen, Joseph Morhaim, 

Harry Kurnitz. 

• It deals with the father of a youngster who 

vanishes from boarding school with another child. 

While seorching for his son, he encounters the 

mother of the other runaway; and in shoring their 

problems, they ore reunited with their respective 

offspring. 

HOT SUMMER NIGHT (Droma), Stars: Leslie Nielsen, 

Edword Andrews, Colleen Miller. Producer: Morton 

Fine. Director: David Friedkin. Original: Edwin P. 

Hicks. Screenplay: David Friedkin, Morton Fine, 

• A newspaperman and his bride head for the 

Ozorks on their honeymoon, where the scribe hopes 

to win fame and o new job by getting on exclusive 

interview with a notorious outlaw. 

THE HOUSE OF NUMBERS (Melodrama). Stars: Jock 

Polance, Barbara Long, Horold J. Stone. Producer: 

Chorles Schnee. Director: Russell Rouse. 

Original: Jock Finney. Screenplay: Don Monkiewicz. 

• From Jack Finney's Cosmopolitan magazine 

story, "The Pastel Penitentiary," this screen adaptation 

deals with o plot by inmates to escape from 

Son Quentin. Jack Polance will ploy a dual role as 

twin brothers. 

INTERNATIONAL REVUE (Musical). Stars: Howard 

Keel, Ann Miller, Esther Williams. Producer: Joe 

Pasternak. Director: George Sidney. Original 

Screenplay: Leonord Spigelgoss. 

• Set against backgrounds of various European 

capitals, it is o pageant of singing and dancing. 

INVITATION TO THE DANCE (Ballet) Stars: Gene 

Kelly, Claire Sombert, Igor Youskevitch. Producer: 

Arthur Freed, Director: Gene Kelly. Original: 

Gene Kelly. 

• In Technicolor, told without dialog, this relates 

three plots— "Circus," "Ring Around the Rosy" and 

"Sinbod the Sailor"—all in ballet form. Kelly stars 

in each, supported by such ballet luminories as 

Claire Sombert, Igor Youskevitch and David 

Paltenghi. 

IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON (Drama). Stars: Glenn 

Ford (incomplete). Producer: John Champion. Director: 

not set. Original: Harry Essex. Screenplay: 

Horry Essex, John Chomplon, David Davidson. 

• Based on Harry Essex' novel, "I Put My Right 

Foot In," It's a yarn about fledgling ploywrights 

on Broadway. 

KING KELLY (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, 

Elsa Mortlnelli. Producer: Jerry Bresler for Bryno 

Productions. Director: Lewis Milestone. Original: 

R. Wright Campbell. Screenplay: Daniel Molnworing, 

Edna Anholt. 

• During the post Civil War period, a restless 

soldier tries to set up his own empire in the southwest. 

LES GIRLS (Romantic Comedy With Music), Stors: 

Gene Kelly, Mltzi Goynor, Kay Kendall. Producer: 

Sol C. Siegel. Director: George Cukor. Original 

Screenploy: John Patrick. 

• This romantic comedy with a musicol score by 

Cole Porter, is being filmed on location in London, 

Paris, Berlin, Rome and Stockholm. It concerns 

the adventures of three girls. 

THE LITTLE HUT (Comedy). Stars Avo Gordner, 

Stewart Granger, Dovid Niven. Producers: Mark 

Robson, F, Hugh Herbert (Herbson S.A. Productions). 

Director: Mark Robson. Original: Andre 

Roussin, Nancy Mitford. Screenplay: F. Hugh 

Herbert. 

• From the stoge comedy which was o sensational 

success in London and Paris, and only somewhat 

less so in New York, this was lensed on location in 

Europe and deols with the housekeeping arrangements 

and emotional complications which evolve 

when wife, her husband and their best friend are 

stronded on a tropicol island. 

THE LIVING IDOL (Adventure Drama). Stars: Steve 

Forrest, Lrlione Montevecchi, James Robertson Justice. 

Producers: Albert Lewin, Gregorlo Wolerstein 

(Albert Lewin Productions). Director: Albert Lewin. 

Original Screenplay: Albert Lewin. 

• Lensed on location In Mexico and Yucatan, the 

location sites of this adventure yorn include 

Chichen-ltzo and Uxmol, deserted cities flanking 

a mysterious pyramid which typifies ancient Mayan 

culture. The story concerns on orcheologist who becomes 

involved in the reincarnation of a jaguar 

demon. Photographed In CinemaScope and color. 

LIZZIE (Psychological Drama). Stars: Eleanor Parker, 

Richard Boone, Joan BlondeM. Producer: Jerry 

Bresler for Bryno Productions. Director: Hugo 

Haas. Original: Shirley Jackson. Screenplay: Mel 

Dinelli. 

• Psychologist Richard Boone is confronted with 

the baffling problem of patient Eleanor Porker 

who, he discovers, has three separate personalities, 

ranging from prim officer worker to dissolute ploygirl. 


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COMPANY 

Projects in work 

"YELLOWLEG" 

"BURST OF VERMILION" 

"TO TAME A LAND" 

"THE CONTEST" 

"TIGER ON A KITE" 

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MARLON BRANDO 

GEORGE ENGLUND 

MARLON BRANDO, SR. 

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MGM (Cont'd) 

MAN ON FIRE (Drama). Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary 

Fickett, Inger Stevens. Producer: Sol C. Siegel 

(Sol C. Siegel Production), Director: Ranald Mac- 

Dougoll. Original Screenplay: Ronald MacDougall. 

• Man becomes involved in a quarrel with his 

ex-wife over the custody of their children. 

MERRY ANDREW (Musical Comedy). Stars: Danny 

Kaye (incomplete). Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: 

Michael Kidd. Original: Paul Gallico. Screenplay: 

Isobel Lennart. 

• Partly filmed on location in Englond, this stars 

Danny Koye as the circus clown created by Paul 

Gallico. 

PRISONER IN PARADISE (Drama). Stars: Glenn Ford 

(incomplete). Producer-Directors: Morton Fine, 

David Friedkin. Original: Caret Rogers. Screenplay: 

Morton Fine, David Friedkin. 

• Based on Caret Rogers' novel, it is an expose 

of medical quackery. 

RAINTREE COUNTY (Historical Drama). Stars: Elizabeth 

Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Mane Saint. 

Producer: David Lewis. Director: Edward Dmytryk. 

Original: Ross Franklin Lockridge jr. Screenplay: 

Millard Kaufman. 

• First feature to be filmed in the company's 

newly developed 65mm process, this is a story of 

an Indiana community before, during and after 

the Civil War. Photographed in MGM Camera 65 

and Metrocolor. 

THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE (Romantic Comedy). 

Stars: Debbie Reynolds (incomplete). Producer: 

Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. 

Original: William Douglas Home. Screenplay; 

Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. 

• Based on the London and New York stage hit 

by William Douglas Home, this high-style comedy 

deals with the fathers and mothers who bring their 

daughters to London during the nerve-wracking 

debutante season in search of eligible husbands 

for them. 

THE SEVENTH SIN (Drama). Stars; Eleanor Parker, 

Bill Trovers, George Sanders. Producer: David 

Lewis. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original; W. 

Somerset Maugham. Screenplay: Arthur Laurents, 

Karl Tunberg. 

• Filmed on location in Hong Kong, this is based 

on Maugham's "The Painted Veil," which was 

made before by MGM in 1934, starring Greta 

Garbo, Herbert Marshall and George Brent. The 

story is a romantic triangle in which an unfaithful 

wife's plans boomerang. In CinemaScope and 

Metrocolor. 

SILK STOCKINGS (Musical). Stars; Cyd Charisse, Fred 

Astoire, Janis Paige. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director; 

Rouben Mamoulion. Original: George S. 

Kaufman, Leueen McGroth, Abe Burrows. Screenplay; 

Leonard Spigelgass. 

• Film version of the Broadway musical based on 

Melchoir Lengyl's "Ninotchka," dealing with the 

Soviet's efforts to persuade a Russion composer to 

return home from Paris. 

SLANDER (Drama). Stars; Van Johnson, Ann BIyth, 

Steve Cochran. Producer: Armand Deutsch. Director: 

Roy Rowland. Original: Horry Junkins. 

Screenplay: Jerome Weidman. 

• Von Johnson finally attains success on TV, only 

to become enmeshed in a scandal magazine smear. 

Rather than "sell out" an actress and buy his 

own protection from publisher Steve Cochran, Van 

decides to ride out the storm. 

SOMETHING OF VALUE (Drama). Stars; Rock Hudson, 

Wendy Hiller, Dana Wynter. Producer: Pandro 

S. Berman. Director: Richord Brooks. Original. 

Robert C. Ruork. Screenplay: Richard Brooks. 

• From the Robert C. Ruark novel, and lensed on 

locotion in Africa, this is a story of racial strife 

in the Mou Mau country. 

TEN THOUSAND BEDROOMS (Romantic Comedy). 

Stors: Dean Martin, Eva Bartok, Anna Maria Alberghetti. 

Producer: Joe Pasternok. Director: 

Richard Thorpe. Original Screenplay: LqszIo Vodney, 

Leonard Spigelgass, William Ludwig. 

• Filmed on location in Italy, it is the story of 

a handsome American bachelor who goes to Rome 

to build a de luxe hotel and becomes involved in 

romantic complications. 

THIS COULD BE THE NIGHT (Musical Comedy). Stars: 

Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa. 

Producer: Joe Posternak. Director; Robert Wise. 

Original; Cordelia Baird Gross. Screenplay; Isobel 

Lennart. 

• In this comedy with music, attention is focused 

on a female who teaches school by day 'and works 

as a night club secretary in the evenings. 

TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Robert Taylor, Leslie Nielsen. Producer: Edwin H. 

Knopf. Director: Richard Thorpe. Original; Irwin 

Show. Screenplay: Chorles Lederer. 

• Robert Taylor portrays on exrormy pilot, who 

becomes involved in a multi-million dollar smuggling 

ring, flying contraband from North Africa 

to Italy. To be filmed in Spain. 

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UNTIL THEY SAIL (Drama). Stars: Jean Simmons, 

Paul Newman. Producer: Charles Schnee. Director: 

Robert Wise. Original: James A. Michener. 

Screenplay: Robert Anderson. 

• Filmed in New Zealand, it is the story of a 

family there during World War 11 and its relationship 

with American troops. A short story by 

James A. Michener was the basis for this picture. 

THE VINTAGE (Drama). Stars: Mel Ferrer, Pier 

Angeli, John Kerr. Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: 

Jeffrey Hayden. Original: Ursulo Keir. 

Screenplay: Michael Blonkfort. 

• In the locale of a French vineyard, two Italian 

fugitives fall in love with a beautiful girl. This 

was filmed on location in the south of France in 

CinemaScope and Metrocolor. 

THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE (Sea Suspense 

Drama). Stars: not set. Producer-Director: Alfred 

Hitchcock. Original: Hammond Innes. Screenplay: 

Karl Tunberg. 

• Based on British novelist Hammond Innes' book, 

which subsequently was serialized in the Saturday 

Evening Post, it concerns the owners of a freighter 

and their conspiracy to sink her for the value of 

her cargo, only to have the ship's captain expose 

the plot. 

THE WINGS OF EAGLES (Biographical Drama). Stars: 

John Wayne, Dan Dai ley, Maureen O'Hara. Producer: 

Charles Schnee. Director: John Ford. Original: 

William Wister Haines, Adm. John Dale 

Price. Screenplay; Frank Fenton. 

• A biography of Cmdr. Frank W. Wead, a hero in 

World War 1, who became a screenwriter. Colled 

back into service during the second world conflict, 

he contributed a strategic plan which proved 

successful in recapturing the Marianas. 

Paramount 

(August through December 1956) 

HOLLYWOOD OR BUST [Comedy). Stars; Dean Martin, 

Jerry Lewis, Anita Ekberg. Producer; Hal B. Wallis. 

Director: Frank Toshlin. Original and Screenplay: 

Erna Lazarus. 

• Dean Martin, a New York gambler, and Jerry 

Lewis, a wide-eyed movie fan, travel cross-country 

to see the latter's idol, Anita Ekberg, VistoVision 

and Technicolor treatment were accorded this entry 

Dec. 1956. 

THE MOUNTAIN (Drama). Stors; Spencer Tracy, Robert 

Wagner, Claire Trevor. Producer-Director; Edward 

Dmytryk. Original; Henri Troyat. Screenplay: 

Ranald MacDougall. 

• Filmed largely on location in the French Alps, 

in VistaVision and Technicolor, it deals with two 

brothers who climb the mountain near their native 

village to where a huge passenger plane has 

crashed. Nov. 1956. 

THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (Drama) Stars: 

Louis Hayword, Teresa Wright, Nancy Gates. Producer: 

Pat Duggan. Director: Noel Langley. Original: 

Morey Bernstein. Screenplay: Noel Langley. 

• Based on Morey Bernstein's book, it deals with 

the hypnosis and regression of a housewife, who 

recalled experiences as on Irish maiden in the 

17th and 18th centuries. Filmed in VistoVision. 

Oct. 1956. 

THE VAGABOND KING (Operetta). Stars: Oreste, 

Kathryn Grayson, Rita Moreno. Producer: Pat 

Duggan. Director; Michael Curtiz. Original: Rudolf 

Friml, WilMom H. Post, Brian Hooker. Screenplay: 

Ken Englund, Noel Langley. 

• Oreste, a French import, portrays Francois Villon, 

the poet-philosopher, in this story of 15th 

century France. Villon and his band of vagabonds 

spring to the support of the king against 

the efforts of the Duke of Burgundy to dethrone 

him. In VistaVision and Technicolor. Sept. 1956. 

WAR AND PEACE (Historical Drama). Stars; Audrey 

Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer. Producer; 

Dino DeLourentiis. Director: King Vidor. Original: 

Leo Tolstoy. Screenplay: Bridget Bolond, Robert 

Westerby, King Vidor, Mario Comerini, Ennio De 

Concini, Ivo Perilli. 

• A film version of Tolstoy's novel about Russia 

during the Napoleonic ero, this was filmed on location 

in Italy and Yugoslovio in VistoVision and 

Technicolor. Aug. 1956— Prerelease. 

Coming 

BEAU JAMES (Biographical Drama). Stars: Bob Hope, 

Paul Douglas, Vera Miles. Producer: Jack Rose for 

Hope's Scribe Productions. Director: Melville Shovelson. 

Original: Gene Fowler. Screenplay: Jack Rose, 

Melville Shavelson. 

• Based on the biography by Gene Fowler, it reflects 

the life and times of James J. Walker, mayor 

of New York from 1925 until 1932 when he resigned 

dramoticolly in order to get his political 

friends off the hook during the sensational Seabury 

Investigation. Filmed in Technicolor and 

VistaVision. 

THE BUCCANEER (Musical Drama). Stars: Yul Brynner, 

Charlton Heston, Li Li-hwo. Producer: Henry 

Wilcoxon for Cecil B. DeMille. Director: Anthony 

Quinn. Original: Lyie Saxon. Screenplay: Justice 

Mayer, Harold Lamb, C. Gardner Sullivan, Jesse 

Lasky, jr., 

• The adventures of pirate Sean La Fitte are related 

in this story which will be filmed in a musical 

version. 

BURST OF VERMILION (Western). Stars: not set. 

Producer; George Englund for Pennebaker Productions. 

Director: not set. Original Screenplay: 

Marlon Brando. 

• Backgrounded in New Mexico shortly after the 

Mexican War, it is the story of a man bent on 

revenge. 

THE BUSTER KEATON STORY (Biographical Comedy- 

Drama). Stars: Donald O'Connor, Ann BIyth, Rhonda 

Fleming. Producers: Sidney Sheldon, Robert Smith. 

Director; Sidney Sheldon. Original Screenplay; 

Sidney Sheldon, Robert Smith. 

• Lensed in VistaVision, it is a biography of the 

famous frozen-faced comedian from his early days 

in the circus to the emergence of talking pictures. 

THE DELICATE DELINQUENT fComedy-Drama). Stars: 

Jerry Lewis, Darren McGovin, Martha Hyer. Producer: 

Jerry Lewis for his own York Pictures. Director: 

Don McGuire. Original and Screenplay: Don 

McGuire. 

• Combining comedy and drama, this is about a 

teenager who lives in a slum area and dreams of 

becoming a policeman so he con help underprivileged 

youngsters in such neighborhoods. 

Filmed in VistaVision. 

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (Drama). Stars: Sophia 

Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives. Producer: Don 

Hartmon. Director; Delbert Mann. Original: Eugene 

O'Neill. Screenplay: Irwin Shaw. 

• A celluloid version of Eugene O'Neill's famous 

play, which will come to the screen in VistaVision, 

it is a classic tragedy backgrounded in New England. 

THE DEVIL'S HAIRPIN (Action Drama). Stars: 

Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace. Producer-Director: 

Cornel Wilde for his Theodora Productions. 

Original Screenplay: James Edmiston. 

• A story of sports car racing, which reflects the 

growing interest in this sport, it is slated to be 

filmed in VistaVision and color. 

FEAR STRIKES OUT (Biographical Drama). Stars: 

Anthony Perkins, Karl Maiden, Norma Moore. Producer: 

Alan Pakula. Director: Robert Mulligan. 

Original: James A. Piersoll, Albert 5. Hirshberg. 

Screenplay; Edward O. Berkmon, Raphael D. Blau. 

• True-life story of Boston Red Sox outfielder 

J im Piersoll, who—a victim of amnesia— cracked 

up and was committed to a mental institution, 

where a course of treatment resulted in his complete 

recovery. 

FROM AMONGST THE DEAD (Suspense Drama). Stars: 

James Stewart, Vera Miles. Producer-Director: 

Alfred Hitchcock. Original: Thomas Morcejoc, 

Pierre Boileou. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, 

Alex Coppell. 

• From a French novel with a Louisiana locale, 

this is the story of a mon who, suffering from 

vertigo, becomes involved in the death of hfs 

friend's wife. Filmed in VistoVision. 

FUNNY FACE {Musical Comedy). Stars: Audrey Hepburn, 

Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson. Producer: 

Roger Edens. Director: Stanley Donen. Original 

Screenplay: Leonard Gershe. 

• Based on the Broadway play, with a score by 

George and Ira Gershwin, it is a romantic musical 

in Technicolor and VistaVision, relating a behindthe-scenes 

story of a smart fashion magazine. 

THE GOLDEN JOURNEY (Dramo). Stars: not set. 

Producers; William Perlberg, George Sea ton. Director: 

George Seaton. Original: Agnes SMgh 

Turnbull. Screenplay: Edward Anholt. 

• VistaVision treatment will be accorded this story 

of a crippled girl, daughter of a wealthy man, who 

finds love and regains health through a marriage 

of convenience arranged by her father. 

GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (Western) Stars: 

Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, 

Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: John Sturges. 

Original: George Scullin. Screenplay: Leon Uris. 

• One of the early west's most fomous gun battles 

—^between Wyott Earp, the frontier marshal, and 

Doc Hollidoy, the desperado—is recreated in this 

Technicolor-VistaVision entry. 

HOT SPELL (Drama). Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony 

Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman. Producer: 

Hal Wallis. Director: Daniel Mann. Originol: Lonnie 

Coleman. Screenplay: James Poe. 

• This is a contemporary story of family tensions, 

locoled in the deep South, and based on 

Lonnie Colema/i's "Next of Kin." 

HOUSEBOAT (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Cory Grant, 

Sophia Loren. Producer: Jack Rose for Scribe Productions. 

Director: Mel Shavelson. Original: B. 

Winkle. Screenplay: Anna Perrot Rose. 

• It concerns the experiences of a widower who 

is seeking a mother for his children. 

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Paramount (Cont'd) 

JOEY (Drama). Stars: Anthony Perkins {incomplete). 

Producer: Robert Emmett Dolon. Director: Robert 

Mulligon. Original: Louis Peterson. Screenplay: 

Lours Peterson. 

• Adapted from a NBC-TV Playhouse drama, it 

deals with a lonely youth, who becomes acquainted 

with a strip teose dancer. She discovers he has a 

fine singing voice ond convinces him he should 

rebel against his parents who treat him os an incompetent 

child. 

THE JOKER (Biographical Drama). Stars: Frank 

Sinatra, Mitzi Gay nor, Jeanne Grain. Producer: 

Samuel J. Briskin. Director; Charles Vidor. Original: 

Art Cohn. Screenplay: Oscar Saul, William 

Bowers. 

• Picturization of the life of Joe E. Lewis, a 

dauntless night club performer, who defied gangdom 

and nearly paid with his life for his principles. 

Filmed in VistaVision. 

KITTY HAWK (Biographical Drama), Stars: not set. 

Producers: Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose {Scribe 

Productions). Director: Melville Shavelson. Original 

Screenplay: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose. 

• Covering the careers of the Wright brothers, it 

deals with their faith in the idea of a heavierthan-air 

flying machine and their disappointments 

and final success at Kitty Hawk. 

THE LONELY MAN (Western). Stars: Jack Palance, 

Anthony Perkins, Elaine Aiken, Producer: Pot 

Duggon. Director: Henry Levin. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Smith, Harry Essex. 

• Set in Montana during 1871, it is the story of 

a notorious gunfighter who faces inevitable destruction 

because he is going blind. Filmed in 

VistaVision. 

LOVING YOU (Drama With Music). Stars: Elvis 

Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey. Producer: 

Hal B. Wall is. Director: Hal Kanter. Original: 

Margaret Agnes Thompson. Screenplay: Herbert 

Baker. 

• From a Good Housekeeping story by Margaret 

Agnes Thompson, it is a yarn about a young 

country singer whose early records get in the hands 

of big-city operators, who try to exploit his talents 

for their own uses. In VistaVision and Technicolor. 

THE MATCHMAKER (Comedy). Stars: Anthony 

Perkins, Shirley Booth, Shirley MacLoine. Producer: 

Don Hartman. Director: not set. Original: Thornton 

Wilder. Screenplay: not set. 

• During the 1880s in New York, a rich, tightfisted 

widower, seeking a wife, becomes involved 

with a scheming lady motchmoker. Has been enjoying 

a phenomenally successful revival on Broadway 

this past season. 

THE OBSESSED (Drama). Stars: Anna Magnani (incomplete). 

Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: John 

Sturges. Original: Arnold Schulman. Screenplay: 

Arnold Schulman. 

• Based on a story and screenplay by Arnold 

Schulman, this modern drama will be filmed in 

VistaVision. 

OMAR KHAYYAM fAdventure Drama). Stars: Cornel 

Wilde, Debra Paget, Michael Rennie. Producer: 

Y. Frank Freeman jr. Director: William Dieterle. 

Original Screenplay: Barre Lyndon. 

• This is a romantic adventure drama of 1 1th 

century Persia, portraying the story of Omar Khayyam, 

poet, astronomer, mathematician and counselor 

to the court. It was filmed in Technicolor and 

VistaVision. 

PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION (Romantic Comedy). 

Stors: Fred Astoire (incomplete). Producer: Robert 

Emmett Dolan. Director: not set. Original: Corinne 

Griffith. Screenplay: Henry and Phoebe Ephron. 

• Based on a book by silent screen star Corinne 

Griffith, this is a story of her childhood in Texas, 

where her father, John Lewis Griffith, was a railroad 

superintendent for the Cotton Belt line. 

THE RAINMAKER (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Burt 

Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey. Producer: 

Hal B. Wallis. Director: Joseph Anthony. 

Original: N. Richard Nash. Screenplay: N. Richard 

Nash. 

• This screen version of the stage play concerns 

a family hit by drought on the western plains. A 

mysterious stranger fraudulently poses as a rainmaker 

and convinces the clan's spinster daughter 

that he is no fraud os a romantic swashbuckler. 

Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor. 

SAD SACK (Comedy). Stars: Jerry Lewis (incomplete). 

Producer: Hal Wollis. Director: not set. Original: 

Eddie Belois, Nate Monister. Screenplay: not set. 

• A young "sodsack" in the army is constantly 

getting into trouble. 

SHORT CUT TO HELL (Crime Drama). Stars: Robert 

I vers, Tom Tryon. Producer; A. C. Lyies. Director: 

James Cagney. Original: Graham Greene. 

Screenplay: Edword A. Berkman, Raphael D. Blau. 

• In this entry, a mixed up youngster becomes a 

gunman for a price. It is a remake of "This Gun 

for Hire," which was filmed in 1941. 

SPANISH AFFAIR (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Carmen Seville, Richard Kiley, Jesus Tordesillas. 

Producer; Bruce Odium for Nomad Productions. 

Director: Donald Siegel. Original Screenploy: 

Richard Collins. 

• It concerns an American architect, who falls in 

love with a Spanish-Gypsy and becomes converted 

to her way of life. Filmed in VistaVision and 

Technicolor on location in Spain, it was originally 

titled "Flamenco." 

TEACHER'S PET (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Clark Gable, 

Dons Day, Gig Young. Producers: William Perlberg, 

George Seaton. Director: George Seaton. Original: 

Fay and Michael Kan in. Screenplay: Fay 

and Michael Kanin. 

• It's a yarn about a self-mode city editor and 

a college journalism teacher, who believes book 

learning is a 1 1- important. 

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Biblical Drama). Stars: 

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter. Producer-Director: 

Cecil B, DeMille. Original: Dorothy 

Clarke Wilson and Biblical sources. Screenplay: 

Fredric M. Frank, Aeneas MacKenzie, Jack Gariss, 

Jesse Losky jr. 

• Made once previously as a silent—also by Cecil 

B. DeMille— this time the panoramic story of Moses 

and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt to the 

Promised Land is told in Technicolor and Vista- 

Vision. 

THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE (Western). Stars: Charlton 

Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland. Producer: 

Hugh Brown. Director: Rudy Mate. Original: 

Leonard Praskins, Barney Slater. Screenplay: James 

Edward Grant. 

• Returning from the Civil War, a Texan marries 

a danceholl girl, and together they put a run-down 

ranch back on its feet. In VistaVision and Technicolor. 

THE TIN STAR (Western). Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony 

Perkins, Betsy Palmer. Producers: William 

Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: Anthony Mann, 

Original: Barney Slater, Joel Kane. Screenplay: 

Dudley Nichols. 

• A story about a sheriff who throws away his 

"tin star" when he finds people in his county won't 

lend him money when he most needs it. 

TO TAME A LAND (Western). Stars: Marlon Brando 

(incomplete). Producers: Marlon Brando and George 

Englund for Pennebaker, Inc. Director: Robert 

Porrish. Original: Louis L'Amour. Screenplay; 

Niven Busch, Robert Buckner. 

• This story of a young gunfighter in the doys 

of the early west is the first independent offering 

planned by the unit headed by actor Marlon 

Brando. It will be filmed in VistaVision and 

Technicolor. 

RKO Radio 

(August 25 through December 12, 1956) 

BACK FROM ETERNITY {Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger. Producer-Director: 

John Farrow, Original: Richard 

Carroll, Screenplay: Jonathon Latimer. 

• A group of passengers survive an airline crash 

in the South American jungles, and after undergoing 

consideroble hardship, learn that the crippled 

plane can carry only five back to civilization. The 

job of choosing which shall go and which shall 

stay is appropriated by a curiously idealistic 

murderer who was on his way to be executed when 

the plone crashed. Sept. 15, 1956. 

BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (Crime Drama). 

Stars: Dona Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer. 

Producer: Bert E. Friedlob. Director; Fritz 

Lang. Original Screenploy: Douglas Morrow. 

• To prove the fallacy of circumstantial evidence, 

a young newspaperman arranges to have himself 

framed on a murder charge. Sept. 26, 1956. 

DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL (Drama). Stars: George 

Sanders, Yvonne De Corlo, Zsa Zsa Gobor. Producer-Director: 

Charles Martin. Original Screenplay: 

Charles Martin. 

• This drama depicts the life of an international 

financier who, through his own machinotions, causes 

his ultimate ruination. Oct. 31, 1956. 

FINGER OF GUILT (Drama), Stars: Richard Basehort, 

Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Executive 

Producer: Tony Owen. Producer-Director: 

Alec C. Snowden. Original Screenplay: Peter 

Howard. 

• Set and filmed in England, it is o yarn about a 

Hollywood film cutter who becomes a London producer 

and marries the studio head's daughter, only 

to begin doubting his own sanity when a mysterious 

"Evelyn" begins bombarding him with fiery letters. 

Wife, career, way of life—all seem lost to him forever 

before the details of the plot against him are 

unraveled. Oct. 17, 1956. 

THE FIRST TRAVELING SALESLADY {Comedy With 

Songs). Stars: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol 

Chonning, David Brian. Producer-Director: Arthur 

Lubin. Original Screenplay: Stephen Longstreet, 

Devery Freeman. 

• Just before the turn of the century. Ginger 

Rogers, a traveling soleslady, accompanied by her 

friend Carol Chonning, is endeavoring to peddle 

corsets with steel stays. When she runs out of 

money, she charms a steel company executive into 

letting her sell barbed wire fencing to Texas cattlemen 

who have strong resistance to the product. 

She finally is victorious and the orders pour in. 

Having gained her point. Ginger then has time for 

romance with loyal Barry Nelson, who has pursued 

her across the country in his horseless carnage. 

In Technicolor. Aug. 25, 1956. 

MAN IN THE VAULT {Crime Drama). Stars: Williom 

Campbell, Anita Ekberg, Karen Sharpe. Producer: 

Robert E. Morrison (Botjac Productions). Director: 

Andrew V. McLaglen. Original: Frank Gruber. 

Screenplay: Burt Kennedy. 

• Lensed against authentic Los Angeles backgrounds, 

this is the hassle in which locksmith Bill 

Campbell finds himself when hoodlum Berry Kroeger 

offers him 5 Gs to pick a safety deposit box containing 

$200,000 in loot. Romantic entanglements 

with Karen Sharpe and Anita Ekberg further complicate 

the matter, with the harried Campbell 

finally turning the $200,000 over to the police 

voluntarily to clear the tracks for his romance with 

Karen Sharpe. Dec. 12, 1956. 

TENSION AT TABLE ROCK (Western). Stars: Richard 

Egan, Dorothy Molone, Cameron Mitchell. Producer: 

Sam Wiesenthal. Director: Charles Marquis 

Warren. Original: Frank Gruber. Screenplay: 

Winston Miller. 

• Set in the 1870s, this is the story of a wandering 

outcast, Richard Egan, who is falsely occused 

of killing his best friend in cold blood. In Table 

Rock a town taken over by lawless Texas trailherders, 

he becomes involved with an orphoned 

boy, a fear-ridden sheriff and the latter's wife. 

Egan gains the respect of the townspeople by helping 

to establish law and order. Then, knowing that 

the sheriff, his wife, and the boy can find happiness 

together if he's out of the picture, Egan soys 

farewell and travels on to a new future. In Technicolor. 

Oct. 3, 1956. 

Coming 

AFFAIR IN PORTOFINO (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Anita Ekberg, Robert Ryan. Producer-Director: 

John Farrow. Original: Bernie Giler. Screenplay: 

Jonathan Latimer. 

• This drama is about adventure in Portofino, 

Italy. 

THE BRAVE ONE (Drama), Stars: Michel Ray, Rodolfo 

Hoyos, Elsa Cardenas, Joi Lonsing, Fermin Rivera. 

Producers: Maurice and Frank King (King Bros. 

Productions). Director: Irving Rapper. Original: 

Robert Rich. Screenplay: Harry Franklin, Merrill G. 

White. 

• When Leonardo, a poor little Mexican boy, learns 

that his beloved bull, which he has raised from 

birth, has been sent to the bull ring in Mexico 

City, he determines to save him, even if it means 

aoing to El Presidente himself. In CinemoScope and 

Technicolor. 

BUNDLE OF JOY (Romantic Comedy With Songs). 

Stars: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe 

Meniou. Producer: Edmund Grainger, Director: 

Norman Taurog. Original: Felix Jackson. Screenplay: 

Arthur Sheekmon, Robert Carson, Norman 

Krasna. 

• A tunefilm about a pretty girl, a handsome 

young man and a baby—none of them related, 

this is a remake of Norman Krasna's "Bachelor 

Mother," which was a Ginger Rogers starring hit 

film in 1939. This version combines the comedy of 

the original with the voice of Eddie Fisher in his 

first starring film role. In Technicolor. 

CURTAIN GOING UP {Drama With Music). Stars: 

Dons Day (incomplete). Producers: Marty Melcher, 

Horry Tugend {Arwin Productions). Director Harry 

Tugend. Original: Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, 

Screenplay: Harry Tugend. 

• This is a story based on the Pulitzer Prize stoge 

play, "Stage Door," which concerns the experiences 

of a young girl on the New York stage. 

THE CYCLOPS (Science-Fiction). Stars: James Craig, 

Glorio Talbott, Lon Chaney. Producer-Director: 

Bert I. Gordon. Original Screenplay: Bert I. Gordon. 

• A science-fiction yarn, this is slated to be 

billed with X-the Unknown. 

THE DAY THEY GAVE BABIES AWAY (Comedy- 

Drama). Stars: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, 

Rex Thompson, Producer; Sam Wiesenthal. Di- 


GREGORY PECK 

Filming completed: 

"DESIGNING WOMAN" 

MGM 

In preparation— 

"THIEVES' MARKET" 

A Melville Production 

for United Artists Release 

Production Starts March 18 in Madrid 

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rector: Allen Reisner. Original: Dale Eunson. 

Screenplay: Dale Eunson, Katherine Albert. 

• A 12-year-old boy, suddenly orphaned, finds 

homes for himself and four younger brothers and 

sisters on Christmas Day. 

ESCAPADE IN JAPAN (Melodrama). Stars; Teresa 

Wnght, Cameron Mitchell, Jon Provost. Producer- 

Director: Arthur Lubin. Original Screenplay: Winston 

Miller. 

• This melodrama deals with a search for two 

youngsters, who have run awoy from home, and 

whose parents fear they hove been kidnaped. In 

Technlromo, this was filmed on location in Japan. 

GALVESTON (Drama). Stars: Robert Ryan, Anita 

Ekberg (incomplete). Producer: Edmund Grajnger. 

Director: not set. Original Screenplay: Niven Busch. 

• This is the story of a Texas city which was 

demolished by flood in September, 1900. 

the accountant himself becoming emotionally involved. 

STAGE STRUCK (Modern Drama). Stars: Henry Fondo, 

Susan Strosberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall. 

Producer: Stuart Millar. Director: Sidney Lumet. 

Original Screenplay: Ruth ond Augustus Goetz. 

• This IS a drama of an ambitious young girl and 

her struggle for success in the theatre. This remake 

of "Morning Glory," early Katharine Hepburn 

starrer, is being filmed on location in New 

York City. 

TARZAN AND THE LOST SAFARI (Adventure Dromo). 

Stars: Gordon Scott, Betta St. John, George Coulouris. 

Producer: Sol Lesser (Holiday Films). Director: 

H. Bruce Humberstone. Original: Edgar Rice 

Burroughs. 

• Mode in Africa and England, this is the latest 

adventure in the lengthy cinematic career of 

Tarzan, the jungle hero, who this time rescues a 

French playgirl and her party after 

forced down in Africa. In color. 

their plane is 

the two chief suspects are a hired killer and on 

attractive girl singer. When a detective falls in 

love with the girl, he ignores the evidence ogoinsf 

her, and pins the murder on the hood. Filmed in 

Naturoma and Trucolor. Dec. 21, 1956. 

A WOMAN'S DEVOTION (Drama). Stars: Ralph 

Meeker, Janice Rule, Paul Henreid. Producers: 

John Bosh. Director: Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Hill. 

• This romantic love story was lensed in Trucolor 

on location in Mexico. Nov. 9, 1956. 

(.oming 

AFFAIR IN RENO (Drama). Stars: John Lund, Doris 

Singleton, John Archer. Producer: Sidney Picker. 

Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay 

John K. Butler. 

• To be lensed on location in the title city, the 

story concerns gambling and romance among the 

society set. In Trucolor and Naturoma. 

THE GIRL MOST LIKELY (Romantic Comedy With 

Songs). Stars: Jane Powell, Keith Andes, Cliff 

Robertson. Producer: Stanley Rubin. Director: 

Mitchell Leisen. Original: Paul Jarrico. Screenplay: 

Devery Freeman. 

• This IS a romantic comedy with music, concerning 

a small town girl who is in love with three 

men, oil of whom propose to her on the same day. 

This remake of the 1941 Ginger Rogers starrer 

"Tom, Dick and Harry" is filmed in color and features 

several large production numbers. 

GUILTY.' (Mystery Drama). Stars: John Justin, Barbara 

Laoge, Donald Wolfit. Producer: Charles 

Leeds (Gibrolter Productions). Director: Edmond 

Greville. Original: Michael Gilbert. 

• From the mystery novel "Death Has Deep Roots," 

by Michael Gilbert, this yarn sets its central 

characters the task of clearing up a murder and 

seeking to trace back the betrayer of a Free French 

underground unit. Mode on location in England 

and France. In color. 

JET PILOT (Drama). Stars: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, 

J. C. Flippen. Producer: Jules Furthman. Director- 

Josef von Sternberg. Original: Beirne Lay jr. 

Screenplay: Beirne Lay jr., Jules Furthman. 

• Story about a lady espionage agent in the employ 

of a foreign power which is attempting to 

steal top-secret information about U. S. jet aircraft. 

I MARRIED A WOMAN (Comedy). Stars: George 

Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou. Producer 

William Bloom. Director: Hal Kanter. Original 

Screenplay: Goodman Ace. 

• A Madison Avenue junior advertising executive 

enters a Mr. and Mrs. America contest with his 

wife, a former beauty contest winner. 

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (War Drama). Stars: 

not set. Producer: Paul Gregory. Director: John 

Farrow. Original: Norman Mailer. Screenplay: 

Denis and Terry Sanders. 

• This IS a war story, which takes place in the 

South Seas during World War II. To be filmed on 

location in the South Pacific. 

PUBLIC PIGEON NO. 1 (Comedy). Stars: Red Skelton, 

Vivian Blame, Janet Blair. Producer: Harry Tugend 

Director: Norman Mcleod. Original: Larry Berns, 

Don Quinn. Screenplay: Harry Tugend. 

• Rusty Morgan, a dim-witted waiter, innocently 

becomes a courier for stock swindlers sought by 

the police and winds up in prison. Edith his 

sweetheort, persuades the police he is too dumb 

to be guilty. They orrange to let him escape so 

he can lead them to the swindlers, but though 

they provide him with keys and a ladder, they practically 

have to evict him. The scheme finally succeeds, 

Rusty wins a $10,000 reward and Edith is 

ready to marry him. 

RUN OF THE ARROW (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Rod 

Steiger, Sorito Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker 

Producer-Director: Samuel Fuller. Original and 

Screenplay: Samuel Fuller. 

• An embittered Confederate soldier goes out 

West and is adopted into the Sioux tribe as a full 

warrior so that he con carry on his fight against 

the U. S. From his red brothers, he gradually learns 

to appreciate his birthright. Filmed on location in 

Utah. In color. 

THE SILKEN AFFAIR (Comedy). Stars: David Niven 

Genevieve Page, Beatrice Straight, Ronald Squire' 

Producer: Fred Feldkamp (Dragon Films) Director 

Roy Kellino. Original: John McCorten. Screenploy: 

Robert Lewis Taylor. 

• Filmed in England, this whimsical comedy follows 

the adventures of staid occountant David 

Niven who, realizing he is in a rut, decides to 

bring prosperity back (on paper at least) to his 

favorite client—a quaint, old-foshioned and very 

nearly bankrupt silk stocking firm. Life changes 

for several people before the "plot" is unmasked. 

THAT NIGHT! (Drama). Stars: John Beal, Augusta 

Dabney, Sheppard Strudwick. Producer: Himon 

Brown (Galahad Productions). Director: John Newland. 

• Based on an article in Life, this is the story of 

a couple whose marriage of 15 years is almost 

shattered by a personal tragedy. Made on location 

in New York City. 

TEN DAYS IN AUGUST (War Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer. Edmund Grainger. Director: not set. Original: 

Bernard Frizell. Screenplay: Emmet Lovery. 

• This is a love story based on the liberation of 

Pans during World War II. 

UNDERDOG (Drama). Stars: Susan Strosberg, James 

MacArthur. Producer: Stanley Rubin. Director: 

Joseph Newman. Original: W. R. Burnett. Screenplay: 

W. R. Burnett, Earl Felton. 

• An ex-GI who emerges from the war a twisted 

neurotic, becomes innocently involved in a crime. 

THE UNHOLY WIFE (Drama). Stors: Diana Dors, 

Rod Steiger. Producer-Director: John Farrow. Original: 

F. W. Durkee jr. Screenplay: Jonathan 

Latimer. 

• In this entry, a semi-invalid mother endeavors 

to gain justice for her son when he is betrayed by 

his self-seeking wife. Filmed partly on location in 

vineyards and wineries of the Napa Valley in 

California. In color. 

THE VIOLATORS (Droma), Stars: Arthur O'Connell. 

Executive Producer: Himon Brown (Galahad Productions). 

Director: John Newland. Original Screenplay: 

Ernest Pendrell. 

• This is a story of a probation officer, dealing 

with the New York criminal court system. 

THE WEAPON (Drama). Stars: Herbert Marshall, 

Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott. Producer: Hal E. 

Chester (Irving H. Levin). Director: not set. Original 

and Screenplay: Hal E. Chester. 

• This British-made entry concerns a four-year-old 

boy who accidentally shoots a playmate. 

X— THE UNKNOWN (Science-Fiction). Stars: Dean Jogger, 

Jane Aird, William Russell, Edward Chapman. 

Producer: Anthony Hinds (Sol Lesser-Hammer Films 

Production). Director: Leslie Norman. 

• Filmed in England, this is the imaginative story 

of o scientist's battle to analyze and combat a new 

element which suddenly threatens life on earth. 

Slated for billing with another science-fiction opus 

"The Cyclops." 

THE YOUNG STRANGER (Drama). Stars: James Mac- 

Arthur, James Gregory, Kim Hunter. Producer: 

Stuart Millar. Director: John Frankenheimer. Original 

and Screenplay: Robert Dozier. 

• Adapted from a teleploy, this is a story about 

the adjustment of a teenage boy to a harmonious 

relationship with his parents. 

Republic 

(October 26 through December 1956) 

ABOVE US THE WAVES (Sea Drama). Stars: John 

Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden. Producer: Williom 

MacQuitty (J. Arthur Rank). Director: Ralph 

Thomos. Original: C. E. T. Warren, James Benson. 

Screenplay: Robin Estridge. 

• A foctual, dramatic record of the sinking of 

the ace German battleship, the Tirpitz, during the 

last war, this film is told in near-documentary 

style. The "unsinkable" German ship finally meets 

its doom in a Norwegian fjord when three midget 

submarines get close enough so that time-fused 

explosives can be attached to the hull. Oct. 26, 

19S6. 

ACCUSED OF MURDER (Crime Drama). Stars: David 

Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer. Producer- 

Director: Joseph Kane. Original: W. R. Burnett. 

Screenplay: Robert Williams. 

• A two-timing gangland lawyer is murdered and 

ANNIE JORDAN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer- 

Director; John Auer. Original: Mary Brinker Post. 

Screenplay: Irmgord von Cube, Harold Erickson, 

Allan Rivkin. 

• Adopted from the novel, this is the story of a 

skidrow girl who climbs to a position of social 

power. 

THE CONGRESS DANCES (Operetta). Stars: Johanna 

Motz, Rudolf Prack, Honnelore Bollmon, Producer: 

Cosmo-Neusser. Director: George Bruckbouer. 

Original: Norbert Folk, Robert Liebmonn. Screenplay: 

Kurt Nachman. 

• Taking place in the year 1814, this story tells 

of a young girl's love for Alexander I., Czar of 

Russia. Filmed in CinemoScope and Trucolor. 

DUEL AT APACHE WELLS (Western). Stars: Jim 

Davis, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper. Producer-Director: 

Joseph Kane. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Williams. 

• This concerns a conflict between a young rancher 

and a rustler-turned-rancher who threatens the 

former's home and competes with him for the love 

of a beautiful girl. In Naturoma. 

HELL'S CROSSROADS (Drama). Stars: Stephen Mc- 

Nally, Peggie Castle, Robert Vaughn. Producer: 

Rudy Ralston. Director: Franklin Adreon. Original: 

John Butler. Screenplay: John Butler, Barry Shipman. 

• A story of the frontier, during the outlaw days 

of Jesse James. In Naturoma. 

THE LONG WATCH (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer-Director: 

Edword Ludwig. Original: Robert F. 

Mirvish. Screenplay: Casey Robinson. 

• From the novel, this is on adventure story about 

a round-the-world trip on a derelict cargo ship. 

THE MAN IN QUESTION (Drama). Stars: Ella Raines, 

Derek Forr (incomplete). Producer: Rudy Ralston. 

Director: Franklin Adreon. Original: John Godey. 

• A young man, acting for a small notion behind 

the Iron Curtain, is sent to America to locate 

the distinguished son of a notional hero and induce 

the "great patriot" to become the leader of 

his country's government-in-exile. 

SPOILERS OF THE FOREST (Outdoor Drama). Stars: 

Vera Ralston, Rod Cameron. Producer-Director: 

Joseph Kane. Original Screenplay: Bruce Manning. 

• A lumber promoter tries to romance a young 

lady out of her interests, but eventually falls in 

love with her. This Trucolor-Naturomo film will 

be shot in the timberlonds of the northwest. 

STOCKADE (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Ray Milland (incomplete). 

Producer-Director: Ray Milland. Original: 

Franklin Coen. Screenplay: Franklin Coen, 

Robert Blees. 

• This is a Civil War story about a Union soldier 

imprisoned by the Confederates. 

Naturoma and Trucolor. 

To be filmed in 

THE WAYWARD GIRL (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

William J. O'Sullivon. Director: not set. 

Original: Houston Branch. Screenplay: not set. 

• An innocent young girl is unjustly sent to 

prison for a murder she did not commit. Through 

the efforts of a lonely hearts club operotor, she is 

paroled into his core, which is equally unpleasant. 

Ultimately she finds peace and happiness with the 

man she loves. In Naturoma. 

20th 

Century-Fox 

(September through December 1956) 

ANASTASIA (Drama). Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul 

Brynner, Helen Hayes. Producer: Buddy AdIer. 

Director: Anotole Litvak. Original: Morcelle 

Mourette, Guy Bolton. Screenplay: Arthur Lourents. 

• Adapted from a play, this is the purportedly 

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One Head 

—Two Hats 

I would like to tip both my hats—as actor and 

producer—to the people who have helped BRYNA 

PRODUCTIONS* to grow: 

Sam Norton, Jerry Bresler, Anne Douglas. Stan 

Margulies. Edward Lewis. Barney Briskin. Dee Morehead, 

and Charles Levy. 

O-, 

*F'or 1957: "Spring Reunion," "Lizzie." "Young Lovers," "King 

Kelly" 

and "The Viking." 

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true story of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, 

lost Czar of Russia, who some historians believe 

escaped and was not executed when her father and 

other members of the royol family were wiped out 

during the Russian revolution. In CinemaScope and 

De Luxe Color. Dec. 1956. 

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE (Musical). Stors: 

Gordon MacRae, Dan Doiley, Ernest Borgnine, 

Sheree North. Producer; Henry Ephron. Director: 

Michael Curtiz. Original Screenplay: Henry ond 

Phobe Ephron, John O'Hora. 

• A musicol biography of the famed songwriting 

team of Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray 

Henderson, who collaborated on many top tunes 

and Broadway stage shows. In CinemaScope and 

De Luxe Color. Sept. 1956. 

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (Action Drama) 

Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Brodenck 

Crawford. Producer: David Weisbart. Director: 

Richard Fleischer. Original; Francis Irby Gwaltney. 

Screenplay; Harry Brown. 

• From the novel, lensed in CinemaScope and 

De Luxe Color, this deals with the personalities 

and problems of on army infantry company in the 

Pacific during World Wor II. Oct. 1956. 

THE BLACK WHIP (Western). Stars: Coleen Gray, 

Hugh Marlowe, Paul Richards. Producer; Robert 

Stabler for Regal Films. Director; Charles Marquis 

Warren. Original; Orville Hampton. Screenplay: 

Orville Hampton. 

• This post-Civil War RegalScope entry concerns 

a maniacal man with a black whip, who rode with 

Quantnll. Dec. 1956. 

THE DESPERADOS ARE IN TOWN [Western Drama} 

Stars: Robert Arthur, Kothy Nolan, Rhys Williams. 

Producer-Director; Kurt Neumann for Regal Films. 

Original; Bennett Foster. Screenplay: Earle Snell, 

Kurt Neumann. 

• A young man, thinking his home life futile, 

becomes an outlaw, only to discover later that he 

experienced much greater happiness on a farm 

with the girl he loved. In RegalScope. Nov. 1956. 

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (Musical Comedy). Stars: 

Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien. Producer-Director; 

Frank Tashlin. Original; Garson 

Kanin. Screenplay; Herbert Baker, Frank Tashlin. 

• De Luxe Color and CinemaScope treatment hove 

been accorded this picturization of Garson Kanin's 

Atlantic Monthly feature concerning the juke-box 

industry. Dec. 1956. 

THE LAST WAGON (Western). Stars: Richard Widmork, 

Felicia Forr, Susan Kohner. Producer: William 

B. Hawks. Director; Delmer Daves. Original 

Screenplay: Delmer Daves, James Edward Grant. 

• This IS a story of the Overland trail and of on 

Indian massacre of a wagon train. In CinemaScope 

and De Luxe Color. Sept. 1956. 

LOVE ME TENDER (Outdoor Drama). Stors: Richard 

Egan, Debro Paget, Elvis Presley. Producer: David 

Weisbart. Director: Robert Webb. Original and 

Screenplay: Robert Buckner. 

• A raiding party of Confederote cavalry successfully 

holds up a Union payroll train, only to leorn 

that the Civil War has ended. In CinemaScope and 

De Luxe Color. Nov. 1956. 

OKLAHOMAI (Musical). Stors: Gordon MocRoe, 

Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson. Producer; Arthur Hornblow 

jr. for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Director; 

Fred Zinnemonn. Original: Richard Rodgers, Oscar 

Hammerstein II. Screenplay: Sonyo Levien, Williom 

Ludwig. 

• The medium of CinemaScope is substituted for 

Todd-AO; otherwise this is the same "Oklohomo!" 

that Magna released lost season for special engogements. 

Boxoffice Blue Ribbon winner for December, 

1956. Nov. 1956. 

STAGECOACH TO FURY (Western). Stars: Forrest 

Tucker, Mori Blonchord, Wolly Ford. Producer- 

Eorle Lyon for Regal Films. Director; William Cloxton. 

Original; Earle Lyon, Eric Norden. Screenplay: 

Eric Norden. 

• This story concerns the holdup of a stagecoach, 

in effort to steal gold. In RegalScope. Oct. 1956. 

TEENAGE REBEL (Drama). Stars: Ginger Rogers, 

Michael Rennie, Betty Lou Keim. Producer: Charles 

Brackett. Director: Edmund Goulding. Original: 

Edith Sommers. Screenploy: Charles Brackett, 

Eleanor Griffin, Walter Reisch. 

• This story tells of o mother who hos lost her 

daughter in a divorce settlement, and of her efforts, 

yeors later, to win back the love of this innocent 

victim of her earlier indiscretion. Nov. 1956. 

WOMEN OF PITCAIRN ISLAND (Drama). Stars: Lynn 

Bori, Arleen Whelan, James Croig. Producer: 

Aubrey Wisberg for Regal Films. Co-Producer-Director: 

Jean Yorbrough. Originol Screenploy: Aubrey 

Wisberg. 

• This CinemaScope feature revolves around the 

year 1847, just offer the lost of the Bounty mutineers 

hos died and there is much conflict among 

the notive women over their romances. Dec. 1956. 

Coming 

BADLANDS OF MONTANA (Western). Stars: Rex 

Reason, Margio Dean, Beverly Garland. Producer- 

Director; Daniel B. Ullmon for Regal Films. Original 

and Screenploy; Doniel B. Ullmon. 

• This IS o sogebrusher, which deals with a converted 

gunman, who goes straight to become Montana's 

toughest sheriff. 

BERNARDINE (Comedy Dromo). Stars: Terry Moore, 

Pot Boone, Janet Gaynor. Producer; Samuel G. 

Engel. Director: Henry Levin. Original: Mary 

Chose. Screenplay; Mary Chase, Theodore Reeves. 

• A film version of a stage ploy by Mary Chose, 

author of "Harvey." To be photographed in 

CinemoScope. 

BOY ON A DOLPHIN {Adventure Dromo). Stors: 

Alan Ladd, Sophio Loren, Clifton Webb. Producer: 

Samuel G. Engel. Director: Jean Negulesco. 

Originol: Dovid Devine. Screenplay: Richard Breen, 

Walter Reisch. 

• Slated for filming in CinemaScope 55 ond 

De Luxe Color, on location in Europe, it is a story 

of o search for a sunken ship, with a cargo of 

antiquities off the coast of Greece. 

CHINA GATE (Action Drama). Stars: Nat "King" 

Cole, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson. Producer-Director: 

Somuel Fuller (Globe Enterprises). Original 

Screenplay: Samuel Fuller. 

• In block-ond-white CinemaScope, this deals with 

the strange romance of o French soldier and a 

Chinese girl and takes place during the blazing 

conflict of the Indo-Chinese War. 

CRIME OF THE CENTURY (Biographical Drama). Stars: 

not set. Producer: Robert L. Jacks for Dorryl F. 

Zanuck Productions. Director: not set. Original 

and Screenploy; Richard Corr. 

• It IS the story of Josef Stalin as seen through 

the eyes of his two wives. Filming m Cinema- 

Scope IS planned for this feature, exteriors of which 

will be lensed on location in Northeast Turkey. 

DESK SET (Comedy). Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine 

Hepburn, Joon Blondell. Producer: Henry Ephron. 

Director: Walter Long. Original: William Morchant. 

Screenplay; Henry and Phoebe Ephron. 

• In this CinemaScope entry, Katharine Hepburn 

will portray a major network research executive, 

who becomes romantically involved with on industrial 

engineer, which role will be essayed by 

Spencer Tracy. 

DRY MARTINI (Musical). Stars: Fred Astolre (incomplete). 

Producer; Henry Ephron. Director: Jean 

Negulesco. Originol; John Thomas: Screenplay; 

Henry and Phoebe Ephron. 

• A CinemaScope song-ond-donce entry starring 

the nimble-footed Fred Astoire. 

THE ENEMY BELOW (Action Dromo). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Dick Powell. Director: not set. Original: 

Denys Arthur Royner. Screenplay: Wendell Mayes. 

• It is the story of a Germon submarine ond on 

opposing destroyer, which involves a chorocter 

study of their respective coptains during the stalk 

ond inevitable encounter. 

A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Drama). Stars: Jennifer 

Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sico. Producer: 

David O. Selznick (independent). Director: John 

Huston. Original; Ernest Hemingway. 

• This new film treatment of the Hemingway novel 

obout love in the midst of wor, which served as 

o storring vehicle for Gory Cooper and Helen Hoyes 

in the 1932 version made by Paramount, will be 

filmed on location in Europe in color and Cinema- 

Scope. 

FRAULEIN (Action Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Walter Reisch. Director: Henry Koster. Original; 

James McGovern. Screenplay; Leo Townsend. 

• From a novel by James McGovern, this is o 

story of U. S. occupation forces in Germany. In 

CinemaScope. 

THE HARD-HATS (Outdoor Dromo). Stars; not set. 

Producer; Jerry Wald. Director: not set. Original; 

H. M. Newell. Screenploy: James Edward Grant. 

• Bosed on H. M. Newell's novel, it deals with two 

construction men, who build power doms in various 

ports of the world. 

A HATFUL OF RAIN (Dromo). Stars: Evo Marie Soint, 

Don Murray, Anthony Francioso, Lloyd Nolan. Producer; 

Buddy Adier. Director: Fred Zinnemonn. 

Original: Michael Gazzo. Screenplay: Alfred Hayes. 

• Attention is centered on o narcotics addict in 

this CinemaScope version 

Broodwoy ploy. 

of Michael Gozzq's 

HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON (Drama). Stars: 

Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum. Producers; Buddy 

AdIer, Eugene Frenke. Director: John Hudson. Original: 

Charles Show. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, 

John Huston. 

• On o desert island in the South Pacific, o marine 

IS cost away with a nun in this CinemaScope, De 

Luxe Color vehicle. 

ISLAND IN THE SUN (Drama). Stars: James Mason. 

Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dondridge, Horry Belafonte. 

Producer; Dorryl F. Zanuck. Director; Robert Rossen. 

Original: Alec Wough. Screenplay; Alfred 

Hoyes. 

• CinemaScope and color treatment will be accorded 

this story about the problems caused by the 

color bar, which offects issues of social upheovol, 

education ond economics related to British colonial 

policies in the West Indies. 

KATHERINE (Historical Drama). Stars: Jean Simmons, 

Richard Burton (incomplete). Producer-Director: 

Philip Dunne. Original: Anyo Seton. Screenplay: 

Alfred Hoyes. 

• England in the days of Chaucer and John of 

Gaunt is the circo and locale of this costume piece, 

based on the novel, the title character in which, 

after being John's mistress and the mother of 

several of his bastard children, finally becomes 

queen. In CinemaScope. 

KISS THEM FOR ME (Comedy). Stors: not set. Producer: 

Jerry Wold. Director; not set. Original: 

Frederick Wakemon, Luther Davis. Screenplay; 

not set. 

• Four World War II Navy flyers go on shore leave 

in Son Francisco, after the rugged campaigns in 

the South Pacific. Based on 

man novel "Shore Leove." 

the Frederick Wake- 

LOVE AFFAIR (Drama). Stars: Deborah Kerr, Cory 

Grant. Producer: Jerry Wold Productions. Director; 

Leo McCarey. Original; Leo McCorey. Screenplay; 

Alfred Hayes. 

• This remake of o film which yesteryear starred 

Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne concerns male and 

female opportunists who meet and accidentally 

fall in love with other. Being produced independently 

by Jerry Wold. 

LURE OF THE SWAMPS (Mystery). Stars: Marshall 

Thompson, Willord Porker, Joan Vohs, Skip Homeier. 

Producer: Sam Hersh (Regal Films). Director; 

Hubert Cornfield. Original; Gil Brewer. Screenplay; 

Bill George. 

• Two men and a girl vie for stolen treasure in 

the swamps of Florida. 

OH, MEN! OH, WOMEN! (Comedy). Stors: David 

Niven, Ginger Rogers, Don Dailey. Producer-Director: 

Nunnolly Johnson. Original; Edward Chodorov. 

Screenplay: Nunnolly Johnson. 

• Psychiatrists and their confused potients ore 

the subjects concerned in this sotiricol comedy, 

which wos lensed in De Luxe Color and Cinemo- 

Scope. 

PARRIS ISLAND (Dromo). Stors: not set. Producer: 

Robert L. Jocks for Dorryl F. Zanuck. Director; 

not set. Original Screenplay: Jim Bishop. 

• Based on the Monne court-martial of Sgt. 

Matthew McKeon, this tells of the night march 

into a swamp that resulted in the deaths of six 

Marine boot camp trainees. 

PINK TIGHTS (Musical). Stors: Sheree North, Tommy 

Noonon, Virginia Mayo. Producer; Samuel Engel. 

Director: Henry Levin. Original: I. A. L. Diamond. 

Screenplay: Arthur Sheekmon, Herbert Baker. 

• New York in the 1890s is the locale of this 

CinemaScope tunefilm. 

THE QUIET GUN (Western). Stars: Forrest Tucker, 

Moro Cordoy, Jim Dovis, Kathleen Crowley. Producer. 

Eorle Lyon (Regal Films). Director: William 

Clayton. Original Screenplay: Eric Norden. 

• This is another entry in the series of black-andwhite 

western and action films that Regol Films is 

producing in RegalScope for 20th Century-Fox 

distribution. It was filmed under the title "Fury 

at Rock River." 

THE RESTLESS BREED (Western). Stars: Scott Brady, 

Anne Bancroft, Rhys Williams. Producer: Edward L. 

Alperson. Director: Allon Dwon. Originol and 

Screenplay: Steve Fisher. 

• This sogebrusher will be filmed in Eastman 

Color and widescreen. 

THE RIVER'S EDGE (Outdoor Dromo). Stars: Ray 

Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debro Paget. Producer: 

Benedict Bogeaus (independent). Director: Allan 

Dwon. Original: Louis Bromfield. Screenplay: Ho) 

Smith, James Leicester. 


Now in 

Production: 

LIBRA PRODUCTIONS 

presents 

JOEL MC CREA 

and 

MARK STEVENS 

in 

STRANGER AT SOLDIER SPRINGS' 

Directed 

FRANCIS D. 

by 

LYON 

Produced by 

ROBERT BASSLER 

A UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE 

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• Adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel, 

"Early Autumn," by Louis Bromfieid, it will be 

filmed in CinemaScope and Technicolor. Anthony 

Quinn plays a fugitive from justice, with Ray 

Millond portraying a rancher who befriends him. 

SEA WIFE (Drama). Stars; Richard Burton, Joan Collins, 

Basil Sydney. Producer: Andre Hokim. Director: 

Bob McNought. Original: John M. Scott. Screenplay: 

George K. Burke. 

• Four survivors of a sinking refugee ship fleeing 

from Singapore in 1941 spend fourteen weeks together 

in a rubber raft. CmemaScope and De 

Luxe Color. 

THE STORM RIDER (Western). Stars: Scott Brady, 

Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Producers: Scott 

Brady and Bernard Glasser for Regal Films. Director: 

Edward Bernds. Original; L. L. Foreman. 

Screenplay: Edward Bernds, Don Martin. 

• In a town near Abilene, a gunslinger is hired 

by big ranchers to wipe out the small cattlemen in 

the area. 

THE SUN ALSO RISES (Drama). Stars: Dana Wynter, 

Robert Stack. Producer: Walter Reisch. Director; 

Henry King. Original: Ernest Hemingway. Screenplay: 

Peter Viertel. 

• Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway, it will 

be produced in color and CinemaScope. 

TEN NORTH FREDERICK (Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: not set. Director: Philip Dunne. Original; 

John O'Hara. Screenplay: Philip Dunne. 

• CinemaScope treat rrent will be accorded this 

story of o wealthy American family whose children 

suspect the mother of poisoning their father. 

THREE BRAVE MEN (Drama). Stars: Ernest Borgnine, 

Ray Millond, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch. Producer: 

Herbert Bayard Swope jr. Director; Philip Dunne. 

Original Screenplay: Philip Dunne. 

• After 22 years as a civilian employe in the 

U. S. Navy Department, a man is discharged as o 

"security risk." The story deals primarily with his 

fight to gam clearance and reinstatement. In 

De Luxe Color and CinemaScope. 

THE THREE FACES OF EVE (Dramo). Stars: Joanne 

Woodward, David Wayne. Producer-Director: Nunnally 

Johnson. Original: Dr. Corbett Thigpen, Dr. 

Hewey Cleckley. Screenplay; Nunnally Johnson, 

• This is an authentic cose history of a woman 

with three distinct personalities who is cured by 

psychiatric treatment. In CinemaScope and De 

Luxe Color. 

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (Musical Comedy). 

Stars: not set. Producer; Charles Brockett. Director: 

not set. Original: Betty Smith. Screenplay: 

Claude Binyon. 

• Based on Betty Smith's best-selling novel, which 

was first brought to the screen in 1945, this remake 

will be a musicol comedy film version. 

THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES (Western). Stars: 

Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange. Producer: 

Herbert B. Swope jr. Director: Nicholas Ray 

Original Screenplay: Russell Hughes, Walter Newman. 

• Robert Wagner portrays Jesse James, and Jeffrey 

Hunter is his brother Frank in this new 

CinemaScope, De Luxe Color treatment of the lives 

and escapades of the desperados. 

UNCLE CHARLIE (Drama). Stars: Walter Brennan (incomplete). 

Producer; Sam Hersh (Regal Films). 

Director: William Cloxrcn. Original Screenplay: 

Charles F. Royal. 

• When Uncle Charlie, a wealthy, eccentric old 

man, decides to give his money away to worthy 

strangers, his relatives protest and drag him into 

court. 

WAR OF THE UNIVERSE (Science-Fiction). Stars; 

Jeff Morrow, Barbaro Lowrence, George O'Honlon, 

Producer-Director: Kurt Neumann (Regal Films). 

Original: Irving Block. Screenplay: Lawrence Louis 

Goldman. 

• In this science-fiction entry, a metallic monster 

decends upon the earth where it absorbs power 

from power plants and creates chaos until it destroys 

itself. In RegalScope. 

WAY TO THE GOLD (Drama). Stars; Jeffrey Hunter, 

Sheree North, Barry Sullivan. Producer: David 

Weisbart. Director: Robert Webb. Origino! Screenplay: 

Wendell Mayes. 

• CinemaScope treatment will be accorded this 

story of a former convict who marries a girl he 

loves very much, and must subsequently decide 

whether to go after a fortune of gold he previously 

hod hidden or forfeit the treasure in lieu of a life 

of respectability. 

THE WAYWARD BUS (Drama). Stars: Joyne Mansfield, 

Joan Collins, Dan Dai ley, Betty Lou Keim. 

Producer: Charles Brockett. Director: Victor 

Vicos. Original; John Steinbeck. Screenplay; Ivan 

Moffat. 

• Scripted from a John Steinbeck novel, it's a 

story of a combination cafe owner-bus line operator 

who plans to leave his alcoholic wife for a beautiful 

girl; but when his bus is stranded in a storm, 

he realizes that running away from his domestic 

problem won't solve it. In CinemaScope. 

WOMAN OF THE WOODS (Drama). Stars: Sheree 

North, Richard Egan, Rita Moreno. Producer; Sam 

Engel. Director; not set. Original; Olive Barber. 

Screenplay: Horace McCoy, Frank Fenton. 

• This romantic drama takes place in logging 

country and is in CinemaScope. 


(October through December 1956) 

ATTACK! (Drama). Stars; Jack Palance, Eddie 

Albert, Lee Marvin. Producer-Director: Robert Aldrich. 

Original: Norman Brooks. Screenplay: James 

Poe. 

• Originally produced on Broadway as "Fragile 

Fox." The story takes place during the Bottle of 

the Bulge in World War II. Oct. 1956. 

THE BOSS (Drama). Stars; John Payne, Gloria McGhee, 

William Bishop. Producers; Frank and Walter 

Seltzer. Director: Byron Haskin. Original Screenplay; 

Ben Terry. 

• The first film to emanate from the newlyorganized 

Seltzer Films, this is the story of o city 

taken over by a corrupt political machine, and of 

the violent disintegration of the man who has 

seized illegal power. Oct. 1956. 

THE BRASS LEGEND (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Hugh 

O'Brien, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr. Producer: 

Herman Cohen for Robert Goldstein Productions. 

Director: Gerd Oswald. Original; George Zuckerman, 

Jess Arnold. Screenplay; Don Martin. 

• An outdoor drama of frontier days, this stors 

Hugh O'Brien, topliner in TV's "Wyatt Earp" 

western series. Dec. 1956. 

DANCE WITH ME HENRY (Comedy), Stars: Bud Abbott, 

Lou Costello, Rusty Homer. Producer: Robert 

Goldstein. Director: Charles Barton. Original; Wm. 

Kozenko, Leslie Kardo. Screenplay: Devery Freeman. 

• Abbott and Costello innocently become involved 

with some hot money and murder, in this entry 

with on amusement park background- Dec. 1956. 

FLIGHT TO HONG KONG (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon. Producer: 

Joseph M. Newman for Sabre Productions. 

Director: Joseph M. Newman. Original: Edward G. 

O'Callaghon, Gustave Field. Screenplay: Leo 

Townsend, Edward G. O'Callaghon. 

• This story concerns passengers in flight to 

Hong Kong, who ore held up by hijackers endeavoring 

to steal diamonds. Oct. 1956. 

GUN THE MAN DOWN (Western). Stars; James 

Arness, Angie Dickinson, Robert Wilke. Producers: 

Robert E. Morrison, Andrew McLaglen. Director; 

Andrew McLaglen. Original Screenplay: Burt Kennedy, 

Sam C. Freedle. 

• While fleeing from justice, two bank robbers 

desert a third bandit whom they think is dying. 

He does not die but eventually catches up with 

them. Nov. 1956. 

KING AND FOUR QUEENS (Western). Stars: Clork 

Goble, Eleanor Porker, Jo Van Fleet. Executive Producer: 

Robert Waterfield. Producer: David Hempstead 

for Russ-Field-Gabco. Director; Rooul Walsh. 

Originol: Margaret Fitts. Screenplay; Margaret 

Fitts, David Hempstead. 

• Clark Gable is cast as the only male in a 

frontier community peopled entirely by women. 

Filmed in CinemaScope and De Luxe Color. Dec. 

1956. 

MAN FROM DEL RIO (Western), Stors: Anthony Quinn, 

Koty Jurodo, Peter Whitney. Producer; Robert L. 

Jacks- Director: Harry Horner. Original Screenplay; 

Richord Corr. 

• Anthony Quinn portroys on outcast Mexican 

who craves public approval, but finds he cannot 

win it by his gun, even though it is one of the 

fastest in the Southwest. Oct. 1956. 

THE PEACEMAKER (Western). Stars: Rosemorie Bowe, 

James Mitchell, Jon Merlin. Producer: Hal R. Makehm. 

Director; Ted Post. Original: Richard Poole. 

Screenplay: Hoi Richords, Joy Ingram. 

• It concerns the efforts of a reformed-gunmonturned-porson, 

to use the wisdom and strength 

of the Bible to bring peace to a western town 

filled with hatred and violence. De Luxe Color. 

Nov. 1956. 

RUNNING TARGET (Action Drama). Stors: Doris Dowling, 

Arthur Franz, Richard Reeves. Producer: Jock 

C. Couffer (Canyon Pictures Production). Director; 

Marvin R. Weinstein. Original; Steve Frozee. Screenploy; 

Marvin Weinstein, Jack C. Couffer, Conrad 

Hall. 

• A posse headed by Arthur Fronz, young sheriff, 

sets out after four escaped convicts in the Colorado 

Rockies, In the group ore tomboyish Dons 

Dowling and trigger-hoppy Richard Reeves whose 

telescopic-sight rifle is his proudest possession. 

Reeves revels in picking off the escapees one by 

one. Franz, overcome with revulsion at Reeves' 

sod ism, smashes his gun and walks oway with 

Dons. In color. 

THE SHARKFIGHTERS (Action Drama). Stars: Victor 

Mature, Karen Steele, James Olson. Producer: Samuel 

Goldwyn jr. Director: Jerry Hopper. Original 

Screenplay: Lawrence Roman, John Robinson. 

• This relotes, in semi-documentary style, how 

the navy during World War II experimented successfully 

in the development of o repellent for use 

by fliers forced down at sea in protecting themselves 

against attacks by mon-eoting sharks. Nov. 

1956. 

THE WILD PARTY (Drama). Stars; Anthony Quinn, 

Carol Ohmart, Arthur Fronz. Producer: Sidney Hormon 

for Security Pictures. Director: Harry Horner. 

Original Screenplay: John McPortland. 

• A melodramo about young people whose selfhypnosis 

under the influence of distorted modern 

lozz leads to anti-social acts. Dec. 1956. 

Coming 

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Fantosy-Spectocle). 

Stars: David Niven, Contmflas, Shirley Mac- 

Lame. Producer: Michael Todd. Director; Michoel 

Anderson. Original; Jules Verne. Screenplay: S. J. 

Perelman. 

• Jules Verne's widely-read adventure tale of 

Phileas J. Fogg, the English gentleman who 

circled the globe in 80 days to win a bet, comes 

to the screen as a Todd-AO widescreen presentation. 

THE BACHELOR PARTY (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Don 

Murray, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden. Producer: 

Hecht-Lancaster. Director: Deibert Mann. Original: 

and Screenploy: Paddy Chayefsky. 

• Drama and comedy are intermingled in a story 

about a group of office workers who stage a 

bachelor party for one of their members who is 

getting married. 

BAILOUT AT 43,000 (Action Drama). Stars: John 

Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly. Producers; Howord 

Pine, William Thomas, Maxwell Shone. Director: 

Francis D. Lyon. Original and Screenplay: Paul 

Monash. 

• Adapted for the screen from a "Climax" teleploy, 

it concerns U.S.A.F. test pilots who risk their 

lives testing ejection equipment in jet planes. 

BANDOOLA (Adventure Drama). Stars: Sophia Loren, 

Ernest Borgnine (incomplete). Producer: James 

Webb for Hecht-Hill-Loncoster. Director; not set. 

Original: Lt. Col. J. H. Willioms, Peter Viertel, 

Screenplay: James Webb, N. Richard Nash, John 

Gay. 

• The true-life story of an elephant hunter in 

Burma, to be filmed on location in Ceylon. 

THE BIG BOODLE (Drama). Stars: Errol Flynn, Pedro 

Armendariz, Rossono Rory. Producer: Lewis F. 

Blumberg. Director: Richard Wilson. Original: 

Robert Sylvester. Screenplay; Jo Eisinger. 

• This IS a story of a counterfeiting ring in 

Havana. 

THE BIG CAPER (Crime Drama). Stars: Rory Calhoun, 

Mary Costa, Roxonna Arlen. Producer: Pine- 

Thomos Productions. Director: Robert Stevens. Original: 

Lionel White. Screenplay: Martin Berkeley. 

• Based on a novel by Lionel White, it deals with 

master bond of thieves who conspire to pull the 

biggest bank job ever attempted. 

THE BIG COUNTRY (Historical Western). Stars: 

Gregory Peck (incomplete). Producers: Gregory 

Peck, William Wyler (Melville Productions). Director- 

William Wyler. Original: Donald Hamilton. 

Screenplay; not set, 

• Lavishly produced, this film will tell the story 

of the son of a ship building fomily from the east 

coost who goes west and finds himself in conflict 

with the customs and conventions of the west of 

the early 1870s. 

THE BIG PLAY (Action Drama). Stars: Jane Russell 

(incomplete), Producers: Jane Russell, Robert 

Waterfield (Russ-Fleld Productions). Director: not 

set. Original: Eleanor Pryor. Screenplay; Jesse 

Losky jr. 

• A romantic drama with on oilfield locale. 

BOP GIRL (Modern Musical). Stars: not set. Executive 

Producer: Aubrey Schenck. Producer: Howard W. 

Koch (Bel-Air Productions). Director: William Hole 

)r. Original: Rik Volloerts. Screenplay: Ed James. 

• A hillbilly girl singer rises to fame as a rock 'n' 

roll star. 


..^ 

EDWARD AND WILLIAM NASSOUR 

PRODUCTIONS 

Now in release: GUY MADISON 

THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN" (UA) 

CinemaScope— RegiScope 


Editing: 

"RING AROUND SATURN" 


In 

Preparation: 

"THE MARK OF THE WHIP" 

CinemaScope—Color by Deluxe 

"THE 

LAND OF THE GIANT" 

RegiScope—Color by Deluxe 

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THE BUCKSKIN LADY (Western). Stors: Patricia 

Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr. Producer- 

Director: Carl K. H it t lemon for Bishop-Hittleman 

Productions. Original Screenplay: Franklin S. Chose, 

Carl K. Hittleman, Dovid Long. 

• When a stagecooch breaks down in the desert, 

the trovelers are compelled to stay in a town 

where they are fleeced by a womon cardshorp. 

THE CARELESS YEARS (Drama). Stars: Dean Stockwell, 

Natalie Trundy, John Latch. Executive Producer: 

Jerry Bresler. Producer: Edward Lewis vor 

Bryna Productions. Director: Arthur Hi Her. Original: 

Edward Lewis. Screenplay: Edward Lewis. 

• It IS a modern-day story of the moral problems 

confronting average teenagers. 

THE CATBIRD SEAT (Comedy-Dramo). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Hecht-H Ill-Lancaster. Director: not set. 

Original: James Thurber. Screenplay: T. E. B. 

Clarke, George Axelrod. 

• This IS a story of a timid office clerk and his 

cunning efforts to unseat a formidable business 

rival. 

THE CARVING SET (Mystery Drama). Stors: not set. 

Producers: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene. Director; 

Winston Jones. Original: Chester David. Screenplay: 

James Edmiston. 

• It IS about a man who is accused of killing his 

wife, but no corpus delicti is found. 

CORE OF EVIL (Suspense Drama). Stars: Joel McCrea, 

Barbara Stanwyck (incomplete). Producer: Sol Boer 

Fielding. Director: Charles Marquis Warren. Original 

Screenplay; David Victor, Herbert Little jr. 

• The seventh teaming of McCrea and Stanwyck 

IS this CinemaScope-color production with a Louisiana 

bayou locale. 

CRIME OF PASSION (Crime Drama). Stars: Barbora 

Stanwyck, Sterling Hoyden, Raymond Burr, Fay 

Wroy, Producer; Herman Cohen (Bob Goldstein 

Productions). Director; Gerd Oswald. Original and 

Screenplay; Joseph Eisinger. 

• A newspaper-woman's ambitious plans for her 

husband's career in the Los Angeles police force 

lead her into intrigue and murder. 

THE DELINQUENTS (Documentary Drama). Stars: 

Peter Miller, Tony Laughlin, Rosemary Howard. 

Producer-Director: Robert Altmon for Elmer Rhoden 

jr's Imperial Productions. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Altmon. 

• This deals with juvenile delinquency problems 

and was made on location in Kansas City. 

I 

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE (Satiric Comedy-Drama). Stars: 

Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Cliff, Sir Laurence 

Olivier, Carroll Baker. Producer; Hecht-Hi [-Lancaster. 

Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Original: 

George Bernord Shaw. Screenplay: Roland Kibbee, 

John Dighton. 

• This Shavian exercise, laid in New Hampshire 

in 1777, pits Gen. Burgoyne against a humanitarian 

colonist in a battle of wits and ideologies 

in which basic principles, if not basic loyalties, 

become thoroughly scrambled. 

DRANGO (Historical Outdoor Drama). Stars: Jeff 

Chandler, Joanne Dru, Julie London, Ronald Howard. 

Executive Producer: Meyer Mishkin. Producer: Hall 

Bartlett for Jeff Chandler's and Meyer Mishkin's 

Earlmar Productions. Directors: Jules Bricken, Hall 

Bartlett. Original Screenplay: Hall Bartlett. 

• Jeff Chandler portrays an ex-Confederote soldier 

and adventurer in this post-Civil War drama, the 

first to be produced by Earlmar Productions. 

FIVE STEPS TO DANGER (Mystery Drama). Stars: 

Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman, Jeanne Cooper. Producer; 

Grand Productions (Henry S. Kesler, Edward 

Small). Director: Henry S. Kesler. Original: Donald 

Hamilton. Screenplay: Henry S. Kesler. 

• A film adaptation of Donald Hamilton's mystery 

which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. 

FOUR BOYS AND A GUN (Crime Drama). Stars: 

Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, Bill Hinant. Producer: 

Security Pictures. Director: William Berke. Original; 

Willard Weiner. Screenplay: Philip Yordan 

and Leo Townsend. 

• Four 18-20-year-old boys unwittingly kill a 

policeman while robbing a boxoffice at a fight 

stadium. 

FURY AT SHOWDOWN (Western). Stars: John Derek, 

John Smith, Carolyn Craig. Producer: John Beck 

for Bob Goldstein Productions. Director: Gerd Oswald. 

Original; Lucas Todd. Screenplay; Don 

Mortin. 

• A sagebrusher, based on a novel by Lucas Todd. 

THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN (DRAMA). Stars: Jane 

Russell, Ralph Meeker, Keenan Wynn, Adolphe 

Menjou. Producer: Robert Waterfield for Russ- 

Field Productions. Director: Norman Taurog. Original: 

Sylvia Tate. Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons. 

• Jane Russell plays the role of o movie star who 

is kidnaped by two men. 

THE GIRL IN BLACK STOCKINGS (Mystery Drama). 

Stars: Lex Barker, Mamie Van Doren, Anne Bancroft. 

Executive Producer: Aubrey Schenck. Producer: 

Howard W. Koch (Bel-Air Productions). Director: 

Howard W. Koch. Original; Peter Godfrey. 

Screenplay: Richard Landau. 

• Based on the novel "Wanton Murder," this 

modern murder mystery tells of a lawyer who goes 

to a resort for a rest and gets involved in a series 

of murders. 

THE HALLIDAY BRAND (Western). Stars: Joseph 

Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Ward Bond. Producer: 

Collier Young. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Original 

and Screenplay: George L. George, George Slavin. 

• Joseph Cotten portrays a Texas rancher in the 

i870s in this drama of family tensions and diehard 

prejudice. 

HIDDEN FEAR (Suspense Drama). Stars: John Payne, 

Anne Neylond, Natalie Norwick, Alexander Knox. 

Producer: Andre de loth for Rexford Productions. 

Director: Andre de Toth. Original; Robert St. 

Aubrey. Screenplay; Andre de Toth, John Hawkins. 

• This suspense drama was filmed on location in 

Copenhagen. The first major American film to be 

made in Denmark. 

HIT AND RUN (Drama). Stars: Hugo Haas, Cleo 

Moore, Vince Edwards. Producer-Director: Hugo 

Haas. Original Screenplay: Hugo Haas. 

• A conspiracy to murder an old man takes an 

odd twist when his twin brother is murdered instead. 

THE IRON SHERIFF (Drama). Stars: Sterling Hayden, 

Constance Ford, Darryl Hickman. Producer: Jerome 

C. Robinson for Grand Productions. Director: Sidney 

Salkow. Original and Screenplay: Selig Lester 

• When a sheriff's son is tried for murder, his 

father is torn between duty to his job and love for 

his son. 

JUNGLE HEAT {Action Drama). Stars: Lex Barker, 

Mori Blanchard, Glenn Langan. Executive Producer: 

Aubrey Schenck for Bel-Air Productions. Director: 

Howard W. Koch. Original Screenplay; 

Jameson Brewer. 

• Filmed on the island of Kauai, it concerns fifth 

column activity in the Hawaiian Islands prior to 

the Japanese attack, which sparked World War II. 

LAST GUN IN DURANGO (Western). Stars: George 

Montgomery, Steve Brodie. Producer: Robert E. 

Kent for Edward Small Productions. Director: 

Sidney Salkow. Original and Screenplay: Lewis 

Stevens. 

• The leader of an outlaw gang has the 

go straight but his men will not let him. 

desire to 

LEGEND OF THE LOST (Adventure Drama). Stars: 

John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi. Producer-Director: 

Henry Hathaway (Batjac-Ponama). 

Original: Henry Hathaway. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, 

• A girl fouls up the plans of on American adventurer 

in Africa when he agrees to guide a missionary's 

son to a lost treosure in the Sohara 

Desert. Filmed on location in Rome and Libya. 

Technirama. 

LINCOLN McKEEVER (Western Drama). Stars: Jeff 

Chandler (incomplete). Producer: Hall Bartlett for 

Earlmar Productions. Director; Hall Bartlett. Original: 

Eleazar Lipsky. Screenplay: Maxwell Shane. 

• With the early west as the locale, it concerns 

the life of a frontier attorney. 

MEN IN WAR {Action Drama). Stars: Robert Ryan, 

Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Producer: Sidney Harmon. 

Director: Anthony Mann. Original; Van Van Praag. 

Screenplay; Philip Yordan. 

• A lieutenant leads his encircled platoon bock 

to the American lines in the early months of the 

Korean War. A Security Pictures Production. 

THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD 

(Science-Fiction), Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dal ton, 

Jody McCrea. Producers: Art Gardner, Jules Levy 

for Gramercy Pictures. Director: Arnold Laven. 

Original: Dave Duncan. Screenplay: Pat Fielder. 

• It deals with a legendary sea beast described 

by Lord Tennyson in his poem, "The Kraken." 

In the film, it is the sea giant which rises from the 

Solton Sea in California to threaten the world. 

THE MONTE CARLO STORY (Comedy-Drama). Stars; 

Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell. 

Producer; Marcello Girosi (Titanus Films). Director: 

Sam Taylor. Original and Screenplay: Sam 

Taylor. 

• Two broke gamblers go to Monte Carlo in hopes 

of landing a rich mate in order to have money for 

gambling. They unwittingly marry each other. 

In Technirama. 

A MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME (Drama). Stars: Kirk 

Douglas (incomplete). Producer: Jerry Bresler for 

Bryno Productions. Director; not set. Original: 

Samuel Grafton. Screenploy: Sydney Boehm. 

• To get on expose yarn, a reporter poses os a 

gangster, then finds he likes the criminal way of 

life and becomes leader of the mob he was supposed 

to write about. 

OUTLAW'S SON (Western). Stars: Done Clark, Lori 

Nelson, Ben Cooper. Executive Producer: Aubrey 

Schenck. Producer; Howard W. Koch (Bel-Air 

Productions). Director: Lesley Selander. Original; 

Clifton Adams. Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons. 

• This dramatic action western concerns an outlaw 

father who returns to his home town to prevent 

his son from following in his footsteps. 

PHARAOH'S CURSE (Horror Drama). Stars: Mark 

Dana, Ziva Rodonn, Diane Brewster. Producer; 

Howard W. Koch (Bel-Air Productions). Director: 

Lee Sholem. Original and Screenplay: Richard 

Landau. 

• With Egypt as the setting, it is a horror drama 

about archeologists discovering the tomb of a 

pharaoh. 

THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (Drama). Stars: Cory 

Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren. Producer; 

Stanley Kramer, Director: Stanley Kramer. Original; 

C. S. Forester. Screenplay: Edward and Erna Anhalt. 

• Adapted from the C. S. Forester novel, "The 

Gun," this is a story of the Napoleonic wars and 

of how a group of villagers in Spain, armed with 

but one cannon, harass the invading French. Made 

on location in Spain in VistaVision and Technicolor. 

THE QUIET AMERICAN (Action Drama). Stars: Audie 

Murphy, Claude Dauphin, Michael Redgrave. Producer: 

Joseph Mankiewicz (Figaro Productions). 

Director; Joseph Mankiewicz. Original; Graham 

Greene. Screenplay; Joseph Mankiewicz. 

• This war drama revolves around three people 

during the Indo-Chinese War. To be filmed on 

location in Saigon. 

THE RABBIT TRAP (Drama). Stars; Jason Robards jr., 

Joan Blackman. Producers: Hecht-Hill-Loncaster. 

Director; not set. Original and Screenplay: J. P. 

Miller. 

• A father is discontented with his job which 

resultantly reflects unhappiness in his home. 

REVOLT AT FORT LARAMIE (Historical Western). 

Stars: Gregg Palmer, John Dehner, Frances Helm. 

Producers: Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch for 

Bel-Air Productions. Director: Lesley Selander. Original 

Screenplay; Robert C. Dennis. 

• Filmed in Utah, the main theme is action and 

adventure at a western outpost at the outbreak of 

the Civil War. In De Luxe Color. 

THE RIDE BACK (Western). Stars: Anthony Quinn, 

William Conrad, Lita Milan. Producer: William 

Conrad for The Associates and Aldrich. Director: 

Allen Miner. Original and Screenplay; Anthony 

Ellis. 

• A western in which an outlaw is captured by 

the sheriff, with emphasis on the pair's adventures 

during their ride back for justice to be done. 

SAINT JOAN (Drama). Stars; Richard Widmark, 

Richard Todd, Jean Seberg. Producer-Director; 

Otto Preminger (Carlyle Productions). Original: 

George Bernard Show. Screenplay; Graham Greene. 

• A celluloid version of Shaw's classic ploy. 

Filmed on location in Europe. 

SEPARATE TABLES (Drama). Stars: Deborah Kerr 

(incomplete). Producer: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. Director: 

not set. Original and Screenplay: Terence 

Rattigon. 

• This story takes place at a summer resort and 

concerns the lives of the people who meet there. 

Taken from Terence Rattigan's London and New 

York hit play. 

THE SEVEN FILE (Suspense Drama). Stars: Richard 

Widmark (incomplete). Producer: William Reynolds 

for Richard Widmark's Heath Productions. Director; 

Karl Maiden. Original; William P. McGivern. 

Screenplay: John Monks jr. 

• From a story by William McGivern, this concerns 

child kidnaping. 

SPRING REUNION (Comedy-Drama). Stars; Betty 

Hut ton, Dana Andrews, James Gleason. Producer: 

Jerry Bresler for Bryno Productions. Director: Robert 

Pirosh. Original: Robert Alan Aurthur. Screenplay: 

Robert Pirosh. 

• At an alumni reunion at a small-town high 

school, love blossoms between a man and a woman 

who were the "most popular" while attending school. 

THE STORY OF BARNEY ROSS (Biogrophical Drama). 

Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dionne Foster. Producer: 

Edward Small Productions. Director: Ted Post. 

Original: Bernard Schoenfeld, Crane Wilbur. Screenplay: 

Anthony Veiller, Paul Dudley. 

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STRANGER AT SOLDIER SPRINGS (Drama). Stars: 

Joel McCrea, Mork Stevens, Joan Weldon. Producer; 

Robert Bossier [Libra Productions). Director: 

Francis D. Lyon. 

• This story, originally titled "Tale of Consequences/' 

will be filmed by Robert Bossier's Libra 

Productions os a showcase for Joel McCrea and 

Mark Stevens. 

STREET OF SINNERS (Drama). Stars: George Montgomery, 

Geraldine Brooks, Marilee Earle. Producer- 

Director: William Berke for Security Pictures. Original: 

Philip Yordon. Screenplay: not set. 

• This is the story of how a young policeman attempts 

to deal with a corrupt man in a bad 

neighborhood. 

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Drama). Stars: Burt 

Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. Producer: 

James Hill (Hecht-Hill-Lancoster Productions). Director: 

Alexander Mackendnck. Original: Ernest 

Lehman. Screenplay: Clifford Odets. 

• Based on Ernest Lehman's Cosmopolitan magazine 

novelette, it is the behind-the-scenes story 

of the career of a mole vocalist on Broadway. 

TELL IT ON THE DRUMS (Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Hecht-H ill-Lancaster Productions. Director: 

Sir Carol Reed. Original: Robert W. Krepps. 

Screenplay: Joseph A. Hayes. 

• With lensing set for the Kimberly diamond 

area of South Africa, this concerns a diamond 

robbery in the 1880s. 

THIEVES MARKET (Drama). Stars: Gregory Peck (incomplete). 

Producer: Sy Bartlett for Melville Productions 

and William Wyter. Director: William 

Wyler. Original: Liom O'Brien, Vincent Evans. 

Screenplay: Fay and Michael Konin. 

• To be shot in Madrid, this modern drama involves 

the theft of a priceless European art 

treasure. 

TIME LIMIT (Army Drama). Stars: Richard Wldmork, 

Richard Basehart. Producer: Bill Reynolds for 

Richard Widmark's Heath Productions. Director: 

Karl Maiden. Original: Henry Denker, Ralph 

Berkey. Screenplay: Henry Denker. 

• This concerns soldiers returning from Korea, 

accused of communist collaboration. 

TOMAHAWK TRAIL (Western). Stars: Chuck Connors, 

Susan Cummings, John Smith. Producers: 

Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch for Bel-Air 

Productions. Director: Lesley Selander. Original 

and Screenplay: Dovid Chandler. 

• A cavalry patrol is penned in ond threatened 

with annihilation by warring Apaches in 1872. 

TROOPER HOOK (Historical Drama). Stors: Borboro 

Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Susan Kohner. Producer: 

Sol Boer Fielding. Co-producer and Director: Charles 

Marquis Warren. Original: Jack Schaefer. Screenplay: 

Charles Marquis Warren, David Victor, Herbert 

Little jr. 

• Scheduled for lensing on location in Konab, 

Utah, it deals with the U. S. cavalry in the southwest 

during the 1870s. 

12 ANGRY MEN (Drama). Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. 

Cobb, Ed Beg ley. Producers: Henry Fonda, Reginald 

Rose for Orion-Nova Productions. Director: 

Sidney Lumet. Original: Reginald Rose. Screenplay: 

Reginald Rose. 

• "Twelve Angry Men" refers to the jury in this 

courtroom droma, which was lensed on location in 

New York. 

VALERIE (Drama). Stars: Sterling Hoyden, Anita 

Ekberg, Anthony Steele. Producer: Hal R. Makelim. 

Director: Gerd Oswald. Original Screenplay: Leonard 

Heidemon, Emmett Murphy, David Dortort. 

• The post Civil War period is the background for 

this dramatic offering. 

THE VAMPIRE (Horror). Stars: John Beol, Coleen 

Gray, Ken Tobey. Producers: Art Gardner, Jules 

Levy, Arnold Laven for Gramercy Pictures. Director: 

Paul Landres. Original and Screenplay: Pat Fielder. 

• A small-town doctor inadvertently takes the 

wrong drug, which causes him to become a vampire. 

THE VIKING {Historical Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas 

(incomplete). Producer: Jerry Bresler for Bryna 

Productions. Director: Richard Fleischer. Originol: 

Edison Marshall. Screenploy: Noel Langley. 

• Adventures of the Vikings invading England form 

the basis for this story, to be filmed on location in 

Scandinavia. 

VOODOO ISLAND (Horror Drama). Stors: Boris Karloff, 

Murvyn Vye, Beverly Tyler. Executive Producer: 

Aubrey Schenck for Bel-Air Productions. 

Producer: Howard W. Koch for Bel-Air Productions. 

Director: Reginald Le Borg. Original Screenplay: 

Richard Landau. 

• Famous writer and exposer of hoaxes, Boris 

Karloff, is employed by a hotel magnate to investigate 

voodoo rumors concerning a mysterious 

island in the Pacific where he plans to build a 

hotel resort. Filmed in Hawaiian Islands. 

WAR DRUMS (Western Drama). Stars: Lex Barker, 

Joan Taylor, Ben Johnson. Executive Producer: 

Aubrey Schenck. Producer: Howard W. Koch for 

Bel-Air Productions. Director: Reginald Le Borg. 

Original Screenplay: Gerald Dray son Adams. 

• It is the story of the Apache chief, Mongas 

Colorodos, and his romance with a Mexican halfbreed 

girl who later became his wife and rode at 

his side as o warrior. In De Luxe Color. 

THE WAY WEST {Historical Drama). Stars: Burt 

Lancaster, James Stewart. Producer: Hecht-H ill- 

Lancaster. Director: not set. Original: A. B. 

Guthrie jr. Screenplay: Clifford Odets. 

• A film version of A. B. Guthrie jr's Pulitzer 

prize-winning novel about trailblozing days on the 

frontier. 

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (Drama). Stars: 

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Loughton. 

Producer: Arthur Hornblow jr. for Edward Small 

Productions and Copo Productions. Director: Billy 

Wilder. Original: Agatha Christie. Screenplay: 

Lorry Marcus. 

• A young man is on trial for the murder of a 

middle-aged woman who befriended him. His wife 

is his chief alibi, but she eventually testifies 

against him. 

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CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON (Horror Drama). 

Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne. 

Producers: Richard Kay, Horry Rybnick for Jewel 

Enterprises. Director: Curt Siodmak. Original 

Screenplay: Curt Siodmak. 

• Filmed in Eastman Color, it is a yarn about 

isolated plantations in the Amazon region of 

Brazil, where a legendary monster purportedly has 

appeared. Dec. 1956. 

EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Comedy-Drama). 

Stars: Maureen O'Horo, John Forsythe, Tim Hovey. 

Producer: Howard Christie. Director: Jerry Hopper. 

Original: Stanley Roberts. Screenplay: Herb 

Meadow. 

• A youngster becomes "mayor for a day" ond 

reveals a huge local graft involving high officials. 

Maureen O'Horo portrays a school teacher, who 

loses her job when she supports the boy's stand. 

In Technicolor. Dec. 1956. 

THE MOLE PEOPLE (Science-Fiction). Stars: John 

Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont. Producer: 

William Alland. Director: Virgil Vogel. Original 

Screenplay: Laszio Gorog. 

• A scientific expedition uncovers a lost race 

which has been living beneath the earth for generations. 

Dec. 1956. 

PILLARS OF THE SKY (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Jeff 

Chandler, Dorothy Malone, Word Bond. Producer: 

Robert Arthur. Director: George Marshall. Original; 

Will Henry. Screenplay: Sam Rolfe. 

• Jeff Chandler, a West Point graduate, deserts 

and goes to Washington Territory in 1858, where he 

re-enlists as a sergeant. His commission is restored 

when he saves his regiment from being 

massacred by the Indians. In CinemoScope and 

Technicolor. Oct. 1956. 

THE UNGUARDED MOMENT (Drama). Stars: Esther 

Williams, George Nader, John Saxon. Producer: 

Gordon Koy. Director: Horry Keller. Original; 

Rosalind Russell, Lorry Marcus. Screenplay: Herb 

Meadow, Lorry Marcus. 

• In Technicolor, this story tells of a music 

teacher in a high school who becomes the target 

of a psychopathic student's expression of his 

hatred for women. Nov. 1956. 

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APPOINTMENT WITH A SHADOW (Crime Drama). 

Stars: Tony Curtis, Gilbert Roland, Moriso Povon. 

Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Joseph Pevney. 

Original: Edwin Blum. Screenplay: John Robinson. 

• Set in present-day Son Francisco and bosed on 

Edwin Blum's "The Eyes of Father Tomosino," it 

deals with a rookie on the police force who quits 

his job to spend full time tracking down the 

murderer of a kindly priest. In CinemoScope. 

BADGE OF EVIL (Crime Drama). Stars: Charlton 

Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh. Producer: 

Albert Zugsmith. Director: Orson Welles. Original: 

Whit Mosterson. Screenplay: not set. 

• A young assistant district attorney uncovers 

evidence that a retired police captain manufactured 

evidence used to convict suspected criminols. 

BANDSTAND (Dromo). Stars: not set. Producer: Ross 

Hunter. Director: not set. Original: Patricia Joudry. 

Screenplay: Edward Anholt. 

• Adapted from the Broadway show, "Teach Me 

How to Cry," it deals with a high school girl who 

is shunned by her schoolmates because of her 

mother's peculiarity. 

BATTLE HYMN (War Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, 

Dan Duryeo, Martha Hyer. Producer: Ross Hunter. 

Director: Douglas Sirk. Original Screenplay: Charles 

Grayson. 

• Dean Hess, the army chaplain who became a 

fighter pilot and aviation hero in World War 1 

and the Korean conflict, is the subject of this 

biographical drama. In CinemoScope and Technicolor. 

BENEATH THE ROSES (Crime Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Gordon Kay. Director; not set. Original: 

R. Wright Campbell. Screenplay: R. Wright Campbell. 

• It is modern story of a wealthy young widow, 

who remarries and then discovers that she is the 

intended victim of a murder plot. She does not 

know whether it is her new husband or her 12- 

year-old step-son who seeks to destroy her. 

THE CHARLES RUSSELL STORY (Biographical Drama). 

Stars: Audie Murphy (incomplete). Producer: Aaron 

Rosenberg. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Original Screenplay: 

Borden Chase. 

• In Technicolor and VistoVision, this is a biography 

of Charles Russell, the one-time cowboy, who 

became famous as a pointer of early west scenes. 

The title-roler is Audie Murphy. 

THE DEADLY MANTIS (Horror Drama). Stars: Craig 

Stevens, Alix To I William Hopper. Producer: 

William Alland. Director: Nathan Juron. Original: 

William Alland. Screenplay: Martin Berkeley. 

• Explorers discover a colony of giant prehistoric 

insects in this science-fiction opus. 

THE DEVIL'S HORNPIPE (Musical). Stars: James 

Cogney. Producer: Aaron Rosenberg. Director: 

not set. Original: Maxwell Anderson, Rouben 

Mamoulion. Screenplay: not set. 

• Backgrounded in New York, it is the modern 

story of a diabolically clever racketeer. 

FOUR GIRLS IN TOWN (Comedy-Dromo). Stars: 

George Nader, Julie Adams, Marianne Cook. Producer: 

Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Jock Sher. Original 

Screenplay: Jock Sher. 

• In this behind-the-Hollywood-scenes story, in 

CinemoScope and Technicolor, four glamorous girls 

are brought to the film capital to test for the 

femme lead in a big-budget picture. 

THE GREAT MAN (Drama). Stars: Jose Ferrer, Dean 

Jogger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London. Producer: 

Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Jose Ferrer. Original; 

Al Morgan. Screenplay: Al Morgan, Jose Ferrer. 

• This is a film version of the novel by Al Morgan 

about a TV-radio star who, widely acclaimed 

while alive, is discovered upon his death to have 

been a colossal heel. 

GUN FOR A COWARD (Western). Stars: Fred Mac- 

Murray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule. Producer: 

William Alland. Director: Abner Bibermon. Original 

screenplay: R. Wright Campbell. 

• A teenage brother in a frontier ranching family 

is branded as a coward because of his belief in 

reason as opposed to violence. However, he is 

given an opportunity to prove his strength of 

character. 

IF I SHOULD DIE (Drama). Stars: Von Heflin. Producer: 

Howie Horwitz. Director: not set. Original: 

Hugh Pentecost. Screenplay: Alec Coppel. 

• This concerns the adventures of a New York 

newspaper reporter. 

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (Horror Drama). 

Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent. 

Producer: Albert Zugsmith. Director: Jock Arnold. 

Original: Richard Motheson. Screenplay: Richard 

Matheson. 

• A husky six-footer acquires a strange disease 

whereby he finds himself shrinking in height at the 

rote of an inch a week. 

INTERLUDE (Romantic Drama). Stars: June Allyson, 

Rossono Brozzi, Marianne Cook. Producers: Ross 

Hunter. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: James M. 

Coin. Screenplay: Daniel Fuchs, Fronklyn Coen. 

• Lensed in CinemoScope and Technicolor, it deals 

with on American government worker in Munich 

who falls in love with a continental symphony 

orchestra conductor. Filmed on location in Munich. 

ISTANBUL (Adventure Drama). Stars: Cornell 

Borchers, Errol Flynn, John Bentley. Producer: 

Albert J. Cohen. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original 

Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, Barbara Gray, Richard 

Alan Simmons. 

• Locoled in the Turkish metropolis, this concerns 

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diamond smuggler. In Technicolor and Cinema- 

Scope. 

JALOPY (Historical Dromo). Stars: Jose Ferrer {incomplete). 

Producer; Aaron Rosenberg. Director: 

Jose Ferrer. Original Screenplay: Al Morgan. 

• It IS on episode story of two decades of American 

history os told through an automobile and its 

various owners. 

JOE BUTTERFLY [Comedy). Stars; Audie Murphy, 

George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Producer: Aaron 

Rosenberg. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Original: Evan 

Wylie, Jock Ruge. Screenplay: Sy Gomberg, Jock 

Sher, Marion Hargrove. 

• Localed in Japan just after World War 11, it 

concerns correspondents representing Yank, who, in 

struggling to get out the first edition in Tokyo, 

are also instrumental in the capture of Tokyo Rose. 

In Technicolor and CinemaScope. Filmed in Japan. 

JOE DAKOTA [Drama). Stars: Jock Mahoney, Luana 

Patten, Barbara Lawrence. Producer: Howard 

Christie. Director: Richard Bartlett. Original Screenplay: 

Norman Jolley, William Talman. 

• Romance prevails throughout this story of the 

first discovery of oil in Coiifornia. In color. 

KELLY AND ME (Comedy). Stars: Van Johnson, 

Piper Laurie, Onslow Stevens. Producer: Robert 

Arthur, Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Original: 

Everett Freeman. Screenplay: Everett Freeman. 

• A down-and-out, song-and-dance vaudevillian 

becomes a hit when he adds a dog to his oct. 

In Technicolor. 

THE LAND UNKNOWN (Science-Fiction). Stars: Jock 

Mahoney, William Reynolds, Shawn Smith. Producer: 

William Alland. Director: Virgil Vogel. Original: 

Charles Palmer. Screenplay; William Robson, 

Laszlo Gorog. 

• CinemaScope treatment is accorded this story 

of a young scientist who accompanies a Novy 

expedition to the Antarctic and discoveres a tropical 

valley teeming with prehistoric life, 

MA AND PA KETTLE AT MaeDONALD'S FARM 

(Comedy). Stars: Marjorie Main, Parker Fennellv 

Gloria Talbott, John Smith. Producer: Howard 

Christie. Director: Virgil Vogel, Original Screenpioy: 

Herbert Morgolis, William Raynor. 

• When a wealthy girl contemplates marrioge to 

a poor young man from a rural community. Mo and 

PQ Kettle suggest she live with them to determine 

if she is suited for that type of life. 

MAN AFRAID (Suspense Drama). Stars: Tim Hovey, 

George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter. Producer: Gordon 

Kay. Director: Harry Keller. Screenplay: Herb 

Meadow, 

• When a man slays a youthful prowler in his 

home, he is forced to endure the torments of the 

dead teenoger's father. In CinemaScope. 

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES (Biographical 

Drama), Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, 

Jane Greer, Jeanne Cagney. Producer: Robert 

Arthur. Director: Joe Pevney. Original: Ralph 

Wheelwright. Screenplay: R. Wright Campbell. 

• In CinemoScope ond color, this is a picturization 

of the life of Lon Chaney. 

MISTER CORY (Drama), Stars: Tony Curtis, Martha 

Hyer, Charles Bickford. Producer: Robert Arthur. 

Director; Blake Edwards. Originol: Leo Rosten. 

Screenplay: Bloke Edwards. 

• This story about a Chicago gangster in love 

with a society girl is adapted from a Cosmopolitan 

magozine yarn by Leo Rosten. In CinemaScope and 

Eostman Color. 

MONOLITH (Science-Fiction). Stars: Lola Albright, 

Grant Williams, Phil Harvey. Producer: Howard 

Christie, Director: John Sherwood. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Fresco. 

• The earth is struck by a meteor, comprised of 

metal which—when it comes in contoct with 

moisture—expands and explodes. 

MY MAN GODFREY (Comedy). Stars; June Allyson, 

Eva Gabor, O. W. Fischer. Producer: Ross Hunter. 

Director: Henry Koster. Original: Eric Hatch. 

Screenplay; Everett Freeman. 

• 'Based on the classic William Powell-Carole 

Lombard comedy of two decades ago, this concerns 

a one-time wealthy man who takes a job os a butler 

for an aristocratic fomily. 

NIGHT PASSAGE (Western). Stars: James Stewart 

Audie Murphy, Dan Duryeo. Producer: Aaron 

Rosenberg. Director: James Neilson, Original: 

Normon A. Fox. Screenplay: Borden Chase. 

• Set in Montana in the 1880s, it's the story of 

two brothers, one a railroad agent and the other 

an outlaw. In Techniromo. 

THE NIGHT RUNNER (Drama). Stars: Ray Donton, 

Colleen Miller, Willis Bouchey. Producer: Albert j! 

Cohen. Director: Abner Biberman. Original: Owen 

Cameron. Screenplay: Gene Levitt. 

• From Cosmopolitan magazine story by Owen 

Cameron, this deals with a psychopathic killer. 

NO POWER ON EARTH (Drama), Stors: June Allyson 

Producer: Aaron Rosenberg. Director: 

not set. Original Screenplay: Jay Anthony. 

• It is the story of a nun who is rescued from the 

Chinese Reds in Indo-China by her husband, 

whom she had believed dead, and her subsequent 

struggle with her conscience as to whether she 

should follow her marriage vows or her vows to 

the church. To be filmed in the Philippines. 

ONE WAY OUT (Crime Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Howard Christie. Director: not set. Original: 

George Seaton, Robert Pirosh. Screenplay: Richard 

Landau. 

• An ex-fighter becomes involved with a gang 

of criminols. 

OUTLAW'S CODE (Suspense Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Howard Christie. Director: not set. Original: 

Evan Evans. Screenplay; David Harmon. 

• A U. S. marshal hires on outlaw to go to Mexico 

to find a man who has been missing for 15 years. 

PAY THE DEVIL (Western). Stars: Jeff Chandler, 

Orson Welles, Colleen Miller. Producer; Albert 

Zugsmith. Director: Jock Arnold. Originol Screenplay; 

Gene L. Coon. 

• Jeff Chandler portrays the sheriff of a presentday 

western town, who is nearly killed before he 

IS able to make the citizens realize the importance 

of maintaining law and order. In CinemaScope. 

PYLON (Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, 

Robert Stock, Jack Carson. Producer: Albert 

Zugsmith. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: William 

Faulkner. Screenplay: George Zuckerman. 

• Rock Hudson portrays a New Orleans newspaper 

reporter who falls in love with Dorothy 

Malone, parachute jumping wife of a barnstorming 

flyer, when the former is assigned to write a human 

interest story on the daredevil couple. In Cinema- 

Scope. 

QUANTEZ (Western). Stars: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy 

Malone, James Barton. Producer: Gordon Kay. 

Director; Harry Keller. Original Screenplay: R. 

Wright Campbell. 

• This western, detailing the holdup of a frontier 

bank, costs Fred MacMurray as a former gunman 

who has vowed never to kill again and Dorothy 

Malone as a saloon entertoiner who falls in love 

with him. In CinemaScope and color. 

ROCK, PRETTY BABY! (Musical). Stars: Sal Mineo, 

John Saxon, Luana Patten. Producer: Edmund 

Chevie. Director: Richard Bartlett. Original Screenplay: 

William Raynor, Herbert Morgolis. 

• Attention is focused on romance and an aspiring 

combo in this teenage rock 'n' roll musical. 

RUNAWAY BOMBER (Action Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: John Horton. Director: not set. Original: 

Frank Harvey. Screenplay: Paul Crabtree. 

• This IS the story of a U. S. Air Force jet fighter 

squadron that is sent up to intercept and either 

turn bock or shoot down a giant bomber, whose 

crew has been killed. The bomber is flying across 

the Pacific directly for the California coast, carrying 

live H-bomb. 

SLIM CARTER (Drama). Stars: Jock Mahoney, Tim 

Hovey. Producer: Howie Horwitz. Director: not set. 

Original: Mary McColl jr., David Bramson. Screenplay: 

Mary McColl jr., David Bramson. 

• The story of a cowboy film star who personally 

is the complete opposite of his idealistic screen 

character, but who undergoes a complete regeneration 

through the influence of a 13-year-old boy. 

STALIN IS ALIVE (Mystery Drama). Stars: Zsa Zso 

Gabor, Lex Borker. Producer: Albert Zugsmith. 

Director: Russell Birdwell. 

• A young widow enlists the aid of a former 

American OSS officer to find her sister, who had 

been a nurse for one of Stalin's doctors. 

TAMMY (Drama). Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Leslie 

Nielsen, Walter Brennon. Producer: Ross Hunter. 

Director: Joseph Pevney. Original: Cid Ricketts 

Sumner. Screenplay: Oscar Brodney. 

• An impoverished minister's daughter marries a 

wealthy plantation owner in the south. In Technicolor 

and CinemaScope. 

THE TATTERED DRESS (Melodrama), Stars: Jeff 

Chandler, Jeanne Cram, Jack Carson, Producer: 

Albert Zugsmith. Director: Jack Arnold. Original: 

George Zuckerman. Screenplay: George Zuckerman. 

• Lensed in CinemaScope, the drama concerns a 

criminal lawyer who is called to defend himself on 

o bribery charge. 

THE WHITE KING (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Original: 

Samuel B. Harrison. Screenplay: William Roberts. 

• A white missionary goes to Hawaii ond Is made 

king. 

WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, 

Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone. 

Producer: Albert Zugsmith. Director: Douglas Sirk. 

Original Screenplay: George Zuckerman. 

• Rock Hudson, a rancher's son, becomes the 

closest companion and virtual protector of a somewhat 

worthless heir to a vast oil fortune. Lauren 

Bocoll, a business girl, marries the wealthy man 

and later, falls in love with Hudson. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

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BABY DOLL (Drama). Stars: Carroll Baker, Karl 

Maiden, Eli Wallach. Producer-Director: Elia Kazan 

(Newtown Productions). Original and Screenplay: 

Tennessee Williams. 

• This IS a modern story in the deep South about 

a middle-aged man who is married to o spoiled 

20-year-old. Dec. 29, 1956. 

THE BAD SEED (Drama). Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty 

McCormack. Producer-Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original: 

William March, Maxwell Anderson. Screenplay: 

John Lee Mahin. 

• A lO-yeor-old girl commits three slayings—the 

theory being that she inherited her killer instinct 

from her murderess grandmother. A picturization 

of the novel by William March and the Broadway 

ploy, based thereon, by Maxwell Anderson. Sept. 

29, 1956. 

THE BURNING HILLS (Western). Stars: Tab Hunter, 

Natalie Wood. Producer: Richard Whorf. Director; 

Stuart Heisler. Original: Louis L'Amour. Screenplay: 

Irving Wallace. 

• A story of ranching in the southwest, adapted 

from novel by Louis L'Amour. In CinemaScope 

and WarnerColor. Sept. 1, 1956. 

A CRY IN THE NIGHT (Crime Drama). Stars: Edmond 

O'Brien, Natalie Wood, Brian Donlevy. Associate 

Producer; George C. Bertholon for Alan Ladd's 

Jaguar Productions. Director: Frank Tut tie. Original; 

Wade Miller. Screenplay: David Dortort. 

• When the daughter of a detective is abducted 

by a psychopathic killer, the sleuth tracks down 

the kidnaper and rescues his child— all within the 

space of one night. Sept. 15, 1956. 

GIANT (Drama). Stars: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth 

Taylor, James Dean. Producers: George Stevens, 

Henry Ginsberg. Director; George Stevens. Original; 

Edna Ferber. Screenplay: Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat. 

• A film version, in CinemaScope and Worner- 

Color, of the best-sellmg novel by Edna Ferber, this 

covers approximately 30 years in the lives of its 

principal characters. It is the story of on intoleront 

Texan and a strong-willed girl from Maryland, of 

their marriage, their children and their ultimate 

happiness. Nov. 24, 1956. 

THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND (Comedy). Stars: Tab 

Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis. Producer; 

Frank P. Rosenberg. Director; David Butler. 

Original: Marion Hargrove. Screenplay: Guy Trosper. 

• This IS a comedy with serious overtones, relating 

the experiences of a young man, inducted 

against his wishes, into the peacetime army. Nov. 

10, 1956. 

TOWARD THE UNKNOWN (Aviation Drama). Stars: 

William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith. Producer-Director: 

Mervyn LeRoy (Toluca Production). 

Original: Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay; Beirne Lay jr. 

• A story of the exploits of air force pilots who 

test secret X-model aircraft, this stars William 

Holden and Lloyd Nolan and was produced by 

Holden's independent unit, Toluca Productions, in 

association with Warners. Oct. 20, 1956. 

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BAND OF ANGELS (Drama). Stars; Clark Gable, 

Yvonne DeCorlo. Producer; Frank P, Rosenberg. 

Director: Rooul Walsh. Original: Robert Penn 

Warren. Screenplay: John Twist. 

• This Civil War novel is a Literary Guild selection 

which centers around a woman who is tossed by 

the war into turbulent love affairs. In Warner- 

Color. 

THE BIG LAND (Western). Stars: Alan Ladd, Virginio 

Mayo, Edmond O'Brien. Associate Producer: George 

Bertholon for Alan Ladd's Joguor Productions. Director; 

Gordon Douglas. Original; Frank Gruber. 

Screenploy: David Dortort, Martin Rackin. 

• From a western novel by Frank Gruber, this outdoor 

drama was lensed under the banner of Jaguar 

Productions. In WarnerColor. 

BLACK SCORPION (Drama). Stars: Richard Denning, 

Mora Corday, Carlos Rivas. Producers: Frank Melford, 

Jock Dietz. Director: Edward Ludwig. 

• This was shot in Mexico City. 

BOMBERS B-52 (Drama). Stars: Karl Molden, Natalie 

Wood, Marsha Hunt. Producer: Richard Whorf. 

Director: Gordon Douglas. Original Screenplay: 

Beirne Lay jr. 

• A story of the Air Force's new giant jet planes 


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and how they affect a sergeant, his wife and their 

romantic teenage daughter. WornerColor and 

CinemaScope. 

DARBY'S RANGERS (War Drama). Stars: Tab Hunter 

(incomplete). Producer: Martin Rackin. Director: 

William A. Wellmon. Original and Screenplay: 

Guy Trosper. 

• This concerns the famed U. S. army unit which 

fought under ma)or Wm. Orlando Darby at Dieppe 

and in the North African campaign. 

DEATH OF A SAND FLEA (Drama). Stars: Jack Webb 

[incomplete). Producer-Director: Jack Webb for his 

Mark VII Productions. Original and Screenplay: 

James Lee Barrett. 

• Originally presented on NBC-TV's Kraft Theotre, 

this story about Marine Corps boot training will 

be lensed in widescreen and color. 

DEEP SIX (Navy Drama). Stars: Alan Lodd (incomplete). 

Producer: Marty Rackin for Alan Ladd's 

Jaguor Productions. Director: not set. Original: 

Martin Dibner. Screenplay: Marty Rackin, John 

Twist. 

• This is a yarn of mutinous men who ply the 

seven seas. 

A FACE IN THE CROWD (Drama). Stars: Andy Griffith, 

Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa. Producer- 

Director: Elio Kazan (Newtown Productions). Originol 

and Screenplay: Budd Schulberg. 

• This is a story of a modern Arkansas troubadour 

and his meteoric rise through radio to become one 

of the country's greatest TV attractions. From the 

short story, "Your Arkansas Traveler," by Budd 

Schulberg. 

GUNS OF THE TIMBERLAND (Drama). Stars: Alan 

Ladd, Wan Heflin. Producer: Alan Ladd (Jaguar 

Productions). Director: not set. Original: Louis 

L'Amour. Screenplay: David Dortort. 

• A dramatic western of the high grazing grounds 

and the gun battles for their control. 

THE JAZZ AGE (Biographical Musical). Stars: Ann 

BIyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson Producer: 

Martin Rackin, Director: Michael Curtiz. Original 

Screenplay: Stephen Longstreet, Allan Scott. 

• A biography, this musical concerns the life of 

Helen Morgan, the pja no-perch ing songstress who 

was the rage of the late '20s. 

JOHN PAUL JONES (Biographical Drama). Stars 

Richard Basehart (incomplete). Producer: Somue' 

Bronston. Director; William Dieterle. Original 

Clement Ripley. Screenplay: Ben Hecht. 

• Todd-AO widescreen process and color treatment 

will be accorded this biofilm of the Revolutionary 

War hero and father of the U. S. Navy. 

LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE (Drama). Stars: Tab Hunter, 

Etchika Choureau, J. Carrol Naish. Producer: William 

A. Wei I Director: William A. Wei I man. 

Original: Williom A. Wellman. Screenplay: A. S. 

Fleischman. 

• A story of the Lofoyette Escadrille, the famed 

flying group of American volunteer fliers in World 

War I—of which, parenthetically, William A. Wellmon, 

the director, was a member. In CinemaScope 

and WornerColor. 

MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR (Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Milton Sperling (United States Pictures). 

Director: Daniel Mann. Original: Herman Wouk. 

Screenplay: Herman Wouk, Everett Freeman. 

• A girl, who aspires to be an actress, renounces 

her family, her religious background and her friends 

to achieve her ambition, only to discover, after attaining 

her goal, that the victory is a hollow one. 

NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (Comedy). Stars: Andy 

Griffith, Myron McCormick. Producer-Director: 

Mervyn LeRoy. Original: Mac Hyman, Ira Levin. 

Screenplay: John Lee Mohin. 

• This story is obout the adventures of a hillbilly 

drafted into the peacetime army. 

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (Outdoor Drama). 

Stars: Spencer Tracy (incomplete). Producer: Leland 

Hayward- Director: John St urges. Original: Ernest 

Hemingway. Screenplay: Peter Vlertel. 

• Spencer Tracy is the title-roler in a film version 

of the Ernest Hemingway tome, to be filmed in 

WornerColor partially on location in Cuba, locale 

of the novel. 

THE PAJAMA GAME (Musical). Stars: Doris Day, 

John Roitt, Carol Honey. Producers: Frederick Brisson, 

Robert E. Griffith, Harold S, Prince, George 

Abbott. Director: Stanley Donen. Original: Richard 

Bissell. Screenplay: Richard Bissell, George Abbott. 

• From the Broadway stage musical, this concerns 

a strike in a pajama factory and the romonce 

between one of the girl workers and o management 

representative. 

PARIS DOES STRANGE THINGS (Comedy-Drama). 

Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, Jean Marais. 

Producer-Director: Jean Renoir (Franco-London Productions). 

Original: Jean Renoir. 

• ingrid Bergman plays the role of an exiled 

Polish princess in Paris. Politics are the basis for 

the general story line. In color. 

THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL (Comedy-Droma). 

Stors: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Dame Sybil 

Thorndyke. Producer: Laurence Olivier for L.O.P. 

Pictures Ltd. Director: Laurence Olivier. Original: 

Terence Rattigon. Screenplay: Terence Rattigon. 

• In this VistaVision-Technicolor entry, a chorine 

in the person of Marilyn Monroe invades the palace. 

Filmed in England from the London stage hit by 

Terence Rattigon. 

THE RISING OF THE MOON (Comedy-Drama). 

Stars: 

Noel Purcell, Denis O'Dea, Maureen Connell. Producer: 

Lord Michael Killanin for Four Provinces 

Productions. Director: John Ford. Original: Frank 

O'Connor, Marin J. McHugh, Lady Gregory. Screenplay: 

Fronk Nugent. 

• Filmed in Dublin with on all-Irish cast, this 

tongue-in-cheeck trilogy presents a story about 

a castle in Ireland, a yarn dealing with experiences 

of persons awaiting the arrival of o train, and o 

segment concerning a rebel in prison. Introduced 

and narrated by Tyrone Power. 

ROSALINDA (Musical). Stars: Van Johnson, Joan Fontaine 

(incomplete). Producer-Director: Gottfried 

Reinhardt. Original: Strauss opera. Screenplay: 

Ronald Millar, Gottfried Reinhardt. 

• This is a CinemaScope screen treatment of the 

Johonn Strauss operetta, "Die Fledermaus." In 

color. 

SAYONARA (Drama). Stars: Marlon Brando, Miiko 

Toko, Red Buttons, Patricio Owens. Producer: William 

Goetz Pictures, Inc. Director: Joshua Logan. 

Original: James A. Michener. Screenplay: Haul 

Osborn, 

• In this CinemaScope entry, Marlon Brando portrays 

an American flier who wins the heart of o 

beautiful Japanese dancer. Is being filmed on 

location in Japan. 

SHOOT-OUT AT MEDICINE BEND (Western). Stars: 

Randolph Scott, James Craig, Dam Crayne. Producer: 

Richard Whorf. Director: Richard L. Bore. 

Original: John Tucker Battle. 

• This is a story of immigrant trains setting oul 

for the west from Independence in pre-Civil War 

days. 

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (Drama). Stars: James 

Stewart, Jimmy Bates, Sheila Bond. Producer: 

Leland Hoyword. Directors: Billy Wilder, John 

Sturges. Original: Charles Lindbergh. Screenplay: 

Billy Wilder, Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, 

Valentine Davies. 

• James Stewart essays the role of Charles A. 

Lindbergh in this CinemaScope-WarnerColor picturization 

of the latter's Pulitzer Prize autobiography. 

The story emphasis is on the epic solo flight 

made by Lindbergh from New York to Pans in 

May, 1927, a feat which carved for him a niche 

among the immortals of aviation. 

THE STORY OF MANKIND (Drama). Stars: Vincent 

Price, Sir Cednc Hordwicke, Diana Lynn, Peter Lorre, 

Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Marie Wilson, 

Charles Coburn, Yvonne DeCarlo. Producer-Director: 

Irwin Allen (Cambridge Productions). Original: 

Hendrik Von Loon. Screenplay: Irwin Allen, Chas. 

Bennett. 

• Retrocing history, this story is about development 

of man from prehistoric times. In Technicolor 

TOP SECRET AFFAIR (Romantic Comedy). Stars: 

Susan Hay word. Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart. Executive 

Producer: Milton Sperling. Producer: Martin 

Rackin. Director: H, C. Potter. Original: John P. 

Marquand. Screenplay: Roland Kibbee, Allan Scott. 

• A romantic comedy about a World Wor II hero 

who is interviewed for a story by a femme magazine 

publisher. 

UNTAMED YOUTH (Drama). Stars: Mamie Van Doren, 

John Russell, Lori Nelson. Producer: Aubrey 

Schenck. Director: Howard W. Koch. Original: 

Stephen Longstreet. Screenplay: John C. Higgins. 

• This entry deals with juvenile problems, and 

marks Mamie Van Doren's debut os a jazz singer. 

THE WRONG MAN (Drama). Stars: Henry Fonda, Vera 

Miles, Anthony Quoyle. Producer-Director: Alfred 

Hitchcock. Original: Maxwell Anderson. Screenplay: 

Maxwell Anderson, Angus MacPhail. 

• Based on a real-life case of a Stork Club musician 

who, through mistaken identity, was arrested 

for a robbery of which he was innocent. 

Filmed on location in New York. 

YELLOWSTONE KELLY (Historic Western). Stars: John 

Wayne (incomplete). Producer: Richard Whorf. Director: 

not set. Original: Clay Fisher. Screenplay: 

D. D. Beauchamp. 

• A historic western dramatizing the legendory 

Col. Luther S. Kelly, who avenged the massacre of 

General Custer's troops. 

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ACROSS THE RIVER (Crime Dramo). Stars: Rod 

Steiger (incomplete). Producer; John Stafford for 

J. Arthur Rank Organization. Director: Ken 

Annokin. Original Screenplay: Graham Greene. 

• Rod Steiger will portray a British industrialist 

who embezzles $2,000,000 and escapes to America 

where he hides out on the Mexican border. 

THE BEGINNING OF THE END (Science-Fiction). 

Stars: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum. 

Producer-Director: Bert I. Gordon for Am-Par 

Pictures Corp. Original Screenplay: Bert I. Gordon. 

• Monsters born from atomic mutation endanger 

the lives of people in Chicago, until a scientist 

finds a way to destroy them. 

THE BIG SEARCH (Drama). Stars: Marshall Thompson, 

Gaby Andre, Fausto Tozzi. Producer: Carl Dudley 

Productions. Director: Arnold Belgord. Original: 

Richard Goldstone, Dan Mainwaring. Screenplay- 

Arnold Belgard. 

• The setting for this film is in British Host Africa, 

and it tells of the expedition of a vetennory team 

consisting of a woman bacteriologist and a specialist 

in animal husbandry. In Eastman Color and 

CinemaScope. 

BLUE CHIP BADMAN (Western). Stars: Don Gardner, 

Eugenia Paul (incomplete). Executive Producer: 

William L. Nolte. Producer: Nolte-Peil Productions. 

Director: Ray Enright. Original Screenplay: Paul 

Leslie Pell. 

• In this sagebrusher, there is conflict between 

two brothers, one an outlaw and one a marshal. 

THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST (Adventure). Stars: 

Lance Fuller, Charlotte Austin, Taro. Producer- 

Director: Adrian Weiss. 

• Being mode at Key West studios. 

CAPTAIN COOK (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: 

George Pal (Galaxy Pictures). Director: not set. 

Original: Paul McGinnis. Screenplay: Jack Moffitt. 

• This story takes place in the 18th Century and 

tells of the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by 

Capt. James Cook. 

THE CARLOS ARRUZA STORY (Biographical Drama). 

Stars- Carlos Arruza (incomplete). Producer-Director: 

Budd Boetticher. Original Screenplay: not set. 

• Famed Mexican torero Carlos Arruza will portray 

himself in this biofilm with a bullfighting 

background. 

CINEMIRACLE ADVENTURE (Adventure Drama). 

Stars: not set. Producer: Louis de Rochemont, 

sponsored by National Theatres. Director: Phil 

Colleren. Original Screenplay: Copt. Alan J. Viliers. 

• Filming in the new three-strip process took 

place aboard the square-rigger Christian Radich 

and includes sequences shot in Venezuela, Haiti, 

Curacao, Trinidad and other West Indies locations. 

DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas 

(incomplete). Producer: Kirk Douglas' Bryna Productions. 

Director: not set. Original: Lieut. Thomas 

A. Dooley. Screenplay: not set. 

• This is a biography of a navy doctor who took 

care of more than 500,000 refugees fleeing from 

Communist domination in Asia. 

DEVIL ON HORSEBACK (Civil War Drama). Stars: 

not set. Producer-Director: Roger Cormon for 

Golden State Productions. Original: Charles Griffith. 

Screenplay: not set. 

• It IS about a Mexican bandit, Juan Cortina, who 

posed as a Union general during Civil War while 

conducting border raids against the Confederates. 

DON REBEL (Action Dramo). Stars: Lance Fuller, 

Eugenia Paul, Don Gardner. Executive Producer: 

William L. Nolte, Producer: Nolte-Peil Productions. 

Director: Ted Post. Original Screenplay: Paul Leslie 

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• Based on the life of Lee Christmas, South 

American revolutionist, it was filmed in color and 

widescreen. 

FEMALE FURY (Adventure Droma). Stars: not set 

Producer-Director: Roger Cormon. Original: Roger 

Gorman, Barney Woolner (Woolner Bros.). Screenplay: 

Jack Dewitt. 

• Backgrounded in Havano and Trinidad about 

100 years ago, it will be filmed on location in 

Cuba. 

THE FEVER TREE (Drama). Stars: Raymond Burr, 

Sara Shone, John Cassavetes. Producer: Richard 

Goldstone (Dudley Productions). Director: Laszio 

Benedek. Original: Janet Green. Screenplay: Barry 

Trivers. 

• A paralyzed American business tycoon takes up 

residence in Cuba, where he plots to kill his wife 

ond her supposed lover. Filmed on location in Cuba. 

FIVE STATIONS TO HELL (Drama). Stars: Hedy Duval 

(incomplete). Producer: Stephen Apostolof. Director: 

not set. Original and Screenplay: Howard Estabrook. 

Director: Ted Tetzlaff. Original: John Burress. 

• It deals with the treatment of mental and 

emotional illnesses under modern methods of 

mental hygiene. 

FREUD, MASTER AND FRIEND (Biographical Dramo). 

Stars: not set. Producers: Julian Bloustein, Daniel 

Toradosh for Phoenix Corporation and John Huston. 

Director: John Huston. Original: Hanns Sachs. 

Screenplay: Charles Kaufman. 

• This biographical droma concerns the life of 

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GRASS (Nature Drama}. Stars: 50,000 tribesmen. 

Producer: Menan C. Cooper for C. V. Whitney 

Productions. Directors: Lowell Farrell, Winton C. 

Hoch. Original Screenplay: No credit given. It 

will be related by Iranian tribesmen. 

• Twice yearly, c million Iranian tribesmen, their 

wives and children embark upon a 200-mile trek, 

which is treacherous—due to two-mile high snow 

peaks— in search of life-providing grass for their 

herds. In Technicolor. 

NAKED GUN (Western). Stars: Willard Parker, Mara 

Corday, Helen Jay. Producer: Ron Ormond. Director: 

Edward Dew. Original Screenplay: Ron Ormond, 

Jack Lewis. 

• It is sagebrusher about a judge, prone to 

hanging lawbreakers at the slightest provocation, 

one of whose victims vows to return in spirit to 

hount him. Associated Film Releosing Corporation 

will release. 

IN THE EVERGLADES (Outdoor Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producers: Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg. Director: 

Nicholas Ray. Original Screenplay: Budd 

Schulberg. 

• It deals with conflicts between Seminole Indians 

and white settlers. 

JET (Action Drama). Stars: Preston Foster, Coleen 

Gray, Pat Conway. Producers: Jack Gross, Phil 

Krasne. Director: George Waggner. Original 

Screenplay: George Waggner. 

• It is a story of today's jet age. 

JOHNNY TROUBLE (Comedy Drama). Stars: Ethel 

Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Stuart Whitman, Ex 

ecutive Producer: John Carroll (Clarion Productions). 

Producer-Director: John Auer. Original 

Ben Ames Williams. Screenplay: Charles O'Neal, 

David Lord. 

• An elderly woman, portrayed by Ethel Barrymore, 

finds her home converted into a college 

dormitory for men; one resident she suspects is her 

grandson whom she never met. 

JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM (Action Drama) Stars: 

Hedy Duval (incomplete). Producer: Stephen Apostolof. 

Director: Robert C. Dertano. Original: 

Stephen Apostolof, Herbert F. Niccolls. Screenplay: 

Herbert F. Niccolls. 

• A Bavarian refugee escapes from imprisonment 

and torture at the hands of the Communists, and 

after a long harrowing journey, finally arrives in 

America. 

KILL ME TOMORROW (Crime Drama). Stars: Pot 

O'Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouns. Executive 

Producers: Richard Gordon, Charles F, Vetter jr. 

for Amalgamated Productions, Inc. Producer: 

Francis Searle. Director: Terence Fisher. Original 

Screenplay; Manning O'Brien, Vernon Harris. 

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• Lensed on location in London, it " chase 

story with a newspaper background. 

THE MISSOURI TRAVELER (Drama) Stars: not set. 

Producer: Pot Ford for C. V. Whitney Productions. 

Director: Ted Tetzlaf f. Originol: John Burress. 

Screenplay: Norman Shannon Hall. 

• It is about a small boy and the influence he has 

on the town in which he lives. In Technicolor and 

VistaVision. 

ONE MAN'S SECRET (Crime Drama). Stars: Zachary 

Scott, Faith Domergue. Executive Producers: Richard 

Gordon, Chos. F. Vetter jr. (Amalgamoted Productions). 

Producer: Alec C. Snowden. Director: Montgomery 

Tully. Original: Stratford Davis. 

• It is a suspense story in the Hitchcock tradition, 

which was filmed in Rome. British-made, 

PAPA, MAMA, THE MAID AND I (Comedy). Stars: 

Fernand Ledoux, Goby Morloy, Robert Lamoreux. 

Producer: Chomps-Elysees Productions. Director: 

Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Original Screenplay: Marcel 

Ayme, Pierre Very. 

• This concerns a middle-class family living in 

Pans. Papa worries about the high cost of living; 

Mama has a suppressed desire to act; and their 

son has troubles at the office plus a strong interest 

in the girl who lives upstairs, whom he passes off 

as the family maid. Distributed by Columbia International. 

THE PROMOTER (Drama). Stars: Ernest Borgnine (incomplete). 

Producer-Director: Hall Bartlett (BB&W 

Productions). Original; Stephen Longstreet. Screenplay: 

Hall Bartlett. 

• In Technicolor, this story concerns a present-day 

Texas and Oklahoma promoter and business tycoon. 

SHARK REEF (Drama). Stars: Bill Cord, Lisa Montell, 

Don Duront. Executive Producer: Ludwig H. Gerber 

(James O. Rodford). Producer-Director: Roger Gorman. 

Original Screenplay: Robert Hill, Victor Stoloff. 

• Slated for lensing in Hawaii, this is the story 

of three adventurers at sea; one dies; and the remaining 

pair are cast away on 

many beautiful women. 

an island amidst 

THE SINGER, NOT THE SONG (Drama). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Robert Bossier. Director: not set. Original: 

Audrey Erskine Lindop. Screenplay: Allan 

Scott. 

• Based on the novel, a British Book Society and 

Literary Guild selection, this relates the conflict between 

priest and a bandit for control of the 

people in a rural Mexican area. 

TIGER MIKE (Drama). Stars: not set. Producer: John 

Carroll's Motion Pictures (Clarion Productions). Director: 

not set. Original Screenplay: Steve Fisher, 

Les Mitchell. 

• It is a romantic story centered around the 

Texas oil industry. 

THE VALIANT VIRGINIANS (Historical Drama). 

Stars: Patricia Wayne (incomplete). Producer: 

Menan C. Cooper for C. V. Whitney Productions. 

Director: John Ford. Original; James Warner Bellah. 

Screenplay: Frank Nugent. 

• Based on Bellah's Saturday Evening Post stories, 

"Tales of the Valorous Virginians," it deals with 

the men who fought under Stonewall Jackson in 

the Civil War. 

THE VOODOO EYE (Horror Drama). Stars: Richard 

Carlson (incomplete). Producer: Richard Goldstone 

for Dudley Pictures Corp. Director: Richard Carlson. 

Original: Harry Essex. Screenplay: Thelma Schnee. 

• Adapted from "The Dune Roller" by Harry 

Essex, it will be filmed in color on location in Haiti. 

WEE GEORDIE (Comedy). Stars: Bill Trovers, Alastair 

Sim, Noroh Gorsen. Producers: Sidney Gilliatt, 

Frank Launder. Director: Frank Launder. Original 

Screenplay: Sidney Gilliatt, Frank Launder. 

• Imported from Britain, this humorous entry was 

lensed in Technicolor in the Scottish Highlands and 

at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. 

Times Film release. 

WEST OF SUEZ (Drama). Stars: Keefe Brasselle, Kay 

Callord, Anton Diffring. Executive Producers: 

Richard Gordon, Charles F. Vetter jr. Producers: 

D. E. A. Winn, Bill Luckwell for Amalgamated Productions, 

Inc. Director; Keefe Brasselle. Original 

Screenplay: Norman Hudis. 

• Filmed in London, it is a front page story of an 

attempted political assassination. 

THE WHITE SHEIK (Farce Comedy). Stars: Alberto 

Sordi, Brunei la Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Producer: 

Luigi Rovere for PDC-OFI. Director: Federico Felllni. 

Original and Screenplay: Federico Fellini, Tullio 

Pinelli. 

• This is a satire on the Italian craze for comic 

stnp-styled newspaper serials, which are told by 

posed pictures, and the adulation given these 

models. An API-Janus release. 


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on" woman falls for an intended victim and enlists 

his help in killing her sadistic partner. The plot 

misfires, but at the end she mortally wounds the 

confederate who manages to kill her before he 

dies. Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, 

Jesse White, Walter Cossell. Director: Russell Birdwell. 

Lindsley Parsons Production. (Superscope, 

Perspecta sound; 2-1.) 

CRASHING LAS VEGAS. .5609. .(62) Apr. 22 

Comedy Melodrama. (Bowery Boys series.) An 

electric shock enables one of the Boys to visualize 

numbers before they come up, and he wins a 

TV-show prize trip to Las Vegas. There he win; 

at roulette until kidnaped, but his pals rescue him. 

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Mary Costle, Don Haggerty. 

Director; Jean Yarbrough. 

CRIME IN THE STREETS. .5614. .(91) Jun. 10 

Melodrama. Leader of a teen-age hoodlum gang 

in New York City's slums, plots to kill a witness 

to one of their exploits. Leader's decent 10-yearold 

brother prevents the murder and brings about 

the crook's reformation. James Whitmore, John 

Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Denise 

Alexander. Director: Don Siegel. Lindbrook Production. 

DEADLIEST SIN, THE. .5601.. (75) Jon. 29 

Melodroma. British-made. Blackmailer attempts to 

capitalize on an Englishmen's secret of a long 

criminal record in America, which sets off a series 

of events that end in tragedy. Sydney Chaplin, 

Audrey Dalton, John Bentley, Peter Hammond. 

Director: Ken Hughes 

DIG THAT URANIUM. 5541 . (61) Jan. 8 

Comedy Melodrama. (Bowery Boys series.) The 

Boys ore taken in by a confidence man who sells 

them a bogus uranium mine. When they accidentally 

discover the real mine on another site, it is 

claimed by Indians as property on their reservation. 

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Mary 

Beth Hughes. Director: Edward Bernds. 

FIGHTING TROUBLE. .5623. (61) Sept. 16 


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nan, araniey v_iemenrs, Mueie Jergens, David Condon, 

Tim Ryan. Director: George Blair. 

©FIRST TEXAN, THE. .5615. (82) June 29 

Htstoricol Outdoor Drama. Sam Houston joins 

Texons revolting against Mexican rule only after 

President Andrew Jackson colls him to Washington. 

Houston then leads victorious Texas armies and 

becomes president of the Texas Republic. Joel 

McCreo, Felicia Parr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford. 

Director: Byron Hoskin. (CinemaScope, Perspecta 

sound; 2-55-1.) 

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT .. 5621 .. (80) July 29 

Drama. Story of the Easy Company of the 7th 

Marines which, when victory seemed near at Yalu 

in Korea in 1950, was ordered to retreat. Tells of 

the heroism of the men in the "fighting withdrowol." 

John Payne, Mono Freeman, Peter Graves, 

Audrey Dalton, Chuck Connors. Director; Allan 

Dwon, Hayes Goetz Production. 

INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN . 3 . . (70) Mor. 18 

Horror Melodromo. A mod scientist brings back 

to lite an executed convict who immediately proceeds 

to hunt down and kill his double-crossers. 

While fleeing police, he destroys himself on high 

tension wires. Lon Chaney, Casey Adams, Morion 

Carr, Robert Shoyne, Ross Elliott. Director: Jack 

Pollexfen. 

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 5602 

(80) Feb. 5 

Science-Fiction Melodrama. A strange malady 

strikes a town, which is traced to o weird form 

of giant plant life from whose ripened pods emerge 

"blanks" in human form thot drain all strength 

and energy from their human counterparts. Kevin 

McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn 

Jones, Jean Willes. Director: Don Siegel. Walter 

Wanger Production. (Superscope, Perspecta sound; 

2-1.) 

KING OF THE CORAL SEA. .5617. (74) June 24 

Melodrama. Austrolian-made. Young business 

tycoon Olds a company manoger and police in 

breaking up an alien criminal smuggling rocket 

operating underwater. He finds romance with the 

manager's daughter. Chips Rofferty, Charles Tingwell, 

llmo Adey, Rod Taylor. Director: Lee Robinson. 

Southern International Film Production. 

MAGNIFICENT ROUGHNECKS. .5616. (73). July 22 

Melodromo. Set against a South American oil field 

background, this tells of the adventures and romances 

of two men and two girls, and the r 

bottle to extinguish a flaming oil gusher, Jock 

Carson, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates, Jeff Donnell, 

Myron Heoley. Director: Sherman A. Rose 

©NAKED HILLS, THE . 

. 5605 . . (73) June 17 

Drama. Story of o gold prospector who never gave 

up. Traces his career, stormy mornoge and adventures 

from the gold rush days of '49 to his 

60th birthdoy, which still finds him pursuing the 

elusive gold. David Wayne, Morcio Henderson, 

Keenon Wynn, James Barton. Director: Josef 

Shaftel. La Salle Production. 

NAVY WIFE. .5611. (83) May 20 

Comedy Drama. U. S. Navy commander's wife and 

doughter in occupied Japan arouse envy of 

Japanese women because of his respectful treatment 

of them, causing a revolt by Japanese women 

and a subsequent crisis with notive officials. Joan 

Bennett, Gory Merrill, Shirley Yomoguchi, Judy 

Nugent. Director: Edward L. Bernds. Walter 

Wanger Production. 

©NO PLACE TO HIDE. .5603. .(71) Aug. 26 

Melodrama. Doctor goes to the Philippines to 

experiment in germ warfare for U. S. army. His 

son and a playmate find and ploy with lethal 

pellets, endangering the whole community and 

resulting in a frantic search which ends happily. 

David Brian, Marsha Hunt, Hugh Corcoran, Ike 

Jorlego jr., Celio Flor. Director: Josef Shaftel. 

©PARIS FOLLIES OF 1956 .. 5534 (73) Nov. 27, '55 

Musical. Triols and 

. 

tribulotions of o nightclub 

operator who, on opening night, learns his financiol 

backer is a harmless lunatic. Things look block 

for awhile but end happily with a smash show ond 

assurance of a bright future. Forrest Tucker, 

Margaret Whiting, Dick Wesson, Martha Hyer, 

Barbara Whiting. Director: Leslie Goodwins. 

RETURN OF JACK SLADE 

(79) 

THE, 

Western. Jock Slode, working 

guard, tracks down and wipes 

Wyoming outlaws. He falls 

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out band of 

love with one of 

the wom^n in the outfit who aids him. John Ericson, 

Mori Blonchord, Neville Brand, Casey Adorns. 

Director: Harold Schuster. (Superscope; 2-1.) 

SCREAMING EAGLES. .5610 (81) Moy 27 

War Dramo. Story ot the World War II exploits in 

Europe of the 101st Airborne Division, 1st Platoon, 

Company D, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Tells how 

platoon survivors reached the American lines. Tom 

Tryon, Jon Merlin, AIvy Moore, Martin Milner, 

Jacqueline Beer. Director: Charles Haas: Bischoff- 

Diomond Production. 

SHACK OUT ON 101 . 

Melodrama. A group from on electronics lab on 

(80) Dec. 4, '55 

Highway 101 gather frequently at a nearby eating 

shock. The waitress suspects o spy ring, but the 

cook proves to be the spy and the others FBI men 

after him. Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Lee Marvin, 

Keenon Wynn, Whit Bissell. Director: Edward Dein. 

William F. Broidy Production. 

STRANGE INTRUDER . 

(82) Sept. 2 

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Drama. Psychiatric veteron of the Korean conflict 

is sent to the family of a friend who, when dying 

in prison, had confided a family secret, A fortunote 

accident clears up his mental confusion and o near 

tragedy is averted. Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, 

Ann Harding, Gloria Tolbott, Jacques Bergeroc. 

Director: Irving Rapper. Lindsley Parsons Production. 

SUDDEN DANGER. .5540. (65) Dec. 18, '55 

Melodrama. Blind son of murdered women uses 

insurance money left him to get on eye operation 

which is successful. He then sets out to 

clear himself of suspicion in his mother's death by 

finding the real murderer. Bill Elliott, Beverly 

Garland, Tom Drake, Helene Stanton. Director: 

Hubert Cornfield. 

THREE FOR JAMIE DAWN .. 5618 .. (81) July 8 

Melodromo, Wealthy, unscrupulous woman is tried 

for the ruthless murder of her lover. Her shyster 

lawyer bribes several jury members but when one 

breaks under the strain, the cose collapses and 

lawyer is exposed. Laraine Day, Ricordo Montolban, 

Richard Carlson, June Havoc, Moria Palmer. Director: 

Thomas Corr. Hayes Goetz Production. 

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©AT GUN POINT 5531 (81) Dec. 25, '55 

Western Drama. When a bank robber is slain by 

o citizen during a holdup, the dead man's henchmen, 

out of revenge, take over the town in o 

reign of terror. Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Molone, 

Walter Brennan, Tommy Rettig, Skip Homeier. 

Director: Alfred Werker. ;CincmaScope, PerspecTa 

sound; 2.55-1.^ 

ATOMIC MAN, THE 5612 .. (78) Mar. 4 

Melodrama. Bntish-made. Nuclear scientist survives 

G murder attempt and is brought back to 

life after being clinically "dead" for seven seconds. 

Ace newspaper reporter and his photographer 

girl friend expose a "double" planted in his 

lob. Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Joseph Tomelty, 

Peter Arne. Director: Ken Hughes. Todon Production. 

BOBBY WARE IS MISSING. .5532. (66). Oct. 23, '55 

Drama. Tells of the anxiety of the parents of two 

missing boys as a search is being made for them, 

on 

and the attempts of an extortionist to capitalize 

their grief by demanding a ransom. The boys are 

found and rescued. Neville Brand, Arthur Franz, 

Jeon Willes, Paul Picerni, Walter Reed. Director: 

Thomas D. Carr. 

CALLING HOMICIDE. .5624. (61) Sept. 30 

Melodrama. Investigation of the dynamite death 

of a young policeman exposes a blackmailing 

"boby racket" tied in with a modeling school. The 

handy man hired to kill the policeman later kills 

his employers. Bill Elliott, Kathleen Case, Don 

Haggerty, Jeanne Cooper, Lyie Tolbot. Director: 

Edward Bernds. 

©CANYON RIVER 5620 (80) Aug. 5 

Western. Foreman of a cattle drive makes a deal 

with rustlers to steal the herd but backs out 

when his boss saves his life. In an about-face, he 

gives his life to sove his benefactor. George Montgomery, 

Peter Groves, Morcia Henderson, Richard 

Eyer. Director: Harmon Jones. Scott R. Dunlap 

Production. (CinemaScope, Perspecta sound; 2.55- 

I-) 

COME ON, THE .5608. .(83) Apr. 15 

Melodrama. Filmed largely in Mexico. A "come 

on" woman falls for an intended victim and enlists 

his help in killing her sadistic partner. The plot 

misfires, but at the end she mortally wounds the 

confederate who manages to kill her before he 

dies. Anne Baxter, Sterling Hoyden, John Hoyt, 

Jesse White, Walter Cassell. Director: Russell Birdwell. 

Ltndsley Parsons Production. (Superscope, 

Perspecto sound; 2-1.) 

CRASHING LAS VEGAS. .5609. .(62) Apr. 22 

Comedy Melodramo. [Bowery Boys series.) An 

electric shock enables one of the Boys to visualize 

numbers before they come up, and he wins a 

TV-show prize trip to Las Vegas. There he wins 

at roulette until kidnaped, but his pals rescue him. 

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Mary Castle, Don Haggerty, 

Director: Jean Yorbrough. 

CRIME IN THE STREETS. .5614. (91) Jun. 10 

Melodrama. Leader of a teen-age hoodlum gong 

in New York City's slums, plots to kill o witness 

to one of their exploits. Leader's decent lO-yeoroid 

brother prevents the murder and brings about 

the crook's reformation. James Whitmore, John 

Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Denlse 

Alexander. Director: Don Siegel. Lindbrook Production. 

DEADLIEST SIN, THE. .5601 . (75) Jan. 29 

Melodrama. British-made. Blackmailer attempts to 

capitalize on an Englishman's secret of a long 

criminal record in Americo, which sets off a series 

of events thot end in tragedy. Sydney Chaplin, 

Audrey Dalton, John Bentley, Peter Hammond. 

Director: Ken Hughes. 

DIG THAT URANIUM. .5541 . (61) Jan. 8 


Boys ore taken in by a confidence man who sells 

them a bogus uranium mine. When they accidentally 

discover the real mine on another site, it is 

claimed by Indians as property on their reservation. 

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Mary 

Beth Hughes. Director: Edward Bernds. 

FIGHTING TROUBLE. .5623. (61) Sept. 16 

Comedy Melodramo. (Bowery Boys series.) The 

Boys become camera fiends and a harassed editor 

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title. 

RUNNING TIME in parentheses. 

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TYPE of picture in boldface. 

PROIECTION and SOUND SYS- 

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assigns them to photograph a camera-shy gangster. 

The various schemes they hatch to obtain pictures 

take on hilarious aspects but are successful. Huntz 

Hall, Stanley Clements, Adele Jergens, David Condon, 

Tim Ryan. Director: George Blair. 

©FIRST TEXAN, THE . 561 5 .. (82) June 29 

Historical Outdoor Drama. Sam Houston joins 

Texans revolting against Mexican rule only after 

President Andrew Jackson calls him to Washington. 

Houston then leads victorious Texas armies and 

becomes president of the Texas Republic. Joel 

McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford. 

Director: Byron Haskin. (CinemaScope, Perspecto 

sound; 2.55-1.) 

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT . 5621 .. (80) July 29 

Dromo. Story of the Easy Company of the 7th 

Marines which, when victory seemed near at Yalu 

in Korea in 1950, was ordered to retreat. Tells of 

the heroism of the men in the "fighting withdrawal." 

John Payne, Mono Freeman, Peter Graves, 

Audrey Dalton, Chuck Connors. Director: Allon 

Dwon, Hayes Goetz Production. 

INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN. .5613. .(70) Mar. 18 

Horror Melodrama. A mad scientist brings back 

to life on executed convict who immediately proceeds 

to hunt down and kill his double-crossers. 

While fleeing police, he destroys himself on high 

tension wires. Lon Choney, Casey Adams, Marian 

Carr, Robert Shayne, Ross Elliott. Director: Jack 

Pollexfen. 

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. 5602 

(80) Feb. 5 

Science-Fiction Melodrama. A strange malady 

strikes a town, which is traced to a weird form 

of giant plant life from whose ripened pods emerge 

"blonks" in human form that drain all strength 

and energy from their human counterparts. Kevin 

McCarthy, Dona Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn 

Jones, Jean Willes. Director: Don Siegel. Walter 

Wanger Production. (Superscope, Perspecta sound; 

2-1) 

KING OF THE CORAL SEA 5617. (74) June 24 

Melodrama. Australian-mode. Young business 

tycoon aids a company manager and police in 

breaking up on alien criminal smuggling racket 

operating underwater. He finds romance with the 

manager's daughter. Chips Rafferty, Charles Tingwell, 

lima Adey, Rod Taylor. Director: Lee Robinson. 

Southern International Film Production. 

MAGNIFICENT ROUGHNECKS 5616 (73). July 22 

Melodramo. Set against o South American oil field 

background, this tells of the adventures and romances 

of two men ond two girls, ond their 

battle to extinguish o flaming oil gusher. Jack 

Carson, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates, Jeff Donnell, 

Myron Healey. Director: Sherman A. Rose. 

©NAKED HILLS, THE . . . (73) June 17 

Dromo. Story of a gold prospector who never gave 

up. Traces his career, stormy marriage and adventures 

from the gold rush days of '49 to his 

60th birthday, which still finds him pursuing the 

elusive gold. David Wayne, Marcia Henderson, 

Keenon Wy nn, James Barton. Director Josef 

Shaftel. La Salle Production. 

NAVY WIFE. .5611. .(83) May 20 

Comedy Drama. U. 5. Navy commander's wife and 

daughter in occupied Japan arouse envy of 

Japanese women because of his respectful treatment 

of them, causing a revolt by Japanese women 

and a subsequent crisis with native officials. Joan 

Bennett, Gary Merrill, Shirley Yamaguchi, Judy 

Nugent. Director: Edward L. Bernds. Walter 

Wanger Production. 

©NO PLACE TO HIDE. .5603. (71) Aug. 26 

Melodrama. Doctor goes to the Philippines to 

experiment in germ warfare for U. S. army. His 

son and a playmate find and play with lethal 

pellets, endangering the whole community and 

resulting in a frantic search which ends happily. 

David Brian, Marsha Hunt, Hugh Corcoran, Ike 

Jar lego jr., Celia Flor. Director; Josef Shaftel. 

©PARIS FOLLIES OF 1956 . 5534 .. (73) 

. Nov. 27, '55 

Musicol. Trials and tribulations of a nightclub 

operator who, on opening night, learns his financial 

backer is a harmless lunatic. Things look black 

for awhile but end happily with a smash show and 

assurance of a bright future. Forrest Tucker, 

Margaret Whiting, Dick Wesson, Martha Hyer, 

Barbara Whiting. Director: Leslie Goodwins. 

RETURN OF JACK SLADE, THE. 5528 

(79) Oct. 9, '55 

Western. Jock Slode, working as a Pinkerton 

guard, tracks down and wipes out o band of 

Wyoming outlaws. He falls in love with one of 

the women in the outfit who aids him. John Ericson, 

Mori Blanchard, Neville Brand, Casey Adams. 

Director Harold Schuster. (Superscope; 2-1 .) 

SCREAMING EAGLES. 5610. (81) May 27 

Wor Dromo. Story of the World War II exploits in 

Europe of the 101st Airborne Division, 1st Platoon, 

Company D, on D-Doy, June 6, 1944. Tells how 

platoon survivors reached the American lines. Tom 

Tryon, Jon Merlin, AIvy Moore, Martin Milner, 

Jacqueline Beer. Director: Charles Haas: Bischoff- 

Diamond Production. 

SHACK OUT ON 101 . .5535 (80) Dec. A, '55 

Melodrama. A group from an electronics lab on 

Highway 101 gather frequently at a nearby eoting 

shack. The waitress suspects o spy ring, but the 

cook proves to be the spy and the others FBI men 

after him. Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Lee Morvin, 

Keenan Wynn, Whit Bissell. Director: Edword Dein. 

William F. Broidy Production. 

STRANGE INTRUDER .5619. (82) Sept. 2 

Dromo. Psychiatric veteran of the Korean conflict 

is sent to the family of a friend who, when dying 

in prison, had confided a family secret. A fortunate 

accident clears up his mental confusion and a near 

trogedy is averted. Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, 

Ann Hording, Gloria Talbott, Jocques Bergerac. 

Director: Irving Rapper. Lindsley Parsons Production. 

SUDDEN DANGER 5540. (65) Dec. 18, '55 

Melodrama. Blind son of murdered woman uses 

insurance money left him to get on eye operotion 

which is successful. He then sets out to 

clear himself of suspicion in his mother's death by 

finding the real murderer. Bill Elliott, Beverly 

Garland, Tom Drake, Helene Stanton. Director: 

Hubert Cornfield. 

THREE FOR JAMIE DAWN . .5618 .. (81) July 8 

Melodroma. Wealthy, unscrupulous woman is tried 

tor the ruthless murder of her lover. Her shyster 

lawyer bribes several jury members but when one 

breaks under the stroin, the cose collapses and 

lowyer is exposed. Laroine Day, Ricordo Montalbon, 

Richard Carlson, June Havoc, Maria Palmer. Director: 

Thomas Carr. Hayes Goetz Production. 

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THUNDERSTORM 5604 (81) Moy 6 

Drama. Filmea in Spam. Fisherman rescues girl 

from Q yacht washed ashore in a small Spanish 

village. They fall in love but both the evil mayor 

ond his son ore attrocted to her and she leaves 

when this brings trouble to her rescuer. Corlos 

Thompson, Lindo Christian, Charles Korvin, Gory 

Thome. Director: John Guillermtn. Hemisphere 

Production. 

TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE . . . . . , Nov. 6, '55 

Action Drama. U. S. secret agent poses os an international 

gun runner in order to break up a 

gigantic "revolution" ring. Pretending to sell guns 

to girl revolutionary, he flushes out and captures 

nngl-oder. Dane Clark, Lit a Milan, Anthony 

Caruso, Ross Elliott, Myrno Dell. Director: Sidney 

Salkow. William F. Broidy Production. 

WICKED WIFE 5606. (75) Apr. 8 

Mystery Drama. British-made. (Released in England 

as "Grand National Night.") Cheating wife 

drives to Liverpool after a quarrel with her husbond 

and next morning is found deod in her car. A 

railrood ticket found in husband's coat pocket incriminates 

him, but he is cleared in a surprise ending. 

Nigel Patrick, Beatrice Campbell, Moire Lister, 

Betty Ann Davies, Leslie Mitchell. Director: Bob 

McNaught. George Minter Production. (Pre-released 

1954-55 season.) 

©WORLD WITHOUT END. .5607. .(80) Mar. 25 

Science-Ficfion Droma. Scientific expedition to Mars 

unwittingly crashes time barrier, returning to Earth 

in 2508, Learning that nuclear warfare has driven 

mankind underground, while bestial "mutants" inhabit 

the surface, they show the way to a new 

Earth civilizotion. Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, 

Shawn Smith, Nelson Leigh, Lisa Montell. Director- 

Edward Bernds. (CinemoScope, Perspecta sound- 

2.55-1.) 

. 5622 . . (84) Aug. 12 

YOUNG GUNS, THE . 

Western Drama. A young man, trying to live down 

his father's reputation as a notorious gunman, gets 

into a fight and leaves for another town where he 

meets daughter of killer and together they seek a 

new environment. Russ Tamblyn, Gloria Talbott, 

Perry Lopez, Scott Marlowe. Director: Albert Band! 


(December, 1955 through July, 1956) 

DAY THE WORLD ENDED. (80) Dec. 55 

Science-Fiction Melodrama. Tells what happens to 

seven persons who are earth's only survivors, along 

with a "humonoid" monster, following an atomic 

blast thot destroys civilization. Fine ly, only a man 

and girl are left to create a new world. Richard 

Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Touch Connors, 

Paul Birch. Director: Roger Corman. Golden 

State Production. (Superscope; 2-1.) 

FEMALE JUNGLE. (71) June 

Mystery Melodromo. A policeman, believing he hod 

committed murder during a hangover, retraces his 

movements to solve the crime, catching the real 

culprit and clearing his own conscience. Kathleen 

Crowley, Lawrence Tierney, John Carrodine, Jayne 

Monsfield. Director: Bruno Ve Sota. Burt Kaiser 

Production. 

GIRLS IN PRISON. (87) July 

Melodrama. Girl prison inmate claims stie was 

framed on a bonk robbery charge. Violence and 

murder toke ploce inside and outside the prison 

wolls OS greedy criminals search for loot they believe 

the girl has hidden. Richard Denning, Joan 

Taylor, Adele Jergens, Lance Fuller, Helen Gilbert. 

Director: Edward L. Cahn. Golden State Production. 

GUNSLINGER (83) June 

Western. Femme marshal of a Texas frontier town 

falls in love with o gunslinger. Compelled by duty, 

she IS later forced to c,^ r , 

beloved outlQ,v! 

John Ireland, Beverly Gorland, Allison Hayes, Martin 

Kingsley. Director: Rog3r Corman. 

HOT-ROD GIRL (75) July 

Action Drama. Story of teen-agers and fast cars, as 

speed-crazy youths bring terror and death to a 

small town. Innocent lad, blamed in a child's 

death, is saved by a friendly police officer who 

exposes the real culprit. Lori Nelson, John Smith, 

Chuck Connors, Roxonne Arlen, Mark Andrews! 

Director: Leslie Mortinson. Nacirema Production. 

OKLAHOMA WOMAN, THE. (73) June 

Western. A ruthless outlow queen, having gamed 

wealth ond power by unscrupulous methods, turns 

to politics and fromes a reformed ex-convict on 

a murder rap but is uitimotely exposed and the innocent 

man cleored. Richard Denning, Peggie 

Castle, Cathy Downs, Touch Connors, Tudor Owen. 

Director: Roger Corman. Sunset Production. (Superscope; 

2-1.) 

PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES, THE 

(80) Dec. '55 

Science-Fiction Horror Melodrama. Marine-science 

professor creates on underwater atomic light, and 

a monster to guard it which soon terrorizes civilization. 

The guilt-stricken professor destroys the 

monster, the light and himself with a time bomb. 

Kent Toylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Wholen, Rodney 

Bell, Helene Stonton. Director: Dan Milner. 

Milner Bros. Production. 

Associated Film 

(October, 1955 through July, 1956) 

BLONDE BAIT. .5506. (71) Apr. 

Melodrama. Bntish-mode. American girl singer in 

England becomes innocently involved in a romance 

with a traitor-murderer. U. S. investigator, with help 

of Scotland Yard, tracks down the mon and rescues 

the girl. Beverly Michaels, Jim Davis, Joan 

Rice, Richard Travis, Paul Covonogh, Thora 

Hird. Director: Elmo Williams. 

FRONTIER GAMBLER. 5507. (70) July 

Western. Marshal's deputy attempts to solve murder 

of woman who owns most of a western town. In 

reality, she is still alive and the deputy saves her 

from being killed by a spurned lover. John Bromfield, 

Coleen Gray, Kent Taylor, Jim Davis, Margio 

Dean, Veda Ann Borg. Director: Sam Newfield. 

LAST OF THE DESPERADOS. 5502 

(72) Nov. '55 

Western. Sheriff kills Billy the Kid, and the Kid's 

gang retaliates. To save innocent lives, sheriff 

moves to onother town under an alias, but later 

returns to shoot it out with the gang to the finish. 

James Craig, Jim Davis, Barton MacLane, Margio 

Dean, Donna Mortel. Director: Sam Newfield. 

THREE OUTLAWS, THE . . 5503 . . (74) Moy 

Western. Three outlaws flee to Mexico and become 

respectab'e ranchers until their money is 

stolen, then they become outlaws again. Private 

detective reveals their identity, leads them into a 

trap and they are killed. Neville Brand, Alan Hole, 

Bruce Bennett, Jose Gonzales, Jeon Carmen, Rodolfo 

Hoyos. Director: Sam Newfield. Sig Neufeld 

Production. (Superscope 235.) 

TWO-GUN LADY . 

. 5501 . . (71 ) Oct. '55 

Western. Two-gun female trick shot artist, while 

making on appearance at a saloon, comes across 

the man who had killed her parents. She avenges 

their deaths, aided by the U. S. Marshal whose 

heart she captures. Peggie Castle, William Talmon, 

Marie Windsor, Earle Lyon, Joe Besser Director' 

Richard H. Bartlett. 

WILD DAKOTAS, THE. ,5505 (72) Mar. 

Outdoor Drama. Conflict between a lawless wagonmaster, 

who plans to steal Indian land, ond a 

frontiersman, who attempts to save a wagon party 

from massacre by Arapahoe Indians ready to fight to 

hold their land. Bill Williams, Coleen Gray, Jim 

Davis, John Litel. Director: Sam Newfield. 

Astor 

(April, 1956 through September, 1956) 

DYNAMITERS, THE. .(74) Apr. 

Mystery Drama. British-mode. Anglo-American investigator 

takes on dangerous assignment to track 

down a gang of safe-crackers and jewel thieves. 

The master-criminal is revealed in a surprise climax. 

Wayne Morris, Sandra Dome, Patrick Holt, Simone 

Silvo, Eric Pohlmonn. Director: Francis Seorle. 

FEAR. (82) May 

Drama. (Italo-Germon co-production, filmed in 

Germany, English-dubbed dialog.) Professor hires 

a woman to blackmail his flirtatious wife and when 

the latter learns of the plot she tries to commit 

suicide. The husband arrives in time to save her, 

and both realize they love each other. Ingrid Bergman, 

Mathios Wieman, Renote Mannhardt, Kurt 

Kreuger, Elsie Aulinger. Director: Roberto Rossellini. 

Ariston.'H.M. (Gloria) Production. 

0MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST. (77) Sept. 

Adventure Drama. British-made. Robin Hood and 

his men uncover a plot to kill the king. They save 

his life, defeat the villains who are led by the king's 

brother and Robin gets his girl. Don Taylor, Reginald 

Beckwith, Eileen Moore, Patrick Holt. Director: 

Vol Guest. 

PASSPORT TO TREASON . 

. (70) June 

Melodromo. British-made. Private eye, investigating 

the death of a friend, tangles with a dangerous 

group of international killers operating as a peace 

league. The league leader proves to be the 

murderer. Rod Cameron, Lois Maxwell, Clifford 

Evans, Ballard Berkeley. Director: Robert S. Baker. 

Mid Century Production. 

Buena Vista 

{October 10, 1955 through July 17, 1956) 

U ©AFRICAN LION, THE (75) Oct. 10, '55 

True-Life Adventure Documentary. A camera study 

of the life and habits of the African jungle lion, 

as well as the elephant, hippopotamus, zebra, sable 

ontelope, gazelle, buffalo, and others. Three years 

in production, this is third in the True-Life Adventure 

feature series. Narrator: Winston Hibler. Director: 

Jomes Algor. Walt Disney Production. (1.66-1) 

0DAVY CROCKETT AND THE RIVER PIRATES 

(81) July 17 

Adventure Drama. Combination of two Disneyland- 

TV shows. Adventures of Davy Crockett and his 

pal as they meet up with Mississippi pirates, o river 

king and Indians. They bring to justice o bond of 

river pirates mosqueroding as redskins. Fess Porker, 

Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey, Director: 

Norman Foster. Walt Disney Production. 

OGREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE, THE . (85) . 20 

Dramo. Espionage story re-enocting a true incident 

of the Civil War, which involved a daring attempt 

by Union agents to steol a locomotive, deep in 

enemy territory, which would cut the Confederacy 

in two. Heroic conductor foils the plot. Fess Parker, 

Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Kenneth 

Tobey. Director: Francis D. Lyon. Walt Disney Production. 

(CinemaScope, optical sound only; 2,55-1.) 

©LITTLEST OUTLAW, THE. (75) Feb. 1 

Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Stable boy of Mexican 

army general is declared on outlaw when he runs 

off with a horse that has been ordered shot. The 

horse later wins fame in the bull ring and boy is 

pardoned. Pedro Armendariz, Joseph Calleia, 

Rodolfo Acosto, Andres Velasquez, Pepe Ortiz. Director: 

Roberto Gavaldon. Walt Disney Production. 

(REISSUES) 

©FANTASIA. (115) Feb. 9 

Musical Fontasy. (Live oction and cortoon sequences.) 

Leopold Stokowski conducts orchestra. 

Narrator: Deems Taylor. Walt Disney Production. 

(Superscope added, with 4-track sound and stereophonic 

sound.) 

©SONG OF THE SOUTH . 

. (95) Feb. 20 

Musical Droma. (Live-oction with cartoon animation.) 

Ruth Worrick, Lucile Watson, Hattie Mc- 

Doniel, James Boskett, Luona Patten, Bobby Driscoll. 

Walt Disney Production. 

Columbia 

(August, 1955 through June, 1956) 

APACHE AMBUSH . 804 . 

. (68) Sept. '55 

Western. President Lincoln assigns an Indian scout 

to leod a large herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas 

to alleviate a critical meat shortage. En route, 

he battles hostile Apaches, renegade Confederates 

and Mexican bandits. Bill Williams, Richard 

Jaeckel, Alex Montoyo, Tex Ritter, Movita. Director: 

Fred F. Sears. 

BATTLE STATIONS . . . (81 ) Feb. 

Drama. Life aboard a U. S. Navy aircraft corner 

in World War II and the mixed emotions of the men 

under discipline and regimentation. Personal 

grudges are forgotten as they courageously face an 

attack by Japanese oircroft and submarines. John 

Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brosselle, Richard 

Boone, William Leslie. Director: Lewis Seiler. 

BLACKJACK KETCHUM, DESPERADO. . 831 

(76) Apr. 

Western. Former Texas gunslinger, trying to live 

down his past, aids the low in cutting down one by 

one SIX professional killers hired by a local cattle 

boron to terrorize Oxhorn Valley ranchers. Howard 

Duff, Victor Jory, Maggie Mahoney, Angela Stevens. 

Director: Earl Bellamy. Clover Production. 

©BRING YOUR SMILE ALONG. .803. (83). Aug. '55 

Musical. Schoolteacher writes lyrics for a young 

pianist-composer and a singer, falling in love with 

the composer. A quarrel over her old beau causes 

a rift, but the singer brings the two together again. 

Frankie Lame, Keefe Brosselle, Lucy Marlow, William 

Leslie, Constance Towers. Director; Blake 

Edwards. 

©COCKLESHELL HEROES 813. (97) May 

Drama. British-made, Based on a little-known operation 

of World War II, this tells how 10 British 

morines heroically destroy enemy shipping at the 

German-held port of Bordeaux. Only two men survive 

the raid. Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Victor 

Maddern, Dora Bryan, Director: Jose Ferrer. Warwick 

Production, (CinemaScope, optical sound only; 

2.55-1.) 

©COUNT THREE AND PRAY .. 81 1 . . (102) . 

'55 

Outdoor Drama. A southerner who fought on the 

side of the north in the Civil War returns to his 

home town to become a parson in the foce of a 

hostile community. Von Heflin, Joanne Woodward, 

Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes, Phil Carey. Director: 

George Sherman. Copa Production. (Cinema- 

Scope, stereophonic or optical sound; 2.55-1.) 

CROOKED WEB, THE. .816. (77) Dec. '55 

Melodrama. How on elaborate plot was formed to 

trap an cx-Gl, who hod murdered a fellow lieutenant 

in Germany during World War 1 1, into returning 

to Germany, because army red tope required 

he be brought back for trial there. Frank 

Lovejoy, Mori Blonchard, Richard Denning, Harry 

Louter. Director: Nathan Hertz Juran. Clover Production. 

DEVIL GODDESS 805 (70) Oct. '55 

Adventure Melodrama. Accomponying professor 

and daughter, /ungle guide finds missing scientist 

posing as fire god in forbidden Kirundi territory. 

Party finds cache of sopphires, but girl is captured 

by fire-worshippers. Guide saves her just before 

molten lava engulfs village. Johnny Weissmuller, 

Angela Stevens, "Kimba." Director; Spencer 

G. Bennet. 

©DUEL .808 ON THE MISSISSIPPI. (72) Oct. '55 

Drama. Raiders invade a sugar plontotion, leaving 

owner bankrupt. its gambling queen hold- 

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ing the planter's note makes the man's son agree 

to be her slave for three years to save his father 

from imprisonment, they fall in love. Lex Barker, 

Potricio Medina, Warren Stevens, Croig Stevens, 

John Dehner. Director: William Castle. Clover 

Production, 

©FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG. 802. (90) Sept. '55 

Melodrama. Bntish-made, Unscrupulous servant 

girl blockmails her employer after learning he had 

poisoned his wife. Unable to stop her, he takes 

slow doses of arsenic so girl will be blamed, but he 

takes too much and dies; girl goes to prison. 

Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Trovers, Ronold 

Squire, Fin lay Currie, Belinda Lee. Director: 

Arthur Lubin. Fronkovich Production. 

FURY AT GUNSIGHT PASS. .817 . .(68) Feb. 

Western. A precision-planned bank raid is disrupted, 

and the bandits hold an entire town hostage 

as the satchel of stolen money passes from hand 

to hand, while bullets fly. The outlaws are killed 

and the money recovered. David Brian, Neville 

Brand, Richard Long, Lisa Davis. Director; Fred F. 

Sears. 

©GUN THAT WON THE WEST, THE. .809 

(71) Sept. '55 

Western. Set in Wyoming in early west days, the 

Army is aided by two one-time scouts in protecting 

railroad workers from area Indians. At the 

some time, one scout, addicted to drinking, regains 

his own strength of character and his wife. Dennis 

Morgan, Paula Raymond, Richard Denning, Chris 

O'Brien. Director: William Castle. 

HARDER THEY FALL, THE. .827. (109) Apr. 

Drama. Expose of a crooked gambling syndicate 

by an out-of-work sports columnist who had been 

induced to give a phony publicity buildup to a 

giant Argentine fighter during his tour of "fixed" 

fights. Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jon Sterling, 

Mike Lane, Max Boer, Jersey Joe Walcott. 

Director: Mark Robson. 

HELL'S HORIZON .823. .(80) Dec. '55 

Drama. Members of a U. S. bomber squadron stationed 

in Korea are at each other's throats. Then 

comes a tough mission and all the men, including 

the heel of the outfit, turn out to be heroes. John 

Ireland, Maria English, Bill Williams, Hugh 

mont, Larry Pennell. Director: Tom Gries. 

Beau- 

©HOT BLOOD. .834. (85) Mar. 

Dramo With Music. Set against a background of 

gypsy life in a modern American community, this 

tells the story of a dying gypsy king who seeks to 

groom his hot-blooded, resentful brother for the 

succession. Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, 

Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny. Director: 

Nicholas Ray. Howord Welsch Production. (Cinema- 

Scope, optical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

HOUSTON STORY, THE. .821 . .(79) Feb. 

Melodrama. Powerful oil field gangsters steal oil 

to sell to foreign governments. Their lust for 

money and power leads to violence and murder 

as they fight among themselves before the law 

catches up with them. Gene Barry, Edward Arnold, 

Barbara Hole, Paul Richards, Jeanne Cooper. Director; 

William Castle. Clover Production. 

INSIDE DETROIT. .815. (82) Jon. 

Melodrama. Story of a murderous clique within the 

ranks of Detroit's local "United Auto Workers 

Union," and the honest efforts of union leaders to 

oust the violent element. Dennis O'Keefe, Pat 

O'Brien, Tina Carver, Margaret Field. Director: 

Fred F. Sears. Clover Production. 

JOE MACBETH . 

. 

(90) Feb. 

Melodroma. 

. 

Filmed in England. Paraphrases 

Shakespeare's "Macbeth," modernizing it to the 

rattle of machine guns. Succeeding a No. 1 

trigger man who had been murdered, a gangster 

is gooded by his ombitious "Lady Macbeth" wife 

into killing the boss and taking over the gong. 

Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Gregoire 

Asian, Sidney James. Director: Ken Hughes. 

Fronkovich Production. 

©JUBAL 833. (101) Moy 

Outdoor Droma. From Paul Wellman's novel, 

"Jubal Troop," about a drifting cowhand who accidentally 

kills the kindly rancher who had befriended 

him, and is saved from lynchers by a 

Rowhider (religious sect) girl. Glenn Ford, Ernest 

Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr. 

Director: Delmer Daves. (CinemaScope, optical 

sound only; 2.55-1 .) 

©LAST FRONTIER, THE . 

. 812 . . (98) Jan. 

Western Droma. A scout attached to a frontier outpost 

clashes with the post commander on ideas for 

everting a threatened Indian attack. Scout saves 

troops from massacre in the ensuing battle but the 

bullheaded commander is slain. Victor Mature, Guy 

Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore, Anne 

Bancroft. Director: Anthony Mann. (CinemaScope, 

optical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

LAST TEN DAYS, THE fSee Foreign Language classification) 

©LAWLESS STREET, A .814. (78) Dec. '55 

Western. Story of a fearless marshal, quick on the 

drow, who outwits and outshoots the lawless element 

who wants to open up the town. He wins 

his battle ogoinst the gunmen ond wins bock his 

ex-wife. Randolph Scott, Angela Lonsbury, Warner 

Anderson, Jean Parker, Wallace Ford, John Emery. 

Director; Joseph H. Lewis. Scott-Brown Production. 

©MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE. .801 . .Au9. '55 

Western. A man who travels a thousand miles to 

avenge his brother's death tangles with the son 

of cattle boron and is later accused of his deoth. 

The murderer's fiancee helps him solve the mystery 

killings. Jomes Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald 

Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline Mac- 

Mohon. Director: Anthony Mann. William Goetz 

Production. (CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical 

sound; 2.55-1.) 

U©MY SISTER EILEEN. .810. .(108) Oct. '55 

Musicol. Based on Ruth McKenney's well-known 

stories about her adventures with her glamorous 

sister Eileen and the letter's boy friends in Greenwich 

Village where the two share a basement 

apartment. This was first filmed as a comedy by 

Columbia in 1942. Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Jack 

Lemmon, Robert Fosse, Kurt Kosznar, Lucy Morlow. 

Director: Richard Quine. (CinemaScope, stereophonic 

or optical sound; 2.55-1.) 

NIGHT HOLDS TERROR, THE. .807. .(86). . Sept. '55 

Semi-documentary Drama. Based on a factual 

holdup and kidnaping case, in which a family is 

held captive and terrorized by three criminal fugitives. 

How the gunmen are apprehended and ultimately 

killed in the roundup furnishes the motivation. 

Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John 

Cassavetes, David Cross. Director; Andrew Stone. 

OVER-EXPOSED . 835 . . (80) Apr. 

Melodrama. 

. 

Ex-model turned professional photographer 

accidentally snaps a picture that would 

ruin a mobster's alibi in a murder case and becomes 

involved with blackmailers. Her news reporter 

boy friend comes to the rescue. Cleo Moore, 

Richard Crenna, Isabel Elsom, Raymond Green leaf. 

Director: Lewis Seiler. 

©PICNIC. 826. .(113) 

Feb. 

Drama. From William Inge's Pulitzer Prize play 

about the behavior of a group of assorted persons 

at o small town picnic in Kansas and the havoc 

created by a lovable drifter in the lives of several 

women. William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim 

Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strosberg, Cliff Robertson. 

Director: Joshua Logan. (CinemaScope, stereophonic 


PRISONER, THE. 825. (91) Mar. 

Drama. British-made. Tells of the imprisonment of 

a churchman by a totalitarian government, and the 

latter's brain-washing to wring a confession of 

treason from the innocent man who, when released, 

is shunned by former friends. Alec Guinness, 

Jock Hawkins, Raymond Huntley, Wilfred Lawson, 

Jeannette Sterke. Director: Peter Glenville. 

QUEEN BEE. .819. .(95) Nov, '55 

Drama. Story of the mistress of a southern mansion 

who, hated by her husband and all those 

oround her, ruthlessly maintains her position of 

power by eliminotmg all opposition and ultimately 

meets a violent death. Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, 

John Ireland, Betsy Palmer, Lucy Morlow. 

Director: Ronald MacDougall. Jerry Wald Production. 

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK. .838. (77) Apr. 

Musical. A jobless band manager discovers rock 

and roll music in a mountain villoge and promotes 

it into a nationwide dance craze. A jealous woman 

tries but foils to moke the bond flop. Bill Haley and 

His Comets, The Platters, Tony Martinez, Freddie 

Bell and His Bellboys, Alan Freed, Johnny Johnston, 

AIix Tolton. Director: Fred F. Sears. Clover 

Production. 

©SAFARI. .839. (91) June 

Droma. Filmed in Kenya, East Africa. A white 

hunter acts as guide for a wealthy Britisher and his 

fiancee on a lion-hunting trek through the dark 

continent. The group is attacked by savage Mou 

Mou terrorists. Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John 

Justin, Roland Culver, Liam Redmond. Director; 

Terence Young. Warwick Production. (CinemaScope, 

optical sound only, 2.55-1.) 

SECRET OF TREASURE MOUNTAIN. .832. (68). .June 

Action Melodrama. Story of lust for gold, jealousy 

and hidden treasure. Three gold crosses furnish the 

clues to treasure guarded by a murderous, halfbreed 

Indian whose ancestors had buried the gold 

200 years ago. Valerie French, Raymond Burr, 

William Prince, Lance Fuller. Director: Seymour 

Friedman. 

SPECIAL DELIVERY. .806. .(86) Sept. '55 

Comedy Drama. Produced in Germany. Explosive 

tensions exist between o group of U. S. State Department 

employes and the Russians, which situation 

grows when a baby boy is thrown over the 

U. S. embassy wall and the embassy grants political 

asylum to the little refugee. Joseph Gotten, Eva 

Bortok, Nioll MacGinnis, Rene Deltgen, Robert 

Cunningham. Director; John Brahm. N. Peter Rathvon 

Production. 

©STORM OVER THE NILE. .829. (80) June 

Drama. Bntish-made. New version of A. E. W. 

Mason's "Four Feathers." Four feothers, symbol of 

cowardice, are sent a man whose resignation from 

his regiment is misunderstood. In revenge, he goes 

to Sudan disguised as a native, performs anonymous 

acts of bravery and returns to England a 

hero. Laurence Harvey, Anthony Steel, James 

'55 

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Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Geoffrey Keen, Directors: 

Terence Young, Zoltan Korda. Zoltan Korda 

Production. (CinemaScope, optical sound only: 

2.55-1.) 

TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE . . 

Droma. Story of juvenile 

. (77) 

delinquency, 

Nov. 

in which 

three girls, one innocently involved, hide out in 

a farmhouse after escaping while en route to a 

house of correction, ond terrorize the occupants. 

Tommy Cook, Mo McCart, Sue England, Frank 

Griffin, Jomes Bell. Director: Fred F. Sears. Clover 

Production. 

THREE STRIPES IN THE SUN . (93) .. Nov. '55 

. . 

Droma. Filmed in Japan. Based on the true story of 

a Jop-prejudiced American sergeant in post-war Japan 

who IS touched at sight of a Japanese orphanage 

and gets his buddies to support it, later returning 

to the U. S. with o Japanese bride. Aldo 

Ray, Phil Carey, Dick York, Mitsuko Kimura, Chuck 

Connors. Director; Richard Murphy. 

URANIUM BOOM. .837. .(67) Mar. 

Drama. A mining engineer teoms up with a moneyhungry 

adventurer and together they strike it 

rich prospecting for uranium. The latter skids to 

the bottom, a victim of his own greed, but his 

partner brings him to his senses. Dennis Morgan, 

Patricio Medina, William Tolman, Tina Carver. Director: 

William Castle. Clover Production. 

(REISSUES) 

WALK A CROOKED MILE . 

8 . . (91 ) Dee. '55 

Melodramo. Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise 

Albritton, Carl Esmond. 

WESTERN REISSUES 

BLAZING SIX SHOOTERS 881 (61) 

Charles Storrett, Ins Meredith, Sons of fhe Pioneers. 

DEVIL'S TRAIL, THE. 893 (61) 

Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter. 

OVERLAND TO DEADWOOD . 

. 885 (58) 

Charles Storrett, Russell Hoyden. 

PINTO KID, THE. 882 (61) 

Charles Storrett, Louise Currie, Sons of the Pioneers. 

RETURN OF WILD BILL, THE.. 891 (60) 

Bill Elliott, Ins Meredith. 

RIDERS OF THE BADLANDS 884 (57) 

Charles Storrett, Russell Hoyden. 

RIDING THROUGH NEVADA. 886 (61) 

Charles Storrett, Shirley Patterson. 

ROARING FRONTIERS. .892 (62) 


SINGING ON THE TRAIL. .862 (69) 

The Hoosier Hotshots, Ken Curtis, Jeff Donnell, Guy 

Kibbee, Dusty Anderson. 

THAT TEXAS JAMBOREE .861 (67) 

The Hoosier Hotshots, Ken 

Andy Clyde. 

Curtis, Jeff Donnell, 

THUNDER OVER THE PRAIRIE. 883 (61) 

Charles Starrett, Eileen O'Hearn, Cliff Edwords. 

VENGEANCE OF THE WEST. 894 (61) 


DCA 

(October, 1955 through September, 1956) 

FRISKY. .Italian. (98) Dec. 15, '55 

Comedy Drama. (Sequel to "Bread, Love and 

Dreams." Italian language with English titles.) 

Beautiful, vivacious Italian girl arouses the jealousy 

of village maidens, whose malicious gossip causes 

her fiance to break their engagement. Joining a 

theatrical caravan, the lovers ore reunited when 

he rescues her during on earthquake. Gina Lollobrigida, 

Vittorio de Sica, Marisa Merlini, Roberto 

Risso, Virgilio Riento, Tina Pica, Paolo Stoppa. Director: 

Luigi Comencini. Ti tonus Film Production. 

(English-dubbed version released April, 1956.) 

©JEDDA THE UNCIVILIZED. (88) June 

Semi-documentary Dramo. Austral ion- mode Australian 

Aborigine girl raised by a white woman 

meets a native who kidnops her and takes her to 

his village. There he is disowned, and sorcery causes 

him to jump from a cliff with the girl. Norlo 

Kunogh, Robert Tudewali, Betty Suttor, George 

Simpson-Little, Paul Reynall. Director: Charles 

Chouvel. Brill-Baker Presentation. 

PLEASE MURDER ME .(78) Mar. 

Melodrama. A beautiful cheat falls in love with 

her husband's best friend, a lawyer, who is duped 

into winning on acquittal for her when she kills 

her husband. Upon learning the truth, he traps 

her into confessing the murder. Angela Lonsbury, 

Roymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lament 

Johnson. Director: Peter Godfrey. Gross-Krasne 

Production. 

PRIVATE'S PROGRESS. (99) Sept. 

Comedy Force. British-mode. Satire on British 

ormy life in World War II, and the zany activities 

of bungling private who becomes innocently involved 

in a block market deal in art treasure loot. 

Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichoel, 

Terry-Thomas. Director: John Boulting. 


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Century-Fox 

"THE HELEN MORGAN STORY" 

Warner Bros. 

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WAGES OF FEAR ("Lc Soloire de lo Pour") 

(106) Oct. 1, '55 

Drama. (French languogc with English titles.) Four 

men are offered $2,000 each by o South American 

company to deliver two trucktoods of explosives 

oil 

over a dangerous mountoin road. Only one mon 

gets through, collects his money, but plunges to his 

deoth on the return journey. Yves Montond, 

Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, Foico Lulli, Vera 

Clouzot. Director: H. G. Clouzot. Filmsonor 

C.I.C.C. Co-production. (English-dubbed version released 

Feb. 1956) 

WOMAN OF ROME . 

. (93) Sept. 

Oramo. (English-dubbed version.) Set in Rome during 

the Fascist regime, story revolves around a 

beautiful artist's model who, through o strange 

twist of circumstances, becomes a courtesan. The 

film depicts her step-by-step degradation. Gina 

Lollobrigida, Daniel Gelin, Raymond Pellegrin, 

Franco Fabrizi. Director: Luigi Zompa. Ponti-De 

Laurentiis Production. 

(REISSUES) 

BRUTE FORCE (98) June 

Drama. Burt Lancoster, Hume Crony n, Charles 

Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann BIyth. Mark 

Hellinger Production. {Originally released by Univ.- 

Infl in 1947.) 

NAKED CITY. (96) June 

Dromo. Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Barry Fitzgerald, 

Don Taylor. Mark Hellinger Production. 

(Originally released by Univ.-lnt'l in 1948.) 

/. F. E. Rel. Corp, 

(English Longuogc) 

Sec Foreign classification for I.F.E. 

foreign-language films. 

OLEASE OF LIFE. .(93) Jon. 

Drama. British-mode. A story of human conflict 

in which a country parson is the victim of a sensational 

tabloid story, setting off a chain of events 

that leads to near tragedy for his wife and daughter. 

Robert Donot, Kay Walsh, Denholm Elliott, 

AdrJenne Corn, Vida Hope. Director: Charles 

Frend. Michael Balcon Production for J. Arthur 

Rank. 

©MADAME BUTTERFLY. .(114) June 

Operatic Dromo. made, with English 

narration 

, 

and Italian operatic voices.) Set 

ogoinst a background of Puccini melodies, this 

tells the well-known love story of a U. S. Navy 

lieutenant whose marriage to a Japanese girl ends 

in heartbreak for the girl and ultimate suicide. 

Kooru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi, Orietta Moscucci, 

Giuseppe Campora, Anna Mario Canali, 

Ferdinando Lidonni, Kabuki Dance Troupe, Orchestra 

and Chorus of Rome Royal Opera House. Director: 

Carmine Gollone. Rizzoli-Toho-Gollone Production. 

(REISSUES) 

©GOLDEN COACH, THE (105) Apr. 

Comedy. (Italian-made with English dialog.) Anno 

Mogncni, Duncan Lamont, Paul Campbell, Riccardo 

Rioli, Jean Debucourt. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

(September 2, 1955 through August 10, 1956) 

©BHOWANI JUNCTION. .631 . June 8 

Droma. Filmed m Pokistan. Adventure story in 

which a romance between a beautiful Anglo- 

Indian member of the Indian women's auxiliary 

corps ond a British colonel is tied in with Communist-inspired 

sabotage against a railroad. Avo 

Gardner, Stewart Granger, William Trovers, Abrohom 

Sofaer, Francis Matthews. Director: George 

Cukor. (Cinemascope, available in Magnetic stereophonic, 

Perspecta stereophonic or 1-chonnel sound; 

2.55-1.) 

CATERED AFFAIR, THE. .633. (93) June 22 

Comedy Droma. From Poddy Chayefsky's teleploy 

about a middle-class Bronx family which strains its 

finances to the breaking point when the mother 

insists on a lavish catered wedding for an only 

daughter. Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie 

Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Dorothy Stickney. Director: 

Richard Brooks. (Available in Perspecta 

stereophonic or 1 -channel sound; 1.75-1.) 

©DIANE. .616. (110) Jon. 6 

Droma. Based on John Erskine's story, "Dione de 

Poitiers," this tells of the conflict of two noble 

women who ruled the heort of Henry II of 1 6th 

century France, one placing love of country and 

king above life itself. Lano Turner, Pedro Armendanz, 

Roger Moore, Marisa Povan, Sir Cedric 

Hardwicke. Director: Dovid Miller. [CinemaScope, 

available in Magnetic stereophonic, Perspecta 

stereophonic or 1 -channel sound; 2.55-1 .) 

FASTEST GUN ALIVE, THE . .634 . (89) July 6 

Western Drama. Gunman rides into town boasting 

thot he IS "the fastest gun olive." The storekeeper, 

an ex-gunman, keeps it secret until forced into 

a duel with the stranger. He buries his former self 

with the dead gunman. Glenn Ford, Jeanne Croln, 

Broderick Crawford, Russ Tomblyn, Allyn Joslyn. 

. 

Director: Russell Rouse. (Available in Perspecta OMEET ME IN LAS VEGAS .622.(112) ... Mar. 9 

stereophonic or I -channel sound; 1.75-1.) 

Musical. Sot against o fabulous night spot in the 

famous resort city, plot revolves oround the romance 

of a wealthy ranch-owner and a beautiful 

OFORBIDDEN PLANET 625. (98) Mor. 30 

Science-Fiction Drama. In 2200 AD. a brilliant ballerina whom he believes brings him gambling 

philologist IS the only survivor of a space vessel luck. Don Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, 

crash on planet Altair-4. He deciphers the total 

Lili Darvos, Jim Backus and Guest Stars. Director: 

knowledge of Altoir's former inhabitants and finds Roy Rowland. (CinemaScope, available in Magnetic 

stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic or 1- 

himself the most powerful man in the universe. 

Wolter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren 

channel sound; 2.55-1) 

the other ©BILLY THE KID. .611 . (95) Dee. 2, '55 

animals, up, but to grips a beautiful 

Indian girl. Robert Taylor, Stewort Granger, 

Western, Robert Toylor, Brian Donlevy, Mory 

Howard, Gene Lockhort, Lon Choney jr. (1.75-1) 

Debro Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tomblyn. Director: 

Richard Brooks. (CinemoScope, available GUY NAMED JOE, A . .(120) Nov. 11, '55 

in Magnetic stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic Droma. Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van .lohnscn 

or -channel sound; 1 2.55-1.) Esther Williams, Word Bond. (1.75-1) 

against 

team 

uncontrolloble 

come 

slaughter 

over 

of the 

Stevens, Richard Anderson. Director: Fred M. 

Wilcox. (CinemaScope, available in Mognetic ©QUENTIN DURWARD. .607. (101). . 21. '55 

stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic or 1 -channel Costume Dramo. Filmed in England. Sir Walter 

sound; 2.55-1.) 

Scott's classic of medieval chivalry ond chicanery as 

young Scotsman bottles to win a lovely countess, 

©FOREVER DARLING. .620. (96) Feb. 10 

in King Louis Xl's court, for his uncle, and wins her 

Comedy. Society girl's marriage to a successful, for himself. Robert Toylor, Kay Kendall, Robert 

young scientist begins to poll after o few years, Morley, George Cole, Duncan Lamont. Director: 

and her guardian angel appears to help her recapture 

Richard Thorpe. (CinemaScope, available in Mag- 

their lost love. Visible only to the wife, netic stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic or 1- 

the angel's presence complicates matters. Lucille chonncl sound; 2.55-1 .) 

Ball, Desi Arnoz, James Mason, Louis Colhern, 

Natalie Schafer, Director: Alexander Hall. Zonro RANSOM!. .617. (104) Jon. 20 

Production. (Available in Perspecta stereophonic Drama. Based on a TV drama, "The Fearful Decision," 

this deals with o father who defied kid- 

or 1 -channel sound; 1.75-1.) 

napers holding his boy for $500,000 ransom, knowing 

his son's life would be jeopardized by the de- 

©GABY . . . (97) May 1 

Drama. French ballerina meets American paratrooper 

in London and they plan to marry but he Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juono Hernandez, 

cision. The boy is returned unharmed. Glenn Ford, 

IS sent to the front. Mistakenly reported killed, he Robert Keith, Director: Alex Segal. (Available in 

returns to find her '"ving promiscuously but forgives 

her. Leslie Coron, John Kerr, Sir Cedric 

Perspecta stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 1.75-1.) 

Hardwicke, Toina Elg. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME. 635 

(CinemaScope, available in Magnetic stereophonic, (113) JuW 20 

Perspecta stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 2.55-1.) Biographical Drama. Based on life of Rocky 

Graziano, who is o young gangster and goes to 

0©GUYS AND DOLLS 614 

reform school and prison. He turns to boxing and 

(149) Dec. '55—Special becomes middleweight champion of the world. 

Musical Comedy. From Damon Runyon's story and Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen 

the Broadway stage hit, revolving around the Heckart, Sol Mmeo. Director: Robert Wise. (Available 

in Perspecta stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 

rocky romances between a gambler (high-roller) 

and a Salvationist, and a nightclub singer and her 1.75-1.) 

chiseling boy friend, set against a bockground of 

tuneful songs and dances. Marlon Brando, Jean 0SVENGALI. 602 (82) Sept. 9, '55 

Simmons, Frank Sinotro, Vivian Blaine, Robert Drama. British-mode. Based on George du 

Keith, Stubby Koye. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 

Somuel Goldwyn Production. (CinemaScope, Trilby is the 19th century Parisian ortists' model 

Mourier's classic, "Trilby," filmed thrice before. 

available in Magnetic stereophonic, Perspecta who falls under the evil Svengoli's hypnotic spell 

stereophonic or ! -channel sound; 2.55-1.) 

and leaves her lover to become o famous singer. 

Hildegorde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, 

©HIGH SOCIETY 637. (107) Aug. 10 

Derek Bond, Paul Rogers. Director: Noel Langley. 

Comedy Musical. Musical version of MGM's 1940 

George Minter Production. (Availoble in Perspecta 

release of "The Philadelphia Story." How a wealthy 

stereophonic or 1 -channel sound; 1.75-1.) 

playboy wins bock his ex-wife, whom he still loves, 

OS she is making plans for her forthcoming society 

C-aSWAN, THE 628. (112) Apr. 27 

wedding to another man. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, 

Comedy Drama. From Ferenc Molnor's play, filmed 

Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis 

twice before, obout on impoverished princess who 

Colhern. Director; Charles Walters. Sol C. Siegei 

falls in love with a commoner whom her mama 

Production. (VistaVision, available in Perspecta hod planted to stir on indifferent prince into 

stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 2-1.) 

thoughts of marriage. Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, 

Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce 

I'LL CRY TOMORROW. 615. (119) Mar. 23 

Londis. Director: Charles Vidor. (CinemaScope, 

Biographical Drama. Based on the life of Lillian 

Roth, dealing with her successful career as a 

available m Magnetic stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic 

or 1 -channel sound; 2.55-1 .) 

singer, her unhappy marriages, gradual degradation 

OS her drinking habits progressed, and her 

©TENDER TRAP, THE 608. (Ill) Nov. 4, '55 

ultimate comeback through the help of Alcoholics 

Comedy With Music. An eligible bachelor is 

Anonymous. Susan Hay word, Richard Conte, Eddie 

besieged with dotes, gifts and attention from 

Albert, Jo Von Fleet, Don Taylor, Roy Danton. 

beautiful girls but always manages to elude marriage. 

He falls for o musical comedy stor and 

Director: Daniel Mann. (Available in Perspecta 

stereophonic or 1 -channel sound; 1,75-1,) 

eventually is "trapped" into marriage. Frank 

©IT'S A DOG'S LIFE (formerly *'Wildfire" and 

Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste 

"The Bor Sinister") . . (87) Dec. 23, '55 Holm, Jarma Lewis. Director: Chorles Walters. 

Drama. From a Richard Hording Davis story about (CinemaScope, availoble in Mognetic stereophonic, 

a show dog and the human beings who figure in Perspecta stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 2.55-1.) 

his life. The fact that the dog's father deserted 

his mother leaves him o crazy, mixed-up canine THESE WILDER YEARS. 636. (91) Aug. 3 

until he is reunited with his parents and sweetheart. 

Jeff Richards, Jorma Lewis, Dean Jogger, 

Drama. A millionaire turns up offer 20 years to 

claim his son, born out of wedlock. After on unsuccessful 

court battle, he realizes the boy is 

Edmund Gwenn, "Wildfire." Director: Herman Hoffman. 

(CinemaScope, available in Magnetic 

happier in his present environment. Jomes Cogney, 

stereophonic, 

Perspecta stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 

Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Betty Lou Keim. 

Director: Roy Rowland. (Available in Perspecta 

2.55-1.) 

stereophonic or l-chonnel sound; 1.75-1.) 

©IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER. .601 

(101) Sept. 2, '55 TRIAL 604. (109) Oct. 7, '55 

Musical. Three World War II buddies get together Drama. How the Communists try to sway justice in 

a 

for a 10-year reunion in New York and find they 

U. S. court in their seorch for a martyr, ond how 

o courageous young attorney foils their scheme 

have nothing in common until at the end, while 

making a surprise TV appeoronce, they 

ond keeps them from using his client—a Mexican 

are reunited 

in a big brawl with a gangster. Gene 

lad— OS a tool. Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, 

Kelly, 

Don Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael 

Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Koty Jurodo, Rafael 

Kidd. Directors: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. 

Campos. Director: Mark Robson. (Available in 

(CinemaScope, 

avoilable in Magnetic stereophonic, Per- 

Perspecto stereophonic or 1 -channel sound; 1.75-1.) 

specta stereophonic or 

©TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN .626. (95) Apr. 13 

1 -channel sound; 2.55-1.) 

OKISMET. 613. (113) Dee. 23, '55 Western. Story of a ruthless range boron with a 

strange sense of frontier justice, and how o woman's 

Musical. From the stage musical, about the rascally 

heart, alienated 

poet and his beautiful daughter who were destined 

by his sadistic cruelty. Is ultimately 

rewon by tenderness, James Cogney, Irene Papas, 

by fate to rise to affluent positions in their Oriental 

community. Romance and adventure, mystery 

Don Dubbins, Stephen McNolly, Vic Morrow. Director: 

Robert Wise. 

and intrigue, unfold against o background 

(CinemaScope, available in 

of 

operatic arias. Howard Keel, Ann BIyth, Dolores 

Magnetic stereophonic, Perspecto stereophonic or 

Gray, Vic Damone, Monty Woolley. Director: Vincente 

Minnelli. (CinemaScope, availoble in Mag- 

l-chonnel sound; 2.55-1.) 

netic stereophonic, Perspecta stereophonic or T- (REISSUES) 

chonnel sound; 2.55-1 .) 

0ANNIE GET YOUR GUN . . (107) June 15 

©LAST HUNT, THE . . . (108) Feb. 24 Musical Comedy. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis 

Outdoor Drama. Two mighty buffolo hunters, one Colhern, J. Carrol Noisln, Edward Arnold, Keenon 

bent on making a fortune from selling the skins, Wynn. (1.75-1) 

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HONKY TONK. .612. (104) Dec. 2, '55 

Droma. Clork Goble, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, 

Claire Trevor, Morjorie Main, Albert Dekker. 

(1.75-1) 

ONORTHWEST PASSAGE .. 623 . Mar. 16 

Drama. Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennon, 

Ruth Husscy. (1.75-1) 

STRATTON STORY, THE. .619. (106) Feb. 3 

Droma. James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, 

Agnes Mooreheod, Bill Williams. (1.75-1) 

THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO. 610 

(138) Nov. 11, '55 

Dromo. Spencer Tracy, Von Johnson, Robert 

Walker, Phyllis Thaxter. (1.75-1) 

OTHREE MUSKETEERS, THE . .. (126) Feb. 3 

Dramo. Lono Turner, Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, June 

Allyson, Angela Lansbury. (1.75-1) 

OYEARLING, THE. .624. (128) Mar. 16 

Drama. Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman 

jr., Clem Bevans, Margoret Wycherly, Forrest 

Tucker. (1.75-1) 

Paramount 

(September, 1955 through August, 1956) 

OANYTHING GOES 5513 (106) Apr. 

Musical. A Cole Porter musical, story concerning 

two stage performers who teom up for a new 

musicol show, and run into professional and 

romantic problems as each signs a leading lady 

without the other's knowledge. Bing Crosby, Donald 

O'Connor, Jeonmaire, Mitzi Gay nor, Phil Harris. 

Director: Robert Lewis. (VistaVision; 2-1.) 

©ARTISTS AND MODELS .5510. .(109) Dec. '55 

Comedy With Music. A pair of zany, unemployed 

artists meet up with the gal who draws the Bat 

Lady comic strip, and her model, and a double 

romance, with the usuol M & L com(ic)plications, 

follows. Dean Mortm, Jerry Lewis, Shirley Moc- 

Laine, Dorothy Maione, Eddie Mayehoff. Director: 

Frank Tashlin. Hal Wollis Production. (VistaVision; 

2-1.) 

©BIRDS AND THE BEES, THE. .5515. .(94) May 

Comedy. TV's "Lonesome" George, cast as a timid 

meat-packing heir, is on a luxury liner where three 

cord sharks, one on attractive girl, plan to fleece 

him. A merry mix-up ensues, with love ultimately 

winning out. George Gobel, Mitzi Goynor, David 

Niven, Fred Clark, Reginald Gardiner. Director; 

Norman Taurog. (VistaVision; 2-1 .) 

©COURT JESTER, THE . .. (101 ) Mor. 

Satirical Comedy With Music. Tells in satirical 

fashion, the story of a court jester in 12th 

Century England who helps to dethrone the 

usurping king and put the infant son of the real 

king on the throne. Donny Kaye, Glynis Johns, 

Basil Rathbone, Angelo Lansbury, Cecil Parker. 

Directors: Norman Panama, Me I in Frank. (Vista- 

Vision; 2-1.) 

DESPERATE HOURS, THE . Oct. '55 

. . (1 12) . . . 

Suspense Drama. Based on on octual happening, 

this re-enacts the terrifying experience of a suburban 

family of four whose home is invaded by three 

escaped convicts who hold them captive under 

death threats while they await word from on 

occomplice. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, 

Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig 

Young, Mary Murphy. Director: William Wyler. 

(VistaVision; 2-1.) 

©GIRL RUSH, THE. .5501.. (85) Sept. '55 

Musical. Daughter of gambler is bored with her 

life of New England respectability following her 

father's death. She inherits a half-interest in o 

run-down Las Vegas hotel, and winds up winning 

the owner of the lush Flamingo. Rosalind Russell, 

Fernando Lomos, Eddie Albert, Gloria De Haven, 

Marion Lome, James Gleason. Director: Robert 

Pirosh. (VistaVision; 2-1.) 

LEATHER SAINT, THE .. 5521 . (86) June 

Dramo. Episcopalian priest, with a lethal right 

hand, hides his true identity and enters the prizefight 

ring as a professional boxer to raise funds 

for his parish's polio project. Paul Douglas, John 

Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero, Ernest Truex, 

Richord Shannon. Director: Alvin Gonzer. (Vista- 

Vision; 2-1.) 

©LUCY GALLANT 5504 (104) Nov. '55 

Drama. Jilted heroine lands in Texas gusher town 

where she opens on exclusive dress shop. A growing 

business, wounded pride and mutuol stubbornness 

hinder her romance with rancher, but their differences 

ore ultimately resolved. Jane Wyman, 

Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelmo Ritter, 

William Demarest, Wo I Ford. Director: Robert 

Parrish. Pine-Thomas Production. {VistaVision; 

2-1.) 

OOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE .5520 

(120) June 

Drama. Filmed in Morocco and London. Tourist in 

French Morocco accidentally learns of ossassinotion 

plot on the prime minister of another country. To 

silence him, the tourist's young son is kidnaped 

but later rescued and the prime minister saved. 

James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, 

Bernord Miles, Daniel Gelm. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 

(VistoViston; 2-1.) 

©PARDNERS 5523. .(88) Aug. 

Western Comedy. The M & L team bottle 

desperados known as "The Masked Raiders" and 

get into the usual zony predicaments before outwitting 

the outlaws and exposing the town banker 

who is in cahoots with the crooks. Dean Martin, 

Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Jackie 

Loughery. Director: Norman Taurog. {VistaVision; 

2-1) 

PROUD AND PROFANE, THE . . (1 1 1 ).. July 

Droma. World War II drama in which a stormy 

romance develops in New Caledonia between a 

U. S. Marine colonel and a socialite Red Cross 

worker hunting for the grave of her late husband 

killed in action. Williom Holden, Deborah Kerr, 

Thelmo Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield. 

Director: George Seoton. Perlberg-Seaton Production. 


ROSE TATTOO, THE . 

Comedy Drama. Based on a Tennessee Williams 

551 1 . . (1 17) Feb. 

stage ploy, about a volcanic- tempered Italian 

widow who rejects on ardent suitor to cling to post 

memories, until she leorns that her husband hod 

been unfaithful. Burt Lancaster, Anna Mag nan i, 

Morisa Povan, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey. Director: 

Daniel Mann. Hal Wallis Production. 


SCARLET HOUR, THE. .5514. (95) Apr. 

Melodrama. Married woman, infotuoted with a 

younger man, by a strange twist of circumstances 

becomes involved in o jewel hijocking and her 

husband's subsequent murder. Finally aware of 

the woman's ruthlessness, the disillusioned youth 

notifies police. Carol Ohmort, Tom Tryon, Jody 

Lowronce, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch. Director: 

Michael Curtiz. (VistaVision; 2-1.) 

©THAT CERTAIN FEELING. .5522. (102) July 

Comedy. Comic strip artist "ghosts" a waning 

strip for a famous cartoonist who is his ex-wife's 

boss and fiance. Still in love with his ex-wife, 

artist's neurotic weokness, plus an 8-year-old orphan, 

complicate matters, but he wins her back. 

Bob Hope, George Sanders, Eva Marie Saint, Pearl 

Bailey. Directors; Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. 

[VistaVision; 2-1.) 

©TO CATCH A THIEF. .5502 .(106) Sept. '55 

Drama. Filmed on the French Riviera. A series of 

jewel robberies has French police baffled, with 

suspicion foiling on o reformed international jewel 

thief whose heroics with the French Resistance had 

led to his rehobilitation. Working with police, he 

traps the real thief after many hair-raising episodes. 

Cory Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis^ 

John Willioms. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. (Vista- 

Vision; 2-1.) 

©TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE . . 5508 . . (99) . . Jan. 

Mystery Comedy. In which a hunter and on old 

maid think they hove killed the same man and 

two others who believe they ore accessories after 

the dead man has been buried and unburied four 

times. The sheriff suspects everybody. Edmund 

Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred 

Natwick, Mildren Dunnock. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 


©ULYSSES. 5503. (104) Sept. '55 

Costume Drama. (Filmed in Italy with Englishdubbed 

dialog.) From the Homeric legend of Ulysses, 

the Greek warrior who wondered for many 

years, meeting with many strange adventures before 

regaining his memory and returning home to 

his faithful wife and son. Kirk Douglas, Silvana 

Mongano, Anthony Quinn, Rossano Podesta, 

Sylvie, Daniel Ivernel, Jacques Dumesml. Director: 

Mario Comerini. Ponti-De Laurentits Production; a 

Lux Film. 

(REISSUES) 

©SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS R5507. (100). Oct. '55 

Droma. John Wayne, Betty Field, Horry Carey. 

©STREETS OF LAREDO, THE .. R5517 . .. . May 

Western. William Holden, Macdonald Carey, William 

Bendix, Mono Freeman. 

©TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. .R5506 

(99) Oct. '55 

Drama. Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred Mac- 

Murray. 

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. R5518 (98). May 

Drama. Alon Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, 

Barry Fitzgerald. 

©UNCONQUERED. RSSOS. .(147) Oct. '55 

Historical Drama. Gory Cooper, Paulette Goddard, 

Howard da Silvo, Boris Korloff, Cecil Kellawoy, 

Word Bond. Cecil B. DeMille Production. 

VIRGINIAN, THE. .R5519. (89) Moy 

Western. Joel McCrea, Sonny Tufts, Brian Donlevy, 

Barbara Britton. (Originally released in Technicolor; 

being reissued in black-and-white.) 

©WHISPERING SMITH. .R5516 (89) Moy 

Western. Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brendo 

Marshall, Donald Crisp. 

©WHITE CHRISTMAS .R5429 (120) Oct. '55 

Musical. Bing Crosby, Donny Koye, Rosemary 

Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jogger. (VistaVision, 

Perspecto sound; 2-1.) 

RKO Radio 

(September, 1955 through July, 1956) 

BOLD AND THE BRAVE, THE. .612. (90) Apr. 18 

Dramo. Adventures and reactions of three infantrymen 

during a World War II Italian campaign. 

One is on idealist unable to kill; onother o materialist 

offer money for the future, ond the third 

a strait-laced fellow they coll "Preocher." Wendell 

Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Toylor, Nicole Maurey, 

John Smith, Race Gentry. Director: Lewis R. 

Foster. iSupcrscopo; 2-1.) 

BRAIN MACHINE, THE . . 609 . (82) Feb. 15 

Mystery Melodromo. British-made. Woman psychiatrist 

uses a brain machine on an amnesia 

patient and on insane murderer, coming up with 

some amazing information which leads to her 

kidnaping by cortisone thieves, and to their ultimate 

capture. Patrick Borr, Elizabeth Allan, Maxwell 

Reed, Russell Napier. Director: Ken Hughes. 

CASH ON DELIVERY. 607. (82) Jon. 25 

Comedy Force. British-mode. From the London 

stoge hit, "To Dorothy, a Son." Nightclub singer 

stonds to inherit $2,000,000 from an eccentric 

uncle's will if her ex -husband's present wife does 

not bear a son by a certoin dote. She tries to win 

back her ex-husbond but loses both ways. Shelley 

Winters, Peggy Cummins, John Gregson, Wilfrid 

Hyde-White. Director: Muriel Box. Welbeck-Gino 

Film Production. 

©CONQUEROR, THE . . . (1 1 ) Mor. 28 

Drama. Based on the career and conquests of 

Genghis Khan, 1 2th century warrior who became 

ruler of all the Mongols, and his romance with 

on obducted Tartar princess whose vengeful feelings 

turned to love. John Wayne, Suson Hoyword, 

Pedro Armendoriz, Agnes Mooreheod, Thomas Gomez. 

Director: Dick Powell. Howard Hughes Production. 

(Cinemascope, ootical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

(Pre-released February 22.) 

©GLORY 605 (100) Jan. 11 

Drama. Rocetrock story of the complications encountered 

by a girl, both romonti colly and in her 

attempts to turn her horse, "Glory," into a Derby 

winner. Both problems ore resolved when horse 

wins Derby and girl gets her man. Margaret 

O'Brien, Walter Brennon, Charlotte Greenwood, 

John Lupton, Byron Palmer, Lisa Dovis. Director: 

Dovid Butler. (Superscope; 2-1 .) 

©GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING. .613. (92). .May 16 

Outdoor Drama. Pre-Civil War conflicts break out 

between Northern and Southern sympathizers in 

Denver's gold-mining area. At war's start, a leading 

Southern sympathizer helps Dixie adherents 

escape with their own mined gold, then joins 

the Confederate army. Virginia Mayo, Robert 

Stock, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr. 

Director: Jacques Tourneur. Edmund Grainger Production. 

(Superscope; 2-1.) 

MURDER ON APPROVAL . (70) Moy 30 

Mystery Melodromo. British-made. (Released in 

England as "Barbados Quest.") A rare stomp 

bought in London by a wealthy American turns out 

to be a fake. Private eye, investigating the swindle, 

runs into several murders before tracking down the 

counterfeiters. Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian 

Worth, Michael Balfour, Campbell Cotts. Director; 

Bernard Knowles. 

©NAKED SEA, THE . 

604 . (70) Dec. 7, '55 

Documentary. 

. 

Story of 

. 

the funo-fishing industry 

and the adventures ond hardships encountered by 

a crew of Portuguese fishermen as they bottle the 

elements and land their cotches of tuna weighing 

from 1 50 to 250 pounds each. William Conrad 

narrated. Film contains some dubbed-in dialog. 

Guitar and harmonica instruments furnish the 

bockground music. Director: Allen H. Miner. Theatre 

Productions Presentation. 

POSTMARK FOR DANGER. 606 .(84) Jon. 18 

Mystery Melodrama. British-made. In which on 

artist, suspected of Implication when his newspaperman 

brother is murdered in Italy, becomes 

involved with a diamond smuggling ring as he attempts 

to solve the cose and absolve himself. 

Terry Moore, Robert Beotty, William Sylvester, Josephine 

Griffin, Geoffrey 

Todon Production. 

Keen. Director: Green. 

Guy 

©SLIGHTLY SCARLET 608 (99) Feb. 29 

Melodromo. Bosed on James M. Cain's "Love's 

Lovely Counterfeit," in which a crime syndicate 

boss tries to defeat a reform candidate for mayor 

but is double-crossed by his lieutenant who then 

takes over leadership of the mob. John Payne, 

Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dohl, Kent Taylor, Ted 

de Corsio. Director: Allon Dwon. Benedict Bogeaus 

Production. (Superscope; 2-1.) 

©TENNESSEE'S PARTNER . .. (87) .. Sept. 21, '55 

Western Droma. New screen version of Bret Harte's 

classic filmed twice before (1916 and 1 925). 

Gombler, indebted to wandering cowpoke for 

saving his life, intervenes to save him from female 

card sharp by eloping with her himself. After a 

fight, the "partners" ore reunited. Later, o shot 

fired at gambler kills cowpoke. John Payne, 

Rhondo Fleming, Ronold Reagan, Coleen Gray, 

Anthony Caruso. Director: Allan Dwan. Benedict 

Bogeous Production. (Superscope; 2-1.) 

©TEXAS LADY 603 (86) Nov. 23, '55 

Western Drama. Girl avenges her father's suicide 

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5535 

by recouping his gambling losses, then heods for 

Texas to run a newspaper she inhcnfed. Opposing 

the control of ruthless land borons, she bottles 

them to the fmtsh ond cleans up the town, Cloudette 

Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Roy Collins, James Bell. 

Director: Tim Whclon, {Superscope; 2-1 ) 

OTREASURE OF PANCHO VILLA, THE. 601 

196) Oct. 5, '55 

Action Dramo. Filmed in Mexico. The attempt ot 

hired mercenary and a Villa follower to deliver 

a hi)ocked shipment of gold to the guerrilla leader 

IS foiled by a turncoot guide. In desperation, the 

mercenary sets off dynamite, burying pursuers 

ond treasure. Rory Colhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert 

Roland, Joseph Calleio. Director: George 

Sherman. Edmund Gromger Production. (Superscope, 

2- 1 .) 

WAY OUT, THE 611. (78) Apr. 11 

Melodrama. British-made. A killer forces his loyal, 

long suffering wife ond her brother to work with 

the underworld in helping him escape from police 

who intercept and shoot him down. Gene Nelson, 

Mono Freeman, John Bentley, Michael Goodliffc, 

Sydney Taf ler. Director: Montgomery Tully. Todon 

Production. 

WHILE THE CrTY SLEEPS 615 (100) Moy 30 

Drama. Deceased news tycoon's playboy son takes 

over and offers the top executive position to one 

of three staff members who con crock the case of 

the "lipstick killer." Ace columnist, aided by his 

girl friend, wins the job and the girl. Dana Andrews, 

Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino, George Sanders, 

Vincent Price, Sally Forrest. Director: Fritz 

Long. 

(REISSUES) 

BIG SKY, THE. 662. (122) May 23 

Outdoor Drama. Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, 

Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt. 

CITIZEN KANE. .665. (119) July 

Dromo. Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Everett 

Sloan, George Coulouns, Ruth Warrick. 

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE .666. .(69). . 13 

Horror Melodrama. James Ellison, Frances Dee, 

Tom Conway. 

KING KONG .664 (100) June 13 

Horror Melodramo. Fay Wroy, Robert Armstrong, 

Bruce Cabot. 

LUSTY MEN, THE . (113) May 2 

. . 

Drama. Susan Hoyword, Robert Mitchum, Arthur 

Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt. 

©MUSIC LAND. .641 . Sept. '55 

Cartoon Feature. (Sequences from "Make Mine 

Music" and "Melody Time.") Bonds of Fred Waring, 

Benny Goodman, Freddy Martin; Frances Langford, 

Roy Rogers, Andrews Sisters, Sons of the 

Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, Ethel Smith. Walt Disney 

Production. 

ONE MINUTE TO ZERO. .661 . .{105} Mar. 21 

Dramo. Robert Mitchum, Ann BIyth, William Tolmon, 

Charles McGraw, Margaret Sheridan. 

Republic 

(November 10, 1955 through October 19, 1956) 

©CIRCUS GIRL 5506 (88) Apr. 20 

Melodrama. (German-mode with English-dubbed 

dialog.) Mohorajah becomes enamored with o 

circus equestrienne star and has her kidnaped and 

token to his palace. After several tragedies, the 

mohorajoh repents and seeks solitude, while the 

star marries his son. Willy Birgel, Kristina Soderboum, 

Adrian Hoven, Rene Deltgen, Herman 

Schomberg, the Busch Circus. Director: Veit Harlan. 

Gloria Production. 

©COME NEXT SPRING .5505. (92) Mar. 9 

Drama. An Arkansas farmer with a weakness for 

drinking, deserts his wife and fomily and, returning 

eight years later, is regenerated through the faith 

ond love of one of his children, who is a mute. 

Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennon, 

Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer. Director: R. G, 

Springsteen. 

©DAKOTA INCIDENT 5510. (88) July 23 

Outdoor Drama. Adventures of a group of passengers, 

including o bonk robber, a beautiful girl 

and an unhappy bank cashier, on a stagecoach 

bound for Laramie. Stresses their various reactions 

in the face of an Indian attack. Linda Darnell, 

Dole Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Skip 

Homeier. Director: Lewis R. Foster. 

©DANIEL BOONE, TRAIL BLAZER. .5513 

(76) Oct. 5 

Western. The daring exploits of the famous 

frontiersman as he leads a group of settlers from 

North Carolina to Kentucky. A French renegade 

instigates several Indian attacks, and peace is 

restored after Boone exposes the traitor. Bruce 

Bennett, Lon Chaney, Foron Young, Kem Dibbs, 

Domian O'Flynn, Jacqueline Evans. Director: Al 

Gonna way. Albert C. Gonna way Production. 

©DOCTOR AT SEA 5504 . . (92) Feb. 23 

Comedy Drama. British-made, Adventures of o 

young doctor aboard a cargo ship bound for the 

tropics. He wins the admiration of the crew and 

o continentol cabaret singer os his bride. Dirk 

Bogarde, Brigittc Bardot, Brendo de Bonzie, James 

Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham. Director: 

Ralph Thomas. J. Arthur Rank Production. (Vtsto- 

Vision; 2-1.) 

FIGHTING CHANCE, THE 5532. .(70). Dee. 15, '55 

Drama. Story of a tromer ond jockey team who 

quarrel and split up when the trainer marries. 

After a series of losses without his jockey pal, the 

latter returns in time to resume their partnership. 

Rod Cameron, Julie London, Ben Cooper, Taylor 

Holmes, Howard Wendell. Director: William Witney. 

©FLAME OF THE ISLANDS. 5502. (90) Jan. 6 

Melodroma. Filmed in the Bahomos. Story of a 

beautiful schemer who uses blackmail money to 

invest in o gambling club where she is hostess and 

singer. Pursued by four suitors, she winds up with 

a reformed preacher who wins his bottle with the 

bottle. Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Zachary 

Scott, Kurt Kosznor, Barbara O'Neil, James Arness. 

Director: Edward Ludwig, 

HIDDEN GUNS. .5534. .(66) Jan. 29 

Western. Courageous sheriff, aided by his deputy 

son, fights an almost hopeless bottle against gunmen 

who control the town's spineless citizens. In 

a final showdown, the townspeople get behind the 

sheriff and low and order are restored, Richard 

Arlen, Bruce Bennett, Foron Young, John Corrodine. 

Director: A I Gonnaway-Ver Holcn Production. 

JAGUAR. .5531 . Jan. 20 

Melodrama. Former jungle boy, raised in civilization, 

fears he will revert to his original jungle 

savagery. Joining a jaguar hunt, he returns to 

his native land to overcome the obsession and runs 

into adventure and romance. Sabu, Chiquito, Barton 

MacLone, Jonathan Hole, Touch Connors. Director: 

George Blair. Mickey Rooney Enterprises. 

©LISBON. .5512. (90) Aug. 17 

Melodramo. Filmed in Portugal. Wife of American 

millionaire who is being held prisoner by the Reds, 

formulates o cold-blooded plot to rescue, then 

murder, her husband, so his fortune will be hers. 

An adventurous sea captain foils her plans. Roy 

Millond, Maureen O'Horo, Claude Rains, Yvonne 

Furneaux, Francis Lederer. Director: Roy Millond. 

(Noturomo, optical sound trock only; 2.35-1 ; also 

released tn standard ratio.) 

©MAGIC FIRE. 5503. (90) Mar. 29 

Biographical Drama With Music. Filmed in Europe. 

Life of Richard Wagner, the immortal German 

musical genius from his early days as a political 

revolutionary and inmate of a debtor's prison, his 

three major love affairs, to his status as o protege 

of two German kings. Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, 

Carlos Thompson, Valentino Corteso, Alan Bode I. 

Director: William Dieterle. William Dieterle Production. 

MAN IS ARMED, THE . . . (70) Oct. 19 

Melodrama. Truck driver, released from prison 

after being framed on a smuggling charge, kills 

another driver whom he mistakenly believes was 

responsible. Realizing his mistake, he becomes 

deeper and deeper involved in violence and murder, 

OS he seeks vengeance, Dane Clark, May Wynn, 

William Tolmon, Robert Horton, Barton MacLone, 

Director: Franklin Adreon. 

©MAVERICK QUEEN, THE. 5509. (90). . . May 3 

Western. Outlaw queen in Wyoming, her Virginia 

family ruined by the Civil War, falls in love with 

a Pinkerton detective claiming to be one of the 

Younger Brothers. She dies after warning him 

against a jealous gong member. Barbara Stanwyck, 

Barry Suliivon, Scott Brady, Mory Murphy, Wallace 

Ford. Director: Joseph Kane. (Naturoma, 

opticol sound track only; 2.35-1 . Also released in 

standard ratio.) 

SCANDAL, INC. 5514. (79) Oct. 12 

Melodramo. Young film stor, victim of a vicious 

scandal magazine, loses his wife, his studio contract 

and his best friend. After the suicide of another 

victim, he takes on a one-man battle 

against the paper. Robert Hutton, Paul Richards, 

Patricio Wright. Director: Edward Mann. C.M.B. 

Production. 

SECRET VENTURE. .5443. (70) Nov. 10, '55 

Melodrama. British-mode. An American on a 

visit to London becomes involved in a cloak-anddagger 

chose when a famous scientist is kidnaped 

by international spies. Working with Scotland 

Yard, he rescues scientist and helps capture the 

ring. Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton, Kathleen Byron, 

Korel Stepanek. Director; R. G. Springsteen. 

STRANGE ADVENTURE, A . . . (70) . ., Aug. 24 

Melodrama. A youth falls in love with on out-oftown 

girl ond becomes innocently involved with 

her and her two bandit companions. Held prisoner, 

olong with several others, at a mountain hideout, 

help arrives in nick's time. Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, 

Morla English, Jan Merlin. Director: William 

Witney. 

STRANGER AT MY DOOR 5507 (85) Apr. 6 

Drama. Tells of the 

. 

reformotion of a desperado 

through the faith of a preacher on whose farm he 

hides out from the low. At the end, when mortally 

wounded, the killer mokes his peace with God. 

Macdonald Carey, Patricio Medina, Skip Homeier, 

Stephen Wootton, Louis Jean Heydt. Director: 

William Witney. 

TERROR AT MIDNIGHT 5536. (70) Apr. 27 

Melodrama. Innocent hit-ond-run accident, involving 

fioncee of cop, sets off a series of incidents 

which leads to blackmail and murder. Learning 

the truth, cop tracks down the real killer. Scott 

Brady, Joan Vohs, Frank Foylen, John Dehner, 

Virginia Grcqq, Director: Franklin Adreon, 

©THUNDER OVER ARIZONA. .5511 . (75) Aug. 4 

Western. Attempts ot a corrupt western mayor to 

kill the owners and acquire a rich silver mine. A 

cowhand, mistaken for o hired gunman, helps the 

owners to rout the criminals. Skip Homeier, Kristinc 

Miller, George Mocreody, Wolloce Ford. Director: 

Joseph Kane. (Noturomo, optical sound only; 

2.35-1; also ovoilable in standard ratio.) 

TRACK THE MAN DOWN . 

5533 .. (73) Jon. 27 

Mclodromo. British-made. A reporter and Scotland 

Yard ore both on the trail of a hunted 

criminal who successfully eludes them, as well as 

his two partners who suspect a double-cross. Scotland 

Yard breaks the cose. Kent Taylor, Petulo 

Clark, George Rose, Ursula Howells, Renee Houston. 

Director: R. G. Springsteen. 

VANISHING AMERICAN, THE. 5501 

(90) Nov. 17, '55 

Western. Zone Grey's story of a girl and an embittered 

Navajo who join forces for justice and 

tolerance in foiling a pair of ruthless land grabbers 

in the late 19th century. Scott Brady, Audrey 

Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhort, Jim Dovis. 

Director; Joseph Kane. 

WHEN GANGLAND STRIKES. . 

Mar. 15 

. (70) 

Melodrama. Racketeer blackmails an 

. 

honest prosecutor 

into freeing him on a murder charge. Forced 

out of office, the prosecutor, through a ruse, traps 

the racketeer into confessing a second murder. 

Raymond Greenleof, Morjie Millar, John Hudson, 

Anthony Caruso, Marian Corr, Slim Pickens. Director: 

R. G. Springsteen. 

©ZANZABUKU 5508. (64) Apr. 13 

Documentary. Scenes of Lewis Cotlow's African expedition 

among wildlife and natives. Shows the 

capturing of animals for zoos, shots of tribal life, 

and dangerous encounters with a rhinoceros, o 

charging herd of elephants and o vicious leopard. 

Corr Hartley, famous game collector, accompanies 

producer Lewis Cotlow on the expedition. Narrator: 

Bob Danvers-Wolker. 

20th 

Century-Fox 

(September, 1955 through August, 1956) 

©ABDULLAH'S HAREM. .613-0. (88) June 

Comedy Drama. Filmed in Egypt. Deposed monarch 

exiled in Monte Carlo recoils the days of 

absolute rule in which his wine-women-ond-song 

regime, interspersed with making a profit on defective 

weapons that sometimes killed his own men, 

led to his obdicotion. Gregory Rotoff, Koy Kendall, 

Manna Berti, Sydney Chaplin, Alex D'Arcy. Director; 

Gregory Rotoff. Rodi Regeilo Production. 

BAREFOOT BATTALION. .617-1 . (63) July 

Semi-documentary Dramo. (Greek-mode; with new 

English-dubbed version.) Story of the Greek resistance 

to Nazi oppression during World War II, 

told in flashback. Stresses the courage displayed 

by barefoot youngsters who harassed the enemy 

to Old their starving people. Maria Costi, Nicos 

Fermos, and a cost of non-professionals comprised 

of Greek orphans. Director: Gregg Tallos. (Originally 

o 1953-54 release distributed by Leon 

Brandt Associates; running time cut from 87 

minutes to 63 minutes.) 

©BIGGER THAN LIFE. .620-5. .(95) 

Aug. 

Drama. Case h story of a man forced to take o 

pom-killing "wonider" drug because of a rare illness, 

and the danger it created for himself and his 

family when the dosage was token without medical 

supervision and in uncontrolled omounts. James 

Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Motthou, Robert 

Simon, Christophier Olsen. Director; Nicholas Roy. 

(Cinemascope 

2.55-1.) 

stereophonic or optical sound; 

©BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE, THE. 602-3. (88). Jon. 

Drama. Story of the conflict between two brothers, 

one successful attorney, the other on escaped 

convict. After many clashes, the attorney saves 

his brother's life, the latter relenting and willing 

to give himself up and take the consequences. Von 

Johnson, Joseph Gotten, Ruth Roman, Jock Carson, 

Margaret Hayes. Director: Henry Hathaway. 

(CinemoScope, stereophonic or optical sound; 

2.55-1.) 

©BUS STOP. .618-9. (94) Aug. 

Comedy Drama. From William Inge's Broadwoy 

ploy about a raucous, uninhibited cowpoke who 

falls in love with a "B-girl," and, toking for 

granted her willingness to marry him, forces her 

on a bus trip to his ranch in Montana. Marilyn 

Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, 

Eileen Heckart. Director: Joshua Logon. {Cinema- 


OOCAROUSEL 604-9 

(128) Feb.—Special Pre-release 

Musical Drama. Film version of the Rodgers ond 

Hammerstein musical stage hit, based on Ferenc 

Molnor's "Liliom." Plot concerns o young father 

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GIRL 

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BLACK 

STOCKINGS 

MEANS BUSINESS! 

II 

A BEL-AIR 

PRODUCTION 

Released thru United Artists 

BUDD BOETTICHER 


CLOVER 

PRODUCTIONS, INC 

SAM KATZMAN, President 

^9 

FRED F. 

SEARS 

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who is sent down from heaven to straighten out 

his teen-age daughter's emotional problems. Gordon 

MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, 

Barbara Ruick, Cloramae Turner, Gene Lockhart. 

Director; Henry King. (CinemaScope 55, stereophonic 

or optical sound, 2.55-1 . 

available 

in standard CinemaScope.) 

©D-DAY THE SIXTH 

Dramo. Produced 

OF JUNE .. 612-2 

in England. A World 

(106) .. June 

War 1 

triangle romance, in which an English girl is torn 

between her love for a British officer and her attraction 

to a married American captain. The 

situation is resolved in a smashing D-Day climax. 

Robert Taylor, Dona Wynter, Richard Todd, Edmond 

O'Brien, John Williams. Director: Henry 

Koster. (CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical 

sound; 2.55-1 .) 

©DEEP BLUE SEA, THE. .527-2. (99) Nov. '55 

Drama. Bntish-made. Having left wealthy husband 

to live with shallow, irresponsible test-pilot, 

unhappy heroine attempts suicide. Unable to face 

situation, pilot walks out. Philosophical ex-doctor 

helps her find courage to face life alone. Vivien 

Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portmon, Emiyn Williams, 

Moira Lister, Director; Anatole Litvak. 

Alexander Korda presentation of a London Film. 

(CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical sound; 

2.55-1.) 

©GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING, THE .524-9 

(109) Oct. '55 

Droma. Based on the Nesbitt-Thaw-White sensational 

murder case of 50 years ago. A showgirl is 

married to a jealous millionaire playboy, who kills 

his wife's ex-boyfriend, is tried and acquitted because 

of insanity. Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley 

Granger, Luther Adier, Glenda Farrel). Director; 

Richard Fleischer. (CinemaScope, stereophonic 

or optical sound; 2,55-1.) 

U©GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVE. .528-0 

(107) Nov. '55 

Drama. Various incidents in the eorly career of 

a typical old-moid, small-town school teacher are 

recalled as she lies in a hospital bed awaiting 

surgery to be performed by one of her former 

pupils. Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, 

Robert Douglas, Marshall Thompson. Director: 

Henry Koster. (CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical 

sound; 2.55-1.) 

©HILDA CRANE. .611-4. .(87) Apr. 

Drama. A two-time divorcee returns from New 

York and marries o local business man over his 

mother's opposition. The mother dies of a heart 

attack; the couple quarrel but are reconciled after 

the wife attempts suicide. Jean Simmons, Guy 

Madison, Jean Pierre Aumont, Judith Evelyn, 

Evelyn Varden. Director: Philip Dunne. (Cinemo- 


t^©KING AND I, THE .615-5 

(133) July—Special Pre-release 

Musicol Drama. Musical version of "Anna and the 

King of Siom." English widow becomes governess 

to the king of Siam's children in 1862. She wins 

the king's admiration and helps him prove to the 

outside world that Slam is not a barbaric country. 

Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin 

Benson, Rex Thompson. Director: Walter Long. 

(CinemaScope 55, stereophonic or optical sound; 

2.55-1. Also available in standard CinemaScope,) 

©LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS, THE. .601-5 

(99) Jon. 

Comedy. After her husband is called back into 

service, a wife enlists in the WAFs as a lieutenant. 

Meanwhile, the husband is rejected and becomes 

a "camp follower" while his wife is in uniform. 

Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason, 

les Tremayne. Director: Frank Tashlin. (Cinema- 


LOVER BOY (formerly "Lovers, Happy Lovers") 526-4 

(85) Oct. '55 

Comedy Droma. British-mode. (Produced also in 

French version; released in France as "Monsieur 

Ripois," and in England as "The Knave of Hearts.") 

Tells in flashback the story of a French "heel" 

who loved many beautiful women and left them. 

In a fake suicide attempt, he accidentally falls 

and becomes an invalid, and is nursed by both his 

wife and a lady love. Gerard Philippe, Valerie 

Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston, 

Natasha Perry. Director: Rene Clement. Transcontinental 

Production. 

t^MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT, THE. .606-4 

(152) Mar. 

Drama. A New York suburbanite leaves a comfortable 

job for a high-salaried post to please 

his ombitious wife. Pressures and family tensions 

develop until he rebels, and is surprised to find 

this pleases his boss. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, 

Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Marisa Povan, Ann 

Harding, Keenan Wynn. Director: Nunnally Johnson. 

(CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical sound- 

2,55-1.) 

OMAN WHO NEVER WAS, THE 603-1 (103) .Feb. 

Drama. British-made. Re-enacts a foctual incident 

of World War II, in which British Naval Intelligence 

successfully carries out a masterful deception 

to mislead the Jerries on top-secret plans 

for the coming Sicily campaign. Clifton Webb, 

Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, 

Stephen Boyd. Director; Ronald Neome. (Cinema- 


^MASSACRE 614-8 (76) June 

Outdoor Droma. Filmed in Mexico. Story of Mexican 

Ruroles and Indians in which a couple operating 

a trading post is smuggling guns to the 

Yaquis. The woman is forced to occompany the 

Ruroles and dies with them when the Indians attack. 

Dane Clark, Marta Roth, James Craig, 

Miguel Torruco, Jaime Fernandez. Director: Louis 

King. Lippert Pictures Presentation. 

0MOHAWK , 

. 

, 

Action Drama. 

(79) Apr. 

Mohawk Valley frontier story of 

Indian troubles around Fort Alden, ending when a 

Boston artist exposes a treacherous landowner 

Artist falls in love with, and marries, the Mohawk 

chief's beautiful daughter. Scott Brady, Rita Gam, 

Neville Brand, Lori Nelson, Allison Hayes, John 

Hoyt. Director: Kurt Neumann. Edward L, Alperson 

Presentation. 

©ON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACE.. 605-6 

(95) Mor. 

Semi-documentory Drama. Made In cooperation 

with the U. S. Air Force, this deals with accomplishments 

in the field of aero-medical research 

as it relates to high-altitude supersonic flights, 

and the men who perform these dangerous tests. 

Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak, Dean 

Jogger, Warren Stevens. Director: Robert D. Webb. 

(CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical sound 

2.55-1.) 

©PROUD ONES, THE. .610-6. (94) May 

Western. Rugged story of a fearless marshal and a 

conscientious cowhand who, together, work to free 

the booming frontier town of Flat Rock from the 

violent grip of a gambler and his gunmen. Robert 

Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Middleton, 

Walter Brennan. Director; Robert D. Webb. 


2.55-1.) 

©QUEEN OF BABYLON, THE 616-3 .. (99) ... Aug. 

Spectacle Droma. (Italian-made, with Englishdubbed 

dialog.) A beautiful goatherd girl is captured 

for the king's harem and, through jealousies 

and court intrigue, is sentenced to be burned at 

the stake for the king's murder. Rescued by her 

warrior lover, she is proclaimed Queen. Rhonda 

Fleming, Ricardo Montalban, Roldano Lupi, Carlo 

Ninchi, Tamara Lees. Director: Carlo Ludovico 

Bragoglia. 

©RAINS OF RANCHIPUR, THE .529-8 

(104) Dec. '55 

Adventure Drama. Filmed in Pakistan. From Louis 

Bromfield's novel, "The Rains Came," first filmed 

by 20th-Fox in 1939. Beautiful, spoiled American 

wife of an Englishman falls in love with an East 

Indian doctor in Ronchipur. The monsoon rains followed 

by on earthquake and destruction moke her 

realize the doctors devotion to his people and 

she returns to her husband, Lana Turner, Richard 

Burton, Fred MocMurroy, Joan Caulfield, Michael 

Rennie. Director; Jean Negulesco. Frank Ross 

Production. (CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical 

sound; 2.55-1.) 

©REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, THE. .608-0 

(93) Apr. 

Drama. Filmed in Hawaii. Dance-hall girl, run 

out of California, goes to Honolulu, where sne 

cashes in on the Pearl Harbor disaster that brings 

troops there. The novelist with whom she romances 

finally walks out in disgust. Jane Russell, Richard 

Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Mooreheod, Michael Pate, 

Director: Raoul Wolsh. (CinemaScope, stereophonic 


©TALL MEN, THE.. 523-1 

(122) Oct. '55—Speciol Pre-release 

Western Drama. Ex-Confederate soldier, turned 

outlaw, is induced to join cattle baron in crosscountry 

cattle drive. Party rescues girl from Indians 

and a triangular romance ensues. Rehabilitated 

hero brings cattle through perilous trek 

and wins girl. Clark Goble, Jane Russell, Robert 

Ryan, Cameron Mitchell. Director: Raoul Walsh. 


2.55-1.) 

©23 PACES TO BAKER STREET .. 607-2 . (103) . Moy 

Mystery Dromo. Filmed in London. Blind American 

playwright in London overhears a kidnaping plot 

but has to prove to police that a crime was committed. 

Using his highly developed powers of hearing 

and touch, he traps the criminal leader. Von 

Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Estelle Winwood, 

Maurice Denham. Director: Henry Hathaway. 


2.55-1.) 

©VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD, THE. 525-6 

(97) Nov. '55 

Drama. A southern belle fancies herself m love 

with a childhood friend when he returns to his 

hometown on business. She prepares to divorce 

her husband, but right triumphs and both go bock 

to their respective mates. Richard Egan, Dona 

Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Morjone 

Rombeou. Director: Philip Dunne, (Cinema- 


(REISSUES) 

BUFFALO BILL 662-7 (90) July 

Action Droma. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hora, 

Lindo Darnell, Thomas Mitchell. (Originally released 

in Technicolor, but is being reissued in 

black-and-white.) 

CRASH DIVE 665-0. (105) Aug. 

Melodrama. Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dona 

Andrews, James Gleason. 

HALLS OF MONTEZUMA 664-3 (103) Aug. 

Action Dramo. Richard Widmark, Walter (Jack) 

Polo nee, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner. 

NIGHTMARE ALLEY . 546-2 .. (1 1 1 ) Oct. '55 

Dromo. Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, 

Helen Walker. 

RAWHIDE 663-5 (86) July 

Western. Tyrone Power, Suson Hayword, Hugh 

Marlowe, Dean Jogger, Edgar Buchonon. 

THIEVES' HIGHWAY. .545-4. .(94) Oct. '55 

Melodromo. Richard Conte, Valentino Cortesa, 

Lee J, Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie. 


(October, 1955 through September, 1956) 

©ALEXANDER THE GREAT .. 5621 .. (144) Apr. 

Costume Drama. Filmed in Spain. Story of the 

great Macedonian conqueror who used the army 

developed by his murdered father, Philip of 

Macedon, to bring the civilized world of 22 centuries 

ago under his rule. Richard Burton, Fredric 

March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Dorneux, Barry Jones, 

Nioll MocGinnis. Director: Robert Rossen. (Cinema- 


©AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER, THE. 5632 

(102) Sept. 

Comedy Droma. Made in France. Adventures of 

two American soldiers on a three-day pass In Pans, 

A case of mistaken identity leads to a romance for 

one of them with an ambassodor's doughter, followed 

by the usual complications. Olivia de Havilland, 

John Forsythe, Myrno Loy, Tommy Noonan, 

Edward Arnold, Adolphe Menjou. Director; Norman 

Krosno, [CinemaScope, optical sound only; 2,55-1.) 

©BANDIDO .5634. (92) Sept. 

Adventure Dromo. Filmed in Mexico. The Mexican 

revolt of 1916 and the men who participated in it 

either for excitement or greed for money. Action 

centers around a Yankee adventurer who helps get 

shipment of arms to the rebels. Robert Mitchum, 

Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland, Zochory Scott, Rodolfo 

Acosta. Director: Richard Fleischer. Bondido Production. 

(CinemaScope, optical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

©BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN, THE. .5637 

(79) Aug. 

Horror Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Two ronchers in 

Mexico suspect a gong of rustling their cattle. The 

real culprit is a prehistoric monster which lives in 

on impenetrable swamp. After causing death and 

destruction, the monster dies in a pool of quicksand. 

Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Eduordo 

Noriega, Carlos Rivas, Mono Navarro. Director; 

Edward Nassour. (CinemaScope and new Regiscope 

process; 2.55-1 .) 

BIG KNIFE, THE. .5532. (Ill) Nov. '55 

Drama. Famous Hollywood star, separated from but 

still in love with his wife, finds himself involved in 

professional, romantic and emotional problems beyond 

his endurance. After bottling everyone and 

everything he chooses suicide as the only woy out. 

Jock Polonce, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters, Wendell 

Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger. Director: Robert 

Aldrich. Associates and Aldrich Presentation. 

BLACK SLEEP, THE. 5617. .(81) June 

Horror Drama. Brain surgeon discovers secret of 

ancient drug which produces sleep simulating death. 

His macabre experiments on illegally-obtained "recruits" 

are halted by a young doctor he once 

framed for murder. Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, 

Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi. Director: 

Reginald LeBorg. Bel-Air Production. (1.75-1) 

BROKEN STAR, THE. .5614. (82) Apr. 

Western Dromo. Renegade frontier marshal deliberately 

kills a man for a bag of stolen gold. 

Bullets fly as gunmen go after the gold and the 

law closes in on all the crooks. Howard Duff, Lita 

Baron, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley, Henry Calvin. 

Director: Lesley Selander. BeUAir Production. 

©COMANCHE . 

. .(87) Mar. 

Outdoor Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Story of 

Quanoh Parker, lost of the great Comanche chieftains, 

who led marauding bonds into Texas and 

Mexico in the 1 870s which were ultimately wiped 

out by the U. S. Cavalry. Dana Andrews, Linda 

Cristal, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, John Litel, Mike 

Mozurkl, Director: George Sherman. (CinemaScope, 

opticol sound only; 2.55-1.) 

CREEPING UNKNOWN, THE . . . (78) Apr. 

Science-Fiction Drama. British-made. (Released 

in England as "Quartermass Experiment,") Englishlaunched 

rocket returns to Englond from outer 

space with a form of life unknown on earth, which 

takes the outward appearance of o mammoth 

octopus, and is finally electrocuted on metal scaffolding 

in Westminster Abbey. Brion Donlevy, 

Margia Dean, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Thora 

Hird. Director: Vol Guest, 

CRIME AGAINST JOE. .5615. (69) May 

Mystery Dromo. Ex-GI Is arrested for murder on 

strong circumstantial evidence, and the whole town 

turns against him, with only his buddy remaining 

loyal. The reol killer is revealed in a surprise climax 

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CHARLES SCHNEE 

Produced 

"TRIAL" 

"SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME" 

Now In Production In Preparation 

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Directed by John Ford 

James Michener's 

"UNTIL THEY SAIL" 

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and the innocent man is cleared. John Bromfield, 

Julie London, Henry Colvin, Frances Morns, Director: 

Lee Sholem. Bel-Air Production 

EMERGENCY HOSPITAL 5619. (62) Aug. 

Drama. Womon statt doctor and night nurse in ciry 

receiving hospitol run the bandage gamut from 

teen-oge rope victims to wounded gangsters. When 

the doctor's wealthy boy friend has o minor cor 

crock-up, she sniffs oronge blossoms. Margaret 

Lindsay, Walter Reed, Byron Palmer, Rito Johnson, 

John Archer. Director; Lee Sholem. Bel-Air Production. 

OFOREIGN INTRIGUE 5626. (TOO) Moy 

Dromo. Filmed in Europe, Film version of the 

top-rated TV show, this concerns the adventures of 

a press agent as he probes into the death of his 

employer ond becomes enmeshed m international 

intrigue, murder, and a case of treason. Robert 

Mitchum, Genevieve Page, Ingnd Tulean, Frederick 

O'Bradv Director: Sheldon Reynolds. 

OFORT YUMA 5533. .(78) Oct, '55 

Outdoor Drama. Lieutenant, scout and girl missionary, 

sole survivors of an Apache raid on a supply 

column, must reach Fort Yuma to warn the garrison 

that Apaches plon to enter The fort disguised 

in cavalry uniforms. Their heroism soves the fort. 

Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson, Joan Taylor, 

Addison Richards Director: Leslev Selander Bet- 

Air Production 

OGENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES . 5531 

(97) Oct. '55 

Musical Comedy. Filmed in Paris. A sister team 

invades Pons where their mother and ount hod 

been stage show favorites a generation ago. Their 

adventures and misadventures finally result in o 

successful following of oncestral footsteps, Jare 

Russell, Jeanne Cram, Alan Young, Scott Brady, 

Rudy Vcllee, Guy Middleton, Director: Richard 

Sale. Ruis-Field-Voyager Production, (CinemaScope, 

optical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

GHOST TOWN. .5610. (76) Mor. 

Western Stagecoach passengers, including a 

gambler with loose morals, a gold prospector, a girl 

cheat, and two cynics, drive through Cheyenne territory 

and find adventure in a ghost town inhabited 

by an aged Indian and his daughter. Kent Taylor, 

Marian Carr, John Smith, William Phillips. Director: 

Allen Miner. Bel-Air Production. 

GUN BROTHERS .5638. (79) Sept. 

Western. Story of two brothers; one, head of an 

outlaw gang and the other, a partner in a fur 

trapping venture. Outlaw brother and gang are 

killed and fur trapper gets a wife. Buster Crabbe, 

Ann Robinson, Neville Brand, Michael Ansaro, 

Walter Sonde, Director: Sidney Salkow. Grant Production. 

©HEIDI AND PETER. .5538. (89) Dec. '55 

Drama. (Swiss-made with English-dubbed dialog.) 

A sequel to Johanna Spyri's "Heidi," continuing 

the adventures of the two Alpine youngsters and 

the crippled girl from Frankfurt who this time visits 

Heidi and her grandfather In their village home In 

the Swiss Alps. Elsbeth Sigmund, Thomas Klameth, 

Heinrtch Gretler, Isa Gunther, Theo Lingen. Director: 

Franz Schnyder. Praesens-Film Production, 

HOT CARS 5636 (60) Aug. 

Action Drama. An expose of the car-theft racket. 

TeMs how a used car salesman was framed for 

murder by his crooked boss ar>d a blonde before 

police crack the case. John Bromfield, Joi Lansing, 

Mark Dana, Carol Shannon. Director: Donald Mc- 

Dougall- Bel-Air Production. 

OHUK!. 5635. .(84) Aug. 

Drama. Filmed in Philippines. Returning to the 

Philippines after 14 years in the U. S., son of late 

sugor plantotion owner is suddenly swept into the 

wartime upheaval and terrorism spreod by moraudmg 

Huks (Friipino guerrilla fighters). George Montgomery, 

Mono Freeman, John Baer, James Bell. 

Director: John Barnwell. 

eiNDIAN FIGHTER, THE. .5537. (88) Dec. '55 

Outdoor Drama. Set in post-Civil War days, this 

tells the story of a daring frontier adventurer whose 

respect and friendship for the redskins foments on 

Indian- white man war. He redeems himself and 

peace is restored. Kirk Douglas, Eisa Mortinelli, 

Walter Abel, Walter Motthau, Diana Douglas, 

Eduord Franz. Director: Andre de Toth. Bryno 

Production, f CinemaScope, optical sound only; 

2 55-1.) 

JOHNNY CONCHO 5631 . 

July 

Western Dromo. Cowardly brother of a gunslinger 

is hated by everybody In Cripple Creek. When 

another outlaw tokes over, he runs the brother out 

of town but he returns to dispose of the outlaws 

and win the town's respect. Frank Sinatra, Keenon 

Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, William Conrod. Director: Don 

McGuire, Kent Production. 

KILLER IS LOOSE, THE 5608 (73) Feb. 

Droma. Convicted bank teller escapes from prison 

to kill a detective's wife out of revenge for his 

own wife's accidental killing by police. The crazed 

man stalks the detective's wife, whom police save 

in nick's time. Joseph Gotten, Rhonda Fleming, 

Wendell Corey, Michael Pate, Alan Hole. Director: 

Budd Boetticher. Crown Production. 

KILLER'S KISS 5525 (67) Nov. '55 

Droma. Prizefighter falls for dancehall hostess 

after rescuing her from a middle-aged suitor who 

then tries to kill him. He kills prizefighter's man 

ager instead, then kidnaps girl, after which things 

happen fast until police close m; g.rl and prizefighter 

arc reunited. Frank Silvero, Jamie Smith, 

Irene Kane, Ruth Sobotko. Director Stonley 

Kubrick, 

KILLING, THE 5624 (83) July 

Melodroma. Ex-con master-minds a $2,000,000 

race track holdup, which takes place during a rich 

sweepstakes event. After the robbery, the thieves 

fall out and start killing eoch other off. Sterling 

Hoyden, Coleen Groy, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, 

Morie Windsor. Director: Stanley Kubrick, Horris- 

Kubrtck Picture, 

OK15S BEFORE DYING, A. 5622 (94) June 

Drama. Soc i I-c limbing student murders his pregnant 

sweetheart whose industrialist father he 

wi.hcd to cultivate. Then he woos her sister who becomes 

suspicious after his iocond murder and tra,js 

h;m. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, 

Joonne Woodward, Mary Astor, George Macready. 

Director: Gerd Oswald Crown Production (Cinema- 

Scope, optical sound only; 2,55-1.) 

OLET'S MAKE UP. .5604 (72) Feb. 

MusicaL Bntish-madc. (Released in England as 

"Lilacs in the Spring.") Girl wartime service entertainer 

suffers concussion during a London air 

raid, and as she blacks out each time, she imagines 

herself to be another person. First she is Nell 

Gwyn, then Queen Victoria and then her own 

mother. Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, 

Peter Graves, Kathleen Harrison. Director: Herbert 

Wilcox. (Pre-released 1954-55 season.)—(1,75-1) 

MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, THE. .5601 

(119) Jon. 

Dromo. A drug addict overcomes the habit once, 

but problems with o neurotic, invalid wife drive 

him back to old habits. In a final, desperate try, 

he conquers the dope demon and a hoppier future 

faces him with the death of his wife. Frank Sinatra, 

Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stong, Director: 

Otto Preminger. 

MAN WITH THE GUN . 

. 

. (83) Nov. 'SS 

Western Drama. In which a "deadly peace-maker 

single-handedly brings law and order to c western 

town ruled over by a ruthless rancher and his gunmen. 

Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Henry Hull, 

Karen Sharpe, John Lupton. Director: Richard Wilson. 

Samuel Goldwyn jr. Presentation 

OMANFISH 5607 (76) Feb. 

Adventure Droma. Based on two Poe classics, 

"The Gold Bug" and "The Telltale Heart." Adventure 

story of a turtle fishing boat owner and 

o villoinous, bearded professor who team up to 

search for buried treasure in a Jomaica cove, 

John Bromfield, Lon Chaney, Victor Jory, Barbara 

Nichols. Director: W. Lee Wilder. 

NIGHTMARE 5627 (89) June 

Drama. A jazz musician's nightmare about having 

killed a man turns out to be true. His brother-inlaw, 

o city detective, convinced the musician was 

hypnotized Into committing the crime, sets a trap 

for the person really responsible. Ecfward G. Robinson, 

Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Rhys Williams, 

Virginia Christine. Director: Maxwell Shane. Pine- 

Thomos-Shone Production. 

OTHELLO 

. . 

, (92) Oct. '55 

Droma. Made m Italy. Shokespeoreon tragedy 

about a Moorish general of noble birth married to 

o Venetian senator's daughter. A jealous adjutant 

convinces the general his wife is having an affoir 

with a lieutenant, and tragedy results. Orson 

Welles, Fay Compton, Michoel MacLiammoir, 

Suzanne Clout ier, Robert Coote, Milton Edwards. 

Director: Orson Welles, Marceau Film Production. 

PATTERNS. .5612. (83) Mar. 

Dromo. Story of big business in this drama of a 

vice-president whose humane ideas conflicted with 

the ruthless methods of the chief. The V-P dies 

and his successor stays on to vindicate him. Von 

Heflin, Beatrice Strolght, Everett Sloone, Ed Begley, 

Elizabeth Wilson, Director- Fielder Cook, Jed 

Horns-Michael Myerberg Presentation. 

OQUINCANNON, FRONTIER SCOUT 5616 

(83) Moy 

Western Dromo. in which o frontier scout, assigned 

to locate an ammunition supply captured 

by Indians, successfully carries out the mission 

and averts a new, threotened uprising against the 

whites. Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, 

John Smith, Ron Rondell. Director: Lesley Selander 

Bel-Air Production. 

REBEL IN TOWN 5618 (78) July 

Outdoor Dromo. Story of violence and vengeance, 

as ex-Union army officer allows his Civil War 

prejudices to make torgets of five ex-Confederate 

outlaws, causing the jailing and near-lynching for 

murder of innocent member of the gang. John 

Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper, 

John Smith- Director: Alfred Werker. Bel-Air 

Production. 

©RUN FOR THE SUN. .5633. (99) Aug. 

Adventure Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Woman writer 

for national pictorial magazine goes to Mexico 

on on assignment to find a famous American 

novelist living there in self-exile. She finds the 

novelist as well as adventure and romance, Richard 

Widmark, Jane Greer, Trevor Howard, Peter Von 

Eyck, Corlos Henning. Director: Roy Boultmg 

Russ-Field Production. (Superscope 235.) 

OSAVAGE PRINCESS 5534 (101) Oct SS 

Musical Droma. Produced in India. B&auTif jl, 

young princess, to hide her love for o handsome 

and heroic peosont who defied her, brings oboul 

a reign of terror and destruction, only to learn ot 

the end that she could conquer everything but 

love. Dilip Kumar, Ntmmi, Premnath, Nadiro. Director: 

Mehboob. Mehboob Productions Presentation. 

SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM, THE 5606 

i91) Mar. 

Adventure Dromo. Bntish-mode. Depicts the 

courage of those men whose lives were at the 

mercy of the storm-tossed sea and the wonderful 

work done by British air-sea rescue in the autumn 

of 1944 Michael Redgrove, Dirk Bogorde, Anthony 

Steel, Nigel Patrick, Bonar Colleano. Director: 

Lewis Gilbert. J. Arthur Rank Presentation. {PrercLosed 

1954-55 seascn )— (166-1) 

SHADOW OF THE EAGLE 5605 .. (93) Feb. 

Melodroma. British-made, Plot deals with court 

intrigue m Czarist days, centering around a Russian 

count whose love for a beautiful pretender to the 

Russian throne incurs the wroth of the empress. 

Ordered executed, the two escape to the Swedish 

border and safety. Richard Greene, Volentina 

Cortesa, Greta Gynt, Binnie Barnes, Charles Goldner. 

Director: Sidney Salkow. Valiant Films Presentation 

(Pre-released 1954-55 season,) 

SHADOW OF FEAR 5630 (76) June 

Mystery Droma. British-made. English girl returns 

from America after her f other's supposedly occidental 

deoth, A doctor m love with the girl expoies 

the stepmother as a murderess when she 

attempts to kill her stepdaughter Mono Freeman, 

Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Hugh Miller, Frederick 

Leister Director: Albert S. Rogell. Roxbury Production 

©STAR OF INDIA 5623 (84) June 

Costume Dromo. Bntish-made; produced m France. 

Set in the days of Louis XIV, plot centers arounri 

a dashing French nobleman's search for a fabulous 

jewel stolen from a young Dutch widow He gets 

the jewel and wins the widow's love. Cornel Wilde, 

Jean Wallace, Herbert Lorn, Yvonne Sanson, Basil 

Sydney. Director Arthur Lubin. 

STORM FEAR 5603 (87) Jon. 

Melodroma. Fugitive bonk robber with his moll and 

a henchman take refuge in his brothers mountain 

home, holding the family captive. A raging storm 

snowbounds the group of seven a* violence and 

death break loose. Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, 

Don Duryea, Lee Grant, Steven Hill. Director: 

Cornel Wilde. 

THREE BAD SISTERS 5602. (75) Jon. 

Melodrama. An evil sister, wanting to grab all of 

her dead father's estate, drives one sister to suicide, 

and attempts to get rid of the third and only 

decent one, but dies herself. Maria English, Kathleen 

Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield, Jess 

Barker, Madge Kennedy. Director: Gilbert L. Kay. 

Bel-Air Production. 

TIMETABLE . 

. (79) Apr. 

Melodrama. Story of a $500,000 payroll robbery, 

which takes place oboard a train. The insurance 

company sends its best investigator, unaware that 

he is the mastermind behind the robbery. Mark 

Stevens, Felicia Farr, King Colder, Marianne Stewart, 

Wesley Addy. Director: Mark Stevens. 

TOP GUN . . 5536 Dee. '55 

. 

Western Dromo. A gunslinger returns to his 

Wyoming home town where he runs into bloodshed, 

violence and murder as he battles to the finish o 

gang of frontier raiders headed by on ostensibly 

respected citizen. Sterling Hoyden, Korln Booth, 

William Bishop, John Dehner, Regis Toomey. Director: 

Ray Nozorro, Fame Pictures Production. 

©TRAPEZE 5629 (105) July 

Drama. Filmed in France. Set agoinst a Parisian 

circus background, this tells the story of o girl 

performer over whom two jealous circus aerlolists 

come to grips, resulting in near trogedy, Burt 

Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis, Katy 

Jurodo, Thomas Gomez, Director: Carol Reed. 

Susan Production, (CinemaScope, optical sound 

only; 2,55-1) 

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS .5625 . (92) Moy 

Documentary Dromo. Factual story of the flying 

saucer mystery and the work of the air force in 

tracking down reports of the presence of these 

"unknowns" from the time they first were sighted 

until their appeoronce over the nation's copitol- 

Narrator: Albert M. Chop. Director: Winston Jones. 

Greene- Rouse Production. 

(REISSUES) 

HIGH NOON 5628 (85) June 

Western Drama. Gory Cooper, Groce Kelly, Koty 

Jurado, Thomos Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges. Stanley 

Kramer Production. 

Universal-International 

(November, 19SS through October, 1956) 

©ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. .5609. (89). . .Jan. 

Drama, Wealthy, young widow and a man of high 

ideols foil modly in love but ore kept opart by 

sociol barriers set up by her children ond friends. 

They ore reunited offer the man suffers a serious 

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SAMUEL G. ENGEL 

PRODUCER 

Fred 

Kohlmar 


5615 

. 5622 

German-mode, 

5612 

(85) 

accident. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes 

Mooreheod, Conrod Nagel, Virginia Grey. Director; 

Douglos Sirk. (2-t) 

OAWAY ALL BOATS 5626 (114) Aug. 

Drama. The heroic exploits of the US.S. Belinda 

and its crew during the Pacific campaign in 

World War M, with cmphosis on character analyses 

of men under the stress of conflict. Jeff Chandler, 

Julie Adams, George Nader, Lex Barker, Keith 

Andes. Director: Joseph Pevney. (VistoVision; 2-1.) 

OBACKLASH 5616 (84) Apr. 

Western Dramo. In which a young mon during the 

1 870s combs the southwest frontier for the man 

responsible for the massacre of five white men by 

Apache raiders. The man turns out to be his dad, 

turned rustler. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed. 

William Campbell, John Mclntire, Barton MacLane 

Director: John Sturges, (2-1) 

BEHIND THE HIGH WALL . 5629 (85) July 

Drama. Acting warden who made reforms is embittered 

because his permanent appointment is not 

confirmed. Captured in a prison break, he finds 

a bag of stolen money and buries it, later confessing 

to save another, Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, 

Betty Lynn, John Gavin, John Larch, Barney Phillips. 

Director: Abner Biberman. 

UOBENNY GOODMAN STORY, THE. 5611 

(116) Feb. 

Musicol. Based on the life of the "king of swing" 

band leader. Tells of his early struggles for recognition 

with a new type of swing music he pioneered, 

and his romonce with the girl he later was to 

marry. Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, 

Herbert Anderson, and Guest Musicians Harry 

James, Gene Krupa and others. Director: Volentme 

DoviGs. (2-11 

©CONGO CROSSING 5623. .(87) July 

Adventure Melodrama. In an African jungle haven 

for fugitives from justice, an innocent girl, accused 

of murder, and on American engineer making maps 

for the Belgian Congo, find romonce and together 

decide to prove her innocence. Virginia Mayo, 

George Nader, Peter Lorre, Michael Pate. Director 

Joseph Pevney. {2-1 ] 

CREATURE WALKS AMONG US, THE 5617 

(78) Apr. 

Science-Fiction Drama. Scientist coptures the gillman 

olive and takes it to his estate for study, 

where the monster goes beserk, wreaking destruction 

and death before escopmg and returning to its 

native habitat—the ocean. Jeff Morrow, Rex 

Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer. Director: 

John Sherwood. 

ODAY OF FURY, A 5619 (78) May 

Western Drama. A gunfighter terrorizes a reformed 

frontier town, completely disrupting its peace and 

quiet for 24 hours. In a final showdown, the 

marshal is forced to shoot him down. Dale Robertson, 

Mara Corday, Jock Mohoney, Carl Benton Reid, 

John Dehner. Director: Hormon Jones, (2-1) 

EDGE OF HELL (formerly "Tender Hearts") 5633 

(76) Sept. 

Drama. Character study of a philosophical hobo 

on ex-octor—whose great love is his mongrel dog. 

Forced to sell his pet when illness strikes, the hobo 

is killed by a petty thief for the few paltry dollars 

he received. Hugo Haas, Francesco de Scaf fa, 

June Hommerstein, Jeffrey Stone. Director: Hugo 

Hoos, 

FRANCIS IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE. .5625 

(80) Aug. 

Comedy. The talking mule witnesses a murder 

near a midwest "haunted" castle. He helps his 

buddy expose a conspiracy to loot the estate of 

its art treosures and to rescue the heiress of the 

castle, held captive. Mickey Rooney, Virginia 

Welles, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh, David Janssen. 

Director: Charles Lamont. 

HOLD BACK TOMORROW 5603 (75) Nov. '55 

Drama. Two lost souls ore brought together—one 

a convicted killer owaitmg execution, the other a 

repentont girl sinner—when the killer is gronted 

his one lost wish for o girl. They fall in love and 

ore married before he is led to the gallows. Cleo 

Moore, John Agar, Frank 

Director: Hugo Haas. 

de Kova, Steffi Sidney. 

I'VE LIVED BEFORE. .5632. .(82) Sept. 

Drama. A commercial airline pilot, through a 

chance meeting with an older woman passenger, 

and other events that transpire, believes he is the 

reincarnation of a World War I flier who proves 

to be the woman's deod fiance. Jock Mahoney, 

Leigh Snowden, Ann Hardir>g, John Mclntire. Director: 

Richard Bartlett, 

KETTLES IN THE OZARKS, THE . . (81 } . . Apr. 

Comedy. Mo and her brood of 13 visit Pa's 

brother on an Ozark form, and find him innocently 

involved with moonshiners. Ma finally rescues him 

ond marries him off to a hillbilly gal. Morjone 

Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia. 

Director: Charles Lamont. 

0LADY GODIVA 5601 (89) Nov. '55 

Costume Drama. During the struggle for power 

between the Saxons and Normans in King Edward's 

reign, the wife of the Earl of Coventry makes her 

historic ride through the town to prove Saxon 

loyalty. Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor 

McLaglen, Rex Reason, Tonn Thatcher, Director 

Arthur Lubin. (2-1) 

ONAKEO DAWN, THE 5602 (82) Nov. '55 

Drama. Filmed in Mexico. Character study of a 

bandit fleeing from the low who is befriended by 

a poor Mexican couple. He rewards them and later 

gives his life so thot the pair may find security 

and happiness Arthur Kennedy, Betto St. John, 

Eugene Iglesios, Roy Bngel, Chorlito, Director 

Edgar G. Ulmcr, (2-1) 

ONEVER SAY GOODBYE. .5613. (96) Mor. 

Drama. As a husband and wife ore reunited, the 

story tells in flashback of her disappearance behind 

the Iron Curtain during World War 1 I and of his 

mistaken belief that she had deserted him and 

their child for another man. Rock Hudson, Cornell 

Borchers, George Sonders, Shelley Fabores, Roy 

Collins. Director: Jerry Hopper. (2-1) 

OUTSIDE THE LAW 5621 .(81) June 

Melodrama. U. S. Treasury agent trails international 

counterfeiters half-way around the world 

to smash their ring and to halt their current activity 

of flooding Europe with bogus $20 bills. 

Roy Donton, Leigh Snowden, Grant Williams, Onslow 

Stevens Director Jock Arnold. 

0P1LLARS OF THE SKY 5630 (95) Oct. 

Outdoor Drama. Set against on Oregon frontier 

background, plot deals with Indians who try to 

halt construction work by U. S. Army, and an 

agnostic sergeont who is converted and stirs the 

Indians into making a truce. Jeff Chandler, Dorothy 

Malone, Ward Bond, Keith Andes, Lee Marvin. 

Director; George Marshall. (CinemoScope, optical 

sound only; 2,55-1,) 

PRICE OF FEAR, THE 5618 (79) May 

Melodrama. The theft of o career woman's car 

after she has accidentally killed a man provides 

her on alibi. She becomes romanticolly involved 

with the thief, whose crime gives him an alibi, but 

tragedy ensues. Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, Charles 

Drake, Warren Stevens, Gia Scoto. Director: Abner 

Biberman. 

©RAW EDGE 5628 (76) Sept. 

Outdoor Dramo. Story of on English trader who 

ruled his corrupt empire on the Oregon frontier with 

on iron hand. He mode the mistake of having an 

innocent man lynched, after which his empire 

began to crumble. Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, 

Mara Corday, Neville Brand, Rex Reason. Director: 

John Sherwood. (2-1) 

ORAWHIDE YEARS, THE . 

. 

. (85) July 

Western Drama. In which a riverboat gambler 

returns to Missouri after three years to unearth 

evidence that woulc clear him of a murder chorge 

of which he and o former ossociate were wrongfully 

accused- Tony Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Colleen 

Miller, William Demarest, Peter Von Eyck. Director: 

Rudolph Mate. (2-1) 

ORED SUNDOWN 5614 (81) Mar. 

Western Drama. Ex-gunfighter becomes a deputy 

in o town ruled by a ruthless landowner. In a final 

showdown, he wipes out the lawless element ond 

peace is restored. Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, 

Deon J agger, Robert Middleton, Grant Williams. 

Director: Jock Arnold. (2-)) 

RUNNING WILD 5604. (81) Dec. '55 

Melodrama. A rookie cop poses as a young hoodlum 

to break up a ring of juvenile cor thieves in 

Los Angeles, headed by a tough rocketeer who runs 

a gas station as a front for his criminal activities 

William Campbell, Mamie Von Doren, Kathleen 

Cose, Keenan Wynn, Jon Merlin. Director: Abner 

Biberman, 

OSECOND GREATEST SEX, THE. 5606 (87) Dec '55 

Musical Comedy. How a group of Kansas pioneer 

women in the 1 880s, tired of being left alone to 

work and wait while their men go off to fight, 

evolve a scheme which brings on end to the 

fighting. Jeanne Cram, George Nader, Kitty Kollen, 

Bert Lahr, Mamie Von Doren, Kathleen Case. Director: 

George Marshall, (CinemaScope, available 

for stereophonic sound; 2,55-1 .) 

©SHOWDOWN AT ABILENE 5631 (80) Oct. 

Western. Ex-Confederate soldier returns to Abilene 

after the war to find the town controlled by a 

boyhood friend, now a powerful cattle baron. 

Faced with a new conflict, he ends the feuding 

and is made sheriff. Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, 

Lyie Bettger, David Janssen, Ted de Corsia. Director; 

Charles Haas. (2-1) 

0SIMON AND LAURA 5682 (91) July 

Comedy Farce. British-made. London's supposedly 

happiest stage couple appear in a TV series as 

"the ideal married pair," Wrangling in private, 

the TV cameras pick up one of their arguments, 

but loyal fans love it, and the two reconcile. Kay 

Kendall, Peter Finch, Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichoel, 

Maurice Denhom, Thoro Hird, Director: 

Muriel Box. Group Film, Ltd. Production for J. 

Arthur Rank. (VistoVision; 2-1.) 

OSPOILERS, THE 5607 (84) Jan. 

Action Dramo. A new film version of Rex Beach's 

novel of the Klondike gold-rush days, in which a 

mine owner tangles with a crooked gold commissioner 

who plots to defraud prospectors of their 

rightful claims. Anne Boxter, Jeff Chondler, Rory 

Calhoun, Roy Donton, Barbara Britton, John Mclntire 

Director: Jesse Hibbs (2-1) 

SQUARE JUNGLE, THE 5608 (86) Jon. 

Drama. Story of on amateur boxer who rises to 

ringside fame as a middleweight champion with 

the help of a serious-mmdod ex-boxcr-turnedbookworm 

who spouts Biblical quototions. Tony 

Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Poul Kelly, 

Jim Backus Director Jerry Hopper. 

OSTAR IN THE DUST 5620 (80) June 

Western Droma. A ronge wor develops after three 

farmers ore killed by a gunman hired by cattlemen. 

The sheriff fights to prevent o lynching and 

offer final gun battle, law and order ore restored, 

John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard 

Boone, Coleen Groy, Leif Enckson, Randy Stuart. 

Director: Charles Hoos [2-1) 

TARANTULA 5605 (80) Dee. '55 

Science-Fiction Horror Dramo. Medical researchman, 

while experimenting with a powerful synthetic 

nutrient, accidentolly creates a monster 

tarantula—a giant spider 100 feet high that 

terrorizes the civilized world before it is destroyed 

by air force bombs. John Agar, Moro Corday, Leo 

G. Carroll, Nestor Paivo, Ross Elliott. Director: 

Jock Arnold, 

THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW 5610 (84) Feb. 

Drama. Wealthy toy manufacturer, feeling neglected 

by his wife and three children, falls in love 

with a foshion designer. Realizing the mistake, the 

woman sends him bock to his fomily and returns 

to New York. Barbara Sl"anwyck, Fred MocMurroy, 

Joan Bennett, Pot Crowley, William Reynolds, Gigi 

Perreou. Director: Douglas Sirk, 

0TOUCH AND GO 5681 . Mar. 

Comedy Droma. British-mode Dissatisfied, Father 

quits his job as head furniture designer and tells 

his family they are moving to Australia. Opposed 

by a doughter in love and the family cat, he accepts 

a pay increase ond remoins, Jock Hawkins, 

Morgaret Johnston, Roland Culver, John Froser, 

June Thorburn, James Hoyter. Director: Michael 

Truman, Sir Michael Bo Icon Production and J. 

Arthur Rank Presentation. 

0TOY TIGER 5624 (88) July 

Comedy Dramo. A little boy whose fother Is dead, 

invents one, and is forced to produce him by his 

clossmotes at boarding school. Complications ensue 

but he wins himself a dad and o husband for 

his mother. Jeff Chandler, Laraine Doy, Tim Hovey, 

Cecil Kellawoy, Richard Haydn. Director: Jerry 

Hopper. (2-1) 

©WALK THE PROUD LAND 5627 (88) Sept. 

Outdoor Drama. Based on life of John Philip Clum 

famed Indian agent, who brought peace to the 

Apaches in the early history of the southwest, and 

who was the only white man to force Geronimo's 

surrender, Audie Murphy, Anne Boncroft, Pot 

Crowley, Charles Drake, Tommy Rail. Director: 

Jesse Hibbs. (CinemaScope, opticot sound only; 

2,55-1.) 

WORLD IN MY CORNER . (82) Mar. 

Drama. A boxer who rose from the slums okays a 

fixed fight to gain money so he can win his 

sponsor's daughter. He changes his mind, wins by 

a knockout and claims the girl. Audie Murphy, 

Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, John Mclntire. Director: 

Jesse Hibbs. 

(REISSUES) 

©KANSAS RAIDERS 5688 (79) May 

Western Drama. Audie Murphy, Tony Curtis, 

Brian Donlpvy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, 

Richard Arlen. 

OTAP ROOTS 5687. (109) May 

Drama. Van Heflin, Susan Hoyword, Boris Karloff, 

Julie Londo'^ Woltcr Wangcr Production. 

Warner Bros. 

(September 3, 1955 through August 4, 1956) 

©ANIMAL WORLD, THE 520 (82) June 23 

Documentary. Traces fhe beginnings and development 

of animal life on earth covering two billion 

years. Glimpses ore seen of o sufficient number 

of the million and o half soecies of animals supoosedlv 

inhobiting this earth. Narrotors: Theodore 

Von Eltz. John Storm. Director: Irwin Allen. 

Windsor Production. 

i 

AS LONG AS YOU'RE NEAR ME 519 (101) June 9 

Droma. with English-dubbed diolog.) 

Famous musical director turns to dramo to film 

the unusual life story of his new star. In his fanatic 

seorch for realism, he subjects her to such emotional 

stress that he almost wrecks her life and marriage. 

f^. W. Fischer Mario Schell, Brig it te Hornev 

Hardy Kruger, Mothias Wieman. Director: 

Braun N D F. Production. (Up to 1.75-1,) 

Harold 

©BLOOD ALLEY 502 .(115) Oct. 1, '55 

Action Drama. A merchant marine captain who 

survives two yeors of bra in-washing as a prisoner 

of the Chinese Communists, escapes with the help 

of anti-Communist villagers who get him to skipper 

a refugee boat for them in a moss exodus to the 

free world. John Wavne, Lauren Bacoll, Paul Fix, 

Berry Kroeger, Joy Kim, Mike Mozurki, Anita Ekberg. 

Director: William A, Wellmon. Batjac Production. 

(CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical 

sound; 2,55-1 ) 

©COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL, THE., 507 

100) Dec. 31, '55 

Factual Drama. Re-enacts the famous court trial 

in 1925 of a man ahead of his time who wos ac- 

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Nelson, 

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. (68) 

Here, 

German 

Mere, 

cused of slander against the War and Now Departments, 

because he persistently fought for atr 

power for America's future defense. Gary Cooper, 

Ralph Bellomy, Charles Bickford, Rod Steiger. 

Eltzobeth Montgomery, Fred Clark. Director: Otto 

Preminger. United States Pictures Production. 

{Cinemascope, stereophonic or optical sound; 

2.55-1 -) 

GOOD-BYE, MY LADY 517. (95) Moy 12 

Dramo. Boy living in o Mississippi swamp with his 

uncle finds o rare Basenji hound and trains it to 

hunt. When apprised of the rightful owner, the 

uneducated lad reasons his way to a mature dc 

ciiion. Walter Brennan, Phil Horns, Brandon de 

Wilde, Sidney Poitier, William Hopper. Director 

William A. Wellman. Batjac Production. 

0HELEN OF TROY 510. (118) Feb. 11 

Costurr e Drama. Produced in Rome. Srcr/ of 

onctent Troy, in which Pons, sent to dissuade the 

Greeks from making wor, meets and falls in love 

with Helen, wife of the Spartan king, and abducts 

her, thus precipitating the fomous launching of 

a thousand ships to get her back. Rossano Podesta, 

Jock Sernas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, 

Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne. Director: Robert 

Wise. (CinemaScope, optical sound only; 2-55-1.) 

©HELL ON FRISCO BAY . (98) Jan. 28 

Meiodroma. Releosed from 

. 

prison after five years, 

a framed police officer sets out on a one-man 

campaign to clear himself and to pin the rap on 

a powerful waterfront mobster. Alan Ladd, Edword 

G. Robinson, Joanne Dru, William Demarest, 

Poul Stewart Director: Frank Tuttle. Jaguar Production. 

CinemaScope, optical sound only; 2.55-1.) 

Ol DIED A THOUSAND TIMES. .505 

(109) Nov. 12, '55 

Drama. Ex-convict, after master-minding o resort 

hotel robbery for a crime lord, hides out in the 

mountains with his girl friend, and is finally shot 

down by the law. Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, 

Lor I Lee Marvin, Gonzales Gonzales. Director: 

Stuart Heisler. (CinemaScope, stereophonic 

or opticol sound; 2.55-1.) 

ILLEGAL 503 (88) Oct. 15, 55 

Drama. A ruthless D.A. resigns and goes into 

private law practice as a mobsters' mouthpiece. 

He gets rich from his unscrupulous methods, but 

dies from a racketeer's bullet offer his one redeeming 

act of winning ocquittal for an innocent 

woman, Edward G. Robinson, Hugh Marlowe, Nino 

Foch, Joyne Mansfield, Albert Dekker. Director; 

Lewis Allen. 

OLONE RANGER, THE 511 (86) Feb. 25 

Western. Based on the radio, TV end comic strip 

character who fights for frontier justice. In this 

story, the Lone Ranger exposes a power-mod 

rancher who tries to incite an Indian war for 

personal gam. Clayton Moore, Jay SMverheels, 

Lyie Bettger, Bomta Granville, Perry Lopez, Director: 

Stuart Heisler. Jock Wrather Production. 

O©McC0NNELL STORY, THE. 501 

(107) Sept. 3, '55 

Biographical Drama. Story of America's first triple 

jet ace in U. S. history, Copt. Joseph McConnell jr., 

who rose to everlasting fame as a fighter pilot 

in Korea after service as a B-1 7 navigator in 

World Wor II. He died in 1954 on o test flight, 

Alan Ladd, June A Hyson, James Whit more, Frank 

Foylen, Robert Ellis. Director: Gordon Douglas. 

CinemaScope, stereophonic or optical sound; 2.55-1.) 

QMIRACLE IN THE RAIN .. 512 .. (107) Apr. 7 

Dramo. A girl's lover, killed in action during 

World War II, reappears in o vision in a rainstorm 

to proclaim his everlasting love and to press 

into her hand a souvenir coin she hod given him 

before he left, Jane Wymon, Von Johnson, Peggie 

Castle, Fred Clark, Eileen Heckort. Director: 

Rudolph Mate. 

©MOBY DICK. 521 (116) June 30 

Dromo. (Special engagements only.) From Herman 

Melville's classic, about a crazed whaling captain 

who seeks revenge ogoinst a great white whole 

which hod bitten off his leg. The captain, trapped 

on the whale's bock, drowns, and only one of the 

crew survives. Gregory Peck, Richord Bosehort, 

Orson Welles, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, 

Horry Andrews. Director: John Huston. Moulin 

Pictures Production. (Up to 1.75-1.) 

OUR MISS BROOKS. .515 (65) Mar. 3 

Comedy. Continues the modcop adventures of 

radio ond TV's romontic, wise-crocking schoolmarm 

OS she tries to trap the elusive biology teacher 

into a proposal of marriage—and this time succeeds. 

Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Don Porter, Robert 

Rockwell, Jane Morgan. Director: A! Lewis. Lute 

Production. 

©REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. 504 

(111) Oct. 29, '55 

Drama. How a gang of crazy mixed-up adolescents 

from broken homes or with maladjusted parents, 

end up OS juvenile delinquents. One lad and his 

parents reach a bond of common understanding 

offer one boy is killed by police. James Dean, 

Natalie Wood, Sol Mineo, Jim Bockus, Ann Doron. 

Director: Nicholas Ray. (CinemoScope, stereophonic 

or optical sound; 2.55-1 ) 

RIVER CHANGES, THE .513. (91) Mar. 24 

Droma. (Filmed in West Germony; English-dubbed 

dialog.) A river's course is changed following 

torrential rams, thus altering the natural boundory 

and placing a freedom-lovir>Q community under 

oppressive Iron Curtoin rule The villagers heroically 

unite in a moss exodus bock to freedom. Rossano 

Rory, Harold Maresch, Renote Mannhordt, 

Henry Fisher. Director: Owen Crump, 

©SANTIAGO. 524. (93) July 7 

Adventure Dramo. Rival American renegade gun 

runners )oin forces to smuggle arms to Cubans in 

their revolt agomst Spain. When Cuba cannot 

poy, one renegade kills the other to prevent his 

selling out to Spain and joins the revolutionists, 

Alan Ladd, Rossano Podesta, Lloyd Nolan, Chill 

Wills, Paul Fix. Director: Gordon Douglas. 

©SATELLITE IN THE SKY 525 (85) July 21 

Science-Fiction Drama. British- made. Experimental 

rocket ship equipped with a powerful atom bomb, 

set to explode beyond the force of gravity, instead 

attaches itself to the metal ship. Terror grips the 

ship's occupants as they wait helplessly for the 

explosion. Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald 

Wolfit, Bryan Forbes, Jimmy Hanley. Director 

Paul Dickson. (CinemaScope, optical sound only; 

2.55-1.) 

©SEARCHERS, THE. .518. (119) May 26 

Adventure Drama. Pioneer adventure story of the 

relentless, seven-year seorch by an uncle and o 

foster-brother for two little girls captured by Comanches, 

one of whom is found alive and returned 

to her people. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vero 

Miles, Ward Bond, Notalie Wood. Director: John 

Ford. C. V. Whitney Pictures Production. {Visto- 

Vision; up to 1.85-1.) 

©SERENADE 516 (121) Apr. 21 

Drama With Music. From novel by James M. Cain. 

A once-great opera star, who sinks to o downand-out 

derelict, meets and falls in love with o 

fiery Mexicon beouty who helps him moke a successful 

comeback. Mario Lonza, Joan Fontaine, 

Sari to Montiel, Vincent Price, Joseph Calleio 

Director: Anthony Mann. 

©SEVEN MEN FROM NOW. 526. (78) Aug. 4 

Western. A sheriff goes to California on a vengeance 

mission in pursuit of seven desperados who 

killed his wife in a Wells Fargo holdup. He eventually 

tracks down and kills all seven men. Randolph 

Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Don Barry. Director: 

Budd Boetticher. Batjac Production, 

©SINCERELY YOURS 506. (115) Nov. 26, '55 

Drama With Music. Plot revolves oround o successful 

concert pianist who becomes deaf. He leorns 

to read lips and avoids self-pity by helping others, 

then regains his hearing after on operation, ond 

continues his career. Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy 

Malone, Alex Nicol, William Demorest, Lon 

Nelson. Directoi': Gordon Douglas. Internotionol 

Artists Ltd. Produrlion. 

STEEL JUNGLE, THE 514. (86) Mar. 31 

Melodrama. Convicted bookie is sent to prison 

where he has o choice of serving out his term or 

turning informer and winning his freedom. Meanwhile, 

his wife is kidnaped by the gangsters involved 

to insure his silence. Perry Lopez, Beverly 

Garland, Walter Abel, Allison Hayes, Ted de 

Corsio, Kenneth Tobey. Director: Walter Doniger 

TARGET ZERO 508 (92) Dec. 10, '55 

Drama. An American girl serving with the United 

Notions civilian relief organization, and on American 

patrol trapped behind enemy lines in Korea, 

meet up with o British tank crew and together 

they fight their wo/ back to their own lines, 

Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronsr-n 

Richard Stopley, Chuck Connors. Director: Harmon 

Jones 

(REISSUES) 

DALLAS. 522. (94) June 16 

Western Droma. Gary Cooper, Ruth Romon, Steve 

Cochran, Ravmond Massey, Barbaro Poyton. (1.66-11 

DISTANT DRUMS 523. (101) June 16 

Western Drama, Gory Cooper, Mori Aldon, Richard 

Webb United States Pictures Production. (1,66-1) 

Foreign 

(All have English subtitles unless 

otherwise stated. Foreign 

dialog indicated otter 

film title.) 

French 

ADORABLE CREATURES. . 

(108) Continentol Dist'b'q 

Comedy. Sex od ventures of on unconventional 

youth who foncies himself a "sheik" with women 

and goes from one love affair to onother os each 

woman gets wise and ditches him. Mortine Carol, 

Danielle Dorrieux, Edwjge Feu i Doniel Gel in, 

Antonello Lualdi. Director: Christ ion- J oque 

ALONE IN THE STREETS. . Itolian 

(80) Carroll Picts. 

Drama. Story of two homeless children m post-war 

Italy, one on 8-year-old boy who foils into the 

bonds of thieves. The boy soves the life of on 

injured man who happily adopts both children. 

Carlo Tamberiani, Brunei lo Bovo, Marco Vicario, 

Tecio Scrono Director: Silvio Siono. 

CODE OF THE UNDERWORLD (formerly "Murder 

in Villa Capri") Italion . M. C. Picts. 

Melodrama. (Italian dialog spoken largely throughout.) 

A police lieutenant, ossigned to stomp out 

crime in on Itolian section of on American city. 

refuses to give up, despite threats on his life ar>d 

pleas by his wife, until he has concluded the cose. 

John Heath. Neil Hamilton, Esther Minciotti, Joe 

Wippler, Denise Gnf f in Director; Otto Simetti. 

DARK RIVER. Spanish (90) Times Films 

iungio Dramo. Argent ine-mode. Tells the grim 

story of cruelty and human suffering by migratory 

slave loborers in the ycrba mote forests of northern 

Argentine, ond their ultimate revolt agomst inhuman 

conditions a generation ago. Hugo del Garni, 

Adrionu Benetti, Raul Del Voile, Glorio Ferrandez, 

Pedro Loxolt. Director: Hugo del Corril. 

DESIRES. German. (97) Grand Prize Films 

Droma. How a drug addict ballerina stumbles Into 

the lives of o happily married couple, both small 

town phormocists, setting off a chain of events 

when she steals narcotics from their drug supply. 

O, W, Fischer, Heidemorie Motheyer, Peter Czeike, 

Carl Wcry, Sybil Wcrdcn. Director: Rolf Hansen. 

DIABOLIQUE French (107) United M. P. Org. 

Mystery Drama. Timid wife of tyrannical head 

schoolmaster teams up with his mistress in a diabolicol 

murder plot to get rid of him. But the body 

disappears and terrifyir>g hoppenings occur untti 

the surprise ending exploins the mystery. Simone 

Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Vero Clouzot, Charles 

Vanel, Noel Roquevert. Director: Henri-Georges 

Clouzot. 

DR. KNOCK. French. (103) Martin J. Lewis 

Comedy Sotire. The town's new doctor finds he has 

no practice, but undismayed, sets obout to convince 

potential patients that they ore sick. Soon, the 

town IS turned into a health center with the local 

hotel serving as a clinic. Louis Jouvet, Jean Brochard, 

Jane Morken, Pierre Bertin, Pierre Renoir. 

Director: Guy LeFronc. Les Productions Roitfeld of 

Poris, 

ODON JUAN Germon. .(85) Times Films 

Operatic Drama. Austrian-mode Bosed on Mozart 

s "Don Giovanni." Spanish grandee, who is a 

great libertine, becomes involved in various romantic 

escapades, but manages to extricate himself 

with the Old of his servant. He defies the devil ond 

receives his final punishment. Cesore Donovo, Lotte 

Tobisch, Josef Meinrad, Evelyne Cormond, Hans 

von Borsody, Vienna State Opera and Ballet Corps. 

Director: H, W. Kolm-Veltee. Akford Film of 

Vienna. 

©ETERNAL LOVE . .. (95) Cosine Films 

Dromo. A girl survives a persona! tragedy and 

scandalous gossip. Finally, happily married she is 

stricken with diphtheria, but indications point to her 

recovery os the hospital project she financed nears 

completion, Barbara Ruetting, Clous Holm, Kathonno 

Moyberg, Herbert Huebner, Corolo Hoehn. 

Director: Hans Deppe. 

FORESTER'S DAUGHTER, THE. Germon 

(103) Casino Films 

Comedy Drama With Music. Set in Austno-Hungary 

in 1850, this tells about a rollicking romance between 

the Imperial forester's daughter ond a young 

captain in hiding from the Emperor, Emperor ultimately 

pardons the captain and approves the 

match. Johanna Matz, Angelika Hauf f, Koethe 

von Nogy, Karl Schoenboeck, Will Quodflieg. Director: 

Arthur Mario Rabenalt, Carlton Film Production. 

i 

FRUITS OF SUMMER. French. (102) 

Comedy. Porision antique deoler, 

. Ellis 

separated 

Films 

from 

her diplomot-husbond, brings up her teen-age 

daughter in complete freedom. The girl becomes 

pregnont and hilonous situations mount as the 

parents try to protect their doughter to ovoid o 

scandal. Edwige Feu Henri Guiiol, Etchiko 

Choureou, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Claude Nicot. Director: 

Raymond Bernord 

OGOLDEN DEMON Japanese 

(95) Edword Harrison 

Dromo. Middle-class Japanese parents persuade 

their daughter to give up her childhood sweet 

heart and marry a wealthy suitor. The jilted fiance 

becomes a harsh money-lender, her husbond mocks 

and dishonors her, but the lovers are reunited by 

a fire. Fujiko Yamomoto, Jun Negami, Eiji Funakoshi, 

Kenji Sugawaro, Mitsuko Mito. Director: 

Koji Shi mo. Doiei Film Production, 

OHOUSE OF RICORDI Itolion 

(112) Monson Dist'b'g 

Episodic Dromos. (Franco-Italian co-production.) 

Story of the music publishing house, founded in 

1797, famous for its aid to struggling composers. 

The five episodes cover the stories ond operatic 

music of composers Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, 

Verdi and Puccini. Paolo Stoppo, Morto Toren, 

Marcello Mastroionni, Micheline Presle, Gabrielle 

Ferzetti, Nodio Gray. Director: Carmine Gal lone. 

Produced by Documento Films of Rome and Cormoron 

Films of Paris. 

INSIDE A GIRL'S DORMITORY . French 

(102) Ellis Films 

Mystery Meiodroma. A detective, investigating a 

murder inside o girls' school, runs into o shocking 

situation of sadism and twisted emotions, and 

ultimately traps a teacher into confessing the 

murder. Jean Mara is, Francoise Arnoul, Denise 

Grey, Jeanne Moreau, Noel Roquevert. Director: 

Henri 

Decoin. 

LA STRADA ("The Rood") Italian 

(IIS) Trons-Lux Dist'b'g 

Droma. Story of a brutal itinerant strong man and 

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"7 RUE PIGALE" 

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(82) 

Spanish 

Q simple-minded peasant girl who is his assistant, 

cook and sweetheart. He murders on acrobat-clown, 

she dies ond he commits suicide to cleonse his soul. 

Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehort, Giulietta Mosino, 

Aldo Stivoni. Director: Fedcnco Fellmi. Ponti-De 

Lourentiis Production. 

LAST TEN DAYS, THE .G«rmon 

tl 13) Columbio Int'l 

Documentary. (Austrian-mode; German dialog with 

English titles.) Story of the terrifying, final days 

ot Hitler's life when he, along with his mistress 

and top generals, were huddled in their Berlin 

headquarters as the Allies were drowmg closer. 

Albin Skoda, Oskor Werner, Lotte Tobisch, Willy 

Krause. Director; G. W. Pabst. Cosmopolfilm Production 

(Vienno). 

LEGENDS OF ANIKA. . Yugoslavian 

(85) Grand Prize Films 

Drama. (Yugoslavian-made, with English titles and 

narration.) Sordid tale of a horrible experience encountered 

by a man in his youth which turns him 

against women and affects the life of his sweetheart 

who turns harlot and meets with a tragic 

death. Milenka Dopcevic, Brotislav Gribic, Sever in 

Bjelic, Mota Milosevic. Director. Vladimir Pogocic. 

LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL. . French 

(116) Tohon Picts. 

Comedy Dramas. Comprised of three unrelated stories 

by Alphonse Daudet; [ 1 ) "The Three Low 

Masses"—Church sexton and chaplain ore tricked 

by the devil; (2) "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" 

French monks solve a financial problem; (3) "The 

Master Cornille"—A miller's windmill 

Secret of 

secret is learned. Henri Vilbert, Doxely, Yvonne 

Gonny, Keller, Vtvione Mery, Rellys, Delmont. Director; 

Marcel Pagnol. 

OMADDALENA. Italian. (90) I.F.E. Rel. Corp. 

Drama. ( Italo-French co-production.) 

pageant m Italian mountain village is 

Friday 

background 

Good 

for story of prostitute hired by politician to portray 

Virgin in order Mary to discredit priest. Unmasked 

by jealous lover, she is stoned to deoth by outraged 

villagers. Marta Toren, Gino Cervi, Jacques 

Sernas, Charles Vanel, Foico Lulli. Director: Augusto 

Gen inc. Ti tonus Films Production. 

MAKE WAY FOR DO. German 

. 

(88) Grand Prize Film 

Drama. Sensitive story of a girl who grows up or. 

Q South African plantation and whose love for the 

man she believes is her father develops into a deep 

affection that lasts through maturity. Hans Soehnker, 

Paolo Loew, Heidi Becker, Charles Reghier. 

Director; Gustov Ucicky. 

MELODY BEYOND LOVE. German 

(94) Grand Prize Film 

Drama. Tells of a triangle involving two music 

students in love and a government representative 

who causes a rift between them when he falls for 

the girl. Their musical careers bring the two young 

people together again. Willy Birgel, Inge Egger, 

Carl Wery, Eric Schumann, Morgorete Hoogen. 

Director: Erich Engel. 

OMY SEVEN LITTLE SINS. French 

(98) Kingsley Int'l 

Comedy Farce. Seven dancers from a stranded revue 

approach a retired plcyboy-turned-outhor, claiming 

to be his illegitimate daughters—by different 

mothers. He knows better but keeps them around, 

then sponsors their show's reopening. Maurice 

Chevalier, Delia Scala, Paolo Stoppa, Colette Ripert, 

Louis Velle. Director: Jean Boyer. Consortium 

du Film Production. 

NAKED NIGHT, THE. Swedish . Times Films 

Dromo. Behind-t he-scene story of the intimate 

lives of a circus owner, his mistress and estranged 

wife, and an actor who seduces the mistress. As 

the Circus moves on, oil seems serene ogain as 

man ond mistress walk hand-in-hond. Horriet Andersson, 

Ake Groenberg, Hasse Ekmon, Anders Ek. 

Director; Ingmar Bergmon. Sandrew Production. 

ONE STEP TO ETERNITY .French. (94) Ellis Films 

Drama. (With English titles and some English 

narration.) 

a bizarre 

An unscrupulous 

dinner party for 

young 

the four 

mon is 

women 

host 

in 

at 

his 

life. As his affairs with each woman unfold in 

flashback, it becomes apparent that he intends to 

kill one of them. Danielle Darrieux, Michel Aucloir, 

Corinne Calvet, Lyia Rocco, Roberto Risso. Director: 

Henri Decoin. 

ONLY THE FRENCH CAN (Formerly "French 

Cancan") French United M. P. Org. 

Musical Comedy Drama. Tells the history of the 

famous Moulin Rouge society cabaret in Pons of 

the 1880s founded by a theatrical impresario. When 

creditors close his place, he introduces the Cancan 

dance, which is a sensation and saves him from 

bonkruptcy. Jean Gobin, Maria Felix, Froncoise 

Arrroul, Giani Esposito. Director: Jeon Renoir. 

0PHANTOM HORSE, THE .Japonese 

(90) Edward Harrison 

Drama. Story of a boy's love for a horse that becomes 

a champion racer, and of the fine fomily 

relationships os father, sister and elder brother 

guide the boy through a series of crises. Ayako 

Wokoo, Yukohiko Iwatore, Akihiko Yuso, Yoshiro 

Kitahara, Koreya Senda. Director: Joji Shima. 

Daiei Film Production. 

PROUD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, THE. French 

(94) Kingsley Int'l 

Drama With Music. (French-mode, filmed in 

Mexico,) Story by Jean-Paul Sartre. A French couple 

IS traveling in Mexico when the husband OiCs 

suddenly from o virulent fever and the vtlloge is 

faced with a deadly epidemic. Derelict French doctor, 

called in to assist, is regenerated both through 

his humonc work ond his love for the widow. 

Michcle Morgan, Gerard Philtpe, Victor Manuel 

Mendozo, Michele Cordone, Andre Toff el, Conos 

Lopez Moctezumo, Director: Yves Al leg ret, 

RETURN OF DON CAMILLO, THE Itolion 

(110) I.F.E. Rcl. Corp. 

Comedy Drama. Jtalo-French co-production.) Sequel 

to "The Little World of Don Comillo." The 

lovable, fiery priest returns to his old parish 

and to fueding with the Communist mayor. A flood 

wipes out their enmity but when the waters recede, 

the feuding is resumed. Fernondel, Gino Cervi, 

Leda Gloria, Charles Vissieres, Paolo Stoppa, Edouord 

Delmont. Director: Julien Duvivier. Rizzoli- 

Francinex Co -product ion. 

RIFIFI French, (115) United M. P. Org. 

Melodrama. Story of a daring Pans lewel robbei y 

and the violence that follows, which touches on the 

lives of many, bringing tragedy to all those involved 

ond little or no gain to anyone. Jean Servais, 

Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel, Perlo Vito, 

Mane Sobouret, Marcel Lupovici. Director: Jules 

Dassin. (Will later be released in English-dubbed 

version.) 

ORIVIERA. Italian. (88) I.F.E. Rel. Corp. 

Comedy Dromo. (Released in Italy in 1954 as "The 

Boarder.") A beautiful prostitute, who wants to 

rehabilitate herself, takes her little conventreared 

dough ter with her on vocation to a resort 

town. The scorn of the hotel guests later turns to 

admiration and they switch to currying her friendship. 

Mortine Carol, Rof Vailone, Clelio Motanio, 

Mario Carotenuto, Carlo Bianco. Director: Alberto 

Lottuodo. Titanus Film Production. 

QSAMURAI. (92) Jacon Film Distrs. 

Drama. (Japanese-made, with English subtitles and 

narration,) Story of a man who wanted to become 

a mighty warrior, and realizes his ambition during 

the medievol civil war that tore o Japanese island 

empire opart for generations. Narrator: William 

Holden. Toshiro Mitune, Kaoru Yochiguso, Rentoro 

Mikuni, Moriko Okodo. Director: Hiroshi Inagaki. 

Produced by Homel Pictures in 1954. Toho Production. 

SERGEANT'S DAUGHTER, THE.. German 

(97) Casino Films 

Drama. Set in 1914 at a German army training 

post, plot revolves around the complicated romance 

of a cavalry sergeant's daughter and a 

lieutenont. All problems ore resolved when war 

breaks out ond the officer rides off to battle. Johanna 

Motz, Jon Hendriks, Fnedrich Domin, Paul 

Hortmonn, O. E. Hosse, Max Eckord. Director: 

Georg Hurdalek. Produced by Como-Royal. 

THIS STRANGE PASSION . .(82). Omnifilms 

Drama. Produced in Mexico from the story, "El." 

Psychological dromo of a husband with a jealous 

mental quirk that turns him into o brute. Unoble 

to control his outbursts, he finally goes completely 

mad. Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Luis Benstain, 

Carlos Martinez Boeno. Director: Luis Bunuel. 

TOO BAD SHE'S BAD. . Italian .. (95) ..Getz-Kingsley 

Comedy. The complications that arise tor on honest 

taxi driver in Rome when he foils in love with the 

high-spirited daughter of a charming crook. Sophia 

Loren, Vittorio de Sica, Marcel lo Mastroionni, 

Walter Bortoletti, Umberto Melnotti. Director: Alessondro 

Blasetti. Documento Film Production. 

UMBERTO D. . . Italian . . (89) Edward Harrison 

Drama. Set in post-war Rome, this por troys a 

pathetic, old man who, without family, friends, or 

funds, becomes disheartened when he finds himself 

and his dog dispossessed by the landlady, and 

contemplates suicide. Carlo Battisto, Moria Pio 

Cosilio, Lino Gennori. Director: Vittorio de Sico. 

(REISSUES) 

(108) t.F.E. Rel. Corp. 

. BELLISSIMA 

Drama. 

Itotian 

Anno Mognani, Alessondro Blosetti, Tina 

Apicella, Walter Chiori. 

OPEN CITY. Itolian. .(103) Joseph Burstyn 

Drama. Anna Magnani, Aldo Fobrizi, Morcello 

Pogliero. 

Miscellaneous 

(English Longuoge Films) 

ALIAS JOHN PRESTON. (71) Dominant Picts. 

Drama. Bntish-mode. Story of a successful business 

man and community leader who is suddenly 

plagued with dreoms of violence and murder. At 

the end he is revealed as a schizophrenic who actually 

committed the crimes he thought he hod 

dreamed. Alexander Knox, Betto St. John, Christopher 

Lee, Peter Grant, Director: David MocDonald, 

ANGEL WHO PAWNED HER HARP, THE 

(73) Dominont Picts. 

Comedy Fantasy. Bntish-mode. An angel is sent 

down from Heaven to bring happiness into the 

lives of several individuols in a run-down section 

of London. She powns her harp to roise money 

before storting out on her earthly mission. Felix 

Aylmer, Diane Ci lento, Jerry Desmonde, Robert 

Eddison, Sheilo Sweet, Philip Guard. Director; Alan 

Bromly. Group 3 Production. 

APPOINTMENT IN LONDON 

(96i Assocloted Artists 

Moodroma. British mode, Story of the heroism of 

Q Wing Commander of a British bomber squadron 

and his crew during World Wor II. The Commander 

disobeys orders to stay behind on a big raid ond 

gets transferred out of the country. Dirk Bogorj^ 

Dinah Sheridan, Ion Hunter, Bill Kerr, Bryan 

Forbes, Director: Philip Leocock 

OBALLET OF ROMEO AND JULIET 

l96) Tohon Picts. 

Ballet Drama. (Russian-mode with English narration) 

A full-length ballet film based on Shakespeare's 

immortol "Romeo and Juliet," deoling with 

the tragic love story of two young Italians and 

the feud between their respective families. Gohno 

Ulonova, Yuri Zhdanov, Sergei Koren, Iroido Olenino, 

Alexei Ycrmoloyev, Moscow Bolshoi Bollet 

Compony. Directors: Lev Arnshtam, Leonid Lovrovsky 

Mosfilms Production, presented by S. Hurok. 

BRIDE OF THE MONSTER .. (67) Realort 

Horror Melodrama. Story of a mod scientist experimenting 

in the creation of supermen ond superonimals- 

Girl reporter falls under his evil mftuence 

and after a series of hoir-roising adventures, is 

rescued and the scientist destroyed. Bel a Lugosi, 

Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King. Director; 

Edward D. Wood jr. 

BULLFIGHT (76) Pocemaker Picts, 

Documentary. (French-made with English narration.) 

Tells the history through film clips of bullfighting 

from its earliest doys to the present. Some of the 

century's most famous motodors ore shown m the 

bullring, including the great Monolete who was 

fatally gored in 1 947. Monolete, Luis Miguel 

Dominquin, Conchita Ctntron, Juan Belmonte, Raphael 

Ortega. Narrator: Bryant Holiday. Director: 

Pierre Braunberger. (Janus Films release 

distributed nationally through state right distributors) 

0COCKTAILS IN THE KITCHEN (formerly "For Better, 

For Worse"). (83) Stratford Picts. 

Comedy. Bntish-mode. Trials and tribulations of 

two young newlyweds os they struggle with bills, 

housing problems and o domineering father-inlaw. 

A mild catastrophe wakes popo up to the 

children's problems and all ends well. Dirk Bogorde, 

Susan Stephen, Dennis Price, Cecil Porker, 

Eileen Her lie, Thora Hird. Director: J. Lee-Thompson. 

Associated Bntish-Pothe Film. 

CROWDED PARADISE. (93) Tudor Picts. 

Drama. Set ogoinst the background of crowded 

tenements in Manhattan's East Side, this deals with 

problems of a young Puerto Rican immigrant, 

whose romance with dough ter of weolthy Puerto 

Ricon IS complicoted by on embittered, foreignprejudiced 

janitor, Nancy Kelly, Mono Alcalde, 

Hume Cronyn, Enid Rudd, Fronk Si 1 vera. Director: 

Fred Pressburger. 

CURE FOR LOVE, THE. (97) Associated Artists 

Comedy Force. British-mode. Shy war hero, home 

on leave, is almost rushed into marrioge by his 

brazen fiancee. Foiling in love with a girl boarder 

at his mother's house, he decides to toke the cure 

for love by marrying her instead. Robert Donot, 

Renee Asherson, Morjorie Rhodes, Charles Victor, 

Doro Bryan. Director: Robert Donot. 

0DANCE LITTLE LADY. (87) Trans-Lux Dist'b'g 

Drama. British-mode. The drama behind the ballet 

curtain in this story of a ballerina who is permanently 

injured in an accident at the height of 

her career, and who trains her talented little daughter 

to follow in her footsteps. Mai Zetterling, Terence 

Morgan, Mandy Miller, Guy Rolfe, Eunice 

Goyson, Sodler's Wells Ballet. Director: Vol Guest. 

Renown Production and a George Minter Presentation. 

FORBIDDEN CARGO. (83) Jacon Film Distrs. 

Melodrama. Bntish-mode, British customs agent, 

tipped off about a narcotics shipment due to arrive 

in London, runs into adventure ond romance 

OS he trails internotionol dope smugglers, ond 

breaks up the ring. Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellors, 

Terence Morgan, Greta Gynt, Jock Warner. Director: 

Harold French. J. Arthur Rank Production. 

©FRONTIER WOMAN (Dougher ot Davy Crockett) 

(80) Top Picts.. July 4 

Droma. The little-known story of Davy Crockett's 

daughter, raised to womanhood by on Indian woman, 

ond of her adventures when she tongles with 

leolous Indian girl and on unscrupulous fur 

trader. Cindy Carson, Lonce Fuller, Ann Kelly, 

James Clayton. Director; Ron Ormond. (Vistoromo, 

Anomorphic process; optical sound; 2.35-1 .) 

0FURY IN PARADISE. .(77).Gibraltar M. P. Distrs. 

Melodrama. Mexican-mode. The romance of o 

wealthy Texan ond the beautiful daughter of a 

Mexican revolutionist, which flomes amidst the 

fury of battle between the revolutionists and the 

dictator government's forces. Peter Thompson, Reo 

Iturbide, Eduordo Noriega, Felipe Nolon, Jose Espinoso. 

Director: George Bruce. 

GAME OF DANGER (88) Associated Artists 

Drama. Bntish-mode. (Released in England as 

"Bong!— You're Deod."} Two youngsters find c 

gun while playing and accidentally kill a passing 

cyclist— the local bully. The boys are unowore of 

the tragic consequences, and an innocent mon is 

charged with murder. Jack Warner, Derek Farr, 

Veronica Hurst, Michael Med win, Anthony Richmond. 

Director: Lonce Comfort. 

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Producer-Director 

"JOHNNY TROUBLE" 

for 

Motion Pictures 

by Clarion 

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GODZILLA. KING OF THE MONSTERS 

(30) Embossy Piets. 

Hoiror Mefodromo. (Japanese madu with Englishdubbed 

dialog and English narration.) Based on on 

old Joponese legend about o prehistoric creature 

50 stories high. This tells how the monster is 

awakened from beneath the sea by H-bomb explosions 

ond terrorizes Tokyo, leaving it in rums 

Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimuro, Momoko Kochi, 

Akiro Takorado. Directors: Terry Morse, Ishiro 

Hondo. Toho Production. {Released nationally 

through territorial franchise holders.) 

HELEN KELLER IN HER STORY (formerly "The Unconquercd"). 

(55). Louis de Rochemont Associates 

Biographical Documentary. Portrays through new.,- 

rec; ctipb, photographs anJ private films The life 

of Helen Keller, 75-ycor-old blind, deaf-mute, famous 

the world over for her couroge and heip . 

others. Shown also are her two devoted women 

companions, one of whom died in 1936. Narrator 

Kothenne Cornell. Produced by Nancy Hamilton. 

(Albert Margolies handled the New York distribution 

in 1954.} 

HILL 24 DOESNT ANSWER 

(102) Continentol Dist'b'g 

Semi-documcntary Drama. with Engl,sh 

dialog.) Israel's fight 

[ 

for independence and incidents 

in the lives of several individuals swept into 

the fighting. Among them are four young volunteers 

who give their lives to hold Hill 24, and a romance 

between on Irishman and an Israeli girl. 

Michael Wager, Hoya Haront, Edward Mulhare, 

Shoshana Domari, Arieh Levi, Morgalit Oved. Director: 

Thorold Dickinson. Sikor Films Production. 

(1.66-1) 

HIS EXCELLENCY. (84) Joseph Brenner Associates 

Comedy Dromo. Bntish-modc. Man who rose from 

uJCK wwTKer to govern or of a Mediterranean islana, 

runs into political complicotions when he tries to 

queil a union strike and subsequent noting. Lr.c 

Horrman, Cecil HarKer, i-ieien Cherry, Susan 

Srephen. Director: Robert Hamer. Michael Bolcon 

Production for i. Artnur RonK, 

OtSLAND OF ALLAH 

(70) Joseph Brenner Associates 

Semi-documentary. Filmed in Arabic, A group of 

Amen con geologists seeking oil in Arabia are 

assigned an interesting guide who alternates the 

guiding with legendary tales of Arabian history 

and the little-known story of the peoples of that 

country. I Khalil Sobbagh, Nasir ibn Mubarak, 

Fotima bint Ali, James C. Stewart, Al Clements. 

Norrator; Fredric Morch. Director; Richard 

Lyford. Studio Alliance Production. 

©KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS, A 

(91) Lopert Films 

Drama. Bntish-made. Charoctenzations of several 

assorted persons from London's slum area who 

throng a tailor shop. Eoch one has on unfulfilled 

dream that seems beyond realization, but after 

some misfortunes they all come true. Cello Johnson, 

Diana Dors, Brenda De Banzie, David Kossoff, 

Jonothan Ashmore, Primo Camera. Director: 

Carol Reed. London Films Production. 

©LADYKILLERS, THE. .(90) Continentol Dist'b'g 

Comedy. Bntish-made. Five gangsters successfully 

pull a bank robbery, but ore seen with the loot 

by the landlady and draw lots to see who shall 

kill her, but the hoodlums die one by one in a 

series of humorous accidents. Alec Guinness, 

Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Katie Johnson, Danny 

Green, Jock Warner. Director: Alexander Mockendnck. 

Michoel Bolcon Production for J. Arthur 

Rank. (1.66-1) 

LIFE WITH THE LYONS .5410 

(64) Lippert. Oct. '55 

Comedy. British-mode. Bosed on a popular British 

radio series, this continues the madcap adventures 

of the Lyon family who move into o newly rented 

house and give the landlord some hectic moments, 

but all ends happily. Richard Lyon, Barbara Lyon, 

Bebe Doniels, Ben Lyon, Horace Percivol. Director; 

Vol Guest. Exclusive Production. 

LIVING NORTH, THE.. (74) Arlon Picts. 

Documentary. Filmed in Loplond. Story of o Lapland 

youngster and his reindeer. Comero follows 

the boy ond gets o glimpse of the daily activities 

of his people during the vonous seosons, their 

methods of livelihood, recreotion, schooling, et 

cetera. Narrated by Peter J. Votrion. Native cast. 

Director; Stig Wesslen. 

LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS 

(80) Trans-Lux Dist'b'g 

Comedy Drama. A young widow's romance is 

spoiled by her 7 -year-old daughter's resentment 

towords the attention paid her mother. Realizing 

their need for each other, the lovers are reunited 

and the child indicates her happiness, too. Lon 

March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn, William 

Word. Directors: Morns Engel, Ruth Orkin. 

LUM AND ABNER ABROAD. (72) Howco Prods. 

Comedy Travelog. Adventures of Lum and Abner 

in three Europeon countries. In a satellite country, 

they help reunite a ballerina with her American 

boy friend; they get mixed up with jewel thieves 

in Paris, ond then break the bank at Monte Corlo. 

Chester Louck, Norris Goff, Jill Alis, Lila Audres, 

Gene Gary, Chris Peters. Director; James V. Kern. 

(Released nationally through territorial franchise 

holders.) 

OMAKE ME AN OFFER (8S) Dominant Picts. 

Comedy. Bntish-made. Story of a young ort dealer 

and his love for antiques, espociolly a missing 

Wedge wood vose, ond the connivmg (hat goes on 

between art collector and dealer when the valuoble 

vase turns up at o country mansion. Peter Finch, 

Adrienne Corn, Fmloy Currie, Rosolie Crutchley, 

Wilfred Lowson. Director: Cyril Frankel. Group 3 

Production. 

MIDNIGHT EPISODE (78) Jocon Film Distrs. 

Mystery Comedy. British-mode. A London tramp 

runs onto a murder and is pursued by killers as he 

attempts to solve the case on his own. Police trace 

the killer ond arrive in time to rescue the tramp. 

Stonley Holloway, Natasha Parry, Leslie Dwyer, 

Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joy Shelton, Raymond Young. 

Director: Gordon Porry. (Distributed 1954-55 season 

by Fine Arts.) 

NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP, THE 

(94) Continental Dist'b'g 

Drama. Bntish-made. A fantastic dream comes 

true in which 13 people oboord a plane become 

lost in a storm over the sea. Search planes arrive 

in nick's time to rescue the passengers. Michoel 

Redgrove, Alexander Knox, Sheilo Sim, Denholm 

Elliott. Ursula Jeans. Director: Leslie Normon. 

Michael Bolcon Production for J Arthur Rank 

1.66-1) 

NO WAY BACK (87) Jacon Film Distrs. 

Mtlodromo. (German-made, with English dialog.) 

Story of two people in love, o Russion and a 

German girl, m the eastern zone of Germany, They 

escape but secret police trick the girl bock to the 

eastern sector from which there is no returning. 

Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehous, Rene Deltgcn, Karl John, 

Lilo Kedrowa. Director; Victor Vices. (Germorvlonguoge 

version released 1954-55 seoson by Fine 

Arts.) 

OOKLAHOMA! (155). Magna Th«a. Corp. Oct. '55 

Musicol. (Roadshow engagements only.) From the 

Rodgers ond Hommerstein Broadway stage hit, 

whose musical numbers hove been popular for 

almost a generation. Bockground story depicts 

life and love in the Sooner State while it was still 

a territory. Gordon MocRoe, Gloria Grohome, Gene 

Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, James 

Whttmore, Shirley Jones. Director: Fred Zinnemann, 

(Todd-AO 70mm widescreen process, with six magnetic 

sound tracks; 2-1.)—(CmemoScope version 

will be nationally released by 20th-Fox for 1956-57 

season; RKO now handling CinemoScope version 

in the foreign market.) 

OPICASSO. (50) Von Wolf-Api Prods. 

Documentory. (Itolo-French co-production; English 

narration.) Traces the life and coreer of contemporary 

artist Pablo Picosso, beginning with his 

early paintings ond up to the start of his murol, 

"War and Peace," m 1952. Commentary by Rolf 

Tosno. Director Luciano Emmnr 

FRED FELDKAMP 

1956 

Produced 

"THE SILKEN AFFAIR" 

DAVID NIVEN and 

starring 

GENEVIEVE PAGE 

(RKO Radio World Release) 

1957 

Now Preparing 

7HE MAN ACROSS THE WATER' 

(Tentative 

Title) 

LONDON ADDRESS: 

c The Leslie Frewin Organization Ltd. 

48 Berkeley Square, 

Mayfair, 

W.l. 

Cables: Berkliwin, London 

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PRINCESS CINDERELLA (72) Carroll Picts. 

Fantasy. ( ttahan-made with English-dubbed diolog) 

Recounts the further adventures of Cinderella after 

she and the prince are married. The wicked stepsisters 

get Cinderella banished from the costle and 

the witch tricks her, but the Good Fairy again appears 

and rescues her. Si I vana J ochi no, Roberto 

Villa, Paolo Stoppa, Rosetta Tofono, Mono Pisu. 

Directors: Sergio Tofano {Italian version); Muriel 

Levor (English version). 

©RICHARD III. (162) Lopert Films 

Drama. Bntish-made. Shakespearean drama of the 

evil plottings of a twisted nobleman that changed 

the course of England's history. The wicked 

Richard III is slam in battle as he utters the 

famous lines, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for 

a horse." Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph 

Richardson, Cednc Hardwicke, Claire Bloom. Director: 

Lourence Olivier. (Vista Vision; 2-1 .) 

ROSANNA (72) Jacon Film Distrs. 

Drama. (Mexican-made with English-dubbed dialog. 

Releosed in Europe and Latin America os "The 

Net-") Sordid tale of two robbers, both in love 

with the same girl, who come to grips with each 

other and with the police. Tragedy overtakes the 

trio. Rossona Podesta, Crox Alvorado, Armando 

Silvestre, Antonio Bnbiesca. 

nondez. 

Director: Emilio Fer- 

SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME, THE 

(79) Continental Dist'b'g 

Drama. Bntish-made. Three British officers who 

had fought together, form a smuggling ring using 

the some gunboat they had piloted during the war 

The ship causes them trouble and sinks, as if revolting 

in shame. Richard Attenborough, Bill Owen, 

George Baker, Roland Culver, Virginia McKenna, 

Bernard Lee. Directors: Basil Dearden, Michael 

Relph. Michael Bo Icon Production for J. Arthur 

Rank. (1.66-1)—Note: Running time was cut from 

its original 91 minutes. 

SILENT FEAR. (66) Gibraltar M. P. Distrs. 

Dramo. A girl, believing she has only a short time 

to live, refuses to marry a mine owner who loves 

her and disappears with no explanation. He later 

finds and marries her, and a successful operation 

IS performed. Andrea King, Peter Adams, Henry 

Grandon, Malcolm After bury. Director: Edward L. 

Cahn. 

0SINS OF THE BORGIAS. (97) Aidart Picts. 

Costume Drama. (French-made with English-dubbed 

dialog.) Another film version of the infamous 

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SHORTS 

inOEK 

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ALL-STAR COMEDIES 

Andy Goes Wild 8416 il 7) Apr. 26 

Andy Clyde has double in-law trouble when his 

wife's mother end brother move in and disrupt the 

household. 

Army Daze .. 8415 .. (I6V2) Mor. 22 

Joe Besser, as an army rookie in a mythical kingdom, 

IS surrounded by a beautiful WAC, a tough 

sergeant end a mess of spies. 

Come On Seven . . Feb. 23 

Madcop odventures of Wally Vernon and Eddie 

Qui Hon who decide to visit Reno, to win enough 

money for a little boy's operation. 

He Took o Powder .8412. .(17) Oct. 27, '55 

A merry mixup occurs when Wolly Vernon runs out 

on his bossy wife to follow the footloose ways of 

bachelorhood with his friend, Eddie Quillan. 

Hook o Crook 8413. (16) Nov. 24, '55 

Joe Besser, private eye, trails an escaped gorillo 

with a weakness for diamond necklaces. The 

beast's first victim is a wealthy dowager. 

One Spooky Night . 841 1 . . (1 6) Sept. 1 5, '55 

Andy Clyde proves his bravery to his friends by 

fighting ghosts in o haunted house—after he knows 

the ghosts are gone. 

. 

ASSORTED FAVORITES 

(Reissues) 

8421 Honeymoon Blues (17) Sept. 8, '55 

(Hugh Herbert) 

8422 The Jury Goes Round 'N' Round 

(18) Nov. 10, '55 

(Vera Vague) 

8423 Should Husbands Marry?. (17). . 15, '55 


8424.. Black Eyes and Blue. (I6I/2) Feb. 2 

Roscoe Korns) 

8425, Reno-voted ,(18V2) Mar. 15 

(Vero Vaguej 

8426. Get Along Little Zombie May 17 


CANDID MICROPHONE (Reissues) 

(One-Reel Specials) 

Funt 

With Allen 

Condid Microphone, Series 2, No. 3. .8551 

(11) Sept. 15, '55 

Funt catches his unsuspecting victims by hiding 

his mike and camera in a garage, a bollet school 

and a shirt store. 

Candid Microphone, Series 2, No. 4. .8552 

(IOV2) Dec. 8, '55 

Allen Funt behind a baby counter sells an ex- 

Gsperoted buyer; he makes customers wait while 

he fixes a gooey sundoe; posing as a store owner, 

he questions a floor polisher's bills 

Candid Microphone, Series 2, No. 5 8553 

(11) Jon. 12 

Allen Funt poses as a diner counterman, warning 

customers about the food; next, he is o cutlery 

store manager trying to convince o customer his 

rozor was bought elsewhere. 

Candid Microphone, Series 2, No. 6. .8554 

(IOI/2) Mar. 8 

Funt upsets customers at the gift-wrapping counter 

of o Boston department store; queries passersby 

in front of Boston's State House. 

Candid Microphone, Series 3, No. 1 . .8555 

(11) June 7 

Allen Funt confuses a dry cleaning shop customer, 

cajoles on art store customer, and gets a little girl 

to reveal her secret ambition. 

Condid Microphone, Series 3, No. 2. .8556 

(10) July 5 

This time Funt confuses a woman customer at a 

gadget counter; at a candy shop, he makes with 

"sweet" talk to boost sales. 

CINEMASCOPE CARTOON SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo. 8511 

(7) Feb. 9 

Gerald McBoing-Boing, as Earth's ambassador to 

Mars, converses with the King of Moo in boingaboinga 

talk, which officially becomes the interplonetory 

language. 

Explanatory 

Statistical and summary data on 

the season's short subjects listed 

alphabetically under company 

groupings. Dates are 1956 unless 

otherwise stated. 

PRODUCTION NUMBER immediately 

follows title, except on those 

listed in numerical order by production 

number. 

RUNNING TIME (in parentheses) 

follows production number, or title. 

PROJECTION and SOUND 

SYSTEM are standard, unless 

otherwise stated. 

Symbol ® denotes color photography. 

CINEMASCOPE FEATURETTE SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

April in Portugal . . 

Apr. 20 

Camera follows Jackie Lane on a visit to Portugal, 

where she sees the country's sights end scenery. 

Portugal's top singing star, Amalia, sings title 

tune. Narrator: Trevor Howard. Warwick Production, 

Wonders of Manhattan 8441 (16) Feb. 16 

A day in New York City from sunrise to sunset 

Divided into three segments, each one is introduced 

by George Jessel, with descriptive scenes "narrofed" 

in song by Bill Hayes and a supporting chorus. 

COLOR FAVORITES (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

8601.. Tooth or Consequences (6V2) Sept. 1, '55 

(Fox and Crow) 

8602. .Up 'N' Atom . 

.(6) Oct. 6, '55 

(A big, dumb dog anci a wise little cot.) 

8603 Hot Foot Lights .. (7) Nov. 3, '55 

(A theatre built in a shoe.) 

8604. Rippling Romonce. (8) Nov. 11, '55 

(Two swans.) 

8605. Foxey Flottoots . . (6) Dec. 8, '55 


8606. Cagey Bird. (6'/j) Jan. 2 

(Flippy, the canary.) 

8607 Boston Beanie . . (6) Feb. 2 

(Lavish MacTavish) 

8608 Swiss Tease . . (6) Feb. 23 

(A St. Bernard and a Swiss yodeler.) 

. 

8609 A Peekoolyar Sitcheeayshun 

(Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae) 

15 

861 Phoney Baloney . . (7) Apr. 5 


8611 Pickled Puss .(6I/2) Apr. 19 

(Mr. Mouse and Sir Cat) 

8612 The Uncultured Vulture. . (SVi) ^"Y "> 

(The vulture and the professor.) 

861 3 Be Patient, Potient . . (7) June 7 


8614 Loco Lobo. (6) June 21 

(Wolf vs. Rabbit) 

8615. .Woodman, Sparc Thot Tree. .l.7Vl)- July '2 

'Fox and Crow) 

COMEDY FAVORITES 

8431 . 

(Reissues) 

My Lamb Chop. (17). . 13, '55 

(Gus Schilling and Richard Lone) 

8432 Rodio Romeo .. (I7I/2) Dec. 1, '55 

(Horry Von Zcll) 

8433 Wedlock Deadlock (16) Dec. 29, '55 

(Joe De Rita) 

8434 Microspook (16) Mar. 1 

(Horry Von Zell) 

8435. Flung By a Fling. (16) Apr. 12 

(Gus Schilling and Richord Lane) 

8J36 Socks Appcol (I7V2) June 21 

MR 

MAGOO 

(Technicolor) 

Stoge Door Magoo 8701 (7) Oct. 6, '55 

The neor-sighted Magoo as a spear-carrying opera 

star, Y\ab the stage in complete chaos but makes 

a hit with the audience 

MR. MAGOO CINEMASCOPE SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

Colling Dr. Magoo .. (6I/2) . '^"V " 

Magoo, on his way to visit a tnond in the hospitai, 

blunders his way oboord on ocean liner, upsets the 

crew and mistakes the passengers for patients. 

Magoo Beats the Heat . 

. (6) June 21 

Magoo mistakes o desert for the beach and o prospector 

miitokes Magoo for a mirage, ending in 

confusion for both of them. 

Magoo Goes West . . 8753 . . (6) Apr. 1 

Mogoo starts for California in his old car, gets 

mixed up, as usual, finally crashes into a Florido 

poster and thinks he is in sunny Col. 

Magoo Makes News. .8751 .. (6) Dec. IS, '55 

Magoo walks into a newspaper press room to complain 

about a light bill, and gets tangled up in 

a press run. 

Magoo's Canine Mutiny. .8752. .(61/2) Mor. 8 

Magoo mistakes a criminal for a dog, tokes him 

home on a leash, and pandemonium is unleashed 

when the cops close in. 

Magoo's Puddle Jumper (6I/2) 

. . 

•'"Iv 26 

Magoo takes his nephew Waldo for a drive-test 

in an old electric cor and drives underwater offer 

making a wrong turn. 

SCREEN SNAPSHOTS 

8851 Hollywood Bronc Busters. . (9). Sept. 22, '55 

Jack Lemmon watches on old western short starring 

oldfime cowboy actors.) 

8852. The Great Al Jol5on..(11) Oct. 20, '55 

(Roys tribute to Al Jolson and presents other 

famous singers and stor personalities.) 

8853. Hollywood Premiere .. (10) Nov. 17, '55 

(Cornel Wilde emcees, presenting a host of movie 

celebrities.) 

8854 Ramblin' 'Round Hollywood 

(101 2) "^'^ '*' '** 

(Ken Murray turns bock the pages of film history 

for o look Qt oldtime screen favorites.) 

8855 .. Hollywood Goes A-Fishin'. . (10'/2) . . . . Jan. 19 

(As emcees together, Dana Andrews and director 

Fritz Long present screen personohties who like 

to fish.) 

8856 Hollywood Smoll Fry.dl) Feb. 23 

(Jane Withers shows her children o Snapshots reel 

of herself 15 years ago at o kid party for Hollywood 

youngsters.) 

8857 Hollywood, City of Stors ..(9) Mor. 22 

[Shows the Photoplay Magazine Awards presented 

several years ago at a Hollywood dinner.) 

8858 Playtime in Hollywood .. (9) May 3 

(Top stars are shown engaging in o Softball 

chority gome.) 

8859 Mr. Rhythm's Holiday . (9) June 14 

(The "premiere" opening of Frankie Lame's antique 

shop, complete with Hollywood stars.) 

8860 Fobulous Hollywood. (10) July 5 

Jack Carson emcees this tribute to the late Fred 

Allen by movieland's great stars.) 

STOOGE COMEDIES 

Blunder Boys .. 8403 .. (16) Nov. 3, '55 

The Stooges, as private eyes, hunt o gunman dis- 

BOXOFFICE 155

Louis 

. Fronkie 

, 8804 

. 8805 

(10) 

(16) 

Professor 

. Smorty 

. Pecos 

The 

. Cellboiind 

. Kitty 

Lucky 

. Mouse 

Goggle 

House 

Doggone 

Counterfeit 

, 8806 

P-772 

P-773 

P-771 

.(10). 

(11) 

(10) 

. Dec. 

Oct. 

How 

. Boo 

Mousieur 

. Rabbit 

. Popeye 

.'Toin't 

Pedro 

. Rl 

. Rl 

. (7) , . . . Sept. 

guised as a woman. Trail leads to a ladies' Turkish 

both. 

Creeps. ,8405. .(16) Feb. 2 

In which the Stooges tangle with the ghost of a 

knight-in-armor in o hounted castle. 

Flogpole Jitters. .8406. .(16) Apr. 5 

The Stooges, while putting up theatre posters, are 

"used" by a hypnotist to detract police and public 

while his gang of crooks rob a safe. 

For Crimin' Out Loud. .8407. .(16) Moy 3 

As detectives the Stooges literally knock themselves 

out, as well as their client, while "soving" 

the latter from mobsters. 

Hot Ice .8402. (I6I/2) Oct. 6. '55 

As detectives, one of the Stooges almost get^ 

operated on—^by crooks—when he retrieves a stolen 

gem, then accidentally swallows it. 

Husbands Beware. ,8404. .(16) Jon. 5 

Two of the Stooges blame the third one for their 

hen-pecked marriages, and trick him into marrying 

an ugly girl for her supposed fortune. 

Rumpus in the Harem. .8408. (16) June 21 

The Stooges rescue three cuties from the Sultan's 

harem, and tangle with poloce cutthroats. 

Whom-Bom-Slam!. .8401 . Sept. 1, '55 

When one of the Stooges gets sick, the other two 

almost kill him trying to cure him. 

THRILLS OF MUSrC 

(Reissues) 

8951 . Prima and Orchestra. (10). Sept. 22, '55 

With songs by Keeley Smith and commentary by 

disc jockey Jack Eigen. 

8952 Buddy Rich and Orchestra 

(IOI/2) Nov. 10, '55 

With vocolist Betty Bonney and dancer Steve 

Condos. 

8953 .Chorlie Spivok ond Orchestro 

(10) Dec. 22, '55 

With emcee Barry Gray, vocalists Tommy Lynn and 

Irene Doye. 

8954 . Carle and Orchestro . . 

(9) . . . . Feb. 9 

With emcee Barry Gray, and singers Jerry Wayne 

and Marjorie Hughes. 

8955, .Miguelito Voldes and Orchestra. .(10). .Apr. 12 

With emcee Barry Gray, and the De Castro Sisters. 

8956. Ina Ray Hutton ond Orchestro .. (9) . .June 14 

Hutton leads her all-male combo while disc jockey 

Barry Gray handles the introductory chores. 

U.P.A. ASSORTED 

(Technicolor) 

Christopher Crumpet's Pfaymote . . 8501 

(6 V2) Sept. 8, '55 

Christopher's Imaginary elephant playmate almost 

costs his dad an office promotion until the boss 

reveals that he, too, has an imaginary pet hyena. 

Joywolker, The. .8503. .{6V2) May 31 

Milton Muffet, new cartoon character, demonstrates 

the dangers of jaywalking, as well as the need for 

safe driving. 

Rise of Duton Lang, The. .8502. .(6V2}. 

. Dec. 1, '55 

A near 500-pound scientist invents a reducing 

powder which makes him so light he is carried 

away by a breeze. 

WORLD OF SPORTS 

(Commentaries by Bill Stern) 

Florida Fin-Antics . . . 

(9) Feb. 23 

Dolphin fishing on a palatial yacht off coast of 

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the waters of Bahia Mar. 

Nassau Holiday. .8807. .(91/3) May 24 

A camera visit to the Caribbean vacation paradise, 

with glimpses of a fashion show, water-skiing, 

sailing, tennis-playing and a unique pony race. 

Navy All-American . . . (9) Mar. 1 

Camera follows George Welsh, Navy's AM-Amencan 

quarterback, through his morning chores at the 

Annapolis Acodemy—and onto the football field. 

Rodeo Daredevils. .8808. .(9) June 21 

Gene Autry and his famous horse. Champion, head 

list of top rodeo performers who do the usual 

bronco busting, calf roping and fancy riding exhibitions. 

Stable Stakes. .8801 . 

Sept. 29, '55 

Trainer Harry Trotsek, of the famed Hasty House 

Stables, in behind-the-scene shots of thoroughbred 

racing, winding up with the Widener Handicap 

race in which Trotsek's horse wins. 

Swing, Rosslin' 'n' Sock. .8803. .(91/2) Feb. 2 

Abe Stein and Stu Hart demonstrate the latest 

wrestling holds on the "cauliflower ear" circuit. 

Ten-Pin Wizards. .8809. .(8V2) July 5 

Comedian Buddy Hackett supplies the laughs and 

pin-man champ Ned Day the skill. 

Thri.ling Chills, .8802. .(10) Nov. 10, '55 

Winter sports at Alex Foster's famous ski club in 

Canada's Laurentian Mountains, Included are dog 

sled racing, ski-jumping ond figure ice-skating. 

. 

. 

Trotting Topnctchers 

The raising and training 

. (9) 

of a trotter and 

Apr. 26 

finally 

the horse's big race. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

W-741 Designs on Jerry (7) Sept. 2, '55 

(Tom and Jerry) Up to 1.75-1. 

W-742 The First Bod Mon (7) Sept. 30, '55 

. 

(Tex Avery) Up to 1.75-1. 

W-743 . Cot (7) Oct. 14, '55 

(Tom and Jerry) 

W-744. .Deputy 

Up to 1.75-1. 

Droopy. .(7) Oct. 28, '55 


W-745 . Pest . (7) Nov. 11, '55 

1.75-1. 

. . . (7) 



W-746 

Up to 

Nov. 25, '55 

. (7) 

CINEMASCOPE CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

C-731 Tom ond Cherie 


(7) Sept. 9, '55 

C-732..Good Will to Men.. (8) Dec. 23, '55 

(Christmas Cartoon) 

Mommy. C-733. That's 

(Tom and 

My 

Jerry) 

(6) Nov. 19, '55 

C-734. The Egg and Jerry. 


(8) Mor. 23 

C-735 The Flying 

. Sorceress 

Jerry) 

(Tom and 

Jan. 27 

C-736. Busy Buddies 


(7) May 4 

GOLD MEDAL REPRINT CARTOONS 

Jon. 6 

. 

(Technicolor) 

W-761 . Invisible Mouse. .(7) Sept. 16, '55 


W-762. .King-Size Canary.. (8) Oct. 21, '55 


W-763 . Foiled . . (7) 


W-764. What Price Fleadom . . 

(7) 


Nov. 1 8, '55 

Dec. 2, '55 

W-765. The Truce Hurts. (8) Dec. 16, '55 

Jerry) (Tom and to Up 1.75-1. 

W-766. Old Rockin' Choir 

(Tom and Jerry) Up to 

W-767 . Ducky . . (7) 

Tom. 

1.75-1. 

(7). . . Dec. 30, '55 


W-768..Cot That Hated People.. (7) Jon. 20 

(Tex 

W-769 

Avery) Up to 1.75-1. 

Tom . . (8) Feb. 3 


W-770 . Cleaning 

Up to 1.75-1. 

. . (7) 


Feb. 17 

Fishing Bear. .(7) Mar. 2 

Mor. 1 

(Barney 

W-772 

. 

Bear) Up 

of 

to 1.75-1. 

Tomorrow . . (7) 

W-771 . 


W-773 . Tired . . (8) Apr. 

1.75-1. 

. Cot . . (7) 

(Tex 

W-774 

Avery) Up to 

Apr. 

6 

27 


PASSING PARADE 

(Reissues) 

Boron and the Rose, The . . Feb. 10 

Story behind the custom which goes back to Colonial 

days of o Mannheim, Pa., church which pays 

on annual rent of a single red rose. George Tobias 

stars. (Up to 1.75-1.) 

Goodbye, Miss Turlock . . P-774 ..(10) Apr. 20 

Former pupils who made good are shown with Miss 

Turlock, a retired school teocher who represents the 

almost extinct group of country teachers who made 

little red school houses famous in bygone days. 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

Stairway to Light .. P-77S .. (10) June 1 

Story of the French doctor, Philippe Pinel, who 

headed a hospital for the insane in the 1790s, 

brmging humane kindness for the first time to 

those unfortunates who hod previously been 

treated as animals. (Up to 1.75-1.) 

. 

Story of Dr. Jenner, The. . . 9, '55 

Tells how Dr. Jenner, on English country physician, 

who, in the face of superstitious opposition, controlled 

smallpox plague in Europe some years 

ago. (Up to 1.75-1.) 

Story That Couldn't Be Printed, The. . P-776 

(11) July 6 

Story of a little printer named Zenger, whose pre- 

Revolutionary triol for a free press laid the foundation 

for free speech and press today. (Up to 1.75-1.) 

Thot Mothers Might Live. . . . 7, '55 

Dramatizotion of Dr. Semmelweiss's battle to cure 

child-bed fever. (Up to 1,75-1.) 

ROBERT BENCHLEYS 

(Reissues) 

B-721 How to Sleep. (11) Sept. 23, '55 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

B-722 A Night at the Movies .. (7) .... Nov. 4, '55 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

B-723. See Your Doctor. (8) Jan. 13 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

B-724. Courtship of the Newt. (8) Mor. 9 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

B-725 . to Sublet . . (8) May 11 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

B-726. Mental Poise. (7) June 15 

(Up to 1.75-1.) 

SPECIAL FEATURETTE 

OWedding in Monaco, The .. 630 .. (32) Moy 18 

Co or Documentary. Opens with aerial shots of 

the toy kingdom of Monaco, shows the royal welcome 

accorded Miss Kelly on her arrival, and the 

civil and religious wedding ceremonies uniting her 

and Prince Rainier. Produced by Citel Monaco, by 

arrangements with Prince Rainier III. (CinemaScope, 

Perspecta sound; 2.55-1.) 

Paramount 

CARTOON CHAMPIONS (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

. (7) Sept. 30, 

S15-1 The Mite Mokes Right (8) Sept. 30, '55 

SI 5-2 The Old Shell Gome (7) Sept. 30, '55 

SI 5-3 The Little Cut Up (6) Sept. 30, '55 

SI 5-4 Hep Cot Symphony (6) Sept. 30, '55 

SI 5-5 Little Red School Mouse . 30, '55 

SI 5-6 Leprechoun's Gold (10) Sept. 30, '55 

'55 

SI 5-7 Quock-A-Doodle Doo . 

S15-8 Teacher's Pest 

. (7) 

(7) 

Sept. 30, 

Sept. 30, '55 

S15-9 Torts ond Flowers .. (7) Sept. 30, '55 

(Little Audrey) 

515-10 Pleased to Eat You (6) Sept. 30, '55 

'55 

Goofy Goofy Gander . SI 5-1 1 . 

(Little Audrey) 

515-12. Soved By the Bell. (6) Sept. 30, '55 

CASPER CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

. (6) 

B15-1 . Red, White and Boo. .(6) Oct. 21, '55 

Bl 5-2 . Kind to Animals . . (6) Dec. 23, '55 

(Spunky, the little mule, is introduced.) 

81 5-3 Ground Hog Ploy . 

B15-4 Dutch Treat. (6) 

Feb. 10 

Apr. 20 

81 5-5 .. Penguin for Your Thoughts . .(7) .... June 15 

81 5-6 .. Line of Scream moge .. (6) . Aug. 17 

GRANTLAND RICE SPORTLIGHTS 

Animal-Sports Quiz . S-3 . . (9) Feb. 3 

The audience is asked to Identify various animals 

and birds which ore shown in their natural habitats. 

Carolina Court Champs. .R15-5. .(10) Mar, 16 

Features one of the top ranking national basketball 

teams—from Carolina State College. Known 

as the Wolfpock, these toll men from Raleigh are 

shown in action. 

Men Who Con Take If. .R15-6. .(9) June 22 

Men in the Strategic Air Command ore shown on 

a training mission flight in a jet bomber. Illustrates 

the tough life these men lead. 

Nation of Athletes, A .R15-2..(9) Nov. 18, '55 

Spectacular scenes of moss calisthenics and games 

in Switzerland. In Zurich a gymnastic festival is 

viewed, in which 25,000 contestants, including 

I 1,000 girls, take part. 

Sporting Dogs Afield .. R15-1 .. (9) Oct. 7, '55 

Shots of various breeds of hunting dogs, including 

the Springer Spaniel, Chesapeake Retriever, Pointers 

and Beagles, ore shown as they track their quarry. 

. Winter Wonder Troiis 5-4 . . (9) Apr. 1 

Outdoor winter sports, including skiing in New 

England's Green Mountains; also seen is o Montona 

training center where Husky dogs are taught rescue 

work. 

HERMAN AND KATNIP 

(Technicolor Cartoons) 

H15-1 . Herman.. (6) Nov. 25, 'S'S 

HI 5-2. Mouseum. (6) Feb. 24 

H15-3. Will Do Mousework. .{6) June 29 

H15-4. Mousetro Herman.. (6) Aug. 10 

NOVELTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

PI 5-1 . Punch . . (6) Sept. 30, '55 

(Tommy Tortoise, Michael Hare) 

P15-2 Little Audrey Riding Hood .. (6) . Oct. 14, '55 

(Littio Audrey) 

PI 5-3 Kitty Cornered. (6) Dec. 30, '55 

(Kitty Cuddles, new cartoon character.) 

PI 5-4 Sleuth But Sure , . (6) Mar. 23 

(Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare) 

PI 5-5 Swob the Duck. (6) 

(Baby Huey Duck) 

May 11 

PI 5-6 . 

and Lorenzo . . (6) July 13 

(A Mexican boy and his tiny bull.) 

POPEYE CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

E15-1 Mister and Mistletoe. (6) Sept. 30, '55 

E15-2 Cops Is Tops (6V2) Nov. 4, '55 

El 5-3 A Job for o Gob (6) Dec. 9, '55 

E15-4. Hill Billing and Cooing .. (6) Jan. 13 

El 5-5 

, for President. . (6) Apr. 6 

El 5-6 Out to Punch (6) June 8 

E15-7. Assault ond Flattery .. (6) July 6 

E15-8 Insect to Injury. (6) Aug. 10 

. (9) Sept. 30, 

SPEAKING OF ANIMALS, CHAMPIONS 

(Reissues) 

A15-1 . So. (10) Sept. 30, '55 

'55 

A1 5-2 Monkey Shines . 


Dore Scha ry 

BOXOFFICE 157


Musical 

(10) 

(10) 

Mar. 

64,207 

. 64,301 

. 64,21 

64,205 

.64,209 

. 7603-4 

(ISVj) 

(15) 

A15-3 Be Kind to Animals (8) Sept. 30, '55 

AlS-4 From A to Zoo (9) Sept. 30, '55 

TOPPERS 

Animals a lo Corte M15-3. (10) Jan. 27 

Animals and birds at play and ot feeding time in 

zoological gardens and in the wilds. Their preferred 

foods and diets are explained. 

Herman Hickmon's Football Review. .Ml 5-6 

(10) Aug. 24 

Herman Hickmon shows how he selected the nation's 

10 top football teams of 1955, ond presents 

highlights of the games. 

Reunion in Poris .M15-2 (10) Nov. 11, '55 

A veteran revisits with his wife the scenes of his 

World War II days. Shown are the ruins of the 

Normandy beachhead, and restorations being made. 

There's Gold in Them Thrills. .M15-4. (10) . 9 

Comprised of film clips, this shows the hazardous, 

OS well as zany, occupations from which people 

eorn their livelihood. 

Three Kisses. Ml 5-1 (10) Oct. 17, '55 

An Irish lad, proficient ot hurling, Ireland's national 

Sport, is invited to play on the famous Cork 

team. He wins the gome and a kiss from his girl. 

Ups ond Downs .M15-S. (9) Moy 4 

Sheep flocks make their way to high summer pastures 

in Montana; men climb high mountain peaks, 

while others risk their lives by riding dangerous 

rapids in Colorado. 

VISTAVISION SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

Bing Presents Oreste V15-1 . July 1 

Bmg Crosby introduces Oreste, foreign tenor starred 

in "The Vagabond King," Poramount's VistaVision 

feature. Oreste sings two operatic arias and a 

populor song. 

VistoVision Visits Gibraltar .. V15-3 .. (10) Aug. 3 

Britain's Rock of Gibroltar is revealed as a busy 

transportation center and a central commercial oir 

base, as well as a scenic tourist spot. 

VistaVision Visits Panoma . . V15-2. . . . . . June 29 

Views of Panama City, the operation of the Panama 

Canal, and the city of Balboa. 

RKO Radio 

BROWN-KIRKWOOD COMEDIES 

(Reissues) 

63.601 . Heart Troubles. (16) Sept. 30, '55 

[Wally Brown, Jack Kirkwood) 

63.602 Put Some Money in the Pot 

(17) Nov. 4, '55 

(Wallv Brown, Jack Kirkwood) 

DISNEY CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

54.1 1 6 Chips Ahoy (7) Feb. 24 

(D-inald Duck, Chip 'n' Dale) In CinemaScope. 

54.117 Hooked Bear. (6) Apr. 27 

(Humphrey Bear) In CinemaScope. 

54,1 1 8 . In the Boq (8) July 27 

(Humphrey Bear) In CinemaScope. 

EDGAR KENNEDY COMEDIES 

(Reissues) 

63.501 No More Relatives. (18) Sept. 16, '55 

63.502 How to Clean House.. (18) Oct. 21, '55 

63.503 Dig That Gold. (17) Nov. 25, '55 

63.504 Contest Craiy..(17) Dec. 30, '55 

GIL LAMB COMEDIES 

(Reissues) 

63.301 Groan and Grunt (17) Sept. 23, '55 

63.302 Bashful Romeo. (16) Oct. 28, '55 

LEON ERROL COMEDIES 

(Reissues) 

63.701 Wife Tames Wolf (17) Sept. 9, '55 

63.702 Dad Always Pays. (18) Oct. 14, '55 

63.703 The Spook Speaks (19) Nov. 18, '55 

63.704 In Room 303 (17) Dec. 23, '55 

MY PAL 

(Reissues) 

63,201 Dog of the Wild . . (21 ) Oct. 7, '55 

(Gory Gray and "Flame") 

63,202. Pal, Canine Detective .. (22) .. Nov. 11, '55 

(Gary Gray and "Flome") 

RAY WHITLEY 

(Reisues) 

63,401 . Bandit. .(16) Oct. 28, '55 

(Ray Whitley and his Six-Bar Cowboys, Virginia 

Vale, John Dillon, Lloyd Ingraham, Jane Kigley, 

Jock Rice.) 

63,402. Bar Buckaroos. .(16) Dec. 2, '55 

(Roy Whitley and his Six-Bar Cowboys, Merska 

Aldrich, Jane Patten, Glen Strange.) 

SCREENLINERS 

Black Cats and Broomsticks. .64,202. (8). Oct. 14, '55 

Pet superstitions that haunt even the most intelligent 

Americans— there is the hormless kind, and 

fhc block magic type that can be dangerous. 

. Emergency Doctor 

Story of the 

. . (8) 

drama behind the scenes in 

Juno 

the 

22 

doily 

activities of on ombulonce crew. 

Fortune Seekers 64,206 (8) Feb. 3 

Story ot American inventors and inventions, and 

how fortunes have been reaped from such commonploce 

items os zippers, tea bags, bobby pins, 

poper clips, bottle caps, et cetera. 

Gold 64,201 . (11) Sept. 16, '55 

Modern gold mining methods in the Yukon Territory 

of Canado, where giont dredges do the work, 

tearing down 30 to 40 feet below into bedrock 

bottom. (Not released in Conodo.) 

Her Honor, the Nurse . . . (8) Jan. 6 

Deals with the current nurse shortage, and portrays 

through the story of one nurse the honor 

and gratification to be derived from a nursing 

career. 

Low and the Lab, The 64,21 2 . . (8) July 

How police science labs todoy are moking it 

20 

more 

difficult for law-breakers by supplying positive 

evidence that breaks even the most difficult crime 

cases. 

Moke Mine Memories. 64,203. (8) Nov. 11, '55 

Two oldtime flickers are seen: (1) "The Man in Her 

Past" (or "Return of the Varmint"), storring Harry 

Carey and Blanche Sweet; (2) "The Prospector's 

Daughter" (or "She Relented ot Last"), starring 

Blanche Sweet. 

Merchandise Mort, The . . .(8) Apr. 27 

Development of Chicago's colossal wholesale shopping 

building, from its beginning as a tiny trading 

post to its present position as the world's largest 

merchandise building. 

Phonies Beware!. .64,210. (8) May 25 

Painstaking work of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 

in protecting the health of America and in 

exposing frauds who try to dupe the public. 

Teenagers on Trial. .64,204. .(8) Dee. 9, '55 

How a small American town deolt with the juvenile 

delinquency menace when tragedy struck its community. 

We Never Sleep . . . (8) Mar. 2 

History of the famous Pinkerton detective agency 

and how they solved several of the most difficult 

criminal cases. 

Where Is June Doe? 64,208. (8) Mar. 30 

How the Missing Persons Bureau traced o girl who 

was thought to have committed suicide, but whom 

they happily found working as a model. 

SPECIALS 

Future Is Now, The 63,101 (15) Sept. 9, '55 

A preview of some of tomorrow's fantastic developments 

of inventions science will hove in several 

fields, including television, kitchen gadgets and 

color motion pictures recorded on tope (not film). 

Golden Equator, The. 63,104. (13) Mar. 30 

Life and industry in Ecuador, featuring road construction, 

Panoma hot manufacturing, churches virtually 

of solid gold and silver, and the banana 

industry. 

Golden Glamour. .63,102. .(15) Oct. 14, '55 

Tells why and how America's luxury items can be 

sold at moderate prices, with emphasis on the evolution 

of gold metol used in modern jewelry 

creations. 

Sentinels in the Air 63,103. (15) Feb. 10 

U. S. Air Force reservists around the country ottend 

courses at their Reserve centers to keep up with the 

latest operational techniques, in case of a national 

emergency. 

SPORTSCOPES 

Bonefish and Barracuda 64,303. (8). . . Oct. 28, '55 

Lee Wulff, world-famous angler sportsmen, is 

shown OS he fishes at Andros Town, off the Florido 

coast, in the Bohamo Isles, tockling bonefish and 

a giant borracuda. 

Canadian Carnival 64,304 (8) Nov. 25, '55 

A sports festival is port of the celebration of Canada's 

Mordi Gras time in old Quebec, where fun 

and mirth prevoil. 

Canadian Lancers . . 64,308 . . (8) Mar. 16 

A riding group of Halifax, Nova Scotio, children 

modeled after India's Bengal Lancers, display their 

equestrian skills. 

Four Minute Fever .64,31 1 . (8) June 8 

Clips of outstanding milers' efforts to break the 

4-minute record, from Paavo Nurmi's day (in the 

early '20s) to the present when John Landy set o 

new record. 

Game Warden . . . (8) Sept. 2, '55 

The daily life and routine duties of a gome warden 

who not only upholds the law but protects both 

human life and wildlife. 

Gym College 64,302 (Si Sept. 3C, 'il^ 

Under Ihcir famous gymnastic cooch, l,r Har'!-jv 

Price, the Seminoles, on outstanding coiieoât-j 

gymnastics squod at Florida Univcrsilv in Toli.jhosssce, 

demonstrotc their skilK 

Hcadpin Hints . . 64,305 . . (8) Dec. 23, 

Features two young champion bowlers, Sylvia 

'55 

Weno 

ond Lee Juglard, who put on on exhibition of some 

seemingly impossible trick shots. 

Island Windjammers .64,306. (8) Jan. 20 

The onnual Bohoma Out-Island Regotta, held ot 

Georgetown, 175 miles seaward from Nossou. Here 

expert small work-boat sailors vie for the cash 

racing prize. 

Races to Remember. .64,310 ..(8) May 11 

Re-creates some great races of the post and the 

grcot horses that porticipoted in them. 

Ski-Flying . . 64,307 (8) Feb. 17 

Features a new skiing cape invention by o Viennese 

professor, and Yugoslovio's annual ski-flying 

contest 

Striper Time 64,309 .. (8'/i) Apr. 13 

Boot ond surf fishermen seek the striped boss from 

Cuttyhunk to Hotteras and from the mouth of the 

Columbia River to the Golden Gate. 

SPORT SPECIALS 

(Two-Reel Block-ond-White) 

Basketball Headliners 63,801 Apr. 

. 

27 

Shots of the Notional Invitational Tournament 

gomes, including Niagara vs. St. Francis and others, 

ending with Dayton vs. Louisville. Features such 

All-Americons as Bill Russell of San Francisco, 

Sihugo Green of Duquesne, Tom Heinsohn of Holy 

Cross and Willie Nauls of UCLA. (Not released rn 

Canada.) 

Football Headliners. .63,901 Dee. 

. 9, '55 

Many major bowl contenders and All-Americons of 

1955 ore seen in action. Some of the gomes covered 

ore Oklohomo vs. Texas, Michigan State vs. Notre 

Dome, Notre Dome vs. Novy, Princeton vs. Yole, 

Ohio State vs. Michigan, and Army-Navy. 

WILDLIFE ALBUM 

(Technicolor) 

Whitetoil Buck, The 63,001. (271.,,) Oct. 21, '55 

A hunter and his young son stalk the whitetail 

deer in the mountains of Virginia, where the animals 

ore protected under state game lows. Also 

seen ore squirrels, raccoons, beover, grouse ond 

other gome varieties. Norrated by Thomas Mitchell. 

20th Century-Fox 

CINEMASCOPE SPECIALS 

(Color)—Two Reels 

©Dork Wove, The 7609-1 (23) June 

Technicolor Featurette. Re-enacts the cose history 

of an epileptic girl whose social ond emotionol 

development is threatened by wrong adult attitudes. 

Cornell Borchers, Charles Bickford, Noncy Davis. 

Produced by John Heoly, in cooperation with Variety 

Club Foundation to Combat Epilepsy, oil rental 

proceeds going to the Foundation. 

©Land of the Bible 7608-3. (21) Apr. 

De Luxe Color Featurette. Story of the Holy Lond 

—shnne of three great religions. Presents a study 

of Israel and its growth as a nation, its people, 

progress and industries. 

CINEMASCOPES 

(Color)—One Reel 

©Adventure in Capri . 

. 

. (9) Feb. 

De Luxe Color. Picturesque Capri—the island off 

the coast of Italy visited yearly by thousands of 

tourists 

©Corioca Cornivol 7523-4. . (9) Nov. '55 

De Luxe Color. Camera tour of Rio de Janeiro in 

Brozil, showing its scenic spots, architecture, londmarks, 

Mordi Gros celebration and religious ceremonies. 

©Clear the Bridge 7513-5. (10) Oct. '55 

De Luxe Color. Life aboord a submarine, showing 

its daily routine; newest atomic submarine development 

IS glimpsed. 

©Cowboys of the Maremma. .7607-5. (9) June 

De Luxe Color. Cowboys of central Itoly ore shown 

as they start the work of breaking a wild horse 

herd. 

©Honeymoon Paradise. .7606-7. .(9) 

Aug. 

De Luxe Color. Features various popular scenic 

honeymoon spots, including Niagara Falls, Loke 

Louise in the Canadian Rockies and Sun Valley, 

Idaho. 

©Hunters of the Sea . . 7605-9 . . (9) Moy 

De Luxe Color. Fishing at a tiny Itolion isle, where 

fishermen use both nets and modern weapons to 

capture o sea turtle, a sturgeon, and a stingaree. 

©Lady of the Golden Door. .7601-8. .(9) Jan. 

De Luxe Color. Title refers to the Statue of Liberty. 

Shows various areas throughout the U.S. where 

immigrants have settled. 

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.Ralph 

Oceans 

The 

Good 

Lucky 

. Flying 

2677 

.7602-6 

Mr. 

Brooklyn 

. The 

Colling 

Play 

Wet 

Niagara 

Scroppy's 

2601 

Apr. 

Doggone 

Mousemerized 

. Robbitson 

. 3223 

.3104. 

3105 

. 3220 

(18) 

©Pigskin Peewees 7604-2. (9) July 

De Luxe Color. Miniature football teams in several 

states are shown as ttiey play near-regulation football 

in standard uniforms, with music bands and 

cheerleaders, like the grownup teams. 

©Quean's Guard 7S25-9 (17) Dec. 'SS 

Technicolor. Steps in the trainino of recruits in the 

Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace, as well as 

the daily ceremonial of Changing of the Guard, 

©Thoroughbred Is Born, A . . . (9) Mar. 

De Luxe Color. Shows o thoroughbred from birth 

to Its first winning race. Seen also are famous 

Derby winners of the past. 

©Water Wizordry 7S22-6. .(7) Oct. 'SS 

De Luxe Cofor. Features the Cypress Gardens in 

Florida, where beautiful girls engage in unique 

water skiing exhibitions. 

. 

. 

. 

TERRYTOON-CINEMASCOPES 

(Technicolor) 

5534-3 The Little Red Hen (7) Oct. '55 

5631-7. Pork Avenue Pussycat . .(7) Jan. 

5632-5 Uranium Blues (7) Feb. 

5633-3 Deed Dolv in Scouts to the Rescue 

(7) Mar. 

S634-1 of Love (7) Apr. 

5635-8 Dog (7) May 

5636-6. .Clancy the Bull in Police Dogged. .(7). .June 

S637-4 The Brove Little Brave. (7) July 

5638-2.. Good Deed Daly in Cloak and Stagger 

(7) Aug. 

TERRYTOON TOPPERS (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

5605-1 . Wolfs Pardon. (7) May 

5606-9 . Felix the Fox . (7) June 

5607-7 The Lyin' Lion (7) July 

5608-5 Point Pot Symphony 

5609-3 The Kitten Sitter 

. (7) 

. (7) 

Aug. 

Sept. 

561 0-1 . Cups ond Saucers . . (7) Oct. 

5611-9 One Note Tony (7) Nov. 

5612-7 Mystery in the Moonlight .. (7) Dec. 

. . 

Mar. 

. . Apr. 

TERRYTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

5601-0 The Clockmaker's Dog 

5602-8. The Tolking Magpies in 

(7) Jon. 

Miami Maniocs 

(7) Feb. 

^Heckle and Jeckle) 

5603-6 Hep Mother Hubbard 

5604-4. Terry Beors in Battling 

(7) 

Bunnies. (7). 


CINEMASCOPE FEATURETTE 

(Technicolor) 

Nat "King" Cole Musical Story, The. 2600 

(18) Dee. 27, '55 

Highlights the career of the singing star of TV, 

nightclubs and records. Cole switched from musician 

to vocalist with great success. 

COLOR PARADE 

Blue Coast. .2673. (9) Feb. 20 

Shots of the coast of Cote D'Azur, which stretches 

along the Mediterranean from Nice to Menton, and 

includes Prince of Monaco's kingdom; glimpses of 

the Casino at Monte Carlo; a Nice street carnival. 

Fighters of the Lokes. .2672. (9) Jan. 16 

Fishing for pike at Bosswood Lake in northern 

Minnesota; a prize muskellunge catch at Teal Lake 

in Wisconsin, 

Hula Happy 2678 (9) Oct. 22 

A comera tour of the Hawaiian Islands. 

Invitation to New York .2676. (91/2) July 2 

New York as seen through the eyes of several viewers, 

each with a different impression. Norrator: 

Conrad Nagel. 

Melbourne, Olympic City .2675 .. (9) May 7 

Shots of Melbourne, Australia, in preparation for 

the 1956 summer Olympic games that were staged 

there, (In CinemoScope,) 

On the Boardwalk . . . (9) Aug. 6 

The famed resort of Atlantic City, with its beaches, 

hotels «nd night spots. (In CinemoScope.) 

Pacific Sports. .2671 . 

(8) Nov. 21, '55 

A camera tour of the Orient with glimpses of 

athletic and sporting events of the For East, 

Queens of Beauty. .2674. (10) Apr. 9 

Beautiful girls from many nations compete for 

title of "Miss Universe of 1956" at Long Beach, 

Colif. Both 1956 and 1955 winners are featured. 

MUSICAL FEATURETTES 

2651 . Marterie ond His Orchestra 

(15) Nov. 21, '55 

With vocalists Steve Lawrence, Bill Walters, Eydie 

Gorme, and the Hi-Los. 

2652. Melodies by Martin. .(16) Dec. 26, '55 

Freddy Martin ond His Orchestra, with Happy Jesters 

Singing Trio, vôrbler Marion Colby ond drummer 

Buddy Rich. 

2653 , . Lionel Hampton and Herb Jeffries 

(15) Jon. 23 

With The Hampton vocal quartette, and singers 

Herb Jeffries, Vicky Lee ond Loray White, 

2654 The Tennessee Plowboy. (13) Feb. 27 

With singer Eddy Arnold, harmonizers Cynthia 

Patrick, Jane Howard, Colleen McClotchey, and 

vocalist Gogi Grant. 

2655 Around the World Revue.. (16) Mar. 19 

Talented artists around the world render popular 

songs of different countries. Music of Eddie Grady 

and the Commanders. 

2656. The Mills Brothers on Parade (16). . 23 

With singers Jona Mason, Chuck Nelson and Gogi 

Grant. 

2657. Cool and Groovy. (15) May 21 

Rock-'n'-Roll music with singer Anita O'Doy, the 

Hl-Los, Tune Jesters and other top entertainers. 

2658. Rhythms With Rusty. .(15) June 25 

Recording star Rusty Draper with singers De Castro 

Sisters, Amin Brothers and Margaret Brown. 

2659 Mirth and Melody. (15) July 23 

Jerry Gray Orchestra starring Guy Mitchell, recording 

star, with The Four Freshmen and Dolores 

Hawkins. 

2660 Bright and Breezy. (16) Aug. 27 

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, with the Sportsmen, 

Four King Sisters and Romo Vincent. 

2661 . Block Magic. (16) Sept. 24 

With singers Billy Daniels and Eileen Barton, ond 

dance trio Giselle Szony and the Cabots. 

TWO-REEL SPECIALS 

(Color) 

Mambo Madness . ..(15) Oct. 24, '55 

Features Tito Rodriguez and His Orchestra, exponents 

of the current dance craze, "Killer Joe" 

Piro does some exhausting steps. 

Time Out of War, A. .2640. .(22) Aug. 27 

Adapted from "Picket," o Robert W. Chambers short 

story of the Civil War, and presents a short truce 

made between a trio of Union and Confederate 

soldiers. Mode at UCLA by two students. 

Where All Roods Lead. .2602. .(I51/2) July 23 

A camera visit to Rome, with shots of the Pope, 

a religious festival, o bike tour of the city, and 

other views. (In Vistaromo.) 

21 

. (9) July 23 

VARIETY VIEWS 

2691 Alert to Danger. (9) Jon .23 

(Volunteer American firemen.) 

2692 Brooklyn Goes to Paris . 

(The Brooklynese character 

. 

(9) 

views Paris 

Feb. 20 

landmarks.) 

May 2693 Girl Meets Buoy . 

(Two novices 

. 

(9) 

learn about motorboots.) 

2694 West Point of the South. (9) June 25 

(The Citadel, Charleston, S, C) 

2695 Everybody Dances . 

(Clips of national dances from many countries.) 

2696 Screwball Sports . . (9) Aug. 20 

(Out-of-the-ordinory sports shots.) 

2697, , Goes to Son Francisco 

(91/2) Sept. 24 

(Scenes and sights of today's west coast.) 

WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES 

(Technicolor) 

2611 The Tree Medic. (7) Dec. 19, '55 

(Woody Woodpecker) 

261 2 Pigeon Holed . . (7) Jan. 1 

(Homer Pigeon) 

261 3 After the Boll . . 

(7) Feb. 1 


2614. Get Lost.. (7) Mar. 12 

(Special) 

261 5 . . The Ostrich Egg and I . . 

(7) Apr. 9 

(Special) 

2616 Chief Charley Horse. (7) May 7 


261 7 Room and Wroth . . (7) June 4 

(Chilly Willy) 

2618 Woodpecker from 


Mors (7) July 2 

261 9 Hold Thot Rock . (7) July 30 

. 

(Chilly Willy) 

2620 . Talking Dog . . (7) Aug. 27 

(Special) 

2621 . All Cuckoos. 


(7) Sept. 24 

2622 . Fools . . (7) 


Oct. 22 

2623 Arts ond Flowers . . (7) 


Nov. 19 

WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

2631 Dog Tax Dodgers (7) Feb. 20 

2632 . tul Pelicon . (7) Mor. 26 

.. (7) Apr. 23 

2633 . 

(Woody 

Blanket Policy 

Woodpecker) 

2634 . Birthday . . (7) Moy 28 

(Andy Pondo) 

2635. Wild .(7) 


and Woody. June 25 

2636 .Drooler's Delight.. (7) 


July 30 

Warner Bros. 

ANAMORPHIC SPECIALS 

(WarnerColor) 

(One Reel) 

Heart of an Empire . . . (9) Sept. 1 '55 

, 

Queen Elizabeth of England is shown ottending 

various functions as part of her responsibility os 

ruler of the British Empire. Also shots of London's 

historical spots. 

Ski Volley. .3222. .{9) Sept. 1, '55 

Skiing at Idaho's Sun Volley resort with professional 

skiers; other sports there including swimming in 

heated pools. 

Springtime in Holland .. 3221 .. (9) Dec. 10, '55 

Story of Holland's vast flower-growing industry, 

with G camera tour of flower gardens and other 

scenic spots. 

Thunder Beach . . 3225 . . (9} June 23 

Stock car races, including a 1 60-mile Grand National, 

are seen at Daytona Beach, Fla., with shots 

of the drivers, viewers and racetrack officials. 

Time Stood Still (formerly "The Dinkelsbuhl 

Story") . (9) •. Apr. 21 

Story of the town of Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, founded 

in 928 A.D., which has miraculously escaped war 

scars. Re-enacts various crises in its history. 

Viva Cuba. 3224. (9) Aug. 25 

Cuba, with its Latin-American rhythms, shows off 

with a pageant of its past ond o glimpse into the 

future. 

(Two Reels) 

Hero on Horseback .. 321 3 .. (18) Apr. 7 

Story of Turkey's national hero-ruler, the late 

Kemal Ataturk, who is responsible for modernizing 

the great Ottoman empire. Narrator: Morvin 

Miller. 

Italian Memories. .3212. .(16) June 9 

Camera follows a small girl tourist on a trip to 

Italy, which includes visits to Florence, Lake Como, 

Pisa, Genoa, Venice ond the Itolion Alps. 

Journey to the Sea. .3211 . Sept. 1, '55 

Follows the 850-mile course of the River Rhine from 

its source in the Swiss Alps through six countries, 

ending in the sea in Hollond. Narrator: Marvin 

Miller. 

. 

BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE 

(Technicolor Reissues) 

3301 . Cots. (7) Sept. 10, '55 

3302. The Rattled Rooster. .(7) Oct. 22, '55 

3303. .Fair and Wormer (7) Nov. 5, '55 

3304. Cot (7) Nov. 26, '55 

3305. The Foghorn Leghorn. (7) Dec. 24, '55 

{Henery Hawk) 

. 

3306.. Bone, Sweet Bone. (7) Jan. 21 

3307 I Taw a Putty Tot . . (7) Feb. 25 

3308 Two Gophers From Texos..(7) Mar. 31 

3309 Kit for Kot. (7) Apr. 21 

3310 Scaredy Cat (7) June 2 

(Sylvester Cat and Porky Pig) 

3311 . Horsefly Fleas (7) July 7 

3312. Little Orphan Airedale. (7) Aug. 4 

3313 Daffy Dilly..(7) Aug. 18 

(Daffy Duck) 

BUGS BUNNY SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

3723 Knight-More Hare. (7) Oct. 1, '55 

3724 Roman Legion-Hare. .(7) Nov. 12, '55 

3725 Bugs Bonnets (7) Jon. 14 

3726 Broomstick Bunny (7) Feb. 25 

3727 . Crusoe (7) Apr. 28 

3728 Napoleon Bunny-Part. (7) June 16 

3729 Barbary Coast Bunny .(7) July 21 

3730 Half-Fore Hare (7) Aug. 18 

CLASSICS OF THE SCREEN 

(Feoturettes) 

Doq in the Orchard. .3103 

(20) Nov. 19, '55— Reissue 

From Mary Roberts Rhinehart's story of a farmer 

who kills his wife, and how the sheriff traps him 

into confessing the murder. Howard da Silva, 

Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards. 

It Happened to You. 3102. (18) Dec. 31, '55 

Newsreel shots of 40 years ago, showing President 

Wilson signing the World War 1 Declaration, General 

Pershing named to head American forces, 

draftees in training, Liberty bond selling and war 

scenes. 

Once Over Lightly . (17) .... May 26— Reissue 

Adapted from on old Mack Sennet t comedy, this 

shows in f loshbock such early day film stars as 

Ben Turpin, Keystone Kops, Charlie Murray, Louise 

Fazendo and Snub Pollard. 

Picture Porade . (20) Mor. 24—Reissue 

Features prehistoric caves in Oregon; the career of 

Martha Berry, southern educator; a miniature collection; 

a castle in the Arizona desert. 

Smoll Town Idol. .3101 . (20). Sept. 24, '55— Reissue 

Ben Turpin and a cast of old-time favorites in an 

old comedy about the home town boy who becomes 

a singing cowboy star in films. 


GEORGE SIDNEY 

PRODUCTIONS 

SONYA LEVIEN 

Associate 

Now Shooting: 

"JEANNE EAGELS" 

In 

Preparation: 

"PAL JOEY" 

"ANDERSONVILLE" 

"THE GREAT SEBASTIANS" 

/ftS- 

BOXOFFICE 161

jane 

l/Uuman 


. Borroh 

Speedy 

Two 

telescopic 

3106 

3406 

(20). 

.(10). 

. Mar. 

. 

Through the Camcro's Eye. . .. Aug. 11 

A visit to the spot of Washington Irving's "Sleepy 

Hollow"; microscopic view of contents of "a 

drop of water views of "space secrets." 

, 

COLOR SPECIALS 

OBchtnd the Big Top. .3003 

(181 Dec. 3, '55— Reissue 

Technicolor. Features Ringhng Brothers, Bornum 

ond Bailey Circus ot their winter quorters in 

Flondo, OS they reheorse ond train for their coming 

season. 

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 

Showplace of the Nation • Rockefeller Center, N. Y. 

OBoy ond His Dog, A. .3007. .(20) Moy 12— Reissue 

Technicolor. Boy rescues mistreoted dog from cruel 

former and is arrested for stealing the animal. 

Boy ond dog ore reunited by kindly judge. Billy 

Sheffield, Harry Davenport. 

©'Copters ond Cows .. 3006 .. (17) Mor. 3 

WornerColor. Photographed ot a Texas ranch, this 

shows the modern cowboy In his helicopter as he 

guards and rounds up his cattle and protects them 

from rustlers. 

QGolden Tomorrow, The. 3002. (17). . . Nov. 5, '55 

WornerColor. How discovery of oil advanced Venezuela's 

development. Revenue derived therefrom 

was used for irrigation projects, molario control, 

road and building construction. 

OMirocle in the Caribbean. .3009 (17) .. Aug. 25 

WornerColor. Story of 

. 

modern Puerto Rico, and the 

progress made in building and housing construction 

since the introduction of more advanced working 

conditions and improvements in industry. 

iAin institution 

known throughout the 

OMovielond Magic. .3001 . .(19). Oct. 6, '55 —Reissue 

Technicolor. A film is seen in the making at a 

Hollywood studio. Several songs are also heard. 

OOut of the Desert 3005 (19) Feb. 4 

WornerColor. Shows the mummies of three Pharaohs—Romeses 

1 1, Thutmose IV and Seti I—and 

scenes of King Tut's golden tomb, ancient Egyptian 

temples and other landmarks. 

QThey Seek Adventure .3004, (19) Jon. 7 

WornerColor. A young doctor has difficulties In 

starting his practice in a small town, but an 

heroic act sets him in right with the townspeople. 

Marshall Thompson, Richard Jaeckel, Walter Sonde. 

world for its presentation of outstanding 

motion pictures and stage shows 

notable for their good taste, beauty 

and perfection of execution. 

QTroilin' West 3010 .. (19) July 28—Reissue 

Technicolor. How a guide succeeds in uncovering 

evidence that will clear an innocent man charged 

with murder and pinning the rap on the real killer, 

©Wonders of Aroby, The 3008 ..(17) June 30 

WornerColor. Camera tour to Biblical lands and 

scenes of the Middle East. Narrator: Marvin Miller. 

JOE McDOAKES COMEDIES 

So You Think the Gross Is Greener. .3403 

(10) Jon. 28 

Joe McDoakes dreams he has divorced his wife and 

married the office blonde. He wakes up happy to 

find his nagging wife. 

So You Wont to Be o Policemon. .3402 

(10) Dee. 17, '55 

Shy rookie cop lets two traffic violators get by, 

then gives the third one a ticket—the police commissioner—and 

IS bounced off the force. 

So You Wont to Be Pretty. 3404. (10). . 10 

McDoakes and his wife each secretly undergo facial 

surgery, meet as strangers and fall in love, then 

accuse each other of unfaithfulness when the 

truth comes out. 

So You Wont to Be o V.P.. 3401 (10). Oct. 29, '55 

Joe takes the advice of a friend on how to become 

a vice-president. Thirty years later he becomes one 

So You Want to Play the Piano. ,3405. .(10). May S 

To impress his wife who is fond of pianists, Mc- 

Doakes fools her with his piano playing by installing 

a mechanical keyboard; she switches her admiration 

to violinists. 

So Your Wife Wonts to Work . . July 14 

McDoakes finds that "home on the ronge" is not 

what it's "cooked" up to be when his wife goes to 

work ond he wields the frying pan. 

. 

MELODY MASTER BANDS 

(Reissues) 

3801 Jon Sovitt and His Bond (10) Sept. 3, '55 

3802 Artie Shaw ond His Orchestro 

(10) Oct. 22, '55 

3803 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra 

(10) Dec. 24, '55 

3804 Corl Hoff ond His Bond (10 Feb. 11 

3805 

Minevitch and His Harmonica 

School (10) Apr. 14 

3806 Henry Busse ond His Orchestra (10), July 14 

'55 

MERRIE MELODIES—LOONEY TUNES 

(Technicolor Cartoons) 

3701 Dime to Retire. .(7) Sept. 3, '55 

(Porky Pig and Daffy Duck) 

3702 Gonzales . . . 

(7) Sept. 17, 

(Sylvester Cat ond Gonzales Mouse) 

3703 . Scents Worth .. (7) Oct. 15, '55 

(Pepe LePew, the French skunk) 

3704. Red Riding Hoodwinked . (7) Oct. 29, '55 

(Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 

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; Foghorn 

mo 

.Tugboat 

Rocket-Bye 

.3605. 

June 23 

3705 Heir Conditioned. . (7) Nov. 26, '55 

(Sylvester Cat) 

3706 Guided Muscle. .(7) Dec. 10, '55 

(Coyote and Roadrunncr) 

3707. .Poppy's Puppy. (7) Dec. 17, '55 

tSylvesfer Cat) 

3708. One Froggy Evening. .(7) Dec. 31, '55 

(A singing frog) 

3709. .Too Hop to Handle. .{7} Jon. 28 

(Sylvester Cat and Hippity Hopper, the baby 

kongoroo) 

3710. Weasel Stop.. (7) Feb. 11 

(Foghorn Leghorn) 

3711 .The High ond the Flighty. .(7) Feb. 18 

;Dafty Duck and Foghorn Leghorn) 

3712 Rocket Squod .{7) Mor. 10 

iDoHv Duck and Porky Pig) 

3713 Tweet ond Sour. .(7) Mor. 24 

(Sylvester Cot and Tweety Bird) 

3714 .Heaven Scent.. (7) Mor. 31 

(Pepe LePew) 

3715. Mixed Master. .(7) Apr. 14 

,Two dogs) 

3716 -Gee Whiz-z-z-z-r-i-z. .(7) Moy 5 

(Coyote and Roadrunner) 

3717. .Three Cornered Tweety. .{7) Moy 19 

(Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 

3718. The Unexpected Pest. .(7) June 2 

(Sylvester Cot) 

3719 

. Granny . 

(Sylvester Cat ond 

. (7) 

Tweety Bird) 

3720. Stupor Duck. (7) July 7 

(Daffy Duck) 

3721 . Baby . . (7) Aug. 4 

;Mari baby mixup) 

3722 Row! Raw! Rooster!. .(7) Aug. 25 

Leghorn) 

SPECIALS 

(WornerColor) 

Down Liberty Rood 3911. (41) June 2 

Scenic routes, and historical highlights presented 

in f loshback, as seen through the eyes of a Boy 

Scout on a bus tour from Seattle to Woshington, 

D. C. Marshall Thompson, Tex Ritter, Angie Dickinson. 

(1.75-1) 

24 Hour Alert .3910. .(30) Dec. 3, '55 

Stars officers and men of the U. 5. Air Force and 

explains the necessity of noise mode by low-flying 

planes. Narrator Jack Webb then tells of the need 

for on air wing line of defense for peacetime 

America. 

SPORTS PARADE 

(In Color) 

Crashing the Water Barrier. .3504. .(9). .. Mor. 17 

Donald Campbell, speedster, sets o new world record 

for o motor boat on Lake Mead in Nevodo, the 

speed record being 216.2 miles on hour. 

Facing Your Danger. .3505. (10) May 19 

A dangerous 300-mile boat trip up the raging 

Colorado River. 

Fish Are Where You Find Them .3502 (10). Jan. 14 

Fishing for savage pike in Germany, rainbow trout 

in the Andes, bass in Florida and tiny trout in 

Austria. 

Green Gold . 3503 . . (9) Feb. 1 

The people, activities and scenic backgrounds of 

Ecuador, as well as its chief business of exporting 

green bananas. 

Picturesque Portugol 

. 

James A. 

. 

FitzPotrick 

3501 . 

does 

. 

(9) 

a 

Oct. 

camera tour of 

5, '55 

Portugal, 

showing its fishing villages, natives, fashionoble 

hotels, farm developments, convents, and 

orchitecture, 

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^rihuti 

—acknowledging publicly the results demonstrated 

by all Shea managers in the field for economy of 

operation without impairment of patronage service 

during the year 1956. 

SHEA THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES. INC 

JAMESTOWN AMUSEMENT CO. 

Gerald Shea, President 

^hank Ujou 

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AROMETER 

For your Always Helpful Guidance 

to 

Better Showmanship 

Sporting Irish, The. .3506. .(10) July 21 

Horse racing in Galway, which portrays the love of 

the Irish for their horses, and the core they give 

them. 

WARNER SPECIALS 

An Adventure to Remember. .3601 . .(9). Oct. 1, '55 

Scenes from o Nooh Beery, 1929 film melodrama, 

"The Isle of Lost Ships," with humorous commentary 

Animals and Kids 3607. (10) Aug. 18 

Children are shown with some of their favorite 

an I Is. The animols oppeor to enjoy themselves 

as much as the kids do. 

Faster ond Faster 3603 (9) Jon. 21 

Shots of famous speedsters on woter from the days 

of international yochting competition for America's 

cup to the 21 2-mile-an-hour record run by Donald 

Campbell. 

I Never Forget o Foce . 

.(10) Apr. 28 

The camera goes bock to the '20s to pick out 

"foces in the crowds." Seen ore Henry Ford, 

Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Edison and others. 

Neckin' Party, A .3604. (10) Mor. 17— Reissue 

Edgar Bergen ond Charlie McCarthy on a dude 

ranch—where Charlie is saved from a "necktie" 

party "hosted" by a jealous Mexican. 

Shark Hunting .. 3602 .. (10) Nov. 12, '55 

World's champion archer, Howard Hill, goes shark 

fishing. 

Smart As a Fox. .3606. .(10) June 16 

The world of nature as seen through the eyes of 

To Keep Up to 

COMMONWEALTH THEATRES 

Operating Indoor and Outdoor Theatres in 

MISSOURI—KANSAS—ARKANSAS 

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Date on Industry 

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a boby fox, os it encounters unfriendly birds, 

animals and hunters. 

Serials 

COLUMBIA 

Blazing the Overland Troil ("Heroes of the 

Pony Express"). 8180 

(IS chapters) Aug. 4 

Lee Roberts, Dennis Moore, Norma Brooks, Gregg 

Barton, Don C. Harvey, Lee Morgan. Director: 

Spencer G. Sennet. 

Monster and the Ape, The. .8160 

(15 choptcrs) Apr. 21—Reissue 

Robert Lowcry, George Mocready, Ralph Morgan, 

Carole Mothews, Willie Best. Director: Howard 

Brettierton. 

Perils of the Wilderness ("Gun Emperor 

ot the Northwest"). .8140 

(IS chopters) Jon. 6 

Dennis Moore, Rictiard Emory, Eve Anderson, Kenneth 

R. MacDonold. Director: Spencer G, Bennet. 

Sea Hound, The ("Daredevil Adventures 

of Captain Silver") 8120 

(IS chapters) Sept. 22, '55—Reissue 

Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd, Pamela Bloke, Ralph 

Hodges, Spencer Chan. Directors: Walter B. Eoson, 

Mack Wright. 

REPUBLIC 

Adventures of Frank and Jesse James. .5584 

(13 chapters) Apr. 16—Reissue 

Clayton Moore, Steve Darrell, Noel Neill, George J, 

Lewis, Stanley Andrews. Directors; Fred Brannon, 

Yokima Canutt. 

Dick Tracy's G-Men. .5582 

(IS chapters) Sept. 19, '55— Reissue 

Ralph Byrd, Jennifer Jones (Phylis Isley), Irving 

Pichel, Ted Pearson, Walter Miller. Directors: 

William Witney, John English. 

King of the Cornivol . . 5581 

( 1 2 chapters) June 27, '55 

Harry Lauter, Fran Bennett, Keith Richards, Robert 

Shayne. Director: Franklin Adreon. 

BEST WISHES 

TO ALL 

From 

Schine Showmen 

SCHINE CIRCUIT, INC. 

GLOVERSVILLE, 

N.Y. 

Manhunt of Mystery Island. .5583 

(15 chopters) Jan. 2—Reissue 

Richard Bailey, Lindo Stirling, Roy Barcroft, Kenne 

Duncan, Forrest Taylor, Directors: Spencer Bennet, 

Wallace A. Grissell, Yakima Canutt. 

Miscellaneous 

Information Services 

Abode of Peace. .{10). . 

Bnlish-made. 

. 

Progress 

.British 

toward modernization of 

Brunei, British-protected Sultanate on Borneo's 

northern coast. Also seen is Sultan's coronation 

ceremony. 

©American Engineer. .(29) 

Technicolor. ; is to exhibitors.) 

Jam Handy 

How American 

engineering, through such projects as improved 

highways, mining operations, oil drillings offshore, 

an atomic-powered submarine, and a radio telescope, 

have contributed to the progress of modern 

living. General Motors Production, (In Superscope 

235.) 

BeSpoke Overcoat, The. .(37) George K. Arthur 

Featurette. British-made. Dramatic tale of a little 

Tailor who makes a sheepskin-lined overcoat for a 

friend who dies before the coat is finished and returns 

from the grove to visit the tailor. David 

Kossoff, Alfie Bass. 

OEast Anglian Holiday 

(20) British Information Services 

Technicolor. Shorts of Norfolk, England, with its 

seaside pleasures and quiet woterways. Also historical 

scenes and landmarks of Suffolk. 

Emperor's Penguins, The. .(10) Buena Vista 

Documentory. Filmed in the south polor regions, 

and shows penguins in their natural hobitat. Released 

in conjunction with "The African Lion." 

Foce of Lincoln, The. .(16) Cavalcade Picts. 

Documentary. As Merrell Gage, sculptor, models a 

bust of Lincoln, he tells anecdotes of events thot 

shaped Lincoln's career. (Produced by the Cinema 

Department at University of Southern California) 

Fornborough Fly Past 


British-made, Seventh in the series showing the 

annual exhibiton of the Society of British Aircraft 

Constructors at Fornborough, England, where latest 

developments of aircraft are seen. 

©Festival in Edinburgh 


Eastman Color Documentary. British-mode. Events 

at the 1955 Edinburgh Festival, including shots of 

stars arriving, St. Giles Cothedrol procession, 

Diaghilev exhibition, "Mocbeth" play, dance presentation 

of "The Firebird," and National Youth 

Orchestro. 

©Full Circle. .(14) British Information Services 

Technicolor. British-made. Animated film, tells 

story of oil and its by-products which hove revolutionized 

agriculture, transportation and industry. 

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(20) Edword Harrison 

Goya . . 

Art Featurette. The life, times ond art of the 

famous Spanish painter, Goya, are described 

chronologically through iilustrotions of his work 

with accompanying narration by Victor Per r in. 

Artemis Production. 

Grey Ghosts. .(21) British Information Services 

British-mode. Shots of motor torpedo boats and 

motor gun boats used by Britain in World War II 

to counter German "E" boats. How peacetime crews 

are trained for any emergency. 

OHands and Music . . (7) Ellis Films 

Eastman Color. Goi Kidder performs a novelty 

hand-dance, using his hands, which ore illuminated 

in red and white against a dork background, to 

interpret background music. 

©Heart of England, The 


Technicolor Documentary. British-mode. Rustic 

scenes of England's Cotswold countryside, in the 

very center of England, and the daily activities of 

the people there through all the seasons of the 

year. 

•©Johnny Applcseed . Buena Vista—Reissue 

Technicolor Featurette. Excerpt from "Melody 

Time," Released in conjunction with "The Littlest 

Outlaw." Narrotor: Dennis Day. Walt Disney 

Production. 

©Jungle Search. .(25). . . British Infomotion Services 

Eostman Color Feoturette. Bntish-made. Story of 

the search for oil, with diagrams and geological 

surveys used to illustrate and exploin the technical 

details. 

©Legend of Jacob Waltz, The 

(121/2) West Winds Prods. 

Eastman Color. Story of the fabled Lost Dutchman 

Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains neor 

Phoenix. 

©London's Country. .(18). .British Information Services 

Technicolor. British-made. Travel short showing 

the countryside around London, its scenic wonders 

along the Thames, Knole Pork, Cookham, Surrey 

and the famous Canterbury cathedral. 

©Man in Space . . (33) Buena Vista 

Technicolor Featurette. (With both live action and 

animation.) Adapted from the original Disneyland 

TV show, this tells of man's ceaseless efforts to 

hurdle the space borrier. Animated cartoon sequence 

visualizes man's ultimate goal in reaching 

outer space. Released in conjunction with 

"Davy Crockett and 

Disney Production. 

the River Pirates.' 

©Men Agoinst the Arctic. (30) Buena Vista 

Technicolor Featurette. (People and Places series.) 

Story of the hazards encountered by crews of two 

Coast Guard ice breakers in man's eternal battle 

against the barriers of the Far North. Released in 

conjunction with "The Great Locomotive Chase." 

Narrator and Director: Winston Hibler. Walt Disney 

Production. (In CinemaScope.) 

©On the Twelfth Day. (20) George K. Arthur 

Eastmon Color. British-mode. Story based on an 

old English carol, "A Partridge in o Pear Tree," 

about a youth who brings his girl gifts on each of 

the 12 days of the Epiphany season. Wendy Toye 

stars and directs. 

Operation Noah. .(28) U. S. Army Engineers 

Documentary. (Gratis to exhibitors.) The devastating 

floods of 1955 which followed Hurricane Diane 

in the New England end mid-Atlantic states, ond 

the fine rescue and cleanup job done by the Army 

engineers. 

Outward Bound. .(24). . . .British Information Services 

British-made. Shows Britain's two Outward Bound 

schools, where each year for one month thousands 

of boys from all walks of life attend these schools 

for adventure and character building. 

©Pontomimes. (13) Go Picts. 

Eastman Color. The great French pantomime artist. 

Marcel Morceau, appears in three episodes, with an 

introduction by Jean Cocteau, famous French 

actor. They are "David and Goliath," "The Butterfly 

Chose" and "The Lion Tamer." George K. 

Arthur Production. 

©Peppermint Tree, The. (12) Grond Prize Films 

Color Cartoon. British-mode. Absent-minded astronomer 

mixes stars with seeds and comes up with 

a peppermint tree. Acclaimed a hero, o statue is 

erected in his honor. Voice, songs and spoken 

narration by Carol Channing. 

©Peter and the Wolf .. (15) . Buena Vista— Reissue 

Technicolor Musical Cartoon. Excerpt from "Moke 

Mine Music." Released in conjunction with "The 

African Lion." Narrator; Sterling Holloway. Walt 

Disney Production. 

©Power to Fly, The 


Technicolor. British-made. Cartoon history of 

aviation from early experiments in levitation to 

modern developments in air tronsport. Produced 

by Halos and Botchelor. 

Report on Cyprus. .(12). .British Information Services 

16mm Sound. Bntish-made. Past and present history 

of the island of Cyprus, for whose administration 

Britain has been responsible since 1878. 

Rocket, The. .(17) British Information Services 

Documentary. British-mode. Development of the 

rocket from the first Chinese firecracker to future 

space travel. Shows Germany's deadly V-2 weapon, 

American scientific experiments and views of earth 

from a rocket 90 miles high. 

©Rodeo Time. (121/2) West Winds Prods. 

Eastman Color. First in a series of 13 dealing with 

the history and lore of Arizona. 

©Sordinia . Buena Visto 

Technicolor Featurette. (People and Places series.) 

A visit to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, with 

glimpses of the daily life of the islanders, their 

quaint festivals and ancient traditions, as well as 

a brief story of the island's fantastic history. Narrotor: 

Winston Hibler. Walt Disney Production. 

©Siam . Buena Vista 

Technicolor Feoturette. (People and Places series.) 

Story of the Siamese and how they live on their 

flooded land. Religious celebrations, sports, native 

dancers, crowning of o new king and coronation 

of an old one, are also shown. Norrator: Winston 

Hibler. Walt Disney Production. 

©Suez Canal. (25) Louis de Rochemont 

Technicolor Featurette. (Our Times series.) Illustrates 

through drawings and photos the history of 

the Suez Canal from the days of the Pharaohs to 

its present-day methods of operation and maintenance. 

Tonganyiko Today. .(26). .British Informotion Services 

British-made. The ancient land of Tangonyika 

where Arabs, Wachaggos and the nomadic Masai 

dwell. Seen are its export industries and rich 

mineral deposits. 

©West Country Journey 


Color. British-mode. England's west country 

counties of Devon ond Cornwall, the former a rich 

farmland with lush pastures, the letter a legendary 

orea dotted with quaint fishing villages along its 

rugged coastline. 

White Frontier, The 


British-mode. The British North Greenland Expedition 

of 1952 and the adventures of the men in the 

group OS they set out to discover the secrets of 

the Greenland ice-cap. 

Best 

Wishes 

AMERICAN BROADCASTING- 

PARAMOUNT THEATRES. INC. 


MARK ROBSON 

Director and Co-Producer 

'THE LITTLE HUT" 

An M-G-M Release 

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS 

Abbott and Costello I 50 

Curtiz, Michael 1 29 

Lang, Walter 113 

Rowland, Roy 144 

Allen, Rex 137 

Allied Artists Productions 75 

American Broadcasting-Paramount, 

Inc 1 68 

Dmytryk, Edward Ill 

Douglas, Kirk 1 05 

Dozier, William 82 

Lantz Productions, Walter 166 

Libra Productions 107 

Lovejoy, Frank 1 44 

Russell, Jane 158 

Ryan, Robert 78 

Schary, Dore 1 57 

American International Pictures 55 

American Society of Composers, 

Authors and Publishers 87 

Anglo Amalgamated Film DJstrs. 

Ltd 154 

Apostolof, Stephen C 1 50 

Engel, Samuel G 1 46 

Famous Players Canadian Corp. 169 

Feldkamp, Fred 153 

Gable, Clark 130 

Mann, Anthony 166 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 2, 3 

Mitchum, Robert 133 

Nossour Productions, Edw. 

& Wm 109 

Schlne Circuit, Inc 167 

Schnee, Charles 143 

Sears, Fred F 141 

Shea Theatrical Enterprises. ... 165 

Sidney, George 161 

Associated Film Releasing Corp. 57 

German, W. J., Inc 86 

Notional Screen Service Third Cover 

Sinatra, Frank 132 

Auer, John H 152 

Gershenson, Joseph ] 52 

National Theatres, Inc 164 

Stewort, James 95 

Bel-Air Productions MO 

Berman, Pondro S 1 25 

Blanke, Henry 148 

Boetticher, Budd 140 

Brackett, Charles 115 

British Information Services .... 1 63 

Broadcast Music, Inc 97 

Buena Vista Film Distr. Co 53 

Globe Enterprises Productions. .. 1 7 

Grotnger, Edmund 83 

Hecht-Hill-Loncaster 1 1 

Companies 

Heston, Charlton 1 48 

Hitchcock, Alfred 51 

Holden, William 127 

Hope, Bob 90 

Hudson, Rock 138 

Novak, Kim 93 

Paramount Pictures Corp 14 

Parsons, Lindsley Productions. . 78 

Pasternak, Joe 1 26 

Peck, Gregory 103 

Pennebaker Company 99 

Radio City Music Hall 163 

Technicolor Corporation 16 

Terrytoons 1 64 

Titanus Films 45 

Twentieth Century-Fox Film 

Corp 4, 5 and Back Cover 

United Artists Corp 7, 8, 9 

Universal- Interne tional 

Pictures 12, 13 

Butcher's Film Distributors, Ltd. 154 

Chandler, Jeff 58 

Clover Productions 141 

Columbia Pictures Corp 39 

rATSE 170 

Jamestown Amusement Co 165 

Knopf, Edwin 143 

Rank Film Distrs. of America 42, 43 

RKO Radio Pictures 36, 37 

RKO Theatres 167 

Roach Studios, Hal 1 36 

Warner Bros. Pictures 47 

Warwick Productions 40 

Wayne, John 35 

Whitney Pictures, C. V 119 

Commonwealth Theatres 165 

Kohlmar, Fred ]46 

Robson, Mark 169 

Wiesenthal Productions, Sam'l. . 138 

Cooper, Gary 77 

Koster, Henry 117 

Rogsrs & Cowan 118 

Wyler, William 76 

Corman, Roger 79 

Kramer Productions, Stanley.. 101 

Rogers, Roy 134 

Wyman, Jane I 62 

International 

Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes 

and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the 

United States and Canada 

Affiliated loith the A.F.L.-CJ.O. 

Representing Craftsmen Employed in Production, 

Distribution and Exhibition in the 

Entertainment Field 

RICHARD F. WALSH 

International President 

Suite 1900 

The Americas Building 

1270 Avenue of the Americas 

New York 20, N. Y. 

HARLAND HOLMDEN 

General Secretary-Treasurer 


Elephants can never forget something they do not 

understand. Humans, too frequently, forget what they 

know. . . and 

that includes exhibitors. Don't let your theatre 

become a white elephant because you forgot the importance 

of trailers. Remember that trailers have stood the 

test of time with a jumbo patronage potential at small cost. 

Don't take them for granted. Play trailers regularly and 

continuously with every show. Remember, trailers are not 

time fillers . . . they're seat fillers. 

nmwnm.,\bW/^ service 

V^ /WW gasr of mtmousmr 

SINDLINGER 

Survey showed 34.2 per cent went fo the movies because of TRAILERS! 

NATIONALTHEATRES CIRCUIT IN 21 STATES 

Survey showed 43 per cent went to the movies because of TRAILERS! 

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