Boxoffice-October.27.1951

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FEATURE REVIEWS Sfory Synopsis; Adiines for Newspaper and Programs
THE STORY: "Too Young to Eiss"
Although she is a talented pianist, June Allyson is unsuccessful
in efforts to gain on interview with Van Johnson, a
concert manager. Despite the pleas of Reporter Gig Young
that she give up her career and marry him, June poses as
a pigtailed 14-year-old, enters Johnson's auditions for children,
and wins hands down. But to her dismay Johnson
announces he is going to feature her as a new child prodigy
in an extended concert tour. June has to keep up the hoax,
but promises Gig she'll expose her impersonation after the
first concert. Then, finding herself in love with Van, she
decides to quit and marry Gig rather than hurt Johnson.
Gig breaks the story of the hoax; Van offers to refund the
concert audience's money; June scores a hit as her own
adult self, and she and Van plan matrimony.
CATCHLINES:
It's a Deliriously Dazzling Romantic Mixup ... As June
Allyson and Van Johnson Make Wonderful Music Together
... In the Story of a Pigtailed Pianist . . . Who Wasn't Too
Young to Kiss.
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THE STORY:
"The Lavender Hill Mob"
Alec Guinness, a highly respected but modestly paid Bank
of England employe, supervises the gold deliveries from the
refinery while secretly plotting to appropriate a million dollars
in gold bars and live the rest of his life in luxury. He
has a foolproof plan but no method of disposing of the gold
until he meets Stanley Holloway, a manufacturer of souvenirs
for tourists. Together, they hit on the scheme of melting
down the bars and making miniature Eiffel Towers,
which can be shipped to France. The plan succeeds but, in
Paris, they discover that some of the miniatures have fallen
into the hands of English schoolgirls. They track down all
but one of the miniatures, which is given to a policeman.
After a wild police chase, is captured Holloway but Guinness
escapes to Brazil, where he lives lavishly until the law
catches up with him.
CATCHLINES:
Alec Guinness, Star of "Kind Hearts and Coronets," in
Another Delightful British Comedy . . . The Lavender Hill
Mob Fooled the Bank of England Itself . . . One Big Chuckle
From Beginning to End.
THE STORY:
"Tom Brovi^n's School Days"
In 1834, when Tom Brown (John Howard Davies) is sent to
Rugby school at the age of 11, the English public school
system is notoriously evil, but Doctor Arnold (Robert Newton),
the Rugby headmaster, is zealously trying to bring about
reforms. Tom quickly fits into school life until he offends an
upper-class bully and is subjected to ear-twisting, blankettossing,
and more fiendish tortures. However, Tom—true to
schoolboy tradition—refuses to be a stool pigeon. At last
Tom and two friends are involved in a swimming accident
and the bully, giving a lying account of it, charges Tom
with the responsibility; hov^ever. Doctor Arnold uncovers the
true facts, the bully is expelled and the reform of the educational
system has begun.
CATCHLINES:
Down Through the Generations
Beloved by Millions . . .
The Grea'est Story of Adolescent Life Ever Written . . .
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Comes to the Screen as a Masterpiece of Stirring Entertainment.
THE STORY:
"Slaughter Trail"
In the 1880s in the New Mexico-Arizona territory. Gig Young
leads a gang of bandits and stagecoach robbers. Their
accomplice is Virginia Grey, who carries the stolen loot.
After a holdup. Gig and his men shoot three Indians ^and
steal their horses. Brian Donlevy, commander of a U.S. army
fort, sends a patrol out to find the killers. The stagecoach
reaches the fort and Donlevy detains it there while beating
down an Indian uprising. Young, anxious to obtain the loot,
masquerades as a cattleman and goes to the fort. Meantime
Virginia, beginning to repent her ways, refuses to go with
Young after he has secured the stolen jewels from her.
In a subsequent attack on the fort by the Navajos, Young
and his henchmen are slain and peace restored.
CATCHLINES:
The Savage Drums Are Beating . Redskins Are
Taking to the Warpath . Border Is Aflame With
Violence and Fury . . . It's the Season's Most Thrilling Action
Adventure.
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THE STORY: "Let's Make It Legal"
After 20 years of marriage, Claudette Colbert and Macdonald
Carey get a divorce but remain friendly. Their daughter,
Barbara Bates, is married to Robert Wagner and lives
with her mother despite the young husband's pleas that they
need a home of their own. When Zachary Scott, millionaire
industrialist and Claudatte's old flame, returns to town,
Wagner sees a chance to renew the old romance and thus
get his mother-in-law married off. Scott renews his courtship
to Claudetts to Carey's dismay. He makes a bet with his
ex-wife that Scott will never marry her and she accepts the
challenge. She accepts Scott's proposal but an altercation
with Carey leads to newspaper headlines and ruins Scott's
chances of a Washington appointment. The young couple
get a house of their own and Claudette is reunited with her
ex-husband.
CATCHLINES:
As the Divorce Became Final, the Husband Wanted His
Wife Back— In His Arms . Colbert Is the Point
of a Triangle, With Macdonald Carey and Zachary Scott at
the Opposite Ends.
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THE STORY:
"The Harlem Globe-Trotters"
Abe Saperstein (Thomas Gomez) manages the Harlem
Globe-Trolters, famous Negro basketball team that has been
playing all over the country for 24 years. An AU-American
honor student, Roy Townsend (Billy Brown), tries to join the
team but is urged by Gomez to stay in college. Billy insists
and soon after joining the team becomes a star. He does
not show the right spirit of cooperation in following rigid
rules for the team, however, and when he slips away to
marry his sweetheart, Ann (Dorothy Dandridge), he injures
his knee and fails to report it. As a consequence, he loses
the next game for the team and because of his attitude, is
fired by Gomez. Later he comes back chastened at a crucial
moment and helps the team win.
CATCHLINES:
They're Champsl They're Scampsl It's an Ail-Out Feature
Thrill to Their Arena Razzle-Dazzle, Their Dressing-Room
Fun Hit) . . .
Drama, Their Straight-from-the-Coach's-Mouth Story
Miracle Men of Sports
Nothing
in a FuU-Length Feature
Than Gags,
for the Family .
Their Games.
THE STORY:
"Hot Lead"
THE STORY:
"Elephant Stampede"
To gel inside information on train shipments of gold, a
gang headed by John Dehner, plans to kill the telegrapher
and substitute Ross Elliott, a convict about to be paroled,
who was framed by Dehner for a robbery he did not commit.
On his way to the job, Elliott is abducted by Dehner's mob,
but the plan goes awry when Tim Holt and Richard Martin,
cowpokes on a ranch owned by Joan Dixon, rescues Elliott.
The latter reveals the plot and offers to play along with
the crooks to capture them red-handed. Although skeptical,
the sheriff consents. Apprised that a gold shipment is on
the way, Dehner captures Joan as a hostage and takes Elliott
with him to participate in the holdup. In time's nick Elliott
holds Dehner at bay while Holt and Martin subdue the other
bandits, the robbery is foiled and Joan rescued.
CATCHLINES:
Tim Holt Defies an Outlaw Ambush ... To Bring a Lawless
Gang to Justice . . . With Death in His Trigger Finger . . .
And Dynamite in His Fists ... In the Rugged, Roaring West.
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Determined to hunt elephants for ivory in a restricted area
in Africa, Myron Healey and John Kellogg kill their guide
when he tries to stop them. Leonard Mudie, a game commissioner,
becomes suspicious when Kellogg poses as the
dead guide, and goes with them to a native village, where
Edith Evanson, a missionary, and Donna Martell, her native
house-girl, live. Bomba (Johnny Sheffield), the jungle boy,
discovers the murdered guide's body, and Healey and Kellogg
try unsuccessfully to kill him. Then Kellogg learns of a valuable
cache of ivory and, double-crossing Healey, goes out
alone to find it. Meantime Healey captures Bomba and plans
to torture Donna to make her reveal where the ivory has
been hidden. However, Kellogg slays Healey just as an
elephant herd stampedes, frees Bomba and kills Kellogg.
CATCHLINES:
Fury Sweeps the Jungle ... As Ivory Hunters Invade
And Killer Elephants Hit the Trail
Forbidden Territory . . .
. . . It's Tops in and Drama Excitement ... As Bomba
the Jtingle Boy Comes to the Rescue.