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ACTORS AND SIN (Drama). Stars: Edward G. Robinson,
Marsha Hunt, Don O'Herlihy. Producer: Sid
Kuller. Director: Ben Hecht. Original Screenplay:
Ben Hecht.
• In two interrelated sequences, this etory of show
business is adopted from short stories by Ben
Hecht, who also directed.
AFRICAN QUEEN (Dromo). Stars: Kotharine Hepburn,
Humphrey Bogort, Robert Morley. Producer:
Sam Spiegel (Horizon Pictures). Director: John
Huston. Original: C. S. Forrester. Screenplay: John
Collier.
• From the novel by C. S. Forrester, this is the
story of prim missionary (Kathcrrne Hepburn)
and an earthy, convention-defying adventurer
(Humphrey Bogort), who are thrown together when,
oboard the "African C^ueen," a riverboot in the
jungles, they successfully escape a native uprising.
ANOTHER MAN'S POISON (Dromo). Stars: Bette
Davis, Gory Merrill, Emiyn Williams. Producer:
Daniel M. Angel. Director: Irving Ropper. Orig-
[noi: Leslie Sands. Screenploy: Vol Guest.
• Bette Dovis is forced to allow Gary Merrill to
impersonate the estranged, blackmailing husband
she has murdered, and soon unwittingly captivates
him. But Bette desires her secretary's fiance.
When Merrill tries to foil her designs, Bette poisons
him, later ironically meets her own death from the
some lethal flask.
THE BIG NIGHT (Melodrama). Stars: John Barrymore
jr., Joon Lor ring, Preston Foster. Producer:
Philip Waxman. Director: Joseph Losey. Original:
Stanley Ellin. Screenplay: Stanley Ellin, Joseph
Losey.
• John Barrymore jr., lust turned 17, is o witness
when his father is mercilessly beaten by a newspaper
columnist. Seeking revenge, the lad steals
o gun, sets out after the journalist and wounds
him. The father is picked up by the police os the
shooting suspect ond protects the boy by "confessing."
CAPTIVE CITY (Drama). Stars: John Forsythe, Joan
Creers, Horold J. Kennedy. Producer: Theron Worth
(Aspen Productions). Director; Robert Wise. Original:
Alvin Josephy jr. Screenplay: Karl Komb.
• John Forsythe ond his wife, Joan Creers, are
forced to flee for their lives when Forsythe's newspaper
uncovers evidence to prove local crime is
linked to the big time and corrupting leading citizens.
At a distant town, offer eluding the pursuing
hoodlums, honest authorities enable Forsythe
to tell his story before the senate crime committee.
CATTLE QUEEN (Western). Stors: Maria Hart, Droke
Smith, William Fawcett. Producer: Jack Schworz.
Director: Robert Tansey. Original: Robert Emmett.
Screenplay: Fronces Kovanough.
• Morio Hart, feminine cattle baron, aided by
Drake Smith, successfully battles against the efforts
of villainous forces to wrest her land ond
wealth away from her.
CHICAGO CALLING (Dromo). Stars: Don Duryea,
Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert. Producer: Peter
Berneis. Director: John Reinhordt. Original Screenplay:
Peter Berneis, John Reinhordt.
• Angered at his drinking, Mory Anderson ond
their doughter leave Dan Duryea and go to Chicago.
En route they are in an accident, and Mary
telegraphs that she will telephone him next day to
give him the details. Then Don, broke, Is confronted
with the problem of raising money to prevent
his phone from being removed.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Classic Drama). Stars: Alastoir
Sim, Kothleen Harrison, Clifford Mollison.
AGAINST ALL FLAGS (Maritime Drama). Stars: Errol
Flynn, Maureen O'Hora, Anthony Quinn. Producer:
Howard Christie. Director: George Sherman. Original:
Aeneas MocKenzie. Screenplay: Aeneas Moc-
Kenzie.
• Planned for Technicolor filming, this is locoled in
Madagascar in the early 1 8th century and deals
with o bond of pirates led by a woman.
ALL-AMERICAN (Dromo). Stars: Tony Curtis. Producer:
Not set. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay:
Not set.
• This Tony Curtis storrer has o collegiate football
background- To be filmed in Technicolor.
THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS (Western). Stars: John
Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler. Producer:
Leonord Goldstein. Director: George Sherman.
Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adoms.
• John Lund is a squore-shoonng covolry officer
whose word is good with the Apaches. His efforts
to mointain peace with the Indions ore hampered,
however, by Bruce Cowling, on unscrupulous mining
tycoon. Cowling is slain in the subsequent uprising
and the Apache leaders inform Lund that
warfare must inevitably continue.
BEND OF THE RIVER (Outdoor Drama). Stars: James
Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams. Producer:
Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Anthony Mann. Original:
William Gulick. Screenplay: Borden Chose.
• James Stewart, a frontiersman, guides a wogon
train of midwestern farmers into the Snake river
country of Oregon in the 1850s, where they plan
to settle. After staving off mutiny and winning
on all-out battle against gold-hungry miners, the
farmers settle down to a peaceful life. Filmed in
Technicolor.
Producer-Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Original:
Chorles Dickens. Screenplay: Noel Langley.
• When Scrooge (Alostair Sim), a notorious miser,
is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob
Martey (Michael Hordern), he becomes terrorized
becouse of his wicked ways, feels remorse and
sets about making amends— by rewarding those
around him, and depriving Death of Tiny Tim
(Glyn Deormon), son of folthful Bob Crotchit
(Mervyn Johns.)
ELEPHANT WALK (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer:
Douglas Fairbanks jr. Director: Not set. Original:
Robert Stondish. Screenplay: D. M. Morshmon jr.
• To be filmed on location in Ceylon, in Technicolor,
this drama of life in the Orient is adopted
from a novel by Robert Stondish.
FORT DEFIANCE (Western). Stars: Peter Graves, Ben
Johnson, Done Clark. Producer: Fronk Melford.
Director: John Rawlins. Original Screenplay: Lou
Lontz.
• Ben Johnson, a Civil Wor veteran, comes west
on the trail of Dane Clark, a deserter, whose
actions caused the annihilation of Johnson's company.
Johnson meets Clark's blind brother, Peter
Graves; they become fast friends, and Clark is slain
in a battle with another group of gunfighters out
to kill him. Filmed in Cinecolor.
GOLD RAIDERS (Western). Stars: George O'Brien, the
Three Stooges, Sheila Ryan. Producer: Bernard
Glosser. Director: Edward Bernds. Original Screenplay:
William Lively, Elwood Ullman,
• George O'Brien sells an insurance policy to a
mine owner and promises to protect his shipments.
However, bandits headed by a saloon keeper learn
where the gold has been stored after shipment and
attempt to hijack it. The plot is foiled by O'Brien
with the dubious assistonce of the Three Stooges.
THE GREEN GLOVE (Dromo). Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine
Brooks, Sir Cedric Hordwicke. Producer-Direstor:
Rudolph Mate (Benogoss Productions). Original
Screenplay; Charles Bennett.
• This romantic drama was filmed entirely In
Europe.
HARRY SHERMAN SERIES (Westerns). Not set.
Producer: Horry Sherman. Directors: Not set.
Originals: W. C. Tuttle and others. Screenplays:
Not set.
• Producer Harry Sherman plans a series of sagebrushers,
the titles of which are "Wherever the
Grass Grows," "Tall Man From Texas" and "The
Golden Lady." Also on the docket is a group based
on the "Hoshknife Hartley" stones by W. C. Tuttle.
Their titles: Valley of Vanishing Herds," "Tumbling
River Range," "Horseshoe Luck," "The Mystery
of Red Triangle," "The Big Pay-Off" and
"Deception Trail."
HIGH NOON (Western). Stars: Gory Cooper, Koty
Jurado, Thomas Mitchell. Producer: Stanley Kramer.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Original screenplay:
Carl Foreman.
• Gary Cooper, peace officer in a frontier town
in the 1870s, breaks up o gang ond sends its
leader to prison, then plans to retire. Comes word
that the outlaw has been pardoned and is en
route bock for vengeance. In a foray on the
deserted street Cooper slays the gunfighter, then
leaves town with his bride.
I WANT TO BE LOVED (Romantic Comedy). Stars:
Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson.
Producer: Benedict Bogeous. Director: Peter Godfrey.
Original Screenplay: George Bricker, Francis
Swonn, Leo Townsend.
• This story of a romantic triangle was lensed
entirely on location in Mexico.
BRONC BUSTER (Western). Stars: John Lund, Scott
Brody, Joyce Holden. Producer: Ted Richmond. Director:
Budd Boetticher. Original: Peter B. Kyne.
Screenplay: Horace McCoy.
• John Lund is a popular world's champion cowboy
who sees great possibilities in cocky newcomer
Scott Brady. Brady becomes o showoff, resorts
to unethical practices, and even steals Lund's girl,
Joyce Holden. He comes to his senses after a wild
contest on a Brahma bull and wins Lund's forgiveness.
Filmed in Technicolor.
CAVE OF OUTLAWS (Western). Stars: Macdonold
Corey, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: William Castle. Original
Screenplay: Elizabeth Wilson.
• After serving time for a payroll robbery Macdonold
Corey tries to locate the loot hidden by confederates
in a cove. Meanwhile he buys a newspaper
edited by Alexis Smith, whose husband has
disappeared. In time Corey uncovers the gold,
which Victor Jory is also seeking, and unmasks
Jory as the murderer of Alexis' husband. Filmed
in Technicolor.
THE CIMARRON KID (Western). Stors: Audie Murphy,
Beverly Tyler, James Best. Producer: Ted Richmond.
Director: Budd Boetticher. Original Screenplay:
Louis Stevens.
• Audie Murphy is jailed for aiding the notorious
Dolton gong ond upon release joins the mob. When
he falls in love with Beverly Tyler he agrees to
pull one lost job and go straight. In hot pursuit
of the gang, an unscrupulous detective, Dovid
Wolfe, eventuolly shoots Murphy in the bock.
Filmed in Technicolor.
THE CITY AND JASON EDWARDS (Drama). Stars:
Not set. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director:
Not set. Original Screenplay: Irving Shulmon, Max
Lief.
• An aged recluse finds on underground home
for himself in the New York subway.
THE LADY SAYS NO (Romontic Comedy). Stars: Joan
Caul field, David Niven, James Robertson Justice.
Producers: Frank Ross, John Stillman jr. Director:
Frank Ross. Original Screenplay; Robert Russell.
• Joan Coalfield writes a book which criticizes
men and urges her sex to resist them. Her attitude,
it develops, stems from a youthful association with
on incompatible aunt and uncle, and when her
relatives ore reunited Joan casts off her inhibitions
and falls in love with David Niven, a picture-magazine
photographer.
LIMELIGHT (Dromo With Music). Stars: Charles Chaplin,
Clore Bloom, Chorles Chaplin jr. Producer-
Director: Charles Chaplin. Original Screenplay:
Charles Chaplin.
• This IS Charles Chaplin's first picture-making
effort since "Monsieur Verdoux" and has o ballet
background, telling the story
rises to fame in that field.
of a dancer who
THE LOUDEST LAUGH OF ALL (Romantic Comfedy).
Stars: John Payne [incomplete). Producer; Aubrey
Schenck. Director: Not set. Original: Harold
Greene, Burt K el ley. Screenplay: Not set.
• This IS the initioler in o series of six pictures
to be produced for UA release by Associated Artists
and Producers, headed by Sol Lesser, Edward Small
and Sam Briskin.
MIRACLE FROM MARS (Interplanetary Drama). Stars:
Andrea King, Bigelow Sovre, Peter Graves (incomplete).
Producers: Donald Hyde, Anthony Veiller.
Director: Horry Horner. Original: John L. Bolderston,
John H. Hoore. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller.
• A scientist succeeds in making radio contact
with the planet Mars and causes a world upheaval.
THE RIVER (Dromo). Stars: Arthur Shields, Nora
Swinburne, Thomas E. Breen. Producer: Kenneth
McEldowney. Director: Jean Renoir. Original:
Rumer Godden. Screenplay; Rumer Godden, J eon
Renoir.
• Made in India, this is the story of a British
family in Bengal, being visited by Thomos E. Breen,
an American who lost a leg in World War II. He
becomes involved in romantic complications with
two teenaged girls in the family and finally foils
in love with a beautiful holf-caste. Filmed in Technicolor.
THE THIEF (Suspense Dromo). Stars: not set. Producer:
Horry Popkin (Clorence Greene, Russell
Rouse). Director: Russell Rouse. Original Screenploy:
Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse.
• This suspense adventure will be turned out by
the some production orgonization which supplied
"The Well" for distribution by this company during
1951.
TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS (Drama). Stars: John
Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Jomes Hoyter. Producer:
Brian Desmond-Hurst. Director: Gordon
Parry. Original: Thomas Hughes. Screenplay: Noel
Langley.
• Filmed in England, this is o new version of the
novel by Thomas Hughes about life at the British
school, Rugby, a century or more ago. The story
attacks the public school system of that time but
points up the efforts of zealous educators to bring
about needed reforms.
THE WELL (Drama). Stars: Richard Rober, Barry
Kelly, Christine Larson. Producer: Horry Popkin.
Directors: Leo Popkin, Russell Rouse. Original
Screenplay: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene.
• A Negro child falls into on abandoned well and,
learning she is missing, it is rumored she hos been
kidnapped by a white man. Mob violence and race
riots threaten but, when she is located, these feelings
ore dispersed in a united and successful effort
by whites and Negroes to rescue her.
THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK (Western). Stors: Faith
Domergue, Audie Murphy, Stephen McNolly. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Don Siegel.
• Audie Murphy, a fast-shooting young westerner,
saves a marshal's life and avenges the murder of
his father. Filmed in Technicolor.
FINDERS KEEPERS (Comedy). Stors: Tom Ewell, Julio
Adams, Evelyn Vorden. Producer: Leonard Goldstein.
Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original
Screenplay: Richard H. Morris.
• Smollfry Dusty Henley finds o cache of bills
which his grandma, Evelyn Vorden, is oil for keeping.
But his mother, Julio Adams, threatens to
leave his father, Tom Ewell, a parolee, unless the
money is handed over to the police. Grandma,
captured by the robbers, changes her tune, ond
Dusty, a lo Hopolong Cassidy, comes to her rescue.
FLAME OF ARABY (Adventure Dromo). Stars: Maureen
O'Haro, Jeff Chandler, Richord Egon. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Charles Lomont.
Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adams.
• Jeff Chandler, son of on Arobion sheik, and
Maureen O'Hora, a princess, fall in love. Her
cousin. Maxwell Reed, hoping to gain the kingdom,
poisons her father, then tries to marry Maureen
off to either of two villains, Lon Choney or Buddy
Boer. Chandler, however, wins a horse race to
determine the winner of her hand. Filmed in Technicolor.
FRANCIS, RACKET BUSTER (Comedy). Stars:
Donald O'Connor, Nancy Guild, Yvette Dugcy. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Arthur Lubin.
Original Screenplay: Oscar Brodney.
• Receiving "scoops" from police horses, Francis,
the "talking mule," passes them on to Donald
O'Connor, who becomes a sensational reporter.
When rival newsman Lorry Gates frames Donald
for murder, Francis, irked by O'Connor's neglect
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