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of Yvette Dugoy for scheming Noncy Guild, lets
him stew, but fJnaHy tokes the witness stand
to clear him.
THE GOLDEN HORDE (Costume Drama). Stars: Ann
BIyth, David Farror, George Macready. Producers:
Howard Christie, Robert Arthur. Director: George
Sherman. Original: Harold Lamb. Screenplay; Gerald
Drayson Adams.
• In 1220 Genghis Khan and his hordes sweep
westword across Asia to capture Somcrkcnd, gateway
to Persia. They meet opposition from the
city's princess, Ann BIyth, and a group of English
crusaders, led by David Farror. Through strategy
and hand-to-hand combat the invaders are
repulsed. Filmed in Technicolor.
THE GREAT COMPANIONS (Drama). Stars: Don
Oailey (incomplete). Producer: Albert J. Cohen.
Director: Douglos Sirk. Original: Gene Morkey.
Screenplay: Martin Berkeley.
• A medicine man befriends an orphan boy in
Michigan in 1904.
THE HAIR-TRIGGER KID (Historicol Western). Stars:
Audie Murphy (incomplete). Producer: Albert J.
Cohn. Director: Not set. Original: Mox Brond,
Screenplay: Louis Stevens.
• A story of Texas just after the Civil Wor, this
IS sloted for photography in Technicolor.
HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL? (Comedy). Stars:
Charles Coburn, Piper Laurie, Gigi Perreau. Producer:
Ted Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk.
Origtnat Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman.
• Multimillionaire Chorles Coburn wilts the bulk
of his fortune to a family in an obscure Vermont
village, then— posing as a starving artist—goes to
live with them to view the effects of this sudden
wealth. Coburn gets them out of one scrape after
onother before they come to their senses. Filmed
in Technicolor.
HEAR NO EVIL (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Jon
Sterling, Mono Freeman. Producer: Leonard Goldstem.
Director: Joseph Pevney. Original Screenplay:
Bernord Gordon.
• Tony Curtis, although deaf and dumb, is o
natural welterweight boxer. Under the guidance
of Walloce Ford he moves toword the championship,
and Mono Freemen, o magazine writer, orranges
for on operation to restore his hearing.
Tony goes on to win the championship and ditches
gold-digging Jon Sterling for Mono.
HERE COME THE NELSONS (Comedy-Drama). Stars:
Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Rock Hudson. Producer:
Aoron Rosenberg. Director: Frederick de
Cordova. Original Screenplay: Ozzie Nelson, Don
Nelson, Bill Davenport.
• When Borbara Lawrence visits Ozzie and Harriet
Nelson she has not quite gotten over a
schoolgirl crush on Ozzie, much to Harriet's
chagrin. Rock Hudson moves in, causing Ozzie such
discomfiture he neglects his job, and the children,
David and Rickey, get involved with gangsters;
but peace and prosperity eventually come back to
the household.
IT GROWS ON TREES (Comedy). Stars: Irene Dunne,
Dean Jogger. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director:
Arthur Lubin. Original Screenplay: Leonard
Proskins, Borney Slater.
• In which Irene Dunne portrays a mystified
housewife whose two garden trees begin to produce
crops of $5 and $10 bills.
THE LADY FROM TEXAS (Comedy-Drama). Stars:
Josephine Hull, Howard Duff, Mono Freeman. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Joseph Pevney.
Original: Harold Shumate. Screenplay: Gerald
Drayson Adorns, Connie Lee Bennett.
• Howard Duff, o carefree cowboy, gives up his
roaming ways to help on eccentric old lady, Josephine
Hull, who owns o rundown ranch. In an
effort to seize her property, the villoins try to
hove her declared insane, but Duff and Mono
Freeman thwart the plot. Filmed in Technicolor,
THE LADY PAYS OFF (Comedy Drama). Stars; Linda
Darnell, Stephen McNolly, Gigi Perreau. Producer:
Albert J. Cohen. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original
Screenplay: Albert J. Cohen, Frank Gill jr.
• Linda Darnell, a school teacher hailed as America's
ideal "mother away from home," innocently
becomes involved with a Reno gambling casino,
loses $7,000 and has to earn the money by trying
to rehabilitate the gambler's unhappy and motherless
little doughter.
LOST IN ALASKA (Comedy). Stors: Bud Abbott, Lou
Costollo, Mi*zi Green. Producer; Howard Christie.
Director: Jeon Yorbrough. Original Screenplay:
Leonard Stern, Martin Rogaway.
• A comedy of Alaska during the gold rush days,
with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cast os prospectors
and Dcnise Dorcel as a saloon entertomer.
MA AND PA KETTLE AT THE FAIR (Comedy) Stors:
Mar)orio Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson. Producer:
Lconord Goldstein. Director: Charles Barton.
Original Screenplay: Not set.
• Their doughter wants to go to college, so Ma
Kettle (Marioric Mom) enters a cooking contest ot
the county fair, hoping to bag the prize money.
At the some time Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride)
ocquires o broken-down trotting horse. After mony
complications they are successful in acquiring the
necessary funds.
MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI (Comedy)
Stors:
Marjoric Mam, Percy Kilbndo (incomplete). Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lee Sholem.
• In which the Kettles continue their trovels with
o junket to the land of the ukulele and gross skirt.
MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO PARIS (Comedy).
Stars:
Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Roy Collins. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director Charles Lomont.
Original Screenploy: Jock Henley, Elwood Ullmon.
• Gifted with plone tickets to Pons, Mo and Po
Kettle (Marjorie Mom end Percy Kilbride) run
afoul of an international spy ring when Pa attempts
to deliver some important papers which a passenger
oboord the plane gave him to hold for him.
With the oid of Mo and the secret service the
spies ore captured.
MEET DANNY WILSON (Dromo With Music). Stars:
Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Joseph Pevney.
Original Screenplay: Don McGuire.
• Under the guidance of Alex Nicol, his accompanist
and manager, Frank Sinatra skyrockets to
fame as a night club, radio and screen star. His
heodstrong ways involve Sinatra with gongsters, but
he finally comes to his senses after Nicol is seriously
wounded by a gang leader.
MY TRUE LOVE (Romantic comedy). Stars: Tony
Curtis, Piper Laurie (incomplete). Producer: Ted
Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: Darwin
Teilhet. Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman.
• Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie elope to Los
Vegas, over the objections of Piper's mother, but
complications set in when Tony has to leave for
Korea with his army unit.
THE RAGING TIDE (Drama). Stars: Richard Conte,
Shelley Winters, Stephen McNolly. Producer; Aaron
Rosenberg. Director: George Sherman. Original:
Ernest K. Gonn. Screenplay: Ernest K. Gonn.
• Richard Conte murders a competitive racketeer
and escapes to sea in Charles Bickford's fishing
boat. A detective, Stephen McNolly, is on his
trail, and Conte entrusts Bickford's son, Alex Nicol,
with his money matters ond his girl. Nicol doublecrosses
Conte, who has become o changed man and
gives his life to rescue Nicol from death.
RED BALL EXPRESS (War Drama). Stars: Jeff Chandler,
Susan Cabot, Alex Nicol. Producer: Aaron
Rosenberg. Director: Bud Boetticher. Original: Marcel
Klouber, Bill Grady jr. Screenplay: Richard
Tregoskis, John Hoyes.
• This glorifies the motor transport corps, which
drove huge, highly-explosive gasoline and oil trucks
during the Normondy invasion in World War II and
helped spark Generol Potton's drive into Germony.
SCARLET ANGEL (Costume Drama). Stars: Yvonne
DeCorlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Sidney Salkow.
Originol Screenplay: Oscar Brooney.
• At the close of the Civil War, Yvonne DeCorlo,
a saloon girl on the lam from the law, meets Rock
Hudson, a merchont ship captain, and assumes
the identity of a deod war widow to escape pursuit.
She becomes involved with the widow's infant
son ond wealthy parents, but abandons the masquerode
to marry Rock.
THE SECRET OF SALLY O'MALLEY (Drama. Stors:
Ann BIyth, (incomplete). Producer: Leonord Goldstein.
Director: Rudolph Mate. Originol Screenplay:
Jomes O'Hanlon.
• This story of faith and devotion has a religious
motif.
SON OF ALI SABA fCostume Dramo). Stars: Ton/
Curtis, Piper Loune, Suson Cabot. Producer: Leon
ord Goldstein. Director: Kurt Ncumonn. Originol;
Ed Eorl Repp. Screenploy: Ceroid Drayson Adams
• Victor Jory kidnops and imprisons Piper Louno
and her mother, Kotherinc Warren. Seeing o mcon^
of oppropriatmg the wealth of Ah Babo (Morn-,
Ankrum) he puts the blame on him. But the bold
strategy of Tony Curtis, Ali's son, rescues the victims
and poves the way for romonce. Filmed in
Technicolor.
STEEL TOWN (Romantic Dromo). Stars: John Lund,
Ann Sheridon, Howard Duff. Producer: Leonard
Goldstein. Director: George Shermon. Original:
Gerald Droyson Adams. Screenploy: Lou Breslow.
• Cocky John Lund, heir to the steel corporotion
owned by his uncle, decides to leorn the business
from the ground up. In doing so he incurs the
enmity of Howard Duff, a steelworker in love with
Ann Sheridan; wins Ann's love, and eventually
proves himself to be a right guy. Filmed in Technicolor.
THE STRANGE DOOR (Costume Dromo). Stars: Charlc
Laughton, Boris Korloff, Sally Forrest. Producer
Ted Richmond. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original
Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay; Jerry Sackheim
• For having morned the woman desired by crazed
Charles Loughton, Paul Cavonogh, his brother, is
imprisoned. Twenty years later Laughton tries to
morry Cavonogh's daughter, Solly Forrest, to Richard
Stopley, o supposedly drunken knave. When
the two fall in love Laughton imprisons them also,
and is finally killed by Boris Korloff, a holf-witted
servant.
THE TREASURE OF LOST CANYON (Dromo). Stars:
Williom Powell, Julia Adams, Rosemary DeComp.
Producer: Leonord Goldstein. Director: Ted Tetzloff.
Story: Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay:
Broinerd Duffield, Emerson Crocker.
• Done out of a fortune by Henry Hull, Tommy
Ivo, at the age of 10, finds refuge with William
Powell and his kindly wife, Rosemary DeCamp.
But Hull catches up with him ond has him sent
away. Tommy turns up ogoin in time to pull Powell
out of a hole, and becomes a permonent member
of the household. Filmed in Technicolor.
UNTAMED (Western). Stars: Joseph Gotten, Shelley
Winters, Scott Brady. Producer; Leonard Goldstein.
Director: Hugo Fregonese. Onginol: Houston
Branch, Eugenio Night. Screenplay: Not set.
• This Technicolor western concerns two powerful
individualists who clash in a struggle for control of
o vast ranching empire.
WEEKEND WITH FATHER [Comedy). Stars: Van
Heflin, Patricio Neal, Gigi Perreau. Producer: Ted
Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: James
Edward Grant, Thomas Russell. Screenplay: Joseph
Hoffmon.
• Patricia Neol, a widow, and Van Heflin, a
widower, visit o summer camp to reconcile their
respective offspring to their proposed morriage.
Both sets of children hove individualist ideas obout
selecting adopted parents, but after a series of complicotions
and fiascos the moppets permit their
parents to do theif own choosing.
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (Costume Dromo). Stors:
Gregory Peck, Ann BIyth, Anthony Quinn. Producer:
Aaron Rosenberg. Director; Rooul Walsh.
Original: Rex Beach. Screenploy; Borden Chose.
• In the 1850s, Gregory Peck, owner of o sealing
boat, falls in love with Ann BIyth, Russian
noblewoman fleeing a prince whom she does not
wont to morry. Peck and his crew ore captured
by the Russians, but escape in time to rescue Ann
from a wedding to the prince. Filmed in Technicolor.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Comedy Fontosy). Stors:
Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake. Producer:
Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lou Breslow. Originol:
Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Lou Breslow, Dovid Chondler.
• King, a German shepherd dog, inherits a fortune
and Peggy Dow is named his coretaker.
Charles Droke secretly poisons King in order to
gain control of the fortune, but the dog comes
bock to earth— in the form of a humon detective,
Dick Powell—and exposes Drake's criminal machinations.
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ABOUT FACE (Musical Comedy). Stars: Eddie Bracken,
Gordon MocRoe, Aileen Stanley. Producer: Williom
Jacobs. Director: Roy Del Ruth. Onginol: John
Monks jr., Fred Finklehoffe. Screenplay: Peter
Milne.
• In violation of the rules, Eddie Bracken, a cadet
at Southern Military Institute, is married—and
dozed to learn he's soon to be a father. His classmates
roily around to keep the secret from leaking
out; after numerous intrigues and threats of
expulsion Bracken monoges to graduate. Filmed
in Technicolor.
ALEXANDER, THE BIG LEAGUER (Sports Drama).
Stars: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy.
Producer; Bryan Foy. Director: Not set. Original:
Seelig Lester, Merwin Gerard. Screenplay: Not set.
• A biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander, one
of boseball's pitching immortols.
APRIL IN PARIS (Musicol Comedy). Stars: Doris Day
(incomplete). Producers: William Jacobs, Sammy
Cohn. Director: David Butler. Original; Norman
Krasna. Screenplay: William S. Roberts, Mel Shorelson,
Jock Rose.
• A new version of "Princess O'Rourke," the romantic
comedy filmed several seasons ago by this
company.
THE BIG TREES (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas,
Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan. Producer;
Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Felix Feist. Original
Screenplay: Jomes Webb.
• In the early 1900s Kirk Douglas, an unscrupulous
logging operator, covets rich redwood timberlands
in northern California, but his plans to steal
the lond from settlers go awry when he learns to
respect them for their industry and religious beliefs.
Filmed in Technicolor.
BLOWING WILD (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer:
Milton Sperling (United States Pictures). Director:
Not set. Original: John Twist. Screenplay: James
Idward Grant.
• Action drama with on oil fields background.
BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON (Historical Western).
Stars: Roy Millond, Helena Corter, Forrest Tucker.
Producer: William Cogney. Director: Roy Rowland.
Onginol: Ernest Hoycox. Screenplay; Horry Brown.
• Here is another film version of the battle of
the Little Big Horn, with Roy Millond cast as a
covolry sergeant who, olthough not with Custer's
forces, Is on eye-witness to the massacre. Millond
enlists in a successful effort to cleor his nome of
a wrongful charge. Filmed in Technicolor.
CARSON CITY (Historical Western). Stars: Randolph
Scott, Lucille Normon, Raymond Mossey, Producer:
David Weisbart. Director: Andre de Toth.
Original Screenplay: Sloan Nibley, Winston Miller.
• Randolph Scott is hired by a Son Francisco
banker to construct a railroad to hondle gold and
silver shipments from the Comstock Lode because
of frequent stagecoach robberies. Scott succeeds
offer overcoming bitter opposition by the holdup
gong, headed by Roymond Mossey, supposedly respectable
mine owner.
CLOSE TO MY HEART (Drama). Stors: Gene Tierney,
Roy Millond, Foy Bointer. Producer: William Jacobs.
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