Robert RKO Radio (July 29, 1950 through July 28. 1951) W©Alice in Wonderland... (75) July 28 Technicolor Cartoon. The English classic, by Lewis Carroll, about a little girl who follows a rabbit down its hole into Wonderland. She has marvelous adventures and awakens in time to save herself from the wicked Queen of Hearts. Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson. (Walt Disney.) ©Best of the Badmen....l76....(84) June 16 Technicolor Western. Adventures of former members of QuantriU's Raiders with an ex- Union officer who becomes theii- leader in outlawry. Leader finally surrenders to authorities to clear his name. Robert Ryan. Claire Trevor. Jack Buetel, Robert Preston. Walter Brennan. Director: William D. Russell. Border Treasure. ..105... (60) Sept. 16, '50 Western. Cowboy trails gang leader when treasure collected for stricken Mexican village by beautiful girl is stolen. The loot is recovered and started on its errand of mercy. Tim Holt, Richard Martin. Jane Nigh, Inez Cooper, House Peters jr. Director: George Archainbaud. Born to Be Bad. .101. ...(94) Aug. 30, '50 Drama. Ruthless female love pirate, who hides her avariciousness behind a smile of innocence, ultimately reveals her true self to the two men who loved her and loses them both. Joan Fontaine. Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer. Director: Nicholas Ray. Bunco Squad. ...104.... (62) Sept. 4, '50 Drama. Exposes fake mediums who prey on wealthy, bereaved persons, with murder no obstacle. Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley, Elisabeth Ri.sdon. Director: Herbert I. Leeds. Company She Keeps, The....l09 (83). Jan. 13 Drama. Two women, one a parole officer, the other a parolee, are in love with the same man. The officer makes the sacrifice so parolee may find happiness and a new life. Lizabeth Scott. Jane Greer, Dennis O'Keefe. Director: John Cromwell. Cry Danger. .115. ...(79) Feb. 10 Melodrama. Man, falsely convicted on a murder charge, is freed from prison by a phony alibi. Seeking revenge, he proves his innocence by forcing a confession from the actual murderer. Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad. Director : Parrish. Double Deal 112. (65) Jan. 15 Drama. Murder is done for the rights to an oil well, which, when it finally is brought in, proves to be water. Richard Denning, Marie Windsor. Taylor Holmes, Fay Baker. Director: Abby Berlin. Edge of Doom. .152... (9) Sept. 30, '50 Drama. Tragic story of a grief-stricken tenement lad who murders a priest for refusing to give his mother an elaborate funeral. Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Mala Powers, Robert Keith. Director: Mark Robson. (Samuel Goldwyn.) Experiment Alcatraz ...107 (58).,. Nov. 21, '50 Drama. Atomic medical research experiment on a group of convicts is used as an excuse for deliberate murder by one of the participants. John Howard. Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter. Director: Edward L. Cahn. Foothght Varieties. .116 (61) Apr, 14 Variety Revue. With Jack Paar as master of ceremonies, this presents a series of comedy and specialty acts and clips from past RKO films. Leon Errol. Jack Paar. The Sportsmen. Liberace, Harmonicats, Frankie Carle, Red Buttons. Director: George Bilson. Gambling House. ..110... (80) Jan. 27 Melodrama. Paid stand-in for a murderer is tried and acquitted. He is threatened with deportation as an alien but pleads for a chance to become a citizen. Victor Mature, William Bendix, Terry Moore, Zachary A. Charles. Director: Ted Tetzlaff. Gunplay. .120 (60) June 7 Western. The two heroes befriend a lad whose father has been murdered. A man who controls the town, terrorizing the people, is proved to be the killer. Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Harper Carter. Director: Lesley Selander. Hard, Fast and Beautiful... 119.... (78)....June 29 Drama. Ruthlessly ambitious mother pushes her daughter into amateur championship tennis play. The girl discovers her mothers ulterior motives and abandons tennis for romance. Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton Young, Robert Clarke. Director: Ida Lupino. (A Filmakers Production.) Hunt the Man Down....llL... (68) Jan. 8 Mystery Drama. Public defender seeks to solve a killing with which an innocent man is charged. He brings an insane witness into court and frightens the killer into a confession. Gig Young, Lynne Roberts. Mary Anderson, Willard Parker. Director: George Archainbaud. 0Joan of Arc. .165. ..(118) Nov. 1, '50 Technicolor Historical Drama, Based on history's tragic figure of 15th century France, the famous Maid of Orleans, who led the French army to victory, then was burned at the stake. Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Gene Lockhart. Director: Victor Fleming. (Sierra Pictures.) ©Jungle Headhunters. .177....(65) May 26 Technicolor Travelog. An expedition to the interior of South America by Explorer Lewis Cotlow. At the headwaters of the Amazon, he films the everyday existence of the Jivaro tribe of headhunters. All-native cast. Narration by Cotlow. Kon-Tiki....l73....(73) May 7 Documentary Travelog. The 101-day voyage made by six scientists in a raft to prove that it is possible to go from South America to the Polynesian Islands using just wind and sea currents. Thor Hyerdahl, Knut Haugland, Erik Hesselberg, Torstein Raaby. Introduction: Ben Grauer. (An Art Film, A. B.) Law of the Badlands.. ..113.. ..(60) Feb. 24 Western. Two Texas Rangers masquerade as outlaws to round up a gang of counterfeiters. Tim Holt. Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Robert Livingston. Director: Lesley Selander. Mad Wednesday (formerly "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock")....166.... (77)....Oct. 28, '50 Comedy. Milquetoast bookkeeper fired after years of service with the same firm, takes his first drink, and finds himself with a circus on his hands. Harold Lloyd. Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin. Raymond Walburn, Edgar Kennedy. Arline Judge. Director: Pi-eston Sturges. (Howard Hughes.) My Forbidden Past. .114.... (70) Apr. 21 Drama. Socially ostracized heroine is crushed when doctor she loves marries another. She inherits a fortune and plots to break up the marriage, inadvertently bringing about the death of the wife. Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Janis Carter. Director: Robert Stevenson. Never a Dull Moment....l06 (89). ..Nov, 22, '50 Romantic Comedy. Sophisticated New York songwriter marries widowed rancher with two daughters. They quarrel when she accidentally kills a prize bull belonging to a neighbor, but are reconciled. Irene Dunne. Fred MacMurray. WiUiam Demarest, Andy Devine. Gigi Perreau, Natalie Wood. Director: George Marshall. Our Very Own. .151... (93) Aug. 5, '50 Comedy Drama. Envious girl, in a moment of anger, tells her older sister that .she is an adopted child. Stunned, the girl goes through a period of self-pity and unhappiness until she realizes her blessings. Ann Blyth, Farley Granger. Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt. Donald Cook. Natalie Wood. Ann Dvorak. Director: David Miller. (Samuel Goldwyn.) Outrage....l03 (75) Oct. 7, '50 Drama. Girl's life is wrecked by criminal attack. Crazed by fear she almost commits murder, but through friendship of young minister is given chance to make a new start. Mala Powers. Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Rita Lupino. Director: Ida Lupino. (A Filmakers Production.) Payment on Demand... .171... (90) Mar. 3 Drama. After 20 years a husband asks his wife for a divorce. Flashback story of the marriage show causes for their unhappiness. At the end there is hope of a reconciliation. Bette Davis. Barry Sullivan. Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Frances Dee. Du-ector: Curtis Bernhardt. (Skirball-Manning.) Rio Grande Patrol. .108. ..(60) Oct. 21, '50 Western. Two members of U.S. border patrol, assigned to work with the Mexican Rurales in a gun-smuggling case, mix it up with the crooks who operate a dance hall as a front for their activities. Tim Holt. Richard Martin, Jane Nigh. Director: Lesley Selander. Saddle Legion ...117... (60) Apr. 7 Western. Two cowpunchers thwart a plot to make it appear a herd of cattle is infected. They outwit the gang and the villain is killed. Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Dorothy Malone, Cliff Clark. Director: Lesley Selander. Sealed Cargo ...118, ... (90) May 19 Melodrama. In World War II fishing vessel rescues captain of a Danish ship who claims he was abandoned by his crew. Actually a mother ship for Nazi submarines, it is destroyed by the fishermen. Dana Andrews. Carla Balenda, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn. Director: Alfred Werker. Tarzan's Peril. .172... (79) Mar. 17 Drama. Agent of a foreign power smuggles guns and ammunition to a tribe of African natives which wages war. taking peaceful villagers captive. Tarzan frees them and kills the foreign agent. Lex Barker. George Macready, Virginia Huston. Director: Byron Haskin. Thing From Another World, The. .174 (87) Mar. 31 Melodrama. Being from another planet arrives in a space ship, terrorizing a U.S. scientific research station in the Arctic Circle. It is killed when lured into a high voltage electrical current. Jim Arness. Sally Creighton, Kenneth Tobey, Eduard Franz. Director: Christian Nyby. (A Winchester Production.) Tokyo File 212....175....(84) May 5 Melodrama. Experience of U.S. Army Intelligence officer checking into suspected 120 BAROMETER Section
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