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Hudson, Joyce Holden. Director: Joseph
Pevney.
©Kansas Raiders .104.... (80) Nov. '50
Technicolor Western Drama. The James
brothers join Quantrill's guerrillas, looting
and burning in the attack on Lawrence,
Kas. Quantrill saves Jesse's life at the sacrifice
of his own. Brian Donlevy, Audie
Murphy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady,
Richard Ai-len. Director: Ray Enright.
Katie Did It ...122... (81) May
Comedy. Girl upsets a staid New England
town when she poses for an artist. Believing
he is married, she plans to wed her
home-town suitor but the arti.st wins her
in a split-second finish. Ann Blyth, Mark
Stevens, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Craig
Stevens. Director: Frederick de Cordova.
©Lady From Texas, The. .136. (78) Oct.
Technicolor Comedy Western. Hero and
heroine strive to prevent a crafty ranch
owner from gaining control of the property
of a kindly but eccentric old widow,
by having her declared mentally incompetent.
Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, Josephine
Hull, Craig Stevens. Director: Joseph
Pevney.
Little Ballerina. .182. ..(60) Not set
Dramatic Musical. British-made. The
strugggles of an earnest young dancing
pupil to continue her studies and win recognition.
Includes several ballet sequences.
Yvonne Marsh, Marion Chapman, Doreen
Richards, Margot Fonteyn, Martita Hunt.
Director: Lewis Gilbert. (J. Arthur Rank.)
©Little Eg:ypt....l31....(82) Sept.
Technicolor Comedy Drama. Tobacco magnate
puts up cash to transplant a street
of old Cairo to the Chicago Fair in 1893.
A "hootchy-kootchy" dance by the girl
friend of the promoter becomes a hit.
Rhonda Fleming, Mark Stevens, Nancy
Guild. Charles Drake. Director: Frederick
de Cordova,
OLouisa....926.... (90) Sept. '50
Comedy. Bossy mother-in-law is suddenly
transformed by a romance with the local
storekeeper, and the whole household is
thrown into one mirthful situation after
another. Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn,
Ruth Hussey. Edmund Gwenn. Spring
Byington. Director: Alexander Hall (1949-
50.)
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
117.... (80) Apr.
Farce. Ma and Pa become grandparents
and, to make room for the baby and its
fu.ssy nurse, the family moves back to the
farm. Discovery of uranium on the property
brings complications. Marjorie Main,
Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall,
Ray Collins. Director: Edward Sedgwick.
Madeleine. .983. ..(101) Sept. '50
Murder Mystery. British-made film based
on a murder case of 1857 in Scotland, in
which a girl goes to trial for the fatal
poisoning of her clandestine lover. Ann
Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie
Banks. Director: David Lean. (J. Arthur
Rank.) — (1949-50.)
Magnet, The. .181... (78) „ Feb.
Comedy Drama. British-made. A boy executes
a series of childish "trades," acquiring
and later losing ownership of a powerful
magnet, in the course of which he
sparks a campaign for raising funds for
an iron lung. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh,
William Fox, Meredith Edwards. Director:
Charles Frend. (J. Arthur Rank.)
©Mark of the Renegade ...129... (81) -Aug.
Technicolor Drama. Mexican pirates are
forced into the battle between those trying
to establish early California as a republic
and a despot who wishes to become
its emperor. Richardo Montalban, Cyd
Charisse, J. Carrol Nai.sh, Gilbert Roland,
Andrea King. Director: Hugo Fregonese.
Milkman, The 102 (87) JJov. '50
Comedy With Music. Playboy, son of
wealthy dairy owner, goes to work as a
milkman for a rival dairy, under the wing
of his buddy—a milkman veteran of 25
years. The two become involved in all
sorts of zany goings-on, including a brush
with gangsters. Donald O'Connor, Jimmy
Durante, Joyce Holden, Piper Laurie, Elisabeth
Risdon, Henry O'Neill. Director:
Charles T. Barton.
Mystery Submarine 106 (78) Dec. '50
Melodrama. Nazi U-boat, still active after
World War II, is found by U.S. Navy Intelligence
officer. By a ruse he rescues its
two captives and causes it to be destroyed.
Macdonald Carey, Marta Toren, Robert
Douglas, Ludwig Donath, Carl Esmond. Director:
Douglas Sirk.
Operation Disaster .113 (100) Feb.
Drama. British-made. Events following a
peacetime submarine disaster. Eight survivors
are trapped and after seven days
of work by a salvage crew, a storm makes
it necessary to abandon the effort. John
Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick,
James Hayter. Director: Roy Baker.
(J. Arthur Rank.)
Pool of London. .183. ..(86) Sept.
Drama. British-made. Man engaged in
smuggling asks his friend to make a delivery
for him. Package contains diamonds
and friend is arrested. Hero gives himself
up to clear the friend. Bonar Colleano.
Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Earl Cameron,
Moira Lister. Director : Basil Dearden.
(J. Arthur Rank.)
Prelude to Fame .180. .. (77 '4) Nov. '50
Drama With Music. British import. Child,
exceptionally gifted musically, is dominated
and exploited by a selfish woman for her
own aggrandizement. She seeks, unsuccessfully,
to alienate him from his family.
Jeremy Spenser, Kathleen Byron, Guy
Rolfe, Henry Oscar. Director: Fergus Mc-
Donell. (J. Ai-thur Rank.)
©Prince Who Was a Thief, Tlie....l26
(88) July
Technicolor Romantic Drama. Stolen in
babyhood, the real prince grows up as a
thief. He raids the royal treasure house,
is recognized as the true heir and ousts
the false ruler. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie,
Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey. Director: Rudolph
Mate.
Reunion in Reno... .135... (80) Oct.
Drama. Little girl goes to Reno to divorce
her parents. She is befriended by a young
lawyer, a court stenographer and a kindly
judge, who are able to arrange a reconciliation
for the family. Mark Stevens, Peggy
Dow, Gigl Perreau, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson.
Director: Kurt Neumann.
©Smuggler's Island... 121... (75) May
Technicolor Melodrama. Adventuress forces
a captain to use his ship and diving equipment
to recover sunken gold and smuggle
it into Hong Kong. Through her weakling
husband they lose the gold but find each
other. Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip
Friend. Director: Edward Ludwig.
Target Unknown. 111. (90) Feb,
War Drama. Crew of a bomber, shot down
over Germany, unwittingly discloses a
planned raid on a fuel dump. They escape
and radio information to American bombers
on changed location of target. Mark
Stevens, Robert Douglas, Alex Nicol, Don
Taylor, Joyce Holden, Oig Young. Director:
George Sherman.
Thunder on the Hill 133 (84) Sept.
Mystery Drama. Group of flood sufferers
takes refuge in a convent. A nun interests
herself in a young girl among them
who is accused of murder. Turning detective,
she finds the real murderer. Claudette
Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas,
Anne Crawford, PhiJip Friend, Gladys
Cooper. Director: Douglas Sirk.
©Tomahawk .110... (82) Feb.
Technicolor Super -Western. Indian scout
and army officer are enemies and rivals
for a girl. They fight together to quell
a Sioux uprising and the officer is killed.
Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Preston Foster,
Jack Oakie. Director: George Sherman.
Under the Gun... .109 (83) Jan.
Drama. Gangster, convicted on evidence
given by a woman, plots vengeance. He
engineers the escape of a fellow convict,
then shoots him in a bid for a pardon.
Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John Mc-
Intire, Sam Jaffe. Director: Ted Telzlaff.
Undercover Girl 105 (82) Dec. '50
Drama. Girl becomes policewoman to track
down her father's killer. She poses as a
dope peddler, is found out, but makes good
and carries through to her objective. Alexis
Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan. Gladys
George. Director: Joseph Pevney.
Up Front... .118... (92) Apr.
War Comedy. Adventures of two foot soldiers
in Italy, where they battle with the
military police more often than with the
enemy. David Wayne. Tom Ewell, Jeffrey
Lynn, Marina Berti. Director: Alexander
Hall.
Woman on the Run. .932 (77) Oct. '50
Melodrama. Beautiful wife of artist who
disappears after witnessing a murder, enlists
the help of a reporter to find him.
Reporter is the actual murderer and is
shot by astute detective. Ann Sheridan,
Dennis O'Keefe. Robert Keith, Frank Jenks,
John Qualen. Director: Norman Foster.
(Fidelity Pictures.)—(1949-50.)
©Wyoming Mail. .931.... (87) _ Oct. *50
Technicolor Western Drama. Barnstorming
pugilist in post-Civil War days becomes
undercover agent for railway mail
system and wipes out an organized band
of mail train robbers. Stephen McNally,
Alexis Smith, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley.
Director: Reginald LeBorg. (1949-50.)
You Never Can Tell. .132.... (78) Sept.
Comedy. Dog inherits a fortune and is
cared for by a beautiful girl. He is poisoned
but returns from dog heaven in
human form to solve his murder and develop
a romance with the girl. Dick Powell,
Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Joyce Holden.
Director: Lou Breslow.
Warner Bros.
(September 2, 1950 through August 11, 1951)
Along the Great Divide ...025... (88) June 2
Western Drama. U.S. marshal, interrupts
a lynching and crosses the desert with the
accused man in custody, to bring him to
trial. When a quick conviction follows, the
marshal is able to prove the man innocent.
Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar,
Walter Brennan. Director: Raoul Walsh.
Breaking Point, The....005.... (97) Sept. 30, '50
Drama. Fishing boat skipper, with a mortgage,
a plain wife and two small daughters,
gets involved in smuggling and murder
when he tries to to earn some easy money.
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