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FBI GIRL (Droma). Sfors: Audrey Totter, Cesar Romero,<br />

George Brent. Producer-Director: William<br />

Berkc. Original: Rupert Hughes. Screenplay; Richard<br />

Landau, Dwight Bobcock.<br />

• The governor of a state where a senote crime<br />

committee probe is about to bo lounched is, in<br />

reolity, a wonted murderer. His efforts to steal his<br />

fingerprints from the FBI files lead to murder and<br />

intrigue, but a trop laid by Audrey Totter, an<br />

FBI girl, leads to his ultimate capture.<br />

FOR MEN ONLY {Droma). Stars: Paul Henreid, Margaret<br />

Field, Robert Sherman. Producer-Director:<br />

Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Louis Morheim.<br />

• Paul Henreid, a college professor, befriends a<br />

student about to be initiated into a fraternity.<br />

The student dies, o victim of a brutal hozmg, and<br />

Henreid is framed by a coed whose advances he<br />

had repulsed. However, Henreid is successful in<br />

having hazing outlawed and in clearing his own<br />

name.<br />

GALVESTON (Historicol Western). Stars: Not set. Producer-Director:<br />

Charles Marquis Warren. Original<br />

Screenploy: John Champion.<br />

• Frontier days in Texas provide the background<br />

for this action entry.<br />

THE GREAT ADVENTURE (Melodrama). Stars: Jack<br />

Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price. Producer:<br />

Aubrey Boring. Director: David MocDonald. Original<br />

Screenpla>: Robert Westerby.<br />

• Jack Hawkins returns from Africa's Boer War<br />

to find his fiancee, Siobhon McKenna, married to<br />

Dennis Price. Price accomponies Hawkins on a<br />

hazardous journey to recover a cache of diamonds,<br />

ond disappears. Accused of his murder by his<br />

friend, Peter Hammond, Hawkins perishes in o<br />

mine slide while attempting to kill Hammond.<br />

HELLGATE PRISON (Action Drama), Stars: Lloyd<br />

Bridges (incomplete). Producer-Director: Charles<br />

Marquis Warren. Original: Not set. Screenplay:<br />

Not set.<br />

• Concerns a prisoner-of-war camp during the<br />

Civil War<br />

LEAVE IT TO THE MARINES (Comedy). Stars: Sid<br />

Melton, Mara Lynn, Gregg Mortell. Producer: Sigmund<br />

Neufeld. Director; Samuel Newfield, Original<br />

Screenplay: Orville Hampton.<br />

• At city hall Sid Melton gets confused, and instead<br />

of obtoining the marriage license his sweetheart.<br />

Mora Lynn, is waiting for, gets himself enlisted<br />

in the marine corps. A heartless sergeont,<br />

Gregg Mortell, coveting Mara, assigns Sid to mind<br />

the camp mascot, but in the line of duty Sid wins<br />

o hero's medal.<br />

LOAN SHARK (Melodrama). Stors: George Raft, Dorothy<br />

Hart. Producer: Edward Levin. Director: Seymour<br />

Friedman. Original Screenplay: not set.<br />

• George Roft has the starring role in this copsond-robbers<br />

melodrama.<br />

MAN BAIT (Mystery Drama). Stars: George Brent,<br />

Marguerite Chapman. Producers: Robert L. Lippert,<br />

James Correros. Director: Terence Fisher.<br />

Original: Jamc$ Hadlcy Chase. Screenplay: Frederick<br />

Knott.<br />

• This murder mystery was filmed in England.<br />

MASSACRE (Historical Western). Stars: not set. Producer:<br />

Sig Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original:<br />

Thomas Blackburn. Screenploy: not set.<br />

• A story of covolry-vs-lndions worfare in the<br />

1880s, this IS adapted from on Argosy mogozine<br />

serial.<br />

NAVAJO (Adventure Drama). Stars: Froncis Kee Teller,<br />

John Mitchell, members of Navajo tribe. Producer:<br />

Hall Bortlett. Director: Norman Foster. Original<br />

Screenplay: Norman Foster.<br />

• With the fierce independence of the Navajo,<br />

Francis Kee Teller, a seven-year-old, resolves to<br />

live with his tribe forever far from the white mar.<br />

Forced into a hated government school, he escapes,<br />

vengefully luring his pursuers to certain death<br />

but recoils from the shaming impulse and mokes<br />

his peace,<br />

RING AROUND SATURN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers:<br />

Edword and William Nossour, Paul Henreid.<br />

Director. Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Paul<br />

Roder.<br />

• This is a drama of form life, dealing with a boy<br />

and his champion bull.<br />

SKY HIGH (Comedy). Stars: Sid Melton, Maro Lynn,<br />

Sam Flint. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld, Director:<br />

Samuel Newfield. Original Screenplay: Orville<br />

Hampton.<br />

• When his wartime commander. Major Doug<br />

Evans, arrives at a U.S. air force base, toil gunner<br />

Sid Melton is assigned to pose os on enemy<br />

agent. In spite of spy Margio Dean's somctime:><br />

irresistible allure, Sid's efforts help effect capture<br />

of the would-be soboteurs.<br />

STOLEN FACE (Melodroma). Stars: Paul Henreid,<br />

Lizobctn Scott. Producer: James Correros, Robert<br />

L. Lippert. Director: Terence Fisher. Original:<br />

Alex Pool. Screenplay: Martin Berkley, Richard<br />

Londau.<br />

• This cops-and-robbers dromo was produced in<br />

England.<br />

SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN (Melodrama).<br />

Stars. George Reeves, Phyllis Cootes. Producers:<br />

Bernard Luber, Robert MoxwcH. Director: Lee<br />

Sholcm. Original Screenplay: Richard Fielding.<br />

• Film version of the adventures of the comic<br />

strip charocter, the invincible Superman.<br />

TALES OF ROBINHOOD (Adventure). Stors: Robert<br />

Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavonagh. Producer:<br />

Hal Roach jr. Director: James Tinling. Original<br />

Screenplay: Leroy H. Zehren.<br />

• In 12th century Eng'ond, nobleman Robin Hood<br />

(Robert Clarke) and a loyal bond he'p redress the<br />

wrongs imposed on the defeated Soxons by their<br />

Norman conquerors. Near his headquarters deep in<br />

Sherwood Forest Robin Hood rescues the foir<br />

Moid Marian (Mary Hatcher) from robbers, ond<br />

wins her to his ideals and heart.<br />

UNKNOWN WORLD (Science-Fiction Drama). Stors:<br />

Victor Kihon, Bruce Kellogg, Jim Bonnon. Producers:<br />

J. R. Rabin, I. A. Block, Director: Terry<br />

Morse. Original Screenplay: Millard Koufmon.<br />

• Six men and a woman drill a hole into the<br />

depths of the earth, seeking a sofe retreat from<br />

a possible atomic war. They reach a vast subterraneon<br />

world but ore imperiled by on earthquake,<br />

and manage to escape just in time to ovoid<br />

being cought in a huge tidal wove.<br />

VARIETIES ON PARADE (Musical). Stars: Tom Neol,<br />

Eddie Dean, Jackie Coogan, Speciolty Acts. Producer-Director:<br />

Ron Ormond. Original Screenplay:<br />

Ron Ormond.<br />

• With Eddie Garr serving as master of ceremonies,<br />

this has Tom Neal, Jackie Coogan, Lyie Talbot and<br />

Iris Adrian appearing in a series of skits, interspersed<br />

with song numbers ond a number of vaudeville<br />

acts, including ocrobots, jugglers, dancers and<br />

magicians.<br />

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ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (Historical Western).<br />

Stars: Clark Gable, Mario Elena Marques, Ricordo<br />

Monfalbon. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Williom<br />

A. Wellmon. Original: Talbot Jennings, Frank<br />

Covett. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings.<br />

• Clark Gable, o tropper and Indian fighter in the<br />

1880s, morries Maria Elena Marques of the Blockfoot<br />

tribe, to gain borgoining power with her people.<br />

After she bears him a son, and he falls deeply<br />

in love with her, she is killed in a redskin attack<br />

upon Coble's party, ond Gable returns the baby to<br />

the Blackfoot people.<br />

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Musical).<br />

Stars: Gene Kelly, Danny Koye, Dean Stockwell.<br />

Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli.<br />

Original: Mark Twain. Screenplay: Donald<br />

Ogden Stewart, Alan Joy Lerner.<br />

• Mark Twain's classic story of the Mississippi in<br />

the 1840s comes to the screen as a Technicolor<br />

tunefilm, with Dean Stockwell title-roling as the<br />

youngster who journeys down the river on o raft<br />

with a Negro slave whom he eventually succeeds in<br />

setting free.<br />

AMERICAN BEAUTY (Comedy Dramo). Stars: Not set.<br />

Producer: Sidney Sheldon. Director: Not set. Original:<br />

Eiick Moll, Robert Jung. Screenplay: Margaret<br />

Fitts, Edith Sommer, Charles Lederer, Ken Englund.<br />

• In four episodes, this interweaves the stories of<br />

four American girls.<br />

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Musical). Stors: Gene<br />

Kelly, Leslie Coron, Oscar Levant. Producer: Arthur<br />

Freed. Director: Vincente Minelli. Original Screenplay:<br />

Alan Joy Lerner.<br />

• Gene Kelly, on ex-GI, stays in Paris after the<br />

war and dobbles at being o painter. Nina Foch,<br />

o wealthy, foot-loose American girl, falls in love<br />

with him and uses her money to help his career,<br />

but Gene falls madly in love with Leslie Coron, a<br />

pretty French girl—and, although poor, they plon<br />

to marry. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />

BANNERLINE (Drama). Stars: Keefe Brasselle, Sally<br />

Forrest, Lionel Borrymore. Producer; Henry Bermon.<br />

Director; Don Weis. Original: Samson Rophaelson.<br />

Screenplay: Charles Schnee.<br />

• An ambitious young reporter, Keefe Brasselle,<br />

is instrumental in rousing his community to the<br />

foct thot the city is controlled by racketeering<br />

grofters. After he is brutally beaten by the mobsters,<br />

the grand jury calls on emergency session and<br />

the fight begins for civic reform.<br />

BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE (Musical Comedy). Stars:<br />

Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, Spring Byington.<br />

Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Alexander Hall.<br />

Original; Joe Posternok, Screenplay: Ruth Brooks<br />

Flippen, Leonard Spigelgass, Karl Tunberg.<br />

• An opera star is drafted into military service.<br />

BELLE OF NEW YORK (Musical Comedy). Stars:<br />

Fred Astaire, Vero-Ellen, Keenan Wynn. Producer:<br />

Arthur Freed. Director: Chorles Walters. Original<br />

Screenplay; Jerry Davis, Irving Elingson, Robert<br />

O'Brien.<br />

• Fred Astaire has a proposing complex—especially<br />

where chorus girls ore concerned—and is now,<br />

unhappily, engoged to marry one. But he falls in<br />

love all over ogoin with Vero-Ellen, who is engaged<br />

in missionary work on the Bowery, forgets<br />

all about his own wedding and finally winds up<br />

with Vero-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor.<br />

BRIGADOON (Musical Comedy). Stars: Gene Kelly,<br />

Kathryn Grayson. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director:<br />

Not set. Original: Alan Lerner. Screenplay:<br />

Alan Lerner.<br />

• Film version of the stage success, this has o<br />

Scottish background and will be filmed in Technicolor.<br />

CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY {Comedy Western).<br />

Stars: Howard Keel, Fred MocMurroy, Dorothy Mc-<br />

Guire. Producer-Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin<br />

Frank. Original Screenplay; Norman Panama,<br />

Melvin Frank.<br />

• Howard Keel, hard-drinking cowboy star, is a<br />

hos-been until TV, running his old pictures, makes<br />

him a notional hero. Efforts to locate him are<br />

futile, but his double—a clean-living cowhand— is<br />

imported from the range. When the real cowboy star<br />

appears, he almost ruins the plot until his double<br />

disposes of him and wins the gal.<br />

CALLING BULLDOG DRUMMOND (Mystery Drama).<br />

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Morgaret Leighton, Robert<br />

Beotty. Producer: Hayes Goetz. Director: Victor<br />

Seville. Original: Gerald Fair lee. Screenplay: Gerald<br />

Fairlee, Emmett Rogers, Arthur Wimperis.<br />

• Prevailed upon by Scotland Yard to help solve<br />

a series of large-scale robberies. Bulldog Drummond<br />

(Walter Pidgeon) emerges from retirement,<br />

poses as a wanted criminal and joins the gang.<br />

At the risk of his own life, Drummond manages<br />

to cooture the ringleoder. Filmed in England.<br />

CARBINE WILLIAMS (Drama). Stars: James Stewart,<br />

Wendell Corey, Jeon Hagen. Producer: Armond<br />

Deutsch. Director: Richard Thorpe, Original Screenplay:<br />

William Bowers, Arthur Cohn.<br />

• A biogrophy of David Marshall Williams, who<br />

while serving a prison sentence— invented the carbine<br />

used by U.S. troops in World War II. James<br />

Stewart is cast as Williams and Wendell Corey as<br />

the prison warden who was instrumental in encouraging<br />

Williams to succeed in his achievement.<br />

DANGEROUS WHEN WET (Musical Comedy). Stars;<br />

Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Debbie Reynolds.<br />

Producer: George Wells. Director: Not set. Original:<br />

Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley.<br />

• Another tunefilm, in Technicolor, showcasing the<br />

oquotic talents of Esther Williams.<br />

DAYS BEFORE LENT (Drama). Stars: Gig Young,<br />

Keenan Wynn, Williom Campbell. Producer; John<br />

Houseman, Director: Gerald Mayer. Original: Hamilton<br />

Basso. Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides.<br />

• A surgeon tries to quit his profession but finds<br />

himself bound by ties that cannot be cut.<br />

EAGLE ON HIS CAP (Droma). Stars: Robert Taylor,<br />

Eleanor Parker, Morilyn Erskine. Producers and<br />

Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Original:<br />

Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay; Norman Ponoma,<br />

Melvin Frank, Beirne Lay jr.<br />

• This is a film biography of Col. Paul Tibbets,<br />

the air force pilot who dropped the first atomic<br />

bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.<br />

EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS (Musical). Stars: Red<br />

Skelton, Vero-Ellen (incomplete). Producer: George<br />

Wells. Director; Not set. Original Screenplay:<br />

George Wells.<br />

• This tunefilm will be photographed in Technicolor.<br />

FEARLESS FAGAN (Comedy). Stars: Debbie Reynolds,<br />

Corleton Carpenter (incomplete). Producer: Edwin<br />

H, Knopf. Director: Not set. Original; Sidney<br />

Franklin jr. Screenplay: Charles Lederer.<br />

• Taken from newspaper headlines is this story<br />

of o young mon who, when drafted, brought his<br />

trained lion into camp with him because he hod<br />

nowhere else to dispose of the animal.<br />

FLESH AND THE DEVIL (Romantic Drama), Stars:<br />

Ava Gardner, Ricardo Montalban, Fernando Lomos.<br />

Producer- Director: Clarence Brown. Original; Herman<br />

Sudermon. Screenploy: Not set.<br />

• A new version of the tempestuous love story<br />

which was first filmed by this company as a silent<br />

in 1927, co-starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.<br />

GHOST OF A CHANCE (Musical), Stars: Gene Kelly,<br />

Vero-Ellen (incomplete). Producer: Joe Pasternak.<br />

Director: Not set. Originol: Ned Young. Screenplay:<br />

Karl Tunberg, Leonard Spigelgass.<br />

• This musical, to be filmed in Technicolor, Is<br />

adopted from a novel of the same title by Ned<br />

Young.<br />

THE GIRL IN WHITE (Drama). Stars; June<br />

Arthur Kennedy, Gary Merrill. Producer:<br />

Allyson,<br />

Armond<br />

Deutsch. Director: John Sturges. Original: Emily<br />

Barringer. Screenploy: Irmgard von Cube, Philip<br />

Stevenson, Allan Vincent.<br />

• June Allyson portrays Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer<br />

in this film biography of the first woman<br />

ambulance doctor and surgeon in the history of<br />

American medicine.<br />

GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK (Musical). Cost: Gene<br />

Kelly, Vera-E'ien, Debbie Reynolds. Producer: Jack<br />

Cummmgs. Director; Not set. Original: Vera Cospory.<br />

Screenplay: Fronces Goodrich, Albert Hockett.<br />

• This Technicolor tunefilm has a Broadway locole.<br />

GLORY ALLEY (Drama). Stars: Ralph Meeker, Leslie<br />

Coron, Gilbert Roland. Producer: Nicholas Nayfack.<br />

Director; Raoul Walsh. Original Screenplay:<br />

Art Cohn.<br />

• This story of the U.S. marines casts Ralph<br />

Meeker as a prize-fighting champion.<br />

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