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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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