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AARON SLICK FROM PUNKIN CRICK (Comedy With
Music). Stors: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert
Merrill. Producers: William Per I George Seoton.
Director: Claude Binyon. Original: Beole Cormock.
Screenplay: Claude Binyon.
• Film version of what is soid to be one of the
most popular plays in the repertoire of stage stock
componies. The city slicker, Robert Merrill, ottempts
to gain control of the farm owned by the
widow, Dinah Shore, but is thwarted by the country
bumpkin, Alan Young. Filmed in Technicolor.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN (Comedy-Drama). Stars:
Jose Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar. Producers:
William Perlberg, George Seaton. Director: George
Seaton. Original: Helen and George Papashvily.
Screenplay: George Seaton, George Oppenheimer.
• Jose Ferrer and Kurt Kosznar, immigrants from
Russia, seek U.S. citizenship. Ferrer falls in love
with Kirr. Hunter, a court stenographer in New
York, and pursues her to California, where he ends
up OS an orange rancher. After a series of complications
their romance ends happily and Ferrer
becomes an American citizen.
THE BLAZING FOREST (Action Drama). Stars: John
Poyne, Susan Morrow, William Demo rest. Producers:
William Pine, William Thomos. Director:
Edward Ludwig. Original: William Wister Haines,
Screenplay: Winston Miller.
• John Payne is the hard-pushing boss of a timber-logging
section, trying to moke good the wrongs
done by a worthless brother, Richard Arlen. Payne's
methods ore misinterpreted by Susan Morrow, niece
of the woman who owns the timber land, but ultimately
his motives are made clear. Filmed in Technicolor.
BOTANY BAY (Historical Drama). Stars: Alan Lodd,
James Mason, Patricia Medina. Producer: Joseph
Sistrom. Director: John Farrow. Original: Charles
Nordhoff, Jomes Norman Holl. Screenplay; Jonathan
Latimer.
• An American colonist in 1790 is unjustly convicted
in England and sent to Australia at the time
of the founding of that colony. Filmed in Technicolor.
CARIBBEAN GOLD (Action Drama). Stars: Rhonda
Fleming, John Payne. Francis L. Sullivan. Producers:
William Pine, William Thomas. Director: Edward
Ludwig. Original: Ellery H. Clark. Screenplay;
Curtis Kenyon, Morton Grant.
• This story of treasure-hunting in West Indian
woters will be photographed in Technicolor.
CARRIE (Dromo). Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer
Jones, Eddie Albert. Producer-Director: William
Wyler. Original: Theodore Dreiser. Screenplay:
Ruth and Augustus Goetz.
• Laurence Olivier, middle-aged businessman, falls
so desperately in love with Jennifer Jones that he
sacrifices his wealth and family and becomes o
Bowery bum. Meantime Jennifer leaves him, becomes
successful on the stage and learns, too late,
the depths of his affection for her.
CROSSWINOS (Action Drama). Stars: John Payne,
Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker. Producers: William
Pine, William Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster.
Original: Thompson Burtis. Screenplay: Lewis R.
Foster.
• John Payne, skipper of o South Seos schooner,
is tricked out of his vessel and jailed by Forrest
Tucker, double-crossing trader, who then steals o
cargo of gold shipped by a mining concern. Payne
gets out of jail, rescues the stolen gold and wins
the love of Rhonda Fleming. Filmed in Technicolor.
DARLING, HOW COULD YOU! (Comedy) Stars: Joan
Fontaine, John Lund, Mono Freeman. Producer;
Harry Tugend. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Originol:
Sir James Borrie. Screenplay; Dodie Smith, Lesser
Samuels.
• Joon Fontaine, on attractive mother, and her
husband, John Lund, return home after being
oway for several years to find their children ore
practically strangers. The daughter. Mono Freeman,
believes Joan is involved in an affair with a
young man, and in straightening out the situation
Joan reqoins her children's affection.
THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE (Western) Stars: Edmond
O'Brien, Sterling Hoyden, Dean Jogger. Producer;
Not Holt. Director: Byron Haskin. Original
Screenplay: Frank Gruber.
• The Denver & Rio Grande rai'road is heading
for a vital Royal Gorge pass route ocross the Rockies
to Salt Lake City. Seeking the same route is the
rival Canyon City and Son Juan railroad. After
much skulduggery and sabotage, the D. & R. G.
emerges victorious. Filmed in Technicolor.
DETECTIVE STORY (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas,
Eleanor Porker, William Bendix. Producer-Director:
William Wylor. Original: Sidney Kingsley. Screenplay:
Philip Yordon, Robert Wyler.
• In a New York police station Kirk Douglas, a
tough detective, has to cope with a shoplifter, two
cot burglars and o doctor whose speciality is illegal
operations. Learning that his own wife once patronized
the doctor, Douglas goes berserk and is fatally
wounded when one of the burglars tries to escape.
FLAMING FEATHER (Western). Stars; Sterling Hoyden,
Barbara Rush, Forrest Tucker. Producer: Nat
Holt. Director: Ray Enright. Original: Gerald Droyson
Adams. Screenplay: Frank Gruber.
• A mysterious outlaw is terrorizing the citizens
of Arizona Territory in the 1870s. Rancher Sterling
Hoyden, his holdings wiped out by the raider,
goes on the trail and finally corners the outlaw
ond his band of marauding Indians in a cliff dwelling.
Filmed in Technicolor.
GENTLEMEN OF THE JUNGLE (Action Drama). Stars
Rhonda Fleming. Producers; William Pine, William
Thomas. Director; Lewis R. Foster. Original: Tom
Gill. Screenplay; Not set.
• This adventure drama is slated for filming in
Technicolor on location in Guatemala.
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (Musical Comedy). Stars; Tom
Morton, Rosemary Clooney. Producer: William Hommerstein
M. Director: Not set. Originol: Brett
Morgan. Screenplay: Not set.
• This tunefiim, with a Hollywood background,
IS built oround the studio's "Golden Circle" of
young controct players who ore groomed for stardom.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Circus Drama)
Stars: Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde.
Producer-Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Original
Screenplay: Fredric Frank, Frank Covett, Barre
Lydon.
• This merges Hollywood personalities with the
Ringling Bros.-Bornum & Bailey circus in a plot that
spans love, hate, tragedy ond treachery in the
world of spun candy and spangles. Betty Hutton
is the trapeze artist, Jomes Stewart the clown and
Cornel Wilde the daring aerialist. Filmed in Technicolor.
HONG KONG (Action Droma). Stars: Ronald Reagan,
Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce. Producers: William
Pine, William Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster.
Originol: David Long. Screenplay: Winston Miller.
• Ronald Reagan, American adventurer in China,
is "adopted" by a 4-year-old Chinese orphan boy
fleeing the Reds. The boy is hiding o voluoble
jeweled idol which a wor lord covets. With the oid
of Rhonda Fleming, who is in charge of a group
of aged Chinese, Reagan outwits the war lord.
Filmed in Technicolor.
JUMPING JACKS (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry
Lewis, Robert Strauss. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director:
Norman Tourog. Original Screenplay: Herbert
Baker, John Grant.
• !n which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—after
previous adventures with the army and navy—become
involved with Uncle Sam's paratroopers.
THE MILITARY POLICEMAN (Comedy). Stars: Bob
Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Moxwell (incomplete).
Producer: Horry Tugend. Director: George
Marshall. Original Screenplay: Jock Sher, Hoi
Kanter.
• Bob Hope is cast as a bungling MP in this story
of army life.
MY FAVORITE SPY (Comedy). Stars: Bob Hope, Hedy
Lomarr, Francis Sullivan. Producer: Paul Jones.
Director; Norman Z. McLeod. Original; Edmund
Beloin, Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Edmund Hortmonn,
Jock Sher.
• Bob Hope enacts a dual role as on American
burlesque comedian and a European spy. The latter,
only link to a new type of pilotless aircraft,
is shot, and government security agents substitute
the comedian for him on a trip to Tangiers, where
he outwits an espionoge ring and gets the needed
data.
MY SON, JOHN (Drama). Stars: Helen Hayes, Robert
Wolker, Van Heflin. Producer-Director; Leo Mc-
Carey. Original: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Not set.
• Helen Hayes and Dean Jogger ore the typical
American parents of three sons, of whom the
youngest is Robert Walker. To their dismay they
learn that Wolker has become involved in a Communist
party conspiracy.
RED MOUNTAIN (Western). Stars: Alan Lodd, Lizobeth
Scott, John Ireland. Producer: Hal Wallis.
Director: Williom Dieterle. Original; George W.
George, George F. Slavin. Screenplay: John Meredyth
Lucas, Edna and Edward Anhalt.
• Alan Lodd, Confederate army captain, joins
Ouontrell's raiders to aid the southern couse, falls
in love with a northern girl, Lizobeth Scott, and
disillusioned by Quantrell's cruelty ond treachery
plots his defeat and kills the guerrilla chieftain.
Filmed in Technicolor.
SAILOR BEWARE (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry
Lewis, Marion Morsholl. Producer; Hot Wallis. Director:
Hal Wolker. Original: Kenyon Nicholson.
Screenploy: John Grant.
• Navy pals ore Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
The latter is allergic to women's makeup but is
tolked into accepting a bet that he con kiss the
most beautiful girl in Honolulu. This couses trouble
with his jealous girl friend, Marion Marshall, a
WAVE, but Jerry manages to win the bet and square
things with Marion.
SCALPEL (Drama). Stars: Burt Lancaster (incomplete).
Producer; Hal Wallis. Director; Not set. Original;
Horace McCoy. Screenplay: Not set.
• A youth comes out of the coal mines to work
his way through medical school and on to a great
coreer, only to make his biggest sacrifice for the
woman he loves.
SHANE (Western). Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Von
Heflin. Producer-Director; George Stevens. Original:
Jock Schoefer. Screenplay; A. B. Guthrie.
• Von Heflin and Jean Arthur, of o Wyoming
homesteoding family, ore fighting a losing battle
against the big ranchers, who \yant the small farms
for grazing land. But when quick-drawing Alan
Lodd arrives and joins the fight on behalf of the
homesteaders, the ranchers are defeated. Filmeo
in Technicolor.
SILVER CITY (Western). Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Edmond
O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer; Not Holt.
Director: Byron Haskin. Original: Luke Short.
Screenplay: Frank Gruber.
• Edmond O'Brien, a mining engineer, helps Yvonne
De Carlo and her father find o rich vein in a
leased silver mine. Barry Fitzgerald, the mine
owner, conspires to regain his property, but with
Yvonne's love and help O'Brien is successful in defeating
Fitzgerald. Filmed in Technicolor.
SOMEBODY LOVES ME (Musical Comedy). Stors: Betty
Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Adele Jergens. Producers:
William Perlberg, George Seaton. Directors; Irving
Brecher. Original Screenplay: Irving Brecher.
• This is based on the careers of Blossom Seeley
and Benny Fields, vaudeville and nightclub entertainers.
The film also etches the development of
modern American music and includes numbers by
Gershwin, Irving Berlin and other composers. Jack
Benny appears briefly as a guest star. Filmed in
Technicolor.
SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR (Dramo). Stars; Roy Milland,
Joan Fontoine, Teresa Wright. Producer-Director;
George Stevens. Original Screenplay: Dwight
Taylor.
• Joan Fontaine, a stage actress, has become on
alcoholic. Becoming involved with her is Ray
Millond, a New York advertising executive, who
helps to cure her weakness. Teresa Wright, Milland's
wife, completes the tangled triangle.
SON OF PALEFACE (Comedy Western). Stars: Bob
Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers. Producer: Robert
L. Welch. Director: Frank Tashiin. Original Screenplay:
Robert L. Welch, Frank Toshlin, Joe Quillon.
• Bob Hope is cost, in this sequel to "The Paleface,"
as a Harvard graduate who goes to the
wild west seeking the fortune presumably left him
by his lote fother. Jane Russell is the leoder of
o bandit gong and Roy Rogers a government agent.
Filmed in Technicolor.
THE STOOGE (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry
Lewis, Polly Bergen. Producer: Hoi Wallis. Director:
Norman Tourog. Original: Fred F. Finklehoffe, Sid
Silvers. Screenplay; Fred F. Finklehoffe, Mortin
Rackin.
• Dean Martin, doing a vaudeville act as a single,
toys an egg, and hires Jerry Lewis, a dimwitted
clerk, to sit in a box seat and interchange banter.
The act is a huge success, but Dean foils to give
Jerry credit—or billing—until forced to the realization
of how important his stooge's contribution has
been.
THE STREETS WERE PAVED WITH GOLD (Action
Drama). Stars; Rhonda Fleming, John Payne (incomplete).
Producers: William Pine, William
Thomas. Director; Not set. Original Screenplay;
Geoffrey Homes.
• A story of the Alaskan gold rush at the turn
of the century, this will be photographed tn Technicolor.
SUBMARINE COMMAND (Dromo). Stars; William
Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix. Producer:
Joseph Sistrom. Director; John Farrow. Original
Screenplay; Jonothon Latimer.
• William Holden is skipper of o submarine in
World War II and, later, the Korean conflict. Brooding
over o split-second decision which meant the
loss of two of his crew, he nearly wrecks his marriage
and career, but finds the answer to his
doubts in a heroic, dangerous and successful mission.
THIS IS DYNAMITE (Crime Drama). Stars: William
Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O'Brien. Producer:
Irving Asher. Director: Williom Dieterle. Originol;
Horace McCoy. Screenplay; John Bright, W. R.
Burnett.
• William Holden, a crusoding reporter, is instrumental
in breaking up on underworld syndicote
which controls a major American metropolis.
THUNDER IN THE EAST (Drama). Stars; Alan Lodd.
Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer. Producer; Everett
Riskin. Director; Charles Vidor. Original; Alon
Mooreheod. Screenplay: Jo Swerling.
• Aviator Alan Lodd flies guns ond ommunitton
into the Indian province of Ghondohor, but is
hampered by Charles Boyer, who believes the current
insurrection con be stopped by love and kindness.
Eventuoly Lodd decides money isn't everything
and stands off the invaders while women
ond children escope by plane.
WAR OF THE WORLDS (tnterplonetory Dromo). Stars;
Les Tremoyne (incomplete). Producer: George Pol.
Director: Byron Haskin. Original: H. G. Wells.
Screenplay: Borre Lyndon.
• Producer George Pol, who has mode such recent
spoce operas as "Destination Moon" ond
"When Worlds Collide," continues in the sciencefiction
vein with on adaptation of H. G. Wells'
story of on invasion from Mors. Sloted for Technicolor.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Science-Fiction Dromo).
Stars: Richard Derr, Barbaro Rush, Lorry Keating.
Producer: George Pal. Director: Rudolph Mote.
Original: Edwin Bolmer, Philip Wylie. Screenplay:
Sydney Boehm.
• Astronomers discover onother star and planet
ore hurtling toward the earth and that the star
will wipe out our world. A rocketship is built and
40 people, chosen by lot, manage to escape to the
oncoming planet, leaving only minutes before the
earth is demolished. Filmed in Technicolor.
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