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Thanhs—<br />
June Allyson<br />
BOXOFFICE 97
erg, — O < 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. BAROMETER Section
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