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\NDROCLES AND THE LION (Costume Comedy).
Stars: Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature.
Producer; Gabriel Pascal. Director: Chester Erskine.
Original: George Bernard Show. Screenplay; Chester
Erskine, Noel Langley.
• In eorly Roman days, Androcles {Alan Young)
mokes friends with a lion by removing a thorn from
his paw. When Caesar (Maurice Evons) has his
captain, Victor Moture, round up some Christian
martyrs including Jean Simmons and Androcles,
the latter finds himself areno-bound. He is saved
by his good friend, the lion.
AT SWORD'S POINT (Adventure-Dramo). Stars: Cornel
Wilde, Moureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas. Producer:
Jerroid T. Brandt. Director: Lewis Allen.
Originol; Alexandre Dumas. Screenplay: Not set.
• Urgently summoned by the Queen of France,
Cornel Wilde and his musketeer companions— including
brilliant swordswoman Maureen O'Hara—find
the princess, Noncy Gates, in the power of dastardly
Robert Douglas—who plans to slay her
brother, Peter Miles. Surmounting desperate obstacles,
the Musketeers rescue the royal victim.
Filmed in Technicolor.
BEHAVE YOURSELFI (Comedy). Stars: Shelley Winters,
Farley Granger, Williom Demarest. Producers: Jerry
Wald, Norman Krasna. Director: George Beck.
Original: George Beck, Frank Tarloff. Screenplay:
George Beck.
• A dog, trained by gongsters to act as o gobetween,
is mistaken by Shelley Winters as on anniversary
gift from her husband, Farley Granger.
The mobsters' efforts to get the dog back result
in series of murders, of which Farley suspected,
a but he ultimately maneges to
is
round up
the crooks and is hailed as a hero.
THE BIG SKY (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglos,
Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Coyote Threott. Producer-Director:
Howard Hawks. Original: A. B.
Guthrie jr. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols.
• In 1830 Kirk Douglas and his pal, Dewey Martin,
join an adventure-ridden keelboat expedition
into the midwest wilderness to establish a furtroding
post. Aboard the boat is o beautiful Indian
maiden, Elizabeth Coyote Threott, held hostage
to ensure safety in the wild country. During
the hazardous voyage Douglas wins Elizabeth as
his mate.
THE BLUE VEIL (Drama). Stars: Jane Wyman, Richard
Carlson, Charles Laughton. Producers: Jerry
Wold, Norman Krasna. Director: Curtis Bernhardt.
Original: Francois Compaux. Screenplay: Norman
Corwin.
• Jane Wyman, who has lost a child of her own,
devotes her life to the care of other people's children,
sacrificing all chances for romonce ond a
happy marriage. Ultimately she is reduced to poverty
until one of her now-grown-up "children" finds
her and takes her into his fomily as o permanent
member.
CLASH BY NIGHT (Droma). Stars: Barbara Stanwyck,
Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan. Producers: Jerry Wald,
Norman Krasna. Director: Fritz Long. Original:
Clifford Odets. Screenplay; Alfred Hayes.
• Adapted from a stage play by Clifford Odets,
this has a Monterey, Calif., fishing industry bockground
and deals with a man's betroyol by his
wife and best friend.
DOUBLE DYNAMITE (Comedy). Stars: Fronk Stnotro,
Jone Russell, Groucho Marx. Producer: Irving
Cummings jr. Director; Irving Cummings sr. Original:
Lee Rosten. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson.
• Frank Sinatra, a plodding clerk, is rewarded for
rescuing a mystery man from a brawl—and automaticolly
suspected of a coincidental bank theft.
Cleared, he sets out with his sweetheart, Jane Russell,
and pal Groucho Marx, on a prolonged spending
spree which the internal revenue deportment
abruptly terminates.
DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH (Historical Drama). Stars:
Guy Madison, Barbaro Payton, James Craig. Producers:
Maurice ond Frank King. Director; William
Cameron Menzies. Original: Hollister Noble. Screenplay;
Philip Yordan, Sidney Harmon.
• In the Civil Wor, James Craig, a Confederate, is
assigned to man a mountain outpost in an effort
to holt Sherman's march to the sea. Opposing him
IS his pre-war northern friend, Guy Madison. Barbara
Payton, who loves Craig, sacrifices her life
in a vain effort to persuade him to surrender.
Filmed in Supercinecolor.
EXCLUSIVE MODEL (Droma). Stars: Not set. Producer;
Jerry Wald, Norman Krasna. Director: Nat set.
Original Screenplay: Ketti Frings.
• A story of the Paris fashion industry, this is
scheduled for Technicolor filming, partially on location
in France.
A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Comedy). Stars: Groucho
Marx, William Bendix, Marie Wilson. Producers:
Irwin Allen, Irving Cummings jr Director: Chester
Erskine. Original: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan.
Screenplay: Chester Erskine.
• Sailors Groucho Marx and William Bendix
wangle o leave of absence from the brig when
Bendix ocquires a rocehorse. Upon sight of Marie
Wilson they fall in love, but her heart belongs to
Don DeFore. Brave men and true, they aid the
romance and occidentally thwart a pair of soboteurs
before settling back in the brig.
THE HALF-BREED (Western). Stars: Robert Young,
Jonis Carter, Jack Buetet. Producer: Irving Starr.
Director: Edword Ludwig. Original Screenplay: Robert
Hardy Andrews.
• Jack Buetel, half-breed Indian leader, trusts
Robert Young, a scout, until his people are
preyed upon. Relations continue strained until
Young proves Reed Hadley responsible for the
villoiny. Buetel returns to his people to plead
for understonding between the races. Filmed in
Technicolor,
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (Biographical Drama),
Stars: Danny Kaye, Renee Jeanmaire, Farley Granger.
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Charles
Vidor. Original Screenplay: Moss Hart, Samuel
Taylor.
• Danny Kaye is cost as Hans Christian Andersen,
the famed Danish author whose fairy tales hove
been read by generations of children the world
over. In Technicolor, the picture has Copenhagen
in the 1830s as its locale.
HIGH HEELS (Droma). Stars: Not set; Producers: Jerry
Wald, Norman Krasna. Director; Not set. Original:
Morva ond Lloyd Shearer. Screenplay: Marc Daniels.
• This revolves around the giris who supply a
minute of dancing pleasure to lonely men for
1 2 cents a dance.
I WANT
YOU (Drama). Stors: Dona Andrews, Dorothy
McGuire, For ley Granger. Producer: Samuel
Goldwyn. Director: Mork Robson. Original: Samuel
Goldwyn jr. Screenplay: Edward Newhouse, Joel
Sayre, Irwin Shaw.
• After a hitch in World War II, Dona Andrews
marries, settles down to raise o family, and goes
into business with his father and younger brother,
Farley Granger. Comes the Korean conflict and
Granger is drafted; and Andrews realizes he, too,
must get into service to protect his family and
country.
JET PILOT (War Drama). Stars: John Wayne, Janet
Leigh. Producer: Jules Furthman. Director: Josef
von Sternberg. Original: Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay:
Beirne Lay jr., Jules Furthman.
o A story of how the U.S. air force trains its jet
pilots and the work of jet aircraft in the Korean
conflict. In Technicolor.
THE KOREAN STORY (War Drama). Stars; Robert
Mitchum, Ann BIyth, Charles McGrow. Producer:
Edmund Grainger. Director; Toy Gornett. Original
Screenplay: Milton Krims, William Wister
Haines.
• This dramotizes the activities of the United
Nations' ground and air forces in the Korean theatre
of conflict, with Robert Mitchum as a U.S.
officer and Ann BIyth as a war correspondent. In
Technicolor,
THE LAS VEGAS STORY (Drama). Stars: Jane Russell,
Victor Mature, Vincent Price. Producer: Robert
Sparks Director: Robert Stevenson. Original; Jay
Dratler, Screenplay: John Lorkin.
• A girl thinks her husband has been fromed on
a robbery chorge by a detective who was formerly
her sweetheart. The three become involved when
she sets out to establish her husband's innocence.
MACAO (Droma). Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell,
William Bendix. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director:
Josef von Sternberg. Original: Bob Wlllioms.
Screenplay: Bernard C. Schoenfeld.
• On the island of Macao Robert Mitchum gets
a yen for Singer Jane Russell, and becomes involved
with Brad Dexter, o big-shot diamond smuggler.
When William Bendix, a disguised plainclothesmon,
is murdered, Mitchum outmaneuvers
Dexter, turns him over to the authorities and wins
the gol,
MONTANA BELLE (Western). Stars: Jane Russell,
George Brent, Scott Brady. Producer: Howard
Welch. Director: Allan Dwon. Original: M. Coates
Webster. Screenplay: Horace McCoy.
• Scott Brady, a Dolton gong member, foils for
Jane Russell, boss of o rival gang—as does George
Brent, a saloon keeper, who hopes to marry ond
reform her. Mistakenly believing a doublecross
IS afoot, Jane betrays Brady, and regrets her action
too late. He is trapped by Brent, and Jane dies
in the subsequent gun fight.
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Drama) Stars: Robert
Ryan, Ido Lupino, Word Bond. Producer: John
Houseman, Director: Nicholas Ray. Original: Gerald
Butler. Screenplay: A, I, Bezzendes,
• Robert Ryan, a detective by profession, is a lonely,
embittered man, until his path crosses that of
Ida Lupino- Despite the handicap of blindness,
Ida's deep, protective devotion to her mentally
defective brother is the factor that teaches Ryan