Boxoffice-May.03.1952

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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Adlines for Newspaper and Programs
THE STORY: "The Red Ball Express" (U-I)
During the allied push toward Paris in World War II, General
Pattens tanks outrun their supply lines. Jelf Chandler,
a lieutenant, is assigned to ihrow together a "Red Ball" unit
of supply trucks and get them through to the stalled tanks at
the Iront Chandler's associates include Alex Nicol, a
sergeant, who hates him because he mistakenly believes
Chandler was responsible for the death of Nicol's brother in
a trucking accident before the war, and Charles Drake, a
serious-minded young private. Chandler and Nicol remain at
odds until the lieutenant saves the sergeant's life by pulling
him from a burning truck after it overturns in a blazing
French village. The feud ends, the mission is completed and
the three men turn their trucks back toward home base.
CATCHLINES:
From Beachhead to Battlefront . . . They Drove the Most
Dangerous Road in the World . . . Through Miles of Bombs,
Bullets and Bedlam .
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THE STORY: 'CarBon City" (WB)
Randolph Scott, a railroad engineer, is hired to build a line
from Carson City to 'Virginia City—a project conceived by a
bank to protect its investments in the mines, since stagecoaches
bearing gold and silver are being systematically
looted. Some citizens of Carson City, respectable and otherwise,
oppose the railroad; a leader of the crooked element is
Raymond Massey, supposedly a respected mine owner who
in reality is the secret leader of the outlaw gang robbing
the stages. The rail workers are wrongfully blamed for
terrorizing. Carson City, but despite this and other handicaps
Scott completes the line to Virginia City. Massey plans
to rob the train of one last haul, but Scott learns of the scheme
and, as Massey tries for a get-away, Scott pursues and
kills him.
CATCHLINES:
Carson City . . . Sprawling, Brawling Gateway to Gold . . .
End of the Line for the Doomed and the Daring . . . Last Outpost
of the Lawless . the Frontier Flamed With Action.
THE STORY:
"Loan Shark" (Lippert)
Released from prison after a three-year stretch for assault,
George Raft moves in with his sister, Helen Westcott, and
her husband, William Phipps, who works for a tire company.
Through Dorothy Hart, secretary to the plant manager. Raft
is offered a job to get the lowdown on loan sharks who are
preying on the firm's employes, charging usurious interest
rates and terrorizing borrowers who miss payments. Raft
refuses until Phipps, accusing Russell Johnson, plant foreman,
of steering suckers to the crooks, is slain by Johnson. Then
Raft accepts the sleuthing job and joins the gang, leading
Dorothy to believe he has returned to the rackets. He learns
Johnson killed Phipps, and forces another mobster to take him
to the head of the syndicate. In a gun battle the ringleaders
are killed and the racket wiped out.
CATCHLINES:
The Inside Story of Today's Most Despised Racket . . .
Ablaze With Two-Fisted Action As Only George Raft Can
Dish It Out . Up Against a Carload of Thrills.
THE STORY: "Wall ol Death" (Realart)
Two friends, Laurence Harvey, a boxer, and Maxwell Reed,
a motorcycle racer, are the main attractions of an English
traveling fair. Maxwell has his heart set on raising money
enough to enter cm important competition on a motorcycle
dirt track. Laurence, blindly loyal to his reckless, unscrupulous
pal, takes money from his employer, Robert Adair,
intending to pay it back after Maxwell wins the race. Robert,
who dislikes the racer, finds out about it and makes Laurence
put it back. Maxwell gets involved in a fight and faces
a possible murder charge. Although Laurence's boss and
Susan Shaw, his fiancee, both try to dissuade him from
helping Maxwell, he peisists and even helps him steal
a car. Detectives get on Maxwell's trail, but arrive at the
raceway too lale to stop the race. Maxwell is killed in a
track accident and Laurence is later cleared.
CATCHLINES:
Behind the Scenes of an English Fair . . . Exciting Spectacle
of Motorcycle Daredevils Climbing the Wall of Death.
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THE STORY:
"Walk East on Beacon" (Col)
Korel Stepanek, master Soviet spy, is sent to the U.S. to
replace another agent who has been unsuccessfully trying
to learn about a secret American scientific project. Stepanek
uses a mild-mannered florist and a photographer's assistant
(Virginia Gilmore) to blackmail Finlay Currie, refugee scientist
who is working on a project in a Boston laboratory.
Currie reports the blackmail scheme to the FBI and George
Murphy takes over the case. Currie is protected by FBI
agents but, despite this, he is captured after he passes on
false data to Stepanek. Meanwhile, in Washington, Louisa
Horton, another spy, who has been working with her husband,
who is employed by the government, is captured by
the FBI with confidential data. The Soviets put Currie aboard
a yy'i.-.arine bound for Russia, but the FBI rescues him.
CATCri4.-r ^S:
A Story bilaight Out of Today's Newspaper Headlines .
Louis de Rochemont, Who Brought You "The House on 92nd
Street," "13 Rue Madeleine" and "Lost Boundaries," Now
Brings You a Thrilling Tale of the FBI Versus Soviet Spies.
THE STORY:
"Border Saddlemates" (Rep)
Rex Allen government veterinarian, is dispatched to a
Montana town near the Canadian border, the heart of the
silver fox farming industry. He meets Mary Ellen Kay, her
young brother Jimmie Moss and their uncle, Forrest Taylor,
owner of a thriving fox farm. Unknown to anyone, Taylor
is associated with Roy Barcroft—who has a trading post just
over the border—in a counterfeit money ring, the spurious
money being smuggled irito the U.S. in crates containing
silver foxes. An unidentified sickness contracted by one of
the foxes forces Rex to slap a quarantine on Taylor's farm.
The fox, Jimmie's pet, is stolen by Borcroft's gang and Jimmie,
out looking for it, is captured by the counterfeiters. Rex
captures Barcroft after Taylor has been slain by the crooks,
and the smuggling ring is broken up.
CATCHLINES:
There's Action Blazing Along the Border ... As Rex Allen
Uses Six-Guns and Flying Fists ... To Break Up a Ruthless
Ring of Counterfeiters . . . It's Exciting Western Adventure.
THE STORY:
"Wild Horse Ambush" (Rep)
Mexican law enforcement agencies discover large amounts
of counterfeit money are being circulated and, suspecting the
source is somewhere on the American side of the border,
Richard Avonde, Mexican police chief, poses as a bandit and
contacts Sheriff James Bell. The latter's grandchildren. Red
Chapin and Judy Janssen, try to convince them that suspicious
things are happening oh the ranch owned by Roy
Barcroft, who in reality heads the counterfeiting gang. Red
discovers Barcroft is secreting the queer money in on
ingenious fashion under the manes of wild horses, which
are then driven over the border. He and Judy are captured
by the crooks but rescued in time's nick, and Bell and Avonde
clean up the counterfeiting gang, aided by the evidence
that the two children have secured.
CATCHLINES:
Another Exciting Adventure of the Sagebrush . . . With
Your Two Favorite Buckaroo Sheriffs . . . They're Rootin',
Tootin' Rangers of the Golden Sage.
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THE STORY: "Brief Rapture" (Jewel)
Ermanno Randi goes to Rome in search of his sister, from
whom he has not heard in a long time. At her last known
address, he rummages through her effects and finds the
address of Lois Maxwell, who tells him his sister is traveling
in Europe with an old lady and that he should return home.
However, Randi is attracted to Lois, even when he learns
she is mixed up with unsavory underworld characters. The
mob tries to get Lois to get rid of Randi, fearing he may
learn the truth about his sister—that she became a drug
addict and killed herself. Instead of luring Randi to the
waterfront, where the mob plans to kill him, she informs the
police. The mobsters are captured and Randi is able to
go away with Lois.
CATCHLINES:
Tortured Souls Driven to Desperation for the "Brief Rapture"
of Drugs ... A Film That Dares to Tell the Truth About the
Traffic in Dope . Sensational Story of a Girl Who
Was Caught in the Mesh of the Underworld.