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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Adiines for Newspaper and Programs
THE STORY; "Small Town Girl" (MGM)
with speeding, wealthy Farley Granger oi New
is jailed in the small town oi Duck Creek, and metroiitan
news photographers make front page ma erial out
an accidental clinch involving him and Jane Powell,
aaughter oi the judge who sentenced him^ Grangei tries
a hunger strike, hoping to get out oi jail long enough to
help Ann Miller, a musical comedy queen with whom he
was eloping at the time oi his arrest, celebrate her birthday.
He deludes lane with a lantastic story and she arranges ior
him to sneak out. However, Jane tags along with him, and
while they are in New York they iall in love. Granger
returns docilely to jail, but Jane's lather iorcibly evicts him
to break up the romance However, Granger returns, is
deliberately bagged again ior speeding, and is reunited
with Jane.
CATCHLINES:
The Whole Town .
4,516 ... Is Gossiping
About the Judges Daughter . . . And That Young Man From
New York . . . He's Too Fast With Motor Cars . Money
and Mink Coats.
THE STORY: "Sombrero" (MGM)
There is keen rivalry—even hatred—between a pair oi
Mexican villages, which stems irom the fact thai one is, and
the other wants to be, the resting place ior the bones oi a
historical hero ol the valley in which both towns are located.
When Ricardo Montalban, mischief-making caballero of one
village, ialls in love with Pier Angeli, the daughter of the
mayor of the other, a series of situations is created that
nearly leads to bloodshed. With the aid of his parish priest,
a rigged cock-fight and the subsidizing oi a boundary-line
statue of the community hero, Montalban overcomes the
obstacles, peace is restored and Cupid triumphs. Meanwhile,
Vittorio Gassman and Rick Jason, Montalban's pals, are
pursuing paralleling and comparably turbulent romances
with, re.spectively, Yvonne DeCorlo and Cyd Charisse.
CATCHLINES:
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Filmed Amid the Color and Gaiety of Mexico . . . Here
One of the Year's Most Strikingly Diiierent Entertainment
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Treats an AU-Star Cast oi Your Favorite Players.
THE STORY: "Flowers oi St. Francis" (Burstyn)
The ten episodes from the life of St. Francis of Assissi, who
founded the Franciscan order, first tell how St. Francis and
his brothers arrived from Rome. Later, they built the chapel
of St. Mary of the Angels and St. Francis preached to the
noisy birds and made the swallows hold their peace. St.
Francis was tormented in his solitude during the night and
found comfort in meeting a leper; Brother Abilene cut the
loot oil a pig to make soup, and then he went out preaching
and iound himseli in the camp oi the Tyrant Nicolai. The
barbarians are about to kill him, but Brother Abilene shames
the tyrant and they ride away. The brothers later leave
their chapel and go their separate ways to preach peace
to the world.
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CATCHLINES:
He had a Message oi Peace to Bring to the World . . .
Inspiring Story oi St. Francis of Assissi . Triumph
from Roberto Rossellini, Who Directed "Open City," "The
Miracle" and "Bicycle Thief" . . . Inspiring, Devotional and
All of It True.
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THE STORY: 'The War ol the Worlds" (Para)
The inhabitants ol a small Calilornia town witness what
is generally believed to be the crash of a huge meteor, but
the object emits a heat ray which kills three people.
Marines are called into action alter word is received that
similar objects have landed in other parts oi the world
and have been described as Martian machines. All attempts
to destroy the monsters iail, even the A-bomb, and the
crisis becomes world-wide. Hysterical panic ensues, and
many people crowd the churches to regain iaith and hope.
When the Martian machines begin to collapse, an investigation
reveals a miracle has happened. A germ has iniecled
the invaders, who have no resistance to the earth's diseases.
From all over the globe come reports that the Martians are
dying, and the earth's people give thanks to Heaven.
CATCHLINES:
They Came From Outer Space ... To Wage Flaming,
. It's the Most Exciting Story Ever Told
. . . Hitting a New Peak in Sizzling, Shocking,
Furious War
on Film
Uniorgettable Suspense.
THE STORY:
"Marshal of Cedar Rock" (Rep)
Rancher Bill Henry is jailed ior robbing the Cedar Rock
bank, although claiming innocence. Rocky Lane, U.S. marshal,
allows Henry to escape, hoping he will either clear
himseli or lead Lane to the rest oi the bandit gang. Henry
accuses Roy Barcroit, owner oi the bank, of staging the
robbery himself, Barcroft's plot being to leave the local
ranchers penniless so he can buy their properties cheap and
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sell them, at a handsome profit, to a railroad which is
anxious to purchase. Barcroft and his henchmen try to
ambush and kill Lane and Henry and also attempt, unsuccessfully,
to swindle Eddy Waller, with whom Lane has
secured employment — posing as a roving cowhand—out of
his ranch. In an all-out gunfight, the heavies are subdued
and arrested, Henry is cleared oi the robbery charge and
Lane sets out on another assignment.
CATCHLINES:
Bullets Are Blazing . Fists Are Flying ... At Cedar
Rock Where Daring Desperadoes Hove Framed an
Innocent Man ... In a Plot to Put Over a Land Swindle .
It's Rocky Lane at His Best.
THE STORY: "Old Overland Trail" (Rep)
The bureau oi Indian affairs sends its agent. Rex Allen, out
west to stop Apaches Irom leaving their reservation to stage
uprisings. He encounters Roy Barcroft, head of a construction
company which has a government contract to build a railway
spur line. When a wagon train oi immigrants is attacked by
the redskins and their supplies destroyed, Barcroit oilers
them employment. In reality he engineered the attack as
a means ol securing cheap labor. He continues to swindle
the immigrants, but by now Rex begins to suspect the Barcroit
scheme. Barcroit kills Rex's brother, who had been the
crook's partner, and who now threatens to expose him. Rex
is accused ol the murder and, heading lor the hills, is
captured by the Apaches. Escaping, he rounds up the
immigrant homesteaders and they defeat the Barcroit gang.
CATCHLINES:
Smoking Guns Guard the Doorway to the West .
. . Until
Rex Allen Rides the Bullet-Scarred Trail ... In a Thrilling
Saga oi Blazing Adventure . Lusty, Brawling Battle.
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"We purchased this theatre December 3
and have been operating it for one
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Mr. and Mrs. Walt J.
Box 87,
Comfrey, Mian.
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