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THE GAL WHO TOOK THE WEST. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 1949. 84 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: A burlesqued Western in which three old-timers give their separate versions of the rivalry between two cousins for the hand of an eastern singer.
Credits: Producer, Robert Arthur; director, Frederick De Cordova; story and screenplay, William Bowers, Oscar Brodney; music, Frank Skiimer; film editor, Milton Carruth. Cast: Yvonne DeCarlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, John Russell, Myrna Dell.
© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 8Sep49; LP2769.
THE GALLANT TAILOR. Walter Lantz
Productions, Inc., for the Coca-Cola Co.,
Inc., 1949. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: Having vanquished the giant who terrorized the village, a little tailor receives as his reward a bottle of Coca-Cola. An animated cartoon.
© Walter Lantz Productions, Inc.; 20May49 (in notice: 1948); LP2778.
THE GAMBLER. Pyramid Productions.
Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.
Summary: A chronic gambler takes a long chance gambling with his happiness and wins.
Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay. Jack Bernhard.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 6Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2877.
GATES OF THE NIGHT (LES PORTES
DE LA NUXT) Pathe Cinema, Paris, 1946.
Released in the U.S. by Tricolore Films,
Inc., 1950. 87 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
In French with English titles.
Summary: A melodrama in which a wealthy man's wife falls in love with a loyal Frenchman who served the underground during the war. Setting: Paris after World War II.
Credits: Producer, Pierre Laurent; director. Marcel Carne; screenplay, Jacques Prevert; music, Joseph Kosma; English titles, C. Denis Freeman. Cast; Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani.
© Tricolore Films, Inc.; 10Dec46 (in notice: 1950); LP2913.
THE GAY LADY. Two Cities Films, Ltd.,
London. Released in U. S. by Eagle Lion
Filnas, Inc., 1949. 95 min., sd., color,
35mm. Based on the novel, "Trottie
True" by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon.
Released in England with the title, "Trottie
True."
Summary: A backstage musical set in the gas-light era. A British show girl's happy marriage to a nobleman is threatened by the appearance of her former suitor.
Credits: Producer. Hugh Stewart; director. Brian Desmond Hurst; screenplay, C. Denis Freeman; music director, Muir Mathieson; music composed by Benjamin Frankel, played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; film editor, Ralph Kemplen. Cast: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Lana Morris, Andrew Crawford.
© Two Cities Films, Ltd.; 16Dec49 (in notice: 1948); LP2963.
GENERAL OPERATING RULES FOR POWER
BOILERS. Pts. 1-2. Armstrong Cork
Co., 1949. Filmstrip; pt. 1, 57 frames;
pt. 2, 56 frames; color, 35mm.
Summary: Presents rules for power boiler operators dealing with starting up, operation, maintenance, and coping with emergencies.
Credits: Author, Richard Guy Wickert. © Armstrong Cork Co.; 15Dec49; JU6289.
THE GENERAL'S COAT. Pyramid Productions, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w.
16mim.
Summary: By a clever ruse. General Andrew Jackson saves his own life in a duel.
Credits; Producer and director, Joseph Stanley; screenplay. Will Fowler, Grady O'Connor.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 6Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2868.
GERMELSHAUSEN. General Television
Enterprises, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd.,
b&w, 16mm. Based on the story of the
same title by Friedrich Gerstacker.
Summary: An American soldier in Germany accidentally stumbles upon an accursed village that appears only once in every 100 years.
Credits: Producer and director, Frank Wisbar; screenplay, James Griffin Jay; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 15Apr50 (in notice: 1949); LP51.
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH A SALE. Jam Handy Organization, Inc., for Hotpoint, Inc. © 1950. Filmstrip, 80 frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Steps for the Hotpoint salesman to follow when showing refrigerators to his customers.
©Hotpoint, Inc.; 1c 19Jun50; JU6456.
GETTING THE KNACK OF BLACK. Jam
Handy Organization, Inc., for E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. . Inc. © 1950.
Filmstrip, 33 frames, color, 35mm.
Summary: A sales film for Duco black finishes.
© E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.; 1c 7Apr50; JU6346.
GIOTTO'S LIFE OF CHRIST. Presented
by the editors of Life, 1950. Filmstrip,
55 frames, color, 35mm.
Summary: Presents reproductions of the frescoes by Giotto di Bondone in the Arena Chapel at Padua.
Credits: Selection, arrangement, and lecture notes by Henry Hart.
© Time Inc.; 11Jan50; AA148524.
THE GIRL FROM GUNSIGHT. Universal
Pictures Co., Inc., 1949. 25 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A musical Western.
Credits: Producer and director. Will Cowan; story and screenplay, Luci Ward; music arranged and conducted by Milton Schwarzwald; film editor, Russell Schoengarth. Cast: "Tex" Williams, Donna Martell, "Smokey" Rogers, "Deuce" Spriggens, Marin Sais.
© Universal Pictures Co. , Inc.; 8Sep49; LP2743.
THE GIRL FROM SAN LORENZO. Inter-American Productions, Inc. Released
through United Artists Corp., 1950.
59 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the
Cisco Kid character created by O. Henry
[pseud, of William Sydney Porter]
Summary: The Cisco Kid and his partner clear themselves of trumped-up charges of robbery and murder.
Credits: Producer, Philip N. Krasne; director, Derwin Abrahams; screenplay. Ford Beebe; music, Albert Glasser; film editor, Marty Cohn. Cast: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Jane Adams, Bill Lester, Byron Foulger.
© Inter-American Productions, Inc.; 24Feb50; LP138.
A GIRL IN A MILLION. British Lion
Film Corp. , Ltd., London, 1946. Released in the U. S. by London Film Productions, Inc., 1949. 86 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A comedy about a scientist with a phobia about nagging, locquacious women, who marries a dumb girl only to have her regain her speech and make ample use of it.
Credits: Producers, Muriel and Sydney Box; director, Francis Searle; story, and screenplay, Muriel and Sydney Box; music, Ben Frankel; film editor, V. Sagovsky. Cast: Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Eileen Joyce.
© London Film Productions, Inc.; 28Oct46 (in notice: 1949); LP2714.
GIRLS' SCHOOL. Columbia Pictures
Corp., 1950. 62 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A fashionable finishing school which is in financial straits, is saved through the efforts of a professional gambler's daughter.
Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director. Lew Landers; story. Jack Henley; screenplay, Brenda Weisberg; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Edwin Bryant. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Ross Ford, Laura Elliot, Julia Dean, Thurston Hall.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 24Jan50; LP2792.
GIVE US THIS DAY. SEE Salt to the Devil.
THE GLASS MOUNTAIN. Renown Pictures
Corp., Ltd., London. Released in the
U.S. by Eagle Lion Films, Inc., 1949.
11 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Obsessed by the remembrance of the girl who saved his life in Italy and the legend she told him, a British composer leaves his wife to return to the Italian mountains after the war to write the opera her story inspired. Filmed in the Italian Dolomites.
Credits: Producers, Fred Zelnik, Joseph Janni; director, Henry Cass; screenplay, Joseph Janni, Jack Hunter, Henry Cass; music, Nino Rota; film editor. Lister Laurance. Cast: Valentina Cortesa, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Sebastian Shaw, Antonio Centa, Tito Gobbi.
© Renown Pictures Corporation, Ltd.; 4Nov49; LP25. Pub. in England 2Feb49.
GOD, MAN, AND DEVIL. Aaron Productions, Inc. © 1950. b&w, 35mm.
Summary: To test the piety of a poor, devout Jew, God allows the Devil to tempt him with money; but after a period of success, Satan loses the wager. Dialog in Yiddish.
Credits: Story, Jacob Gordin.
© Aaron Productions, Inc.; title, descr., & 36 prints, 6Feb50; LU2837.
GOLD STRIKE. Universal Pictures Co.,
Inc., 1950. 25 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A musical Western.
Credits: Producer and director. Will Cowan; story, Joseph West; screenplay, Joseph O'Donnell; music arranged and conducted by Joe Gershenson; film editor. Otto Ludwig. Cast: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggens, Shirlee AUard.
© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 20Mar50 (in notice: 1949); MP127.
THE GOLDEN BALL. Pyramid Productions, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w,
16mm.
Summary: A crippled woman's faith leads to her cure.
Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay, Frank Wisbar.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 6Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2863.
THE GOLDEN GLOVES STORY. Central
National Pictures. Released by Eagle
Lion Films, Inc., 1950. 77 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Two Golden Gloves amateur boxing contests are material in resolving a romantic triangle.
Credits; Producer, Carl Krueger; director, Felix Feist; story, D. D. Beauchamp, William F. Sellers; screenplay, Joe Ansen, Felix Feist; music
director, Emil Newman; music, Arthur
