William Dozier’s Slate at RKO

Re-read Richard Jewell’s excellent history(s) of RKO which includes an account of William Dozier’s short reign - the last time RKO really had bite.

Fascinating to look back at the slate... because of many of the choices were understandable.

There were colour remakes of earlier RKO hits:
- Back from Eternity (1956)
- The Brave One (1956)
- Bundle of Joy (1956)
- Stage Struck (1957)
- The Girl Most Likely (1958)

Star vehicles with old RKO names
- The First Travelling Sales Lady (1956) - with Ginger Rogers
- Death of a Scoundrel with George Sanders (1956)
- Public Pigeon No 1 with Red Skelton

Attempts to Launch New Stars
- The Unholy Wife (1957) with Diana Dors
- I Married this woman (1957) - with Dors and George Gobel

Two Fritz Lang noirs
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

War movies
- The Naked and the Dead (1958)

Westerns
- Tension at Table Rock (1956)
- Run of the Arrow (1956)

Adaptatios of TV plays
- The Young Stranger 
 
Arthur Lubin films

-Travelling Saleslady
- Escapeade in Japan 

But the films didn't work. I don't think any of them did.