The hit 20th Century-Fox film, Desert Rats, opened at Chicago at the RKO Grand theatre (Clark near Randolph) on June 10, 1953; an ad reads: "They Stopped The Afrika Korps Cold!" . . . the bottom-half of the double-bill was MGM's The Cry of the Hunted, with Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan and Polly Bergen . . . an ad reads: "Two dangerous men lured into mysterious bayous by an exciting Swamp Girl!
