Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES grives up the necessary money when he sees the girl, who also saves him from a pair of fortune hunters. Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Winninger. Director, John G. Blystone. (F). May 7, ’37. Vou Only Live Once (87) — Drama. Although exonerated of the crime for which he was to be electrocuted, an escaping convict commits a murder and while seeking refuge with his wife brings death to them both. Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda. Barton MacLane. Director, Fritz Dang. (F). Jan. 29, ’37. COMING KELKASKS: Dark Journey — Vivien Leigh, Conrad Veidt. (•one With the Win<l. Eagliaoci — Richard Tauber, Steffi Duna. Prisoner of ZeiKla — Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll. \ ogiics of 1938 — ^Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett. Tiri.E CHANGE: Troopship, I'lianged to FAREWELL AGAIN. Universal .As (.iood as .Married (81) — Romantic drama. An Infatuated secretary marries her philandering boss. Memories of his past come up, shattering her illusions and causing her to walk out. This causes him to reform, and brings a reconciliation. John Boles, Doris Nolan. Walter Pidgeon. Director, Edward Buzzell. (F). May 9. ’37. (1012). Breezing Home (64) — Action drama. A night club singer redeems herself and the horse given her by a crooked bookmaker after much incriminating evidence points to a frameup in the big race, which the horse wins. William Gargan, Wendy Barrie. Binnie Barnes. Director. Milton Carruth. (F) Jan. 31. '37. (733) California Straight Ahead (05) — Action drama. The rivalry among railroad, trucking and romantic interests brings near-chaos, but winds up with victory to the energetic bus driver and his girl. John Wayne. Louise Latimer, Robert McWade. Director, Arthur Lunin. (F). April 11, ’37. (1030). Four Days Wonder (60) — Mystery comedy. When a girl hiding out an innocent suspect of murder, hears someone else is accused, she clears her friend. Jeanne Dante, Alan Mowbray, Martha Sleeper. Director, Sidney Salkow. (F). Jan. 3. ’37. (1019). Girl Overboard (58) — Drama. A girl is accused of the murder of her employer, from whose unwelcome attentions she was fleeing. Although harbored by the district attorney, who has fallen in love with her, she appears at the trial to prove her innocence. Gloria Stuart, Walter Pidgeon. Hobart Cavanaugh. Director, Sidney Salkow. (A). Feb. 28. '37. (1021). T.eft-Hiiiided Law (03)^ — -Western. With the law helpless in the face of a thieving band of outlaws. an agent takes the assignment to clean it up, which he does, besides acquiring a wife. Buck Jones, Betty Golden, Sam Logan. Director. Lesley Selander. (F). April 18, '37. (1015). Let Them Live (formerly The Stones Cry Out) (72) — Drama. A young interne gives up his profession to convert the crooked politician responsible for death-trap tenements and improperly equipped hospitals. John Howard. Nan Grey, Judith Barrett. Director, Harold Young. (F). May 2. '37. (1035). Mighty Treve, The (65) — Drama. A shepherd dog puppy and his young master survive various hardships until the animal, befriended by all. wins an array of prizes. Mistaken for a sheep killer and about to be killed, he is saved and becomes a hero. Noah Beery jr., Barbara Read, Samuel S, Hinds. Director, Lew Collins. (F). Jan. 3. '37. (1034). Night Key (07) — Mystery drama. Former partners in a bank protective business become rivals, causing a series of thefts about to ruin both, until the daughter of one steps in. patches things up, and acquires a husband. Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers. Warren Hull. Director, Lloyd Corrigan. (F). April 25, *37. (1024). Oh, Doctor (67) — Comedy. A hypochondriac is saved from giving away a fortune to a confidence gang by the girl the gang hires to see that no harm befalls him until the money is collected. Edward Everett Horton. Eve Arden. Williams Hall. Director, Ray McCarey. (F). May 23, *37. (1013). Uoad Back, The (..) — Drama. Sequal to “All Quiet on the Western Front,” this tells of the i^ost war peiiod as it affects the lives of a company of German soldiers. Larry Blake, Richard c’romwell, John King. Director, James Whale, (F). May 30. ’37. (1005). Sanciflow (58) — Western. A sheriff’s deputy goes through some terrifying experiences to clear his lirother, who has been wrongly accused of a murder. Buck Jones, Lita Chevret, Bob Kortman. Director Leslev Selander. (F). Feb. 14. ’37. (1044). She’s Dangerous (69) — Action drama. A girl insurance detective, sentenced to die on circumstantial evidence, is cleared when her accuser exonerates her on a ruse employed by a friend. Tala Birell, Cesar Romero. Walter Pidgeon. Director. Lewis R. Foster. (F). Jan. 17. ’37. (1031), Top of the Town (83) — Comedy romance with music. A very wealthy young lady, slightly balmy, attempts to effect an artistic uplift of night club entertainment, causing all sorts of complications. Doris Nolan, George Murphy, Hugh Herbert. Director, Ralph Murphy. (F). Apr. 18, ’37. (1007). We Have Our Moments (66) — Comedy drama. The misadventures of a school "marm” touring Europe to resolve her romantic difficulties are straightened out by a detective who befriends her — for life. Sally Eilers, James Dunn. David Niven. Director, Alfred Werker. (F). Mar. 28, •37. (1017). When Love Is Young (65) — Romantic drama. A college girl wdth a “crush" on the class president but treated with discourtesy by her classmates clicks as a Broadway star. On a return visit she sees through her “crush” and instead marries the man that made her famous. Virginia Bruce, Kent Taylor, Walter Brennan. Director, Hal Mohr. (F). April 4. ’37. (1018). Wings Over Honolulu (..) — Romantic drama. When a former suitor attempts to interfere with a whirlwind marriage, causing injury to the husband’s naval career, the wjfe cancels a planned elopement and saves her husband’s reputation. Wendy Barrie. Ray Milland, William Gargan. Director, H. C. Potter. (F). May 16. ’37. (1011). Wildcatter, Tlie (..) — Action drama. An oil field wildcatter, working for a “shady” operator, meets with opposition from his former friends hut squares himself by exposing his employer's nefarious schemes. Scott Colton, Jean Rogers, Jack Smart. Director, Lewis D. Collins. (F). June 13. ’37. COMING RELEASES: Man ill Blue, The — Robert Wilcox, Nan Grey. Smoke Tree Range — Buck Jones, Muriel Evans. I ITLE C HAN(;ES: As Before Better Tliaii Before, clianged to YESTERI».A.Y’S KISSES. BiMiadwa.v Jamboree, (hanged to YOUNG MAN’S F.A.NCV. Channel Crossing, ( hanged to REPORTED MISSING. Heather of the High Hat, changed to LADY FIGHTS BACK. Man Who ('ried W'«>lf, clianged to TOO CLEVER Ti • LIVE. New Orleans, changed to TONIGHT WE LAUGH. Night Patrol, changed to MIDNIGHT RAIDERS. synthetic (ilentleinaii, changed to A WELCOME IMPOSTER. West Coast Umiteil, changed to WEST BOUND LIMITED. \>ashington ( orrespondent, changed to MIGHTIER TUAN THE SWORD. Warner Bros. Amdher Dauii (70) — • Social drama. A woman, thinking she is througli with love, marries a man she respects, goes with him to Arabia, and there finds real love. Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter. Director. William Dieteiie. (F). June 20. "37. Black Legion (83) — Action drama. A factory worker is persuaded to join an organization to fight invasion of American rights by foreigners. In doing so he kills his best friend. In defending himself he reveals the true identity of the “Legion,” causing its demise. Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore. Director, Archie Mayo. (F). Jan. 30. ’37. Bla/iiig Sixes (..) — Western. A government agent poses as a holdup man to win the confidence of a gang of gold robbers, then wipes them out. Dick Foran, Helen Valkis, Mira McKinney. Director, Noel Smith. (F). June 12, ’37. Call It a Day (89) — Comedy drama. The effects of the first day of spring on a family brings a series of amorous misadventures, but winds up with each member brought closer together by the events. Ian Hunter. Frieda Inescort, Olivia de Havilland. Director, Archie Mayo. (F). April 17. ’37. Ely-Away Baby (..) — Action drama. A girl reporter and a police official engage in a round the-world flight to apprehend a murderer. Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver. Director, Frank MacDonald. (F). June 19. 537. God’s Country and the W^oman (84) — Action drama. The brother of a lumber baron becomes manager of a rival camp operated by a woman and when his identity is revealed overcomes the woman’s suspicions that he Is trying to trick her. George Brent, Beverly Roberts. Robert Barrat. Director. William Keighley. (F). Jan. 16, ’37 Go (better. The (92) — Romantic comedy-drama. Despite the enmity engendered by a jealous boss and some dangerous assignments, a crippled ex-sailor wins his superior’s admiration, daughter and managership in a huge firm. George Brent, Anita Louise. Charles Winninger. Director. Busby Berkeley. (F). May 22. ’37. Great O’Malley, The (71) — Melodrama. The sin cere efforts of a patrolman who lived up to the letter of the law — but lacked the human, sympathetic touch which make a policeman a friend not a dictator. Pat O’Brien. Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan. Director. William Dleterle. (P) Feb. 13. '37. Kid Galahad (..) — Story of the political intrigue and racketeering that the public has begun to associate with the prize ring business. Edward G. Robinson. Bette Davis. Humphrey Bogart. Director, Michael Curtiz. (F). May 29. '37. King and the Chorus Girl, The (93) — Romance with music. A king, on a drunken holiday, becomes enamored of a chorus girl. His court hires her to enter upon a professional romance, but love finds its way. Fernand Gravet. Joan Blondell. Edward Everett Horton. Director, Mervyn LeRoy. (F). Mar. 27. ’37. Land Beyond the Law (54) — Western. A cowboy who loves excitement joins a gang of cattle rustlers, but when his father is shot by the gang he turns to the side of the law and helps destroy the outlaws. Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Wayne Morris. Director, B. Reeves Eason. (P) Mar. 13, ’37 IMelody for Two (60) — Musical comedy-drama. A battle of wits, love, temper and pride between a band leader and his girl singer introduces tlie origin of swing music and seals a romance. James Melton. Patricia Ellis. Fred Keating. Director. Louis King. (F). May 1, '37. Midnight Court (63) — Drama. A former district attorney turns in some brilliant defenses for a gang of criminals engaged in the car-stealing racket in order to get the “goods” on them, this resulting in the smashing of the ring. Ann Dvorak, John Intel, Carlyle Moore jr. Director, Frank McDonald. (F). Mar. 6. ’37. Ready, Willing and Able (87) — Musical. A producer signs a vaudeville player thinking she’s an English star. His backers withdraw their support upon learning this but the producer steps into the lead and makes a hit. Rub> Keeler. Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins. Director, Raj Enright. (F). Mar. 6, ’37. .Slim (..) — Drama. The hazards experienced during the life of adventure surrounding two men working as high tension electrical linemen. Pat O’Brien, Henry Fonda. Margaret Lindsay. Dli-ector, Ray Enright. (F). June 12. '37. Smart Blonde (58) — Action drama. A detective and a girl newspaper reporter get together to solve the series of murders coincident with the sale of a night club. Glenda Farrell, Barton Macl..ane, Winifred Shaw. Director, Frank McDonald. (F). Jan. 2, '37. COMING RELEASES: Angle Shocder — Joan Blondell and Pat O’Brien. China Bandit— Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts. Dance Charlie Dance — Stuart Erwin, Jean Muir. Deep Soutli, The — Gloria Dixon. Claude Rains. Empty Holsters — Dick Foran, Patricia Walthall. Ever Since Eve — Marlon Davies. Footloose Heiress — Craig Reynolds, Ann Sheridan Invitation to a Murder — Marguerite Churchill. Lady laick — Barton MacLane, Ann Slieridan. Marry the Girl — Frank McHugh, Mary Boland. Perfect Specimen, Tlie — Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins. Pony Express Rider — Dick Foran, Linda Perry Singing Marine, The — Dick Powell, Doris Weston That Certain Woman — Bette Davis, Henry Fonda. TITLE CHANGES: War Lor<l, changed to THE ADVENTURES OF FANG. Rollins of the Mounted, changed to ROMANCE ROAD. 34 BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1937.