Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1939)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES They Made Her a Spy. .920. . (67) Apr. 14 Action Drama. In the belief that sabotage was responsible for her brother’s death, a young woman joins the intelligence bureau and rounds up a foreign spy ring. Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Larry Blake. Director: Jack Hively. Trouble in Sundown. .983. . (57) Mar. 24 Western. The town banker, victim of a trumpedup charge of robbery and murder, is in the soup until the perpetrators are found. George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith. Director: David Howard. 12 Crowded Hours ..917.. (64) Mar. 3 Action Drama. A reporter exposes the policy racket in order to clear his sweetheart’s brother. Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Cyrus W. Kendall. Director: Lew Landers. State Rights Alexander Nevsky.. (92) Amkino Epic Drama. The invasion of Russia by the Order of Teutonic Knights in the 13th Century. Nickolai Cherkassov, N. P. Okhlopkov. Director: Sergei Eisenstein. Big Fella.. (70) Retlaw Musical Drama. A quaint, English water-front yarn of a hapless family. Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch. Director: J. Elder Wills. Bizarre Bizarre. . (84) Lenauer Comedy. A French satire of British customs, with an underlying plot centering around a botanist who writes mystery stories under an assumed name. Louis Jouvet, Francoise Rosay, Michel Simon. Director: Marcel Carne. Bouquets From Nicholas. . ( 75) Walcli Mar. 1 Satire. A French satire on American gangs, the story revolving around a simple flower vender who becomes the dupe of gangsters. Noel-Noel, Madeliene Robinson. Director: Maurice Cammage. Bronze Buckaroo, The.. (59) Hollywood Piet. Western with All-Colored Cast. Villains attempt to acquire a piece of land containing a valuable gold mine. Herbert Jefferey, Spencer Williams, “Four Tones.” Director: Richard C. Kahn. Cham ps-Ely sees. . (89) Tri-National Comedy. A narration of the history of the Champs-Elysees in which the love life of Louis XV is highlighted. (In French with English subtitles.) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline DeLubac, Lisette Lanvin. Director and author: Sacha Guitry. Concentration Camp.. (69) Ajnkino Drama. Soviet propaganda depicting the struggle of the German workers against Hitler’s regime. O. Jakov, S. Shirokova, S. Mezhinsky. Convicts at Large.. (57) Principal Comedy Drama. An architect blunders intu a net of racketeers who think he is an escaped convict who knows the hiding place of some stolen jewels. Ralph Forbes, Paula Stone. Directors: Scott E. Beal and David A. Freedman. Crisis.. (86) Herbert Kline Documentary. A graphic illustration of the events leading up to Nazi aggression in the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Leif Erikson. Dialogue by Vincent Slreean. Crossroads. . (80) Tri-National Drama. An Industrialist, plagued by blackmailers, becomes convinced that he was a notorious thief before he lost his memory. (French dialogue.) Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim. Director: Kurt Bernhardt. Curtain Rises, The . . (85) Frank Iiassler Drama. Two girls in a French Academy are in love with the same fellow. One girl commits suicide, disguising it as murder, so that the blame will be placed on her rival. Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Janine Darcey, Mady Made. Director: Marc Allegret. Double Crime in tile Maginot Line .. (83) .. Tower Mystery Drama. Several military men are suspected of the double murder in France’s worldfamed Maginot Line, until the net closes in on a German spy. Victor Francen, Vera Korene, Fernand Fabre. Director: Felix Gandera. Father O’Flynn. . (67) J. H. Hoffberg Drama with Music. An Irish film about a girl kept captive by her father in a gambling house. Tom Burke, Jeane Adrienne, Dennis O’Neil. Director: Wilfred Noy. Feud of the Range. . (Metropolitan) ..(..). .Dec. 1 Western. Starring Bob Steele with the cast of Gertrude Messinger, Richard Cramer, Frank LaRue, Bob Burns, Charles King, Bud Buster, Jack Ingram, Duke R. Lee, Jean Cranford. Director: Harry S. Webb. Foolish Virgin, The.. (80) Walch Drama. An elderly lawyer runs off with a young girl. Her brother follows and the girl is shot by mistake in a scuffle. Victor Francen, Juliette Faber, Gabrielle Dorziat. Director: Henry Diamant-Berger. Forbidden Music.. (64) World Pictures Musical Satire. Dictator of a mythical kingdom puts a ban on music so his subjects can concentrate on the national debt. Jimmy Durante, Richard Tauber, Diana Napier. Director: Walter Forde. 40 Little Mothers (Le Moche) . . (95) . .National Piet. Comedy. A bachelor teacher in a girls’ school tries to smuggle in an abandoned baby found on his doorstep. The authorities intervene but the girls stage a strike to reinstate their teacher. Lucien Baroux, Philippe, Madeleine Robinson. Director: Leonide Moguy. 400,000,000, The . . (55) Garrison Documentary. The real facts behind the undeclared war in China as narrated by Dudley Nichols, from the camera record of Joris Ivens, the Dutch producer, and John Ferno. Fredric March. Music by Hanns Eisler. Friends. . (97) Amkino Outdoor Drama. How the Caucasian tribes were welded together as a revolutionary force in 1917, against their oppressors. Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Cherkassov, S. Kayukov, K. Daushvill. Director: B. Arnshtam. Gang’s All Here, The. . (78) ... .Associated British Comedy. An insurance investigator poses as a famous killer to track down a gang of jewel thieves. Jack Buchanan, Otto Kruger, Jack La Rue, Edward Everett Horton. Director: Thornton Freeland. Grand Illusion. . (92) World Drama. The effects of war are presented in this drama depicting the hardships endured by French army officers in a German prison camp. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles.) Eric von Stroheim, Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Dita Parlo. Director: Jean Renoir. Great Citizen, The.. (114) Amkino Historical. Portraying the events in 1925-26 in Leningrad at the Red Metal Workers factory, which led to the downfall of the Trotskyites, and are purported to be a prelude to the “Moscow Treason Trials.” N. Bogoliubov, I. Bersenov, O. Zhakov. Director: Friedrich Ermler. Hatred.. (..) World Drama. A story of the sea, from the novel by O. P. Gilbert. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles). Starring Harry Baur. Housemaster. . (85) Alliance Comedy Drama. From the English stage play, “Bachelor Born,” in which 500 harassed school boys revolt against the reforms of a new headmaster. Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes. Director: H. Brenon. In Old Montana. . (61) Spectrum Western. An army lad returns to his dad’s ranch to help settle the cattlemen-sheepherders’ feud, which is being kept alive by the local banker. Fted Scott, Jean Carmen. Director: Raymond K. Johnson. Ivreutzer Sonata, The. . (79) .. .Foreign Cinema Arts Drama. A Fiench film version of Leo Tolstoy’s famous story and Beethoven’s imtmortal composition. Gaby Morlay, Jean Yonnel. Director: Charles Guichard. Mamele. . (100) Sphinx Comedy-Drama. Yiddish film about a widowed mother who continually makes sacrifices for an unappreciative clan. Molly Picon, Edmund Avenda, Max Bozyk. Directors: Joseph Green, Konrad Tom. Man and His Wife, A.. (77) French Films Drama. How a middle-aged man sucessfully wins his young wife away from her young lover. Harry Baur, Suzy Vernon. Director: Jean Dreville. Man With the Gun, The.. (88) Amkino Drama. The screen version of a true story of the peasant whose accidental meeting with Lenin impressed him so much that he joined the revolutionary forces of Lenin and Stalin against Kerensky. M. Shtraulch, M. Gelovani, Boris Tenin. Director: Sergei Yutkevich. Manhattan Shakedown . . (57) Warwick Melodrama. A Broadway columnist risks his life to find the man who is blackmailing his friend. Rosalind Keith, John Gallaudet. Director: Leon Barsha. Marseillaise ..(.. ) World Drama. A dramatization of the French Revolution. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles.) Pierre Renoir, Louis Jouvet. Director: Jean Renoir. Marusia. . (105) Ukrafilm Drama with Music. A Ukrainian folk drama of a hunch-back whose love for the town’s fairest maiden leads to the death of the girl and her true lover. Stephania Melnvk, Nicholas Stehnitzky. Director: Deo Bulgakov. Mothers of Today.. (90) Apex Drama. A Yiddish film portraying the story of a mother whose one daughter marries a gangster and a son who almost forsakes his rabbinical career for a worthless woman. Esther Field, Simon Wolf, Paula Lubelska. Director: Henry Lynn. Mutiny of the Elsinore .. (73) Regal Action Drama. From Jack London’s forceful drama of adventure and mutiny on the high seas, and the hopes and desperations of these sea-faring men. Paul Lukas, Lyn Harding. Director: Roy Lockwood. Neighbors. . (90) Best Films Comedy. A Jewish comedy of errors in which a mixup in names brings confusion and romance into the life of a radio announcer. Helen Gross, Joseph Orwid. Director: Old Curiosity Shop, The.. (70) Empire Period Drama. From the Charles Dickens classic of the same name, in which is portrayed the beloved character of “Little Nell.” Hay Petrie, Elaine Benson. Director: Thomas Bentley. Orage (Tempest) . . (73) Tri-National Drama. An engineer gives up his wife for a temptress who really loves him, but tragedy ensues. (French dialogue with English subtitles.) Charles Boyer, Michele Morgan, Lisette Lanvin. Director: Outlaws’ Paradise. . (55) Victory Western. A G-Man goes on the hunt for stolen bonds and the gang responsible for the robbery. Tim McCoy, Joan Barclay. Director: Sam Newfield. Puritan, The.. (85) Lenauer Drama. A psychological study of a young man who dedicates himself to the cause of erasing immorality in others, and uses that as an excuse to justify his own vile acts. Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Fresnay, Viviane Romance. Sable Cicada.. (87) Modern Film Corp. Historical. A Chinese historical classic of the fall of the Han dynasty. Violet Koo, Y. L. Wei, I. E. Koo. Director: R. Poh. Sacrifice D’Honneur. . (75) Tri-National Naval Drama. A wife sacrifices her honor to save her husband from court-martial and dismissal from the naval service. (French dialogue.) Annabella, Victor Francen. Director: School for Husbands. . (72) J. H. Hoffberg Comedy. An adult film, portraying a philanderer who demonstrates to two conventional husbands the advisability of flirting with one’s respective spouses. Diana Churchill, Henry Kendall, Romney Brent. Director: Andrew Marton. Slipper Episode, The.. (80) French Film Farce. Two casual acquaintances tour a large slice of Europe to return a missing slipper to a faithless wife. Betty Stockfleld, Roger Trevllle. Director: Jean De Limur. Smoky Trails ..(..).. Metropolitan Jan. 15 Western. Starring Bob Steele with the cast of Jean Carmen, Bruce Dane, Murdock MacQuarrie, Carleton Young, Ted Adams, Frank LaRue, Jim Aubrey, Bob Terry, Frank Wayne. Producer: Harry S. Webb. Soviet Border. . (94) Amkino Action Drama. Japanese aggression in the Soviet Far East, and how an heroic Soviet family repelled the invader. E. Tiapkina, E. Federova. Director: A. G. Ivanov. Tiger Hunt.. (54) ® World Adventure Travelog. The story of a tiger that terrorized a native jungle village and evaded all traps set for him, until a beautiful girl is offered as prize to the hero capturing the beast. Native cast. Producer: Marquis de la Falaise. Two Sisters. . (79) Foreign Cinema Drama. A Yiddish film portraying the sacrifices an older sister continually makes for her younger sister. Jennie Goldstein, Michael Rosenberg. Director: Ben K. Blake. Will of the People, The.. (55) States Right Documentary. A documentary compilation from the government’s film archives and newsreel clips showing the Loyalist struggle against the combined Fascist forces of Franco, Germany and Italy. Commentary: By Producer Louis Frank. With a Smile.. (78) Malmar Comedy with Music. Paris’s leading impresario hires back his former boss whom he supplanted and convinces him that everything in life awaits those who learn to smile. (In French with English sub-titles.) Maurice Chevalier, Marie Glory. Director: Maurice Tourneur. Without a Home.. (88) Foreign Cinema Arts Drama. A man brings his family to America, but in his eagerness to make good in the land of opportunity, neglects his family for his job. (A Yiddish film! with English sub-titles). Ida Kaminska, A. Marten, Warsaw Synagogue Choir. Director: A. Marten. BOXOFFICE :: May 20, 1939 99