Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1939)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES by laughs and romance. Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa and orchestra. Director: George Archainbaud. Stolen Life. .3864. . (90) May 26 Drama. The story of twin sisters of opposite types, one of whom marries an explorer and is accidently drowned, whereupon the other assumes her identity. Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave. Director: Paul Czinner. Sudden Money . . 3829 . . ( 62 ) Mar. 31 Comedy. What happens when Mr. Average American Family wins the sweepstakes. Charles Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Grapewin. Director: Nick Grinde. Sunset Trail . . 3857 . . (68) Feb. 24 Western. The murder of a wealthy rancher climaxes a series of stagecoach robberies and murders by a cunning gambler and his outlaw gang. Hopalong poses as a wealthy tenderfoot to bring about their capture. William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Jane Clayton. Director: Lesley Selander. Tom Sawyer, Detective. .3816. . (68) Dec. 23 Comedy Drama. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, while on a country visit discover a murder and solve the case in their own way. Donald O’Connor, Billy Cook, Porter Hall. Director: Louis King. Undercover Doctor. .3840. . (67) June 9 Action Drama. Based on the activities of J. Edgar Hoover in his expose of doctors who get rich by treating wounded criminals. Lloyd Nolan, J. Carrol Naish, Janice Logan. Director: Louis King. Unmarried . . 3838 . . (66) May 26 Comedy Drama. A tough prizefighter and speakeasy proprietress find regeneration through love of an orphan boy. Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones. Director: Kurt Neumann. Union Pacific .. 3835. . (137) May 5 Outdoor Drama. The history of the building of the Union Pacific railroad. Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Zaza. .3819. .(86) Jan. 13 Drama. A music-hall actress, who rises to fame as a Parisian entertainer, falls in love with a man whom she later learns is married. Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall. Director: George Cukor. Republic Blue Montana Skies. .844. . (56) May 5 Western. A band of Canadian Northwest fur smugglers use a Montana dude ranch as their front, but a Canadian cattleman seeks them out to avenge the murder of his partner. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey. Director: B. Reeves Eason. Come On, Rangers! . .818 .. (57) Nov. 25 Western. Succeeded by the U. S. Cavalry, the Texas Rangers are reinstated when the army fails on a difficult task the ex-Rangers handle. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton. Director: Joe Kane. Federal Man-Hunt . . (64) Dec. 27 Action Drama. Believing him innocent, a girl aids a convict’s escape from prison, and helps the police recapture him when she learns his background. Robert Livingston, June Travis, John Gallaudet. Director: Nick Grinde. Fighting Thoroughbreds .. 808 .. (65) Jan. 6 Action Drama. The offspring of a thoroughbred they had tried to disqualify, grows up. enters the derby and wins the race. Ralph Byrd, Mary Carlisle, George Hayes. Director: Sidney Salkow. Forged Passport. .823. . (64) Feb. 15 Action Drama. After getting fired for being too ready with his fists, a government man goes after a gang of alien smugglers and is reinstated in the service. Paul Kelly, June Lang, Lyle Talbot. Director: Joe Kane. Frontier Pony Express. . 854 .. (57) Apr. 19 Western. A Pony Express Rider saves the army's documents from Confederate spies. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Don Dillaway. Director: Joe Kane. Home on the Prairie. .842. . (58) Feb. 10 Western. The singing cowboy turns cattle inspector and solves the mystery of the hoof-andmouth disease in his district. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey. Director: Jack Townley. I Was a Convict . .824. . (62) Mar. 6 Melodrama. A multi-millionaire befriends two paroled convicts he had met while in prison for income tax evasion. One of them, intending to rob him, is rehabilitated when he falls for the man’s daughter, and saves his benefactor from a kidnap plot. Barton MacLane, Beverly Roberts, Clarence Kolb. Director: Aubrey Scotto. Man of Conquest .. 801 .. (97) May 15 Historical Drama. The story of Sam Houston and his fight for Texan independence from Mexico, and Texas’ ultimate entry into the Union. Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis. Director: George Nicholls jr. Mexicali Rose .. 843. . (58) Mar. 27 Western. Oil stock swindlers victimize a girl who runs an orphanage in Mexico. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Noah Beery. Director: George Sherman. Mountain Rhythm. .845. . ( . . ) June 16 Western. Gene Autry uncovers a plot to deprive the ranchers of their grazing lands. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maude Eburne. Director: B. Reeves Eason. My Wife’s Relatives. .810. . (65) Mar. 20 Comedy. Mr. Higgins’ home-made candy business takes a sudden rise when a valuable diamond is lost, and his son, deducing it had fallen into the candy, advertises the fact to the public. James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason. Director: Gus Meins. Mysterious Miss X.. 809.. (62) Jan. 10 Melodrama. An actor, accused of murder, is freed by a peculiar twist of fate. But he and the dead man’s daughter together solve the murder. Michael Whalen, Mary Hart, Chick Chandler. Director: Gus Meins. Night Riders. .865. . (58) Apr. 12 Western. The Three Mesquiteers defy a gambler who uses a forged land grant to oust ranchers. John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Director: George Sherman. Orphans of the Streets. .819. . (64) Dec. 5 Drama. A man saves a dog’s life in this story of an Alsatian Shepherd dog on trial for the murder of a man. Robert Livingston, Tommy Ryan, June Storey. Director: John H. Auer. Pride of the Navy. .822. . (63) Jan. 26 Drama. A young seaman, who fails in the initial test of his torpedo-boat invention, later wins success and the captain’s daughter. James Dunn, Rochelle Hudson. Director: Charles Lamont. Red River Range. .864. . (56) Dec. 22 Western. Guests on a dude ranch discover they have unwittingly taken part in what they thought were “fake” rustling parties, headed by the ranch owner. John Wayne, Ray Corrigan* Max Terhune. Director: George Sherman. Rough Riders Roundup. .853. . (58) Mar. 13 Western. Two Border Patrolmen are suspended for allowing an outlaw gang to escape. They follow the leader to his hideout and capture the gang, which wins their reinstatement. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton. Director: Joseph Kane. Shine On, Harvest Moon . . 852 . . (57) Dec. 23 Western. A cattle rustler wants a certain ranch to store his stolen cattle and tries to burn down the place to get it. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, William Farnum. Director: Joe Kane. S. O. S. Tidal Wave.. (60) June 12 Action Drama. A television news commentator combats gangsters using a rival television station to telecast a horror film. Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton. Director: John Auer. Southward Ho! (formerly Headin’ for Texas) 855.. (58) May 18 Western. Conflict arises between two ex-Confederate soldiers and their ranch co-owner when they learn the latter was a Union officer. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, George Hayes. Director: Joe Kane. Street of Missing Men . .811 . . (65) Apr. 25 Action Drama. Upon his release from Alcatraz, a former gangster leader sets out to wreck the newspaper which sent him to prison. Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tommy Ryan, Guinn Williams. Director: Sidney Salkow. Three Texas Steers. .866. . (59) May 15 Western. A young girl is led to believe the ranch she inherited is worthless, but the Three Mesquiteers save her from being duped. John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis. Director: George Sherman. Western Jamboree. .841. . (59) Dec. 2 Western. A ranch foreman saves his boss’s property from two men anxious to get him to sell before he discovers his land holds valuable helium deposits. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverol. Director: Ralph Staub. Woman Doctor. .808. . (65) Feb. 10 Drama. A woman surgeon, with little time for her husband and child, is faced with a divorce threat when her husband falls for a charmer. They are reconciled when their child is injured in an accident. Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Claire Dodd, Sybil Jason. Director: Sidney Salkow. Zero Hour, The. .812. . (62) May 27 Drama. How a stage star, with loyalty and courage, faces a tangled problem, when the man she is about to marry is hopelessly crippled in an automobile accident. Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Don Douglas. Director: Sidney Salkow. RKO Radio Almost a Gentleman. .920. . (65) Mar. 31 Drama. A canine shows his love for, and proves his real worth to, his master, who had first befriended him after he had been condemned as an outcast, and then had defended him in court on a murder charge. James Ellison, Helen Wood, June Clayworth. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Arizona Legion. .982. . (58) Jan. 20 Western. The hero, working secretly as head of a vigilante group, rids Arizona of marauding bandits. George O’Brien, Laraine Johnson. Director: David Howard. Beauty for the Asking. .915. . (64) Feb. 24 Comedy. A young beautician markets a new face cream, and complications ensue when her advertising agency secures financial aid for her through the wife of the man who had jilted her. Lucille Ball, Donald Woods, Patric Knowles, Frieda Inescort. Director: Glenn Tryon. Boy Slaves (formerly Pure in Mind).. 911 (71) Feb. 10 Melodrama. A gang of road kids are paroled to a man who pretends to befriend them, but they become prisoners in his turpentine camp. Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel. Director: P. J. Wolfson. Fisherman’s Wharf . .844. . (71) Feb. 3 Comedy Drama. A fisherman nearly loses the adopted son he loves, when he falls in love with a worthless woman. Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Lee Patrick. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Fixer Dugan .. 922 .. (68) Apr. 21 Action Drama. Romance and tragedy wend their way into this human story of circus folks, and how the “fixer” helps adjust their personal problems. Lee Tracy, Virginia Weidler, Peggy Shannon. Director: Lew Landers. Flying Irishman, The. .919. . (73) Apr. 7 Biographical Drama. A dramatization of the life of Douglas (“Wrong Way”) Corrigan. Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong. Director: Leigh Jason. Great Man Votes, The. .913. . (70) Jan. 13 Comedy. An academic scholar turns to drink when his wife dies, but reforms when the Children’s Society threatens to take away his two children. John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler. Director: Garson Kanin. Girl and the Gambler, The (formerly The Dove) . .926. . (62) June 16 Western Melodrama. A LatinAmerican Robin Hood with a dash of caballero wagers that he can woo and win a certain maiden’s heart in 24 hours. Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt, Steffi Duni. Director: Lew Landers. Girl From Mexico, The . .928. . (71) June 2 Comedy Melodrama. An advertising man flies down to Mexico to sign a radio personality for a new program and falls in love with his new fiery, Spanish star. Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol, Linda Hayes. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Gunga Din. .912. . (117) 4J Feb. 17 Action Drama. British military adventure in the mountain passes of Northern India, suggested vaguely by Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem of the Indian water boy. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli. Director: George Stevens. Lost Patrol . . (reissue) . . (73) Feb. 17 Drama. A group of white men, lost in the desert, are shot down one by one by hostile Arabs, until only the leader is left to face the murderous tribe. Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny. Director: John Ford. Love Affair. .916. . (87) Apr. 7 Comedy Drama. A couple break their engagement and agree to meet in six months, at the end of which time the girl is crippled in an accident. Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer. Director: Leo McCarey. Next Time I Marry (formerly Trailer Romance) . .910. . (65) Dec. 2 Comedy. Faced with loss of an inheritance unless she gets an American husband, but in love with a Count, a girl marries a WPA worker. The quick divorce agreed upon is forgotten when romance enters. Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman. Director: Garson Kanin. Pacific Liner . .914 .. (76) Jan. 6 Action Drama. A ship’s doctor tries to stem the spread of Asiatic cholera aboard a traveling vessel, but the chief engineer hampers his efforts, while threats of mutiny and death prevail. Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie. Director: Lew Landers. Panama Lady . .925. . (65) May 12 Melodrama. A wealthy oil prospector goes through a complete rehabilitation at the hands of a dance hall girl. Lucille Ball, Allan Lane. Jack Hively directed. 102 BOXOFFICE :: June 17, 1939