Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1940)

Teatutel i THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES dissuades a man from avenging himself upon one who had railroaded him for a crime he did not commit. Amedeo Nazzari, Leda Gloria. 4-40 Human Beast, The . . French . . ( 78) Juno Filins Melodrama. Study of a man driven to acts for which he was no longer responsible. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon. Director: Jean Renoir. 3-40 I Condottieri .. Italian .. (89) Esperia Historical Drama. The historical beginnings of a united Italy. Luis Trenker. 3-40 Katia . . (French) . . (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. A marriage of love for Alexander II of Russia nearly alters his country’s course, when assassination ends all. Danielle Darrieux, John Loder. Director: Maurice Tourneur. 2-40 I/Alibi. . (82) . . (Foreign Dialogue) Columbia French Melodrama. (English subtitles). A girl, stacked up against the persistent forces of the law, confesses to the falsity of a “perfect alibi.” Eric von Stroheim, Jany Holt, Louis Jouvet. Di rector: Pierre Chenal. 1-40 La Inmaculada. . (95) . . (Spanish) UA Drama in Spanish. Produced by Atalaya Films for the Latin market. A girl, married to one man, loves another. When the husband finds she loves some one else, he kills himself. In the meantime her lover marries another girl. Fortunio Bonanova, Andrea Palma. Director: Louis Gasnier. 1-40 last Desire . . French . . ( 80) Transatlantic Drama. The love of an old man for a young woman. Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac, Pierre Brasseur. 3-40 Life of Giuseppe Verdi, The (Italian) (115) Esperia Drama with Music. Biography of the opera composer. Gaby Morlay, Foseo Giachetti. Director: Carmine Gallone. 4-40 Life of Tchaikowsky, The (Es War Eine Rauschende Ballnaclit) . . (93) tJFA-Carl Froelich . . Nov. 1939 Music Drama. The composer's struggle for recognition. English sub-titles. Zarah Leander, Aribert Wascher, Hans Stowe. 12-39 Life on the Hortobagy. Hungarian. . (78) . .Eureka Semi-Documentary. Life among the horse and cattle breeders on the plains of Central Hungary. Native cast. 3-40 Louise. . (French) . . (72) Mayer-Burstyn Music Drama. In the period of 1900 a girl runs off to Paris with a composer. The opera integrates the story. Grace Moore, Georges Thill. 2-40 Love in Old Naples. . (Italian) .. (99) Esperia Musical Drama. A story of unrequited love and the dutiful attention of relatives. Emma Grammatica, Vittorio De Sica. 2-40 Motel the Operator .. Yiddish .. (86) Cinema Drama. A lost son, as a lawyer, defends his father against a murder charge. Chaim Tauber, Yetta Zwerling. Director: Joseph Seiden. 3-40 Overture to Glory. .Yiddish. . (87) G&L Melodrama with Music. Leaving the synagogue for opera, a young cantor, years later, atones. Moishe Oysher, Helen Beverly. Director: Max Nosseck. 3-40 Sliors. . (Russian) . . (92) Amkino Historical Drama. The idealism that spurred the conquest of the Ukraine in 1917-19. Director: Alexander Dovzhenko. 2-40 Skeleton on Horseback. .Czech. . (78) Mindlin Drama. A doctor, headed to save a dictator and his coterie with his unique remedy, is killed by the forces they unloosed. 3-40 SOS Mediterranean. .French . . (81) Vedls Drama. Three nations, through their naval officers, run down the smuggler of a poisonous gas. Pierre Fresnay. 3-40 Tevya . . (Yiddish) . . (93) Maymon Drama. Daughter of a Jewish family in old Russia, married out of her religion, returns as the family is about to be expelled from the town, and with them leaves for a new life. Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle. 2-40 That They May Live (J’Accuse) (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. Fantasy of dead comrades aiding a war veteran to fight for peace. Victor Francen. Director: Abel Gance. 12-39 They Wanted Peace . . Russian .. (73) Amkino Historical Drama. The Bolshevik overthrow of the Kerensky government. F. Bagashvili, Tamara Markarova. 3-40 Ultimatum. .French. . (73) Hoffberg Drama. Events that befall an Austro-Serbian couple when the World War breaks out. Eric Von Stroheim. Director: Robert Wiene. 3-40 W7e Two. . (Swedish) . . (89) Scandinavian Drama. A husband becomes involved in a flirtation with his friend’s wife, but when his wife has a baby, happiness wipes clean the slate. Sture Lagerwall, Signe Hasso. 1-40 We Were Seven Widows. .Italian. . (80) . . . .Esperia Comedy. A lawyer shipwrecked with seven women is left alone as each one’s husband turns up. Antonio Gandusio, Nino Taranto. 3-40 ALPHABETICAL GUIDE TO FEATURES A A Bill of Divorcement .... RKO A Chump at Oxford UA Adventure in Diamonds Para All Women Have Secrets .. Para American Gang Busters SR And One Was Beautiful .. M-G-M B Bad Boy . Sit Baker’s Wife Foreign Balalaika M-G-M Barricade 20th-Fox Between Two Worlds Foreign Black Eyes SIt Blazing Six-Shooters Col Blondie on a Budget Col Blue Bird, The 20th-Fox Boys School Foreign British Intelligence WB Broadway Melody of 1940. M-G-M Bullet Code RKO Bullets for Rustlers Col c Calling Philo Vance WB Castle on the Hudson FN Charlie Chan in Panama 20th-Fox Charlie Chan in the City of Darkness 20th-Fox Charlie McCarthy, Detective. Univ Chasing Trouble Mono Cheyenne Kid, The Mono Cisco Kid and the Lady . 20th-Fox Citadel of Silence. ..... .Foreign City of Chance 20th-Fox Claudine Foreign Congo Maisie M-G-M Convicted Woman Col Courageous Dr. Christian ... RKO Covered Wagon Trails Mono D Danger Ahead Mono Danger on Wheels Univ Days of Jesse James Rep Death Rides the Range SR Destry Rides Again Univ Devil Is an Empress Col Dr. Cyclops Para Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet... FN Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case M-G-M Double Alibi Univ E Earl of Chicago M-G-M East Side Kids Mono Emergency Squad Para Entente Cordiale Foreign Everything Happens at Night 20th-Fox F Face Behind the Scar, The. . . SR Farmer’s Daughter Para Fatal Hour, The Mono Fight for Fife SR Fighting 69th, The FN Five Eittle Peppers at Home Col Flaming Eead SR Florian M-G-M Forgotten Girls Rep Four Wives FN Framed Univ Free, Blonde and 21 . . . . 20th-Fox Friendship Foreign Fugitive at large Col G Gentleman From Arizona. .Mono Geronimo! Para Ghost Comes Home M-G-M Ghost Valley Raiders Rep Golden Key Foreign Goose Step SR Granny Get Your Gun WB Grapes of Wrath 20th-Fox Great Light, The Foreign Great Victor Herbert Para Green Hell Univ Gulliver’s Travels ...Para Headleys at Home SR Hell’s Angels SR Henry Goes Arizona M-G-M Heroes of the Saddle Rep Hidden Enemy Mono High School 20th-Fox His Girl Friday Col Hi-Yo, Silver Rep Honeymoon Deferred Univ Honeymoon’s Over 20thFox Horrors of War SR House Across the Bay UA House of Seven Gables Univ Human Beast Foreign Human Monster, The Mono Hunchback of Notre Dame.. RKO I I Condottieri Foreigrn I Take This Woman M-G-M Inspector Hornleigh* on Holiday 20th-Fox Invisible Killer SR Invisible Man Returns Univ Invisible Stripes WB Ireland’s Border Line SR Isle of Destiny RKO It All Came True WB It’s a Date Univ i Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President M-G-M Judge Hardy and Son.... M-G-M K Katia Foreign Keep Punching SR Killers of the Wild SR King of the Lumberjacks FN Knights of the Range Para L L’ Alibi Foreign La Inmaculada Foreign Lambeth Walk M-G-M Last Desire Foreign Laugh It Off Univ I.egion of the Lawless RKO Life of Giuseppe Verdi. . . .Foreign Life of Tchaikowsky, The. Foreign Life on the Hortobagy. . .Foreign Light That Failed, The.... Para Lion Has Wings, The UA Little Old New York . . . . 20th-Fox Little Orvie RKO Llano Kid, The Para Lone Wolf Strikes, The Col Cost on the Western Front. . . .SR Louise Foreign Love in Old Naples Foreign Lucky Texan, The Mono M Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me Univ Mad Empress, The FN Man From Dakota M-G-M Man From Montreal Univ Man Who Wouldn’t Talk 20th-Fox Marines Fly High RKO Men Without Souls.. Col Mercy Plane SR Mexican Spitfire RKO Midnight Limited Mono Mill on the Floss SR Millionaire Playboy RKO Missing Evidence Univ Money to Burn Rep Motel the Operator Foreign Murder on the Yukon Mono Music in My Heart Col My Little Chickadee Univ My Son Is Guilty Col My Son, My Son UA Mystery in Swing. SR N Nick Carter, Master Detective M-G-M Nigrht of Nights, The.. Para North Sea Patrol ...SR Northwest Passage M-G-M Love Univ One Dark Night SR One Million B. C UA One Night in Paris SR Outside the 3-Mile Limit Col Outsider, The SR Over the Moon UA Overture to Glory Foreign p Parole Fixer Para Phantom Rancher SR Pinocchio RKO Pioneer Days Mono Pioneers of the Frontier Col Pioneers of the West Rep Pocomania SR Primrose Path RKO R Raffles UA Rancho Grande Rep Rebecca UA Remember the Night Para Reno RKO Return of Dr. X FN Riders of Pasco Basin Univ Rhythm of the Rio Grande. . Mono Riders of the Sage SR Road to Singapore Para s Saint’s Double Trouble, The RKO Santa Fe Marshal Para Second Bureau SR Seventeen Para Shop Around the Corner. M-G-M Shors Foreign Showdown Para Sidewalks of London Para Skeleton on Horseback. . . Foreign Slightly Honorable UA Songs and Saddles SR Son of Ingagi SR Son of the Navy Mono SOS Mediterranean Foreign South of the Border Rep Spies of the Air SR Star Dust 20th-Fox Straight Shooter SR Straight to Heaven SR Strange Cargo M-G-M Swanee River 20th-Fox Swiss Family Robinson RKO T Tevya Foreign That They May Live Foreign They Came by Night ... .20th-Fox Thou Shalt Not Kill .Rep They Wanted Peace Foreign Three Cheers for the Irish.... FN Tomboy Mono Too Many Husbands Col Trigger Fingers SR Two's Company SR U Ultimatum Foreign V Vengeance of the Deep SR Vigil In the Night RKO Village Barn Dance Rep Virginia City WB Viva Cisco Kid 20th-Fox W We Two Foreign We Were Seven Widows. .Foreign West of Carson City Univ West of the Divide Mono Westbound Stage Mono Witness Vanishes, The Univ Women Without Names Para Y Yukon Flight Mono Young As You Feel 20th-Fox Young Tom Edison M-G-M H O Half a Sinner . . He Married His Univ Wife. 20th-Fox Of Mice and Men Oh, Johnny, How You Can UA Zanzibar Z Univ 86 BOXOFFICE :: April 13, 1940