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Miller, Mantan Moreland. Director: Jed Buell. Murder in the Night (58) Film Alliance Melodrama. A woman scorned brings about the capture of a gangster night club owner who murdered a squealer. Jack La Rue, Sandra Storme. Director: Norman Lee. Mystery in Swing ..(76) International All-Negro Melodrama. A reporter finds the girl who killed the swing band leader. Monte Hawley, Marguerite Whitten. Director: Arthur Dreifuss. Mystery of Room 13. ..( ) Film Alliance Mystery Drama. Gibb McLaughlin. North Sea Patrol. ..(65) Film Alliance Drama. The Royal Navy waylays a band of spys through the commander of a destroyer. Geoffrey Toone, Judy Kelly, Clifford Evans. One Dark Night . (81) Sack Comedy with Music. The lazy head of a family leaves after a dispute, but discovers a mine out west and returns to establish himself in a night club. Negro cast. Mantan Moreland, Betty Treadville. Director: Leo C. Popkin. One Night in Paris (62) Film Alliance Melodrama. A French producer is murdered on the opening night of his play, during a shooting scene on the stage. The murder is solved before the play closes on the last act. John Lodge, Judy Kelly, Hugh Williams. Director: Walter Summers. Outsider, The (A). ...(90) Film Alliance Drama. Blocked by the medical profession, the inventor of a machine eventually cures a crippled girl. George Sanders, Mary Maguire. Phantom Rancher ...(61) Colony Western. Maynard has to pose as a phantom rider to bring help to the farmers in a valley near his ranch. Ken Maynard, Dorothy Short. Riders oi the Sage (53) Metropolitan Western. A range war, with the sheep men trying to rout the cattle men. Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Ralph Hoopes. Secrets of a Model (60) Continental Melodrama. True love finally comes to the girl who fell victim to the villain. Sharon Lee, Phyllis Barry. Sky Devils (Reissue) ..(81) Astor Melodrama. Spencer Tracy. Son of Ingagi . (66) Sack All-Negro Melodrama. A laboratorycreated monster kills his woman doctor captor and several others before the place is burned down. Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford. Director: Richard C. Kahn. Song of the Road. The ...(69) Select Music-Drama. The trials of a vagabond troupe of caravan players who wander from one highland town to another. Harry Lauder, Ruth Haven, Bruce Seton. Songs and Saddles (67) Alexander Western. The local banker uses underhand methods to obtain a ranch, but his villainy is exposed when he tries to kill the ranch owner. Gene Austin, Lynne Berkley. Director: Harry Fraser. Spies in the Air (62) Film Alliance Melodrama. Espionage and a secret aviation device cause the British Intelligence much trouble until the spy is trapped. Barney K. Barnes, Roger Li vesy, Joan Marion. Director: David MacDonald. Straight Shooter. . . . ( 54 ) Principal Western. Concealed bonds are recovered for the heroine. Tim McCoy, Julie Sheldon. Director: Sam Newfield. Suicide Legion (54) Film Alliance Drama. An Italian officer meets his estranged Austrian wife years after the war which divided them. Tullio Carminati, Lilli Palmer. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Terror, The. ..( ) Film Alliance Melodrama. Wilfrid Lawson. Texas Renegades (59) Snydicate Western. Posing as an outlaw, a marshal rounds up the evildoers in a western town. Tim McCoy. Time in the Sun. (A). ...(59) World Documentary. Cultural and sociological aspects of the Mexican Indian. From footage by Sergei Eisenstein. Torso Murder Mystery (70) Arthur Ziehm, Inc. Melodrama. An English melodrama of spies and the underworld of London. Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr. Director: Walter Summers. Trigger Fingers. (55) Victory Western. A G-Man tracks down the rustlers. Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Joyce Bryant. Two's Company. (68) Times Comedy. The hero takes his girl and her mother to England, hoping she will grow romantic, which she does, but for somebody else. Ned Sparks, Mary Brian. Director: Tim Whelan. Vengeance of the Deep (70) Astor Melodrama. Two men of the civilized world meet as pearl divers in the South Seas, where they had gone to forget their blighted loves. Lloyd Hughes, Shirley Ann Richards, James Raglan. Director: Ken G. Hall. While Thousands Cheer .( ) Million Dollar Negro cast. Foreign Dialogue iAll pictures listed have English subtitles, unless otherwise designated). A Wife in Peril (A). Italian (90) Esperia Comedy. A version of the comic-domestic triangle, involving a diplomatic set of Viennese people. Marie Glory, Antonio Centa, Laura Solari. Baker's Wife, The (A) ...French (97) B.W. Inc. Drama. The village’s need for bread brings back the baker’s trifling wife. Raimu, Ginette Leclerc. Director: Marcel Pagnol. Between Two Worlds (A) .Italian (78) Esperia Drama. A woman torn between two loves. Isa Miranda, Vasa Prihoda. Citadel of Silence, The (A)... French (91) Film Alliance Drama. A Polish patriot marries a Russian prison commandant to be near her imprisoned lover and later to inspire mutiny. Annabella, Pierre Renoir. Director: Marcel L’Herbier. Claudine (A) ..French. (82) French M.P. Comedy Drama. The hopeless love of a 16-year-old schoolgirl for an older man. Blanchette Brunoy, Max Dearly. Daybreak (A) . French. ...(88) AFE Corp. Melodrama. An episodic flashback of the thoughts and steps of a man who was led to commit murder. Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent. Director: Marcel Came. Entente Cordiale.. . French (90) Concord Drama. The alliance between two traditional enemies, England and France, that came at the turn of the century. Victor Francen, Gaby Morlay. Director: Marcel L’Herbier. Friendship ... Italian ....( 74 ) Esperia Comedy. A gay bachelor thinks he’s in love with his friend’s wife; so does his friend; and so does the wife, until she breaks up the friendship — then returning to her husband. Mario Besozzi, Elsa Merlini. Great Beginning, The (A). Russian (95) Artkino Drama. The rise of a peasant woman to the Supreme Soviet, with its attendant humor and romance. Vera Maretskaya, V. Vanin, B. Blinov. Directors; Alexander Zarkhi, Joseph Heifetz. Great Light, The Italian (80) Esperia Drama. The religious atmosphere of a shrine dissuades a man from avenging himself upon one who had railroaded him for a crime he did not commit. Amedeo Nazzari, Leda Gloria. Heritage .. .French (75) French Films Drama. An unrequited lover helps his friend, wanted by police for stabbing him, to escape with the girl he himself can’t have. Juanita Montenegro, Vital. Director; Marcel Gras. Human Beast, The (A) . French (78) Juno Films Melodrama. Study of a man driven to acts for which he was no longer responsible. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon. Director: Jean Renoir. I Believe in You Spanish (No Eng. subtitles) (70) Victoria Drama. Produced in Hollywood. A dancing master worships a ballerina who dies. Later he meets her daughter in Paris, brings her to Hollywood, where she finds love and success. Rosita Moreno, Jose Crespo. Director: John Rein hardt. I Condottieri. Italian ( 89 ) Esperia Historical Drama. The historical beginnings of a united Italy. Luis Trenker. 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. Directtor: Maurice Tourneur. Kiss of Fire, The (A). French (84) Hakim Bros. Comedy Drama. An unscrupulous flirt breaks up a romance and runs off with the man. She tires of him, but a church organist, his friend, finds them and settles her hash. Viviane Romance, Michel Simon. Director: Auguste Grenin. Last Desire (A) ..French (80) Transatlantic Drama. The love of an old man for a young woman. Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac, Pierre Brasseur. Les Amoureaux (A) French (93) Pax Films Drama. A couple, disintegrated nobility, descend to cheating at cards and hit the high spots of Europe. The wife becomes involved in a love affair, but the tangled mess is straightened out. Charles Boyer, 96 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER