Boxoffice barometer (1942)

Forgotten Village, The (67) Sept. 16 Mayer-Burstyn Documentary. A remote Mexican village is left to its own resources when an epidemic strikes its children. Native cast. Narrated by Burgess Meredith. Director: Herb Kline. Forty Thousand Horsemen (87) Goodwill Pictures War Drama. A romantic military drama detailing the exploits of the Australian Light Horse — the Anzacs — during World War No. 1, in Palestine and the Near East. Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant. I'll Sell My Life (73) Sept. 11 Select Mystery. Plot deals with the jealousy of an entertainer who murders her alleged rival and then offers $20,000 if someone else will take the rap. Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Joan Woodbury, Roscoe Ates. Director: Elmer Clifton. King of the White Elephants (66) Pridi Oriental Novelty. A Thailand (Siamese) film based on a historical incident in that country in 1540. The Siamese cast speak in English. Larceny Street (65) Film Alliance Comedy Drama. A husband-wife “detective team” track down a gang of insurance company defrauders and jewel thieves in Dublin. Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph. Director: Tim Whelan. Kukan (9) Adventure Epics, Inc. Documentary. A film record of China’s internal unity, showing their work in agriculture, religion, and their war struggle. Photographed entirely in color. Lady Luck (72) March Consolidated Nat'l Films Comedy. Produced by Dixie National Films with an all-colored cast. A dicethrower changes from a hobo to a highbrow and back again. Mantan Moreland, P. H. Miller. Law of the Wolf (57) Fortune Films Melodrama. A pair of escaped convicts have the law officers and Rin-TinTin’s grandson after them. Dennis Moore, Luana Walters, Jack Ingram. Murder at the Baskervilles (66) Astor Mystery Drama. A British film about 10 years old. Murder and the turf concern the sleuth of Baker Street. Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Judy Gunn. Mystery of Room 13 (71) July 25 Alliance Films Melodrama. A young man in cahoots with the police goes to jail to get a line on counterfeiters. Gibb McLaughlin, Sara Seegar. No Greater Sin (85) University Film Drama. An “expose” of syphilis, with a defense industry and an army camp background Leon Ames, Luana Walters. Director: William Nigh. Pirate of the Seven Seas (61) Film Alliance Drama. The master of a tramp steamer p.ying oriental ports tries his hand at pearl smuggling. John Lodge, Judy Kelly, Kenneth Kent. Proud Valley (70) Supreme Prod., Inc. Drama. Deals with unemployment in the Welsh mines of Wales and attendant evils. Produced in England by Michael Balcon. Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman. Queen of Crime (55) Film Alliance Comedy Drama. A female super crook and her ten cohorts make off with a trainload of gold bullion. Genevueve Tobin, Noel Madison, Jack Huibert. Secret of Stamboul, The (68) I. H. Hofiberg Co. Melodrama. The exploits of an Englishman in Turkey, who gets entangled in a political web. Valerie Hobson, Frank Vosper, James Mason. Sensation (54) Film Alliance Melodrama. A crime reporter chases down the murderer of a young woman after a series of hair-breadth escapes. John Lodge, Diana Churchill. Terror, The (64) July 29 Film Alliance Mystery Drama. Based on an Edgar Wallace plot which concerns the recovery of stolen gold, with Scotland Yard and three crooks after it. Wilfrid Lawson. Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner. This England (80) Esquire Films Historical. A cavalcade of English history from 1066 to the present day of air raids. Emlyn Williams, Constance Cummings, John Clements, Roddy McDowall. Foreign Dialogue (All pictures listed have English subtitles) Compliments of Mr. Flow French (77) Hoffberg Mystery Comedy. A young lawyer gets himself involved with a crook who operates while in jail through his aides on the outside. Fernand Gravet, Louis Jouvet. General Suvarov Russian (90) Sept. 19 Artkino Historical Drama. Story of Suvarov’s victory before Warsaw, in the 18th century, who served Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. Hatred French (67) World Piet. Corp. Drama. Story of a sea captain, married to a woman who despises him. Harry Baur, Gabrielle Dorziat, Pierre Renoir. Heroes of the Sea Russian (84) Artkino Sea Drama. A tale of Red navy revenge for the disaster of Tshushima in 1919. Hotel Du Nord French (83) Juno Films Drama. The existences of a group of prosaic people in a small pension in Paris are jolted into emotional heights by the affairs of a man and a girl. Annabella, Louis Jouvet. Director: Marcel Came. I Give My Life French (80) AFE Corp. Spy Drama. Japan’s war against Russia in 1894 for Port Arthur. Danielle Darrieux, Anton Walbrook, Charles Vanel. Director: Nicolas Farkas King, The French (94) Trio Films Comedy. A pre-war French film with a satirical essay on the theme of cuckoldry. Raimu, Victor Francen. Mad Emperor, The (89) French World Piets. Historical Drama. Russia in the time of Paul I, showing a depraved ruler who is assassinated for his and Russia’s good. Harry Baur, Pierre Renoir, Suzy Prim. Man Who Seeks the Truth, The French (75) Dome Films Comedy Drama. A banker suspects his mistress of two-timing and feigns deaf ness to find out. Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac. Mannerheim Line, The Russian (75) Artkino Documentary . Details the military activity when the Red Army engaged the Finnish White Guard Army in the Karelian Isthmus. New Teacher, The Russian (85) Artkino Romatic Drama. Romance of a bashful school teacher who loves the friend of his sister. Boris Chirkov, Tamara Makarova. Pepe Le Moko French (90) Mayer-Burstyn, Inc. Melodrama. Story of a French jewel thief hiding out in Algiers, and his tender love for a woman. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin. Director: Julien Duvivier. Personal Column French (89) Pax Films Comedy Drama. Story of a taxi dancer recruited by the police to answer unusual newspaper ads for young girls, in an effort to solve the disappearance of girls in Paris. Maurice Chevalier, Marie Dea, Eric Von Stroheim. Soviet Frontiers on the Danube Russian (60) Artkino Documentary. Details the so-called liberation of the populations of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, formerly under Rumanian control. They Met on Skis French (74) C. L. Import Corp. Comedy. Locale is Mount Blanc, and concerns the rivalry between two hotel keepers there. Wissia Dini, Henri Presles, Charpin. Producer: Henri Sokal. Volga-Volga Russian (95) Artkino Musical Comedy. A couple of river boats are racing down to Moscow bearing varied native musical talents to compete in a cultural Olympiad. Lubov Orlova. Wings of Victory Russian (95) Artkino Drama. A screen portrait of the career of Valeri Chkalov, Soviet flyer, who flew from Moscow to San Francisco in 1937. Vladimir Belokurov, Mikhail Gelovani. From Maine to California! 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