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contained gold relics and that a gang had robbed him of the gold he was carrying. Follows a search for both the site and the outlaws. After a series of scrapes the marshals best the villains. The Honest Gambler Cast: Not set. Producer: King Bros. Director: Not set. Original: Philip Yordan. Screenplay: No credits set. Melodrama which traces the rise and fall of a fascinating family of gamblers through three generations from 1875 to 1944. They risk anything on the flip of a coin, the turn of a card or a throw of the dice, but when they gamble with love, trouble starts. The Jade Mask Cast: Sidney Toler, Monton Moreland, Edwin Luke, Janet Warren, Edith Evanson, Alan Bridge, Ralph Lewis. Producer: James S. Burkett. Director: Phil Rosen. Original Screenplay: George Callahan. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in by the government to solve the murder of a scientist who had been working on a valuable formula. Living in the latter’s “mystery house,” which has many secret rooms and panels, the detective finds an assortment of suspects. Follow several murders before he discovers the culprit — an enemy agent. Joan of Brooklyn Cast: Not set. Producer: King Bros. Director: Not set. Original: Maria Matray Screenplay: No credits set. Yarn about a Brooklyn-born girl who sets out to right the world’s wrongs and in so doing wishes on herself a lot of trouble. John Dillinger Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Elisha Cook jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence, Ralph Lewis, Ludwig Stossel, Else Jannsen, George Purvis, Anne Jeffreys. Producer: King Bros. Director: Max Nosseck, Original Screenplay: Philip Yordan. A film-biography of the public’s longtime No. 1 enemy, the mad gunman who terrorized the midwest. The story relates many of Dillinger’s crimes, how he blasted his way out of prison and tells of the woman who put him on the spot. Jungle Fear Cast: Acquanetta. Producers: Sam Katzman and Jack Dietz. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set Screenplay: No credits set. A melodrama of jungle adventure and tempestuous tropical romance. Land of the Outlaws Cost: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Stephen ICeyes, Nan Holliday, Hugh Prosser, Charles King, John Merton. Producer: Charles J. Bigelow. Director: Lambert Hillyer, Original and Screenplay: Joseph O'Donnell. U.S. Marshals Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton visit a western gold mining city at the request of John Merton, to determine who is hijacking Merton’s ore. Brown and Hatton soon uncover a plot to dupe Merton into believing his mine is valueless. The marshals round up the culprits and ride off to new adventure. Law of the Valley Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Lynne Carver, Kirk Barron, Hal Price, Edmund Cobb, Tom Quinn. Producer: (Charles J. Bigelow. Director: Howard Bretherton. Original and Screenplay: Joseph O'Donnell. Marshals Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton ride into Green Valley after learning that a couple of men who control the town are foreclosing on the ranchers, having diverted water from their properties. The railroad is planning to run a line through the area and the men seek a land monopoly. The marshals organize the ranchers and best the culprits. Little Devils Cast: Harry Carey, Paul Kelly, Ducky L. Louie, Gloria Ann Chew, Hayward Soohoo, Jimmy Dodd, Ralph Lewis, Philip Ahn. Producer: Grant Withers. Director: Monta Bell. Original: Sam Ornitz. Screenplay: William Hanley and Grant Withers. Some Flying Tigers adopt a little Chinese orphan and teach him commando tactics. Later he is sent to a missionary school. There he organizes other refugee children and they steal out at night to prey on the Japs. Despite the pleadings of the missionaries, they continue their raids, helping the Flying Tigers, even when it means death. Navajo Trails Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Edmund Cobb, Mary MacLaran, Earl Crawford, Jasper Palmer, Producer: Charles J. Bigelow. Director: Howard Bretherton. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. In which U.S. Marshals Brown and Hatton continue their efforts on the side of law and order. Oh, What a Night Cast: Edmund Lowe, Marjorie Rambeau, Jean Parker, Pierre Watkin, Alan Dinehart, Claire DuBrey, Ivan Lebedeff. Producer: Scott R, Dunlap. Director: William Beaudine. Original: Marion Orth. Screenplay: Paul Gerard Smith. This comedy-mystery concerns a group of jewel thieves, headed by Edmund Lowe, who are waiting at a fashionable resort hotel for the arrival of the owner of a fabulous diamond. Jean Parker, niece of one of the crooks, is unaware of her uncle’s career. To preserve her faith and keep a bargain he has made with a detective, Lowe frustrates their plans. Rhythm Ranch Cast: N.T.G. and his girls. Producer: Lindsley Parsons Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Charles R. Marion, Musical comedy revolving around the adventures and misadventures of a group of showgirls who have to keep a ranch running while the boys are off to war. The Shadow Cast: Not set. Producer: Lindsley Parsons. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Charles R. Marion and Oscar Friend. Mystery-drama based on the adventures of the Shadow, suave, man-abouttown, who battles the underworld. This will follow the pattern established for the character in magazines, newspaper strips and comic books, and over the Mutual Broadcasting system. Shadow of Suspicion Cast: Marjorie Weaver, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan, Pierre Watkin, Anthony Warde, Frank Scanell, George Lewis. Producer: A. W. Hackel. Director: William Beaudine. Original: Harold Goldman. Screenplay: A1 Demond and Earle Snell. A jewelry firm sends Peter Cookson, a private investigator, to its Chicago office to solve a series of thefts. Pierre Watkin, head of the office, offers to cooperate, as does his secretary, Marjorie Weaver. Watkin, however, plans to steal a necklace and plant the blame on Peter. Marjorie unwittingly falls into the role of suspect, until Peter’s sleuthings lead to Watkin and his cohorts. Song of the Range Cast: Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses'' White, Cay Forester, Pierre Watkin, George Eldridge, Hugh Prosser. Producer: Philip N. Krasne. Director: Wallace Fox. Original and Screenplay: Betty Burbridge. Cowboys Wakely, Moore and White rescue a disguised femme government agent from a runaway horse. Subsequent events make them certain she is a member of an outlaw gang. Once assured of her integrity, they join her in rounding up a gold smuggling gang. Sunbonnet Sue Cast: Phil Regan, Gale Storm. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. • Screenplay: No credits set. A musical with a Gay Nineties background inspired by Gus Edwards’ famous song hit, “Sunbonnet Sue.” They Shall Have Faith Cast: Gale Storm, Sir C. Aubrey Smith, John Mack Brown, Frank Craven, Conrad Nagel, Billy Wilkerson. Producer: Jeffrey Bernerd. Director: William Nigh. Original Screenplay: Neil Rau and George Sayre. Conrad Nagel, a doctor, is working on a treatment for infantile paralysis with John Mack Brown, an army major. Nagel’s daughter. Gale Storm, and John fall in love. When she is stricken by paralysis, he tries his new treatment on her. It is a complete success and when John moves on to another assignment. Gale goes with him as his wife. Trigger Law Cast: Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Beatrice Grey, Ralph Lewis, Ed Cassidy, George Morell, Bud Osborne, Terry Frost. Producer: Lindsley Parsons. Director: Vernon Keays. Original Screenplay: Victor Hammond. Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele ride into Arizona to discover the reason for the killing of Bob’s father, who managed the stagecoach line. Straight off they are involved in a coach holdup, a murder, and the machinations of a gang of claim jumpers. With the help of the Vigilantes, which they form, they avenge the slaying of Bob’s dad and capture the culprits. The Utah Kid Cast: Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Beatrice Grey, Evelyn Eaton, Mauritz Hugo, Ralph Lewis, Jamesson Shade. Producer: William Strohbach. Director: Vernon Keays Original Screenplay: Victor Hammond. Marshal Hoot Gibson assigns Deputy Bob Steele to enter the Dalton Valley Rodeo and discover why the Barton gang always wins. Gibson, in disguise, follows him. Barton gives instructions to insert a poison needle in the saddle when Bob rides an outlaw horse. Bob knows the trick, removes the needle, and with it as proof, he and Hoot round up the gang. A WAVE, a Wac and a Marine Cast: Elyse Knox, Anne Gillis, Sally Eilers, Richard Lane, Marjorie Woodworth, Ramsay Ames, Henny Youngman, Charles ''Red" Marshall. Producer: Edward Sherman. Director: Phil Karlstein. Original Screenplay: Hal Fimberg. A musicomedy in which a theatrical agent is sent to New York to sign up a couple of stage stars for a Hollywood studio and inadvertently tickets a pair of newcomers. The girls turn out to be “finds” but before the studio can capitalize on them they enlist — one in the WAVES; the other in the Wac. The marine provides the romance. When Strangers Marry Cast: Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton, Lou Lubin, Milt Kibbee, Lee Lasses White. Producer: Maurice King. Director: William Castle. Original Screenplay: Philip Yordan and Dennis J. Cooper. A man is found strangled to death in a Philadelphia barroom, $10,000 missing from his wallet. Shortly after, Kim Hunter goes to New York in answer to a mysterious telegram from her husband of two months. Dean Jagger. Circumstantial evidence points to him as the killer, but Kim’s probings and the help of a detective prove otherwise. PARAMOUNT The Affairs of Susan Cast: Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Walter Abel, Don De Fore. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: William Seiter. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Richard Flournoy. A comedy about a girl who lives alone on an island off the coast of Maine and 92 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER