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sponsible for reuniting the couple when they part. I Accuse My Parents Cast: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker, Edward Earle, George Lloyd. Producer: Max Alexander. Director: Sam Newfield. Original: Arthur Caesar. Screenplay: Harry Fraser and Marjorie Dudley. Accused of murder and complicity in other crimes, Robert Lowell tells his life story to the court. It is one of parental neglect. Thrown out on his own, he inadvertently becomes jnvolved with gangsters. Circumstances all play to his disadvantage until he meets an understanding older man who sets him on the right path. I Ring Doorbells Cast: Not set. Producer: Martin Mooney. Director: William K. Howard. Original: Book by Russell Birdwell. Screenplay: Raymond Schrock. Based on the autobiography of Press Agent Russell Birdwell and primarily concerned with his years as a roving reporter in the United States, Mexico, Central America and Europe. I'm From Arkansas Cast: Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Bruce Bennett, Maude Eburne, Cliff Nazarr®, A1 "Fuzzy" St. John. Producer: E. H. Kleinert and Irving Vershel. Director: Lew Landers. Original: Morey Klauber. Screenplay: Marcy Klauber and Joseph Carole. A burlesque on hillbilly musicals, revolving around a prolific pig whose exploitation possibilities bring to a sleepy Arkansas village a troupe of chorus girls, a pair of scheming city slickers, and troubles, climaxed when the legislature makes the community a state-sponsored spa. Joe Comes Home Cast: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn “Big Boy" Williams, Chester Clute, Ruth Lee, Smith Ballew. Producer: Leon Fromkess. Director: Christy Cabanne. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. Comedy concerning a returned war hero and his romance with a madcap heiress. Kentucky Mansion Cast: Robert "Buzzy" Henry. Producer: Martin Mooney. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. Planned as a sequel to “The Great Mike,” this will be a melodrama about a boy, a horse and a dog. The Kid Sister Cast: Judy Clark, Constance Worth, Roger Pryor, Frank Jenks, Tom Dugan, Minerva Urecal, Peggy Wynne, Richard Byron. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A fond mother decides to put into practice the stuff she has been reading in psychology books, as applied to her two attractive daughters. She is determined not to let the younger one marry until the older girl finds a husband, which results in various complications. The young sister, while waiting around, falls in love with her older sister’s boy friend and so mama’s plans go astray. King of Proxy Street Cost: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Novel by Stanley Kauffman. Screenplay: No credits set. The story deals with the return of two elderly men to the scene of their childhood. Madman of Mateawan Cast: Frank Jenks, Iris Adrian, Producer-Director: A1 Herman. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: John T. Neville. Melodrama localed in New Jersey’s noted institution for the insane. Mother Cabrini Cast: Not set. Producer: Martin Mooney. Director: Not set. Original: Pierre Gendron. Screenplay: Not set. The story of a Mother Superior whose life was devoted to the welfare of children. Her acts of kindness and her accomplishments for the betterment of the lives of young people are well known throughout Chicago and New York, and are herein brought to the screen. Murder in Spades Cast: Not set. Producer: Harry A. Gourfoin. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. Mystery melodrama with music. The Patriot of the Philippines Cast: Not set. Producer: Herman Boxer. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Herman Boxer, Arnold Marquis, Edwin Rolfe. Drama based on the life story of Dr.^ Jose Rizal, Filipino martyr. The Phantom of 42nd Street Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: A1 Herman. Original: Novel by Sgts. Milton M. Raison and Jack Harvey. Screenplay: No credits set. In this melodrama, a New York dramatic critic turns detective to solve a theatre mystery. Quebec Cast: Not set. Producer; Roth-Greene-Rouse. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplav: Not set. The experiences of an American who fled from his country to seek refuge in the French quarter of Quebec in order to escape his past. Queen of Burlesque Cast: Not set. Producer: Jack Schwarz. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. Story of a former burlesque artist whose entry into the life of a staid New England village brings many complications. Rustlers Hideout Cast: Buster Crabbe, A1 "Fuzzy" St. John, Patti McCarty, Charles King, John Merton, Terry Frost, Hal Price. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original and Screenplay: Joseph O'Donnell. Learning there has been rustling at the border, Buster Crabbe and A1 “Fuzzy” St. John go into a nearby town to investigate. One of the rustlers kills a man and plants the blame on Buster, follow the sheriff and a posse, but Buster and A1 outmaneuver them, and succeed in bringing the outlaws to justice. Strange Illusion Cast: Warren William, James Lydon, Regis Toomey, Sally Filers, Sonia Sorel, Jayne Hazard, Jimmy Clark, George Reed. Producer: Leon Fromkess. Director: Edgar Ulmer. Original: Fritz Rotter. Screenplay: Not set. A man is murdered, leaving a widow and their son and daughter. The young man seeks to learn the cause of his father’s death, and in a dream sees his mother with another man whom he feels is the murderer. Awaking from the dream he decides to check through his father’s records and thereby finds evidence that the stranger was his mother’s lover and both had plotted the murder. Swamp Mem Cast: Not set, Producer: Not set. Director: Not set Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. The story of a young socialite on a visit in the Bayou country where she meets a rough and ready, almost uncivilized man. She decides to have some fun, and so takes him to New York with her to show him off to her upper-crust friends. But the joke boomerangs, because before she realizes it she has fallen in love with him. Sweet Homicide Cast; Frank Jenks. Robin Raymond, H, B. Warner, Ray Walker, Davison Clark, Bob Homans, Frank McGlynn. Producers: Donald C. McKean and Albert Herman. Director; Albert Herman. Origiria' Screennlay: J'^'-'n T. N“vi'’e A girl reporter and a male photographer go on a routine interview to the laboratory of a pair of inventors who have discovered a revolutionary listening device. Instead of getting a scientific story they become involved in a series of murders, after all of which the corpses disappear. How they solve the crimes supplies the plot. Swing Hostess Cost: Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Cliff Nozarro, Harry Holman, Emmett Lynn, Betty Brodel. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original and Screenplay: Louise Rousseau and Gail Davenport. Ambitious Singer Martha Tilton has a job changing records in a wired music establishment. A fellow worker talks her into making a record, which gets mixed up with one made by a not-so-hot singer. The other gal is signed up but the mistake is soon evident and a search started for the girl with the beautiful voice. Martha gets a contract and all ends happily. Thundering Gun Slingers Cast: Buster Crabbe, A1 St. John, Frances Gladwin, Karl Hackett, Charles King, Jack Ingram, Kermit Maynard. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original Screenplay: Fred Myton. Ranch Owner Buster Crabbe disagrees with his neighbor, Karl Hackett. When Hackett is subsequently murdered, Crabbe is framed on the charge and jailed. His pal, A1 St. John, engineers his escape and assists Crabbe in roundii^ up the culprits and vindicating himself. ' The Town Went Wild Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, James Lydon. Producer; Roth-Green-Rouse. Director: Ralph Murphy. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. "Two families, neighbors, have respectively a son and a daughter. The two kids want to get married but to everyone’s amazement it is discovered that when they were born, the birth certificates were jumbled and the couple are believed to be brother and sister, throwing their romantic plans for a loss. But subsequent events reveal the truth of the matter and their marriage is assured. Trail of '49 Cast: Not set. Producer: Alexander-Stern. Director: Not set. Original: Oliver Drake. Screenplay: Oliver Drake. A story of the San Francisco Gold Rush, in which a man finds a fortune and loses it. Under Your Sombrero Cast: Not set. Producer: Frederick Jackson. Director: Not set. Original: Frederick Jackson. Screenplay: No credits set. Musical laid in Mexico. War Marriages Cast: Not set. Producer: Alexander-Stern. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A young woman doctor, self-sufficient and modern, doesn’t believe in war marriages and preaches against them. She is forced to eat her words when a goodlooking soldier,w ith whom she falls in love, changes her mind. When the Lights Go On Again Cast: James Lydon, Regis Toomey, Barbara Belden, George Cleveland, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Harry Shannon. Producer: Leon Fromkess. Director: William K. Howard. Original: Frank Craven. Screenplay: Milton Lazarus. A wounded marine returns to Middletown, USA, after battle in the South Pacific, and his life story is unfolded in flashback. It concerns his fight to lead the kind of life he wants and to marry the girl he loves in spite of a wealthy, tyrannical father, who has other plans in mind. Wild Horse Phemtom Cast; Buster Crabbe, A1 "Fuzzy" St. John, Elaine Morey, Kermit Maynard, Budd Buster, Hal Price, Robert Meredith. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original and Screenplay: Georne Milton. When the Piedmont County bank Is 104 BOXOFnCE BAROMETER