Boxoffice barometer (1944)

robbed, the ranchers face ruin through loss of their deposits. The desperadoes are captirred, but the money is missing. Buster Crabbe gets the governor to allow the gang to escape so he can trail them. After some harrowing experiences, he comes upon the cash, discovers the brains behind the scheme and rounds up the culprits. REPUBLIC The Amazing Mr. M Cast: Joseph Schildkraut. Producer-Directoi: Joseph Kane. Original Screenplay: Frances Hyland. This story concerns a faded star of the legitimate stage who dramatically influences the fortunes of a contemporary American family. Belle of the Gold Coast Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Joseph Kane. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A romantic saga about the adventurous California Gold Rush days of ’49. The Big Bonanza Cast: Richard Arlen, Robert Livingston, Jane Frazee, Gabby Hayes, Lynne Roberts, Bobby Driscoll, J. M. Kerrigan. Producer: Eddy White. Director: George Archainbaud. Original: Robert Presnell and Leonard Praskins. Screenplay: Dorrell and Stuart McGowan and Paul Gangelin. During the Civil War, an officer is unfairly courtmartialed, but escapes from custody. He returns to his old haunts and finds the town menaced by a crooked mine operator. Because of his army record, the officer has trouble in gaining the citizens’ confidence, but eventually he does, and after much gun-play, smashes the crook and his gang, thereby redeeming himself with army authorities. Brazil Cast: Tito Guizar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Richard Lane. Producer: Robert North. Director: Joseph Santley. Original: Richard English. Screenplay: Frank Gill jr. and Laura Kerr. A beautiful yoimg novelist flies to Brazil to gather material for her next book and discovers her latest best seller, “Why Marry a Latin?” hasn’t done her much good concerning public relations with Latin-Americans. A romantic Brazilian singer pretends to be a tourist guide and from there on the good neighbor policy is seen working. She learns why to marry a Latin. The Chicago Kid Cost: Donald Barry, Lynne Roberts, Otto Kruger, Hank Daniels, George Meeker, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Hall, Charles Sherlock. Producer: Eddie White. Director: Frank McDonald. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A melodrama about a young man who feels that his father, who died in prison, was framed on a trumped up charge. The boy sets out to avenge his ignominious death and, in so doing, becomes involved with racketeers and black market deals. He becomes a fugitive from justice and at that time, facts that he has obtained prove that his father really was guilty. A Daring Holiday Cast: Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Ruth Terry, Gladys George, Lola Lane, Frank Jenks, Iris Adrian, Isabel Jewell. Producer: Joseph Bercholz. Director: Alexander Esway. Original: Marcel Arnac. Screenplay: Bradford Ropes. A comedy-farce about a conservative judge who becomes involved with a gang of crooks and finally robs his own house to teach them a moral lesson. Earl Carroll's Vanities Cost: Eve Arden, Stephanie Bachelor. Producer: Albert Cohen. Director: Joseph Santley. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A musical review in which a hard-boiled but pleasing night club owner of the Texas Guinan variety helps a royal princess to become a Broadway star. The Fabulous Texan Cast: Not set. Producer: Albert Cohen. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Wally Kline and George Carleton Brown. Localed in the great southwest, this narrative describes the fighting determination of a man to carve his own destiny. Faces in the Fog Cast: Jane Withers, Paul Kelly, Eric Sinclair, Gertrude Michael, John Litel, Dorothy Peterson, Lee Patrick. Producer: Herman Millakowsky. Director: John English. Original Screenplay: Jack Townley . What happens to youngsters of intolerant and unsympathetic parents is depicted in this film of the lives of two families and the delinquency of their teenage children. Flame of the Barbary Coast Cast: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, Russell Hicks, Virginia Grey, William Frawley. Producer-Director: Joseph Kane. Original Screenplay: Borden Chase. This is the tale of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast just before the earthquake of 1906 and concerns a gambling joint proprietor, a dance hall girl and a Montana cattle man who gamble, fight and love until an earthquake crushes the city. Out of the chaos they reconstruct the city and their lives. The Ghost Comes Home Cast: Not set. Producer: Herman Millakowsky. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A comedy revolving around a top-flight portrait artist and gay Lothario who leaves town to avoid an irate husband and a lawsuit. He is reported to have been killed, so he plays the part of his own ghost to clear up his troubles and win back the affections of his betrothed. The Glory Road Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Joseph Kane. Original Screenplay: Ralph Spence. A western film with a historical background, this is a story of the Pony Express in the days of the Indians. The Great Flamarion Cost: Eric von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Stephen Barclay, Lester Allen, Michael Mark. Producer: William Wilder. Director: Anthony Mann. Original: Novel by Vicki Baum. Screenplay: Anne George Wighton. The story of a pistol shooting expert (Eric von Stroheim) who has in his act a young married couple. The girl revives memories of a woman von Stroheim once loved in Vienna where he was an army officer. The young wife leads him on and convinces him that her husband is cruel to her, and so von Stroheim shoots him and makes it look accidental. His dreams of marriage are wrecked when the fickle girl runs off with someone else. He pursues her across the country, and when she attempts to shoot him, he strangles her. The Great Stagecoach Robbery Cast: Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Don Costello, Francis McDonald, John James, Sylvia Arslan. Producer: Louis Gray. Director: Lesley Selander. Original Screenplay: Randall Faye. The seventh in the series of the Red Ryder features is this film, with Bill Elliott in the title role. There is an intercepted stagecoach robbery, a murder in which Ryder is implicated, and a gun battle. The hero is victorious, establishes his innocence and brings the criminals to justice. Grissly's Millions Cast: Paul Kelly, Virginia Grey, Don Douglas, Elisabeth Risdon, Robert Barrat, Clem Bevans, Francis Pierlot. Producer: Waller H. Goetz. Director: John English. Original Screenplay: Muriel Roy Bolton. An old millionaire, on his death bed. shoots and kills his granddaughter’s exhusband, a blackmailing individual, and then he dies. It’s later learned he was poisoned, and since the girl inherits his money, she is suspected of both slayings. Her conniving relatives heap more guilt on her to get her out of the way. But an understanding cop tracks down the murderer by using the girl as bait. The Healer Cast: Vera Hruba Ralston. Producer: Mark M. Libkov. Director: Steve Sekely. Original: Not set. Screenplay: John Collier. In this drama, Vera Hruba Ralston is the daughter of a famous surgeon who suffers a loss of memory. Under a new identity he acquires a reputation as a faith healer. Most of the action is laid in Mexico. Hit Parade of 1945 Cast: Not set. Producer: Harry Grey. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Dick Irving Hyland. A musical revue which features specialty acts and “name” entertainers. Hitch Hike to Happines Cast: A1 Pearce, Dale Evans, Brad Taylor, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan, Richard Lane, Arlene Harris, Joyce Compton, Producer: Donald H. Brown. Director: Joseph Santley, Original: Manny Self and Jerry Horwin, Screenplay: Jack Townley. A too-smart Broadway playwright and his producer, for personal reasons, pull a gag on a good-natured, naive waiter who desires to become a playwright. Through cooperation of two of the waiter’s pals, a popular songstress and a talented but unknown songwriter, the gag boomerangs, bringing realized ambitions and romance to all concerned. The Iron Master Cast: Michael O'Shea. Producer: Albert J. Cohen. Director: Not set. Original: Prescott Chapin. Screenplay: Louis Stevens. A tale of the adventures of an ambitious young miner who fights his way up to industrial power in the turbulent iron-ore boom era at the turn of the century. Jealousy Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Gustav Machaty. Original: Dalton Trumbo. Screenplay: Arnold Phillips, Gustav Machaty. Localed in Hollywood, this is a psychological melodrama involving the lives of four people and tends to show the effect that jealousy has on this group when affections are alienated. Johnny Comes Home Cast: Not set. Producer: Walter Colmes. Director: Not set. Original: Robert Newman. Screenplay: Richard Weil. A film which relates the problems of the returning soldier in the postwar world. Lake Placid Serenade Cast: Vera Hruba Ralston, Eugene Pallette, Vera Vague, Robert Livingston, Stephanie Bachelor, Ruth Terry, Roy Rogers. Producer: Harry Grey. Director: Steven Sekely. Original: Frederick Kohner. Screenplay: Dick Irving Hyland and Doris Gilbert. The story of a young Czechoslovakian ice skating champion who visits America for the Lake Placid carnival. She goes to live with a rich uncle on Long Island and there becomes the center of controversy, because her two cousins are in love with the same man, who wants only the skater. But all is satisfactorily ironed out; she wins success in America and the man of her choice. Lights of Old Santa Fe Cost: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, George Hayes, Richard Powers, Claire Du Brey, Lloyd Corrigan, Sons of the Pioneers. Producer: Harry Grey. Director: Frank McDonald. Original Screenplay: Gordon Kahn and Robert Williams. Roy Rogers comes to the rescue of a lady whose rodeo show is on the skids. Not only does he outwit her competitor by building an even greater musical rodeo no BOXOFFICE BAROMETER