Boxoffice barometer (1944)

of the man who was appointed to lead in the rehabilitation of a section of that country. Though a benevolent executive, he meets with opposition as well as cooperation. The reaction of the citizens to his rule is the basis of the film’s action. The Big Noise Ca^t: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Veda Ann Borg, Bobby Blake, Frank Fenton. Producer: Sol M. 'Wurtzel. Director: Mai St. Clair. Original Screenplay: W Scott Darling. A farce with Laurel and Hardy as two amateur detectives hired to guard a new bomb invention. After numerous escapades dealing with crooks who try to steal the bomb, a wild chase ensues. The two comics wind up in an airplane with the explosive which they accidentally drop. It makes a direct hit on an enemy submarine, thereby proving its merit. The war department buys the invention while the boys go into business as full-fledged detectives. Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Cast: Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Beatrice Kay, William Gaxton, Phil Silvers, Carmen Cavallero, Dorothy Day. Producer: William Perleberg. Director: George Seaton. Original Screenplay: George Seaton. A medical student decides he wants to become a song and dance man like his father at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe. He meets its star, Betty Grable, who, with others of the cast, persuades him to return to school. The ensuing complications are eventually ironed out and Betty marries the student who gets his medical degree. Bon Voyage Cast: Jane Ball, Joan Blondell, Jeanne Crain, Glen Langan, C. Aubrey Smith, Jane Nigh, Richard Crane. Producer: William Bacher. Director: Lee Strassberg. Original: Josephine Lawrence's "Tower of Steel." Screenplay: Not set. Set in the heart of New York’s business world is this story of a group of wartime career women, all employed in a suite of law offices in a Manhattan skyscraper. Their loves and fears and ambitions are revealed as they clash over the love of one man who is overseas. Circumstantial Evidence Cast: Preston Foster. Producer: William Girard. Director: John Larkin. Original: Not set, ScreenNot set. Screenplay: Not set. This murder mystery tells how a man, unjustly accused of a crime, is caught in a web of events that nearly convict him. Claudia and David Cast: Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire. Producer: William Perleberg. Director: Not set. Original: Rose Franken. Screenplay: Not set. Based on the original story by Rose Franken is this film with Robert Young as David and Dorothy McGuire as Claudia, and is a follow up of the previously-made “Claudia.” It is about the very human goings-on in the life of a young happily married couple. Col. Effingham's Raid Cast: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett. Producer: Lamarr Trotti. Director: Irving Pichel. Original: Story by Berry Fleming. Screenplay: Lamarr Trotti, Charles Coburn portrays a retired army officer who comes to a small town where his nephew runs the local newspaper. Coburn takes the job as political columnist on the sheet and subsequently exposes and smashes the town’s political machine. The Dolly Sisters Cast: Betty Grable, Alice Faye, John Payne. Producer: George Jessel. Director: Irving Cummings. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. The story of the stage career of the Dolly Sisters and their experiences that led them up to big time vaudeville. Fallen Angel Cost: Not set. Producer: Otto Preminger. Di rector: Not set. Original: Marty Holland. Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet. Adapted from a still unpublished novel, this is a tale of murder and intrigue. A young man in trouble goes to a small town in California to start anew. He meets a little hash-slinger and both of them plot to get the $10,000 a local girl has inherited. The schemers agree he’ll marry the girl, and he does, but shortly after, when the little waitress is found murdered and a New York cop comes to investigate, the young man finds himself in a whirl. Farmer Takes a Wife Cast: Not set. Producer: Robert Bassler. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: lien Simkhovitch. Set in the year 1850 with the Erie Canal as a background, this is a story of a young man who owns a riverboat on which he hauls cargo down the canal to various towns. He is torn between his love for the canal and his desire to own a farm. A young, headstrong woman is instrumental in helping him to decide. Fighting Lady Cast: Naval personnel. Producer: Louis De Rochemont. Original: Idea by Capt, H. B, Miller, USNR, Bureau of Aeronautics. Commentary: Written by John Stewart Martin, voiced by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR. Photographed in Technicolor by naval photographers under supervision of Lieut. Dwight Long and Comdr. Edward Steichen, USNR, this picture brings to the American public what life is like aboard an aircraft carrier in the height of battle. Produced with the permission and cooperation of the navy department, it is a film that shows actual battle scenes in the South Pacific area, and formations of enemy planes' ready for combat as they attack the Fighting Lady. Hangover Square Cast: Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Reginald Gardiner, Faye Marlow, Alan Napier. Producer: Robert Bassler. Director: John Brahm. Screenplay: Not set. Laird Cregar portrays a London composer, brilliant and respected, who has homicidal tendencies during mental lapses. He commits two murders and is suspected only by the doctor who knows his case. The murderer brings about his own destruction, just as his greatest concerto is being played for the first time. In the Meantime, Darling Cast: Jeanne Crain, Frank Latimore, Eug^ene Pallette, Mary Nash, Gale Robbins, Jane Randolph, Heather Angel, Elizabeth Risdon. Producer-Director: Otto Preminger. Original Screenplay: Arthur Kober and Michael Uris. Located in a small army town is this tale of an officer’s bride, slightly pampered, who is forced to reside in a crowded dilapidated hotel along with other army wives. She learns about life through many mistakes and humiliations but emerges a stronger person, able to face the moment of the final goodby. Irish Eyes Are Smiling Cast: Monty Woolley, Dick Haymes, June Haver, Anthony Quinn, Beverly Whitney, Maxie Rosenbloom, Veda Ann Borg. Producer: Damon Runyon. Director: Gregory Ratoff. Original: E. A. Ellington. Screenplay: Earl Baldwin and John Tucker Battle. In 1911 in Cleveland a composer is trying unsuccessfully to plug his tunes; while in the same town, a chorus girl dreams of being a star. The two meet and from there on they struggle through hard knocks, past hardboiled critics and honkytonks to attain success in New York’s Palace, where his songs become famous and she heads the show. Jean Valjean Cast: Not set. Producer: William Perleberg. Director: Not set. Original: Victor Hugo. Screenplay: Not set. A saga, taken from Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” in which the harrowing experiences of the leading character, Jean Valjean, are related. The Keys of the Kingdom Cost: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Ruth Nelson, Peggy Ann Garner, Sir Cedric liardwicke. Producer: Joseph Monkiewicz, Direci'/r: John Stahl. Original: Novel by A. J. Cronin. Lcreonplay: Joseph Mankiewicz, Nunnally Johnson. From the popular novel by the same name, this screenplay brings to life the character of Father Francis Chisholm "who bumped his head so often and so hard in his strivings after God.” After a lifetime of service in China to humanity he retires to an unpretentious parish house in his native Scotland. Laura Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton V/ebb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams. Producer-Director: Otto Preminger. Original: Vera Caspary. Screenplay: Jay Dratler. A murder mystery in which a wrong murder is committed, and the young woman thought to be dead appears on the scene to startle the slayer. The police detective handling the case tracks down the guilty one; prevents him from committing a second crime and wins Laura, who has twice escaped a horrible death. Miss Pilgrim's Progress Cast: Not set. Producer: William LeBaron. Director: Not set. Original: Frederica and Ernest Maas. Screenplay: Not set. This story is laid in 1873 and is about a man who invents a typewriter and hires a girl to demonstrate it. Molly, Bless Her Cast: Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley. Producer: Robert Bassler. Director: Not set. Original: Frances Marion. Screenplay: Not set. A screen biography of Marie Dressier, with Gracie Fields in the title role. Moss Rose Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Howard Hawks. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Produced in England this is a murder mystery dealing with the slaying of a music hall queen. The Night the World Shook Cg t: Not set. Producer: Andre Daven. Director: Not set. Original: Jacques Companez. Ccreenplay: Not set. The story of a man, sent to prison, who becomes a hero when an earthquake causes havoc. Nob Hill Cast: Joan Bennett, George Raft, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner, Alan Reed, J. Farrell MacDona'd, Don Costello. Producer: Andre Daven. Director: Henry Hathaway. Original: Eleanor Griffin. Screenplay: Not set. This is the story of the Barbary Coast and a saloon keeper, George Raft, who finds himself the adopted uncle of a little girl from Ireland. The lass is responsible for his meeting aristocratic Joan Bennett from Nob Hill, and he steps out of his class to win her, but returns to his own kind, a wiser and happier man. Rickenbacker — Story of an American Cast: Not set. Producer: W. R. Wheehan. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Original Screenplay: Jerome Cady and John Battle. Based on the exploits of Eddie Rickenbacker, flying ace of World War I, and successful industrialist of the present day. A Royal Scandal Cast: Charles Coburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer. Producer: Ernst Lubitsch. Director: Otto Preminger. Original: Lijos Biro and Mechior Lenayee. Screenplay: Joseph Mankiewicz. This is about Catherine the Great of Russia who had many loves and one of them was a young man who cared only BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 125