Boxoffice barometer (1944)

ward himself. Tom Conway, Audrey Long, Jean Brooks, Louis Borell. Director: Gordon Douglas. North Star, The . ..451.. . (105) Special, ’43 War Drama. The story of Russia and its people before and during the early stages of the Nazi invasion. A Samuel Goldwyn special. Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan. Director: Lewis Milestone. Passport to Destiny. ...417.... (62) Group 4 War Comedy-Drama. Believing she is guided by the “magic eye” an English scrubwoman, pretending to be deaf and dumb, goes to Germany to shoot Hitler. Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Fritz Feld, Gavin Muir. Director: Ray McCarey. Rookies in Burma. ...414,... (62) Group 3 Comedy. Two rookies and a sergeant, captured in a Jap raid, escape in the guise of Jap soldiers, and wind up with both the Americans and Japs shooting at them. Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Erford Gage, Joan Barclay, Claire Carleton. Director: Leslie Goodwin. Seven Days Ashore. ..,424.. . (74) Group 5 Comedy with Music. Three merchant mariners on leave, looking for excitement, get involved in romantic entanglements. Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Dooley Wilson. Director: John H. Auer. Seventh Victim, The... .403.... (71) ....Group 1, ’43 Murder Mystery. A woman, in search of her sister who is a mental case, picks up a trail that leads to the lair of a strange group of devil-worshippers. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Kim Hunter, Isataell Jewell, Evelyn Brent. Director: Mark Robson. Show Business. ...425.... (92) Group 5 Musical. A cavalcade of show business a generation back and the people who were a part of it. Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore, Don Douglas. Director: Edwin L. Marin. ©Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ...492 (83) Reissue So This Is Washington. ...404 (64) Group 1, ’43 Comedy. Lum and Abner go to Washington to sell Lum’s synthetic rubber compound to the government, but the latter develops amnesia while demonstrating how to make the rubber. Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray. Director: Raymond McCarey. Step Lively.. .429 . ..(88) Group 6 Musical. After many financial hurdles, a producer and his cast land in the big time. Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria De Haven, Walter Slezak, Eugene Pallette. Director : Tim Whelan. Tarzan’s Desert Mystery. ...413.. . (70) ... Group 3 Adventure Drama. Tarzan, Boy and Cheeta, the chimpanzee, trek across dangerous desert territory and jungle wilds in search of a fever medicine for wounded Allied soldiers, fighting hostile hordes all the way. Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield. Director: William Thiele. Tender Comrade. ...416.. . (102) Group 4 Drama. Everyday Americans, their wartime lives and loves, joys and sorrows, fears and hopes, sacrifices and selfishness. Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge. Director: Edward Dmytryk. ©Up in Arms.. .452.... (105) Special Musical Comedy. A Samuel Goldwyn production of a super-hypochondriac who is drafted and becomes a hero. Danny Kaye, leo Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, George Matthews, Goldwyn Girls. Director: Elliot Nugent. Yellow Canary. ...423.... (84) Group 5 Spy Drama. .\n English girl masquerades as a Nazi sympathizer to track down a group of Germans, posing as Poles, who plot to blow up a convoy. Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Cyril Fletcher. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Youth Buns Wild....430.. . (67) Group 6 Drama. A preachment on juvenile delinquency, story centering around parents in defense plants whose offspring get out of hand. Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Glenn Vernon. Director: Mark Robson. REPUBLIC (July 1, 1943 thru October 16, 1944) Atlantic City....327.... (87) Sept. 15 Musical Drama. How a young man with promotional ideas made Atlantic City the nation’s famous playground. Constance Moore, Bradford Taylor, Charley Grapewin, Jerry Colonna, Paul Whiteman. Director: Ray McCarey. Beneath Western Skies... .354.. . (56) Mar. 3 Western. A group of decent law-abiding citizens band together to rid the town of its criminal element. Bob Livingston, Smiley Burnette, Effie Laird. Director: Spencer Bennet. Beyond the Last Frontier. ...351 (56) Sept. 18, ’43 Western. A Texas Ranger poses as an outlaw to catch a gang of wholesale gunrunners. Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Lorraine Miller. Director: Howard Bretherton. (A John Paul Revere Production released through Republic). Black Hills Express, The. ...362 (55) Aug. 15, ’43 Western. A special agent for Wells Fargo breaks up a highwaymen’s gang headed by a crooked marshal and banker. Don “Red” Barry, Wally Vernon, Ariel Heath. Director: John English. California Joe. ...365.... (55) Dec. 29, ’43 Western. Laid in Civil War times, a plot to set up a dictatorship in California is thwarted. Don “Red” Barry, Wally Vernon, Helen Talbot. Director: Spencer Bennett. Call of the Rockies... .356.. . (56) July 14 Western. The miners organize to protect their government franchise and their properties from foreclosure. Smiley Burnette, Sonny Carson, Ellen Hall, Kirk Alyn, Harry Woods. Director: Les Selander. Call of the South Seas . . 319.... (59) July 7 Melodrama. The arm of the FBI extends to a south sea island, where an American fugitive from justice is a big shot. Janet Martin, Allan Lane, Roy Barcroft, William Henry. Director: Jack English. Canyon City. ...364.... (55) Nov. 29, ’43 Western. A gang of crooks wants to buy up ranches dirt cheap and attempts to make them worthless by dynamiting the dam and flooding the land. Don “Red’’’ Barry, Wally Vernon, Helen Talbot, Twinkle Watts. Director: Spencer Bennet. Casanova in Burlesque. ...333.. . (74) Feb. 19 Comedy. A burlesque comedian who has had a life-long yen to play Hamlet fulfills his ambition when he gets a job in a college as an authority on Shakespeare and takes an acting part in one of the campus plays. Joe E. -Brown, June Havoc, Dale Evans, Marjorie Gateson, Ian Keith. Director: Leslie Goodwin. Cowboy and the Senorita, The.. ..342 (78) May 12 Western Musical. Along with music and dancing is an underlying story of how a mine-stealing crook was exposed. Roy Rogers, Mary Lee, Dale Evans. Director: Joseph Kane. Death Valley Manhunt.... 375 (55) Sept. 25, ’43 Western. Wild Bill’s plans to retire are abandoned when he finds that independent oil drillers in Death Valley are oppressed by a tricky manager of a wealthy petroleiun company. Wild Bill Elliott, George Hayes, Anne Jeffreys. Director: John English. Deerslayer....306....(67) Nov. 22, ’43 Drama. Screen adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel of early American days when the white men rode into battle against the Indians. Bruce Kellogg, Jean Parker, Larry Parks, Wanda McKay. Director: Lew Landers. Drums of Fu Manchu....305.... (68) ....Nov. 27, ’43 Melodrama. Fu Manchu and English scientists are at odds in their search for the key symbol to the location of the tomb of Genghis Khan. Henry Brandon, William Royle, Gloria Franklin, Robert Kelland. Directors: William Whitney, John English. Fighting SeaBees, The . . 311.... (100) Mar. 10 Navy Drama. The birth, growth and heroic accomplishments of the construction battalions of the navy, with an underlying story of a hard-boiled SeaBee who finds it difficult to abide by the regulations. John Wayne, Dennis O’Keefe, Susan Hayward. Director: Edward Ludwig. Fugitive From Sonora....361....(56) July 1, ’43 Western. A preacher’s brother is mixed up in a band of outlaws but he helps to put an end to the cattlemen’s war on the homesteaders. Don “Red” Barry, Wally Vernon, Lynn Merrick. Dir.: Howard Bretherton. Girl Who Dared, The....322.... (56) Aug. 5 Melodrama. A “ghost party” is held on an isolated Georgia island, the guests having received invitations from a mysterious source. Three murders occur before the mystery is cleared. Lorna Gray, Peter Cookson, Kirk Alyn, Veda Ann Borg, Roy Barcroft, Grant Withers. Director: Howard Bretherton. Goodnight, Sweetheart. ...320.... (67) June 17 Comedy. A newspaper man, with a nose for scandal, buys an interest in a small town paper and fakes a political expose which backfires. Robert Livingston, Ruth Terry, Henry Hull, Grant Withers. Director: Joseph Santley. Hands Across the Border... .341.... (73) Jan. 5 Musical Western. Rogers saves the heroine’s ranch and helps her reinstate a government contract for cavalry horses. Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, Ruth Terry, Guinn Williams. Director: Joseph Kane. Here Comes Elmer.. ..303.... (74) Nov. 15, ’43 Musical. A comedy of errors in which a radio star gets mixed up with his double just before broadcast time and nobody knows who’s who. A1 Pearce, Elmer Blurt, Frank Albertson, Gloria Stuart, Wally Vernon. Director: Joseph Santley. Hidden Valley Outlaws....378.... (56) Apr. 2 Western. Wild Bill Elliott is completely fooled by a “synthetic” sheriff, but when he gets wise no bullets are spared to bring the culprits to justice. Wild Bill Elliott, George “Gabby” Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, Roy BOXOFFICE BAROMETER