Boxoffice barometer (1945)

REPUBLIC Along the Navajo Trail Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hays, Dale Evans, Sons of the Pioneers, Nestor Paiva. Producer: Edward J. White. Director: Frank McDonald. Original-Screenplay: Gerald Geraghty. In order to solve the death of the deputy who preceded him, Roy Rogers, U.S. marshal, disguises himself as a cowboy to track down the killers. He ties up with a band of gypsies he has befriended and they help him to find the murderer. The cowboy also foils the plans of the heavies to cheat a ranch owner and his daughter Dale Evans, with whom he falls in love. An Angel Comes to Brooklyn Cost: Kaye Dowd, Robert Duke, David Street, Wilton Graff, Barbara Perry, Charles Kemper, Marguerite D'Alvarez, Bob Scheerer. Associate Producer: Leonard Sillmon. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Original: June Carroll and Lee Wainer. Screenplay: Stanley Paley and June Carroll. Kaye Dowd, a struggling young actress, refuses to be discouraged by Producer Wilton Graff’s many rejections. A guardian angel from Actor’s Heaven, Charles Kemper, descends to assist Kaye in her struggles and love life, but believes he has failed when David Street does not deliver an important message to Kaye and Robert, an artist also in love with Kaye. However, all ends well. Bandit of the Badlands Cast: Sunset Carson. Producer: Bennett Cohen. Director: Thomas Carr. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. An outdoor action western in which Sunset Carson captures a notorious bandit in the hills of North Dakota after many adventures and narrow escapes. Behind City Lights Cast: Lynne Roberts, Peter Cookson, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale, William Terry, Victor Kilian, Moroni Olsen. Producer: Joseph Bercholz. Director: John English. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Richard Weil. Lynne Roberts and William Terry postpone their marriage when Peter Cookson and Jerome Cowan, injured in an accident, are brought into the house where Terry and Lynne are living. Lynne falls in love with Cookson, follows him to the big city and is involved unwittingly in a jewel robbery. Terry extricates her from the dilemma and they go back to the small town, reconciled. Beyond the Great Divide Cast: Roy Rogers. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Roy Rogers alm.ost meets death in this adventure story of the west, but nimble thinking and quick shooting enable him to emerge victor over treacherous bandits. California Fiesta Cast: Roy Rogers. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. While participating in fiesta activities, Roy Rogers not only receives an opportunity to display his singing talents, but also to prove his prowess as a pistol-packin’ cowboy who rounds up a gang of outlaws. California Gold Rush Cast: Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. When the 49ers invade the west in search of gold, the duchess relies heavily on the friendship and fearlessness of Red Ryder and Little Beaver to save her ranch from stakers who discover her land is rich with ore. Captain Tugboat Annie Cast: Jane Darwell, Edgar Kennedy. Producer: James Burkett. Director: Phil Rosen. Original: Based on stories by Norman Reilly Raine. Screenplay: Not set. Comedy drama about a rough-andready, heart-of-gold skipper of a tugboat, portrayed by Jane Darwell, this is adapted from a series of Saturday Evening Post stories by Norman Reilly Raine. The Catman of Paris Cast: Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille, Fritz Feld, Francis Pierlot, George Renevant, Francis McDonald, Maurice Cass. Director: Lesley Selander. Original Screenplay: Sherman Lowe. A young French author, victim of amnesia attacks, believes he is the Catman who has been terrorizing Paris with gruesome crimes. The daughter of the author’s publisher believes him innocent, and when the cat-faced man tries to enter her room her scream brings the police who mortally wound the freak. He is identified as the author’s best friend in his ninth and last reincarnation. The Cherokee Flash Cast: Sunset Carson, Linda Sterling, Tom London, Roy Barcroft, John Merton, Bud Geary, Frank' Jaquet. Associate Producer: Bennett Cohen. Director: Thomas Carr. Original Screenplay: Betty Burbridge. Sunset’s foster father Jeff, who has gone straight after a prison term, is taken to jail when some of his old gang is discovered hiding in his home following a bank robbery. Sunset proves his stepfather’s innocence by revealing a shyster lawyer and the town sheriff to be the ringleaders of the bank-robbing, murdering gang. Colorado Pioneers Cast: Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Roy Barcrolt, Bud Geary, Billy Cummings, Freddie Chapman. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original: Peter Whitehead. Screenplay: Earle Snell. When Little Beaver arrives from a Chicago parish with seven pals in tow, he teaches the youngsters the art of cowpunching. Their adeptness helps the duchess on her ranch when a scheming rancher-neighbor lures her cowhands away. Red Ryder comes to their rescue when a landslide, caused by the rancher and his gang, almost kills two of the boys. Concerto Cast: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, William Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya, Felix Bressort, Fritz Feld. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Original Screenplay: Borden Chase. Catherine McLeod is the protegee of Philip Dorn, a famous pianist. The girl is madly in love with him, but Dorn has no time for women. Disappointed, she goes back home and marries the boy next door. They have a daughter who goes through the exact procedure that her mother did. Realizing what is happening, her mother tries to prevent it, for she now understands that her experience was merely a crush and that she loves her husband. The Conover Girl Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Allan Dwan. Original: Ursula Parrott. Screenplay: Not set. A musical romance centered about Harry Conover’s famed model agency in New York. Film will be adapted from an unpublished book by Ursula Parrott, with emphasis concentrating on one outstanding Conover model. Conquest of Cheyenne Cast: Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart. Associate Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Set in the ’90s, a young man whom an heiress has rescued from false arrest finds oil on her ranch. The well is drilled and proves to be a gusher. Red Ryder and Little Beaver outwit a banker who tries to get control of the property, thereby earning the gratitude of the young couple, who have fallen in love. Crime of the Century Cast: Michael Brown, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara, Mary Currier, Paul Stanton, Betty Shaw, Producer: Walter Goetz. Director: Phil Ford. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A young man just out of prison discovers that his reporter-brother has been spirited away after disclosing a corporation president’s body was being concealed in ice until after a company election. The exconvict turns detective and succeeds in pinning the murder on the company’s vicepresident, thus freeing his brother from further danger. Crime Passionelle Cast: Joseph Schildkraut. Producer-Director: Joseph Kane. Original: Robert Shannon. Screenplay: Not set. A drama romance laid in underground Paris in 1910. Dakota Cast: Vera Hruba Ralston, John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki, Grant Withers, Paul Fix. Producer: Joseph Kane. Director: Joseph Kane. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Because of information she has gleaned from her father, a wealthy railroad man, that the railroad is about to run through Dakota, Vera Ralston convinces John Wayne that their fortune is to be made in that state. Plans are menaced by Ward Bond and Mike Mazurki, two 1870 racketeers. Through manipulations Wa3tne out-smarts the villains, who had intended to swindle the land owners, and gives the owners an honest deal. Days of Buffalo Bill Cast: Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Tom London, James Craven, Rex Lease, Edmund Cobb,Eddie Parker. Associate Producer: Bennett Cohen. Director: Thomas Carr. Original Screenplay: William Lively, Doris Schroeder. When Sunset Carson sees a drunk greenhorn gambler Jim losing his chips, he joins the game and wins all the money Jim needed to pay his ranch debt. Sunset intends to return the cash to him, but Jim dies in a gun fight. Carson goes to the aid of Jim’s sister, who mistrusts him at first but after fierce gunplay and desperate action Jim’s murderer is revealed and Sunset wins the girl. Death Is a Playboy Cast: Not set. Producer. William O'Sullivan. Director: Not set. Original: Marcy Klauber, C. B. Williams. Screenplay: Not set. A melodrama of a prize fighter who avoids suspicion in a crime when he takes on another man’s identity by means of plastic surgery. Don't Fence Me In Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, Robert Livingston, Lucille Gleason, Bob Nolan and Sons of the Pioneers. Producer: Don Brown. Director: John English. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Dorrell and Stewart McGowan. In search of a story about a one-time bandit. Girl Reporter Dale Evans goes west to a dude ranch owned by Roy Rogers. She discovers that Roy’s friend. Gabby Hayes, is the man she is looking for. Gabby has gone straight, so Roy tries to protect him from being exposed. Roy and Dale fall in love and Gabby is saved, for as a result of Dale’s new found romance she sides with Roy. Earl Carroll Sketch Book Cast: Not set. Associate Producer: Robert North. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Frank Gill. Romance and music blend in the film version of Earl Carroll’s Hollywood Theatre glamor show. Featured are the famous showman’s “sixty most beautiful girls in the world” plus “name” entertainers. El Paso Kid Cast: Sunset Carson. Producer: Bennett Co 112 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER