Boxoffice barometer (1945)

he succeeds in extricating himself only after he almost loses his wife. Bedlam Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Robert Fraser, Billy House, Joan Newton, Tom Noonan, Glenn Vernon. Producer: Val Lewton. Director: Mark Robson. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A story of reform, the picture is based on etchings by William Hogarth, British 18th century painter, depicting actual conditions in an insane asylum. Anna Lee visits the institution, headed by Karloff, sadistic literary genius, and is horrified. When she tries to better conditions, the Tories have Anna committed there. Not until after the change of political parties is Anna freed and reform effected. The Bells of St. Mary's Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Ruth Donnelly, Joan Carroll, William Gargan, Martha Sleeper. Producer-Director: Leo McCarey. Original: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Leo McCarey, Dudley Nichols. Bing Crosby again is cast as Father O’Malley (of “Going My Way” fame) with Ingrid Bergman as Sister Benedic, mother to the children of St. Mary’s parochial school. The film, a comedy-drama, aims to dispel many misconceptions of convent life, depicting the nuns as human, humorous members of a great profession. The Bishop's Wife Cast: Teiesa Wright, David Niven. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Not set. Original: Robert Nathan. Screenplay: Not set. Triangle comedy involving a cleric, his spouse and an interloping angel played by Niven. Blackbearcd Cast: Boris Karloff. Producer: Val Lewton. Director: Mark Robson. Original Screenplay: Arde! Wray. Horror drama in which Boris Karloff essays the role of a physopathic homicidal maniac. This will be brought to the screen by the producer and director who teamed on a resent and similar chiller starring Karloff in “Isle of the Dead.” The Case for Mrs. Nash Cast: Not set. Producers: Leo Spitz, William Goetz (International Pictures). Associate Producer: Nunnally Johnson. Original: Eric Hatch. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson Domestic comedy which explores still another facet of the returning service man’s problems. A navy wife becomes a career woman while her husband, in foreign service, is being comforted by a West Indian girl who is more understanding than his own spouse. The wife, the sailor and the girl friend become involved in a triangular dilemma when the husband comes home from the wars. Child of Divorce Cast: Sharyn Moffett. Producer: Melville Burke. Director: Richard Fleischer. Original: Leopold Atlas. Screenplay: Doris Gilbert, Lillie Hayward. Based on a stage production, this social problem concerns itself with divorce and with the serious aftermaths when a home is broken up, which in many cases starts children off on the road to juvenile delinquency. Come On Along Cast: Eddie Cantor, Dan Duryea, Thelma Car S enter. Producer: Eddie Cantor. Director: John . Auer. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set A musical with a western background, this will serve as a starring vehicle for Comedian Eddie Cantor, who also holds the production reins. Prominent in the cast is Thelma Carpenter, Negro songstress, who is Cantor’s latest discovery. Come Share My Love Cast: Myrna Loy. Producer: Harriet Parsons. Director: Not set. Original: Kay Swift. Screenplay: Doris Anderson. Romantic comedy, the story of an effete girl from the east who, during her travels through the rugged west, meets and marries a cowboy. It is based on a novel, "Who Could Ask for Anything More?” by Kay Swift. Cornered Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Edgar Barrier, Anne Hunter, Micheline Cheirel, Jack LaRue, Byron Folger. Producer: Adrian Scott. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Original: Ben Hecht, Czenci Ormonde, Herman Mankiewicz. Screenplay: John Paxton. Dick Powell, an RAF flyer released from a German prison camp, returns to Paris to find his French wife has been murdered by collaborationists. How he tracks them to Buenos Aires, gets himself into trouble with both the collaborationists and the anticollaborationists, barely escapes, but emerges unscathed — with his mission accomplished — involves the rest of the plot. Countess of Monte Cristo Cast: Not set. Producers: Leo Spitz, William Goetz (International Pictures). Associate Producer: Walter Thompson. Original: Based on characters created by Alexandre Dumas. Screenplay: Robert Smith. (Sostume drama, with France in the swashbuckling 17th century as its background, this is a cloak-and-dagger adventure. The screen story hinges upon the fictional characters created by the prolific Alexandre Dumas. Crack-Up Cast: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor. Producer: J. Robert Bren. Director: Not set. Original: Fredric Brown. Screenplay: John Paxton. Psychological melodrama about a famous art expert whose skill at detecting fake paintings threatens to spoil the operations of a gang dealing in imitation masterpieces. Their efforts to make him believe he is losing his mind form the basis for a series of fast-moving events and culminate in a dramatic climax. The Dark Mirror Cast: Not set. Producer: William Goetz, Leo Spitz (International Pictures). Associate Producer: Nunnally Johnson. Original: Vladimir Pozner. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. Psychological mystery drama. Deadlier Than the Male Cast: Lawrence Tierney. Producer: Not set. Director: Robert Wise. (Original: James Gunn. Screenplay: Not set. This is classified as a psychological murder mystery, serving as a starring vehicle for Lawrence Tierney, who rose to cinematic eminence as “Dillinger.” In this film, Tierney is caught in a web of intrigue that carries him from the gaming tables of Reno to the waterfront of San Francisco for the climax. Deadline at Dawn Cast: Susan Hayward, Bill Williams, Paul Lukas, Osa Massen, Joseph Calleia, Marvin Miller, Joseph Sawyer. Producer: Adrian Scott. Director: Harold (llurman. Original: William Irish. Screenplay: Cliflord Odet. A mystery story, wherein a sailor. Bill Williams, on leave, meets and falls for Susan Hayward. When a body is found in Susan’s room, their friend Paul Lukas, a cab driver, lends a helping hand in finding the murderer. Since all evidence points toward one of the trio, they have only until dawn to establish their innocence. Desirable Woman Cast: Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford, Ann Richards, George Brent. Producer: Val Lewton. Director: Jean Renoir. Original: Mitchell Wilson. Screenplay: Michael Hogan. Another opus which falls into the category of phychological drama, this finds Joan Bennett in the role of a woman whose charm unwittingly makes her the objective of the evil machinations of a man whose weapons are fear and hate. The producer, Val Lewton, was responsible for a number of films in similar vein. inciuding "The Cat People” and “Isle of the Dead.” Ding Dong Williams Cast: Glenn Vernon, Marcy McGuire, Anne Jeffreys, Jomes Warren, Felix Bressart, Richard Korbel, William Davidson. Producer: Herman Schlom. Director: William Berke. Original: Based on stories by Richard English. Screenplay: Brenda Weisberg and M. Coates Webster. Comedy with music dealing with the experiences of a young jive clarinet player who is hired to write a great modern “blue” symphony for a feature motion picture but who doesn’t know one note from another. The Dream of Home Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison. Producer: Dore Schary. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Original: Niven Busch. Screenplay: Not set Reveals the dramatic postwar problems of battle-wise United States marines in readjusting themselves to civilian life. Earth and High Heaven Cast: Not set. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Not set. Original Gwethalyn Graham. Screenplay: Not set. Drama of two young people of different religions who rise above the prejudice and bigotry of their families and society to find happiness in their love. The original story was a best-selling novel. The Falcon's Alibi Cast: Tom Conway, Jane Greer, Rita Corday, Esther Howard, A1 Bridge, Morgan Wallace, Alphonse Martel, Elisha Cook. Producer: William Berke. Director: Ray McCarey. Original Screenplay: Edwin Dein, Paul Yawitz, Charles O'Neal. 'Twelfth in the Falcon series, this finds Tom Conway, as the “Falcon,” coming to the aid of a young girl who is accused of stealing her employer’s pearls. In solving the mystery, Conway becomes enmeshed in three murders before he tracks down the culprit. The Falcon in Reno Cast: Tom Conway. Producer: Ralph Dietrich. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Not set. Reno, with its gambling houses and its lure for those who stake their lives on the turn of a card, supplies the background for this chapter in the series of mystery films starring Tom Conway as the Falcon. The Falcon in San Frtmcisco Cast: Tom Conway. Producer: Ralph Dietrich. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Not set Thirteenth in the series of mysterymelodramas starring Tom Conway as the self-appointed avenger of injustice. This time the Falcon becomes involved in a waterfront mystery in San Francisco, exposing himself to myriad pitfalls and dangers before the wrongdoers are vanquished. First Yank Into Tokyo Cast: Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Michael St. Angel, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, Clarence Lung. Producer: J. Robert Bren. Director: Gordon Douglas. Original Screenplay: J Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater. Tom Neal, American soldier who speaks Japanese, is smuggled into Tokyo to get information from Marc Cramer, inventor who is being held prisoner in a Jap hospital. Neal gets the information, but his identity is inadvertently revealed. He and a beautiful nurse, Barbara Hale, escape when a munitions dump is blown up by American pilots; she boards a waiting British sub, but Neal, after entrusting the information to her. surrenders his life. The Flying Yorkshiremon Cast: Not set. Producers: Frank Capra, Samuel Briskin, William Wyler (Liberty Productions). Director: Frank Capra. Original: Eric Knight. Screenplay: Not set. Comedy-fantasy, the story of Sam Small, a naive Yorkshireman, who discovers one day that he has miraculously acquired the art of flying. Pursued by his plaintive wife Molly, who thinks he has gone mad. 118 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER