Boxoffice barometer (1945)

arrives for an audition in a floor show. Sande impersonates the murdered man, sends her away. To prevent Lois from suspecting the truth, Sande, as an anonymous backer, promises to put the show on the road. The ruse fails, but the show goes on. Jess Barker, working on the murder, falls in love with Lois and foils the mobsters' getaway. Gun Town Cast: Kip Lewis, Ivory Keyes, Claire Carleton, Louise Currie, Lyle Talbot, Ray Bennet, Can White, Gene Garrick. Producer: Wallace W Fox Director: Wallace W. Fox. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. An Indian agent is the protagonist in this wild western tale. It has to do with the effort of a woman owner of a stage coach line to hold her ground against the opposition of an out of state monopoly that wants the mail franchise she seeks. It is replete with villainy, murder, robbery and trouble from Indians. Heat Wave Cast: Yvonne De Carlo. Producer: Edward Kaufman. Director: Walter Reisch. Original: Walter Reisch. Screenplay: Not set. Yvonne De Carlo, star of “Salome, Where She Danced,” has a topline in this Technicolor musical based on the life of the famous Russian composer, RimskyKorsakov. Some of the classical musician’s best-known works will be featured in the film. Hero Wanted Cast: Jack Oakie, Peggy Ryan, Ann Blyth. Producer: Tom McKnight. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Walter Bullock A comedy involving the desire of some girls to meet an honest-to-goodness hero, and Jack Oakie 's subsequent appearance as that envied person. Hired Husband Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. Producer: John Grant. ^Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Elwood Ullman, Clyde Bruckman. This farce comedy about a marital mixup serves as a vehicle for the zany antics of the radio-screen comics, Abbott and Costello. . House of Dracula Cast: John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, Martha P'Drisccll, Pont Adams, Lon Chaney, Glenn Strage, _ Lionel Atwill. Producer: William O’Sullivan. Director: Erie C. Kenton. Original: Not set. Screenploy: Edward T. Lowe. A scientist engaged in research to alleviate human misery is tricked into aiding Vampire Count Dracula in his inhuman enterprise. Beginning with an attempt to relieve a brain pressure in a patient, the scientist is led through a chain of terrifying events that result in his own death as well as in the death of a hunchback girl he had tried to befriend. If I Loved You Cast: Joan Bennett. Producer: Walter Wanger. Director: William Seiter. Original Screenplay: Lionel Wiggam. A modern domestic comedy. It’s Never Too Late Cast: Bonita Granville, Noah Beery jr., Carol Hughes, Irene Ryan, Sarah Selby, Margaret Irving, Milburn Stone. Associate Producer-Director: Charles Barton. Original Screenplay: Ben Markson A Nobel prize winner sociology professor gives up a vacation to write a book on delinquents. He induces a detention home secretary to play the part of a wayward child in his home under the pretense she is a subject for his studies. The secretary manages to reform him as well as his stuffy household. Lady on a Train Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce,. George Coulouris, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea,_ Edward E. Horton. Producer: Felix Jackson. Director: Charles David. Original: Leslie Charteris. Screenplay: Edmund Beloin, Robert O'Brien. From a train window, Deanna Durbin sees a murder committed in a shack level with windows of the “ell.” She enlists the aid of Bruce, mystery book author, after police disbelieve her story. At the home of the dead man’s relatives she finds a clue more deeply involving her. Another murder is committed and she is nearly killed, but she and Bruce eventually track down the slayer. Last of the Lavrless Cast: Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight. Producer-Director: Wallace Fox. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. With the help of his stooge, Fuzzy Knight, and a loyal band of Pecos lawabiders, Kirby Grant succeeds in freeing the western cowtown of racketeers and gunmen. Letters of an Unknown Woman Cast: Deanna Durbin. Producer: Felix Jackson, Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Not set. Comedy-drama in which Deanna Durbin will contribute several vocal selections. The Magnificent Hour Cast: Deanna Durbin. Producer: Felix Jackson. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Emily Kimbrough, Robert O'Brien. Sophisticated comedy-drama. Deanna Durbin will sing several selections. The Men in Her Diary Cast: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Peggy Ryan, Virginia Grey, William Terry, Vivian Austin. Producer: Charles Barton. Original: Kerry Shaw. Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert and Elwood Ullman. Mousy Peggy Ryan is secretary to Jon Hall, who has a jealous wife. Peggy keeps a diary with imaginary experiences involving every man she knows. Her little book gets everyone in a jam, particularly Hall, for his wife finds the diary and sues him for divorce, naming Peggy as correspondent. Virginia Grey, also in love with Hall, coaches Peggy and consequently the judge grants the divorce when she appears as a femme fatale. Everyone ends up in the right person’s arms. Murder Mansion Cast: Virginia Grey, Robert Lowery, Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Howard Freeman, Milburn Stone, Joan Fulton, Ian Napier, Bill Goodwin. Producer: Ben Pivar. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Screenplay: Not set. Sculptor Martin Kosleck persuades the “Creeper,” a monster (Rondo Hatton), to kill an art critic. Police Lieutenant Kent Taylor believes Robert Lowery commercial artist, guilty, but fails to trap him, and the “Creeper” commits another murder. When Virginia Grey stumbles on the fact that Kosleck is guiding the monster, Kosl°ck threatens her, but is killed by the “Creeper,” who then turns on the girl. She is rescued by Taylor and Lowery. Night in Pardise Cast; Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Ray Collins, Gale Sondergaard, Jean Trent, Poni Adams. Producer: Walter Wanger. Director: Arthur Lubin. Original: George S. Hellman. Screenplay: Ernest Pascal. A costume picture laid in the days of ancient Greece, this concerns Aesop, the wise man, who is sent to war — threatemng Lydia — to seek peace and freedom for his people. After a series of romantic complications and underhanded plots involving persons of both kingdoms, Aesop exacts a promise of liberty for his country and wins Merle Oberon. The Noose Hangs High Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. Producer: John Grant. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Elwood Ullman, Clyde Bruckman. Farce comedy, wherein Abbott and Costello run through their usual slapstick paces. On the Carpet Cast; Abbott and Costello. Producer: Joseph Gershenson. Director: William Seiter. Original: Paul Jarrico, Richard Collins. Screenplay: Bruce Manning, Walter De Leon. After numerous battles with brusk housewives, a shy house-to-house brush salesman with an inferiority complex discovers he has an unusual talent for reading minds, developed to some extent by the law of self-preservation. His employer capitalizes on this imcanny ability, and the salesman becomes a world wonder, especially in forestalling acts of mayhem. Pillow of Death Cast: Lon Chaney, Brenda Joyce, Clara Blandick, Rosalind Ivan, j. Edward Bromberg, George Cleveland, Bernard 'Thomas. Producer: Ben Pivar. Director: Wallace Fox. Original: Dwight V. Babcock. Screenplay: George Bricker. Lon Chaney, in love with his secretary, Brenda Joyce, is suspected of murdering his wife but is released for lack of evidence. At a seance he is accused of murder by the voice of his wife. Two more murders are committed. All the while the voice of Chaney’s wife taunts him. He is caught re-enacting one of the slayings, and Brenda realizes he is a psychopathic murderer. Prelude to Murder Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. Producer: Roy W. Neill. Director; Not set. Original: Ba,3ed on characters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels. Screenplay: Not set. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as his stooge. Dr. Watson, remain undaunted in the face of peril and succeed in outwitting a treacherous murderer. Pursuit to Algiers Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Martin Kosleck, John Abbott, Frederic Worlock. Producer: Roy William Neill. Director: Roy William Neill. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Bruce) are called upon by the government of mythical Rovenia to solve the assassination of the king. In the meantime, Morton Lowry has succeeded to the throne. Villainous elements plan to kidnap the new king on a boat on which Holmes and Watson are traveling. The arch detective and his cohort prevent attempts on the boy’s life and bring him safely back to his own coimtry. The Royal Mounted Rides Again Cast: Bill Kennedy, Daun Kennedy, Addison Richards, Milburn Stone, Paul Burns, Robert Armstrong. Producer: Morgan B. Cox. Director: Ray Taylor. Original Screenplay: Joseph O'Donnell, Tom Gibson, Harold C. Wire. Following the death of a Canaskan gold prospector. Bill Kennedy of the Royal Mounted Police is assigned the task of capturing the desperado responsible for the slaying. Assisted by George Dolenz and Daun Kennedy, daughter of the slain miner. Bill succeeds in placing in custody Robert Armstrong, owner of the Yukon Palace and chief of the nefarious Canaskan outlaws. Scarlet Street Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Jess Barker, Rosalind Ivan, Arthur Loft. Producer: Walter Wanger. Director: Fritz Lang. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Dissatisfied ■with his home life, Edward G. Robinson becomes involved with Joan Bennett. Laboring under the illusion that Robinson is a famous painter, Joan allows him to keep an apartment for her. Actully his paintings are rather good and Joan’s lover sells them under her name. Robinson, realizing how he has been deceived, murders Joan. Her lover is convicted and executed for the crime that Robinson committed. 134 BOXOmCE BAROMETER