Boxoffice barometer (1945)

Charles Arnt, Jack LaRue, Victor Kilian. Director: William Berke. Dark Mountain, ...4405.... (56) Block 1, ’44 Melodrama. A ranger tries to rescue his former sweetheart, who is held prisoner in an isolated mountain cabin by her fugitiveracketeer husband. Robert Lowery. Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan. Director: William Berke. Double Exposure....4415.... (64) Block 3 Mystery Drama. A girl photographer for a magazine learns too late that her camera has recorded too much, and is framed on a murder rap. Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Phillip Terry, Charles Arnt. Director: William Berke. ©For Whom the Bell Tolls....4413 (158) B:ock 3 Drama. From Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated novel of an American who serves in the Spanish civil war and who finds love and death among the guerrillas. Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Cordova, Joseph Calleia, Katina Paxinou. Director: Sam Wood. ©Frenchman’s Creek. ...4408 . (113) ..Block 2, ’44 Drama. From Daphne Du Maurier’s book, of the tempestuous romance between a lady of nob’.e birth and a buccaneer. Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Ralph Forbes, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Here Come the WAVES....4411.... (98) ... Block 3 Musical. A crooner joins the navy and is engulfed by admiring WAVES, but the girl he really loves won’t give him a tumble. Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran, Gwen Crawford. Director: Mark Sandrich. High Powered. ...4419.. . (62) Block 4 Drama. A construction rigger develops a fear of heights after a fall, but heroically redeems himself when he saves the life of a friend. Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Treen, Joe Sawyer, Roger Pryor. Di. rector: William Berke. ©Incendiary Blonde . . 4431.... (113) Special Musical Drama. Based on the life of Texas Guinan, colorful night club queen in the ’30s. Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordova, Charlie Ruggles, Albert Dekker, Barry Fitzgerald, Director: George Marshall, Man in Half Moon Street, The. .,.4407 (92) Block 2, ’44 Murder Mystery. A man with an unquenchable thirst for youth tries to defy the laws of nature, which quest leads him along a murderous path. I'Jils Asther, Helen Walker. Reinhold Schunzel, Paul Cavanagh. Director: Ralph Murphy. Medal for Benny, A....4424.... (80) Block 5 Drama. The town’s bad boy is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the father bravely rebuffs the city’s Babbitts who try to commercialize on the boy’s heroism. Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny, Fernando Alvarado, Charles Dingle, Frank McHugh. Director: Irving Pichel. Midnight Man Hunt... .4427.. . (64) Block 6 Mystery. A disappearing corpse has rival reporters and the police at each other’s throats, all trying to find the body and get the scoop. William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, Paul Hurst, George Zucco. Director: William Thomas. Ministry of Fear.. ..4410.... (86) Block 2, ’44 Spy Melodrama. A man released from an insane asylum on a mercy slaying charge is instrumental in rounding up Nazi spies in London during the early days of the war. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke. Director: Fritz Lang. Murder, He Says....4422.. . (95) Block 5 Farce Mystery. A public opinion investigator polls the mountain people, and runs into a strange assortment of hillbillies who look on murder as a form of amusement. Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall. Director: George Marshall. National Barn Dance, The. ...4403 (76) Block 1, ’44 Comedy W^ith Music. A screen dramatization of the story behind the growth of the famous Barn Dance radio show, with each member of the troupe portraying himself. Jean Heather, Charles Quig ey, Robert Benchley, Mabel Paige and the National Barn Dance Troupe. Director: Hugh Bennett. ©Northwest Mounted Police.... 4433 (126) Reissue Melodrama. Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll. Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster. One Body Too Many.. .4409.... (76) ....Block 2, ’44 Murder Mystery. A strange will leads to several murders and attempted murders. Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Blanche Yurka. Director: Frank McDonald. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. ...4404 (80) Block 1, ’44 Comedy. The romance and adventures of two young girls who tour Europe in the twenties — the days of sheiks and flappers. Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Char'ie Ruggles, Dorothy Gish, Beulah Bondi. Director: Lewis Allen. Out of This World . .4426 . (96) Block 6 Comedy With Music. How a swoon crooner got that way, and the trials and tribulations of the girl band leader who “se Is shares in the crooner” to finance their tour. Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn. Director: Hal Walker. Practically Yours. ...4414.... (99) Block 3 Comedy. A strange twist of circumstances starts a make-believe romance that turns into the real thing for a navy pilot and a secretary. Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway, Isabel Randolph, Rosemary DeCamp. Director: Mitchell Leisen. ©Rainbow Island. ...4401.... (95) Block 1, ’44 Comedy. Three gobs are marooned on a South Sea island where they meet the “sarong” lady. Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan. Director: Ralph Murphy. Salty O’Rourke. ...4418.... (100) Block 4 Drama. A racehorse owner runs afoul of the underworld through a mistake made by his partner, but squares accounts and redeems himself. Alan Ladd Gail Russell, Stanley Clements, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Spring Byington. Director: Raoul Walsh. Scared Stiff. ...4423.... (65) Block 5 Mystery Comedy. A nitwit news reporter is involved in a series of spooky murders and accidentally stumbles onto the clues to the crime. Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg, George E. Stone. Director: Frank McDonald. Sign of the Cross, The. ...4432.... (118) Special Religious Spectacle. Rome in the days of Nero. A reissue with a modern prologue showing American fliers over Rome. Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. This Gun for Hire. ...4434.... (81) Reissue Melodrama. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake. Till We Meet Again ...4402.. . (87) ... Block 1, ’44 Me’odrama. The escape from occupied France of a downed American flyer who is aided by the French underground. Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Lucile Watson, Vladimir Sokoloff. Director: Frank Borzage. Unseen, The. ...4417. .. (81) Block 4 Murder Mystery. A young governess runs into a double murder mystery when she finds a tunnel connecting with the house next door which has been untenanted for the past 20 years. Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks. Director: Lewis Allen. You Came Along. . 4428.... (103) Block 6 Drama. A girl falls in love with a flier, just returned from overseas for a bond tour. She learns he may not live, but they marry, living each day as it comes. Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Don DePore, Charles Drake, Julie Bishop. Director: John Farrow. PRC Pictures (August 15, 1944, thru October 15, 1945) Apology for Murder.. ..526.... (67) Sept. 27 Murder Mystery. A scheming wife, with the aid of a reporter, plots an almost perfect crime to kill her husband. Ann Savage; Hugh Beaumont, Pierre Watkins, Russell Hicks. Director: Sam Newfield. Arson Squad.. ..528.... (66) Sept. 11 Murder Mystery. How a modern metropolitan police force dealt with a gang of professional arsonists. An Alexander-Stern production. Prank Albertson, Robert Armstrong, Grade Gillern. Director: Lew Landers. Bluebeard. ...506.... (73) Nov. 11, ’44 Melodrama. A psychological study of a mad artist whose murderous exploits terrorized Paris in 1885. John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel. Director: Edgar Ulmer. Border Badmen....567.... (60) Oct. 10 Western. “Fuzzy” goes to a lot of trouble over a will, only to find his share is one dollar. Buster Crabbe, A1 “Fuzzy” St. John, Lorraine Miller. Director: Sam Newfield. Castle of Crimes . . 513.... (60) Dec. 22, ’44 Mystery Drama. An English film. How a Parisian detective, through three scant clues, trapped the murderer of a wealthy old woman who had used a poison that supposedly would leave no trace. Kenneth Kent, Diana Churchill, Belle Chrystall. Director: Harold French. Crime, Inc 502. ...(76) Apr. 15 Melodrama. A crime syndicate, operating in the roaring twenties era, is secretly controlled by reputable business men, who are eventually exposed by a daring newspaper reporter. Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell. Director: Lew Landers. Dangerous Intruder....519.... (62) Sept. 21 Murder Mystery. An actress guest in a wealthy home soon becomes aware of an eerie atmosphere, which is followed by several mysterious deaths. Charles Arnt, Veda Ann Borg, Richard Powers. Director: Vernon Keays. Dead or Alive....552. .. (56) Nov. 9, ’44 Western. The Idaho Kid and his Ranger pal play hide-and-seek with death in breaking up a lawless element in control of a western town. Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director: Elmer Clifton. 162 — BOXOFFICE BAROMETER