Boxoffice barometer (1945)

Dixie Jamboree. ...505.,.. (72) Aug. 15, ’44 Comedy With Music. Crooks book passage on a showboat in making a getaway, and it is aboard the boat that the action unfolds. Frances Langford, Guy Kibbee, Eddie Quillan, Charles Butterworth. Director; Christy Cabanne. Enemy of the Law. ...561.... (63) May 7 Western. How a government agent tracks down the stolen payroll money hidden by a convict about to be paroled. Dave O’Brien, Tex Ritter, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Harry Fraser. Flaming Bullets.. ..564.... (61) Oct. 15 Western. A government agent fights racketeers who “rescue” jail prisoners awaiting trial, shoot them and then collect the reward for their “capture.” Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Harry Fraser. Fog Island. ...508.... (72) Feb. 15 Murder Mystery. The twisted mind of a broker who had been railroaded to prison formulates a drastic revenge plot against his former associates. George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, Sharon Douglas, "Veda Ann Borg. Director; Terry Morse. Frontier Fugitives. ...563,,.. (55) Sept. 1 Western. Stolen fur skins furnish the motive for murder, on which charge an innocent man is framed. Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Harry Fraser. Gangster’s Den, The . . 565.... (60) June 14 Western. A man who wanted excitement and action found plenty of both when he bought a saloon in a wild west town. Buster Crabbe, A1 St. John, Charles King, Stan Jolley. Director; Sam Newfield. Gangsters of the Frontier . . 551 (56) Sept. 21. ’44 Western. The Texas Rangers outwit and outfight a gang of outlaws terrorizing the plains. Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Elmer Clifton. Great Mike, The... .551.. . (73) Nov. 15, ’44 Drama. Story of a boy, a horse and a dog and the boy’s love for both. Stuart Erwin, Robert Henry, Carl Switzer, Edythe Elliot, Lane Chandler. Director; Wallace W. Fox. His Brother’s Ghost . .557.. . (54) Feb. 3 Western. A twin assumes the identity of his dead brother to get evidence against a gang of sharecropper murderers. Buster Crabbe, A1 “Fuzzy” St. John, Charles King. Director; Sam Newfield. Hollywood and Vine . ..515.. . (60) Apr. 25 Comedy. Story of a mutt who made good in the movies, then became the center of litigation as to its ownership. Jimmy Ellison, Wanda McKay, Franklyn Pangborn, Ralph Morgan, Prince Michael Romanoff. Director; Alexis Thurn-Taxis. I Accuse My Parents... .512,... (70) Nov. 4, ’44 Melodrama. A lad, facing trial on a manslaughter charge, tells the court how he got that way. Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, George Meeker, Vivienne Osborne. Director; Sam Newfield. I’m From Arkansas. ...510.,.. (70) Oct. 31, ’44 Comedy With Music. How a prolific pig brings both fame and trouble to the sleepy Arkansas town of Pitchfork. Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Bruce Bennett, A1 St. John, Jimmy Wakely, the Sunshine Girls, the Pied Pipers. Director; Lew Landers. Kid Sister, The....516.... (56) Feb. 6 Comedy. The kid sister gets mixed up in a series of misadventures, from being taken for a burglar to falling in love with her sister’s suitor. Roger Pryor, Judy Clark, Constance Worth. Director; Sam Newfield. Lady Confesses, The. ...522.... (66) May 16 Murder Mystery. A wife who had disappeared returns after seven years, and her husband kills her so he can marry another. To cover his guilt, he is forced into a subsequent murder, but a third attempt traps him. Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, Claudia Drake. Director; Sam Newfield. Man Who Walked Alone, The. ...507 (74) Mar. 15 Comedy. An unsung hero, honorably discharged, returns in civilian dress, and his romance with an heiress proves more disconcerting than dodging bombs. Dave O’Brien, Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn Williams, Smith Ballew. Director; Christy Cabanne. Marked for Murder. ...554.... (58) Feb. 8 Western. The Rangers settle a feud between the sheepmen and the cattlemen. Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Elmer Clifton. Missing Corpse, The. ...524.... (63) June 1 Comedy Mystery. A newspaper publisher gets into a tangled web of circumstances when he tries to dispose of the body of his racketeering competitor who had been planted in his car by the murderer. J. Edward Biomberg, Isabel Randolph, Frank Jenks, Eric Sinclair, Paul Guilfoyle. Director; Albert Herman. Oath of Vengeance. ...556.... (57) Dec. 9, ’44 Western. Farmers and cattlemen start a range war which proves difficult to stamp out. Buster Crabbe, A1 “Fuzzy” St. John, Jack Ingram, Karl Hackett. Director; Sam Newfield. Out of the Night . . 517... (87) Mar. 31 Murder Mystery. A sensitive lad dreams that the man wooing his mother is the murderer of his father, and sets about to prove it. Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Filers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt. Director; Edgar G. Ulmer. Phantom of 42nd Street, The. ...521 (60) May 2 Murder Mystery. Three murder mysteries revolve around a group of Shakespearean actors. A performance of Julius Caesar exposes the murderer. Dave O’Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray. Director; Albert Herman. Rogues’ Gallery.. ..514.... (60) Dec. 6, ’44 Comedy Mystery. A murder mystery evolves around a plot to steal blueprints of an electronic machine invention. Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H. B. Warner, Ray Walker. Director; Albert Herman. Shadow of Terror....525.... (60) Oct. 14 Melodrama. Traitors attempt to bludgeon a research chemist into revealing his secret formula for atomic bombs. Richard Fraser, Grace Gillern, Cy Kendall, Eddie Acuff. Director; Lew Landers. Shadows of Death... .558.... (61) Apr. 19 Western. A murder and a missing map of a contemplated railroad start a series of events that lead to a final showdown. Buster Crabbe, A1 “Fuzzy” St. John, Donna Dax, Ciiarles King, Carl Hackett, Edward Hall. Director; Sam Newfield. Silver Fleet, The. ...530.. . (81) July 1 Melodrama. English-made film of a loyal Dutch shipbuilder, who outwardly seemed a collaborationist, but who proved his patriotism through sacrifice and death. Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Charles Victor. Directors; Vernon Campbell Sewell and Gordon Wellesley. Spell of Amy Nugent, The. ...523.. . (63) ... Feb. 10 Drama. A scientist, a theologist and a girl fight to rescue the soul of a young man in the grip of a notorious spiritualist bent on moral destruction. Derek Farr, Vera Lindsay, Frederick Leister, Hay Petrie, Felix Aylmer, Marion Spencer, Diana King. Director; John Harlow. Stagecoach Outlaws.. ..566.... (55) Aug. 17 Western. A rambling cowhand runs into a series of adventures and troubles, starting when he foiled a stage holdup and kidnaping plot. Buster Crabbe, Ai St. John, Frances Gladwin, Stanford Jolley. Director; Sam Newfield. Swing Hostess....509.... (76) Sept. 8, ’44 Comedy With Music. Failing to get an audition, a girl takes a job changing records for juke boxes. A recording she innocently makes of her voice skyrockets her to fame. Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Cliff Nazarro. Director; Sam Newfield. Three in the Saddle....562.... (61) July 26 Western. The Texas Rangers do some quiet investigating on the underhanded tactics of a stage company in obtaining a right of way through the ranchers’ land. Dave O’Brien, Tex Ritter, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Harry Fraser. Town Went Wild, The... 591.. . (79) ... Dec. 15, ’44 Comedy. A birth certificate mixup almost causes a brother-and-sister marriage, but ends a feud between two families. Freddie Bartholomew, James Lydon, Edward Everett Horton. Director; Ralph Murphy. Wh’suering Skull, The. ...533 (55) Dec. 29, ’44 Western. The Rangers are sent to solve the mystery of a masked rider who has been terrifying the ranchers into selling their land. Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson. Director; Elmer Clifton. Wild Horse Phantom. ...555.. . (56) .. .Oct. 28, ’44 Western. Mystery surrounds a bank robbery when the desperadoes are captured and jailed but no trace of the money is found. Buster Crabbe, Al “Fuzzy” St. John, Kermit Maynard. Director; Sam Newfield RKO Radio (Group 1 thru Group 5) Back to Bataan.. ..523.... (95) Group 5 War Melodrama. A pictorial account of the guerrilla warfare on the Philippine Islands from the fall of Bataan to MacArthur’s return landing on Leyte. John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Richard Loo. Director; Edward Dmytryk. ©Belle of the Yukon. ...583.... (84) Special Comedy With Music. Set in the days of the Klondike gold rush, a group of show girls arrive to get their share of the glitter dust. Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Charles Winninger, Bob Burns, Florence Bates, Guinn Williams. Director: William Seiter. (An International picture). Betrayal From the East....512.... (82) ....Group 3 Spy Melodrama. How army intelligence battled the Jap spy system on the west coast in the period prior to Pearl Harbor. Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Abner Biberman, Regis Toomey. Director; William Berke. Body Snatcher, The. ..517. .. (78) Group 4 Horror Drama. From Robert Louis Stevenson’s book about early 19th century 166 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER