Boxoffice barometer (1945)

Hollywood Canteen. ...409.... (124) ....Dec. 30, ’44 Musical. Lavish productions, 62 stars, and story of a shy soldier in New Guinea who meets his cinema dream girl on his return to the States. Jack Benny, Jack Carson, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan and an all-star cast. Director; Delmer Daves. Horn Blows at Midnight, The. ...415 (78) Apr. 28 Farce Comedy. Benny is a “milquetoast angel” assigned to blow the trumpet at midnight, by which action the earth will be destroyed. Two “fallen” angels attempt to deter him. Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee, John Alexander. Director: Raoul Walsh. Hotel Berlin. . 413.... (98) Mar. 17 Drama. The action unfolds at the Hotel Berlin, where Nazi leaders and diplomats, who sense the collapse of Germany, take refuge. Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, Raymond Massey, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Alan Hale. Director: Peter Godfrey. Janie. ...401.... (102) Sept. 2, ’44 Comedy. The routine of a family with teen-agers is radically changed when an army base moves into the town. Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton. Director: Michael Curtiz. Last Ride, The....404.... (56) Oct. 7, ’44 Melodrama. Bad tires cause a tragic accident which leads to an expose of tire bootlegging. Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker, Jack LaRue. Director: D. Ross Lederman. Objective, Burma!....411....(142) Feb. 17 War Drama. Fifty-five paratroopers go out on a dangerous mission in the jungles and only 11 come back. Errol Flynn, James Brown, Warner Anderson, William Prince, George Tobias. Director: Raoul Walsh. Pillow to Post... 417. ..(92) June 9 Comedy. A girl and boy, faced with the housing shortage problem, pose as man and wife, with the usual hilarious results. Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince, Stuart Erwin, Ruth Donnelly. Director: Vincent Sherman. Roughly Speaking. ...412 ... (117) Mar. 3 Drama. Story of a career-bent woman whose dreams were thwarted, but who found compensation years later in the knowledge that she had lived to the full. Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton. Director: Michael Curtiz. To Have and Have Not.. ..410...'. (100) Jan. 20 Drama. Another “Casablanca,” with danger and political intrigue centering around a metropolis of Martinique. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall. Director: Howard Hawks. Very Thought of You, The. ...406 (99) Nov. 11, ’44 Romantic Drama. A wartime marriage that survived despite the odds against it from the beginning. Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers, William Prince. Director: Delmer Daves. Miscellaneous Boy, a Girl and a Dog, A. .. (89) ... Film Classics Comedy Drama. Apartment restrictions force two children to enlist a stray dog they found, in the K9 Corps and the animal becomes an overseas hero. Harry Davenport, Lionel Stander, Sharyn Moffett. Director: Herbert Kline. Halfway House, The. .. (88) Ealing-AFE Aug. 11 Psychological Drama. English film about a group of war-weary Britons who spend a year in a haunted mountain inn, with the “reincarnated” owners who had died in the blitz bombings. Francoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Esmond Knight, Valerie White, Richard Bird, Mervin and Gwynis Johns. Director: Basil Dearden. Mom and Dad.. . (96) Hygienic Productions Sex Drama. A film-lecture combination, the latter taking 24 minutes. Shows the follies of youth due to lack of proper education on the facts of life. Hardie Albright, Lois Austin, George Eldridge, June Carlson, Bob Lowell, Jimmy Clark, Jane Isbell. Director: William Beaudine. Randolph Family, The. .. (78) English Films, Inc Mar. 10 Comedy. A character study of the children and grand-children of the Randolphs, who arrive from all parts of the world to help them celebrate their golden wedding. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding. Director: Harold French. They Came to a City . (78) A. F. E. Corp Feb. 17 Drama. English produced. From J. B. Priestley’s book of two people who seek happiness in a postwar world. Googie Withers, John Clements, A. E. Matthews, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Raymond Huntley, Renee Gadd, Norman Shelly. Director: Basil Dearden. Thunder Rock.. . (90) English Films, Inc. Melodrama. Produced by Charter Films of England. A noted writer becomes a lighthouse keeper to escape his despair and disillusionment of a world blind to its dangers, and finds renewed hope through martyrs of the past. Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer. Director; Roy Boulting. War Comes to America.... (65) OWI-RKO Documentary. Produced by the Army Pictorial Service for the armed forces. One of a series on why Americans fight for freedom. Traces American history from the Revolutionary War days to the start of World War II. Production supervision by Col. Frank Capra. We Accuse.... (70) Film Rights, Inc. Documentary. A grim indictment of Fascism with factual evidence of Nazi-perpetrated horrors. Narration: Everett Sloane. Written by John Bright. ©Western Approaches.... (60) BMI-Para Documentary. British-made film showing how a lifeboat of officers and seamen survivors of a torpedoed merchant fleet of the United Nations risked their lives to save a Western convoy. Wildfire.... (60) Film Classics.... July 1 Western in Cinecolor. A wild stallion, condemned to death by a gang of horse thieves who try to cash in on the terror they arouse, is saved by two men. In turn, the horse saves the life of each of them. Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, William Farnum, Virginia Maples, John Miljan. Director; Robert Tansey. Foreign Language (All have English subtitles unless otherwise stated) Alla en el Rancho Grande. ...Spanish (....) Clasa-Mohme Melodrama. Mexican film. Two lovers are thwarted in their romance by ugly gossip, the finger of guilt eventually pointing to a faithless duenna. Tito Guizar, Rene Car dona, Lorenzo Barceleta, “Chaflan,” Emma Roldan, Carlos Lopez, Manuel Noreiga. Director: Fernando de Fuentes. (No Englioh subtitles.) Alla en el Tropico.. . Spanish (104) Clasa-Mohme Musical Comedy. Mexican film of a clever grandmother who helps a pair of lovers outwit an ambitious aunt and an unwanted wealthy suitor. Tito Guizar, “Chaflan,” Sara Garcia, Emma Roldan, Esther Fernandez. Director: Miguel M. Delgado. (No English subtitles.) Asi Se Quiere en Jalisco. ...Spanish.,.. (120) (Love in Jalisco) Clasa-Mohme Melodrama With Music. Mexican film. A girl is forced to work as housekeeper for six months in the home of her sweetheart’s rival, as payment for her father’s debt to him. Jorge Negrete, Maria Elena Marques, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma. Director: Fernando de Fuentes. Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes!.... Spanish (125) Clasa-Mohme Melodrama. Mexican film. A swashbuckling Caballero, sharp on the trigger, shoots his way into music, romance and adventure, and wins a girl and a horse race. Jorge Negrete, “Chaflan,” Gloria Marin, Angel Garasa, Antonio Bravo, Victor Mendosa. Dawn Over France.. . French (74) Famous Int’l Film Corp Mar. 16 Historical Drama. Produced in Prance in 1939, with added newsreel shots of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and others. Plot deals with an 18th century Robin Hood and events leading up to the French Revolution. Raimu, Berval, Bal Petre, Pierre Feuillere, Nicole Vattier, Jacqueline Sylvere. Director: Andre Hugon. El Penon de Las Animas.. . Spanish (.,..) Clasa-Mohme Melodrama. Mexican film. The son and daughter of two feuding families become attracted to each other, but fanatical opposition brings about a tragic climax. Jorge Negrete, Maria Felix, Rene Cardona, Carlos L. Moctezuma, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Director; Miguel Zacarias. (No English subtitles.) 1812. ...Russian.... (95) Artkino Historical Drama. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and how it parallels the Hitler attempt at conquest. English text and narration: Sergei Kournakoff. A. Dykki, S. Mezhinsky, N. Okhlopokov, S. Zakariade, V. Gotovez, E. Kaluzhski, E. Drilling, A. Poliakov. Director: Vladimir Petrov. Fall of Berlin, The.. ..Russian.... (70) ....Artkino War Documentary. The last and decisive battle of the Red army in Germany, just before the fall of the Reich capital and the unconditional surrender. Photographed by combat cameramen of the First Ukrainian and the First Byelorussian armies. Commentary and narration: William S. Gailmor. Flor Silvestre.. . Spanish. .. (90) .. .Clasa-Mohme Melodrama. Mexican film. An old woman tells in flashback the story of her youthhow she as a simple country maiden was loved by a Mexican aristocrat, and her experiences during the Revolution. Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Mimi Derba, Lucha Reyes. Director: Francisco Dominguez. (No English subtitles.) Girl No. 217. ...Russian . ..(94) Artkino War Drama. The film shows Tania, a Russian girl sold as a slave, and depicts the BOXOFFICE BAROME’TER 199