Boxoffice (Jan-Mar 1940)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES 'Teatute* i tect the secret from raiders. Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan. Director: Harry S. Webb. 9-39 Return of the Frog.. (70) Select Melodrama. The Frog and his henchmen return to terrorize London. Gordon Harker, Hartley Power, Rene Ray. Director: Maurice Elvey. 10-39 Riders of the Sage.. (53) Metropolitan Western. A range war, with the sheep men trying to rout the cattle men. Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Ralph Hoopes. 1-40 Second Bureau.. (60) Film Alliance Spy Drama. A German girl spy trails a French spy agent. They fall in love, admit their identities, and plan to resign and marry. But the girl is shot as a traitor. Marta Labarr, Charles Oliver. Director: W. Victor Hanbury. 1-40 Songs and Saddles. . (67) Alexander Western. A cowboy hides his friend, a ranch owner, and then rounds up the gang who believe their attempt to kill the rancher was successful. Gene Austin, Lynne Berkley. Director: Harry Fraser. 1-40 Spies of the Air.. (78) Alliance Mystery Drama. The British Intelligence, by the process of elimination, uncovers the traitor who has been stealing aeronautic plans. Barry K. Barnes, Roger Livesey, Joan Marion, Basil Radford. Director: David MacDonald. 1-40 Straight Shooter .. (54) Principal Western. Concealed bonds are recovered for the heroine. Tim McCoy, Julie Sheldon. Director: Sam Newfield. 1-40 Straight to Heaven.. (56) Domino All-Negro Drama. A chemist uncovers a canned goods racket in Harlem, but is framed by the guilty parties and sent to jail. His wife and lawyer friend continue the crusade until the head mobster is exposed. Nina Mae McKinney, Jackie Ward, Stanley Harrison, Percy Verwayne, Lionel Monagas. Director: Arthur Leonard. 1-40 Taku..(48) Norman Dawn Nature Drama. The gold-mining country of Alaska as seen through the eyes of an old prospector. Amateur cast. Director: Norman Dawn. 10-39 Timberland Terror.. (75) Hoffberg Melodrama. A lifeguard saves the heroine and her father’s timber business. Shirley Ann Richards, Frank Leighton. Director: Ken G. Hall. Torpedoed! .. (66) Film Alliance Melodrama. British naval diplomats quell a Latin revolution when a ship is attacked. H. B. Warner, Robert Douglas, Richard Cromwell. 10-39 Torture Ship . (57) Oct. 22 P-D-C Melodrama. Criminals aboard ship mutiny in fear of becoming scientific experiments. Irving Pichel, Jacqueline Wells, Lyle Talbot. Director: Victor Halperin. 11-39 Treachery on the High Seas. . (68) Times Melodrama. Jewel thieves are after a ruby necklace on a trans-Atlantic liner. Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels. 10-39 Trigger Fingers .. (55) Victory Western. A G-man tracks down the rustlers. Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Joyce Bryant. When Germany Surrendered .. (70) A. L. Rule Documentary. An appeal for peace. Scenes of the battlefronts and submarine warfare of the World War. 11-39 Why This War. . (70) Jewel Documentary indicting the war-makers. Compiled by Samuel Cummins. 11-39 Foreign Dialogue A Brivele Der Mamen (A Letter to Mother) .. (106) Sphinx Drama. Disintegration of a family of Jews, who, one by one, leave Poland for America. Lucy Gehrman, Alexander Stein, Max Bozyk. Producer: Greenfilm, Warsaw. 10-39 A People Eternal. . (65) Six Star Drama. Mystical interpretation of the Messiah’s plea for salvation. English subtitles. Conrad Veidt, Peggy Ashcroft, Basil Gill. Director: Maurice Elvey. 12-39 Affair Laffont, The.. (90) Trans-Atlantic Drama. A married woman shoots her sister whose illegitimate child she has raised, when a blackmailing father arrives and the mother is about to tell all. Corinne Luchaire. Director: Leonid Moguy. 11-39 Betrayal . . (80) World Historical Drama. The love of Catherine the Great for the treacherous Count Orloff. Annie Vernay, Pierre Richard-Willm. Director: Fedor Ozep. 10-39 Boys’ School . . (90) .. (Foreign Dialogue) .. Columbia French Melodrama. A kaleidoscope of kiddish pranks in a middle-class French boys’ school, in which one of the lads inadvertently learns that the educational director is involved with a gang of counterfeiters. Aime Clarion, Eric von Stroheim, Michael Simon. Director: Christian Jaque. 1-40 Citadel of Silence, The .. (French) (91) Film Alliance Drama. A Polish patriot marries a Russian prison commandant to be near her imprisoned lover and later to inspire mutiny. Annabella, Pierre Renoir. Director: Marcel L’Herbier. 2-40 End of a Day, The . (94) Juno Films Drama. Actors at the twilight of their careers. Victor Francen, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon. Director: Julien Duvivier. 10-39 Entente Cordiale. . (French) . . (90) Concord Drama. The alliance between two traditional enemies, England and France, that came at the turn of the century. Victor Francen, Gaby Morlay. Director: Marcel L’Herbier. 1-40 Golden Key, The. . (70) . . (Russian) Amkino Dec. 25 Russian Fantasy. Tolstoy’s adaptation of the Pinocchio yarn, about a poor musician who fashions a puppet from a block of wood. It comes to life and gets involved in a series of fairy tale complications. A. Shagin, S. Martin son, G. Uvarov. j-40 Hatred.. (..) World Drama. A story of the sea. (In French, with English titles). Harry Baur. Katia. . (French) . . (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. A marriage of love for Alexander II of Russia nearly alters his country’s course, when assassination ends all. Danielle Darrieux! John Loder. Director: Maurice Tourneur. 2-40 L’Alibi . . (82) .. (Foreign Dialogue) Columbia French Melodrama. (English subtitles). A girl, stacked up against the persistent forces of the law, confesses to the falsity of a "perfect alibi.’’ Eric von Stroheim, Jany Holt, Louis Jouvet. Di rector: Pierre Chenal. 1-40 La Inmacuiada. . (95) .. (Spanish) UA Drama in Spanish. Produced by Atalaya Films for the Latin market. A girl, married to one man, loves another. When the husband finds she loves some one else, he kills himself. In the meantime her lover marries another girl. Fortunio Bonanova, Andrea Palma. Director: Louis Gasnier. 1-40 Life of Tchaikowsky, The (Es War Eine Kauschende Ballnacht) . . (93) •••• UFA-Carl Froelich. .Nov. 1939 Music Drama. The composer's struggle for recognition. English sub-titles. Zarah Leander, Aribert Wascher, Hans Stowe. 12-39 Light Ahead, The.. (108) Carmel Drama. Romance spurs a blind girl and a crippled bath attendant to combat the smugness and superstition of the townsfolk. Isidore Casher, Helen Beverly. Director: Edgar Ulmer 10-39 METRO One Was Beautiful — Jean Muir, Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Billie Burke. Director: Robert Sinclair. Producer: Frederic Stephani. (Starting) MONOGRAM Midnight Limited — John King, Marjorie Reynolds, Edward Keane, George Cleveland. Director: Howard Bretherton. Producer: T. R. Williams. Original Screenplay: C. B. Williams, Harrison Carter. (Starting) REPUBLIC Rancho Grande — Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Dick Hogan, Rex Lease. Director: Frank McDonald. Producer: William Berke. Screenplay: Betty Burbridge, Peter Milne. (Completed) RKO RADIO The Saint Takes Over — George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle, Roland Drew. Director: Louise. . (French) . . (72) Mayer-Burstyn Music Drama. In the period of 1900 a g.rl runs off to Paris with a composer. The opera integrates the story. Grace Moore, Georges Thill. 2-40 Love in Old Naples .. (Italian) .. (99) Esperia Musical Drama. A story of unrequited love and the dutiful attention of relatives. Emma Grammatica, Vittorio De Sica. 2-40 Mademoiselle Ma Mere.. (78) J. H. Hoffberg Farce Comedy. Annulment follows the marriage of a young woman and an elderly man when she runs off with her stepson. Danielle Darrieux, Marcel Simon. Director: Henri Decoin. 10-39 Marseillaise. . (79) World. .Nov. 3 Historical Drama. Early days of the French Republic. Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet. Director: Jean Renoir. 12-39 Mirele Efros..(87) Credo Drama. A daughter-in-law versus mother-inlaw ends at the bar mitzvah of a grandson. Berta Gersten, Michael Rosenberg, Ruth Elbaum. Director: Josef Berne. 11-39 On His Own.. (96) Amkino Drama. A screen biography of Maxim Gorki as his adult life begins. Alexi Lyarsky. Director: Mark Donskoi. 10-39 Port of Shadows. . (68) Film Alliance Drama. Romance of an army deserter and girl escaping her foster-father ends in tragedy when the former is killed by a gangster. Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan. Director: Michael Carne. 11-39 Rasputin. . (93) Concord Drama. The influential monk’s notorious activities. Harry Baur. Director: Marcel L’Herbier. 11-39 Scipione L’Africano . . (155) Esperia Historical Drama. The conquest of Carthage by the Romans. Isa Miranda and Italian cast. Director: Carmine Gallone. 10-39 Shors. . (Russian) . . (92) Amkino Historical Drama. The idealism that spurred the conquest of the Ukraine in 1917-19. Director: Alexander Dovzhenko. 2-40 Tevya. . (Yiddish) . . (93) Maymon Drama. Daughter of a Jewish family in old Russia, married out of her religion, returns as the family is about to be expelled from the town, and with them leaves for a new life. Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle. 2-40 That They May Live (J’Accuse) (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. Fantasy of dead comrades aiding a war veteran to fight for peace. Victor Francen. Director: Abel Gance. 12-39 We Two. . (Swedish) . . (89) Scandinavian Drama. A husband becomes involved in a flirtation with his friend’s wife, but when his wife has a baby, happiness wipes clean the slate. Sture Lagerwall, Signe Hasso. 1-40 Jack Hively. Producer: Howard Benedict. Original: Leslie Charteris. (Starting) 20TH-FOX Viva Cisco Kid — Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers, Chris-Pin Martin, Minor Watson. Director: Norman Foster. Producer: John Stone. (Completed) UNIVERSAL La Conga Nights — Hugh Herbert. Director: Lew Landers. Producer: Ken Goldsmith. Screenplay: Paul Gerard Smith. (Starting) WARNER-FN An Angel From Texas — Eddie Albert, Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Terry. Director: Ray Enright. Producer: Robert Fellows. Screenplay: Wally Klein, Bertram Milhauser, Fred Niblo jr. (Starting) Saturday’s Children — John Garfield, Claude Rains, Anne Shirley, Frank McHugh. Director: W.lliam Keighley. Producer: Henry Blanke. Screenplay: Julius and Philip Epstein. (Completed) 8G BOXOFFICE :: February 17, 1940