Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1939)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES death threats. Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane. Director: William Beaudine. Yes, M.V Darlinjj Daughter. .357. . (85) Feb. 25 Comedy. Adapted from the sophisticated ■ Broadway stage play. Two lovers, doomed to a two-year separation plan an unchaperoned weekend together, which results in a riotous family turmoil. Priscilla Lane. Jeffrey Lynn. May Robson, Roland Young. Director: Wiiliam Keighley. Y'ou Can’t Get Away With Murder.. 364 (78) May 20 Action Drama. A boy of the slums pals around with a police character, who kills a pawnbroker, for which murder his sister’s patrolman fiance is charged. Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, Harvey Stephens. Director: Lewis Seiler. Gaumont British Pagliaeci. . (78) Musical Drama. Based on the famous opera. "II Pagliaccl,” in which a Jealous husband kills his unfaithfui wife and her lover. Richard Tauber, Steffi Duna. Director: Karl Grune. Grand National Crashing Tlirough . . 327 . . ( . . ) Jan. 20 Western. One of the Renfrew series, in which a Royal Mounted officer aids a girl and her brother in getting back a gold mine rightfully belonging to them. James Newill, Warren Hull. Jean Carmen. Director: Elmer Clifton. Exile Express. .301. . (70) May 13 Drama. The chemist a girl works for Is found dead and she is ordered deported. A reporter follows the girl, rescues her from abductors, and gets the story and the girl. Anna Sten, Alan Marshal. Director: Otis Garrett. Frontier Scout .. 325 .. (62) Oct. 21 Western. A western with a Civil War background, in which Wild Bill Hlckok as a Kansas town marshal saves his friend’s cattle-commission house from cattle rustlers. George Houston. A1 St. John, Dave O’Brien. Director; Sam Newfield. Long Shot. .313. . (69) Jan. 6 Action Drama. After a streak of hard luck, a young horseman buys a horse for a song, and it wins the big race. Gordon Jones, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport. Director: Charles Lament. Panama Patrol .. 314. . (69) May 20 Action Drama. Uncle Sam’s Cipher Bureau intercepts a note which leads to the uncovering of foreign spies operating in the Panama Canal zone. Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Abner Biberman. Director; Charles Lament. Ride ’Em Cowgirl. .W 1-2. . (52) Jan. 26 Western. A girl enters her horse in the rodeo show to win the $5,000 prize money so she can pay her father’s debts. The money is stolen and she is accused. Dorothy Page, Vince Barnett. Director; Samuel Diege. Singing Cowgirl (formerly Lady Buckaroo) 4Vl-3..(57) May 31 Western. A scheming lawyer discovers gold on an adjoining ranch, has the couple who owns it killed but is trapped when he tries to do away with the child. Dorothy Page, David O’Brien. Director: Samuel Diege. .Six-Gun Khythm. .4V1-19. . (57) May 13 AVestern. A college football hero returns to his ranch to find his father murdered and the murderers ruling the countryside. His football pals lend a hand and they clean up the mob. Tex Fletcher, Joan Barclay. Director; Sam Newfield. Trigger Pals. .WI-13. . (55) Jan. 14 Western. A cowboy locates the brains of a gang of rustlers, who turns out to be the mortgage holder on his ranch. Art Jarrett, Lee Powell. Director: Sam Newfield. Water Rustlers (formerly Last Barrier) WI-1..(54) Jan. 6 Western. When the only creek In the valley is cut off. the hero dynamites a hill to save the property of ranchers. Dorothy Page. David O’Brien. Director: Samuel Diege. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bridal Suite (formerly Maiden Voyage) 937.. (69) May 26 Comedy. A spoiled playboy, after dodging his wedding three times, finally settles down when he falls in love with a maid in Switzerland. Annabella, Robert Toung, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke. Director: William Thiele. Broadway Serenade. .931. . (113) Apr. 7 Drama with Music. A success vs. marriage vs. career combination, in this story of a struggling song composer whose wife becomes a prlma donna, which ultimately leads to their estrangement. Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, P'rank Morgan. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Burn ’Em Up O’Connor. .919. . (67) Jan. 13 Action Drama. The owner of a string of racetrack cars thinks a jinx is working against him when three drivers crack up, but investigation reveals the drivers are being doped. Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Calling Dr. Kildare. .932. . (86) Apr. 28 Drama. A doctor's assistant in a clinic in a tenement district becomes involved in a murder case when he keeps secret a call he makes to help a wounded boy. Facing disgrace, he sets about to absolve the boy and to clear his own name. Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Lynne Carver. Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Christmas Carol, A.. 917.. (69) Q Dec. 16 Drama. Adapted from the Charles Dickens* Yuletide classic. Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart. Director: Edwin L. Marin. Fast and Loose. .924. . (79) Feb. 17 Mystery-Comedy. A dealer in rare books turns detective to save his life when he is accused of the murder and subsequent library raid of an eccentric book collector. Robert Montgom ery, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Morgan. Director: Edwin L. Marin. Four Girls in White. .921. . (70) Jan. 27 Drama. A selfish, student nurse, with a gold digger complex, is finally redeemed through sacrifice after the death of an innocent girl. Florence Rice, Alan Marshal, Ann Rutherford, Una Merkel. Director: Sylvan Simon. Girl Downstairs, The (formerly The Awakening of Katrina) . .916. . (77) Dec. 23 Comedy Drama. A wealthy architect thinks he is in love with a girl he met in a Swiss cafe, but finds he really loves the girl’s maid. Franclska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Rita Johnson. Director: Norman Taurog. Goodbye, Mr. Chii>s. . (114) July 28 Drama. A shy, young English schoolmaster becomes headmaster through the inspiration and love of a young woman. Robert Donat, Greer Garson. Director: Sam Wood. Hardys Itide High, The . .934 . . (81) Apr. 21 Comedy. The Hardys are about to come into a large inheritance, but evidence is found to disprove their rights, and the family settles down to normal living once more. Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker. Director: George B. Seitz. Honolulu. .922. . (85) Feb. 3 Comedy with Music. An actor and a Hawaiian plantation owner, exchange places i)ecause each tliinlis the other has a more enviable life. Comic and romantic complications ensue. Eleanor Powell. Robert Young, Grade Allen. Director: Edward Buzzell. Hiu lcleberry Finn . ,923. . (91) Feb. 10 Comedy Drama. From Mark Twain’s story of the lad who runs away with a Negro slave, the town believing the slave murdered the boy. Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram, Walter Connolly. t>irector: Richard Thorpe. lee Follies of 19.39, The. .925. . (82) Mar. 10 Musical. Two talented professionals elope, but their careers clash and false pride causes them to drift apart. The girl becomes a famous film star and her husband starts the “Ice Follies.” Success for both, after years of separation, reunites them. Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres. Director: Reinhold Schunzel. Idiot’s Delight. .920. . (107) Jan. 27 Comedy Drama. From the Pulitzer Prize play. Two small-time vaudevillians, who fall in love in Omaha, meet years later in Geneva. The girl, mistress of a munitions manufacturer, is left flat in an air raid and goes back to her old love. Norma Shearer. Clark Gable, Edward Arnold. Director: Clarence Brown. It’s a AVonderfiil World . .936. . (86) May 19 Comedy. A private detective, assigned to guard a millionaire playboy, finds himself trying to solve a murder to keep his boss from going to the electric chair for the crime. Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Ernest Truex. Director: W. S. Van Dyke If. Kid From Texas, The . . 929 . . (70) Apr. 14 Romantic Comedy. A Texas cowhand shows society back east a few fancy ways of playing polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice. Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Let Freedom King. .926. . (85) Feb, 24 Drama With Music. A film with a patriotic theme, the story centering around the attempts of railroad operators to steal the settlers' lands. Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Victor McLaglen, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Charles Butterworth. Director: Jack Conway. Lucky Night. .933. . (82) May 5 Comedy. A bored daughter of wealth meets a young man on a park bench, and after embarking on a night in search of excitement, they wind up married. But when the spirit of excitement dies down, the marriage is threat ened. Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor. Director: Norman Taurog. Maisie. .940. . (74) June 23 Comedy. A showgirl, stranded in Wyoming, gets a job on a cattle ranch, and shows the woman-hating foreman a few tricks of her own. Robert Young, Ann Sothern. Director: Edwin L. Marin. On Borrowed Time ..(..) July 7 Drama. The story of a beloved grandfather who fights death to keep the grandson he adores from the clutches of a scheming aunt. Lionel Barrymore, Bobs Watson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi. Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Pygmalion. .980. . (87) ^ Mar. 3 Comedy. From George Bernard Shaw's story, in which a professor of speech sets out to win a wager by transforming a poor, ignorant flower girl into a lady. I.,eslie Howard, Wendy Hiller. Director; Anthony Asquith. Sergeant Madden. .927. . (80) Mar. 24 Action Drama. The story of an American cop, whose pursuit of justice made him unrelentingly trail his own son wlio had gone from cop to killer. Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Fay Holden. Director: Josef von Sternberg. 6,000 Enemies. .938. . (61) June 9 Melodrama. A hardboiled district attorney who sent scores of framed men to prison is himself framed and put behind the bars with 6,000 enemy inmates plotting against him. Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly, Harold Huber. Director: George B. Seitz. So< iely Lawyer . . 9.30 .. (78) Afar. 31 Drama. A remake, in which a conservative lawyer resigns his position to be a criminal lawyer, and loses his fiancee as a result but is called in to defend his rival in love on a murder charge. Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo. Director: Edwin L. Marin. Stand I p and nglit. .918. . (95) Jan. 6 Historical Drama. A saga of the struggle for supremacy between stagecoaches and the first railroads in colonial America. Wallace Beery Robert Taylor, Florence Rice. Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Stronger Thau Desire. .941. . (78) June 30 Drama. Remake of “Evelyn Prentice” in which a brilliant criminal lawyer learns his wife is involved in a murder, through the reflection in the eye of a snapshot of the murdered man. Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon. Director: Leslie Fenton. SweetlicartH. .910. . (110) 0O Dec. 30 Musical Drama. A producer plots against the sweetheart team of his musical show to prevent their signing a film contract. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan. Director: W. s. Van Dyke. Tarzan Finds a Son ! . .939 . . (81) June 16 Action Drama. The King of the Jungle return.s to share his glory with the crown prince of Tarzania. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Sheffield. Director: Richard Thorpe. Tell No Tales. .935. . (69) May 12 Action Drama. A newspaperman, into whose hands falls a hundred-dollar bill that is part of the ransom money paid in a kidnapping, trails its source, and at each step a drama is uncovered which involves a group of individuals through whose Iiands tlie money has passed. Melvyn Douglas, I^ouise Platt, Douglas Dumbrille. Director; Le.slie Fenton. 'I'hey All Come Out..(..) July 14 Drama. Authentic shots of the interiors and system of the Federal Bureau of Prisons form the background of this story of a hungry, ragged youth who aligned himself with a gang of criminals and is sent to a reformatory. Rita Johnson, Tom Neal. Director: Jacques Tourneur. AVilhiii the I.nw . .928 . . (65) Mar. 17 Melodrama. A remake of the famous play by Bayard Veiller. A girl serves three years in prison for robbing her employer, a charge on whicli she is innocent. When released, she plans to marry boss’s son for revenge but falls in love with him. Ruth Hussey, Paul Kelly, William Gargan. Director: Gustav Machaty. Monogram Across the Plains (formerly Riders of the Rio Grande) . .3855. . (53) June 1 Western. Two brothers are separated in childhood, one is reared by Indians, the other by renegades. The first swears vengeance on the renegades, not knowing that his brother is at the head when their paths cross years later. Jack Randall, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant. Director: Spencer Bennett. Bo.^ s’ Koforii»atr»ry . .3820. . (61) May 1 Action Drama. A young lad takes the rap so that his buddy can stay out of the reformatory 94 BOXOFFICE :: July 15, 1939