Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1939)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES Panama JjEkdy. .925. . (65) May 12 Melodrama. A wealthy oil prospector i:oes through a complete rehabilitation at the hands of a dance hall girl. Lucille Ball, Allan Lane. Jack Hively directed. Racketeers of the Range. .984. . (60) May 26 Western. A cattleman fights a slick attorney who tries to sell his girl client out to a big packing company. George O’Brien, Marjorie Reynolds. Director: D. Ross Lederman. Rookie Cop. .923. . (60) Apr, 28 Melodrama. A young policeman shows his superiors the importance of police dogs in criminal detection. Tim Holt, Virginia Weidler, Janet Shaw, Ace the wonder dog. Director: George Howard. Saint in London, The. .929. . (70) June 30 Mystery Drama. The Saint picks up a wounded man on a country road, who leads him into a web of intrigue and super-crime, with death a constant companion. George Sanders, Sally Gray. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Saint Strikes Back, The. .918. . (64) Mar. 10 Mystery-Melodrama. The Saint helps a San Francisco lassie clear her name and to wipe out a band of thieves who had framed her father, the police commissioner. George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale. Director: John Farrow. Sorority House. .924. . (63) May 5 Comedy Drama. Presents a celluloid argument against the existing dangers of snobbishness among college sororities. Anne Shirley, J. M. Kerrigan, Barbara Read. Director: John Parrow. Star of Midnight. .Reissue. . (90) Feb. 17 Mystery Comedy-Drama. A Broadway star disappears, a columnist is murdered, and numerous suspects are rounded up before the mystery is cleared. William Powell, Ginger Rogers. Director: Stephen Roberts. Story of Vernon and Irene Castie, The. .838 (93) Apr. 28 Musical. The rise of the two internationally successful ballroom dancers, taking the period from 1911 up to the death of Castle as a flying instructor in Texas during the war. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Director: H. C. Potter. They Made Her a Spy . .920. . (67) Apr. 14 Action Drama. In the belief that sabotage was responsible for her brother’s death, a young woman joins the intelligence bureau and rounds up a foreign spy ring. Sally Filers, Allan Lane, Larry Blake. Director: Jack Hively. Timber Stampede. .985. . (58) June 30 Western. A railroad man and a lumber baron, who together plot to strip government land of timber, are halted in their ruthless attempts. George O’Brien, Marjorie Reynolds. Director: David Howard. Trouble in Sundown. .983. . (57) Mar. 24 Western. The town banker, victim of a trumpedup charge of robbery and murder. Is in the soup until the perpetrators are found. George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith. Director: David Howard. 12 Crowded Hours ..917.. (64) Mar. 3 Action Drama. A reporter exposes the policy racket In order to clear his sweetheart’s brother. Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Cyrus W. Kendall. Director: Lew Landers. State Rights Alexander Nevsky.. (92) Amkino IDpic Drama. The invasion of Russia by the Order of Teutonic Knights in the 13th Century. Nickolai Cherkassov, N. P. Okhlopkov. Director; Sergei Eisenstein. Bizarre Bizarre. . (84) Lenauer Comedy. A French satire of British customs, with an underlying plot centering around a botanist who writes mystery stories under an assumed name. Louis Jouvet. Francoise Rosay, Michel Simon. Director; Marcel Came. Black Ijmelight. . (63) Alliance Melodrama. A man’s mistress is murdered, but his wife helps clear him of the murder charge by trapping the family lawyer who is obsessed with a homicidal mania during a full moon. Raymond Massey, Joan Marion. Director; Walter C. Mycroft. 7-39 BoiKiuets From Nicholas. . (76) Walch Mar. 1 Satire. A French satire on American gangs, the story revolving around a simple flower vender who becomes the dupe of gangsters. Noel-Noel, Madellene Robinson. Director; Maurice Cammage. Bronze Biickaroo, The.. (59) Hollywood Piet. Western with All-Colored Cast. Villains attempt to acquire a piece of land containing a valuable gold mine. Herbert Jefferey, Spencer Williams, “Four Tones.” Director; Richard C. Kahn. Chanips-rci.v.sees. . (89) Tri-National Comedy. A narration of the history of the Champs-Elysees in which the love life of Louis XV is highlighted. (In French with English subtitles.) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline DeLubac, Lisette Lanvin. Director and author; Sacha Guitry. Concentration Camp.. (69) Amkino Drama. Soviet propaganda depicting the struggle of the German workers against Hitler’s regime. O. Jakov, S. Shirokova, S. Mezhinsky. Crisis.. (86) Herbert Kiine Documentary. A graphic Illustration of the events leading up to Nazi aggression in the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Leif Erikson. Dialogue by Vincent Sheean. Curtain Rises, The.. (85) Frank Kassler Drama. Two girls in a French Academy are in love with the same fellow. One girl commits suicide, disguising it as murder, so that the blame will be placed on her rival. Louis Jouvet. Claude Dauphin. Janine Darcey, Mady Made. Director; Marc Allegret. Double Crime in the Maginot Line. . (83) . .Tower Mystery Drama. Several military men are suspected of the double murder in France’s worldfamed Maginot Line, until the net closes in on a German spy. Victor Francen, Vera Korene, Fernand Fabre. Director; Felix Gandera. Escape From Yesterday .. (88) Hoff berg French Drama. A man-hunt that leads to adventure in North Africa with the Spanish Foreign Legion. Jean Gabin, Annabella. Director; Julien Duvivier. 7-39 F’oolish Virgin, The.. (80) Walch Drama. An elderly lawyer runs off with a young girl. Her brother follows and the girl is shot by mistake in a scuffle. Victor Francen, Juliette Faber, Gabrielle Dorziat. Director: Henry Diamant-Berger. Forbidden Music.. (64) World Pictures Musical Satire. Dictator of a mythical kingdom puts a ban on music so his subjects can concentrate on the national debt. Jimmy Durante, Richard Tauber, Diana Napier. Director: Walter Forde. 400,000,000, The,. (65) Garrison Documentary. The real facts behind the undeclared war in China as narrated by Dudley Nichols, from the camera record of Joris Ivens, the Dutch producer, and John Ferno. Fredric March. Music by Hanns Elsler. Friends. . (97) Amkino Outdoor Drama. How the Caucasian tribes were welded together as a revolutionary force in 1917, against their oppressors. Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Cherkassov. S. Kayukov, K, Daushvili. Director: L. Arnshtam. Gang’s All Here, The. . (78) ... .Associated British Comedy. An insurance investigator poses as a famous killer to track down a gang of jewel thieves. Jack Buchanan. Otto Kruger, Jack La Rue, Edward Everett Horton. Director: Thornton Freeland. Grand Illusion. . (92) World Drama. The effects of war are presented in this drama depicting the hardships endured by French army officers in a German prison camp. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles.) Eric von Stroheim. Jean Cabin, Pierre Fresnay, Dita Parlo. Director: Jean Renoir. Great Citizen, The.. (114) Amkino Historical. Portraying the events in 1925-26 in Leningrad at the Red Metal Workers factory, which led to the downfall of the Trotskyites, and are purported to be a prelude to the “Moscow Treason Trials.” N. Bogoliubov, I. Bersenov, O. Zhakov. Director; Friedrich Ermler. Hatred ..(..) World Drama. A story of the sea, from the novel by O. P. Gilbert. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles). Starring Harry Baur. Heroes of the Marne.. (85) Spectrum French war drama. The story of undying love in a strife-torn world. Raimu, Albert Bassermann, Jacqueline Porel. Director; Andre Hugon. Housemaster. . (85) Alliance Comedy Drama. From the English stage play, “Bachelor Born,” in which 500 harassed school boys revolt against the reforms of a new headmaster. Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes. Director: H. Brenon. In Old Montana. . (61) Spectrum Western. An army lad returns to his dad’s ranch to help settle the cattlemen-sheepherders’ feud, which is being kept alive by the local banker. Fted Scott, Jean Carmen. Director; Raymond K. Johnson. Indiscretions . . (80) Tri-Nationai French Comedy. A middle-aged woman has an affair with a young man and her husband cleverly makes her regret it. Sacha Guitry. Betty Dausmond, Jacqueline Delubac. Director: Sacha Guitry. 6-39 Lenin in 1918.. (130) Amidno Historical Drama. Russian film with English titles. A biographical portrayal of Lenin, his early struggles to keep his party in power, and the events leading up to an attempt on his life. Russian east. Director: Mikhail Romn. 7-39 ^(2atute3 Maniele . . ( 100) Sphinx Comedy-Drama. Yiddish film about a widowed mother who continually makes sacrifices for an unappreciative clan. Molly Picon, Edmund Avenda, Max Bozyk. Directors: Joseph Green, Konrad Tom. Man and His Wife, A.. (77) French Films Drama. How a middle-aged man sucessfully wins his young wife away from her young lover. Harry Baur, Suzy Vernon. Director: Jean Dreville. Man With the Gun, The.. (88) Amkino Drama. The screen version of a true story of the peasant whose accidental meeting with Lenin impressed him so much that he joined the revolutionary forces of Lenin and Stalin against Kerensky, M. Shtraukh, M. Gelovani, Boris Tenin. Director: Sergei Yutkevich. Manliattan Shakedown . . (57 ) Warwick Melodrama. A Broadway columnist risks his life to find the man who is blackmailing his friend. Rosalind Keith, John Gallaudet. Director: Leon Barsha. Marseillaise ..(..) World Drama. A dramatization of the French Revolution. (In French with superimposed English dialogue titles.) Pierre Renoir, Louis Jouvet. Director: Jean Renoir. Mothers of Today.. (90) Apex Drama. A Yiddish film portraying the story of a mother whose one daughter nxarries a gangster and a son who almost forsakes his rabbinical career for a worthless woman. Esther Field, Simon Wolf, Paula Lubelska. Director: Henry Lynn. Murder Is News.. (55) Warwick Action Drama. A columnist predicts the divorce of a wealthy businessman, who later is found murdered. John Gallaudet, Iris Meredith, John Hamilton. Director: Leon Barsha, 7-39 Mutiny of the Elsinore. . (73) Regal Action Drama. From Jack London’s forceful drama of adventure and mutiny on the high seas, and the hopes and desperations of these sea-faring men. Paul Lukas, Lyn Harding. Director: Roy Lockwood. Neighbors. . (90) Best Films Comedy. A Jewish comedy of errors in which a mixup in names brings confusion and romance into the life of a radio announcer. Helen Gross, Joseph Orwid. Director: New Horizons. . (92) Amkino Melodrama. The birth of the U.S.S.R. and Maxim’s appointment as commissar of the government bank. M. Shtraukh, M. Gelovani, Boris Chirkov. Directors: Gregory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg. 7-39 Oppenheim Family, The.. (97) Amkino Drama. Based on the novel by Leon Feuchtwanger. Portrays the life of the Oppenheims under the Nazi regime terror. Russian cast. Director: Gregory Roshal. 7-39 Outlaws’ Paradise. .(55) Victory Western. A G-Man goes on the hunt for stolen bonds and the gang responsible for the robbery. Tim McCoy, Joan Barclay. Director: Sam Newfield. Puritan, The.. (85) Lenauer Drama. A psychological study of a young man who dedicates himself to the cause of erasing immorality in others, and uses that as an excuse to justify his own vile acts. Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Fresnay, Viviane Romance. Rangle River.. (72) J. H. Hoffberg Outdoor Drama. The importance of the river to cattle raisers, in this story from the pen of Zane Grey. Victor Jory, Margaret Dare. Director: Clarence Badger. 6-39 Sable Cicada.. (87) Modern Film Corp. Historical. A Chinese historical classic of the fall of the Han dynasty. Violet Koo, Y. L. Wei, I. E. Koo. Director: R. Poh. School for Husbands. . (72) J. H, Hoffberg Comedy. An adult film, portraying a philanderer who demonstrates to two conventional liusbands the advisability of flirting with one’.s respective spouses. Diana Churchill, Henry Kendall, Romney Brent. Director: Andrew Marton. Scorched Earth, The.. (50) . . . .B, V. Mindenburg Documentary. An indictment of Japanese aggression in China, the film composed entirely of newsreel clips. Narrator: Cliff Howell. 7-39 Smoky Trails. .(..). .Metropolitan Jan. 15 Western. Starring Bob Steele with the cast of Jean Carmen, Bruce Dane, Murdock MacQuarrie, Carleton Young, Ted Adams, Frank LaRue, Jim Aubrey, Bob Terry, Frank Wayne. Producer: Harry S. Webb. Soviet Border.. (94) Amkino Action Drama. Japanese aggression in the Soviet Far East, and how an heroic Soviet family repelled the invader. E. Tiapkina, E. Federova, Director: A. G. Ivanov. Special Insi>ector. . (55) Warwick Melodrama. A government agent is assigned to BOXOFFICE :: July 15, 1939 97