Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1939)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES Teatiita6 Topper and his spiritual ghost. Topper's wife seeks a divorce because of "another woman" who turns out to be a ghost. Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Director; Norman Z. McLeod. Trade Winds,. (94) Dee. 29 Action Drama. A private detective trails a girl around the globe as a murder suspect, brings her back and proves her innocent. Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern. Director; Tay Garnett. Wuthering Heights. . (103) 41 Apr. 7 Drama. From Emile Bronte’s novel of a lovecrazed man whose unrelenting hatred in his revenge against a lost love, warped the lives of those around him. Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier. Director; William Wyler. Zenobia. . (71) Apr. 21 Comedy. A village doctor treats a sick elephant, who develops a strong affection for her benefactor and becomes a 6,000-pound pest, Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon. Director; Gordon Douglas. Universal Big Town Czar. .3018. . (66) Apr. 21 Action Drama. A big shot gangster makes a strong impression on his younger brother, who leaves school to join his gang. But tragedy soon takes the place of glamour. Barton Mac Lane, Tom Brown, Eve Arden. Director; Arthur Lubin. Code of the Streets. .3019. . (70) Apr. 14 Action Drama. "The Little Tough Guys" come to the rescue of an innocent man, doomed to die. Harry Carey, Frankie Thomas, Paul Fix, "Little Tough Guys." Director: Harold Young. East Side of Heaven. .3006. . (88) Apr. 7 Comedy With Music. A singing cab driver helps a mother by watching her child, but gets involved in a city-wide kidnap hunt, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Sandy. Director: David Butler. Ex-Champ. .3010, .(72) May 19 Action Drama. A retired ex-champ loses his job as doorman, and takes on the training of a young lad who wins the coveted belt and the ex-charup’s daughter. Victor McLaglen, Nan Grey, Tom Brown. Director: Phil Itosen. Family Next Door.. (63) Mar. 31 Comedy. A couple spend their savings to buy land and are about to lose their investment wiien they discover rich mineral deposits in the soil. Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, Joy Hodges. Dnector: Joseph Santley. Forgotten Woman, The . . 3031 . . (63) July 7 Drama. A young woman becomes innocently involved in a crime mesh and is sent to prison, where her baby is born. She is almost the forgotten woman, until one of the gangsters makes a deathbed confession. Sigrid Gurie, William Lundigan, Eve Arden. Director; Harold Young. For Love or Money. .3030. . (66) Apr. 28 Comedy Drama. Two employes, entrusted with $5u,00u, lose the money, and their boss gives them 36 hours to produce. June Lang, Robert Kent, Edward Brophy, Director: Albert S. Itogeil. Oaiiibliiig Ship. .3023. . (60) Jan. 20 Action Drama. A young girl takes over the operation of her father’s gambling vessel when he is murdered by a notorious rival. RomaJice blooms when a G-Man comes to the rescue. Robert Wilcox, Helen Mack, Irving Plchel. Director: Aubrey Scotto. Honor of the W'est. .3055. . (58) Jan. 13 Western. A sheriff resigns rather than arrest ids pal whom he knows is guilty of cattle rustling, but he captures the gang after hie friend is killed. Bob Baker, Marjorie Bell, Carleton Young. Director; George Waggner. House of Fear, The. .3038. . (66) June 30 Mystery Drama. A producer restages a play to track the murderer of a Broadway stage star, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Alan Dinehart. Director: Joe May. Inside Information. .3040, . (62) June 2 Action Drama. A rookie cop uses scientific methods to capture jewel robbers. June Lang, Dick Foran, Harry Carey, Mary Carlisle. Director: Charles Lament. I.aily ill the Morgue, 'I'he. . 2027 . . (70) Apr. 22 Mystery Drama, A Crime Club mystery whertin the body of a murdered woman disappears from the morgue. Preston Foster, Frank Jenk.s. Rowland Drew. Patricia Ellis. Director: Otis Garrett. 1.ast Warning, The. . 3027 .. (63) Jaa. 6 Mystery Melodrama. One of the Crime Club series, in which Detective Crane is called In to track down the "Eye," a mysterious extortionist. Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton. Director: A1 Rogell. My Man Godfrey .. (93) . .Reissue June 2 Comedy. A "socialite hobo" lands a butler’s job in a wealthy, madcap household with two wild daughters who cause no end of trouble when they both fall in love with him. William Powell, Carole Lombard. Director: Gregory La Cava. ftlystery of the White Room. .3037. . (58) .. -Mar. 17 Melodrama. Mystery stalks through hospital corridors when the head surgeon is killed while performing an operation. Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury. Director: Otis Garrett. Newsboys’ Home. .3015. . (73) Dee. 23 Action Drama. A newsboy helps his boss win a circulation war against an opposition paper, and helps the editor win the girl he loves. Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie. Director: Harold Young. Pirates of the Skies. . 3033 .. (61) Feb, 3 Action Drama. A daredevil transport flier joins the State Air Force and uncovers a gang of crooks who have been transporting their stolen loot by plane. Kent Taylor, Rochelle Hudson, Lucien Littlefield. Director; Joe McDonough. Risky Business. .3029. . (78) Mar. 3 iVieiodramia. A hard-boiled newspaper columnist interests himself in the news angle behind the abduction of a movie financier's daughter, but loses his life to save the girl. George Murphy, Dorothea Kent, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Robinson. Director: Arthur Lubin. Society Smugglers (formerly Key Woman) 30^4, . (70) Feb. 24 Drama. A member of the Treasury Department trails a gang of international smugglers operating as luggage manufacturers. Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Director: Joe May. Son of FranJ(cnstein. .3004. . (94) Jan. 13 Horror Drama. A scientist’s son sets out to redeem his father's name and succeeds in destroying the monster. Basil liathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi. Director: Rowland V. Lee. Spirit of Culver. .3014. . (90) Mar. 10 Drama. A war orplian in a military school is eiubiLtered over the belief his father was killed in action in the World War. Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Henry Hull, Andy Devine. Director: Joseph Santley. Sun Never Sets, The. .3009. . (94) June 9 Drama. Two brothers in the British civil service find themselves faced with an international crisis that might rock the entire world if their heroic efforts fail. Douglas Fairbanks jr., Basil Ratlibone, Barbara O’Neil, Lionel Atwill. Director: Rowland Lee. They Asked for It. .3040. . (61) May 26 Action Drama. A small town newspaper, trying to capitalize on sensational news, points to the death of a farmer as murder, and gradually uncovers enough evidence to prove it was real murder. William, Lundigan, Joy Hodges, Michael Whalen. Director: Frank McDonald. Three Smart Girls Grow Up. .3001. . (87) .. .Mar, 24 Comedy With Music. Sequel to its predecessor, "Three Smart Girls," in which complications and misunderstandings arise when one sister becomes engaged. Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish. Director: Henry Koster. Unexpected Father (Formerly "Sandy Takes a Bow' July 7 Comedy. Baby Sandy, the child sensation in “East Side of Heaven,” plays the starring role in her second film, as an orphan who is cared for by her mother’s dancing partner. Measles and the authorities intervene, but the baby goes on a hunger strike until she is returned. Baby Sandy, Shirley Ross, Dennis O’Keefe, Mischa Auer. Director: Charles Lament. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man. .3005. . (76) ..Feb. 17 Comedy. Gags and guffaws against a circus background. W. C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy. Director: George Marshall. Warner Bros. Adventures of Jane Arden .. 331 .. (58) Mar. 18 Action Drama. From the newspaper comic strip cartoon, detailing the adventures of the feminine star reporter, who is assigned to trace down the mysterious killing of a society girl. Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson. Director: Terry Morse. Dawn Patrol. .303. . (103) Dec. 24 Action Drama. The lives of two British filers on the western front during the World War. Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone. Director: Edmund Gouldliig. Devil’s Island. .313. .(62) JaJC 7 Action Drama. A famous surgeon, imjustly sontenced to the infamous Island, heads an escape party, which ironically Is picked up by a ship bound for the colony. Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson. Director: William Clemens. Dodge City. .304. . (104) © Apr. 8 Outdoor Drama. A spectacle of the west back in ’72 when the railroad reached Southwest Kansas and the steers out of Texas made that outpost town a roaring beehive of activity Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland. Director: Michael Curtiz. Hell’s Kitchen. .312. . (81) July 8 Action Drama. A philanthropic gangster on probation takes charge of a wayward home for boys, but pandemonium breaks out when the gangster is framed and the institution threatened. Dead End Kids, Grant Mitchell, Stanley Fields, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Lindsay. Directors: Lewis Seiler and E. A. Dupont. Juarez. .301. . (127) June 10 Historical Drama. An Indian boy becomes Mexico’s liberator in its fight for Democracy in 1864. Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne. Director: William Dieterle. King of the Underworld. .317. . (69) Jan. 28 Melodrama. A woman doctor avenges the murder of her husband by temporarily blinding a mob of gangsters, thus aiding the police in their capture. Humphrey Bogart, Kaj u’ratif'is. James Stephenson. Director: Lewis Seiler. Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter. .,324. . (69) . .June 17 Drama. Nancy does some more detectifying in lier own way to save an innocent man from the electric chair. Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel. Director: William Clemons. Naughty But Nice . . 311 . . (90) July 1 Comedy With Music. A music professor, raised by maiden aunts, goes to New York to market his rhapsody, and meets a fourth aunt who shows him the swing side of in,usic. Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page. Director: Ray Enright. Off the Record (formerly Unfit to Print) 314.. (68) Jan. 21 Drama. A girl reporter marries a newspaperman so they can care for a youngster who has been made the tool of a gambling ring. Through the boy they find the leader. Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Bobby Jordan. Director: Jamas Flood. Oklahoma lud. .308. . (80) Mar, 11 Outdoor Drama. A notorious outlaw avenges the murder of his father and brother, at the same time ridding a pioneer town from the rule of tile gambler responsible for the murders. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane. Director: Lloyd Bacon. On 'Trial. .323. . (62) Apr. 1 Melodrama. A dramatization of Elmer Rice’s play, in which the main character, on trial for murder, refuses to lift a finger in his own defense. His wife disappears but turns up at the right moment to convince the jury that her husband’s act was justified. John Litel, Margaret Lindsay, James Stephenson. Director: Terry Morse. Secret Service of the Air. . 320. . (61) Mar. 4 Action Drama. Based on the federal government’s activities in rounding up a ring of crooks smuggling aliens into the country across the Mexican border. Ronald Reagan, Ila Rhodes. Director: Noel Smith. They Made Me a Criminal. .307. . (89) Jan. 13 Comedy Drama. The social reform of a hardboiled fighter who, thinking himself guilty of murder, hides out on an Arizona fruit ranch. John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, Dead End Kids. Director: Busby Berkeley. Torchy Buns for Mayor. .322. . (60) May 13 Comedy Drama. When Torchy’s paper refuses to print an expose of crooked city politics, she decides a new mayor is necessary and through the perpetration of a practical joke becomes the winning candidate. Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane. Director: Ray McCarey. Waterfront. .325. . (59) July 15 Action Drama. The lives, loves and hates of the longshoremen and stevedores. Gloria Dickson. Dennis Morgan, Ward Bond. Director: Terry Morse. Wings of the Navy . .309. . (89) Feb. 11 Action Drama. A pilot, jealous of his brother’s success in the naval air service, sets a record of his own. George Brent, Olivja de Havilland, John Payne. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Women in the Wind. .316. . (65) Apr. 15 Action Drama. An aviatrix, in need of money for an operation on her crippled brother, enters the women’s air derby, and ends up a la “Wrong Way” Corrigan. Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory. Director: John Farrow. BOXOFFICE July 15, 1939 99