Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1940)

r\n "p w? PRODUCTION r /A ■ A CHECK-UP ON FEATURE RELEASES LIVJ J *-i //\\ Releases of 1939-40 for a five-month period. Production number follows title. Running time in parenthesis. National release date at end of title line. Symbol Cl indicates a BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award Winner. Symbol © indicates color photography. This department makes no attempt at evaluation of picture quality, but merely presents a thumbnail synopsis. Columbia Babies for Sale. .1029. . (64) May 9 Melodrama. Expose of an adoption racket. Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford. Director: Charles Barton. Blazing: Six-Shooters. .1205. . (61) Apr, 4 Western. Co-owners of a ranch manage to outwit scheming real estate manipulators. Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith. Director: Joseph Lewis. Blondie on a Budget. .1014. . (70) Feb. 29 Comedy. Financial and domestic woes follow Blondie’s decision to budget the Bumstead income. Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake. Director: Arthur Strayer. Bullets for Rustlers. .1204. . (56) Mar. 5 Western. A gang of rustlers are rounded up in time to save the life of the hero who masqueraded as one of them. Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray. Director: Sam Nelson. Doctor Takes a Wife .. 1005 .. (88) Apr. 27 Comedy. An unmarried pair who think they hate each other, pose as man and wife to serve individual financial interests. Loretta Young. Ray Milland. Director: Alexander Hall. Fight for Life, The. . (69) U. S. Film Service Documentary Drama. A young doctor develops into a skilled obstetrician and queries the world on the ills and vile conditions in which maternal welfare still exists. Pare Lorentz pro duced. 4-40 Girls of the Roa<l . . 1037 . . (61) June 20 Drama. The governor’s daughter, by becoming a girl hobo, persuades her father to achieve establishment of a camp for these wanderers. Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane. Director: Nick Grinde. Island of Doomed Men. . (A) . .1023. . (70) .. .May 20 Drama. A G-Man brings about the downfall of a tyrant who has enslaved paroled persons on his island. Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox. Director: Charles Barton. Lone Wolf Meets a Lady, The. .1016. . (71) . May 30 Melodrama. A diamond necklace, stolen, is traced but proves to be a paste copy of one stolen earlier by an old friend. Warren William, Jean Muir. Director: Sidney Salkow. Mad Men of Europe. . (A) . .1112. . (73) June 3 Drama. Parachutists and bombers drive on England after a foreign agent ingratiates himself into an English home. Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire. Director: Albert De Courville. Man From Tumbleweeds. . 1213 .. (59) May 2 Western. Wild Bill routs the outlaws who have virtually captured a community, by a posse of to-be-pardoned prisoners. Bill Elliott. Director: Joseph Lewis. Man With Nine Lives. .1017. . (73) Apr. 18 Melodrama. A scientist experiments upon his patients with long-time freezing sleep. Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers. Director: Nick Grinde. Men Without Souls. .1035. . (62) Mar. 16 Melodrama. A parson who believes in rehabilitation becomes chaplain of a prison noted for brutality. John Litel, Rochelle Hudson, Barton MacLane, Director: Nick Grinde. Out West With the Peppers. .1021. . (61) . . . .June 30 Comedy-Drama. An uncle with whom the five little Peppers are staying overcomes his dislike of them when he rescues them from a raft. Edith Fellows, Victor Kilian, Dorothy Peterson. Director: Charles Barton. Outside the 3-Mil© Limit. .1027 .. (64) Mar. 7 Melodrama. Counterfeiters are traced to a gambling ship. Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Rumann. Director: Lewis D. Collins. Passport to Alcatraz. .1028. . (60) June 6 Melodrama. Special investigator tracks down enemy aliens who sabotage munitions plants. Jack Holt, Noah Beery jr. Director: Lewis D. Collins. Return of Wild Bill. .1214. . (61) .... ... .June 29 Western. A cowboy comes home in time to rid the county of a gang of vigilantes who execute justice to their own ends. Bill Elliott, Luana Walters. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Texas Stagecoach. .9206. . (59) June 6 Western. Friendly rivals in the stagecoach business are saved from being victimized by an unscrupulous banker. Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith. Director: Joseph Lewis. Too Many Husbands .. 1004 .. (84) Mar. 21 Comedy Drama. A man thought drowned, returns to find his wife married to his best friend. Jean Arthur. Melvyn Douglas, Fred MacMurray. Director: Wesley Ruggles. 21 Days Together. . (A) .. 1111 .. (75) May 16 Drama. Fate intervenes when the man who killed the scoundrelly husband of the woman he loved, is about to give himself up. Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh. Director: Basil Dean. First National All This, and Heaven Too . .454 .. (143) July 13 Drama. A spiritual love is victimized by jealousy l)ut is not overcome even by death. Bette Davis, Charles Boyer. Director: Anatole Litvak. An Angrel From Texas. .468. . (69) Apr. 29 Comedy. A country bumpkin, inveigled into financing a dubious production, outsmarts the •slickers. Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris. Director: Ray Enright. Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. .457. . (101) Mar. 2 Drama. A doctor’s heart-breaking efforts and ultimate success in finding a cure for syphilis. Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon. Director: William Dieterle. Flight Angels . . 466 . . ( 74 ) May 1 8 Comedy-Drama. Airline Casanovas, romancing stewardesses and experimental aviation. Wayne Morris, Virginia Bruce, Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan. Director: Lewis Seiler. Man Who Talked Too Much. .167. . (75) July 6 Drama. A criminal lawyer gains a confession from a crook which saves his brother from a murder charge. George Brent, Virginia Bruce. Director: Vincent Sherman. Murder in the Air . .472 . . (55) .June 2 Spy Melodrama. A G-man thwarts a foreign ring from obtaining a device that is able to lialt machines in motion. Ronald Reagan, Lya Lys. Director: Lewis Seiler. Tliree Cheers for the Irish. .466. . (100) ... .Mar. 16 Comedy Drama. A veteran policeman forgives his daughter’s marriage to a rookie, his successor, when the twins are born. Thomas Mitchell, Priscilla Dane, Dennis Morgan. Director; Lloyd Bacon. ’Til We Meet Again . . 456 . . (98) . Apr. 20 Drama. Two, doomed to a quick death, experience a great love in the short time allotted them. Merle Oberon, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Pat O’Brien. Director: Edmund Goulding. 'I'orrid Zone . .4.55 .. (87) May 26 Comedy Drama. A persistent stowaway on a banana plantation finally wins the manager. James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien. Director: William Keighley. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer And One Was Beautiful. . 32 .. (70) Apr. 5 Melodrama. Released from prison after covering up for the girl he courted, the suitor marries the girl’s less glamorous, but more honest sister. Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir. Director: Robert B. Sinclair. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante .. 43 .. (87) July 5 Comedy. Andy manages to get his picture taken with a debutante after he had told his friends they were in love. Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland. Director: George B. Seitz. Captain Is a Lady . .42 . . (65) June 21 Comedy Drama. A retired sea captain, only male inmate of an old ladies’ home, is helped by them to regain his ship. Charles Coburn, Virginia Grey, Billie Burke. Director: Robert S. Sinclair. Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case. .30. . (76) Apr. 12 Drama. The treatment of a patient who is losing his mind, by administering insulin shock treatment. Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day. Director: Harold S. Bucquet. ^^^Edison, the Man. .36. . (106) May 10 Drama. The inventor obtains the backing of Western Union for his stock ticker. The talking machine and light by electricity follow. Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson. Director: Clarence Brown. Florian. .29. . (91) Mar. 29 Drama. Common ground in their love for a horse unites a groom and a duchess, after revolution in Austria, in New York. Robert Young, Helen Gilbert. Director: Edwin L. Marin. Forty Little Mothers .. 34 ... (87) Apr. 26 Comedy. The girls of his school come to the professor’s aid when he undertakes to care for an abandoned baby. Eddie Cantor. Rita Johnson, Judith Anderson. Director: Busby Berkeley. Ghost Comes Home, The . . 27 . . (76) Mar. 8 Comedy. Thought drowned, a man returning to his village triumphs over his wife and the townsmen who previously dominated him. Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford. Director: William Thiele. ^^I^Mortal Storm, The. .41. . (99) June 14 Drama. Clouds gather over a German family when the Nazis rise to power, and their life is disrupted. Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart. Robert Young. Director: Frank Borzage. New Moon. .31. . (105) ■. June 28 Operetta. Romance and music in colonial New Orleans. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. <2^Northwest Passage. .25. . (115) Feb. 23 Drama. Stirring saga of bravery and hardships of early colonists. Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey. Director: King Vidor. Phantom Raiders. .40. . (70) May 31 Melodrama. Nick Carter breaks up a Central American sabotage and insurance racket. Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek. Florence Rice. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Sporting Blood. .44. . (80) July 12 Drama. Love and a horse race dissolve a feud between two families. Robert Young, Maureen O’Sullivan. Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Strange Cargo. .23. . (113) Mar. 1 Drama. A desperado couple escape from a penal isle and encounter a spiritual influence. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Melvyn Douglas. Director: Frank Borzage. Susan and God. .39. . (115) June 7 Drama. A frivolous woman, who adopts religion as a fad. finds it stands her in good stead when she has to face a crisis in her own life. Joan Crawford. Fredric March. Director: George Cukor. 20 Mule Team. ..35. . (85) May 3 Western. Stealing, fighting, killing for borax in the desert. Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo. Director: Richard Thorpe. Two Girls on Broadway. .33. . (71) Apr. 19 Comedy Drama. In love with her sister’s suitor, a girl turns to a man-about-town. The sister, to save her, gives up her fiance. Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy. Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Waterloo Bridge. .37. . (103) May 17 Drama. A girl who becomes anybody’s girl when she believes her soldier-lover to have been killed, refuses to burden him when he returns, desiring to marry her. Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Maria Ouspenskaya. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. 4^Young Tom Edison. .28. . (82) Mar. 16 Biog. Comedy-Drama. The boyhood life of the great inventor in Port Huron, Mich. Mickey Rooney, Pay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler. Director: Norman Taurog. Monogram Cheyenne Kid, The. .3962. . (51) Feb. 20 Western. Trapped by a disgruntled foreman whom he succeeded, a cowboy is helped by his girl and his pal. Jack Randell, Louise Stanley. Director: Raymond K. Johnson. Covered Wagon Trails. .3963. . (53) Apr. 10 Western. The cattlemen are convinced that settlers will not interfere with their business. Jack Randall. Director: Raymond Johnson. BOXOFFICE :: July 13, 1940 85