Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1940)

T H Er CiAD M P EE T E 1^^^ E C K U f QN vCl^RRENTir RELE A S E S TQatutQ6 Wagons Westward. .907. . (70) June 19 Western. A good twin sets out to save the family name, about which his bad counterpart cares nothing. Chester Morris, Buck Jones. Director: Lew Landers. Women in War. .90.^ . . (70) ^. June G Melodrama. Lives of nurses behind the front line trenches. Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles. Director: John H. Auer. Young Buffalo Bill. .954. . (59) Apr. 12 Western. The government’s investigation of early Spanish land grants is aided by the scout despite Indians and villains. Roy Rogers. Director: Joe Kane. RKO Radio A Bill of Divorcement. .025. . (74) May 31 Drama. The issues precipitated by divorce and hereditary insaaity are met by a refined English family. Maureen O’Hara, Adolphe Menjou. Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall. Director: John Farrow. Abe Lincoln in Illinois. .009. . (112) Apr. 19 Historical Drama. Lincoln as the peace-loving backwoodsman; his love for Ann Rutledge; and his checkered romance with Mary Todd who will settle for nothing else than Lincoln as president. Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon. Director: John Cromwell. Anne of Windy Poplars. .035. . (85) June 28 Drama. A school teacher overcomes obstacles in a community prejudiced against her. Anne Shirley, James Ellison. Director: Jack Hively. Beyond Tomorrow. .031. . (83) May 10 Melodrama. Three benevolent spirits succeed in reuniting a couple — not unaided by a jealous spouse’s shooting. Charles Winninger, Jean Parker, Maria Ouspenskaya. Director: Lee Garmes. Bullet Code. .083. . (59) Apr. 5 Western. A cattleman’s efforts to make amends for a crime he thinks he committed. George O’Brien, Virginia Vale. Director: David Howard. Courageous Dr. Christian. .030. . (67) Apr. 5 Drama. A doctor wins proper housing quarters for squatters only when an epidemic threatens the entire town. Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Cross Country Bomanee. .039. . (6G) . July 12 Comedy-Drama. A spoiled runaway heiress hides in the trailer of a doctor headed for China, and they fall in love. Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie. Director: Frank Woodruff. Curtain Call . . 027 . . (60) Apr.26 Comedy. A manuscript producers thought to use as a cudgel over their star turns out to please her immensely and proves a hit. Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray. Director: Frank Woodruff. Dr. Christian Meets the Women. .036. . (65) . .July 5 Comedy Drama. Dr. Christian works to restore health to the city’s women who flocked to a quack diet specialist. Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Rod La Rocque. Director: William McGann. Irene. .024. . (101) May 3 Musical Comedy. A case of mistaken identity is solved for a girl before it becomes a predicament, by the fellow responsible. Anna Neagle, Ray Milland. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Millionaires in Prison. .037. . (63) July 26 Comedy Drama. A research doctor, in for manslaughter, works with the prison doctor to discover a cure for a rare fever. Lee Tracy, Linda Hayes. Director: Ray McCarey. My Favorite Wife. .025. . (88) May 17 Comedy. An explorer-wife returns to find her husband married again, but manages to get him back. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott. Director: Garson Kanin. One Crowded Night .. 042 .. (66) Aug. 9 Melodrama. An escaped convict-husband hides in the desert auto court of his wife’s family and gunplay follows until matters are straightened. Billie Seward, Paul Guilfoyle. Director: Irving Reis. Pop Always Pays. .034 .. (66) June 21 Comedy-Drama. An irascible father gets in a jam when he has to make good his promise of $1,000 to his daughter’s suitor when the latter saves an equal sum. Leon Errol, Dennis O’Keefe. Director: Leslie Goodwin. Prairie Law. .084. . (59) June 7 Western. A land shark gets away with invading ranchers lands, but runs into trouble when he kills the friend of a hitherto peaceful onlooker. George O’Brien, Virginia Vale. Director: David Howard. Primrose Path. .023. . (95) Mar. 22 Drama. A girl-bride tries to escape the influ ence of an easy-moraled mother. Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau. Director: Gregory LaCava. 0()ueen of Destiny. .061. . (95) Aug. 2 Drama. The reign of Queen Victoria. Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Saint Takes Over. .033. . (68) June 7 Comedy Melodrama. The Saint goes to America to solve the murders of which his friend is wrongly accused. George Sanders, Wendy Barrie. Director: Jack Hively. Stage to Chino. .085. . (59) ;. July 26 Western. A postal inspector discovers that a rival stage line owner is behind the bandits that victimize other lines. George O’Brien, Virginia Vale. Director: Edward Killy. Tom Brown’s School Days. .029. . (82) July 19 Drama. English school life during the 19th century. James Lydon, Freddie Bartholomew, Cedric Hardwicke. Director: Robert Stevenson. Yk)ii Can’t Fool Your Wife. .032 .. (65) May 24 Comedy. Sudden entanglements with wine, women and song, pull a married couple out of a marital rut. Lucille Ball, James Ellison. Director: Ray McCarey. 20th Century-Fox Blue Bird, The. .025. . (83) Mar. 22 Fantasy. The blue bird of happiness is pursued through past and future, only to be found at home. Shirley Temple. Director: Walter Lang. Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise. .048. . (75) .. .June 21 Mystery-Melodrama. A mysterious strangler on a world cruise is captured after four or five murders. Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill. Director: Eugene Forde. Karthbound. .034. . (67) June 7 Drama. Killed on his second honeymoon by a former flame, a man cannot leave the earth until his spirit is able to vindicate his love for his wife. Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari. Director: Irving Pichel. Four Sons. .047. . (89) June 14 Drama. Invasion in Czechoslovakia divides four brothers and brings destruction to a home. Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes. Director: Archie Mayo. Free, Blonde and 21. .037. . (67) Mar. 29 Drama. A fellow doctor exposes an unscrupulous young woman as a gangster’s pal before his friend falls In love with her. Lynn Bari, Henry Wilcoxon. Director: Ricardo Cortez. Girl From Avenue A, The . . 104 . . ( ) . . . . Aug. 9 Comedy Drama. A waif picked up by an author, leaves when she discovers his book ridicules her, but returns when the author and his family reveal they love the child. Jane Withers, Kent Taylor. Director: Otto Brower. I Was an Adventuress. .038. . (81) May 10 Comedy-Drama. International intrigue and jewel-thievery. Zorina, Richard Greene, Peter Lorre. Director: Gregory Ratoff. Johnny Apollo. .042. . (93) Apr. 19 Drama. Railroaded to prison where his father, whom he spurned, is confined for embezzlement, father and son frustrate a prison break and are reconciled. Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold. Director: Henry Hathaway. Lillian Russell. .045. . (127) May 24 Biographical Drama. Story of the colorful woman who dominated the American theatre during the closing decades of the last century. Alice Faye, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Don Ameche. Director: Irving Cummings. Lucky Cisco Kid. .049. . (67) . June 28 Western. A corrupt judge, who has designs on a widow’s ranch which controls the water supply, is exposed. Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes. Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Manhattan Heartbeat. .046. . (71) July 12 Drama. A woman hater and a girl who thinks marriage is slavery fall in love, and emerge through quarrel and struggle, happy. Virginia Gilmore. Robert Sterling, Joan Davis. Director: David Burton. Man I Married, The . .lOk. .,(77) Aug. 2 Drama. An American wife, married to a Nazi, learns the bitter tragedy of the German philosophy. Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Marie Ouspenskaya. Director: Irving Pichel. ^Maryland. ,050. . (91) July 19 Drama. An enthusiastic horsewoman foreswears riding when her husband is killed; but is rewon when her son rides the winner in the big race. Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce. Director: Henry King. On Their Own. .044. . (65) May 10 Comedy Drama. The Joneses trek to California to recoup their fortune. Spring Byington, Ken Howell. Director: Otto Brower. Sailor’s Lady . .052. . (66) July 5 Comedy. For a while a baby messes up romance for a couple. Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall. Director: Allan Dwan. Shooting High. .041. . (65) Apr.26 Comedy-Western. Apprehending bank robbers smoothes out an old feud and helps the grandson of a famous sheriff get his girl. Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver. Director: Alfred E. Green. So This Is London ..043.. (84) May 3 Comedy. Children of an English and an American businessman who can’t get together on a deal, become engaged and join the squabbles. George Sanders. Director: Thornton Freeland. Star Dust. .036. , (85) Apr. 5 Comedy-Drama. A talent scout’s discovery and development of a film star. Linda Darnell, John Payne. Director: Walter Lang. Viva Cisco liid. .039. . (65) Apr. 12 Outdoor Drama. Father of a beautiful girl is rescued from a gang of bad men. Cesar Romero, Chris-Pin Martin, Jean Rogers. Director: Norman Foster. United Artists Captain Caution. . (85) . . Aug. 9 Melodrama. Slavers who come into control of an American vessel during the war of 1812 are defeated when the officers break through. Victor Mature, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Louise Platt. Director: Richard Wallace. My Son, My Son.. (115) Mar. 22 Drama. The depths of a love with which he but toyed, awaken a wastrel to redeeming himself. Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward. Director: Charles Vidor. One MilUon B. 0...(78) Apr. 5 Fantasy, Two prehistoric tribes, faced by a monster, their common enemy, discover the value of cooperation. The story is told flashback by a scientist, deciphering cave carvings. Victor Mature, Lon Chaney jr. Director: Hal Roach. >ur Town. . (90) May 24 Drama. One decade in the life of ordinary Americans at the turn of the century. William Holden, Martha Scott. Director; Sam Wood. ^Over the Moon, .(78) Mar. 29 Comedy. Sudden wealth takes the heiress from her fiance, but the mad whirl is not satisfying and she returns to him. Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison. Director: Thornton Freeland. Rebecca. . (127) Apr. 12 Drama. How a second wife fought the mystery of the strange personality of a dead first wife, which menace threatened her ^’appiness. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, .^udlth Anderson. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Saps at Sea.. (67) May 3 Comedy. An escaping gangster comes aboard the decrepit boat of a pair of would-be yachtsmen. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Director: Gordon Douglas. South of Pago Pago.. (96) . July 18 Melodrama. A dance hall girl saves the life of a native chief’s son from a piratical captain. Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer. Director: Alfred E. Green. Turnabout. . (A) .. (83) May 17 Comedy. A scrappy husband and wife find they have exchanged bodies. Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Adolphe Menjou. Director: Hal Roach. Universal Alias the Deaeon. .4015. . (73) May 17 Comedy. A card shark, posing as a deacon, thwarts an oil town’s villain. Bob Burns, Mischa Auer, Dennis O’Keefe, Peggy Moran. Director: Christy Cabanne. Bad Man From Red Butte. .4063. . (58) May 31 Western. The lawless element kill the man who led them, but the latter’s brother cleans them up. Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker. Director: Ray Taylor. Black Diamonds. .4057. . (52) July 19 Melodrama. Unsafe mine operation is brought to an end when a newspaperman’s father is injured. Richard Arlen, Andy Devine. Director: Christy Cabanne. Black Friday.. 4018.. (70) Apr. 12 Melodrama. A surgeon saves a friend’s life with a brain replacement which turns out to be the brain of a criminal. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi. Director: Arthur Lubin. BOXOFFICE :: August 10, 1940 77