Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1940)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES to an end when a newspaperman’s father is injured. Richard Arlen, Andy Devine. Director: Christy Cabanne. Boys From Syracuse. .4003. . (72) Aug:. 9 Comedy. Modern day modes are spoofed by their counterpart in classical Greece. Allan Jones, Martha Raye, Joe Penner, Charles Butterworth. Director: Edward Sutherland. Enemy Agrent. .4033. . (61) Apr. 19 Melodrama. A draftsman in an airplane factory finds the espionage ring stealing the plans. Richard Cromwell. Helen Vinson. Director: Lew Landers. Fugitive, The. .5046. . (77) June 28 Drama. A barber who commits robbery and murder is hounded by his conscience. Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Hot Steel. .4056. . (61) May 24 Melodrama. Discoverers of a new formula for finer steel lure the man who stole their sample bar into a police trap. Richard Arlen, Andy Devine. Director: Christy Cabanne. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.. 4037.. (61) June 21 Comedy. A gangster kidnaps a composer for his lyrics and with racketeer tactics boosts his song to the top. Broderick Crawford, Johnny Downs. Director: Albert S. Rogell. II I Had My Way . . 4005 . . (94) May 3 omedy with Music. Adopting an orphan soon leads to Crosby and his friends entrance into business, which turns out successfully. Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean. Director: David Butler. La Conga Nights. .4029. . (61) May 31 Comedy with Music. A boarding house is saved w'hen the mortgage holder, a swing fan. is persuaded to turn it into a night club. Hugh Herbert. Dennis O’Keefe. Constance Moore. Director: Lew Landers. Love. Honor and Oh, Baby. .4036. . (60) June 7 Drama. A fellow find.s a new girl just as he was about to get himself killed when the first girl jilted him. The two later track down the professional killers. Wallace Ford. Kathryn Adams, Donald Woods. Director: Charles Lament. Private Affairs. .4007. . (75) July 5 Comedy Drama. The black sheep of a straightlaced family returns to help hi.s daughter marry the man she loves. Nancy Kelly. Roland Young. Hugh Herbert. Director: Albert S. Rogell. Riders of Pasco Basin 4062 .. (57) Apr. 5 Western. The ranchers money, gathered for a crooked irrigation project, is retrieved. Johnny Mack Brown. Bob Baker. Director: Ray Taylor. Sandy Is a I.ady . . 4008 . . (64) June 14 Comedy. Lost Baby Sandy comes home in time to help her daddy get a contract from his boss. Baby Sandy. Nan Grey, Tom Brown. Mischa Auer. Ski Patrol . .4031. . (62) May 10 Melodrama. A Finn and a Russian, great friends at the Olympic games, meet as foes on the battlefield. Philip Dorn. Luli Deste. Director: Lew Landers. Son of Roaring Dan. .4064,. .,(60) July 26 Western. A man discovers the killer of his father, and with the ranchers, rounds up the gang of rustlers the murderer leads. Johnny Mack Brown. Director; Ford Beebe. South to Karanga. .40.29. . (69) Aug. 2 Melodrama. An assortment of tropical types and their adventures, climaxed by a native attack upon a train and mining settlement in Africa. Charles Bickford. James Craig, Luli Deste. Director: Harold Shuster. When the Daltons Rode .. 4006 . . (81) July 26 Outdoor Drama. A semi-historical action yarn of the famous bandits of the last century. Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy. Director: George Marshall. Y^ou’re Not So Tough .. 4023 .. (72) July 26 Comedy-Melodrama. The kids of shanty-town discover law and justice merit a soft spot in their hearts. Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Nan Grey. Director: Joe May. Warner Bros. Brother Orchid .. 405. . (91) June 8 Comedy Drama. A racketeer searches for “class” in Europe but in vain, and finds it only when his successor is taking him for a ride. Edward G. Robinson. Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart. Director: Lloyd Bacon. ( nMtng All Husbands ..(.. ) Sept. 7 Comedy Drama. A domineering wife’s role is ended when husband discovers the “rich suitor” she gave up is panhandling. Ernest Truex, George Tobias, Lucile Fairbanks. Director: Shepard Traube. Flowing Gold. .412. . (81) Aug. 24 Melodrama. An oilfields worker, escaping from a murder he committed in self-defense, stops an oil well fire to save co-workers, though doing so reveals him to the police. John Garfield. Frances Farmer, Pat O’Brien. Director: Alfred E. Green. Gambling on the High Seas. .424. . (56) ... June 22 Melodrama. A newspaper apprehends the skipper of a gambling ship when murder is committed. Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman. Di rector: George Amy. Money and the Woman. .417. . (65) Aug. 17 Melodrama. A bank teller’s wife prevails upon a bank executive to cover up the thefts of her husband; the husband then obliges by robbing the bank again. Jeffrey Lynn. Brenda Marshall. Roger Pryor. Director: William K. Howard. My Love Came Back . . 407 . . (81) July 20 Comedy with Music. The tug-of-war between the classics and swing in an academy of music with its youthful students and rich patrons. Olivia de Havilland. Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman. Director: Kurt Bernhardt. River’s End . . 414 . . ( . . ) Aug. 10 Action Drama. A dying mountie is convinced of the innocence of the man he captures, and the latter resembling the mountie, is persuaded to pose as such and track down the real criminal. Dennis Morgan. Elizabeth Earl, Victor Jory. Director: Ray Enright. Saturday’s Children. .410. . (100) May 11 Drama. Tricked into marriage, but not sorry, lack of money later separates a young husband from his wife, but they finally are reunited. John Garfield. Anne Shirley. Director: Vincent Sherman. Sea Hawk, The . .401 . . (125) Aug. 31 Melodrama. England on the seas in the days of Queen Elizabeth, the Spanish Armada, and patriot buccaneers. Errol Flynn. Brenda Marshall. Claude Rains. Director: Michael Curtiz. Tear Gas S^uad . . 423 . . (55) May 4 Drama. A night club singer who joins the police force to please his girl, becomes a real officer when his brother is murdered. Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson. Director: Terry Morse. State Rights American Gang Busters (A) . . (60) . . Times Pictures Documentary. Assorted clips tracing the careers of such criminals as Clyde Barrow, John Dillinger. Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd. Bruno Hauptmann, Alvin Karpis. 4-40 Captain Moonlight. . (58) Atlas Films Musical Drama. A girl is saved from marrying a card sharp when the hero unmasks him as a bigamist. John Garrick. Winifred Shotter. 5-40 Face Behind the Scar, The.. (71) Alliance Mystery Drama. An innocent fugitive returns but is hounded by the man who married his fiancee. Justice ultimately prevails. Griffith Jones, Rosalyn Boulter. 4-40 Frontier Crusader. . (62) .P-R-C Western. A fellow handy with gun and fists cleans up a town. Tim McCoy. 6-40 George Washington Carver. . (61) Bryant Negro Semi-Documentary. The life of the Negro scientist. Director: Ben Parker. 5-40 Hidden Menace. . (58) Alliance Films Drama. A magician in love with a dancer seeks to do away with the acrobat she loves. Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael. 5-40 Horrors of War (A) . . (51) Merit Pictures Drama. Several war scenes accenting the ravages. 4-40 I Take This Oath.. (67) Syndicate Drama. The son of an inspector tracks down the racketeers who murdered his father. Gordon Jones, Joyce Compton, J. Farrell MacDonald. Director: Sherman Scott. 5-40 Killers of the Wild.. (58) Times Outdoor Drama. Story of a group of people who live outdoors. Joan Valeria, James Bush. 4-40 Lightning Strikes AVest..(56) Colony Western. A special investigator traces a released criminal to where he has concealed stolen gold. Ken Maynard. 6-40 Lights Out in Europe. . A. . (70) . . . . Mayer-Bnrstyn Documentary. A story of nations at war; of peo ple murdered and property destroyed. A study of the events which led to the present armed state. Narration by Fredric March. Script by James Hilton. 4-40 Macnshla . . (60) Stellar Attrac. Melodrama. Rom.ance of a girl and an Irish border guard who is hunting her brother for gun running. Pamela Wood, Liam Gaffney. 5-40 Mercy Plane.. (72) Syndicate Drama. A wizard flyer traps his girl’s brother selling stolen planes to foreign powers. James Dunn, Frances Gifford. 5-40 Mr. Washington Goes to Town . . (65) . . . Dixie-Nat’l All-Negro Comedy. Sennett-type slapstick with all the gags in the book. F. E. Miller, Manton Moreland. Director: Jed Buell. 5-40 Outsider, The (A) . . (90) Alliance Drama. Blocked by the medical profession, the inventor of a machine eventually cures a crippled girl. George Sanders, Mary Maguire. 4-40 Phantom Rancher. . (61) Colony Western. Maynard has to pose as a phantom rider to bring help to the farmers in a valley near his ranch. Ken Maynard, Dorothy Short. 4-40 Secrets of a Model.. (60) Times Pictures Melodrama. True love finally comes to the girl who fell victim to the villain. Sharon Lee, Phyllis Barry. 5-40 Son of Tngagi..(66) Sack All-Negro Melodrama. A laboratory-created monster kills his woman doctor captor and several others before the place is burned down. Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford. Director: Richard C. Kahn. 4-40 Suicide Legion .. (.54) Film Alliance Drama An Italian officer meets his estranged Austrian wife years after the war which divided them. Tullio Farminati, Lilli Palmer. Director: Herbert Wilcox. 5-40 Texas Renegades. .(.59) Syndicate Western. Posing as an outlaw, a marshal rounds up the evildoers in a western town. Tim McCoy. 5-40 Two’s Company .. (68) Times Pictures Comedy. The hero takes his girl and her mother to England, hoping she will grow romantic, which she does, but for somebody else. Ned Sparks. Mary Brian. Director : Tim 5^elan. 3-40 Foreign Dialogue Baker’s Wife, The. .French .. (97) B. W. Inc. Drama. The village’s need for bread brings back the baker’s trifling wife. Ralmu. Ginette Leclerc. Director: Marcel Pagnol. 3-40 riaudine (A) . . (French) . . (82) French M. P. Comedy Drama. The hopeless love of a 16-yearold schoolgirl for an older man. Blanchette Brunoy, Max Dearly. 4-40 Friendship (Italian) . . (74) Esperia Comedy. A gay bachelor thinks he’s in love with his friend’s wife: so doe.s his friend; and so does the wife, until she breaks iip the friendship — then returning to her husband. Mario Besozzi. Elsa Merllni. 4-40 Great Light. The (Italian) .. (SO) Esperia Drama. The religious atmosphere of a shrine dissuades a man from avenging himself upon one who had railroaded him for a crime he did not commit. Amedeo Nazzari, Leda Gloria. 4-40 I Condottieri. .Italian. . (89) Esperia Historical Drama. The historical beginnings of a united Italy. Luis Trenker. 3-40 Life of Giuseppe Verdi, The (Italian) (115) Esperia Drama with Music. Biography of the opera composer. Gaby Morlay, Fosco Giachetti. Director: Carmine Gallone. 4-40 Overture to Glory. .Yiddish. . (87) G&L Melodrama with Music. Leaving the synagogue for opera, a young cantor, years later, atones. Molshe Oysher, Helen Beverly. Director: Max Nosseck. 3-40 Skeleton on Horseback. .Czech. . (78) Mindlin Drama. A doctor, headed to save a dictator and his coterie with his unique remedy. Is killed by the forces they unloosed. 3-40 They Wanted Peace. .Russian. . (73) Amkino Historical Drama. The Bolshevik overthrow of the Kerensky government. F. Bagashvlli. Tamara Markarova. 3-40 We Were Seven Widows. .Italian. . (80) ... .Esperia Comedy. A lawyer shipwrecked with seven women is left alone as each one’s husband turns up. Antonio Ganduslo, Nino Taranto. 3-40 90 BOXOFFICE :: September 7, 1940