The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

• THE FEATURE CHECK-UP • THE SHORTS CHECK-UP • PRODUCTION NUMBER ANALYSIS • 6-POINT REVIEWS • THE SHORTS PARADE • ALPHABETICAL GUIDE THE FEATURE CHECK UP Key: Pictures are listed under producers’ names; others under Miscellaneous and Foreign. Some local distributors are indicated, also. Listed are the name of the production, the type, principal players, estimate as carried in 6-Point Reviews, running time, when reviewed. Running times are checked with home offices and exchanges but exhibitors are urged to check for themselves as well because of local censor conditions, etc. All pictures are considered of family appeal except where (A) is added at the completion of the reference. (A) stands for adult appeal. Further information as to additional keying appears at the company heading, if necessary. Read the review first in the 6-Point Reviews. The Feature Check-Up is your guide to six months’ releases. Published Every Issue KEY TO TYPE OF PICTURE AD — Aolion Drama CMU — Comedy with Mu»lo D — Drama MU — Musical RD — Realistic Drama C — Comedy COD — Costume Drama F — Faroe MY — Mystery Drama SP — Spectacle CD — Comedy Drama CL — Classloal Drama MD — Melodrama 0 — Operetta W — Western The Running Time Carried in the Feature Check-Up is the Latest Available COLUMBIA (1937-1938 releases from 8000 up; 1938-1939 releases from 9000 up.) BLONDIE C — Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms — Pleasing comedy aided by popularity of comic strip; top dualler — 08m. — see Nov. 15 issue. CARNET DE BAL, UN — MD — Marie Bell, Francoise Rosay — Excellent art — 105m. — see 2nd April issue, under Foreign — (A). CITY STREETS — CD — Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Tommy Bond — Nloe dualler for the neighborhoods — 08m. — see let July Issue — (8019). COLORADO TRAIL, THE — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith — Topnotch Starrett — 64m. — see 1st Oct. issue— '(8208). CONVICTED — MD — Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence — Unimportant filler — 68m. — see lat Sept, issue — (8039). CRIME TAKE8 A HOLIDAY — MD — Jack Holt. Marcia Raliton, Russell Hopton, Douglass Dumbrllle — A natural for the Jack Holt fans — 59m. — see 2nd May iBsue — (9021). FLIGHT TO FAME — AD — Charles Farrell, Jacqueline Wells — Lower half nabe action dualler — 67m. — see 2nd Oct. issue— -(902G). GIRLS SCHOOL — -D — Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy — Mild offering for lower bracket — 71m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (8012). GLADIATOR, THE — O — Joe E. Brown, “Man Mountain” Dean, June Travia, Dickie Moore— Brown fans will like It — :72m. — see 2nd August issue — (8011). HIGHWAY PATROL — MD — Robert Paige, Jacqueline Wells — Run-of-the-mill mailer; okay for duale, nabes — 68m. — see 2nd June iesue — (8029). HOLIDAY— CD — Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Dorta Nolan, Lew Ayrea, Edward Everett Horton. Binnie Borne* — Box a Rise — 04m. — eo« let June laaue— (8001). I AM THE LAW — CD — Edward G. Robinson, Wendy Barrie, Barbara O’Neil, John Beal, Otto Kruger — Good Roblnron; has selling angles — -88m. — Bee let Sept, iesue — (8006). IN EARLY ARIZONA — W — Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver— High rating western, presaging a new star, a fine series — 53m. — see Nov. 15 issue — (9211). IUVENILE COURT — MD — Paul Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Frankie Darro — Good dual action programmer — film.— see 2nd Sept, issue — (8026).. LADY OBJECTS, THE — MU — Lanny Ross, Gloria Stuart, Joan Marsh — Fair dual program with femme appeal— 67m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (8013). LAW OF THE PLAIN8— W— Charles Starrett, Iri« Meredith — Up-to-par Starrett — 66m. — see 1st June issue — (8*05). LAW OF THE TEXAN — W — Buck .Jones, Dorothy Fay — Good Jones show — 54m.— see 1st Nov. issue — (8285). LITTLE ADVENTURESS, THE — MD — Edith Fellows, Robert Fiske, Jacqueline Wells — Pleasing racehorse drama, dualler — 62m. — see Nov. 15 issue — ( 9 0 2’0 ) . MAN'S CASTLE, A — D — Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connelly — For class, with exploitable cast — 75m. — see 1st June issue — (reissue)— (9070). OUTSIDE THE LAW — D — Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Paul Everton — -Okay for Jack Holt fans — 67 m. — see 1st Nov. issue. PHANTOM GOLD — W — Jack Ludcn, Beth Marion — Satisfactory Luden — 54m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (8213). PIONEER TRAIL — W — Jack Luden, Joan Barclay, Tuffy — Another western — 66m. — eee let August issue — ( 8212 ) . REFORMATORY — MD — Jack Holt, Charlotte Wyntere, Bobby JordaD, Frankie Darro — Good orlme programmer, dualler — 61m. — eee let July Iesue — (8026). SHE MARRIED HER BOSS — O — Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Edltb Fellows — Topnotoh oomedy — 90m. — see 1st June iesue — (re-iesue) — (9071). SOUTH OF ARIZONA — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith— Routine 8tarrett — 60m. — see 2nd August issue — (8207). STAGECOACH DAYS — W — Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart — Time killer for Saturday matinees — 68m. — eee let July issue — (8211). STRANGER FROM ARIZONA, THE — W — Buck Jones, Dorothy Fay — Okay western, with Jones turning comic — 54m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (S284). TERROR OF TINY TOWN, THE — Burlesque Western — Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Little Billy — Box offloe novelty that can be exploited — 60m. — eee let August issue, under Miscellaneous — (’38-’39 special ) . WEST OF CHEYENNE — W — Charlee Starrett, Irie Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers — Okay Starrett — 63m. — eee 2nd July issue — (8206). WEST OF THE SANTA FE — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith — Satisfactory Starrett — 57m. — see Nov. 15 issue — (9201 ) . WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, THE — CD — Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur — High rating oomsdydrama for Robinson — 90m. — see 1st Juns issue — (re-iesue) — (9072). YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU — CD — Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Spring Byington, Miecha Auer, Edward Arnold — Another ColumblaCapra-Rlskln box office smash — 127m. — see let Sept, issue — (9101). TO BE REVIEWED OR IN PRODUCTION ADVENTURE IN SAHARA— Paul Kelly, Lorna Gray, Dick Curtis. CALIFORNIA FRONTIER— Buck Jones, Carmen Bailey, Milburn Stone. HOMICIDE BUREAU — Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley. INTERNATIONAL SPY — Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Warren Hull, Regis Toomey. LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER, THE — Warren William. NORTH OF SHANGHAI — James Craig, Betty Furness, Keye Luke. OUR WIFE — Carey Grant, Jean Arthur. Q PLANES — Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson — (foreign-made). RACKETEERS — Alan Baxter, Jacqueline Wells. RIO GRANDE — Charles Starrett, Ann Doran, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers — (9202). THERE'S THAT WOMAN AGAIN — Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Margaret Lindsay, Paul Harvey. THUNDERING WEST, THE — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers. WRECKAGE — Jack Holt, Dolores Costello, Pert Kelton. CRESCENT (Distributed In Philadelphia, Washington by Preferred) DRUM# OF DE8TINY — MD — Tom Keene, Edna Lawrenoe — Weak; for kids, lower duals — 62m. — eee let Dee. issue. THE GLORY TRAIL — AD — Tom Keene, James Bush, Joan Barclay — Good — 84 m. — see 1st Aug. '80 issue. IN OLD LOUISIANA — MD — Tom Keene, Rita Canelno — Pleasant for email, nabe houses — 62m. — eee 2nd Jan. issue. LAW COMMANDS, THE — W — Tom Keene, Lorraine Hayes, Robert Flake — Okay Inde western for small est houses — 67m. — see lat May issue. RAW TIMBER — MD — Tom Keene, Peggy Keys — Okay frontlor thriller — 02m. — aee lat Jan. Iesue. REBELLION — AD — Tom Keene, Duncan Renaldo, Ritt Oaneino — Okay aotlon — 60m. — eee 1st Nov. '86 issue. UNDER STRANGE FLAGS — AD — Tom Keene, Luane Walters — High rating Inde, with good nabe, kid appeal — 62m. — see 2nd Sept. '37 issue. GB (1938-1939 releases from 8000 up) CRIME OVER LONDON — MD — Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanaugh, Joseph Oawthorn — -Weak dual thriller — 63m. see lat August issue— (8007). EVERGREEN — MU — Jessie Matthews, Bonnie Hale — Pleasing English musloal — 88m. — see 2nd June isaue — (8006) — (re-issue). LADY VANISHES, THE— MY— Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty — Fast British thriller — 97m. — see 2nd Oct. issue — (8010). MAN WITH 100 FACES, THE — MD — Tom Walls, Lilly Palmer, Noel Madison — Highly diverting Raffles melodrama for houses that can play English product— 72m. — see 2nd Oct. issue — (8008). SHOW GOES ON, THE — MD — Tullio Oarminatl, Anna Neagle, Leslie Banks— British melo programmer— 71m. — aee 1st June isaue — '(8008). STRANGE BOARDERS — MD — Renca Baint-Oyr, Tom Walls — Well made Import; deserves attention — 73m.— see 2nd August issue — (8006). THIRTY-NINE STEPS, THE — MD — Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll — English mystery melodrama, that should please — 79m. — see 1st August issue — (8009) — (re-issue). THREE ON A WEEK-END — MD — Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge — British programmer; dualler — 71 %m. — see 2nd June Issue — (8004) — (A). WHERE THERE’S A W.LL — O— Will Hay, Lilli Palmer — Extremely English oomedy — 68m. — see 1st June issue — (8624). November 15, 1938