The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

THE FEATURE CHECK-UP 6-POINT REVIEWS THE SHORTS CHECK-UP THE SHORTS PARADE PRODUCTION NUMBER ANALYSIS 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 oflices and exchanges but exhibitors are urged to check lor 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 Other Issue AD — Aotlon Drama C — Comedy CD — Comedy Drama KEY CMU — Comedy with Music COD — Costume Drama CL — Classloal Drama TO TYPE OP PICTURE D — Drama F — Faroe MD — Melodrama MU — Musloal MY — Mystery Drama 0 — Operetta RD — Reallstlo Drama SP — Spectacle 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.) BL0NDIE 0 — -Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms— Pleasing comedy aided by popularity of comic strip; top dualler — 68m. — 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 Fellow*, Leo Carrillo, Tommy Bond — Nloe dualler for the neighborhoods —88m. — aee lit July laeue — (8019). COLORADO TRAIL, THE — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith — Topnotch Starrett — -54m. — see 1st Got. issue — ( 8208 ) . CONVICTED— MD— Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence — Unimportant filler — 58m. — see lit Sept, issue — (8039). CRIME TAKES A HOLIDAY— MD — Jack Holt, Marcia Ralston, Ruasell Hopton, Douglas* Dumbrille — A natural for the Jack Holt fans — 59m. — Bee 2nd May issue — (9021). FLIGHT TO FAME — AD — Charles Farrell, Jacqueline Wells — Lower half nabe action dualler— 67m. — see 2nd Oct. issue — (9026). GIRLS SCHOOL — D — Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy — Mild offering for lower bracket — 71m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (8012). GLADIATOR, THE — C— Joe E. Brown, “Man Mountain Dean, June Travis, Dickie Moon — Brown fans will like it — 72m. — see 2nd August issue — (8011). HIGHWAY PATROL — MD — Robert Paige, Jacqueline Wells — Run-of-the-mill meller; okay for duals, nabes — 58m. — see 2nd June issue — (8029). I AM THE LAW — CD — Edward G. Robinson, Wendy Barrie, Barbara O’Neil, John Beal, Otto Kruger — Good Robinson; has selling angles — 88m. — see l*t Sept. Issue — (8006). IN EARLY ARIZONA— W— Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver— High rating western, presaging a new star, a fine series — 03m. — see Nov. 15 issue — (0211). IUVENILE COURT — MD — Paul Kelly, Rita Hayw'orth, Frankie Darro — Good dual action programmer — 61m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (8026). LADY OBJECTS, THE — MU — I/anny Ross, Gloria Stuart, Joan Marsh— Fair dual program with femme appeal— 67m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (8013). 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 — (9020). PHANTOM GOLD — W — Jack Luden, Beth Marion — Satisfactory Luden — 54m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (8213). PIONEER TRAIL — W — Jack Luden, Joan Barclay, Tuffy — Another western — 66m. — see l»t August fsmic — r a? 1 3 REFORMATORY — MD — Jack Holt, Charlotte Wynter*, Bobby Jordan, Frankie Darro — Good orlme programmer, dualler — 61m. — see l*t July Issue — (8026). IMPORTANT NOTICE This issue of the Check-Up contains complete citations to all pictures reviewed during the past week. Six-Point Reviews on these will be printed in the next Blue Section. SOUTH OF ARIZONA — W — Charlee Starrett, Iris Meredith— Routine Starrett — 66m. — aee 2nd August iasue — (8207). STAGECOACH DAYS — W — Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart — Time killer for Saturday matinee* — 68m. — *ee l*t July issue — (8111). STRANGE CASE OF DR. MEADE, THE— D — Tack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Paul Everton — Okay for Jack Holt fans — 67m. — see 1st Nov. issue. STRANGER FROM ARIZONA, THE— W — Buck Jones, Dorothy Fay — Okay western, with Jones turning comic— 64m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (8284). TERROR OF TINY TOWN, THE — Burlesque Western — Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Littl* Billy — Box offioa novelty that can be exploited — -60m. — see 1st August issue, under Miscellaneous — (’38-’39 special). WEST OF CHEYENNE — W — Charles 8tarrett, Iri* Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers — Okay Starrett — 68m. — soe 2nd July issue — (8206). WEST OF THE SANTA FE — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith — Satisfactory Starrett — 57m. — see Nov. 15 issue — (9201 ) . YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU — CD — Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Spring Byington, Mischa Auer, Edward Arnold — Another ColumbiaCapra-Rlskln box office «mash — 127m. — see 1st Sept, issue — (9101). TO BE REVIEWED OR IN PRODUCTION ADVENTURE IN SAHARA — Paul Kelly, Lorna Gray, Dick Curtis. CALIFORNIA CAVALCADE — Bill Elliott, Luana Aleaniz. CALIFORNIA FRONTIER — Buck Jones, Carmen Bailey, Milburn Stone. HOMICIDE BUREAU — Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley. INTERNATIONAL SPY — Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Lorna Grev, Regis Toomev. LONE WOLF’S DAUGHTER, THE — Warren William, Ida Lupino. 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). SPY IN BLACK, THE — Vivian Leigh, Conrad Veidt — (foreign-made). THERE’S THAT WOMAN AGAIN — Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Margaret Lindsay, Paul Harvey. THUNDERING WEST, THE — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sous of the Pioneers. WRECKAGE — Jack Holt, Dolores Costello, Pert Kelton. CRESCENT (Distributed In Philadelphia, Washington by Preferred) DRUMS OF DESTINY— MD — Tom Keene, Edna Lawrence— Week; for kids, lower duels — 62m. — see lei Dec. issue. THE GLORY TRAIL — AD — Tom Keene, James Bush, Joan Barclay — Good — 64m. — see 1st Aug. '86 issue. IN OLD LOUISIANA — MD — Tom Keene, Rita Cansino — Pleasant for small, nabe houses — 62m. — see 2nd Jan. laeue. LAW COMMAND8, THE— W— Tom Keene, Lorraine Hgyoe, Robert Fiske — Okay Inde western for small esi houses — 67m. — see 1st May Issue. RAW TIMBER — MD — Tom Keene, Peggy Key* — Okay frontier thriller — 62m.— see 1st Jan. Issue. REBELLION — AD — Tom Keene, Duncan Renaldo, Rlti Cansino — Okay aotlon — 60m.— see 1st Nov. '86 Issue. UNDER 8TRANGE FLAGS — AD — Tom Keene, Luanr Walters — High rating Inde, with good nabe, klu. 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 1st August issue — (8007). EVERGREEN — MU — Jessie Matthews, Bonnie Hale — Pleating English musloal — 88m. — ses 2nd June Issue — (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). STRANGE BOARDERS — MD — Renee Saint-Cyr, 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%ra. — see 2nd June Issue — (8004) — (A). November 23, 1938