The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

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 Other Issue AD — Aotlon Drama C — Comedy CD — Comedy Drama KEY TO TYPE OF PICTURE CMU — Comedy with Muslo D — Drama COD — Costume Drama F — Faroe CL — Classloal Drama MD — Melodrama MU — Musloal MY — Mystery Drama 0 — Operetta RD — Reallstlo Drama SP — Spectaole 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.) ABUSED CONFIDENCE (Abus de Conflance) — MD — Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel — Fair Darrieux; for the arty — 87m. — see Dec. 14' issue under Foreign— ( f oreign-made ) . ADVENTURE IN SAHARA — MD — Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Grey — Foreign Legion drama, with exploitation possibilities — 58m. — see Nov. 30 issue — (90281. BLONDIE — C — Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms — Pleasing comedy aided by popularity of comic strip; top dualler — 72m. — see Nov. 15 issue — (9011). CALIFORNIA FRONTIER — W — Buck Jones, Carmen Bailey — Jones comes through — 54m. — see Dec. 28 issue — (8286). COLORADO TRAIL, THE — W — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith — Topnotch Starrett — 54m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (8208) . CONVICTED — MD — Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Mare Lawrence — Unimportant filler — 68m. — see 1st Sept, issue — (8039). FLIGHT TO FAME — AD — Charles Farrell, Jacqueline Wells — Lower half nabe action dualler — 57m. — 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 Moore — Brown fans will like It — 72m. — see 2nd August issue — (8011). I AM THE LAW — CD — Edward G. Robinson, Wendy Barrie, Barbara O'Neil, John Beal, Otto Kruger — Good Robinson; has selling angles — 83m. — see 1st Sept, issue — (8005). IN EARLY ARIZONA — W — Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver— High rating western, presaging a new star, a fine series — 53m. — see Nov. 16 issue — (9211). IUVENILE COURT — MD — Paul Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Frankie Darro — Good dual action programmer — 61m. — 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 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 — Tack Luden, Beth Marion — Satisfactory Luden — 64m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — ('8213) PIONEER TRAIL — W — .Tack Luden, Joan Barclay, Tuffy — Another western — 66m. — see 1st August issue 18212). RIO GRANDE — W — Charles Starrett, Ann Doran, Sons of the Pioneers — Satisfactory Starrett — 59m. — see Dec. 14 issue — (9202). SMASHING THE SPY RING— MD— Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy — Nabe dualler — 62m. — see Dec. 14 issue. 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 — -Charles StarTett, Iris Meredith— Routine 8tarrett — 66m. — see 2nd August i««ue — (8207). STRANGE CASE OF DR. MEADE, THE (Outside the Law) — D — Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Paul Everton — Okay for Jack Holt fans — 67m. — see 1st Nov. issue — (9022). STRANGER FROM ARIZONA, THE — W — Buck Jones, Dorothy Fay — Okay western, with Jones turning comic — 54m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (8284). TERROR OF TINY TOWN, THE — Burlesque WesternBilly Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Little Billy — Box office novelty that can be exploited — 63m. — see 1st August issue, under Miscellaneous — (9050). THERE’S THAT WOMAN AGAIN — CD — Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Margaret Lindsay — Exploitable from comedy, thriller angles — 74m. — see Dec. 28 issue — (9006). 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 ColumblaCapra-Rlskln box office smash — 127m. — see l»t Sept, issue — (9101). TO BE REVIEWED OR IN PRODUCTION FIRST OFFENDERS — Walter Abel, Rita Hayworth, Johnny Downs, Iris Meredith. FRONTIERS OF ’49 — Bill Elliott, Luana Alcamz. HOMICIDE BUREAU — Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley. , LET US LIVE — Henry Fonda, Maureen O Sullivan, Ralph Bellamy, Henry Kolker, Martin Spellman. LONE WOLF, THE — Warren William, Ida Lupino. Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan, Rita Hayworth. LONE STAR PIONEERS — Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver, Lee Shumway, Charles King, Charles Whittaker. MOUNTED POLICE, No. 1 — Charles Starrett, Linda Wynters, Sons of the Pioneers. NORTH OF SHANGHAI — James Craig. Betty Furness, Keye Luke, Dick Curtis, Dorothy Gulliver. OUR WIFE — Cary Grant, Jean Arthur. PLANE NO. 4 — Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Bart.helmess, Rita Hayworth, Noah Beery, Jr. POWER TO BURN — Charles Bickford, Jean Parker. Q PLANES — Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, 'alerie Hobson — (foreign-made). RACKETEERS — Alan Baxter. Jacqueline Wells, Gordon Oliver, Willard Robertson. ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS — Charles Bickford, Jean Parker. Gordon Oliver, Lloyd Hughes. SABOTAGE — Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille, Ralph Morgan, C. Henry Gordon. SPY IN BLACK, THE— Vivian Leigh, Conrad Veidt— (foreign-made). TEXAS STAMPEDE — Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers. THUNDERING WEST, THE — CharleB Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers. WHISPERING ENEMIES — Jack Holt, Dolores Costello, Pert Kelton. GB Contracts being liquidated by 20th Century-Fox. (1938-1939 releases from 8000 up) CRIME OVER LONDON — MD — Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanaugh, Joseph Oawthorn — -Weak dual thriller — 68m. — see 1st August issue — (8007). LADY VANISHES, THE. — -MY— Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty — Fast British thriller — 87m. — 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). PAGLIACCI, I (A Clown Must Laugh) — Opera — Richard Tauber, Steffi Dun, Diana Napier — fop fare for arty, musical — 78m. — see Dec. 28 issue — (foreignmade). 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 Carrol) — English mystery melodrama, that should please — 81m. — see 1st August issue — (8009) — (re-issue). TO BE REVIEWED OR IN PRODUCTION ASKING FOR TROUBLE — Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison — (8012). FROG, THE — Noah Beery, Gordon Harker — (8011). GRAND NATIONAL (1937-1938 releases from 200 up; 1938-1939 releases from 300 up.) CIPHER BUREAU — MD — Leon Ames. Joan Woodbury — Good inde spy thriller — 70m. — see 1st Nov. issue (312). DANGEROUS SECRETS — D — Paul Lukas. Hugh Williams, Linden Travers — Fine English drama for particular spots — 58m. — see 1st Oct. issue — (230) — (foreign-made). FRONTIER SCOUT— W — George Houston. Beth Marion Good western — film. — see 1st Oct. issue — (325). KING OF THE SIERRAS — AD — Hobart Bosworth. Sheik, rpx — Satisfactory variation on the western theme, with horses predominating — 66m. — see 2nd Sept, issue — (231 ). January 4, 1939