Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

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June 21, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 65 A Quick Reference Guide to Universal Product For the 1930-31 Season Twenty Specials 1. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. By Erich Maria Remarque. With Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres and John Wray. Director, Lewis Milestone. Adaptation and dialog by Maxwell Anderson and George Abbott. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. General release to exhibitors on September 1. Now in key city exploitation runs throughout the country. 2. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE. The stage hit by Preston Sturges. LEWIS MILESTONE Director JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON Director John Boles to be starred. Picture version will have musical background. Brock Pemberton, who produced the stage version, and Antoinette Perry, his assistant, will aid in picturization. 3. SEQUEL to ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. By Erich Maria Remarque. Story of post-war conditions. To be picturized as a super-production. Serial publication in Colliers this Fall. 4-5. TWO JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON PRODUCTIONS. By the creator and director of “King of Jazz.” Entirely new departure in musical pictures is planned. 6. OUTSIDE THE LAW. Underworld melodrama. With Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson and Owen Moore. Written and directed by Tod Browning, who created the original, silent picture of this story. Eddie Sturgis, John George and Delmar Watson in the supporting cast. Scenario by Garrett Fort. 7. LITTLE ACCIDENT. The stage success by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell. All-star cast headed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page, Sally Blane and ZaSu Pitts and including Slim Summerville, Roscoe Karns, Myrtle Stedman, Joan Marsh, Albert Gran, Nora Cecil, Bertha Mann, Gertrude Short, Dot Farley, and Henry Armetta. Director, William James Craft. Adaptation and continuity by Gene Towne. Dialog by Paul Dickey. 8. BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT. Sophisticated play by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald. Director, William Wyler. Scenario by Lajos Biros. Dialog by Tom Reed. 9. EAST IS WEST. By Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer which ran three years on Broadway, with Fay Bainter in the role of Ming Toy. Lupe Velez will be starred in the screen version, with Lewis Ayres, hero ot “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Technicolor sequences. Adaptation and continuity by A. E. Thomas, the playwright. 10. THE LADY SURRENDERS. From the best seller, “Sincerity,” by John Erskine, author of “The Private Life of Helen of Troy.” Director, John M. Stahl. Adaptation and continuity by Dorothy Yost. 11. SAINT JOHNSON. By W. R. Burnett, author of “Little Caesar” and “Iron Man.” Outdoor epic, with Lewis Ayres and John Wray, featured players in “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Adaptation, dialog and continuity by Joseph Moncure March. Simultaneous release with the publication of the novel by Lincoln MacVeagh next fall. 12. OURANG. Sensational dramatic story by Fred de Gresac. All-talking picture to be made in the heart of the Borneo jungle. Directors, Harry Garson and Julius Bernheim. Dorothy Janis in the feminine lead. Complete expedition has been sent from Universal City to Borneo for production of this picture. Adaptation and dialog TOD BROWNING Director JOHN S. ROBERTSON Director