Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (Sep 1934 - Aug 1935)

6 INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN about Current Releases This is a listing of all films recently reviewed by our Roland Barton, noting the exchange, title, boxoffice rating, stirs, running time, and a brief summary of the review, indicating the type of audience tie picture is suitable for. CAPITAL ARE WE CIVILIZED? • • William Farnum, Anita Louse. 70 Minutes. Excellent exploitation possibilities. For average audience. COLUMBIA CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA • • (— ) Victor McLaglen, John Gilbert, Walter Connolly, Wynne Gibson. 103 Minutes. Fair entertainment. Mixed audience appeal. BROADWAY BILL • • • (— ) Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly. 103 Minutes. Good for any house. Exciting horse race. Frank Capra direction. FIRST DIVISION REDHEAD • • (— ) Bruce Cabot, Grace Bradley. 77 Minutes. Mediocre. Only for mass audience. A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE • William Collier, Sr., Lucille Gleason, William Janney. 62 Minutes. Slow and rather dull. Family stuff. FOX BRIGHT EYES • • • (— ) Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson. 84 Minutes. Fine entertainment for the entire famliy. WHITE PARADE • • • Loretta Young, John Boles. 80 Minutes. A fine job of dramatizing nurse training. Good for any type audience. MARIE GALANTE • • (— ) Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks. 90 Minutes. Overlong spy story. Fairly engrossing. Better for action houses. ELINOR NORTON • Claire Trevor, Norman Foster, Hugh Williams. 75 Minutes. Very poor. Unsuitable for any audience. MUSIC IN THE AIR • • Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery. 81 Minutes. Charming operetta. Distinctly class. GAUMONTBRITISH MY HEART IS CALLING • • Jan Kiepura, Marta Eggert, Sonnie Hale. 88 Minutes. Excellent British musical made to please Americans as well. If it can be sold, they will like it. LITTLE FRIEND • Nova Pilbeam, Matheson Lang. 88 Minutes. Fine study of child psychology during parental strife. Class only. COLD MEDAL CRIMSON ROMANCE • • Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim. 67 Minutes. Action and romance. Well done. General appeal. LITTLE MEN • • ( + ) Ralph Morgan, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Frankie Darro, Dickie Moore. 80 Minutes. Fine family film. Great kid cast. Little action, but it's not missed. MASTERPIECE NIGHT ALARM • • Bruce Cabot, Judith Allen, H. B. Warner. Fine entertainment. Fire, action, mystery, romance, and all good. METRO-COLD WYN-MAYER MERRY WIDOW, The • • • Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Una Merkel, George Barbier. 100 Minutes. Not up to the Lubitsch mark, but entertaining. Leans toward class appeal. PAINTED VEIL, The • • ( + ) Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent. 84 Minutes. Heavy drama. Great performance by the great Garbo. EVELYN PRENTICE • • ( + ) William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Isabel Jewell. 76 Minutes. Excellent cast makes dramatic story engrossing. General appeal. GAY BRIDE, The • • (— ) Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Leo Carrillo. 80 Minutes. Gangster satire. Fair for action fans. PARAMOUNT HERE IS MY HEART • • • Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, Roland Young, Alison Skipworth. 75 Minutes. One of the best Crosby pictures. He sings plenty, loves and makes fun. BEHOLD MY WIFE • • (— ) Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, H. B. Warner, Laura Hope Crews. 78 Minutes. Implausible story made just fair by good performances. Adult stuff. COLLEGE RHYTHM • • ( + ) Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Lanny Ross, Mary Brian, Helen Mack. 83 Minutes. Joe Penner makes this very funny. He should pull them in. Mass stuff. FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE • • (— ) Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael. 57 Minutes. Slow, gentle, but fairly amusing story. Heavy on religious angle. Strong for Catholics. LIMEHOUSE BLUES • ( + ) George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong. 65 Minutes. Old-fashioned melodrama of Chinatown. May do fair in action houses. RICO ANNE OF GREEN GABLES • • ( + ) Anne Shirley, Helen Wesley, O. P. Heggie. 77 Minutes. Faithful and charming film version of famous novel. Great family picture. WEDNESDAY'S CHILD • ( + ) Edward Arnold, Karen Morley, Frankie Thomas. Similar to "Little Friend," but not as good. Fair for class houses. UNITED ARTISTS MIGHTY BARNUM, The • • ( + ) Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Janet Beecher, Rochelle Hudson. 105 Minutes. Lusty story like "The Bowery." Good for family. TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND • • Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Gene Raymond. 90 Minutes. So-so mixture of a bit of mystery, comedy, music, romance, etc. WE LIVE AGAIN • • ( + ) Anna Sten, Fredric March. 83 Minutes. Tolstoy's "Resurrection" again. Heavy drama. Slightly above average for general audience. KID MILLIONS • • • (— ) Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Ann Sothern. 92 Minutes. A bit below previous Cantors, but good comedy if they like him. PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN • • Douglas Fairbanks, Benita Hume, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes. 90 Minutes. Clever satire idea, spoiled by Fairbanks in role of the great lover. Class only. UNIVERSAL MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD • • (— ) Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill. 81 Minutes. Heavy, intelligent story. Selling possibility in expose of munitions "racket." Rains of "Invisible Man." MURDER IN THE CLOUDS • ( + ) Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak. 60 Minutes. Cheap class airplane mystery story. Fair for action houses and kids. WARNER FIRST NATIONAL SIX DAY BIKE RIDER • ( + ) Joe E. Brown, Frank McHugh. 75 Minutes. Another poor Brown comedy. Slapstick and not funny. GENTLEMEN ARE BORN • • Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Ann Dvorak. 75 Minutes. An exceptionally fine, serious film about the boys who graduate from college during these hard days. Good anywhere. FLIRTATION WALK • • • (— ) Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien. 96 Minutes. Gay, romantic, entertainment that should please everybody. I SELL ANYTHING • ( + ) Pat O'Brien, Ann Dvorak, Claire Dodd. 69 Minutes. A "dud." May possibly crawl through in cheapest neighborhoods. New Releases (Eastern Penna., S. New Jersey, Del. Star Release Date Title COLUMBIA Westerner, The Tim McCoy — Marian Shilling Dec. 27 FOX County Chairman, The Will Roger* J*" H UNIVERSAL Ma» Who Reclaimed His Head Claude Rains — Joan Bennett — Lionel Atwill WARNER-FIRST NATIONAL Murder in the Clouds i-yle Talbot — Ann Dvorak Bordertown Paul Muni — Bette Davis Church Mouse Laura LaPlante Minutes Dec. 31 Jan. 5 Jan. 11 J«n. 21 61 90 LATE RELEASE NOTICE Notice that "Prescott Kid," a Columbia picture with Tim McCoy, was released on November 29th, was received from the Code Authority just last week. If any exhibitor desires to cancel this picture under the 10 per cent Code Cancellation privilege, he should have the right to do so, even though much more than the required 14 days' notice has expired. If you have any difficulty cancelling this picture, please communicate with FILM BULLETIN, or with Batil Ziegler, Local Secretary of the Code Authority.