Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (Sep 1934 - Aug 1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin
Date:
Sep 1934 - Aug 1935
Author:
Film Bulletin Company
Publisher:
New York, Film Bulletin Company
Volume:
Film Bulletin (Sep 1934 - Aug 1935)
Leaf #:
000178
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
East Coast exhibitor publication. Founded in 1934 by the Independent Exhibitors' Protective Association in response to the perceived shortcomings of Motion Picture Herald and the Motion Picture Theatre Owners (MPTO). Served as a news source, reviewing service, and forum for independent exhibitors to share their many grievances. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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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, stars, running time, and a brief summary of the review, indicating the type of audience tie picture is suitable for. • means POOR • • means AVERAGE • • • means GOOD • • • • means EXCELLENT CAPITAL ARE WE CIVILIZED? • • William Farnum, Anita Louise. 70 Minutes. Excellent exploitation possibilities. For average audience. COLUMBIA THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING • « 9 • ( — ) Edward G. Robinson. Jean Arthur, Wallace Ford, Arthur Hohl. 95 Minutes. Comedy Melodrama of meek bookkeeper mistaken for gangster. Has everything for boxoffice. BEST MAN WINS, The • • ( — ) Jack Holt, Edmund Lowe, Beta Lugosi. 68 Minutes. Commonplace melodrama suited for action houses and children. MILLS OF THE GODS • ( + ) May Robson, Fay Wray, Victor Jory. 65 Minutes. Weak story. Robson is its only asset. Title a "phoney." BROADWAY BILL • • • (— ) Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly. 103 Minutes. Good for any house. Exciting horse race. Frank Capra direction. FIRST DIVISION WOMEN MUST DRESS • • Minna Gombell, Gavin Gordon, Hardie Albright, Robert Light. 76 Minutes. Comedy Drama with special appeal for women. Drudging wife loses husband to other woman. A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE • William Collier, Sr., Lucille Gleason, William Janney. 62 Minutes. Slow and rather dull. Family stuff. SING SING NIGHTS • • Conway Tearle, Hardie Albright, Boots Mallory, Berton Churchill. 59 Minutes. Mediocre mystery with a novel angle. Title and fair action makes it OK for neighborhoods. FOX BRIGHT EYES • • • ( — ) Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson. 84 Minutes. Fine entertainment for the entire family. CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS • • ( + ) Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Erik Rhodes, Keye Luke. 71 Minutes. Exciting new Chan mystery. Will satisfy everywhere. CAUMONT-BRITISH IRON DUKE • • ( + ) George Arliss, A. E. Matthews. 86 Minutes. Historical drama of the man who defeated Napoleon. Disappointing, but has enough to do slightly above average. EVERGREEN • • ( — ) Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale. 98 Minutes. A pleasant English musical comedy, but difficult to sell with no names. For adults. 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. GOLD 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. HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL GIRL • • • Cecelia Parker, Helen MacKellar, Crane Wilbur. 60 Minutes. Exploitation wallop for Naborhood Audiences. Parents too busy to teach children "facts of life." MASTERPIECE IIGHT ALARM • • Bruce Cabot, Jud ith Allen, H. B. Warner. Fine entertainment. Fire, action, mystery, romance, and all good. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER WINNING TICKET, The • ( + ) Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Tealy, Luis Alberni. 70 Minutes. Comedy about a barber who wins a sweepstakes tciket. Poor. OK for Italian naborhoods. SOCIETY DOCTOR • • Chester Morris, Virginia Bruce, Robert Taylor, Billie Burke. 63 Minutes. Melodrama for General Audiences. Two hospital internes in love with one girl. Fair. A WICKED WOMAN • ( + ) Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, Jackie Searle. 72 Minutes. Heavy mother-love drama. Good acting; weak story. Adult fare. FORSAKING ALL OTHERS • • • Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Charles Butterworth. 82 Minutes. Swell comedy romance, directed by "Thin Man" Van Dyke. For adults. BAND PLAYS ON, The • ( + ) Robert Young, Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo, Ted Healy. 87 Minutes. Very poor. Stupid college football story. Untimely. GAY BRIDE, The • • (— ) Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Leo Carrillo. 80 Minutes. Gangster satire. Fair for action fans. PARAMOUNT HOME ON THE RANGE 6 • ( — ) Randolph Scott, Jackie Coogan, Evelyn Brent. 55 Minutes. Fair western bringing Jackie Coogan back. Good for kids. ONB HOUR LATE • • (— ) Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees, Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge. 75 Minutes. Romance with songs for General Audiences. Below par. LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER • • • • Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Kathleen Burke, Guy Standing. 110 Minutes. Excellent. Has everything. 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 WIFB • • (— ) 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 ENCHANTED APRIL • ( + ) Ann Harding, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Katharine Alexander. 65 Minutes. Sophisticated Comedy Dramn with little appeal. Triangle story in which Harding misacts horribly. SILVER STREAK, The • ( + ) Charles Starrett, Sally Blane, Irving Pichel, Hardie Albright. 72 Minutes. Fast action yarn about a streamlined train. Good for kids. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES • • ( + ) Anne Shirley, Helen Wesley, O. P. Heggie. 77 Minutes. Faithful and charming film varsion of famous novel. Great family picture. UNITED ARTISTS SCARLET PIMPERNEL, The • • • ( — ) Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. 95 Minutes. Grand adventure yarn that should please everywhere. General audiences. RUNAWAY QUEEN, The • Anna Neagle, Fernand Graavey. 69 Minutes. Weak English comedy. Will do poorly anywhere. MIGHTY BARNUM, The • • ( + ) Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Janet Beecher, Roth e 1 1 e Hudson. 105 Minutes. Lusty story like "The Bowery." Good for family. WE LIVE AGAIN • • ( + ) Anna Sten, Fredric March. 83 Minutes. Tolstoy'* "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. CLIVE OF INDIA • • ( + ) Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, C. Aubrey Smith. 93 Minutes. Story of the conquering of India. Disappointing, but enough to fairly please. OK for children. UNIVERSAL SECRET OF THE CHATEAU • Claire Dodd, Osgood Perkins, Clark Williams. 65 Minutes. Very poor mystery about a valuable Bible. 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." I'VE BEEN AROUND • Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Isabel Jewell. 65 Minutes. Senseless comedy-drama that will not satisfy. WARNER FIRST NATIONAL WOMAN IN RED, The • • (— ) Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Genevieve Tobin. 69 Minutes. Romantic Melodrama. It is stupid and pretty uninteresting. NG for kiddies. WHITE COCKATOO, The • • Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Minna Gombell. 72 Minutes. Murder-mystery. Enough thrills and chills to please shrieker fans. BORDERTOWN • • ( + ) Paul Muni, Bene Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette. 90 Minutes. Drama, with Muni and Davis giving excellent performances. Disappointing, but has name strength. Adult. I AM A THIEF • • (— ) Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor. 63 Minutes. Mediocre mystery-detective yarn. For action fans and children. MURDER IN THE CLOUDS • ( + ) Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak. 60 Minutes. Cheap class airplane mystery story. Fair for action houses and kids. 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.