Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1938)

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.AUGUST 27th, 1938 11 MONOGRAM Sold 1937-38 Sold 1938-39 Features Westerns Features Westerns (26) (16) (26) (16) Completed (23) Completed (16) Completed (3) Completed (3) In Production (0) In Production (0) In Production (0) In Production (0) RECENTLY COMPLETED ReIease Details Release pate in Issue Date 8/2 Barefoot Boy 6/18 6/22 Romance of the Lim 8/24 Circus Comes to Town. berlost = ' The "/16 9/14 Starlight Over Texas 7/6 Mans Country 6/4 4/30 Two Gun Justice 6/8 Marines Are Here. The 4/23 Wanted By the Police Mexicali Kid. The 8/13 Details in Issue 5/14 7 /30 3/20 8/13 PARAMOUNT Sold 1937-38 Sold 1938-39 Features Westerns Features Westerns (53) (6) (52) (6) Completed (48) Completed (6) Completed (11) Completed (3) In Production (0) In Production (0) In Production (9) In Production (1) SCOTLAND YARD VS. BULLDOG DRUMMOND Shooting started — August 12 Action-Drama Cast: John Howard. Heather Angel. Reginald Denny, H, B. Warner. E. E. Clive Directed by James Hogan Produced by Harold Hurley Story: This concerns Bulldog Drummond's adventures in connection with a new machine capable of projecting explosives to a great distance. To be released on '38 '39 program. • * * SAY IT IN FRENCH Shooting started — August 20 Romantic Comedy Cast: Ray Milland. Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher, Evelyn Keyes, Holmes Herbert, Erik Rhodes, Walter Kingsford Director-Producer Andrew Stone Story: Olympe Hradna is a French maid in the home of Ray Milland. wealthy young bachelor. He is in love with socialite Evelyn Keyes. After many complications. Miss Bradna wins his affections. To be released on '38-39 program. • * * DISBARRED Shooting started — August 20 Drama Cast: Gail Patrick, Otto Kruger. Robert Preston, Sidney Toler, Helen MacKeller, Clay Clement, Edward Marr, Olin Howland Directed by Robert Florey Produced by Harold Hurley Story : This is a racketeering story centered around Otto Kruger, a disbarred lawyer. To be released on '38-'39 program. * * * FRONTIERSMAN Shooting started — August 20 Western Cast: William Boyd. George Hayes, Russell Hoyden, Evelyn Venable. William Duncan, Clara Kimbell Young, Charles Hughes, Dickie Jones, Ray Barcroft, Emily Fitzroy Directed by Leslie Selander Produced by Harry Sherman Story: (Synopsis unavailable; see next issue.) * # * IN PRODUCTION Details Release Release Date in Issue 11/4 Escape From Yesterday 7/30 Illegal Traffic 8/13 Thanks for the Memory 8/13 Details Date in Issue St. Louis Blues 8/13 Zaza 7 /2 RECENTLY COMPLETED 9/23 11/25 6/24 7/2 8/19 9/30 8/5 10/14 9/9 10/21 10/30 10/28 Arkansas Traveler 7/16 Artists and Models Abroad 5/21 Bar 20 Justice 12/18 Booloo 6/18 Bulldog Drummond in Africa _ 6/4 Campus Confessions 7/16 Give Me a Sailor 4/23 If I Were King 5/21 In Old Mexico (Orig. Return of the Fox)...5/21 King of Alcatraz 7/30 Men With Wings 5/14 Mysterious Riders. The 7/2 7/8 6/17 7/29 9/2 8/26 8/26 8/12 7/1 8 /» Paris Honeymoon 6/4 Pride of the West I Orig. Beneath Western Stars) 5/14 Prison Farm 2 /26 Professor Beawre 12/4 Sunset Trail (Orig. Silver Trail Patrol)... 7/30 Sing You Sinners 4/9 Sons of the Legion 7/16 Spawn of the North 3/26 Texans. The 2/26-3/26 Tropic Holiday 2/26 Touchdown Army 7/2 You and Me 1 /29 STORY BUYS "Whatever Goes Up," play by Milton Lazarus. CONTRACTS Player Jean Fenwick optioned. CASTING Martha Raye and Bob Hope to top lines in "Never Say Die." REPUBLIC Sold 1937-38 Features (30) Completed (24) In Production (0) Westerns (16) Completed (16) In Production (0) Serials (4) Completed (4) In Production (0) Sold 1938-39 Features (31) Completed (0) In Production (2) Westerns (24) Completed (2) In Production (0) Serials (4) Completed (0) In Production (0) DOWN IN ARKANSAS Shooting started — August 12 Musical Cast: Weaver Brothers, Elviry, Pinky Tomlin, Ralph Byrd, June Storey, Big Boy Williams, Berton Churchill Directed by Nick Grinde Produced by Armand Schaefer Story: Residents of the hill billy backwoods village of Pine Ridge are opposed to the government's plan to modernize that section of the country and install a dam. Ralph Byrd is assigned to serve them a subpoena demanding that the hill folk vacate their property. Using unusual tactics, he contrives to illustrate the virtues of civilization, with the result that the women come around to the government's way of thinking and with them, the men. Romantic interest is between Byrd and June Storey. To be released on '38-'39 program. * * * THE NIGHT HAWK Shooting started — August 20 Action Drama Cast: Robert Armstrong, June Travis, Robert Livingston, Joseph Downing, Roland Gott, Robert Homans, Paul Fix Directed by Sidney Salkow Produced by Herman Schlom Story: This is a story of smuggling on the San Francisco coast. Robert Armstrong, ace reporter, plays an important role in connection with the Customs Department crackdown on the racket. To be released on '38-'39 program. RECENTLY Release Details Date in Issue 8/13 A Dangerous Adventure (Orig. As You Are) 6/18 7/15 Army Girl 5/14 Billy The Kid Returns 8/13 8/8 Come On. Leathernecks 7/2 Dick Tracy Returns (serial) 6/18 8/15 Durango Valley Riders 4/28 8/29 Everything Happens to Us...7/16 Fighting Devil Dogs (serial) 3/26 COMPLETED Release Date 5/23 6/13 8/15 6/15 .-/ll 8/22 Details in Issue Gangs of New York 4 /9 Ladies in Distress (Orig. First Prize) 1/15 Man From Mountain Music 7/16 Overland Stage Riders 8/13 Pals of the Saddle 7/30 Riders of the Black Hills 5/14 Romance on the Run 3/26 Tenth Avenue Kid 7/16 Western Justice 6/18 STORY BUYS "Romance On the Range," original by Patricia Harper. CONTRACTS Director George Sherman renewed. Youngster Tommy Ryan optioned. CASTING Robert Armstrong to "Hell Bent For Headlines." RKO-RADIO Sold 1937-38 Features (51) Completed (50) In Production (1) Sold 1938-39 Features (54) Completed (1) In Production (2) Westerns (6) Completed (0) In Production (0) Note: A policy recently adopted by this studio prohibits the releasing of synopsis information before pictures are completed. Such data will be aiailablc to FB's production record a few uceks prior to release. ANNABEL TAKES A TOUR Shooting started — August 12 Comedy Cast: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Frances Mercer, Ruth Donnelly, Ralph Forbes, Bradley Page, Donald MacBride, Jack Arnold, Cecil Kellaway, Alice White, William Corson, Rita Gould Directed by Lew Landers Produced by Lou Lusty (Continual on next /"*,".<')