Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1938)

10 jbttfeMWdfettf IXHItllOM FILM BULLETIN PRODUCTION RECORD In cases of Title Changes the Original Title appears in light face directly under the New Title. Details will be found in the previous issues under the Original Title. All new product is on 1937-38 programs, unless otherwise noted. COLUMBIA Sold 1937-38 Features (41) Westerns (22) Serials (4) Sold 1938-39 Features (41) Westerns (22) Serials (4) Completed (31) Completed (20) Completed (4) Completed (6) Completed (0) Completed (1) In Production (0) In Production (1) In Production (0) In Production (3) In Production (0) In Production (0) SPY RING Shooting started — October 8 Drama Cast: Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Warren Hull, Regis Toomey, Walter Kingsford, Lorna Gray, Ann Doran, Paul Whitney, May Wallace, John Tyrrell, Dick Curtis Directed by Christy Cabanne Produced by Irving Briskin Story: After the tracking down oi the inner council of a powerful spy ring, a Bureau of Investigation worker is murdered. Ralph Bellamy, a fellow operative who is in love with the slain man's sister. Fay Wray, succeeds in capturing those responsible for the crime. * * • TRAIL OF THE TUMBLEWEED Shooting stared — October 10 Western Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Bob Nolan, Dick Curtis, Frank Bell, Eddy Cobb, Art Mix, Slim Whitaker, Dick Bottiler, Ed Le Saint Directed by Sam Nelson Produced by Harry Decker Story: Charles Starrett is an outlaw whom circumstances force to turn straight. He continues the deception because of his love for Iris Meredith and routs out his old gang and restores law and order to an upset region. LIFE IS CHEAP Shooting started — October 17 Drama Cast: Betty Furness, James Craig, Keye Luke, Dick Curtis, Joe Downing, Honorable Wu, Cy Kendall, John Tyrrell, Ed Laughtin, Richard Loo, E. Allen Warren, Lotus Liu, Lewis Vincenot, Chester Gann, Dorothy Gulliver Directed by D. Ross Lederman Produced by Wallace MacDonald Story: This is laid in war torn Shanghai, where newsreel photographer James Craig and his girl friend, reporter Betty Furness. succeed in breaking up a ring of international spies who have been terrorizing the Chinese. IN PRODUCTION Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue There's That Woman Again 10/8 RECENTLY COMPLETED Adventures in Sahara 8/22 Phantom Gold 6 18 (Orig. Revolt in Sahara) 9/24 7/15 Pioneer Trail Blondie 9/24 (Orig. Valley ol Violence) 4/23 10/5 Crime Takes a Holiday 4/9 7/21 Reformatory 10/12 Flight to Fame (Orig. Orphans of the (Orig. Wings of Doom 7/12 Law) 5 14 9/30 Girl's School 7/16 7/28 South of Arizona 8/15 Gladiator 6/4 (Orig. Singing Guns) 5/14 6/27 Highway Patrol South of the Rio Grande 9/10 (Orig. State Patrol 4/9 Spider. The (serial) 9/10 6/15 Holiday 3/12-26 6/20 Stage Coach Days 3/26 10/19 Homicide Bureau 8/13 9/22 Stranger From Arizona 8/25 I Am the Law (Orig. Phantom Trail) 7/16-30 (Orig. Outside the Law) 6/4 6/30 West of Cheyenne 4/9 In Early Arizona 8/27 10/2 West of Sante Fe 8/13 8/29 Lady Objects, The 7/2 Wild Bill Hickok (serial) 6/4 5/12 Law of the Plains 2/26 9/29 You Can't Take It North of Texas 9/10 With You 5/14 STORY BUYS "Repaid," original by Harvey Thew and Manny Seff. CONTRACTS Director Alexander Hall to two year contract without options. Rose Stradnei to term contract. CASTING Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray leads in "Spy Ring." GRAND NATIONAL Sold 1938 39 Features (26) Completed (3) In Production (0) Westerns (24) Completed (3) In Production (0) Note: Productions listed below are '38-'39 program. Those sold for '37-'38 season may be found in back issues of FB. RECENTLY COMPLETED Release Details Date in Issue Cipher Bureau 8, 26 Frontier Scout 8/13 Renfew No. 3 Ride 'Em Cowgirl 9/ 10 Release Details Date in Issue Sunset Strip Case (Orig. Murder on Sunset Boulevard) 8/13 Shadows Over Shanghai 7/30 STORY BUYS "The Long Shot," by Harry Beresford and George Callaghan. (FA) "At Your Age," farce comedy by Cea Sabin. (FA) Cipher Bureau stories by Monroe Shaff. (FA) "Full Speed Ahead," by James Henrihan. (FA) METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER Sold 1937-38 Features (44-52) Completed (47) In Production (0) Sold 1938-39 Features (44-52) Completed (11) In Production (10) A CHRISTMAS CAROL Shooting started — October 5 Drama Cast: Reginald Owen, Lynn Carver, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Claude King, Barry McKay Directed by Edwin L. Marin Produced by Joe Mankiewicz Story: Based on the famous Dickens' story, this casts Reginald Owen as the mercenary Scrooge, who refuses to celebrate Christmas. On Xmas evening the spirit of his dead partner visits him on three separate occasions. He is shown the evil of his ways. He awakens the next morning and celebrates Christmas with his employee Bob Cratchitt, father of the lovable Tiny Tim. whom Scrooge learns to love during the spirit's visitation. • • * KATHERINE THE LAST Shooting started — October 8 Comedy Cast: Franchot Tone, Franciska Gaal, Walter Connolly, Rita Johnson, Reginald Gardiner, Franklyn Pangborn, Charles Judels, Billy Gilbert Directed by Norman Taurog Produced by Harry Rapf Story: Franchot Tone, a young architect vacationing in Switzerland, takes a fancy to Rita Johnson, daughter of Walter Connolly. The latter takes exception to Tone and forbids him to see Rita. All the members of the household are advised not to permit him to enter — all save the kitchen slavey, Franciska Gaal. Tone, posing as a chauffeur, gains her confidence and through her is able to see Miss Johnson. He finally falls in love with Franciska. * • • IDIOT'S DELIGHT Shooting started — October 15 Comedy-drama Cast: NORMA SHEARER, CLARK GABLE Directed by Clarence Brown Produced by Hunt Stromberg Story: This is the Robert Sherwood anti-war play, which casts Clark Gable in the role of a vaudeville hoofer. On a European tour, he stops at a hotel in a border town, where he meets Norma Shearer, with whom he once had a slight romantic interlude in Omaha. Shearer is now married to a munitions manufacturer and poses as a Russian noblewoman. War breaks out and the remainder of the story concerns its effect on the pair as well as others in the hotel. THE WIZARD OF OZ Shooting started — October 15 Fantasy Cast: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke Directed by Richard Thorpe Produced by Mervyn Le Roy