Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1939)

FEBRUARY 25, 1939 13 PRODUCTION RECORD //; 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 1938-39 programs, unless otherwise noted. COLUMBIA Sold 1938-39 Features (41 ) Completed (20) In Production (2) Westerns (22) Completed (8) In Production (0) Serials (4) Completed (3) In Production (0) BLIND ALLEY Shooting started — February 1 5 Drama Cast: Chester Morris, Ann Dvorak, Ralph Bellamy, Rose Stradner, Ann Doran, Joan Perry, Melville Cooper, John Eldridge, Marc Lawrence Director — Charles Vidor Producer — Jack Fier Story: unavailable IN PRODUCTION Release Details Date in Issue Plane No. 4 l/ll ll/l 11/30 2/28 10/5 10/12 9/30 8/15 6/27 10/1!) 8/25 11/2 8/29 5/12 10/24 12/; Adventures in Sahara (Orig. Revolt in Sahara) Army Spy (Orig. Sabotage) Blondie Blondie Steps Out Crime Takes a Holiday First Offenders Flight to Fame lOrig. Wings of Doomi Flying G-Men Frontiers of '49 lOrig. California Cavalcade} Girls' School Gladiator. The Highway Patrol lOrig. State Patroll Homicide Bureau I Am the Law (Orig. Outside the Law) In Early Arizona Lady and the Mob lOrig. Mrs. Leonard behaves) Lady Objects, The Law of the Plains Law of the Texan (Orig. South of the Rio Grande) Let Us Live Lone Wolf's Daughter Mounted Police No. 1 North of Shanghai (Orig. Life Is Cheap) RECENTLY COMPLETED 9/24 12/31 9/24 1/U 4/9 12/17 7/12 12/17 11/19 7/16 (i/4 4/9 8/13 fi/4 8/27 Mis 1/14 7/2 2/2<! 9/10 12/3 12/3 12/31 10/22 Outside These Walls 1/28 8/22 Phantom Gold 0/18 7/15 Pioneer Trail i Orig. Valley of Violence i 4/23 Prairie Nights 2/11 Racketeers 12/3 7/21 Reformatory lOrig. Orphans of the Law) 5/14 12/8 Rio Grande (Orig. North of Texas) 9/10 Rio Grande Roundup 11/19 Romance of the Redwoods 1/14 12/17 Smashing the Spy Ring lOrig. Spy Ring) 10/12 7/28 South of Arizona (Orig. Singing Guns) 5/14 Spider, The I serial) 9/10 «/20 Stage Coach Days 3/20 9/22 Stranger from Arizona i Orig. Phantom Trail) 7/16-30 11/22 There's That Woman Again 10/8 Thundering West, The (Orig. Trail of the Tumbleweedi 10/22 6/30 West of Cheyenne 4/9 10/2 West of Sante Fe 8/13 Whispering Enemies lOrig. Wreckage) 11/5 Wild Bill Hickok (serial) 6/4 9/29 You Can't Take It With You 5/14 GRAND NATIONAL Sold 1938-39 Features <26) Westerns (24) Completed (6) Completed (7) In Production ( 1 I In Production (0) EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ANN Shooting started — February 16 Comedy Cast: Heather Angel, John King, William V. Davidson, Emma Dunn, Constance Collier, Robert Elliott, Henry Brandon, Tom Dugan, Clem Bevans, Wilbur Mack, Fred Kohler, Jr., Walter Catlett, Joe Devlin, Fern Emmett, Antonia Oland Director — Al Christie Executive producer — Jack Skirball Story: Heather Angel plays the role of a girl who rebels against her strict life, invests her savings in some new clothes and starts out to see the world. She becomes involved with Henry Brandon, a gangster, who has just committed a murder. It is from this awkward situation that she is rescued by John King, whom she eventually decides to marry. RECENTLY COMPLETED Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue 11/4 Cipher Bureau 8/26 Rhythm Rides the Range 1/16 Crashing Through (Orig. Rhythm on the (Orig. Renfrew No. 3) 8/13 Range) 1/11 2/1 Exile Express Ride 'em Cowgirl .9/10 (Orig. Exile) 11/5 10/11 Shadows Over Shanghai 7/30 10/21 Frontier Scout 8/13 11/1 Sunset Murder Case 1/6 Long Shot 11/5 lOrig. Sunset Strip Casei 8/13 Panama Cipher 1/28 1/13 Trigger Pals 1 1/19-12/3 METRO-GOLPWYN-MAYER Sold 1938-39 Features (44-52) Completed (27) In Production ( 1 0) WITHIN THE LAW Shooting started — February 8 Drama Cast: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, William Gargan, Paul Kelly, Sidney Blackmer Director — Gustav Machaty Producer — Lou Ostrow Story: Ruth Hussey is a young girl railroaded to prison. She swears revenge on the man who was responsible. Tom Neal, the man's son, becomes the target for her hatred but after various situations she ends up by loving and marrying the boy. MAIDEN VOYAGE Shooting started — February 1 0 Comedy Cast: Robert Young, Annabella, Walter Connolly, Albert Morin Director — William Thiele Producer — Edgar Selwyn Story: Robert Young has a great weakness for girls and to overcome this he is taken to Europe. Here he feigns insanity and is brought to a hospital where he falls in love with the Doctor's ward. Annabella. KID FROM TEXAS Shooting started — February 6 Comedy Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Jessie Ralph, Anthony Allen, Buddy Ebsen Director — S. Sylvan Simon Producer — Edgar Selwyn Story: This casts Dennis O'Keefe as a cowboy who after seeing a polo game on the screen, decides to become a polo player. Development of the story concerns his endeavors in that direction as well as his courtship of Florence Rice. CALLING DR. KILDARE Shooting started — February 1 I Drama Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lorraine Johnson, Otto Kruger, Samuel Hinds, Nat Pendleton, Bobs Watson, Donald Barry Director — Harold Bocquet Producer — Lou Ostrow Story: With Lew Ayres again in the title role this concerns the young doctor's mix-up with some gangsters who, through a girl, have persuaded him to treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police. Lionel Barrymore, as Lew's kindly old sponsor, succeeds in ironing out the difficulties for Ayres. PENTHOUSE Shooting started — February 14 Drama Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Frances Mercer, Leo Carillo, Lee Bowman, Frank Thomas, Paul Guilfoyle Director — Edwin Marin Producer — Louis D. Lighton Story: (Unavailable: see next issue i A HUNDRED TO ONE Shooting started — February 1 5 Drama Cast: Melvyn Douglas, H. B. Warner, Tom Collins, Louise Piatt Director — Leslie Fenton Producer — Edward Chodorov Story: Melvyn Douglas is a reporter who gets hold of a $100 bill which turns out to be a ransom note. Douglas traces the history of the bill, revealing how it changed the course of the lives of many people who had possessed it. Release Date (lone with the Wind Luckv Night IN PRODUCTION Details ill bsUC 2/11 1/28-2/1 1 Release Date Tarzan in Exile Wizard of Oz Details in Issue 1/28 10/22 {Continued on next page)