Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1939)

1 1 independent EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN 8/19 9/2 7/20 12/33 8/5 12/9 2/ IT 7/8 12/ Hi 11/4 2/3 2/10 3/3 1/2T Blockheads lOrig. Meet the Missus) (i/lX Boystown 0/18 Broadway Serenade 12/3 Burn 'Em Up O'Connor 11/9 Chaser, The 6/18 Christmas Carol, A 10/22 Crowd Roars, The lOrig. Give and Take) 5/14 Dramatic School 9/24 Fast and Loose 12/31 Fast Company 0/ 1 Four Girls in White lOrig. Women in White) 12/17 Girl Downstairs, The lOrig. Katherine the Last) 10/22 Great Waltz, The 5/21 Hardys Run High 1/28 Honolulu 1 1/5 Huckleberry Finn 12/3 Ice Follies of 1939 10/22 Idiot's Delight 10/22 RECENTLY COMPLETED 2/24 10/21 7/32 6/17 8/20 12/2 8/12 11/25 7/15 8/9 10/28 10/14 10/26 6/10 10/13 6/24 10/14 I Take this Woman lOrig. New York Cinderella) 10/22 Let Freedom Ring (Orig. Song of the West) 12/3 Listen Darling 7/10 Love Finds Andy Hardy 0/4 Lord Jeff 3/20 Marie Antoinette 1/15 Out West with the Hardys 10/8 Rich Man, Poor Girl I Orig. It's Now or Never) 7/2 Sergeant Madden l/l I Shining Hour, The 8/27 Shopworn Angel 4/9 Stablemates 7/10 Stand up and Fight 10/22-11/5 Sweethearts 7/2 Three Loves Has Nancy 7/16 Too Hot To Handle 5/14 Toy Wife, The 3/26 Vacation From Love 8/13 Woman Against Woman (Orig. Enemy Territory I 4/23 Young Dr. Kildare 11/21 MONOGRAM Sold 1938-39 Features (26) Westerns (16) Completed (13) Completed <9> In Production ( 1 ■ In Production (0) TRIGGER SMITH Shooting started — February 4 (Completed) Western Cost: JACK RANDALL, Frank Yaconelli, Dennis Moore, Bobby Clark, Warner Richmond, Dave O'Brien, Joyce Bryant, Frank LaRue Director — Alan James Producer — Robert Tansey Story: When his brother is killed by a band of bank robbers, Jack Randall sets forth to avenge his death by tracking down the criminals. In so doing he meets and falls in love with Joyce Bryant, whose brother is an undercover man working on the case. STREETS OF NEW YORK Shooting started — February 1 1 Drama Cast: JACKIE COOPER, Martin Spellman, Sidney Miller, Buddy Pepper, Bobby Stone, David Durand, Robert Tucker, William Tucker, George Cleveland, Robert Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Dick Pureed, George Irving, June Martel Director — Jack Mintz Supervisor — William T. Lackey Story: Jackie Cooper is the young brother of Dick Purcell. a public enemy. Cooper supports himself and a crippled pal, Martin Spellman, and refuses aid from Purcell. Complications ensue which bring Jackie to the kindly attention of George Irving, a Judge. Meanwhile Purcell kills a policeman, and, in a fracas, Spellman is hurt. Purcell is sentenced to the electric chair and it is in the Big House that the brothers make their peace. Spellman is taken in hand by the Judge, and Cooper returns to his news stand to begin the hard fight ahead of him to become a great lawyer. RECENTLY COMPLETED Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue 8/2 Barefoot Bov 0/18 Sante Fe Bound 12/17 Convict's Code 3/9 Sky Pirate 1/11 lOrig. Paroled to Exilei 12/17 11/23 Song of the Buckaroo 11/10 Gang Bullets 10/22 lOrig. Little Tenderfooti 11/5 11/2 Gangster's Boy 9/24 2/1 Sundown on the Prairie 12/31 11/0 Gun Packer lo/X 0/1 1 Starlight Over Texas 7/30 12/7 I Am a Criminal 11/5 2/22 Star Reporter 1/14 7/0 Mans Country 6/4 12/11 Tough Kid 12/3 6/8 Marines Are Here, The 4/23 8/21 Cnder the Big Top 0/11 Mexicali Kid 8/13 lOrig. Circus Comes to 10/5 Mr. Wong. Detective 0/10 Towni 7/16 Mystery of Mr. Wong 1/28 9/21 Wanted By the Police 8/13 2/8 Navy Secrets 12/31 12/21 Wild Horse Trail 12/3 6/22 Romance of the 10/12 Where the Buffalo Roam 9/10 Limberlost 5/ 1 1 PARAMOUNT Sold 1938-39 Features (52) Westerns (6) Completed (41 Completed (6) In Production 1 7 ) In Production (0) THE MAGNIFICENT FRAUD Shooting started — February 1 5 Comedy Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Patricia Morrison, Steffi Duna, Barbara Pepper, Robert Warwick, George Reicher, Mary Boland, Ernst Verebes Director — Robert Florey Producer — Harlan Thompson Story: Lloyd Nolan is an adventurer arranging a loan with a dictator to the amount of $10,000. Just as the deal is about to be consummated, the dictator is shot. Nolan prevails upon Akim Tamiroff, an actor, to impersonate the official until the business is closed. This Tamiroff agrees to do. The remainder of the story concerns the amusing complications which ensue as a result. IN PRODUCTION Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue Beau Geste 1/28 Man About Town 1/14-28 Gracie Allen Murder Case 1/28 Some Like it Hot 2/11 Invitation to Happiness 1/11 Union Pacific 1 1 /.". RECENTLY COMPLETED 1/20 9/23 11/25 1 3/30 7/31 7/2 2/17 8/10 3/10 2/10 9/30 1/20 12/17 8/3 3/17 10/14 11/4 9/9 10/21 1/0 12/2 10/30 Ambush 10/8 Arkansas Traveler 7/10 10/28 Arrest Bulldog Drummond 3/24 i Orig. Scotland Yard vs. Bulldog Drummondi 8/27 Artists and Models Abroad 5/21 Back Door to Heaven 12/17 1/12 Bar 20 Justice 12/18 2/10 Booloo 0/18 7/8 Boy Trouble i Orig. Parents on Pro bationi 11/5 6/17 Bulldog Drummond in 7/29 Africa 0/4 Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 11/19 10/28 Cafe Society 10/22 Campus Confessions 7/10 Disbarred 8/27 11/25 Federal Offense 1/1 1 Frontiersmen. The 8/27-9/10 Gambler and the Lady, The lOrig. Lady's From 9/17 Kentucky) 12/3 8/2 Give Me A Sailor 4/23 8/26 Grand Jury Secrets 1/14 2/3 Heritage of the Desert 12/17 Hotel Imperial 11/5 12/9 If I Were King 5/21 Illegal Traffic 8/13 8/12 I'm From Missouri 12/3 11/18 In Old Mexico 12/23 lOrig. Return of the Fox) 5/21 7/1 King of Alcatraz 7/30 10/7 King of Chinatown 9/24 6/3 Little Orphan Annie 10/8 1/27 Men With Wings 5/14 Midnight II/19 Mysterious Rider, The 7/2 Never Say Die 11/5 Night Spot Hostess lOrig. Me and My Gall 12/17 . . . one-third of a nation 12/17 Paris Honeymoon 6/4 Persons in Hiding 10/22 Pride of the West 1 Orig. Beneath Western Stars 1 5/14 Prison Farm 2/26 Professor Beware 12/4 Renegade Trail, The lOrig. Arizona Bracelets) 11/19 Ride a Crooked Mile 1 Orig. Escape from Yesterday 1 7/30 Say It In French 8/27 Silver on the Sage lOrig. Riders of the Range 1 10/8 Sons of the Legion 7/10 Sing You Sinners 4/9 Spawn of the North 3/26 St. Louis Blues 8/13 Sudden Money 12/17-31 Sunset Trail 1 Orig. Silver Trail Patrol 1 7/30 Texans, The 2/26-3/20 Thanks for the Memory 8/13 Tom Sawyer, Detective 9/24 Tropic Holiday 2/26 Touchdown, Army 7/2 You and Me 1/29 Zaza 7/2 REPUBLIC Sold 1938-39 Features (31 ) Completed • 13) In Production (1 ) Westerns (24) Completed (14) In Production (1) Serials (4) Completed (5) In Production (0) HEROES OF THE DESERT Shooting started — February 16 Western Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Ruth Rogers Director — George Sherman Producer — Bill Berke Story: By forging a land grant a swindler secures from the government the rights to a vast tract of land. It is on this property that the Three Mesquiteers have their ranch. Because of their efforts the swindler's scheme is exposed. IN PRODUCTION Release Details Date in Issue Man of Conquest (Orig. Wagons Westward 1 1/14 8/15 7/15 9/4 8/8 11/19 9/29 8/15 12/20 8/15 12/23 8/1 8/29 2/20 10/29 2/20 0/13 A Dangerous Adventure 6/18 Armv Girl 5/14 Billy, the Kid. Returns 8/13 Come On, Leathernecks 7/2 Come On, Rangers 1 Orig. Texas Rangers 1 10/22 Dick Tracy Returns 1 serial 1 6/18 Down in Arkansas 8/27 Durango Valley Raiders 4/33 Federal Man Hunt 11/19 Fighting Devil Dogs (serial I 3/26 Fighting Thoroughbreds 11/19 Forged Passport 12/31 Hawk of the Wilderness (serial) 9/24 Heroes of the Hills 1 Orig. Western Justice) 6/18 Higgins Family (Orig. Everything Happens To Us 1 7/10 Home on the Prairie lOrig. Ridin' the Rangei 12/17 I Stand Accused 9/24 I Was a Convict 1/14 Ladies in Distress (Orig. First Prize 1 1/15 Lone Ranger Rides Again 12/17 RECENTLY COMPLETED Mexicali Rose 2/11 Mysterious Miss X 12/3 My Wife's Relations lOrig. Higgins Family No. 2i 1/14 Orphans of the Street 10/22 Overland Stage Riders 8/13 Pals of the Saddle 7/30 Prairie Moon 9/10 Pride of the Navy 12/17 Red River Range 11/5 Rhythm of the Saddle (Orig. Rodeo Bustersi 10/8 Riders of the Black Hills 5/14 Rough Rider Patrol 1/28 Sante Fe Stampede 10/22 Shine On. Harvest Moon 11/19 Storm Over Bengal (Orig. Bengal Lancer Patrol) 9/24 Tenth Avenue Kid 7/16 Texas Rangers 10/22 Western Jamboree (Orig. Bloom on the Sage) 11/5 Woman Doctor 1 Orig. Dr. Judith Randall 1 12/17 2/0 8/29 11/22 9/20 8/28 9/25 12/22 11/5 6/15 11/19 12/23 11/8 8/22 11/19 11/38 2/23 RKO-RADIO In Production (2) In Production (0) Sold 1938-39 Features <54> Completed (21) Westerns 16) Completed (5) To be delivered on '37-'38 program — 1 AstoireRogers musical; 1 Bobby Breen picture