Harrison's Reports (1939)

24 HARRISON'S REPORTS February 11, 1939 Universal 1937 38 "The Missing Guest," with Paul Kelly and Constance Moore, produced by Barney A. Sarecky and directed hy John Rawlins, from a screen play bv Charles Martin and Paul Perez: Fair-Poor. "That Certain Age/' with Deanna Durhin, Melvyn Douglas, and Jackie Cooper, produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Edward Ludwig, from a screen play by Bruce Manning : Very Good. Fifty pictures, including Westerns, were released. Grouping the pictures of the different ratings from the beginning of the season, we get the following results : ExcellentVery Good, 1 ; Excellent-Good, 1 ; Very Good, 1 ; Very Good-Good, 3; Very GoodFair, 1; Good-Fair, 7; Good-Poor, 1; Fair, 15; FairPoor, 19; Poor, 1. Thirtv-three pictures, excluding Westerns, were released during the 1936-37 season. They were rated as follows : Excellent. 1 ; Excellent-Very Good, 1 ; Very Good-Good, 1 ; Good, 2; Good-Fair, 3; Fair, 13; FairPoor, 12. 1938 39 "Dark Rapture," with native cast, produced by Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt and directed liv Armand Denis: Good-Poor. "Freshman Year," with Constance Moore and William Lundigan, produced by George R. Bilson and directed by Frank MacDonald, from a screen play bv Charles Grayson : Fair. "Personal Secretary," with William Gargan and Joy Hodges, produced by Max H. Golden and directed by Otis Garrett, from a screen play by Robert Lively, Betty Laidlaw, and Charles Grayson: Fair-Poor. "Black Bandit," with Bob Baker and Marjorie Reynolds, produced by Trem Carr and directed by George Waggner, from a screen play by Joseph West : Fair. "Road to Reno," with Randolph Scott, Hope Hampton, and Helen Broderick, produced by Edmund Grainger and directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screen play by Roy Chansler and Adele Comandini : Fair-Poor. "Youth Takes a Fling." with Joel McCrea and Andrea Leeds, produced by Joe Pasternak and directed bv Archie Mayo, from a screen play by Mvles Connolly and Tom Reed: Good-Fair. "Swing That Cheer," with Robert Wilcox, Tom Brown, and Constance Moore, produced by Max H. Golden and directed by David Schuster, from a screen play by Charles Grayson and Lee Loeb : Fair. "Guilty Trail," with Bob Baker and Marjorie Reynolds, produced by Trem Carr and directed by George Waggner, from a screen play by Joseph West : Fair-Poor. "Service DeLuxe," with Constance Bennett. Charlie Ruggles and Vincent Price, produced by Edmund < rrainger and directed by Rowland V. Lee, from a screen play by Gertrude Purcell and Leonard Spi^elglass : Good-Fair. "The Storm," with Charles Bickford, Tom Brown, Preston Foster, and Nan Grey, produced by Ken Goldsmith and directed by Harold Young, from a screen play by Daniel Moore, Hugh King, and Theodore Reeves : Good-Fair. "The Last Express," with Kent Taylor and Dorothea Kent, produced by Irving Starr and di "Exposed," with Glenda Farrell and Otto Kruger, produced by Max H. Golden and directed by I larold Schuster, from a screen play by Charles Kaufman and Franklin Coen : Fair. "Prairie Justice," with Bob Baker and Dorothy Fay, produced by Trem Carr and directed hy George Waggner, from a screen play by Joseph West : FairPoor. "His Exciting Night," with Charles Ruggles, Richard I^ane, and Ona Munson, produced by Ken Goldsmith and directed by Gus Meins, from a screen play by Pat C. Flice, Edward Eliscu and Morton Grant: Fair. Fourteen pictures have already been released. Grouping the pictures of the different ratings from the beginning of the season, we get these results: Good-Fair, 3; Good-Poor, 1; Fair, 6; FairPoor, 4. The first fourteen pictures in the 1937-38 season were rated as follows : Excellent-Very Good, 1 ; Good-Fair, 2 ; Fair, 4 ; Fair-Poor, 6; Poor, 1. Warner Bros. 1937 38 "Boy Meets Girl," with James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Marie Wilson, produced by Sam Bischoff and directed by Lloyd Bacon, from a screen play by Bella and Samuel Spewack : FairPoor. Twenty-seven pictures have been released. Grouping the pictures of the different ratings from the beginning of the season, we get these results : Excellent-Very Good, 1 ; Very Good-Good, 5 ; Good, 1 ; Good-Fair, 5 ; Good-Poor, 6 ; Fair, 2 ; Fair-Poor, 7. Twenty-seven pictures were released during the 1936-37 season. They were rated as follows : Very Good, 1 ; Very Good-Good, 3 ; Very GoodPoor, 1 ; Good, 3 ; Good-Fair, 6 ; Fair, 10 ; FairPoor, 3. 1938 39 "Four's a Crowd," with Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Olivia DeHavilland, and Patric Knowles, produced by David Lewis and directed by Michael Curtiz, from a screen play by Casey Robinson and Sig Herzig: Very Good-Good. "Valley of the Giants," with Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, and Charles Bickford, produced by Lou Edelman and directed by William Keighley, from a screen play by Seton I. Miller and Michael Fessier : Good. "The Sisters," with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, produced by David Lewis and directed by Anatole Litvak, from a screen play by W illiam Krims : Very Good-Good. "Hard to Get," with Dick Powell and Olivia DeHavilland, produced by Sam Bischoff and directed by Ray Enright. from a screen play by Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald, and Maurice Leo : Good-Fair. "Torchy Gets Her Man," with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane, produced by Bryan Foy and directed by William Beaudine, from a screen play by Albert DeMond : Good-Fair. Five pictures have so far been released. Grouping the pictures of the different ratings from the beginning of the season, we get the following results : Very Good-Good, 2 ; Good, 1 ; Good-Fair, 2. The first five pictures in the 1937-38 season were rated as follows :