Home Movies (1944)

PACE 110 HOME MOVIES FOR MARCH SEW SOMD SILENT FILMS * Recent Releases for Road Shows, Clubs, Schools and Churches * Latest 16mm. and 8mm. Films for Home Movie Projectors Salute to the Navy is a picture to round out film collections on the current war. It supplies pictorial evidence of American naval superiority over the Japs, together with incidents which indicate clearly how swiftly untrained American boys have been built into a formidable fighting team afloat. From the disaster of Pearl Harbor and a gravely crippled fleet, to the most powerful Navy the world ever saw is the theme of this newest Castle Films release. Climax of this film comes in the thrilling, awe-inspiring sequence of scenes made from flight deck of a Carrier at height of recent raid among Marshall Islands. A Jap torpedo plane is seen roaring toward the Carrier for the kill. It is caught in a withering crossfire from determined Navy gunners, explodes in mid-air. The now famous saga of the U. S. S. Francisco is depicted. The Cruiser Boise, returns to Philadelphia for repairs after encountering and destroying six Jap ships. Other thrilling Naval sequences complete this Castle release to make it one of the most interesting films offered this year. It is available in the usual assortment of lengths in both 8mm. and 16mm., and in a special 16mm. Sound version. Saps At Sea stars those well-known funsters, Laurel and Hardy in a rollicking story in which Hardy becomes aller gic to the sound of horns. The pair decide to go to sea to get away from noise, but the noise from horns, and musical instruments continue to plague Hardy. The pair hire an old unseaworthy boat and are unwittingly set adrift by a goat that chews the mooring rope. There's a stowaway aboard, a gangster eluding the police. Laurel and Hardy capture him, turn him over to police. Laurel demonstrates how blowing a trombone sets Hardy wild, and Hardy goes berserk before the police which lands the pair in a cell along with the gangster. Nine reels in length in 16mm. sound, subject screens for 59 minutes and is available from Post Pictures Corp., 723 Seventh Ave., New York City. His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, supported by a brilliant cast, is a fine romantic comedy in which Grant portrays a go-getting newspaperman. Miss Russell is his capricious, captivating star reporter, and Ralph Bellamy, a fretting, fuming insurance agent to whom she is engaged. Against a background of drama and tragedy, this splendid screen triumverate moves through exciting, hilarious events which top and climax each other in rapid-fire action. Subject is ten reels in length, 16mm. sound, and is distributed exclusively on a rental basis by the Russell C. Roshon Organization, 2506 RKO Bldg., Radio City, N. Y., and its 16 coast to coast branches. Cipher Bureau, with Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury and Donald Dillaway, is a gripping film story of the Army's counter-espionage against the axis. Seven reels in length, 1 6mm. sound, subject is available for lease from Eastin Films, Davenport, Iowa. Monarchs of the Ring, new release by Official Films, Inc., brings to the screen the action highlights of eight famous prize fights — Louis vs. Schmelling, Louis vs. Galento, Schmelling vs. Louis, Dempsey vs. Carpentier, Dempsey vs. Firpo, Paulino vs. Wills, Dempsey vs. Tunney, and Firpo vs. Jess Willard. Monarchs of the Ring sHows Dempsey in his prime, bursting with animal fury, ripping into his opponents with dynamo-like action. We see the famous Dempsey-Tunney "longcount"; watch Joe Louis hit the mat — the one and only time he was ever knocked-out, in a fight with Schmelling. The Brown Bomber makes his comeback, knocking out Schmelling a year later. Was Dempsey or Louis the greater fighter? This can be decided after seeing this action-packed film. And there is thrown in for good measure a sequence showing the clowning Galento in his bloody battle with Louis. Subject is available in both 8mm. and 1 6mm. sound at usual Official Films prices. The 8mm. and 16mm. "short" versions of this subject include only four of the fights listed above. Trade Winds is one of the most provocative and exciting motion pictures to reach the screen in recent years. Starring Frederic March and Joan Bennett, the story abounds in crackling dialog, swift-moving drama, tense situations