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July 13, I 940
MOTION PICTU RE HERALD
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THE RELEASE CHART
On this and the following page appears an alphabetical index to the titles of all features listed in this weeKs Release Chart, with additional information for the exhibitor.
The number immediately following the title is the production number. Also given is information regarding the classification of the subject matter. A melodrama is denoted by the abbreviation Mel., Comedy by Com., Comedy 'Melodrama by Com.-Mel., Musical by Mus., Musical Comedy by Mus.-Com., Western by West. If the production is made in color, the letter "C" appears in parenthesis after the classification. Thus: Com.-Mel. (C) denotes a ComedyMelodrama in Color.
At the extreme right of the line containing the title of the production is the name of the distributor.
INDEX
A
Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 009, Mel RKO
Abuna Messias, Mel Foreign
Adventure in Diamonds, 3928, Mel Para
Aldrich Family in Life with Henry, Com.
Para
Alias the Deacon, 4015, Com Univ
All Aorund the Town, Mel Mono
Allegheny Uprising, 006, Mel RKO
All This and Heaven Too, Mel FN
All Women Have Secrets, 3914, Mel Para
Amazing Mr. Williams, Com.-Mel Col
American Gang Busters, Mel St. Rts
And One Was Beautiful, Mel MGM
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 43, Com ...MGM
Angel from Texas, An, 468, Mel FN
Anne of Windy Poplars, 035, Mel RKO
Another Thin Man, 13, Com.-Mel MGM
Argentine Nights, Mus.-Com Univ
Arise My Love, Mel Para
Arizona, Mel Col
Arizona Frontier, West Mono
B
Babies for Sale, Mel Col
Bad Man from Red Butte, 4063, West... Univ
Bad Man of Wyoming, Mel MGM
Baker's Wife. The. Com Foreign
Balalaika, 17, Mus MGM
Band Wagon, Mus Foreign
Barricade, 026, Mel 20th-Fox
Before I Die, Mel Col
Beyond Tomorrow, 031, Mel RKO
Big Guy, The, 4016, Mel Univ
Bill of Divorcement, 028, Mel RKO
Billy the Kid Outlawed, West Producers
Billy the Kid Returns, 851, West Rep
Biscuit Eater, The, 3935, Mel Para
Black Diamonds, 4057, Mel Univ
Black Eyes, Mel Foreign
Black Friday, 4018, Mel Univ
Blazing Six Shooters, West Col
Blondie Brings Up Baby, Com Col
Blondie Has Servant Trouble, Com Col
Blondie on a Budget, Com Col
Blondie Takes a Vacation, Com Col
Blue Bird, The, 025, Com. (C) 20thFox
Boom Town, Mel MGM
Boys of the City, Mel Mono
Boys from Syracuse, Mus.-Com Univ
Bride Wore Crutches, Mel 20th-Fox
Briggs Family, The, Mel Foreign
Brigham Young, Mel 20thFox
British Intelligence, 416, Mel WB
Broadway Melody of 1940, 21, Mus MGM
Broken Strings, Mel St. Rts
Brother Rat and a Baby, 406, Com WB
Brother Orchid, 405, Mel WB
Buck Benny Rides Again, 3932, Com Para
Bullet Code, 083, West RKO
Bullets for Rustlers, West Col
Buried Alive, Mel Producers
Busman's Honeymoon, Mel MGM
C
Cafe Hostess, Mel Col
Call a Messenger, 4020, Mel Univ
Calling Philo Vance, 420, Mel WB
Captain Caution, Mel UA
Captain Is a Lady, 42, Com MGM
Captain Moonlight, Mel Foreign
Carolina Moon, West Rep
Carson City Kid, 955. West Rep
Castle on the Hudson, 459, Com.-Mel FN
Cat and the Canary, The, 3909, Mel Para
Chamber of Horrors, Mel Mono
Charlie Chan in Panama, 035, Mel. . .20th-Fox Charlie Chan in the Wax Museum, Mel.
20thFox
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise, 048, Mel.
20thFox
Charlie McCarthy, Detective, 4011, Com.. Univ
Cbaslng Trouble, 3917, Mel Mono
Cherokee Strip, Mel Para
Cheyenne Kid, The, 3962, West Mono
Child Is Born, A, 415, Mel WB
Chip of the Flying U, 4060, West Univ
Chump at Oxford, Com UA
Cisco Kid and the Lady, The, 012, Mel.
20thFox
City for Conquest, Mel WB
City in Darkness, 021, Mel 20th-Fox
City of Chance, 023, Mel 20th-Fox
Claudine, Mel Foreign
Comin' Round The Mountain, Com Para
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Mel WB
Congo Maisie, 10, Com.-Mel MGM
Conquest of the Air, Mel Foreign
Contraband, Mel Foreign
Convicted Woman, Mel Col
Convoy, Mel Foreign
Courageous Dr. Christian, 030, Mel. ..RKO
Covered Trailer, 915, Com Rep
Covered Wagon Days, 965. West Rep
Covered Wagons Trails, 3963, West Mono
Cowboy from Sundown, 3955, West Mono
Cowboys from Texas, 962, West Rep
Crooked Read, 923, Mel Rep
Cross Country Romance, 039, Mel RKO
Curse of the Swastika, Documentary. .. Foreign Curtain Call, 027, Mel RKO
D
Dance, Girl, Dance, 040, Mel RKO
Dancing on a Dime, Mus Para
Danger Ahead, 3939, Mel Mono
Danger Flight, 3816, Mel Mono
Danger on Wheels, 4055, Mel Univ
Dark Command, 901, Mel Rep
Date with Destiny, A, Mel Para
Days of Jesse James, 953, West Rep
Day-Time Wife, 020, Mel 20th-Fox
Dead End Kids on Dress Parade, 413,
Com.-Mel WB
Destry Rides Again, 4002, Com.-Mel Univ
Diamond Frontier, Mel Univ
Disputed Passage, 3908, Mel Para
Dr. Christian Meets the Women, 036, Mel.
RKO
Dr. Cyclops, 3929, Mel. (C) Para
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, 457, Mel FN
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, 30, Mel... MGM
Dr. O'Dowd, Mel Foreign
Doctor Takes a Wife, The, Com Col
Double Alibi, Mel Univ
Down Argentine Way, Mus.-Com 20th-Fox
Dreaming Out Loud, Com RKO
Drums Along the Mohawk, 015, Mel. (C)
20thFox
Dulcy, Com MGM
Durango Kid, West Col
E
Earl of Chicago, 18, Mel MGM
Earthbound, 934, Mel 20th-Fox
East Side Kids, 3924, Mel Mono
Edison, the Man, 36, Mel MGM
Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. I, Mel.
20thFox
Emergency Squad, 3917, Mel Para
Enemy Agent, 4033, Mel Univ
Escape, Mel MGM
Escape, The, Mel 20thFox
Escape to Paradise, 945, Mus RKO
Eternally Yours, Com.-Mel UA
Everything Happens at Night, 029, Mel.
20th -Fox
Everything's On Ice, 946, Mel RKO
F
Face Behind the Scar, Mel Foreign
Farmer's Daughter, The, 3927, Com Para
Fatal Hour, 3907, Mel Mono
Fight for Life, Mel Col
Fighting Mad, 3937, West Mono
Fighting 69th, 451, Mel FN
First World War, 062, Mel 20thFox
Fivo Little Peppers in Trouble, Com Col
Five Little Peppers at School, Com Col
Flight Angels, 466. Mel FN
Florian, 29, Mel MGM
Flotsam, Mel UA
Flowing Gold, Mel WB
Flying Deuces, 010, Com RKO
Flying Squad, The, Mel Foreign
For Beauty's Sake, Mel 20thFox
Foreign Correspondent, Mel UA
For Freedom, Documentary Foreign
Forgotten Girls, 920, Mel Rep
40 Little Mothers, 34, Com MGM
Four Sons, 047, Mel 20thFox
Four Wives, 453, Mel FN
Framed, 4032, Mel Univ
Free, Blonde and Twenty-one, 037, Mel.
20thFox
French Without Tears, 3930, Com Para
Frontier Crusader, West Producers
Fugitive, The, Mel Univ
Fugitive at Large, Mel Col
Fugitive from a Prison Camp, Mel Col
Fugitive from Justice, 473, Mel FN
G
Gambling on the High Seas, 424, Mel WB
Gangs of Chicago, 906, Mel Rep
Gaslight, Mel Foreign
Gaucho Serenade, 943, West Rep
Gentleman from Arizona, 3912, West. (C)
Mono
George and Margaret, Com Foreign
George Washington Carver, Mel St. Rts
Geronimo, 3918, Mel Para
Gestapo, Mel Foreign
Ghost Breakers, The, 3938, Com.-Mel.. . Para
Ghost Comes Home, The, 27, Com MGM
Ghost of Cisco Kid, Mel 20th-Fox
Ghost Valley Raiders, 991, West Rep
Girl from Avenue A, Com 20th-Fox
Girl from God's Country, Mel Rep
Girl in 313, 051, Mel 20th-Fex
Girl Must Live, Com 20thFox
Girls of the Road, Mel Col
Golden Fleecing, Mel MGM
Golden Gloves, Mel Para
Golden Trail, The West Mono
Gold Rush, Maisie, Com MGM
Gone With the Wind, Mel. (C) MGM
Goose Step, Mel Producers
Granny Get Your Gun, 421, Mel WB
Grand Ole Opry, 908, Com Rep
Grandpa Goes to Town, 922, Com Rep
Grapes of Wrath, The, 040, Mel.. . .20th-Fox
Great McGinty, The Para
Great Plane Robbery, Mel Col
Great Pronilo. The, Com 20thFox
Great Swindle, The, Mel Col
Great Victor Herbert, The, 3916, Mus.... Para
Green Hell, 4011, Mel Univ
Gulliver's Travels, 3915, Cartoon (C) Para
Gun Code, West Producers
H
Half a Sinner, 4040, Mel Univ
Haunted House, Mel Mono
Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence, 019,
Mel 20th-Fox
He Married His Wife, 023, Mel 20th-Fox
He Stayed for Breakfast, Com Col
Henry Goes Arizona, 2, Cem MGM
Heroes in Blue, 3919, Mel Mono
Hidden Enemy, Mel Mono
Hidden Gold, 3958, West Para
Hidden Menace, Mel Foreign
High School, 028, Com 20thFox
Hired Wife, Com Univ
His Girl Friday, Com.-Mel Col
Hi-Yo Silver, 129, West Rep
Hold That Woman, Com.-Mel Producers
Hollywood Cavalcade, Mel. (C) 20th-Fox
Honeymoon Deferred, 4038, Mel Univ
Honeymoon's Over, The. 024, Com. Mel.
20th -Fox
Hot Steel, 4056, Mel Univ.
Horrors of War, Mel St. Rts
House Across the Bay, Mel UA
Housekeeper's Daughter, Com UA
House of Seven Gables, 4013, Mel Univ
Howards of Virginia, The, Mel Col
Human Monster, The, 3916, Mel Mono
Hunchback of Notre Dame, 015, Mel RKO
1
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby,
4037, Mus Univ
If I Had My Way, 4005, Mus Univ
I Love You Again, Mel MGM
I Married Adventure, Mel Cof
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now, Mus.-Com.
Univ
In Old Missouri, 921, Com Rep
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, 029, Mel.
20th-Fox
Invisible Killer, The, Mel Producers
Invisible Man Returns, 4009, Mel Univ
Invisible Stripes, 408, Mel WB
Irene, 024, Mus RKO
Island of Doomed Men, Mel Col
Isle of Destiny, 017, Mel (C) RKO
I Take This Oath, Mel Producers
I Take This Woman, 26, Mel MGM
It All Came True, 407, Mel WB
It's a Date, 4001, Mus.-Com Univ
I Want a Divorce, Mel Para
I Was an Adventuress, 038, Mel 20th-Fox
J
Jamaica Inn, 3906, Mel Para
Jeepers Creepers, 914, Com Rep
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President,
14, Com.-Mel MGM
Johnny Apollo, 042, Mel 20th-Fox
Judge Hardy and Son, 16, Cem MGM
K
Kansas Terrors, The, 951, West Rep
Kid from Santa Fe, The, 3965, West Mono
Kid Nightingale, 411, Mel WB
Killers of the Wild, Mel St. Rts
King of the Lumberjacks, 422, Mel WB
Kit Carson, Mel UA
Knights of the Range, 3923, West Para
Knute Rockne — All American, Mel WB
L
La Conga Nights, 4029, Com Univ
Laddie, Com.-Mel RKO
Ladies Must Live, The, Com WB
Lady in Question, The, Mel Col
Lambeth Walk, Com MGM
Land of the Six Guns, 3964, West .Mono
Last Alarm, The, 3927, Mel Mono
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