Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Oct 1941)

September 2 7, 1941 MOTION PICTURE HERALD ADVANCE SYNOPSES and information MARRY THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER (Twentieth Century-Fox) Comedy DIRECTED by Thornton Freeland. PLAYERS: Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards, George Barbier, Hardie Albright. SYNOPSIS Jefferson Cole (Bruce Edwards) comes to New York to work. Unable to find a job he discovers a lost dog that belongs to Fredericka Barrett (Brenda Joyce), daughter of tycoon J. W. Barrett (George Barbier). When he returns the dog, Freddie takes a liking to Jeff and persuades J. W. to give him a job. Assigned to the checking department, Jeff finds that the checking unnecessarily costs the company a large sum of money. On the basis of his figures, J. W. eliminates the department. But Jeff is fired. Meanwhile, he and Freddie have become very good friends. With his mind still on statistics he shows her how much her father has been losing on his South American mine. She forces J. W. to listen to Jeff. Convinced, J. W. appoints Jeff head of the mine, and he and Freddie start their honeymoon en route to South America. SPECIAL REMARKS Suggested by the story "The Girl and the Dog" by Sandor Farago and Alexander CKenedi. UNHOLY PARTNERS (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Drama PRODUCED by Samuel Marx. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. PLAYERS: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, William Orr. SYNOPSIS Edward G. Robinson is forced to accept as a partner in a newspaper publishing enterprise a powerful gangster (Edward Arnold). To protect the lives of a number of people Robinson kills Arnold. He leaves a written confession ; then embarks on a suicidal trans-Atlantic flight sponsored by his newspaper. The daughter of one of Arnold's victims (Marsha Hunt) is in love with Robinson's star reporter (William Orr). Robinson, before embarking on his last great adventutre, writes a will bequeathing the newspaper and all his worldly belongings to the pair who had suffered so greatly due to Arnold's schemes. YOU BELONG TO ME (Columbia) Comedy -Romance PRODUCED and directed by Wesley Ruggles. PLAYERS: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Melville Cooper. SYNOPSIS A rich playboy (Henry Fonda) marries a woman doctor (Barbara Stanwyck). On their wedding night the doctor gets a call to go out on a case, and similar happenings from then on irk the husband to say the least, especially his wife's men patients. Extremely jealous, the husband makes a habit of barging into his wife's office and picking a fight with a patient. The wife decides she has had about enough of that when he gets a job selling ties. He is fired the next day but fixes matters by buying a rundown hospital, making his wife chief of staff and himself general manager. THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Romantic Musical PRODUCED by Victor Saville. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. PLAYERS: Nelson Eddy, Rise Stevens, Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Dorothy Gilmore, Nydia Westman. SYNOPSIS Based on Ferenc Molnar's "The Guardsman" with music and lyrics from Oscar Strauss' light opera, "The Chocolate Soldier," the story concerns a singer who, being jealous of his wife, impersonates a Russian and so disguised makes love to his wife. Her changing moods keep him in a quandary until at last he discloses his true identity. She then confesses that she knew who he was all the time. The scenes are laid in pre-war Vienna. Nelson Eddy plays the leading role of Karl Lang, and Rise Stevens is his wife, Maria. SECRETS OF THE LONE WOLF (Columbia) Drama PRODUCED by Jack Fier. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. PLAYERS: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Victor Kilian. SYNOPSIS Another episode in the adventurous life of the Lone Wolf. A gang of jewel thieves attempt to persuade the "Wolf" to assist them in a gigantic jewel robbery. At the same time the police ask him to help them in protecting the same jewels. The story involves the murder of a detective on board the ship where the jewels are. After a series of events the Lone Wolf succeeds in straightening everything out, as usual. GO WEST, YOUNG LADY (Columbia) Action Comedy-Drama PRODUCED by Robert Sparks. Directed by Frank Strayer. PLAYERS: Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Allen Jenkins, Charles Ruggles, Onslow Stevens, Jed Prouty, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. SYNOPSIS^ The citizens of Headstone are out to find the mysterious gangster who has been robbing them. A girl who wears men's clothes and can shoot and fight as well as a man show them how to catch up with the outlaw who has been playing havoc with the town. She organizes an Amazon army of women and proceeds to capture the leader and the entire gang of outlaws ; also capturing the handsome United States Marshal assigned to the job, for herself. THE ROYAL MOUNTED PATROL (Columbia) Western DIRECTED by Lambert Hillyer. PLAYERS: Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Lloyd Bridges, Wanda McKay, Don Curtis. SYNOPSIS Two young men, one in the eastern part of Canada and one in the western part, receive their acceptance into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They compete in everything they do, including the winning of the same girl. Both do their share to help when a children's camp is besieged with an epidemic, but all their display of heroism is in vain as far as the girl is concerned. She likes them both. SUNDOWN (United Artists) Romantic Drama PRODUCED by Walter Wanger. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Adapted from the story by Barre Lyndon. PLAYERS: Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Joseph Calleia. SYNOPSIS Five British and two Italian colonial agents rule a million semi-savage black tribesmen in the Kenya-Italian Somaliland frontier in Central East Africa. Firearms are forbidden the natives but the savage tribe get guns and ammunition nevertheless. After tribal ceremonies they attack the British outpost of Manieka surrounded only by barbed wire and logs and without provisions to stand a long assault. With the nearest town several hundred miles away and no communication except radio, the handful of white men and one girl are at the mercy of attacking forces when they discover the source of their enemy's supply of firearms is within the native trading post they defend. TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Tarzan Story PRODUCED by B. P. Fineman. Directed by Richard Thorpe. PLAYERS: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Sheffield, Reginald Owen, Barry Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS "Boy," hearing stories about civilization from his foster mother (Maureen O' Sullivan), slips away from his tree home in search of it. Coming to a Ubardi tribe village, he is seized and tortured by the tribe. A rescue is effected by a white's man's expedition and the boy is returned to his home. The leader of the expedition discovers that there is gold near Tarzan's home. "Boy" is kidnapped and held while demand is made of Tarzan to reveal the location of the main gold lode in return for his freedom. To save the boy and his foster mother, Tarzan reveals the secret of the gold mine. The leader of the expedition tries to kill him, but Tarzan outwits him. With the aid of his jungle friends Tarzans' family is rescued and the white men meet their just desserts. MOB TOWN (Universal) Melodrama ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Ken Goldsmith. Directed by William Nigh. PLAYERS: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsly, Gabriel Dell, Darryl Hickman, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne. SYNOPSIS Dick Foran plays a police sergeant who believes that the way to cure civic plague spots is to reach the loyalties and principles of the neighborhood's citizen while they are still boys. He takes a gang of tough kids in hand and by persuasion and companionship is winning them over to his side when the leader of the gang (Billy Halop) learns the policeman won his sergeancy by shooting Halop's brother. Halop becomes involved with a gang of crooks but the sergeant with the help of the other tough kids straighten the matter out. Product Digest Section 289