Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)

offers him a job as a chauffeur. Her parents object, but when the soldier's heroic war record^ is revealed, they withdraw their objections. Soldier and girl are married. EADIE WAS A LADY ^Columbia) PRODUCER: Michel Kraike. DIRECTOR: Arthur Dreifuss. PLAYERS: Ann Miller, Joe Besser, Hal Mclntyre and his band, Jeff DonneU, William Wright, Pat Parrish, Sally Bliss, Marilyn Johnson, Jimmy Little. COMEDY WITH MUSIC. A college girl gets a job in burlesque and then has a difficult time keeping the fact from her strait-laced Boston family. She falls in love with a young man connected with the burlesque show and many complications ensue before matters are straightened out. THE BIS BONANZA (Republic] ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Eddy White. DIRECTOR: George Archainbaud. PLAYERS: Richard Arlen, Jane Frazee, Robert Livingston, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynn Roberts, Bobby Driscoll, LeRoy Mason. WESTERN DRAMA. Wrongly accused of cowardice in battle and court-martialed and dismissed from the Union Army, Jed goes to Nevada to start life over again. There he encounters a friend of his boyhood, who has since become an unscrupulous exploiter of the local miners. Jed undertakes to expose him, risks his life in a mine explosion in which his friend is killed. As a result of his activities, he is cleared of the charges against him. THE GREAT STAGECOACH ROBBERY (Republic) PRODUCER: Lou Gray. DIRECTOR: Lesley Selander. PLAYERS: BUI EUiott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Sylvia Arslan. WESTERN DRAMA. In the seventh of Red Ryder's adventures, he runs a stagecoach line. A faction in the town, eager ta get the business awa} from him, hold up the stage, and it is only after encountering many difficulties that Red discovers who the criminals are and brings them to justice. UNDER WESTERN SKIES (Universal) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Warren Wilson. DIRECTOR: Jean Yarbrough. PLAYERS: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery, Jr., Leo Carrillo, Irving Bacon. MUSICAL WESTERN. A girl singer, traveling with her father's variety show, meets a schoolteacher who falls in love with her. A performance of the show in a saloon is broken up by a band of desperadoes. The leader of the band also falls in love with the singer. His men turn against him when he decides to reform, but with the aid of the school-teacher he overcomes them. The singer eventually marries the school-teacher. MARKED FOR MURDER (PRC Alexander Stern Prod.) PRODUCERS: Alexander-Stem. DIRECTOR: Elmer Clifton. PLAYERS: Tex Ritter, Dave O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson. WESTERN. Two rangers are sent to investigate a feud which has sprung up between cattlemen and sheepmen in a certain territory of the old West. They discover that the real instigator of the feud is a crooked banker who is using the disagreement between the ranchers to his own advantage. The rangers expose and punish him. GOD IS MY CO-PILOT (Warner) PRODUCER: Robert Buckner. DIRECTOR: Robert Florey. PLAYERS: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Andrea King, Alan Hale, Dane Clark, Dick Erdman, Donald Woods, John Ridgeley, Johnny Miles, John Alvin. WAR DRAMA. This is a story of General Chennault's "Flying Tigers" and their adventures ip the air over war-torn China. After many months of continual combat, some of the volunteers plan to leave and go back to the United States. This would mean that inexperienced recruits would have to take over and that disaster might ensue. The men finally decide to continue their mission, come what may. NIGHT CLUB GIRL (Universal) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Frank Gross. DIRECTOR: Edward Cline. PLAYERS: Vivian Austin. Billy Dunn, Judy Clairk, Minna Gombell, Maxie Rosenbloom. COMEDY. A brother and sister leave their home town and go to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Through the intervention of a noted columnist, they are given a chance to do their act at a night club, but flop. The checkroom attendants befriend them, and they get non-acting jobs. When a delegation from their home town arrives, the brother and sister are exposed to humiliation. Later, however, they achieve success with a recip* for "soup hash" which wins plaudits from tht night club's patrons. I LOVE A MYSTERY (Columbia) PRODUCER: Wallace MacDonald. DIRECTOR: Henry Levin. PLAYERS: Jim Bannon, Nina Foch, George Mac Ready, Barton Yarborough, Carole Mathews. MELODRAMA. A grasping wife tries to drive her husband insane so that she can get possession of his estate. Without her knowledge, the husband finds out her plan and kills two of her confederates. Eventually the police catch up with the lot of them, and they all pay for their crimes. THE BIG SHOW-OFF (Republic Sidney Williams) PRODUCER: Sydney Williams. DIRECTOR: Howard BretHerton. PLAYERS: Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, George Meeker, Lionel Stander. C0:MEDY DR.^MA. a pianist is in love with a songstress, but believes her to be in love with the master of ceremonies of the night club where they both work. The owner tries to fix _ matters by telling the girl that the pianist is in reality a famous wrestler. This leads to complications, but eventually matters are straightened out and the songstress weds the pianist. SHE GETS HER MAN (Universal) PRODUCER: Warren Wilson. DIRECTOR: Erie C. Kenton. PLAYERS: Joan Davis, Leon Errol, William Gargan, Vivian Austin, Paul Stanton. COMEDY MELODRAMA. Joan Davis is assigned the task of solving two murders. While she is so engaged, two more murders take place and a professional sleuth is summoned to replace her. A fifth murder proves too much for him, and Joan, with the aid of a newspaper man with whom she is in love, solves' the mass killings and becomes the heroine of tlie town. FOG ISLAND (PRC Pictures) PRODUCER: Leon Fromkess. DIRECTOR: Terry Morse. PLAYERS: Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, Jerome Cowan, Sharon Douglas, Veda Ann Borg, Ian Keith, John Whitney, George Lloyd. MELODRAMA. A released convict retires to an island off the Carolina coast. His wife has been murdered in his absence, and, determined to avenge her, he invites a group of people, among whom he hopes to find the murderer, to visit the island, under pretext that pirate treasure is buried there. Trapped by their own greed, members of the group are killed, along with the convict. Only the innocent, a boy and a girl, escape from the death trap. THRILL OF A ROMANCE (M-G-M) PRODUCER: Joseph Pasternak. DIRECTOR: Richard Thorpe. PLAYERS: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Carleton Young. MUSICAL DRAMA. A swimming instructress marries a business man who leaves her on their wedding-day in order to put over a deal in Washington. While he is gone, she meets and falls in love with an air ace on furlough from the South Pacific. Complications are eventually ironed out, and all ends well. Technicolor. QUEEN OF THE NILE (Universal) PRODUCER: Paul Malvern. DIRECTOR: Jack Rawhns. PLAYERS: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, George Zucco. TECHNICOLOR FANTASY. Locale of this number in the Montez-Hall-Bey sequence of melodramatic fantasies is the Nile country. Miss Montez portrays the native sovereign and Hall the white adventurer caught up in a skein of man-made plot and natural piienomena. The switch which sets this film in the series apart from its predecessors is that this time it's Bey who wins the girl. YOUTH ON TRIAL (Columbia) PRODUCER: Ted Richmond. DIRECTOR: Oscar Boetticher. PLAYERS: Cora Sue Collins, Eric Sinclair, Ralph Hoops, John Calvert. DELINQUENCY DRAMA. A woman judge of the juvenile court is trying to get an appropriation to combat juvenile delinquency. A night-club is raided, and among the young people brought into court is the judge's daughter. The judge tries to break up a budding romance between her daughter and the son of the night-club owner. The young people decide to run away. The boy tries to rob his father's safe, and accidentally shoots his father. When the girl discovers this, she calls the police. The boy kills her and is himself killed by the police. This tragedy arouses the citizens, who appropriate the money for which the juvenile court judge has been asking. THOROUGHBREDS (Republic] PRODUCER: Lester Sharpe. DIRECTOR: George Blair. PLAYERS: Tom Neal, Roger Pryor, Adele Mara, Tom London, Eddie Hail, Jeanne Garrick, Paul Harvey. ROMANTIC DRAMA. This is the story of the devotion between a young cavalry officer and his horse. When the cavalry is mechanized, the horse is sold to a society girl. The officer, searching for his horse, meets the girl and a romance develops between them. LET'S GO STEADY (Columbia) PRODUCER: Ted Richmond. DIRECTOR: Del Lord. PLAYERS: Pat Parrish, Jackie Moran, June Preisser, Arnold Stang, Skinnay Ennis and Band. MUSICAL. Two amateur song-writers submit their song to a publishing firm, only to discover that the firm is dishonestly operated. The head of the firm dies, leaving the business to his niece. With the aid of tiie two writers, she reorganizes the company on an honest basis. The song submitted by the two amateurs wins a nation-wide contest and becomes a smash hit KID SISTER (PRC Sigmund Neufeld Prod.) PRODUCER: Sigmund Neufeld. DIRECTOR: Sam Newfield. PLAYERS: Judy Clark, Roger Pryor, Constance Worth. COMEDY DRAMA. A mother who considers herself an expert on psychology refuses to let her younger daughter marry before the older one does. The younger daughter, knowing her mother's interest in psychology, takes up the subject herself, and is able to anticipate her mother's actions. She engages the interest of her sister's fiance and eventually marries him herself. 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