Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

DVANCE SYNOPSES and information 1AMA LOVES PAPA RKO Radio) RODUCER: Benjamin Stoloff. DIRECTOR: crdon Douglas. PLAYERS: Leon Errol, lisabeth Risdon, Paul Harvey, Edwin Maxell, Emory Parnell, Charlotte Wynters, Ruth tee. COMEDY. A well-meaning wife, worried jout her timid husband, persuades him to call on s boss, dressed in morning-clothes and a top hat, ■ ask for a raise. Instead, the husband runs into group of people who mistake him for one of the ity commissioners. A political boss persuades im to continue with the role which he does until e discovers the politician is planning to sell in;rior playground equipment to the city. The mid man exposes the politician. LONDE FROM BROOKLYN Columbia) 'RODUCER: Ted Richmond. DIRECTOR: )el Lord. PLAYERS: Robert Stanton, Lynn Jerrick, Mary Treen, Thurston Hall. COMEDY-DRAMA. A song-and-dance team omposed of a young man and a young woman perDrm in a night-club, where they are seen by a iouthern colonel who gets them a job on a comlercial radio program. He persuades the girl to hange her name and adopt a southern accent, lomplications develop when it turns out that the ame she has taken is the same as that of an heirss. Matters are eventually straightened out. >RAGONWYCK 20th Century-Fox) >RODUCER: Ernst Lubitsch. DIRECTOR: oseph Mankiewicz. PLAYERS: Gene Tierey, Vincent Price, Anne Revere, Walter Husm, Michael Francis, Spring Byington, Jane figh, Vivienne Osborne, Henry Morgan, Boyd rwin, Reinhold Schunzel, Connie Marshall. PERIOD DRAMA. A young girl goes to uptate New York to take a position as governess 1 the household of her wealthy cousin. He runs is estate along feudal lines and is opposed by is tenant farmers, who want to become freehold indowners. His wife dies under mysterious cirumstances and he marries the governess. Later, le family doctor discovers that the first wife was oisoned and that the landowner is attempting to oison his second wife as well. Finding himself "apped the landowner burns down his baronial lansion, Dragonwyck, and dies in the flames. UNIOR MISS 20th Century -Fox) >RODUCER: William Perlberg. DIRECTOR: ieorge Seaton. PLAYERS: Peggy Ann Garer, Allyn Joslyn, Faye Marlowe, Michael 'rancis, Mona Freeman, Sylvia Field, Stanley 'rager, Connie Gilchrist, John Alexander, Barara Whiting, Scotty Beckett. COMEDY-DRAMA. An attorney is seeking partnership in the law firm where he is emloyed. He has two teen-age daughters ; his boss as one daughter who is some years older. The ttorney's brother, the black sheep of the family, sturns and the attorney's young daughter gets the lea that her uncle is a jail bird. Under this mispprehension, she nearly ruins the romance which as developed between her uncle and the boss' aughter, as well as jeopardizing her father's lances for a partnership in the firm. Eventually, latters are cleared up to the satisfaction of all. TELL IT TO A STAR (Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Walter Goetz. DIRECTOR: Frank McDonald. PLAYERS: Robert Livingston, Ruth Terry, Aurora Miranda, Alan Mowbray, Lorna Gray, Isabel Randolph, Franklin Pangborn, Tom Dugan. COMEDY-DRAMA. An elderly gentleman who lives by his wits is determined to help his niece get a job on a radio show. He tries to get it for her by trickery, and is exposed. However, the producer of the radio show has been so impressed by the girl's talents that he gives her the job anyway. GANGS OF THE WATERFRONT (Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER DIRECTOR: George Blair. PLAYERS: Robert Armstrong, Stephanie Bachelor, Martin Kosleck, Marion Martin, Wilton Graff, Richard Elliott, William Forrest. MELODRAMA. When the leader of a gang of law-evading ruffians is injured in an automobile accident, a taxidermist who resembles him agrees to impersonate the gangster and thus aid the police. The taxidermist is further motivated by the fact that the father of the girl he loves has been murdered by the gang. His ruse enables the police to round up the criminals and punish them. THE WOMAN IN GREEN (Universal) PRODUCER -DIRECTOR: Roy William Neill. PLAYERS: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell, Sally Shepherd, Mathew Bolton, Eve Amber. MELODRAMA. A series of murders takes place in London. In each case, the victim is a young woman whose right thumb has been hacked off. Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Dr. Watson, expose the murderers and bring them to justice. BOTH BARRELS BLAZING (Columbia) PRODUCER: Colbert Clark. DIRECTOR: Derwin Abrahams. PLAYERS: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, "Dub" Taylor, Pat Parrish, Three Jesters, Emmett Lynn, Charles King. WESTERN. This story is laid in the old Southwest of the 1880s, a time when the country still harbored train robbers. A band of them steal $100,000 which has been raised for the relief of flood victims and get away over the border. Charles Starrett, as a Texas Ranger, pursues them and brings the gang to justice. LADY ON A TRAIN [Universal) PRODUCER: Felix Jackson. DIRECTOR: Charles David. PLAYERS: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Jacqueline De Wit. MELODRAMA. A young woman who is an avid reader of mystery stories sees a murder committed outside her train window as she is arriving in New York. Since the police refuse to believe her tale, she enlists the aid of a writer of detective novels to help her solve the crime. Despite threats by the two nephews of the murdered man, she continues her sleuthing until she finally exposes the killer. SWINGIN' ON A RAINBOW (Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Eddy White. DIRECTOR: William Beaudine. PLAYERS: Brad Taylor, Jane Frazee, Harry Langdon, Minna Gombell, Amelita Ward, Thurston Hall, Richard Davies. MUSICAL COMEDY. A girl submits a song to a bandleader who conducts a weekly contest Although she is notified the song has been rejected, she hears it played over the air as the winner. She goes to New York to investigate the matter, meets a lyric writer with whom she falls in love and makes a hit with songs on which the two collaborate. LONE TEXAS RANGER [Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Lou Gray. DIRECTOR: Spencer Bennet. PLAYERS: Bill Elliott, Alice Fleming, Bobby Blake, Helen Talbot. WESTERN. The sheriff of Silver City, while pretending to be an enemy of outlaws, is actually a killer and the leader of the gang of criminals. Red Ryder is forced to kill the sheriff. After many adventures, Red is cleared of a murder charge, and the sheriff's true nature is revealed. A SPORTING CHANCE (Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Rudy AbeL DIRECTOR: George Blair. PLAYERS: Jane Randolph, John O'Malley, Robert Middlemass, Selmer Jackson, George Carleton, William Austin. COMEDY-DRAMA. A shipbuilding tycoon dies and leaves his estate to his daughter on condition that she prove herself worthy of it. She gets a job in the shipyard as a janitress. A romance develops between the girl and the trustee of the estate. Eventually she proves her ability, comes into her inheritance and marries the trustee. CAPTAIN TUGBOAT ANNIE (Republic James S. Burkett) PRODUCER: James S. Burkett DIRECTOR: Phil Rosen. PLAYERS: Jane DarwelL Edgar Kennedy, Anthony Warde, Barton Yarborough, H. B. Warner, Victor PoteL Frita Feld, Sandra Berkova. COMEDY-DRAMA. Tugboat Annie attempts to adopt a little girl, a talented violinist, but her boss convinces her that the child's career will not be advanced by such a step. Annie next tries to adopt a delinquent boy, a lad of twenty who is on probation. Her kindness rehabilitates him, and he proves his change of heart by risking his life to tow a flaming tanker filled with explosives out to sea, where its explosion will cause no damage. BELLS OF ROSARITA (Republic) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Eddy White. DIRECTOR: Frank McDonald. PLAYERS: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Sons of the Pioneers, Robert Mitchell Boy Choir. WESTERN. While on location, Roy Rogers meets a girl who is about to lose her ranch and circus through the machinations of an unscrupulous scoundrel. Roy, however, outwits the villain and helps the girl to recover her ranch and circus. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 14, 1945 2403