Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)

bound to be a self-advertising picture. It should disappoint no one. Seen at the home office. ReiAewe'/s Rating : Good. — Ray Lanning. Release date, June 15, 1946. Running time, 93 min. PCA No. 11384. General audience classification. George Steele Pat O'Brien Terry Qaire Trevor Traybin Herbert Marshall Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Dean Harens, Damian O'Flynn. Erskine Sanford, Mary Ware {Review reprinted from last zveek's Hekald) SHORT SUBJECTS KITTY KORNERED (WB) Merrie Melodies Cartoons (2701) At 9 P. M. in this fable, it's time to wind the clock and put the cat out. On this particularly cold and snowy night, however, Porky Pig, who has four kittens, finds himself with some stubborn opposition. Release date, June 8, 1946 7 minutes THE FORTUNE HUNTERS (20th-Fox) Terrytoons (6511) Gandy the Goose dreams of inheriting a country estate. With Sergeant Cat, Gandy finds that it is a haunted house and their adventures begin. Dreaming that he is beating off a ghost of the haunted house, Gandy awakes to find the cat actually receiving the blows. Release date, February 8, 1946 7 minutes SCIENTIFICALLY STUNG (Univ.) Person-Oddity (1369) A doctor utilizes bee-sting therapy as a remedy for rheumatism. . . . Arthur Steiner collects match boxes. . . . Paul Willy has a collection of 2,000 penny banks. . . . Thomas Sherbloom sculpts in ice. Release date, June 10, 1946 9 minutes KLONDIKE CASANOVA (Para.) Popcyc Cartoons (£5-3) In a Klondike setting, the villain in this one imprisons Popeye and kidnaps Olive Oyl. With the aid of his spinach, Popeye manages to escape his trap, rescue Olive and go on to a terrific mountain-top battle with the villain. Release date, May 31, 1946 8 minutes JASPER'S DERBY (Para.) Puppctoons (U 5-5) The Kentucky Derby, in all its color and pageantry, is the scene of "Jasper's Derby." Jasper befriends an old racehorse and provides a violin solo causing the horse to win the race of races. The final scene shows the horse enjoying the fruits of his victory — and mint-julep. Release date, Aug. 8, 1946 8 minutes SCREEN SNAPSHOTS (Col.) (7855) No. 5 The subject presents an intimate glimpse into one of the most exciting jobs in the filmmaking field — the stuntman. In views speeding wagons overturned, cars hurtling from highways, men changing from racing horses to careening stagecoaches, and numerous other stunts. Release date, January 17, 1946 9 minutes HOLLYWOOD DAFFY (WB) Merrie Melodies (2702) Dafify Duck arrives in Hollywood, bent on entering the Warner Bros. Studio. A studio cop, however, doesn't see things DafTy's way, and as a matter of fact, sees' through DaflFy's masquerade as Bette Davis, Johnny Weismuller and finally as the Academy Award "Oscar." At last Daffy proves too wily for the studio cop. Release date, June 22, 1946 7 minutes ACROBATTY BUNNY (WB) Bugs Bunny Special (2722) The circus comes to town and camps right over Bugs' underground apartment. Coming up to investigate matters. Bugs goes rjght into shrewdness pitted against the lion, it's Bugs' shrewdness pitted against the lion. Release date, June 29, 1946 7 minutes SOUTH OF MONTERREY (WB) Technicolor Special (2005) The subject was filmed along the route of the new Pan American Highway, which one day will link Fairbanks, Alaska and Buenos Aires, 14,000 miles away. As the camera travels, it captures spectacular shots of metropolis and fields. Release date, June 1, 1946 20 minutes ADVANCE SYNOPSES SING WHILE YOU DANCE (Columbia) PRODUCER: Leon Barsha. DIRECTOR: D. Ross Lederman. PLAYERS: Ellen Drew, Robert Stanton, Amanda Lane. MUSICAL COMEDY. Wishing to establish herself as a song-plugger, a young woman tries to obtain a second song from an unknown writer, after his first proves a hit. In so doing, she falls in love, lands in jail, and eventually ends up with the song, the job, and the man. TRAFFIC IN CRIME (Republic) PRODUCER ASSOCIATE: Donald H. Brown. DIRECTOR: Lesley Selander. PLAYERS: Kane Richmond, Adele Mara, Anne Nagel, Wade Crosby, Dick Curtis. MELODRAMA. A newspaperman is deputized by the chief of police of a gangster-ridden town to clean up the crime element. He needles the town's two leading crooks, a girl and a racketeering policeman, into creating deathtraps for him. Instead, the traps destroy them and their rackets with them. DESERT HORSEMAN (Columbia) PRODUCER: Colbert Clark. DIRECTOR: Ray Nazarro. PLAYERS: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Richard Bailey, John Merton. WESTERN. The "Durango Kid," having been falsely accused of robbing an Army paymaster, has been court-martialed. Knowing that his only chance to clear his name is to find the real robbers, he escapes from the guardhouse. With the help of his orderly he tracks down the robber and forces him to confess. THE UNKNOWN (Columbia) PRODUCER: WaUace MacDonald. DIRECTOR: Henry Levin. PLAYERS: Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Barton Yarborough, Jeff Donnell, Robert Scott. MELODRAMA. A girl marries against the wishes of her parents, who, when they learn the fact, engage in a scuffle in which the father is killed. The girl loses her mind, and the mother pretends to be dead. Years later, the daughter of the insane woman returns to the farnily homestead, and after a number of mysterious happenings, discovers that her uncle is a killer. The mad woman recovers her sanity, while her mother dies of shock. PRAIRIE BAD MEN (PRC) PRODUCER: Sigmund Neufeld. DIRECTOR: Sam Newfield. PLAYERS: Buster Crabbe, Al (Fuzzy) St. John, Patricia Knox, Charles King, Ed Cassidy, Kermit Maynard, John L. Cason. WESTERN. The owner of a medicine show is in possession of a map indicating the location of a cache of stolen gold. His son favors retaining the treasure, rather than returning it to the express company to which it rightfully belongs. The son steals the map, and is in turn set upon by bandits who wrest it from him. Two cowboys, however, arrive on the scene in time to save him. They get the map back, and restore the treasure to its proper owners. COWBOY BLUES (Columbia) PRODUCER: Colbert Clark. DIRECTOR: Ray Nazarro. PLAYERS: Ken Curtis, Jeff Donnell, Robert Scott, Peg La Centra, Big Boy Williams. MUSICAL WESTERN. Believing her father to be a rich ranch owner, a young girl goes to visit him, accompanied by her wealthy fiance. It develops that her father, instead of owning the place, is actually one of the ranch hands. The real owner is absent, and the cowboys and other ranch hands engage in a conspiracy to prevent the girl, her fiance and her fiance's family from finding out the truth. The girl, however, falls in love with a cowboy, and when all is revealed she marries him. THE KILLERS (Universal Mark Hellinger) PRODUCER: Mark Hellinger. DIRECTOR: Robert Siodmak. PLAYERS: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Edmond O'Brien, Sam Levene, Jack Lambert, Jeff Corey. MELODRAMA. When a dead gangster is found in a rooming-house in a small New Jersey town, local police reason that all parties to the killing came from out of town. An insurance adjuster, however, thinks otherwise, and after investigation discovers that the dead man had belonged to a gang which had staged a successful payroll robbery some years previously. With the help of a girl, he had then double-crossed the rest of the gang and made off with the loot. Armed with these facts, the insurance adjuster tracks down the killers. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST (Paramount) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Seton L Miller. DIRECTOR: John Farrow. PLAYERS: Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Albert Dekker, Howard da Silva, Darryl Hickman, Luis van Rooten, Ray Collins, Frank Faylen, Roman Bohnen, Esther Fernandez, Kathleen Lockhart. DRAMA. This is a sea tale based on the Richard Henry Dana novel of the same title. It concerns the brig "Pilgrim" and its trip around Cape Horn to California. On the voyage stirring adventure, coupled with terrible hardships and an appealing love story, combine to provide the story with romance, action and suspense. CROSS MY HEART (Paramount) PRODUCER: Harry Tugend. DIRECTOR: John Barry. PLAYERS: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ruth Donnelly. COMEDY-DRAMA. A chorus girl who is a habitual liar confesses to the murder of the producer of the show in which she is working. She does this so that the man she loves, a criminal lawyer, will be able to make a reputation by defending her in court. He does so, and the girl is acquitted. When he discovers, however, that the girl's confession was a lie, he is so incensed that he quarrels with her. The two are reconciled after the girl has uncovered the real murderer. NOCTURNE (RKO Radio) PRODUCER: Joan Harrison. DIRECTOR: Edwin L. Marin. PLAYERS: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Edward Ashley, Virginia Huston. MELODRAMA. A detective, convinced thpt a songwriter did not commit suicide, according to the coroner's verdict, but was murdered, quizzes all the songwriter's girl friends. Eventually, he finds the murderer. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JUNE 22, 1946 3055