Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

P R ODUCTIONS 1945 537 ard, Doris Lloyd, Patrick O'Moore, Lewis L. Russell, Ethel Criffies, Eric Wilton, Jean Del Val, Leyland Hodgson, Lillian Bronson, David Clyde, Jerry Shane, Boyd Irwin, Ottola Nesmith. Reviewed 3-7-45. MR. MUCCS RIDES AGAIN MONO. Producers, Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz. Director, Wallace Fox. Original story and screenplay, Harvey H. Gates. Photography, Ira Morgan. Edited by William Austin. Art director, David Milton. Musical director, Edward Kay. Sound technician, Thomas Lambert. Assistant director, Melville DeLay. CAST — Leo Corcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Benedict, Nancy Brinckman, Bernard Thomas, George Meeker, Minerva Urecal, Pierre Watkin, Johnny Duncan, Mendie Koenig, Bud Gorman, John H. Allen, Milton Kibbee, Frank Jacquet. Reviewed 6-19-45. MURDER, HE SAYS PARA. Associate producer, E. D. Leshin. Director, George Marshall. Screenplay, Lou Breslow. Original, Jack Moffitt. Music score, Robert Emmett Dolan. Photography, Theodore Sparkuhl. Special photographic effects, Gordon Jennings, Paul Lerpae. Art direction, Hans Dreier, William Flannery. Set decorations, George Sawley. Edited by LeRoy Stone. Sound technician, Gene Merritt. Assistant director, Art Black. CAST — Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Peter Whiting, Porter Hall, Mabel Paige, Barbara Pepper. Reviewed 4-9-45. MURDER, MY SWEET RKO. Executive producer, Sid Rogell. Producer, Adrian Scott. Director, Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay, John Paxton. Based on novel by Raymond Chandler. Photography, Harry J. Wild. Special effects, Vernon L. Walker. Art direction, Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera, Michael Ohrenbach. Sound Technician, Bailey Fesler. Montage, Douglas Travers. Music, Roy Webb. Musical director, C. Bakaleinikof f. Edited by Joseph Noriega. Assistant director, William Dorfman. Dialog director, Leslie Urbach. CAST — Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Don Douglas, Ralf Harolde, Esther Howard. Reviewed 12-6-44 under title "Farewell My Lovely." MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS COL. Producer, Wallace MacDonald. Director, Joseph H. Lewis. Assistant director, Milton Feldman. Screenplay by Muriel Roy Bolton. From book, "The Woman in Red," by Anthony Gilbert. Photography, Burnett Guffey. Art director, Jerome Pycha, Jr. Set decorations, Milton Stumph. Sound, Lambert Day. Edited by James Sweeney. CAST — Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Bolster, Doris Lloyd, Leonard Mudie, Joy Harrington, Queenie Leonard, Harry Hays Morgan, Ottola Nesmith, Olaf Hytten, Evan Thomas. Reviewed 12-14-45. NABONCA Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Original screenplay, Fred Myton. Photography, Robert Cline. Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Musical director, David Chudnow. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. CAST — Buster Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London, Bryant Washburn, Herbert Rawlinson, Price Modupe, Jackie Newfield. Reviewed 1 1-16-45. THE NAUCHTY NINETIES UNIV. Producers, Edmund L. Hartmann and John Grant. Director, Jean Yarbrough. Original screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann, John Grant, Edmund Joseph and Hal Fimberg. Additional comedy sequences by Felix Adler. Assistant director, Howard Christie. Photography, George Robinson. Sound, Bernard B. Brown. Art direction, John B. Goodman and Harold H. MacArthur. Set decorations, Russell A. Causman and Leigh Smith. Musical director, Edward Fairchild. Musical numbers staged by John Doyle. Edited by Arthur Hilton. CAST — Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier, Joe Sawyer, Joe Kirk. Reviewed 6-20-45. NAVAIO TRAILS MONO. Producer, Charles J. Bigelow. Director, Howard Bretherton. Original story, Jess Bowers. Screenplay, Frank H. Young. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Edited by Arthur H. Bell. Sound, Glen Glen. Set decorations, Vin Taylor. Assistant director, Bobby Ray. CAST — Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Jim Hood, Jasper L. Palmer, Edmund Cobb, Bud Osborne, Earl Crawford. Charles King, Ray Bennett, Tom Quinn, Josh Carpenter, Mary MacLaren. Reviewed 3-2-45. NOB HILL 20th-FOX. (Technicolor). Producer, Andre Daven. Director, Henry Hathaway. Screenplay, Wanda Tuchock, Norman Reilly Raine. From story by Eleanore Griffin. Songs, Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson. Photography, Edward Cronjager. Technicolor direction, Natalie Kalmus, Richard Mueller. Musical direction, Emil Newman, Charles Henderson. Incidental music, David Buttolph. Orchestral arrangements, Gene Rose. Art direction, Lyle Wheeler, Russell Spencer. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Dances staged by Nick Castle. Musical settings designed by Joseph C. Wright. Edited by Harmon Jones. Sound technician, W. D. Flick. Assistant director, Henry Weinberger. CAST — George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner, Alan "Falstaff Openshaw" Reed, B. S. Pully, Emil Coleman, Edgar Barrier, Joe Smith, Charles Dale, George Anderson, Don Costello, ). Farrell MacDonald, Joseph J. Greene, The Three Swifts, William Haade, Beal Wong, George T. Lee, Frank McCown, Robert Greig, Charles Cane, Helen O'Hara, Dorothy Ford, Nestor Paiva, Anita Bolster, Jane Jones, Otto Reichow, Hugo Borg, George Blagoi. Reviewed 5-29-45. NORTHWEST TRAIL Action-SCREEN CUILD. (Cinecolor). Producers. William B. David, Max M. King. Director, Derwin Abrahams. Screenplay, Harvey H. Gates. Original novel, James Oliver Curwood. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Color director, W. T. Crespinel. Music score, Frank Sanucci. Edited by Thomas Neff. Sound technician, Glen Glenn. Assistant director, Dick L'Estrange. CAST — Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, John Litel, Madge Bellamy, George Meeker, Raymond Hatton, Ian Keith, John Hamilton, Poodles Hanneford. Reviewed 11-1 6-45. OATH OF VENGEANCE Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Original screenplay, Fred Myton. Photography, Robert Cline. Sound technician, Arthur Smith. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. Assistant director, Harold E. Knox. CAST — Buster Crabbe, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Mady Laurence, Jack Ingram, Charles King, Marin Sais, Karl Hackett, Kermit Maynard, Hal Price, Frank Ellis. Reviewed 4-27-45. OBJECTIVE, BURMA! WB. Producer, Jerry Wald. Director, Raoul Walsh. Screenplay, Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole. From original story by Alvah Bessie. Photography, James Wong Howe. Art director, Ted Smith. Set decorations, Jack McConaghy. Technical advisor, Maj. harles S. Galbraith, U. S. Army Parachute Troops, usic score, ranz Waxman. MFMusical director, Leo F. Forbstein. Edited by George Amy. Sound technician, C. A. Riggs, Assistant director, Elmer Decker. CAST — Errol Flynn, Henry Hull, William Prince, James Brown, George Tobias, Warner Anderson, Dick Erdman, Tony Caruso, John Alvin, Stephen Richards, Hugh Beaumont, John Whitney, Joel Allen, Buddy Yarus, Frank Tang, William Hudson, Rodric Red Wing, Asit Koomar, John Sheridan, Lester Matthews. Reviewed 1-26-45. ONE EXCITING NIGHT Pine-Thomas-PARA. Associate producer. Maxwell Shane. Director, William C. Thomas. Original screenplay, David Lang. Photography, Fred Jackman, Jr. Supervising editor, Howard Smith. Edited by Henry