Production Encyclopedia 1948 (1948)

614 PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA BATAAN MCM. Producer, Irving Starr. Director, Tay Carnett. Original screenplay, Robert D. Andrews. Photography, Sidney Wagner. Special photographic effects, Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Lyie Wheeler. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Glen Earner. Music score, Bronislau Kaper. Edited by George White. Sound, Douglas Shearer. Assistant director, Wm. Lewis. CAST — Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnez, Harry Nelson, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, J. Alex Havier, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis. Reviewed 5-26-43. BEHIND PRISON WALLS Arthur Ripley-PRC. Associate producer, Andre Dumonceau. Directed by Steve Sekely. Screenplay by Van Norcross. Based on story by W. A. Ulman, Jr. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Dialog director, Kurt Steinbart. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. Sound technician, Ben Winkler. Assistant director, Chris Beute. CAST — Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Tully Marshall, Edwin Maxwell, Jacqueline Dalya, Matt Willis, Richard Kipling, Olga Sabin, Isabella Withers, Lane Chandler, Paul Everton, George Guhl, Regina Wallace. Reviewed 1-28-43. BEHIND THE RISING SUN RKO. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Original screenplay, Emmet Lavery. Based on book by James R. Young. Photography, Russell Metty. Special effects, Vernon L. Walker. Art direction, Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Herman. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter. Music score, Roy Webb. Musical director, C. Bakaleinikoff. Edited by Joseph Noriega. Sound technicians, Terry Kellurri, James G. Stewart. Assistant director. Ruby Rosenberg. CAST — Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carroll Naish, Robert Ryan, Gloria Holden, Don Douglas, George Givot, Adeline DeWalt Reynolds, Leonard Strong, Iris Wong, Wolfgang Zilzer, Shirley Lew, Benson Pong, Lee Tung Foo, Mike Mazurki. Reviewed 7-14-43. BEST FOOT FORWARD MCM (Technicolor). Producer, Arthur Freed. Director, Edward Buzzell. Screenplay, Irving Brecker, Fred Finklehoffe. Original book by John Cecil Holm. Produced on the stage by George Abbott. Photography, Leonard Smith. Technicolor directors, Natalie Kalmus, Henri Jaffa. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths. Dance director, Charles Walters. Music score, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine. Music arrangers (orchestration), Jack Matthias, Leroy Holmes, Conrad Salinger, George Bassman. Musical directors, Lennie Hayton, Leo Arnaud. Songs, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine. Edited by Blanche Sewell. Sound, Douglas SJnearer. Assistant director, Julian Silberstein. CAST — Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler. Tommy Dix, Nancy Walker, June Allyson, Kenny Bowers, Gloria De Haven, Jack Jordan, Harry James and his Music Makers, Beverly Tyler, Chill Wills, Henry O'Neill, Sara Haden, Donald MacBride, Bobby Stebbins, Darwood Kaye, Morris Ankrum, Nana Bryant. Reviewed 6-30-43. BEYOND THE LAST FRONTIER REP. Associate producer, Louis Gray. Director, Howard Bretherton. Original screenplay, John K. Butler, Morton Grant. Photography, Bud Thackery. Edited by Charles Craft. Sound, Ed Borschell. Art director, Russell Kimball. Set decorations, Charles Thompson. Musical score, Mort Glickman. Assistant director, D. Abrahams. CAST — Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Lorraine Miller, Bob Mitchum, Harry Woods, Ernie Adams, Richard Clarke. Charles Miller, Kermit Maynard. Reviewed 9-3-43. BLACK HILLS EXPRESS REP. Associate producer, Eddy White. Director. John English. Screenplay, Norman Hall, Fred Myton. Original, Fred Myton. Photography, Ernest Miller. Art direction, Russell Kimball. Set decorations, Charles Thompson. Music score, Mort Glickman. Edited by Harry Keller. Sound technician, Ed Borschell. Assistant director, Joseph Dill. CAST — Don "Red" Barry, Wally Vernon, Ariel Heath, George Lewis, William Halligan, Hooper Atchley, Charles Miller, Pierce Lydon, Jack Rockwell, Bob Kortman, Al Taylor. Reviewed 7-30-43. BLACK MARKET RUSTLERS MONO. Produced by George W. Weeks. Director, S. Roy Luby. Original screenplay, Patricia Harper. Photography, Edward Kull. Music director, Frank Sanucci. Art direction, Dave Milton. Edited by Roy Claire. Sound technician, LyIe E. Willey. Assistant director, Clark Taylor. CAST — Ray Corrighan, Dennis Moore, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley. Steve Clark, John Merton, Glenn Strange, Carl Sepulveda, George Chesebro, Hank Warden, Frank Ellis, Frosty Royce. Reviewed S20-43. BLACK RAVEN Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Assistant director, Melville DeLay. Screenplay, Fred Myton. Photography, Robert Cline. Sound, Hans Weeren. Music supervisor, David Chudnow. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. CAST— George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Noel Madison, Bob Randall, Byron Foulger, Charlie Middleton, Robert Middlemass, Glenn Strange, I. Stanford Jolley. Reviewed 3-12-43. BLAZING GUNS MONO. Produced and directed by Robert Tansey. Original and screenplay, Frances Kavanaugh. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Assistant director, Arthur Hammond. Sound technician. Glen Glenn. Edited by Fred Bain. CAST— Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Kay Forrester, LeRoy Mason, Roy Brent, Lloyd Ingraham. Reviewed 9-10-43. THE BLOCKED TRAIL REP. Associate producer, Louis Gray. Director, Elmer Clifton. Original screenplay, John K. Butler, Jacquin Frank. Photography, Bud Thackery. Art direction, Russell Kimball. Music score, Mort Glickman. Assistant director, Harry Knight. Edited by Edward Schroeder. Sound technician, Thomas A. Carman. CAST — Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Helen Deverell, George Lewis, Charles Miller, Vi/alter Soderling, Hal Price, Kermit Maynard, Pierce Lyden, Bud Geary, "Brilliant" (horse). Reviewed 2-5-43. BOMBARDIER RKO. Producer, Robert Fellows. Director, Richard Wallace. Screenplay, John Twist. Story, John Twist, Martin Rackin. Music, Roy Webb. Musical director, C. Bakaleinikoff. Songs, M. K. Jerome, Jack Scholl. Photography, Nicholas Musuraca. Special effects, Vernon L. Walker. Art directors, Albert D'Agostino and Al Herman. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter. Sound technicians, Bailey Fesler, lames G. Stewart. Montage, Douglas Travers. Edited by Robert Wise. Assistant director, Edward Killy. CAST — Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Walter Reed, Robert Ryan, Barton MacLane, Leonard Strong, Richard Martin, Russell Wade, James Newhill, John Miljan, Charles Russell. Reviewed 5-1 1-43. BOMBER'S MOON Sol Wurtzel-20th-FOX. Produced by Sol Wurtzel. Directed by Charles Fuhr. Screenplay by Kenneth Camet, Aubrey Wisberg. Original by Leonard Lee. Photography by Lucien Ballard. Special photographic effects by Fred Sersen. Art direction by James Basevi and Lewis Creber. Set decoration, Thomas Little, Al Orenbach. Music by David Buttolph. Musical direction, Emil Newman. Edited by Robert Fritch. Sound technician, George Leverett. Assistant director, Jasper BIystone. CAST — George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck, Dennis Hoey, Robert Barrat, Richard Graham, Kenneth Brown, Lionel Royce, Victor Kilian, Felix Basch, Edith Evanson, George Davis, Ilka Gruning. Reviewed 7-8-43.