Production Encyclopedia 1948 (1948)

PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA 633 THE LEOPARD MAN RKO. Producer, Val Lewton. Director, Jacques Tourneur. Screenplay, Ardel Wray. Added dialog, Edward Dein. From novel, "Black Alibi," by Cornell Woolrich. Music score, Roy Webb. Music director, C. Bakaleinikoff. Photography, Robert de Crasse. Art direction, Robert S. D'Agostino, Walter E. Keller. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera, Al Fields. Edited by Mark Robson. Sound technicians, Terry Kellum, James Stewart. Assistant director, Wm. Dorfman. CAST — Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell. Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Richard Martin, Tula Parma, Ben Bard, Ariel Heath, Fely Franquelli. Reviewed 5-4-43. LET'S FACE IT PARA. Associate producer, Fred Kohlmar. Director, Sidney Lanfield. Screenplay, Harry Tugend. Based on musical play by Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields and Cole Porter. Suggested by play by Norma Mitchell and Russell C. Medcraft. Photography, Lionel Lindon. Art direction, Hans Dreier, Earl Hedrick. , Set decorations, Raymond Moyer. Songs, Cole Porler, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Edited by Paul Weatherwax. Sound technicians, Hugo Grenzbach, Don Johnson. Assistant director, Lonnie D'Orsa. CAST — Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Dona Drake, Cully Richards, Eve Arden, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Weaver, Raymond Walburn, Phyllis Povah, Joe Sawyer, Dave Wlllock, Nicco and Tanya. Reviewed 8-5-43. LETS'S HAVE FUN COL. Producer, Jack Fier. Director, Charles Barton. Original screenplay, Harry Sauber. Photography, Philip Tannura. Edited by William Claxton. Art direction, Lionel Banks, Paul Murphy. Set decorations, Robert Priestley. Songs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin. Musical director, M. W. Stoloff. Assistant director, Rex Bailey. Sound technician, John Haynes. CAST — Margaret Lindsay, Bert Cordon, John Beal, Dorothy Ann Seese, Constance Worth, Leonid Kinskey, Sig Arno, Edward Keane, Ernest Hilliard, John Tyrrell. Reviewed 4-22-43. LIFEBOAT 20th-FOX. Producer, Kenneth Macgowan. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Jo Swerling. From original by John Steinbeck. Photography, Glen MacWilliams. Art direction, James Basevi, Maurice Ransford. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Music score, Hugo W. Friedhofer. Music direction, Emil Newman. Edited by Dorothy Spencer. Sound technicians, Bernard Freericks, Roger Heman. Assistant director, Saul Wurtzel. CAST — Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee. Reviewed 8-6-43. LONE STAR TRAIL UNIV. Associate producer-screenplay, Oliver Drake. Director, Ray Taylor. Original, Victor Halperin. Photography, William Sickner. Art direction, John Goodman, Ralph M. DeLacy. Sound, Bernard B. Brown, Jess Moulin. Edited by Ray Snyder. Musical director, H. J. Salter. Set decorations, R. A. Causman, A. J. Gilmore. Songs, Oliver Drake, Milton Rosen, Jimmy Wakely. Assistant director, Gille Valle. CAST — Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Jimmy Wakely Trio, George Eldredge, Michael Vallon, Harry Strange, Earle Hodgins, Jack Ingram. Reviewed 6-11-43. LOST ANGEL MCM. Producer, Robert Sisk. Director, Roy Rowland. Original screenplay, Isobel Lennart. Based on idea by Angna Enters. Photography, Robert Surtees. Music score, Daniele Amfitheatrof. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Lynden Sparhawk. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Helen Conway. Edited by Frank E. Hull. Sound technician, J. S. Burbridge. Assistant director, George Rhein. CAST — Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill, Donald Meek, Keenan Wynn, Alan Napier, Sara Haden, Kathleen Lockhart, Walter Fenner, Howard Freeman, Elisabeth Risdon. Bobby Blake. Reviewed 11-15-43. LOST CANYON Harry Shcrman-UA. Associate producer, Lewis J. Rachmil. Director, Lesley Selander. Original screenplay, Harry O. Hoyt. Based on characters by Clarence Mulford. Photography, Russell Harlan. Art direction, Ralph Berger. Edited by Sherman A. Rose. Sound technician, William Wilmarth. Assistant director, Glenn Cook. CAST — William Boyd, jay Kirby, Andy Clyde, Lola Lane, Douglas Fowley, Herbert Rawlinson, Guy Usher, Carl Hackett. Reviewed 1-14-43. LUCKY LEGS COL. Producer, Wallace MacDonald. Director, Charles Barton. Original screenplay, Stanley Rubin and Jack Hartfield. Photography, Philip Tannura. Edited by Arthur Seid. Assistant director, William O'Connor. Sound, Ed Bernds. Art direction, Lionel Banks. Walter Holscher. Set decorations, Joseph Kish. Musical director, M. W. Stoloff. Songs, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin. CAST — Jinx Falkenburg, Leslie Brooks, Kay Harris, Russell Hayden, Elizabeth Patterson, William Wright, Don Beddoe, Adele Rowland, Edward Marr, George McKay, James Morton, Eddie Kane. Reviewed 1-11 -43. MADAME CURIE MCM. Produced by Sidney Franklin. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay by Paul Osborn and Paul H. Rameau. Based on book by Eve Curie. Narration spoken by James Hilton. Music score, Herbert Stothart. Photography, Joseph Ruttenberg. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt. Special effects, Warren Newcombe. Edited by Harold F. Kress. Sound technician, W. N. Sparks. Assistant director, Al Shenberg. CAST — Greer Carson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Basserman, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Victor Franceen, Elsa Basserman, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, Margaret O'Brien. Reviewed 11-22-43. THE MAD GHOUL UNIV. Associate producer, Ben Pivar. Directed by James P. Hogan. Screenplay, Brenda Weisberg, Paul Gangelin. Original, Hans Kraly. Photography, Milton Krasner. Art direction, John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina. Musical director, H. J. Salter. Edited by Milton Carruth. Sound, B. Brown, E. Wetzel. Assistant director. Bill Holland. CAST — David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, George Zucco, Robert Armstrong, Turhan Bey, Milburn Stone, Andrew Tombes, Rose Hobart, Addison Richards, Charles McGraw, Gus Glassmire. Reviewed 10-29-43. THE MAN FROM DOWN UNDER MCM. Producers, Robert Z. Leonard, Orville O. Dull. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay, Wells Root, Thomas Seller. Based on story by Bogart Rogers and Mark Kelly. Photography, Sidney Wagner. Special effects by Arnold Gillespie. Technical advisor, Lon Jones, Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis. Edited by George White. Sound technician, Wilhelm W. Brockway. Assistant director, Earl McEvoy. CAST — Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Donna Reed, Christopher Severn, Clyde Cook, Horace McNally, Arthur Shields, Evelyn Falks, Hobart Cavanaugh, Andre Chariot. Reviewed 8-4-43. THE MAN FROM MUSIC MOUNTAIN REP. Associate producer, Harry Grey. Director, Joseph Kane. Screenplay, Bradford Ropes, J. Benton Cheney. Photography, William Bradford. Art direction, Russell Kimball. Set decorations, Charles Thompson. Music director, Morton Scott. Songs, Tim Spencer, Bob Nolan, Smiley Burnette. Edited by Tony Martinelli. Sound technician. Earl Grain, Sr. Assistant director. Art Siteman. CAST — Roy Rogers, "Trigger," Pat Brady, Ruth Terry, Paul Kelly, Ellsworth Blake, Ann Gillis, Renie Riano, George Cleveland, Paul Harvey, Hal Taliaferro, Jay Novello, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. Reviewed 9-20-43.