Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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Jl^ril S. 1939 S 11 u W M 1-: N ' S T R A I ) I': V I E w Page 23 Dales Shown Are Release Dales This department is primarily Intended to convey important information regarding product on which no press book or ad material are available. Showmen who run pictures pre-release will find It a valuable source. Listings will appear but once. Col. BLIND ALLEY Drama Not Set Selling Names: Chester Morris, Ral|>li Kcllatiw . Ann l_^vorak. Director: C harles Vidor. Assoc. Producer: Fred Kohhnar. Story Idea: Ralph Bellamy, professor of ps_\-cholu,i.;y, finds his home invaded by Chester Morris, an escaped killer. Morris has been ruthlessly killing everyone who gets in his way. Bellam} encourages Morris to brag about himself in order to find the reason for his blood lust, and in so doing, completely unnerves Morris, so that the police find it easy to capture him. Catchline: "A ruthless killer ... he turned yellow when captured." Para. CERONIMO Drama Not Set Selling Names: Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, Gene Lockhart, Chief Th undercloud. Director: Paul Sloane. Story Idea: The story of the last great Indian campaign, when the famous war lord, Geronimo (Chief Tliundercloud), defied the Army and terrorized the pioneers of Arizona and New Mexico. The gigantic struggle which resulted in massacre and destruction, with entire settlements being wiped out. Catchline: "The last of the Indian War Lords." RACKETEERS OF THE RANGE RKO Western Not Set Selling Names: George O'Brien, Marjorie Reynolds, Chill Wills. Director: D. Ross Lederman. Producer: Bert Gilroy. Story Idea: George O'Brien, a cattleman, wages a fight against a big packing corporation, who are forcing Marjorie Reynolds to sell her ranch. Such a move by Marjorie, would be disastrous to all the cattlemen in the vicinity, as they would be forced to accept any price the corporation offered for the sale of their cattle. O'Brien and Marjorie straighten everything out. Catchline: "He waged a single-handed battle against the rustlers." ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS Col. Drama April 30 Selling Names: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth. Director and Producer: Howard Hawks. Story Idea: Jean Arthur, enroute to Panama, decides to visit the small town at which they stop. She immediately attracts the attention of a group of American aviators working for Cary Grant, manager of a small commercial airport. Attracted to each other, Jean stays on and becomes interested in aviation. Jean is instrumental in changing Grant's philosophy, "that no aviator should marry." Catchline: "He changed his philosoph}when the right girl came along." WHAT A LIFE Para. Comedy Not Set Selling Names: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard. Director: Theodore Reed. Story Idea: Jackie Cooper, a High School student, is always in trouble. Betty Field, another student, looks at Jackie with ador ing eyes and is the only one who helps him when he gets into a serious jam. She finds the student responsible for the offense for which Jackie is being punished and makes arrangements for Jackie to study the work he l(i\cs, so that he will keep out of trouble. Catchline: "Trouble was his shadow . . . until young love took a hand," Mono. WOLF CALL Drama May 8 Selling Names: John Carroll, Movita, George Cleveland. Director: George Waggner. Producer: Paul Malvern. Story Idea: John Carroll is sent by his father to his Canadian Radium Mine, to find out whether or not the mine is worth keeping, as it has been losing money steadily. Carroll meets Movita, whose father, George Cleveland has found a new process for melting radium and so reducing the cost of shipping. This makes the mine a success and when Cleveland decides to keep it, Carroll and Movita decide to get married. Catchline: "He proved his worth when put to the test." GIRL FROM MEXICO RKO Drama Not Set Selling Names: Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol, Donald MacBride. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Producer: Robert Sisk. Story Idea: Donald Woods had gone to Mexico to find a singer for a sponsored radio program. Forced to spend the night in a small town he hears Lupe Velez sing at an impromptu party and brings her back with him. She fails at her audition and it Snow and Books — Success! Nobody likes a blizzard — nobody but Lester Pollock, manager of Loew's Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., zvho took advantage of the occasion to place 50 "snozvbirds" (top) in the drifts around tozvn. He also landed a zvindow in a local book store (bottom) utilising a 40x60 blowup, stills, etc. The attraction tvas Aletro-Goldzvyn Mayer's "Idiot's Delight." is only after she gets a job singing at a local night club, that the sponsors sign her up Catchline: "The firebrand whom love subdued." BLUE MONTANA SKIES Rep. Western April 28 Selling Names: Gene Autry, .Smiley Burnette, June Storey. Director: Breezy Eason. Assoc. Producer: Harry Grey. Story Idea: Gene Autry, making his regular trip into the Canadian Northwest to sell cattle, runs into a smuggling situation and finds one of his friends murdered. He traces the smugglers to June Storey's ranch and finds that June's ranch-jiartner, Harry Woods, is at the head of a smuggling gang without June's knowledge and that Woods is responsible for the murder. Catchline: "A dead man's message helped him find the smugglers." 20th -Fox SECOND FIDDLE Drama Not Set Selling Names: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Assoc. Producer: Gene Markey. Story Idea: Tyrone Power, a press agent for a motion picture company has been sent to find the right heroine for a best seller they want to film. He picks Sonja Henie's picture out of a studio collection and sets forth to bring her to Hollywood. Sonja proves a success but gives up her career to go back to her teaching job and Power gets a job on a local newspaper in the town and they get married. Catchline: "She gave up a glamorous career for love." YOUNG MR. LINCOLN 20th Cent.-Fox Drama Not Set Selling Names: Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan. Director: John Ford. Assoc. Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Story Idea: Henry Fonda, as Abraham Lincoln, studies law while tending his store in New Salem, 111. He is encouraged in this by Marjorie Weaver and when, on his first case, he saves the lives of Richard Cromwell and Eddie Quillan by defending them on a murder charge, Marjorie decides to accept his offer of marriage and predicts that he is on the road to greatness. Catchline: "Abraham Lincoln . . . his road to greatness." MILLION DOLLAR LEGS Para. Comedy Aug. 18 Selling Names: Betty Grable, John Hartle>-, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan. Director: Nick Grinde. Assoc. Producer: William C. Thomas. Story Idea: John Hartley's father has been running the College he attends, through his pocketbook. Hartley finally takes things into his own hands and together with Betty Grable and the student 'body, goes in for all athletics, very much against his father'_s wishes. They build up a swell rowing crew and by winning the big crew race, prove themselves worthy of being on the athletic map. Catchline: "Young athletes modernize a 'dated' college."