Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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6TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE I'agc 67 Dales Shown Are Release Dales This department is primarily intended to convey important information regarding product on whicli 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. PARENTS ON TRIAL Co!. Drama Not Set Selling Names: Jean Parker, Johnny Dcnvns, Xoah Beery, Jr., Linda Terry. Director: Sam Nelson. Assoc. Producer: Ralph Cohn. Story Idea: Jean Parker meets Johnny Downs when the car she's driving crashes into his car. Jean is strongly attracted to Downs, but they are not permitted to see each other bj' selfish parents. In desperation. Downs breaks into Jean's home, but her dad has him arrested. The parents are contrite when they hear Downs sentenced, and straighten everything out to the satisfaction of the youngsters. Catchline: "Many a child's future has been ruined by selfish parents." Col. MAN FROM SUNDOWN Wester.i June 30 Selling Names: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith. Director: Sam Nelson. Assoc. Producer: Harry L. Decker. Story Idea: Charles Starrett and his Texas Rangers are looking for a gang of murderous outlaws who never leave anyone alive who later might identify them. Believing the outlaws in Cherokee, Starrett and his men assume new names and make friends with the gangsters, thereby getting the information necessary for their capture. Catchline: "The toughest gang of murderers, but not to the Texas Rangers." RKO TIMBER STAMPEDE Western Not Set Selling Names: George O'Brien, Mariorie Reynolds, Chill Wills. Director: David Howard. Producer: Bert Gilroy. Story Idea: George O'Brien, a cattleman, tries to prevent Guy Usher, a railroad president, from running a railroad through the town and ruining the cattle business. He gets Marjorie Reynolds, a newspaper woman, to print the truth about Usher and his crooked methods and then after a dramatic gun battle has the crooks arrested. Catchline: "He led the fight against the despoilers of the land." LAUGHING IRISH HEARTS Rep. Drama Not Set Selling Names: Phil Regan, Jean Parker, Jerome Cowan, Dorothea Kent. Director: Sidney Salkow. Assoc. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Story Idea: Jean Parker is seeking a voice for the new movie cartoon figure, Paddy the Pig. She signs up Phil Regan, a police officer, who thinks he is singing for a movie. They marry, break up when Regan sees the film, but are reunited again when Jean tells the newspapers that she is expecting a new arrival. Catchline: "His musical notes found a responding cord in her heart." WYOMING OUTLAWS Rep Western Not Set Selling Names: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Adele Pierce. Director: George Sherman. Assoc. Producer: William Berke. Story Idea: The Three Mesquiteers arrive m a small town looking for the man who rustled one of their herd. They find the culprit, Don Barry; he explains about the conditions forced on the people by Leroy Mason a politician. So the Three Mesquiteers set about cleaning up the town. Catchline: "The Three Mesquiteers dispose of some crooked politicians." STUNT PILOT RKO THE SPELLBINDER Drama Not Set Selling Names: Lee Tracy, Barbara Reed, Patric Knovvles. Director: Jack Hively. Producer: Cliff Reid. Story Idea: Lee Tracy is an unethical criminal lawyer who has been forced by Patric Knowles, a wealthy client, to defend him in a murder case. Tracy saves Knowles' life, but when his daughter, Barbara Reed, runs of¥ and marries Knowles, Tracy follows them and kills him, so that Barbara might be saved from an unhappy marriage. Catchline: "His ability to save others, didn't help him when his life was at stake." RKO NURSE EDITH CAVELL Drama Not Set Selling Names: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson. Producer-Director: Herbert Wilcox. Story Idea: Anna Neagle is an English nurse who remained in Belgium during the World War to manage a nursing home. She feels it her duty to help as many of the prisoners escape as was humanly possible, but the Germans who were occupying the town, call it "spying" and "recruiting for the enemy" and Anna is given the death sentence. Catchline: "She put her love of humanity above her own safetv." RKO BAD LANDS Drama Not Set Selling Names: Robert Barrat, Addison Richards, Noah Beery, Jr. Director: Lew Landers. Producer: Robert Sisk. Story Idea: Robert Barrat, a sheriff, and nine of his men are lost in the Bad Lands of the Arizona Desert, while trailing the notorious outlaw Jack Payne. Each man reacts differently to the strain and it is only because of his indomitable will that Barrat survives and finally tracks down the outlaw. Catchline: "Ten men were trapped in the desert ... in the hectic davs of the West." Clothing Store Window Display Clothing stores are logical spots for unndow display tieups on MGM's "The Hardys Ride High," as you can see from the one promoted here by Manager Lester Pollock of Loew's Rochester Theatre, Rochester, N. Y. And it's a pretty large ivindow at that. When you play this picture, remember -what Pollock did. Mono. Drama June 29 Selling Names: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone. Director: George Waggner. Producer: Paul Malvern. Story Idea: John Trent is arrested for murder when George Meeker, another stunt pilot, is killed during the filming of a fight scene between his plane and Trent's. Developing the pictures taken of Meeker's plane just before the flight, Marjorie Reynolds comes across one showing Pat O'Malley, the director, fooling with the machine gun, and when shown the evidence admits the deed. Catchline: "A child's pretense proved his undoing." CHARLIE CHAN AT TREASURE ISLAND 20th-Fox Mystery Not Set Selling Names: Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore, Sen Yung. Director: Norman Foster. Assoc. Producer: John Stone. Story Idea: Charlie Chan is asked to clear up the murder of one of the passengers aboard a plane that lands at San Francisco Bay. At the Police Inspector's Office, he meets Douglas Fowley, a newspaper reporter and Cesar Romero, a magician who has an act on Treasure Island. Suspicion points to a mystic, whom the victim has visited, but the mystic is killed. Chan finds Romero the murderer. Catchline: "Charlie Chan unmasks a phantom murderer." LADY AND THE KNIGHT WB Drama Not Set Selling Names: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Henry Stephenson, Vincent Price. Director: Michael Curtiz. Assoc. Producer: Robert Lord. Story Idea: Bette Davis, as Queen Elizabeth of England, reprimands the man she loves, Errol Flynn, Earl of Essex, for allowing the Spaniards to sink their own treasure fleet. Bette orders Flynn executed, then forgives him and asks him to reign with her, but Essex refuses, knowing that they cannot rule together and goes to the scafifold to save England and the throne. Catchline: "His rendezvous v/ i t h the Queen meant death." UA MUSIC SCHOOL Drama Not Set Selling Names: Jascha Heifetz, Andrea Leeds, Joel McCrea, Gene Reynolds, Walter Brennan. Director: Archie Mayo. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Story Idea: Gene Reynolds, a gutter u.^chin who has inherited a love of good music, runs away from home when threatened by his stepfather with reform school — ■ and seeks shelter with Walter Brennan, mentor of a settlement music school. In gratitude. Gene bends every efifort to get Jascha Heifetz to become a benefactor of the school and succeeds beyond his greatest hopes. Catchline: "Music by one of the world's greatest violinists . . . Jascha Heifetz."