Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1941)

Page 32 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW October 4, 1941 Dates Shown Are Release Dates 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. BLONDIE GOES TO COLLEGE (Col.) Comedy. Principals: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Sims, Jonathan Hale, Larry Parks, Janet Blair. Plot: The Bumsteads both decide to go to college, so they put Baby Dumpling in a military school. They plan to conceal their marriage, but rehearse a campus flirtation so that they can see each other, without arousing suspicion. But things don't work out that way and they have a terrible time until Blondie is forced to reveal their marriage, and they go home. Director, Frank Strayer. SON OF FURY (20th-Fox) Drama. Principals: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Cobina Wright, Jr., John Carradine, Elsa Lanchester, Roddy McDowall. Plot: A story of the youngster who suffered cruelties all through his childhood because of his doubtful birth. After many black and terrible years, he escapes to the sea and finds wealth and happiness among the natives on a small island. Then he returns to oust his childhood tormenter from the vast manorial estates which are rightfully his. Director, John Cromwell. THE MALE ANIMAL (WB) ComedyDrama. Principals: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson. Plot: A professor of English in a Midwestern University, finds himself in quite a predicament. His wife is interested in another man, an all-time, All-American football player and the regent of the college is waiting for him to read a "forbidden" letter to his class, so that he can throw him out. He suddenly finds an answer to these problems and ends up by being a hero to everyone, including his wife. Director, Elliott Nugent. SIERRA SUE (Rep.) Western. Principals: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Robert Homans. Plot: Gene Autry is called in to solve the problem of the poisonous devil weed that is causing so much trouble for the cattlemen. Hindered by one man from carrying out his plans to eliminate the weed, he finally settles the matter by having the entire area sprayed by plane with a chemical. Director, William Morgan. CONFESSIONS OF BOSTON BLACKIE (Col.) Mystery. Principals: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Harriett Hilliard, Lloyd Corrigan. Plot: Chester Morris helps a young lady get back a rare statue, which she had left to be sold by the owner of an Art Gallery, and which he had stolen, giving her a forged copy. There are murders and disappearances in subterranean passages before the crook is exposed and the murders solved. Director, Edward Dmytryk. CALL OUT THE MARINES (RKO) Comedy. Principals: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Binnie Barnes, Robert Smith, Dorothy Lovett. Plot: Two ex-Marines are reunited after fifteen years separation. One is a private chauffeur and the other a truck driver. Realizing they're getting no place with women, without their uniforms, they re-enlist for the duration. They inadvertently become involved in a plot to uncover foreign agents, almost let the agents escape, but wind up on the safe side. Director, Frank Ryan. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Rep.) Spy. Principals: Wendy Barrie, Phillip Terry, Russell Hicks, Tim Ryan, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley. Plot: A wealthy debutante causes a newspaperman to lose his job by giving him a false story. Contrite, she enters into a deal with a stool pigeon to incriminate the master-minds of a smuggling ring, so that the reporter can get his job back by bringing in a sensational story. All this causes trouble, but it all ends happily for the man and girl. Director, Al Rogell. Release Nov. 27. REMEMBER THE DAY (20th-Fox) Drama. Principals: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Douglas Wheatcroft, Ann Todd, Jane Seymour, Grant Mitchell. Plot: A middle-aged school teacher goes to Washington to see the man running for President. While there her mind drifts back to the time he was one of the boys in her class and was jealous of the man she secretly loved and married. When she finally gets to see him, he remembers the ideals she taught him and gives a straightforward, honest speech. Director, Henry King. SOUTH OF TAHITI (Univ.) Drama. Principals: Brian Donlevy, Brod Crawford, Maria Montez, Andy Devine, H. B. Warner, Abner Biberman. Plot: An adventurous trio of pearl fishermen roaming the South Seas, drift to an uncharted isle. There they see precious pearls being hidden in the temple, and make plans to steal them and make their escape. But they change their plans and remain, after the natives save them from the crew of a passing ship. Associate Producer-Director, George Waggner. Release, Nov. 17. WOMAN OF THE YEAR (MGM) Comedy. Principals: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Roscoe Karns. Plot: A tough, two-fisted sports writer whose only interest is his work, meets and feuds with a sophisticated girl who writes an international column. Their romance gives them an insight into each other's life, but their marriage is one continual feud, until the day they decide not to let their work interfere with their happiness. Director, George Stevens. WILD BILL HICKOK RIDES (WB) Action. Principals: Bruce Cabot, Constance Bennett, Warren William, Ward Bond, Betty Brewer, Russell Simpson. Plot: Two crooks; a man and a woman, after having watched their belongings go up in smoke during the great Chicago fire, set out for new places to plunder. The girl sets up a gambling house and the man arranges to steal and murder, so that he can gain control of some valuable property. However, he is balked in his plans when Wild Bill Hickok gets on the trail. Director, Ray Enright. HONOLULU LU (Col.) Comedy. Principals: Lupe Velez, Bruce Bennett, Leo Carrillo, Larry Parks. Plot: A young girl finds that she is competing with herself in a beauty contest, seeking "Miss Honolulu." This is brought about by her having changed her name when she started work as a burlesque queen. However she finds a way to dispose of one of her selves, so that the other may win. Director, Charles Barton. MAN OR MOUSE (Univ.) Comedy. Principals: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Guy Kibbee, Edgar Kennedy, Gus Schilling. Plot: Excitement reigns for Hugh Herbert and his family when the very important Vitamin Z is discovered in the prepared pudding he sells. Another businessman tries to prove this a fake, but Herbert arranges to have experiments and analyses made to prove and confirm his claims. He ends up by being elected Mayor of the town. Director, Harold Young. JOHNNY EAGER (MGM) Gangster. Principals: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling, Charles Dingle, Patricia Dane. Plot: A brittle, hard gang chieftain reports to his parole-chief in a taxi driver's uniform, after which he changes clothes and becomes the vicious gang leader and track promoter he really is. He hasn't one redeeming quality, except for a fleeting moment when he appreciates the sacrifice of his beloved. His end comes via another gangster's bullet. Director, Mervyn LeRoy. MIRACLE KID (Prod.) Drama. Principals: Tom Neal, Carol Hughes, Vicki Lester, Betty Blythe, Ben Taggart, Alex Callam. Plot: A professional boxer breaks his word to his fiance, and doesn't give up the ring. So she sets out to prove to him that all his bouts are bought in advance. When he realizes this truth, he retires, resumes his romance and takes a job as health director at a boys camp. Director, William Beaudine. Release Nov. 14. OUTLAW RANGER (Col.) Western. Principals: Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Cliff Edwards, Edith Leach. Plot: The Texas Rangers have a problem on their hands with an outlaw gang perpetrating bank robberies, cattle rustling and freight looting, in their territory. One of their men is a double for the leader of the crooks and he is mistakenly sentenced to death. It takes a trick to save the man's life and reveal the real culprit. Director, Howard Bretherton. STEEL CAVALRY (MGM) Drama. Principals: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Main, Donna Reed, George Bancroft, Henry O'Neill, Chill Wills. Plot: This story reveals the loyal courage and heroism of regulars and selectees in the Army service, as it presents the insidious efforts of saboteurs to block American defense preparations. Beery is the leather-faced First Sergeant of a regular Cavalry troop, who after 29 years of service, finds his heart bleeds when the cavalry is transformed to armored tank soldiers. Director, S. Sylvan Simon. DANGEROUSLY THEY LIVE (WB) Spy. Principals: John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Moroni Olsen, Lee Patrick. Plot: The secretary of the British Export Bureau is kidnapped by a group of Nazi spies. Head of this group is a famous American psychiatrist and he plans on making her reveal the data concerning a gigantic cargo going to England. However, one of his students, who discovers what's going on, manages to get word to the authorities in time to save the girl's life and arrest everyone. Director, Robert Florey. TOMBSTONE (Para.) Western. Principals: Richard Dix, Frances Gifford, Edgar Buchanan, Don Castle, Kent Taylor, Clem Bevans. Plot: Story of a frontier marshal who employed his fists instead of guns to eliminate crooked practices. It is based on true historical incidents taken from actual documents and old newspaper clippings in Tucson, Arizona. Director, William McGann. ZIS BOOM BAH (Mono.) Drama-withMusic. Principals: Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Huntz Hall, Skeets Gallagher, Benny Rubin, Betty Compson. Plot: Twenty years after she had given the custody of her small son to his paternal grandparents, a successful musical comedy star decides to visit the boy at college. She finds the school in financial difficulties, so she sets out to help and through her help gets back her son. Director, William Nigh.