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A CHECK-UP ON FEATURE RELEASES
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Releases of 1933-40 for a five-month period. Production number follows title. Running time in parenthesis. National release
date at end of title line. Symbol U indicates a BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award Winner. Symbol © indicates color photography.
This department makes no attempt at evaluation of picture quality, but merely presents a thumbnail synopsis.
Columbia
Amazingr Mr. WUUanis, The.. 7.. (86).
Mystery Comedy. The solution of crim
stantly detours a detective from march
sweetheart to the altar. Melvyn Dougl£
Blondell. Director: Alexander Hall.
Beware, Spooks!. .1011. . (65)
Comedy. A demoted officer trails his m
Spook House concession. Joe E. Browi
Carlisle. Director: Edward Sedgwick.
.Oct. 24
in to a
Blondie Brings Up Baby . .1013. . (69) Nov. 9
Dumpling, by getting leads
Comedy. Baby lost,
Blondie and Dagwood to a financier who ultimately
sponsors Dagwood's building scheme.
Penny Singleton. Arthur Lake. Larry Simms. Producer:
Frank R. Strayer.
Cafe Hostess. .1030. .(63) Nov. 30
Drama. The unrevealed mother of a night
club hostess saves daughter's fiance from a
jealous rival. Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak,
Douglas Fowley, Wynne Gibson. Director: Sidney
Salkow.
vspaperman.
.(66) Jan. 31
nocent girl, imprisoned, exposes
istration prevailing, through a
Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inesig.
Glenn Ford. Director: Nick
Devil Is an Empress, The. . (73) Dec. 1
Drama. (In French). Portrays Imperial intrigue
II, the rebellion
Five Little Peppers Home.. 1020. . (60)
Comedy. A mine cave-in
Fellows, Clarence Kolb.
Char
.Feb. 8
Edith
Fngitive at I^arge. .1026. . (66) Dec. 7
Drama. A gangster, resembling a construction
engineer, frames the latter in a payroll robbery,
sending him to prison. Jack Holt, Patricia Ellis.
Director: Lewis D. Collins.
Hidden Power. .1025. . (60) Sept. 7
Mystery Drama. Accidental of a
discovery
new explosive fails, despite all opposition, to
veer a scientist from his research for a lifesaving
serum. Jack Holt, Gertrude Michael,
Dickie Moore. Director: Lewis D. Collins.
His Girl Friday. .1003. .(92) Jan. 18
Comedy Drama. A star
rin a condemned man a
reprieve. Gary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph
Bellamy, John Qualen, Gene Lockhart. Director:
Howard Hawks.
lyone Wolf Strikes, The 1019.. (65) Jan. 26
.one Wolf emerges from
Mystery Drama. The
gang who have stolen a
Warren William, Joan
friend's pearl necklace.
Perry. Eric Blore, Robert Wilcox, Astrid Allwyn.
Director: Sidney Salkow.
OMr. Smith Goes to Washingrton . . 1101
(126) Oct. 19
Comedy Drama. The unwitting puppet of a
political gang put wise by his secretary in
is
Congress and proceeds to mend matters. Jean
Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains. Edward
Arnold. Director: F-rank Capra.
Music in M.v Heart .. 1018. . (70)
Jan. 10
Musical. A romance blooms wl a young man,
about to be deported, comes I the life of a
girl Just as she is about to ry a wealthy
publisher. Tony Martin Hayworth, Alan
Mowb
Kostelanetz. Dl-
Joseph Santley.
Dec. 28
a job in the police
the job as a screen
Ities. Bruce Cabot,
y Carey. Director: Charles
e Frontier. .1212. . (58) Feb. 1
e hero and his girl confound the
to steal her property and dominate
Otto
Kruger
Stranger From Texas. .1202. . (55) .
Taming of the West. .1211. . (54) . .
Western. Law and order comi
town. Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith.
Fisted
Hangers.
J-Boat 29. .1010. .(77) ..
Action Drama. Tables
commander endeavoring
inlormation. Conrad \e
rector: Michael Powell.
First National
Fighting 69th, The. .451. . (85)
World War
George Brent, Je
Kejghley.
our Wives. .453. (110) Dec. 25
Drama. The
.
"Four Daughters" become four
wives, and the story depicts the family matters
that concern each. Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn,
Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale
Page. Director: Michael Curtiz.
.481.. (72)
point ot the tragically destined emperor
Medea Novara, Lionel Atwlll,
press.
Nagel. Director: Miguel C. Torres.
On Your Toes. .463. . (94)
A
.Oct. 14
show,
ballet Musical. wealthy girl backs a
unaware was stolen from original owner.
it its
Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale, Gloria
Dickson. Director: RayEnright.
Private Detective. .471. . (55) Dec. 9
Dir
No
leturn of Dr. X, The. .464. . (62)
Mystery Drama. A supposed formula f.
.Dec. 2
Bill Elliott. Linda Winters. Dlrec-
thetic blood returns the executed doctor o life,
only to develop a mania for killing. Hu: iphrey
Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayn Morr Director:
'Vincent Sherman.
Smashlng the Money Kit
Melodrama. A G-man
the leader of a counte
gan, Margot Stevenson,
Terry Morse.
We Are Not Alone.. 458.
Edd
.470. (56) Oct. 21
prison to track
g. Ronald Rea-
?oy jr. Director:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Circus. .8. . (85) Oct. 20
iy. Profits from a show staged by pals
a disinherited playboy's circus. Marx
Florence Rice, Kenny Baker. Director:
Buzzell.
Babes Arms. .9. . (97) Oct. 13
Comedy. Vaudevlllians' children help
Musical
parental finances by putting on a show of their
own. Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Director:
Busby Berkeley.
Weidler, Gene Reynolds
William Thiele.
holds for
Virginia
Director:
Balalaika. .17. . (102)
Drama with Music.
Dec. 29
A cossack officer falls In
love with a cafe singer, unaware that she on is
the side of the revolutionists. Nelson Eddy,
Ilona Massey, Charlie Ruggles. Frank Morgan,
C. Aubrey Smith. Director: Reinhold Schunzel.
Broadway Melody of 1940. .21. . (100) Feb. 9
Musical. A dancing team makes a bid for big
time recognition. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell,
George Murphy. Frank Morgan. Director: Nor-
Congo
Alaisie
H. C.
19. (70) Jan. 19
na. A doctor,
girl and a young
from something, are stranded and
and rehabilitation in the Congos.
John Carroll, Rita Johnson. Di-
Potter.
Earl of Chicago.
Comedy
.18..
Melodrama.
(85)
A Chicago
Jan. 5
gangster Inherits
an English estate and goes to England
to live, taking his lawyer along with him.
Tragedy ensues when the latter tries to settle
an old score with the gangster. Robert Montgomery,
Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen. Gladys
Blake. Director: Richard Thorpe.
Fast and Furious
Comedy. A vac
sleuths when thei
Franchot Tone, j
6.. (73) ..
.tioning coi
- friend is
nn Sotherr
Henry Goes Arizona. .2. . (67)
O,
e turn amat
cused of mur
Director: Bu
rdered
De.
broth,
Morgan. George rphy, Ann Morrlss.
Edv L. Mar
Take s Woman. .26. .
(97) Feb.
Romantic Drama. A ;
clinic doctor saves a giit
from suicide and marries her although knowinu
she is still in love with another. Spencer Trary
Hedy Lamarr. Verree Teasdale, Kent Tavlor. liirector:
W. S. Van Dyke.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
14 . . (69)
Comedy Drama.
Dec. I
A young couple see the president
in behalf of a mailman dismissed from
the service. Ann Sothern, William Gargan,
Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan. Director: Robert
Sinclair.
Judge Hardy and Son . . 16 . (90) Dec. 22
Comedy. In which the irrepressible Andy tries
for dates, but forgets his percial
strike
Rooney, Cecilia
family. Lewis Stone, Mickey
Parker, Fay Holden. Director: George Seltz.
B.
Lambeth Walk. .22. . (66) Jan. -JC,
Comedy. A Cockney inherits a title and neaily
loses his girl friend while submitting to :in
"improvement" program. Lupino Lane, Sall>
Gray. Director: Albert de Courville.
Man From Dakota.. 24. .Feb. 16
Drama. An escaping prisoner of war sacrifices
his life that his co-refugee and a girl may escape.
Wallace Beery, Dolores Del Rio. John
Howard. Director: Leslie Fenton.
Nick Carter, Master Detective. .15. . . .Dec. I.",
Drama. The super sleuth salvages stolen ;iiiplane
plans from foreign agents. Walter Pidgeon.
Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Donald Meek
Director: Jacques Tourner.
Remember?.. 11.. (81)
Farce Comedy. A
friend. When a
Secret of Dr. Kildare..!
Drama. An assignment
ciety girl takes the yo
Nov. 3
A Russian woman commissar,
ito France, falls In love. Greta
Douglas, Ina Claire. Director:
Nov. 10
•r fiance's
ex-flanee
uple. Rob-
. Director:
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