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ter after 20 years. A fatal heart attack follows<br />

his triumph. Pat O'Brien. Ol.vmpe Bradna.<br />

Roland Young. Director: Lewis Milestone.<br />

Our Neighbors—the Carters. .3911. . (85) ... Nov. 24<br />

Comedy Drama. A small town family struggles<br />

for survival against cut-throat competition. Fay<br />

Bainter. Frank Craven. Mary Thomas. Director:<br />

Ralph Murphy.<br />

Parole Fixer. .3920. . (64) <strong>Feb</strong>. 2<br />

Melodrama. FBI work in rounding up criminals<br />

who are loosed by shyster lawyers and crooked<br />

parole boards. William Henry. Virgnia Dale.<br />

Robert Paige. Director: Robert Florey.<br />

Remember the Night . . 3919 . . (86) Jan. 19<br />

Drama. The assistant district attorney prosecutes<br />

the girl he loves who happens to be a Jewel<br />

thief. Barbara Stanwyck. Fred MacMurray.<br />

Director: Mitchell Leisen.<br />

Rulers of the Sea. .3910. (90) Nov. <strong>17</strong><br />

Historical Drama. The victory steam over<br />

of<br />

sail in navigation. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Will<br />

Fyffe. Margaret Lockwood. Director: Frank<br />

Lloyd.<br />

Santa Fe Marshal. .3936. . (68) Jan. 26<br />

Western. The leader of a robber gang is exposed<br />

by a marshal who conceals his identity as a<br />

medicine show participant. M^illiam Boyd, Russell<br />

Hayden, Marjorie Rambeau. Director: Lesley<br />

Selander.<br />

Sidewalks of London . . 3922 . . (84) <strong>Feb</strong>. 16<br />

Drama. The lives of London's "buskers." sidewalk<br />

entertainers. Charles Laughton, Vivien<br />

Leigh. Director: Tim Wheian.<br />

Television Spy. .3907. Oct. 20<br />

Drama. Romance<br />

.(58)<br />

via television blooms amid<br />

foreign intrigue. William Henry, Judith Barrett.<br />

Director: Edward Dmytryk.<br />

What a Life. .3905. . (75) Oct. 6<br />

Comedy. Adolescent problems of school and<br />

dates pile high on Henry. Jackie Cooper, Betty<br />

Field. Director: Theodore Reed.<br />

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Covered Trailer. .915. . (66) Nov. 10<br />

Comedy. Considered lost at sea, the Gleasons are<br />

arrested for forgery when they reach their vacation<br />

spot. James, Lucile and Russell Gleason,<br />

Harry Davenport. Director: Gus Meins.<br />

Cowboys From Texas . . . (57) Nov. 29<br />

Western. Land office racketeers are outwitted<br />

and cleaned up. Bob Livingston. Raymond Hatton,<br />

Duncan Renaldo. Betty Compson. Director:<br />

George Sherman.<br />

Days of Jesse James. .953. . (61) Dec. 20<br />

Western. Further adventures of Jesse James,<br />

and how a peace officer aids a railroad detective<br />

in cleaning up a frontier town. Roy Rog-<br />

Dir<br />

Heroes of the Saddle. .963. . (56) Jan. 10<br />

.<br />

Western. The three mesquiteers rescue the<br />

daughter of their pal who was killed, and<br />

other inmates from a mis-run orphanage. Robert<br />

Livingston, Raymond Hatton. Duncan Renaldo,<br />

Director: William Witney.<br />

Jeepers Creepers. . (69) Oct. 27<br />

Drama with Music. A coal baron's materialism<br />

is circumvented by the simplicity and honesty<br />

of the natives. Roy Rogers. W^eaver Bros, and<br />

Elviry. Director: Frank McDonald.<br />

Kansas Terrors. .961. . (57) Oct. 6<br />

Western. Kansas cowpunchers, accompanying a<br />

midst of a conflict between oppressed peons<br />

and an island overlord. Robert Livingston, Raymond<br />

Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Jacqueline Wells.<br />

Director: George Sherman.<br />

Main Street Lawyer. .905. . (71) Nov. S<br />

Drama. A district attorney's apparent aberration<br />

from duty becomes understood. Edward<br />

Ellis, Anita Louise, Robert Baldwin. Harold<br />

Huber. Director: Dudley Murphy.<br />

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Money to Burn. .9<strong>17</strong>. . (66)<br />

Comedy. Pa Higgins as advertising agency<br />

mania. Ma<br />

employe and Ma with a contest<br />

gets Pa fired so she can enter a contest promoted<br />

by I. i.s agency. James Gleason, Lucile<br />

Gleason. Director: Gus Meins.<br />

Rovin' Tumbie\>etd8..848. .(64) Nov. 16<br />

Western. A flood control bill is blocked until<br />

the opposition's own land faces a threat. Gene<br />

Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Carlisle. Director:<br />

George Sherman.<br />

Sabotage. .913. . (69) Oct. 13<br />

Action Drama. The aid of a group of aged veterans<br />

helps prove a young mechanic innocent of<br />

charges of sabotage in an airplane factory. Arleen<br />

Wheian, Gordon Oliver. Charley Grapewln.<br />

Lucien Littlefield. Director: Harold Young.<br />

Saga of Death VaUey. .952. (58) Nov. 22<br />

Western with Music. A villain control<br />

seeks to<br />

a valley's water supply. Roy Rogers, George<br />

Hayes. Donald Barry, Frank M. Thomas. Director;<br />

Joe Kane.<br />

South of the Border. .941. .(70) Dec. 15<br />

Western. Federal agents quell uprising In<br />

an<br />

Mexico. Gene Autry. Smiley Burnette. Mary Lee.<br />

Director: George Sherman.<br />

Thou Shalt Not Kill. .916. . (64) Dec. 27<br />

Drama. An Innocent lad awaits the death penalty,<br />

while a priest, unable to violate the sanctity<br />

of the confessional, uses his Influence to get the<br />

real killer to confess. Charles Bickford. Owen<br />

Davis jr.. Doris Day. Paul Gulltoyle. Director:<br />

John H. Auer.<br />

Village Barn Dance. .919. Jan. 30<br />

The small-town girl<br />

Musical Comedy Drama.<br />

is won by the handsome newcomer who also<br />

succeeds In regenerating the village skinflint.<br />

BOXOmCE<br />

:<br />

: <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>17</strong>, 1940 83

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