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tect the secret from raiders. Polly Ann Toung,
Kenneth Harlan. Director: Harry S. Webb. 9-39
Return of the Frog. . (70) Select
Melodrama. The Frog and his henchmen return
to terrorize London. Gordon Harker. Hartley
Power, Rene Ray. Director: Maurice Elvey. 10-39
Riders of the Sage.. (53) Metropolitan
Western. A range war, with the sheep men trying
to rout the cattle men. Bob Steele, Claire
Rochelle, Ralph Hoopes. 1-40
Second Bnreau. . (60) Film Alliance
Spy Drama. A German girl spy trails a French
spy agent. They fall In love, admit their identities,
and plan to resign and marry. But the
girl Is shot as a traitor. Marta Labarr. Charles
Oliver. Director: W. Victor Hanbury. 1-40
Songs and Saddles . . (67) Alexander
"Western. A cowboy hides his friend, a ranch
owner, and then rounds up the gang who believe
their attempt to kill the rancher was successful.
Gene Austin, Lynne Berkley. Director:
Harry Fraser. 1-40
Spies of the Air. (78) AlUance
Mystery Drama. The Intelligence, by
British
the process of elimination, uncovers the traitor
who has been stealing aeronautic plans. Barry
K. Barnes. Roger Livesey, Joan Marion, Basil
Radford. Director: David MacDonald. 1-40
Straight Shooter. . (54) Principal
heroine. Tim McCoy, Julie Sheldon. Director:
Sam Newfield. 1-40
Straight to Heaven.. (56) Domino
All-Negro Drama. A chemist uncovers a canned
goods racket In Harlem, but is framed by the
guilty parties and sent to jail. His wife and
lawyer friend continue the crusade until the head
mobster Is exposed. Nina Mae McKinney. Jackie
Ward, Stanley Harrison, Percy Verwayne, Lionel
Monagas. Director: Arthur Leonard. 1-40
Takn . . (48) Norman Dawn
Nature gold-mining country of
Drama. The
Alaska as seen through the eyes of an old prospector.
Amateur cast. Director: Norman Dawn.
10-39
Tlmberland Terror.. (75) Hoffberg
Melodrama. A lifeguard saves the heroine and
her father's timber business. Shirley Ann Richards,
Frank Leighton. Director: Ken G. Hall.
Torpedoed ! . (66) Film Alliance
Melodrama. British diplomats quell a
naval
Latin revolution when a ship Is attacked. H. B.
Warner, Robert Douglas, Richard Cromwell. 10-39
Torture Ship. (57) Oct. 22 F-D-C
In
Melodrama. Criminals ship mutiny aboard
fear of becoming scientific experiments. Irving
Plchel, Jacqueline Wells, Lvle Talbot. Director:
Victor Halperin. 11-39
Treachery on the High Seas. . (68) Times
Melodrama. Jewel thieves are after a ruby necklace
on a trans-Atlantic liner. Ben Lyon, Bebe
Daniels. 10-39
Trigger Fingers. . (55) Victory
Western. A G-man tracks down the rustlers. Tim
McCoy. Ben Corbett. Joyce Bryant.
MTlen Germany Surrendered. . (70) A. !>. Rule
Documentary. An appeal for peace. Scenes of
the battlefronts and submarine warfare of the
World War. 11-39
Why This War. . (70) Jewel
Documentary indicting the war-makers. Compiled
by Samuel Cummins. 11-39
pranks in a middle-class French boys' school,
in which one of the lads inadvertently learns
that the educational director involved with a
is
gang of counterfeiters. Aime Clarion, Eric von
Stroheim, Michael Simon. Director: Christian
Jaque. 1-40
Citadel of Silence, The . . (French)
(91) FUm AUiance
Drama. A Polish patriot marries a Russian prison
commandant to be near her imprisoned lover
and later to inspire mutiny. Annabella, Pierre
Renoir. Director: Marcel L'Herbier. 2-40
End of a Day, The. . (94) Juno Films
Drama. Actors at the their careers.
twilight of
Victor Francen, Louis Jouvet. Michel Simon.
Director: Julien Duvivier. 10-39
(90) Concord
Entente
Drama.
Cordiale. . (French)
The alliance
.
between two traditional
enemies, England and France, that came at the
turn of the century. Victor Francen, Gaby Morlay.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier. 1-40
Golden Ke.v, The. (70) .. (Russian)
.
Amkino
,
Dec. 25
Tolstoy's the of Russian Fantasy. adaptation
Pinocchio yarn, about a poor musician who
fashions a puppet from a block of wood. It
comes to life and gets involved in a series of
fairy tale complications. A. Shagin, S. Martinson,
G. Uvarov. 1.40
Hatred. . (. .) World
Drama. A story of the sea. (In French, with
English titles). Harry Baur.
Katia . . (French) . . (78) Mayer-Burstvn
Drama. A marriage of love for Alexander "ll
when assassination ends all. Danielle Darrieux!
John Loder. Director: Maurice Tourneur. 2-40
L'Alibi.. (82)., (Foreign Dialogue) Columbia
French Melodrama. (English subtitles). A girl,
stacked up against the persistent forces of the
law, confesses to the falsity of a "perfect alibi."
Eric von Stroheim, Jany Holt, Louis Jouvet. Director:
Pierre Chenal. 1-40
La Inmacnlada. (Spanish) . . tFA
Drama in Spanish. Produced by Atalaya Films
for the Latin market. A married to one
girl,
man, loves another. When the husband finds
she lovee some one he himself. In
else, kills
Fortunio Bonanova, Andrea Palma. Director-
Louis Gasnier. 1-40
Life of Tchaikowsky, The (Es War Eine
RauBchende Ballnacht) (93)
. .
CFA-Carl Froelich. .Nov. 1939
Music Drama. The composer's struggle for recognition.
English sub-titles. Zarah Leander,
Arlbert Wascher, Hans Stowe. 12-39
Light Ahead, The. .(108) Carmel
Drama. Romance spurs a blind girl and a crippled
bath attendant to combat the smugness
and superstition of the townsfolk. Isidore Casher.
Helen Beverly. Director: Edgar Ulmer 10-39
Louise . . (French) . . (72) Mayer-Burstvn
Music Drama. In the period of 1900 a g.rl runs
off to Paris with a composer. The opera iiite.
grates the story. Grace Moore, Georges Tliill
Love in Old Naples. . (Italian) .. (99) Esi>eria
Musical Drama. A story of unrequited love and
matica, Vittorio De Sica. 2-40
Mademoiselle Ma Mere.. (78) J. H. Hoffberg
Farce Comedy. Annulment follows the marriage
of a young woman and an elderly man when she
runs off with her stepson. Danielle Darrieu.T,
Marcel Simon. Director: Henri Decoin. 10-39
Marseillaise. . (79) World. .Nov. 3
Historical Drama. of the French
Early days
Republic. Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare. Louis
Jouvet. Director: Jean Renoir. 12-39
Mirele Efros. . (87) Credo
Drama. A daughter-in-law mother-inlaw
versus
ends at the bar mitzvah of grand.son.
a
Berta Gersten, Michael Rosenberg, Ruth Elbaum.
Director: Josef Berne. 11-39
On His Own. . (96) Amkino
Drama. A screen biography of Maxim Gorki as
his adult lite begins. Alexi Lyarsky. Director:
Mark Donskoi. 10-39
Port of .Shadows. .(68) Film Alliance
Drama. Romance of an army deserter and girl
the former is killed by a gangster. Jean Gabln,
Michele Morgan. Director: Michael Carne. 11-39
Rasputin . . (93) Concord
Drama. The influential monk's notorious activities.
Harry Baur. Director: Marcel L'Herbier.
11-39
Scipione L'Africano . . (155) Esperla
Historical Drama. The conquest of Carthage by
the Romans. Isa Miranda and Italian cast. DIrectoi
: Carmine Gallone. 10-39
Shors. . (Russian) (92) Amkino
Historical Drama. The spurred
idealism that
tor:
the conquest of the Ukraine In 1917-19. Dire,
Alexander Dovzhenko. 2-40
Tev.va. (Yiddish) (93) Maymon
.
Drama.
. .
Daughter of a Jewish family in old
Russia, married out of her religion, returns as]
the family is about to be expelled from the'
Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle. 2-40
That They May Live (J'Accuse)
(78) Mayer-Bur>l.vn
Drama. Fantasy of dead comrades aiding a \\:^v
veteran to fight for peace. Victor Francen. IMrector:
Abel Gance. 12-39
We Two.. (Swedish). .(89)
Drama. A husband becomes inv<
tion with his friend's wife, bu
has a baby, happiness wipes
Sture Lagerwall, Signe Hasso.
_i7/f 'Tk e Making^
Foreign Dialogue
. .
A Brivele Der Mamen (A Letter to
Mother) (lOfl) Sphinx
Drama. Disintegration of a family of Jews,
who, one by one, leave Poland for America.
Lucy Gehrman, Alexander Stein, Max Bozyk.
Producer: Greenfilm, "Warsaw. 10-39
A People Eternal. . (65) Six Star
Drama. Mystical interpretation of the Messiah's
plea tor salvation. English subtitles. Conrad
Veldt, Peggy Ashcrott, Basil Gill. Director:
Maurice Elvey. 12-39
Affair Laffont, The. (90) Trans-Atlantic
.
Drama. A married w^oman shoots her sister
whose illegitimate child she has raised, when a
blackmailing father arrives and the mother Is
about to Corinne Luchaire. Director:
tell all.
Leonid Moguy. 11-39
Betrayal . . (80) World
Historical Drama. The love of Catherine the
Great for the treacherous Count Orloff. Annie
Vernay, Pierre Richard-Willm. Director: Fedor
Ozep. 10-39
Boys' School.. (90). .(Foreign Dialogue) .. Columbia
French Melodrama. A kaleidoscope of kiddlsh
One Was Beautiful—Jean Muir, Robert Cummings,
Laraine Day, Billie Burke. Director: Robert Sinclair.
Producer: Frederic Stephani. (Starting)
MONOGRAM
Midnight Limited—John King. Me
Edward Keane, George Cleveland
ard Bretherton. Producer: T. R.
nal Screenplay: C. B. Williams,
Rancho Grande—Gene Autry, Smiley
June Storey, Dick Hogan, Rex Lease.
Frank McDonald. Producer: Willian
Screenplay: Betty Burbrldgc, Peter Mil
The Saint Takes Ov
HKO RADIO
Roland
Drew
Cisco Kid— Cesar Romero, Jean Rot;
is-Pin Martin, Minor Watson. Director: >
Foster. Producer: John Stone. (Complct
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La Conga Nights—Hugh Herbert. Director:
Landers. Producer: Ken Goldsmith. Screer
Paul Gerard Smith. (Stni
WAHNER-FN
.\n Angel From Texas—Eddie Albert, Wayne Morris,
Rosemary Lane, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan,
Ruth Terry. Director: Ray Enright. Pro-i
ducer: Robert Fellows. Screenplay: Wally Klein,:
Bertram Mllhauser, Fred Niblo jr. (Starting):
Saturday's Children—John Garfield, Claude Rain.'i
Anne Shirley, Frank McHugh. Director: W.lli.ini
Keighley. Producer: Henry Blanke. ScreeniMav
Julius and Philip Epstein. (Completeill
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