Saturday 31 January 2015

MFB: March 1937





Monthly Film Bulletin
March 1937
Vol. 4 No. 39




Beware of Ladies
USA - 1936 - 64m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Irving Pichel


Black Legion
USA - 1937 - 83m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Archie Mayo


Bulldog Drummond at Bay
UK - 1937 - 78m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Norman Lee


Calling All Ma's
UK - 1937 - 50m - bw
Fox (A) (cut)
D: Redd Davis


The Cheat
Le roman d'un tricheur
(USA: The Story of a Cheat)
(aka: Confessions of a Cheat)
Fr - 1936 - 81m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Sacha Guitry
Also reviewed: Jul 1938.

China Passage
USA - 1937 - 65m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Edward Killy


Darby and Joan
UK - 1937 - 75m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Syd Courtenay


A Doctor's Diary
USA - 1937 - 77m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Charles Vidor

Don't Get Me Wrong
UK - 1937 - 80m - bw
First National (U)
D: Arthur B. Woods, Reginald Purdell


Don't Tell the Wife
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Christy Cabanne


Fire Over England
UK - 1937 - 92m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: William K. Howard


For Valour
UK - 1937 - 95m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Tom Walls


Gold Diggers of 1937
USA - 1936 - 101m - bw
First National (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Series: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).

The Great O'Malley
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
First National (U)
D: William Dieterle


Green Light
USA - 1937 - 85m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Frank Borzage


Head Over Heels
(USA: Head Over Heels in Love)
UK - 1937 - 84m - bw

General Film (U) (cut)
D: Sonnie Hale


Holiday's End
UK - 1937 - 70m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: John Paddy Carstairs


I Promise to Pay
USA - 1937 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman


It's Not Cricket
UK - 1937 - 63m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Ralph Ince


Join the Marines
USA - 1937 - 67m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ralph Staub


Jump for Glory
(USA: When Thief Meets Thief)
UK - 1937 - 85m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Raoul Walsh


King of the Royal Mounted
(aka: Romance of the Royal Mounted)
USA - 1936 - 61m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Howard Bretherton


The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
USA - 1937 - 98m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Boleslawski


Laughing at Trouble
USA - 1936 - 67m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer


Lawless Range
USA - 1935 - 53m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Robert N. Bradbury


Left-Handed Law
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lesley Selander


Lloyd's of London
USA - 1936 - 118m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Henry King


Lucky Jade
UK - 1937 - 69m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Walter Summers


Mama Steps Out
USA - 1937 - 65m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George B. Seitz


The Mandarin Mystery
USA - 1936 - 66m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Ralph Staub


Mayfair Melody
UK - 1937 - 83m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Arthur B. Woods


Melody for Two
USA - 1937 - 60m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Louis King


Michael Strogoff
The Soldier and the Lady
(aka: The Bandit and the Lady)
USA - 1937 - 85m - bw
Radio (A)
D: George Nichols Jr.

Once a Doctor
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Warner (A)
D: William Clemens


On the Avenue
USA - 1937 - 89m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Roy Del Ruth


Outcast
USA - 1937 - 73m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Robert Florey

The Outer Gate
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Raymond Cannon


Pagliacci
(USA: A Clown Must Laugh)
UK/It - 1936 - 92m - bw and col
United Artists (A)
D: Karl Grune


Patricia Gets Her Man
UK - 1937 - 68m - bw
First National (A)
D: Reginald Purdell


Pearls Bring Tears
UK - 1937 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: H. Manning Haynes


The Price of Folly
UK - 1937 - 52m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Walter Summers


Sandflow
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lesley Selander


Sea Devils
USA - 1937 - 88m - bw
Radio (A) (cut)
D: Benjamin Stoloff

The Sequel to Second Bureau
Les loups entre eux
Fr - 1936 - 103m - bw
[Distributor unknown] (A)
D: Léon Mathot

Series: Second Bureau (1935, Jan/1936).

Side Street Angel
UK - 1937 - 64m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Ralph Ince


The Singing Cowboy
USA - 1936 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Mack V. Wright

Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Smart Blonde
USA - 1937 - 59m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Frank McDonald

Followed by: Fly Away Baby (1937, Jul/1937), The Adventurous Blonde (1937, Nov/1937), Blondes at Work (1938, May/1938), Torchy Blane in Panama (1938, May/1938), Torchy Gets Her Man (1938, Feb/1939), Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939, Mar/1939), Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939, Apr/1939), Torchy Blane... Playing With Dynamite (1939, Dec/1939).

Stampede
USA/Can - 1936 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ford Beebe


Stolen Holiday
USA - 1937 - 80m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Michael Curtiz


Stowaway
USA - 1936 - 87m - bw
Fox (U)
D: William A. Seiter


Three Smart Girls
USA - 1936 - 84m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Henry Koster

Followed by: Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939, Apr/1939), Hers to Hold (1943, Sep/1943).

Thunder in the City
UK - 1937 - 87m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Marion Gering


Two Wise Maids
USA - 1937 - 70m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Phil Rosen


Underneath the Arches
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Redd Davis


Variety Hour
UK - 1937 - 66m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Redd Davis


We From Kronstadt
Мы из Кронштадта
(USA: We Are From Kronstadt)
(aka: The Sailors of Kronstadt)
USSR - 1936 - 88m - bw
The Film Society (A)
D: Efim Dzigan

We're on the Jury
USA - 1937 - 70m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Ben Holmes


White Death
Aus/USA - 1936 - 81m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Edwin G. Bowen


Wild Brian Kent
USA - 1936 - 57m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Howard Bretherton


The Windmill
UK - 1937 - 62m - bw
First National (A)
D: Arthur B. Woods


Woman-Wise
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Allan Dwan


You Only Live Once
USA - 1937 - 86m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Fritz Lang


Friday 30 January 2015

MFB: February 1937


Monthly Film Bulletin
February 1937
Vol. 4 No. 38


After the Thin Man
USA - 1936 - 112m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: W.S. Van Dyke

Series: The Thin Man (1934, Jul/1934).

Arizona Days
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: John English


Arizona Mahoney
(aka: Arizona Thunderbolt)
USA - 1936 - 58m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: James P. Hogan


Auld Lang Syne
UK - 1937 - 72m - bw
MGM (A)
D: James A. FitzPatrick


Beloved Enemy
USA - 1936 - 90m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: H.C. Potter


The Big Show
USA - 1936 - 71m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Mack V. Wright

Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

The Black Tulip
UK - 1937 - 57m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Alex Bryce


The Bold Cavalier
The Bold Caballero
USA - 1936 - 67m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Wells Root

Breezing Home
USA - 1937 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Milton Carruth


Bulldog Drummond Escapes
USA - 1937 - 67m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: James P. Hogan


Camille
USA - 1936 - 109m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: George Cukor


Career Woman
USA - 1936 - 76m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Lewis Seiler


Children of the Fog
UK - 1935 - 59m - bw
National Provincial (A)
D: Leopold Jessner, John Quin


Counterfeit Lady
USA - 1936 - 58m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: D. Ross Lederman


Country Gentleman
USA - 1936 - 66m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ralph Staub


Crack-Up
USA - 1936 - 65m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Malcolm St. Clair


Criminal Lawyer
USA - 1937 - 72m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Christy Cabanne


Dangerous Number
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe


Dark Journey
(aka: The Anxious Years)
UK - 1937 - 77m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Victor Saville


The Devil's Playground
USA - 1937 - 74m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton


The Dominant Sex
UK - 1937 - 74m - bw
Wardour (A)
D: Herbert Brenon


Down to the Sea
USA - 1936 - 69m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins


Dreaming Lips
UK - 1937 - 94m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Paul Czinner

The Elder Brother
UK - 1937 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frederick Hayward


Elephant Boy
UK - 1937 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda

The Gangster's Bride
Secret Valley
USA - 1937 - 60m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Howard Bretherton

Good Morning, Boys!
UK - 1937 - 79m - bw
Gaumont-British (A)
D: Marcel Varnel


The Great Barrier
(USA: Silent Barriers)
UK - 1937 - 83m - bw
Gaumont-British (U)
D: Milton Rosmer


Happy Go Lucky
USA - 1936 - 69m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Aubrey Scotto


Hélène
Fr - 1936 - 101m - bw
[No distributor or certificate]
D: Jean Benoît-Lévy

It's a Grand Old World
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Smith


Kathleen Mavourneen
(USA: Kathleen)
UK - 1937 - 75m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Norman Lee


Killer at Large
(aka: Killer on the Loose)
USA - 1936 - 54m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: David Selman


King of the Pecos
USA - 1936 - 54m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane


Lady From Nowhere
USA - 1936 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Gordon Wiles


The Leavenworth Case
USA - 1936 - 66m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins
Rejected by the BBFC in 1936, then passed the same year, possibly with cuts.

Let's Make a Million
USA - 1936 - 61m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Ray McCarey


London Melody
(USA: Girl in the Street)
UK - 1937 - 75m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Herbert Wilcox


Maid of Salem
USA - 1937 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frank Lloyd


Man of the People
USA - 1937 - 81m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin


Mazurka
Ger - 1935 - 91m - bw
[Distributor unknown] (A)
D: Willi Forst


The Mighty Treve
USA - 1937 - 67m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

The Mighty Tundra
Tundra
USA - 1936 - 75m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Norman Dawn

Mind Your Own Business
USA - 1936 - 75m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Norman Z. McLeod


More Than a Secretary
USA - 1936 - 77m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alfred E. Green


One in a Million
USA - 1936 - 95m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Sidney Lanfield


The Plainsman
USA - 1936 - 113m - bw
Paramount (U) (cut)
D: Cecil B. DeMille


Pleaƨe Teacher
UK - 1937 - 75m - bw
Wardour (U)
D: Stafford Dickens


Romance Rides the Range
USA - 1936 - 59m - bw
Pioneer (U)
D: Harry L. Fraser


The Song of the Road
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
Sound City (U)
D: John Baxter


Splinters in the Air
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Alfred J. Goulding

Series: Splinters (1929).

Texas Serenade
The Old Corral
USA - 1936 - 57m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Joseph Kane
SeriesIn Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).
Also reviewed: Sep 1937.

That Girl From Paris
USA - 1936 - 104m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Leigh Jason


Theodora Goes Wild
USA - 1936 - 94m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Richard Boleslawski


The Three Mesquiteers
USA - 1936 - 61m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Followed by: Ghost-Town Gold (1936, Aug/1937), Roarin' Lead (1936), The Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937), Hit the Saddle (1937, Dec/1938), Gunsmoke Ranch (1937, Nov/1937), Come On, Cowboys (1937, Dec/1937), Range Defenders (1937, Feb/1938), Heart of the Rockies (1937, Jun/1938), The Trigger Trio (1937, Apr/1938), Wild Horse Rodeo (1937), The Purple Vigilantes (1938), Call the Mesquiteers (1938, Aug/1938), Outlaws of Sonora (1938), Riders of the Black Hills (1938, Feb/1939), Heroes of the Hills (1938, Mar/1939), Pals of the Saddle (1938), Overland Stage Raiders (1938, Mar/1939), Santa Fe Stampede (1938, Mar/1939), Red River Range (1938, Mar/1939), The Night Riders (1939), Three Texas Steers (1939, Jan/1940), Wyoming Outlaw (1939, Dec/1939), New Frontier (1939), The Kansas Terrors (1939), Cowboys From Texas (1939, Jul/1940), Heroes of the Saddle (1940, May/1941), Pioneers of the West (1940), Covered Wagon Days (1940, Sep/1940), Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940, Dec/1940), Oklahoma Renegades (1940), Under Texas Skies (1940, Jul/1941), The Trail Blazers (1940), Lone Star Raiders (1940), Prairie Pioneers (1941), Pals of the Pecos (1941), Saddlemates (1941), Gangs of Sonora (1941), Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941), Gauchos of El Dorado (1941), West of Cimarron (1941), Code of the Outlaw (1942), Raiders of the Range (1942), Westward Ho (1942), The Phantom Plainsmen (1942), Shadows on the Sage (1942), Valley of Hunted Men (1942, Jul/1949), Thundering Trails (1943, Sep/1949), The Blocked Trail (1943), Santa Fe Scouts (1943), Riders of the Rio Grande (1943).

Trail Dust
USA - 1936 - 77m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Nate Watt

Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Under Cover of Night
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George B. Seitz


Vengeance
(USA: What Price Vengeance?)
Can/USA - 1937 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Del Lord


The Vulture
UK - 1937 - 67m - bw
First National (A)
D: Ralph Ince

Followed by: The Viper (1938, Mar/1938).

Wanted!
UK - 1937 - 69m - bw
Sound City (U)
D: George King


The White Legion
(aka: The Hell-Hole Named Panama)
USA - 1936 - 81m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Karl Brown


Woman in Distress
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lynn Shores


Thursday 29 January 2015

MFB: January 1937



Charlie Chan at the Opera


Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1937
Vol. 4 No. 37



Aren't Men Beasts!
UK - 1936 - 66m - bw
Wardour (A) (cut)
D: Graham Cutts

Banjo on My Knee
USA - 1936 - 95m - bw
Fox (A) (cut)
D: John Cromwell


Champagne Waltz
USA - 1936 - 85m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: A. Edward Sutherland


Charlie Chan at the Opera
USA - 1936 - 68m - bw
Fox (A) (cut)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone
Series: Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).

College Holiday
USA - 1936 - 86m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Tuttle


Come Up Smiling
Sing Me a Love Song
USA - 1936 - 75m - bw
First National (U)
D: Ray Enright

Craig's Wife
USA - 1936 - 73m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Dorothy Arzner


Cross My Heart
UK - 1936 - 65m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Bernard Mainwaring


The Dawn
(USA: Dawn Over Ireland)
Ire - 1936 - 89m - bw
International (A) (cut)
D: Thomas Cooper


Ernte
(USA: Harvest)
Austria - 1936 - 89m - bw
The Film Society (U)
D: Géza von Bolváry

Fear
La peur
Fr - 1936 - 87m - bw
Reunion (A)
D: Viktor Tourjansky


Flying Hostess
USA - 1936 - 71m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Murray Roth


Four Days' Wonder
USA - 1936 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Sidney Salkow


The Glorious Sacrifice
The Glory Trail
USA - 1936 - 65m - bw
Fidelity (U)
D: Lynn Shores


Hats Off
USA - 1936 - 66m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Boris Petroff

Landslide
UK - 1936 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Donovan Pedelty


Love From a Stranger
(USA: A Night of Terror)
UK - 1936 - 86m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Rowland V. Lee


Mysterious Crossing
USA - 1936 - 57m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin


Night Waitress
USA - 1936 - 57m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Lew Landers


O.H.M.S.
(USA: You're in the Army Now)
UK - 1936 - 87m - bw
Gaumont-British (U)
D: Raoul Walsh

Pluck of the Irish
Great Guy
USA - 1936 - 75m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: John G. Blystone

Polo Joe
USA - 1936 - 65m - bw
First National (U)
D: William C. McGann


Racing Lady
USA - 1936 - 59m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Wallace Fox


Rainbow on the River
(aka: It Happened in New Orleans)
USA - 1936 - 87m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Kurt Neumann


Regine
Ger - 1935 - 90m - bw
Tobis (A) (cut)
D: Erich Waschneck

Sinner Take All
USA - 1936 - 74m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Errol Taggart


The Song of the Sun
La canzone del sole
It - 1934 - 92m - bw
International Cinematograph (U)
D: Max Neufeld
Italian-language version of the German film Das Lied der Sonne (1933), both shot on the same sets with actors unique to each version.

Strange Experiment
UK - 1936 - 74m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Albert Parker


Tainted Money
Show Them No Mercy!
USA - 1935 - 76m - bw
Fox (A)
D: George Marshall
Rejected by the BBFC in 1935 when submitted as Show Them No Mercy!, then passed in 1936 - possibly with cuts - as Tainted Money.

La tendre ennemie
(USA: The Tender Enemy)
France - 1936 - 69m - bw
The Film Society (A)
D: Max Ophüls

They Wanted to Marry
USA - 1936 - 60m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Lew Landers


Wake Up Famous
UK - 1936 - 68m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Gene Gerrard


Well Done, Henry
UK - 1936 - 86m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Wilfred Noy


What Price Beauty?
False Faces
USA - 1932 - 73m - bw
Metropole (A)
D: Lowell Sherman
Rejected by the BBFC in 1932 when submitted by Gaumont under its original title, then passed in 1936 - possibly with cuts - as What Price Beauty?.

White Hunter
USA - 1936 - 65m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Irving Cummings


Yellow Cargo
(aka: Sinful Cargo)
USA - 1936 - 63m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Crane Wilbur

Followed by: Navy Spy (1937, Aug/1937), The Gold Racket (1937, Oct/1937), Bank Alarm (1937, Oct/1937).