MFB: August 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1944

Vol. 11 No. 128

Action in Arabia
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Léonide Moguy

The Actress
Актриса
USSR - 1943 - 76m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (U)
D: Leonid Trauberg

The Adventures of Mark Twain
USA - 1943 - 130m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Irving Rapper

Beautiful But Broke
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

The Canterville Ghost
USA - 1944 - 95m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Jules Dassin

Close Harmony
Cowboy Canteen
USA - 1944 - 72m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Canterville Ghost

Double Indemnity
USA - 1944 - 107m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Billy Wilder

English Without Tears
(USA: Her Man Gilbey)
UK - 1944 - 89m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Harold French

Ghost Catchers
USA - 1944 - 68m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Edward F. Cline

Give Us the Moon
UK - 1944 - 95m - bw
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Val Guest

Hat Check Honey
USA - 1944 - 68m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Hawaiian Buckaroo
USA - 1938 - 58m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Hi, Good Lookin'!
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward C. Lilley

It Happened One Sunday
UK - 1944 - 97m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Carl Lamac

Jamboree
USA - 1944 - 71m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley

Justice is Coming
Суд Идёт
USSR - 1943 - 70m - bw
New Realm
D: Ilya Kopalin

Klondike Kate
USA - 1943 - 64m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: William Castle

Ladies Courageous
(aka: Fury in the Sky)
USA - 1944 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: John Rawlins

Murder in Thornton Square
Gaslight
USA - 1944 - 114m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George Cukor

Nine Girls
USA - 1944 - 78m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Leigh Jason

Once Upon a Time
USA - 1944 - 89m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Alexander Hall

Outlaws of Stampede Pass
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Series: The Ghost Rider (1943, May/1944).

Panamint's Bad Man
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Ray Taylor

The Return of the Vikings
UK - 1944 - 52m - bw
Ealing (U)
D: Charles Frend

Swingtime Johnny
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Trocadero
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Nigh

Two-Man Submarine
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Whistling in Brooklyn
USA - 1943 - 87m - bw
MGM (A)
D: S. Sylvan Simon
Series: Whistling in the Dark (1941, Oct/1941).

The White Cliffs of Dover
USA - 1944 - 126m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Clarence Brown

MFB: July 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1944

Vol. 11 No. 127

3 Men in White
USA - 1944 - 85m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Willis Goldbeck
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

Address Unknown
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: William Cameron Menzies

Block Busters
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Series: East Side Kids (1940).

Cowboy and the Senorita
USA - 1944 - 78m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Detective Kitty O'Day
USA - 1944 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: William Beaudine
Followed by: Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945, Jun/1945).

The Eve of St. Mark
USA - 1944 - 96m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: John M. Stahl

The Great Moment
USA - 1944 - 83m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Preston Sturges

Knickerbocker Holiday
USA - 1944 - 85m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Harry Joe Brown

Ladies of Washington
USA - 1944 - 61m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Louis King

Lady in the Death House
USA - 1944 - 56m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Steve Sekely

Man From Frisco
USA - 1944 - 91m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Robert Florey

Medal for the General
(USA: The Gay Intruders)
UK - 1944 - 100m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

Men on Her Mind
USA - 1944 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Wallace Fox

Passage to Marseille
USA - 1944 - 109m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Michael Curtiz

She Has What It Takes
USA - 1943 - 66m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Slightly Terrific
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Sweethearts on Parade
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
USA - 1944 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Texas Masquerade
USA - 1944 - 58m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: George Archainbaud
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Three Men in White
[see: 3 Men in White]

Uncertain Glory
USA - 1944 - 102m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Raoul Walsh

Up in Mabel's Room
USA - 1944 - 76m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Allan Dwan

What a Man!
USA - 1944 - 67m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

Where Are Your Children?
USA - 1943 - 73m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Nigh
Followed by: Are These Our Parents? (1944, Feb/1945).

You Can't Ration Love
USA - 1944 - 78m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lester Fuller

MFB: June 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1944

Vol. 11 No. 126

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
USA - 1944 - 107m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Rowland V. Lee

A Canterbury Tale
UK - 1944 - 124m - bw
Eagle-Lion (U)
D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Also reviewed: Nov 1984.

Cobra Woman
USA - 1944 - 71m - col
General Film (A)
D: Robert Siodmak

Cover Girl
USA - 1944 - 107m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Charles Vidor

The Falcon Out West
USA - 1944 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: William Clemens
Series: The Gay Falcon (1941, Nov/1941).

Follow the Boys
USA - 1944 - 122m - bw
General Film (U)
D: A. Edward Sutherland

Going My Way
USA - 1944 - 126m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Leo McCarey
Followed by: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945, Jul/1946).

Here Comes Elmer
USA - 1943 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley

Home in Indiana
USA - 1944 - 106m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Hathaway

Hotel Reserve
UK - 1944 - 90m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum [as: Max Green], Victor Hanbury

Java Head
UK - 1934 - 85m - bw
Renown (U)
D: Thorold Dickinson, J. Walter Ruben
Original UK release: 1934 (Associated-British).

The Jungle Woman
Nabonga
USA - 1944 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Sam Newfield

Lady in the Dark
USA - 1944 - 100m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Mitchell Leisen

The Lone Star Trail
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ray Taylor

My Best Gal
USA - 1944 - 67m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Anthony Mann

No Greater Love
Она защищает Родину
USSR - 1943 - 80m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Fridrikh Ermler

No Greater Love

None Shall Escape
USA - 1943 - 85m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: André De Toth

Pin Up Girl
USA - 1944 - 84m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

Rookies in Burma
USA - 1943 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins
Series: The Adventures of a Rookie (1943, Jan/1944).

Seeds of Freedom
USA/USSR - 1943 - 67m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (A) (cut)
D: Hans Buger, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Combines newly-shot footage with material from Battleship Potemkin (1925, Jun/1944 + Mar/1954), thereby creating an entirely new narrative.

The Story of Dr. Wassell
USA - 1944 - 140m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Cecil B. DeMille

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
USA - 1943 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Tropicana
The Heat's On
USA - 1943 - 79m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Two Girls and a Sailor
USA - 1944 - 124m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe

The Way Ahead
(aka: The Immortal Battalion)
UK - 1944 - 115m - bw
Eagle-Lion (U)
D: Carol Reed

Weekend Pass
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough

Weird Woman
USA - 1944 - 63m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Series: Calling Dr. Death (1943, Apr/1944).

MFB: May 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1944

Vol. 11 No. 125

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
USA - 1944 - 107m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

The Battle for the Ukraine
Битва за нашу Советскую Украину
(USA: Ukraine in Flames)
USSR - 1943 - 72m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (A)
D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

The Battle of Russia: Special Service Division Information Film #5
USA - 1943 - 83m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Series: Prelude to War: Special Service Division Information Film #1 (1942).

The Beautiful Cheat
What a Woman!
USA - 1943 - 94m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Bermuda Mystery
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Benjamin Stoloff

Campus Rhythm
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Candles at Nine
UK - 1944 - 75m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: John Harlow

Career Girl
USA - 1944 - 69m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox

Casanova in Burlesque
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins

Chip Off the Old Block
USA - 1944 - 71m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

The Deerslayer
USA - 1943 - 67m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Double Punch
Down Rio Grande Way
USA - 1942 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

Fanny by Gaslight
(USA: Man of Evil)
UK - 1944 - 107m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Anthony Asquith

The Forgotten Village
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Grand National (U) (cut)
D: Herbert Kline

Four Jills in a Jeep
USA - 1944 - 89m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: William A. Seiter

The Ghost Rider
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Followed by: The Stranger From Pecos (1943, Oct/1944), Six Gun Gospel (1943), Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943, Aug/1944), The Texas Kid (1943, Nov/1944), Raiders of the Border (1944, Feb/1945), Partners of the Trail (1944, Jun/1945), Law Men (1944, Oct/1945), Range Law (1944, Aug/1945), West of the Rio Grande (1944, Mar/1945), Land of the Outlaws (1944), Law of the Valley (1944, Feb/1946), Ghost Guns (1944, Aug/1946), The Navajo Trail (1945, Dec/1946), Gun Smoke (1945, Jun/1946), Stranger From Santa Fe (1945, Feb/1947), The Lost Trail (1945, Oct/1946), Frontier Feud (1945, Apr/1947), The Haunted Mine (1946, Aug/1947).

Hey Rookie
USA - 1944 - 77m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

The Hour Before the Dawn
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frank Tuttle

The Impostor
(aka: Bayonet Charge)
(aka: Strange Confession)
USA - 1944 - 92m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

In Our Time
USA - 1944 - 110m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Vincent Sherman

Jacob Sverdlov
Яков Свердлов
USSR - 1940 - 124m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (A)
D: Sergei Yutkevich, M. Itina

Leopard Men of Africa
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Allyn Butterfield, Paul L. Hoefler

Let's Have Fun
USA - 1943 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Melody Inn
Riding High
USA - 1943 - 88m - col
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

Ministry of Fear
USA - 1943 - 86m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang

Moonlight and Cactus
(aka: Cactus Round-Up)
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Moonlight in Vermont
USA - 1943 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward C. Lilley

Mr. Muggs Steps Out
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine
Series: East Side Kids (1940).

The Navy Way
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: William Berke

Phantom Lady
USA - 1944 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Siodmak
Also reviewed: May 1978.

The Purple Heart
USA - 1944 - 99m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lewis Milestone

Roll On
Lawless Plainsmen
USA - 1942 - 59m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

Silver Spurs
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Strangest Case
The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Eugene Forde
Series: Crime Doctor (1943, Nov/1943).

The Sultan's Daughter
USA - 1944 - 64m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Swing Out the Blues
USA - 1943 - 73m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair

Tampico
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lothar Mendes

Tawny Pipit
UK - 1944 - 81m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Saunders, Bernard Miles

Tell Me Tonight
(USA: Be Mine Tonight)
UK/Germany - 1932 - 91m - bw
W & F (U)
D: Anatole Litvak

There's Something About a Soldier
USA - 1944 - 81m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

This Happy Breed
UK - 1944 - 115m - col
Eagle-Lion (A)
D: David Lean

Welcome, Mr. Washington
UK - 1944 - 90m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Leslie S. Hiscott

Whispering Footsteps
USA - 1943 - 54m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

You Can't Beat the Law
Smart Guy
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

MFB: April 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

April 1944

Vol. 11 No. 124

Around the World
USA - 1943 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Allan Dwan

Broadway Rhythm
USA - 1944 - 115m - col
MGM (U)
D: Roy Del Ruth

Buffalo Bill
USA - 1944 - 90m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: William A. Wellman

Bullet Scars
USA - 1942 - 59m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Calling Dr. Death
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Followed by: Weird Woman (1944, Jun/1944), Dead Man's Eyes (1944, Feb/1945), The Frozen Ghost (1944, Aug/1945), Strange Confession (1945, Nov/1945), Pillow of Death (1945, Dec/1945).

Desert Phantom
USA - 1936 - 60m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: S. Roy Luby

Destination Tokyo
USA - 1943 - 135m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Delmer Daves

Escape From Crime
USA - 1942 - 51m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Farmyard Follies
Hoosier Holiday
USA - 1943 - 65m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald

Father is a Prince
USA - 1940 - 57m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Noel M. Smith

The Fighting Seabees
USA - 1944 - 100m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Edward Ludwig

Find the Blackmailer
USA - 1943 - 55m - bw
Warner (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman

For Those in Peril
UK - 1944 - 77m - bw
Ealing (U) (cut)
D: Charles Crichton

Frontier Badmen
USA - 1943 - 73m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ford Beebe

Gangway for Tomorrow
USA - 1943 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: John H. Auer

The Gorilla Man
USA - 1943 - 84m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Harvest Melody
USA - 1943 - 70m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Henry: Boy Scout
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
USA - 1943 - 66m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Hugh Bennett
Series: What a Life (1939, Nov/1939).

Higher and Higher
USA - 1943 - 90m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Tim Whelan

Hi'ya Sailor
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough

I Was Framed
USA - 1942 - 61m - bw
Warner (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Jack London
USA - 1943 - 94m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Alfred Santell

Le jour se lève
(aka: Daybreak)
France - 1939 - 93m - bw
Studio One (A)
D: Marcel Carné

Lady Gangster
USA - 1942 - 62m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Robert Florey

Lucky Days
Sing a Jingle
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward C. Lilley

Meet the People
USA - 1944 - 100m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Charles Reisner

On Approval
UK - 1944 - 80m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Clive Brook

Princess O'Rourke
USA - 1943 - 94m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Norman Krasna

Rogue of the Range
USA - 1936 - 58m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: S. Roy Luby

A Scream in the Dark
USA - 1943 - 53m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Sherman

See Here, Private Hargrove
USA - 1944 - 101m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Wesley Ruggles
Followed by: What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945, Feb/1946).

She Couldn't Say No
USA - 1940 - 62m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Clemens

The Song of Bernadette
USA - 1943 - 156m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry King

Spotlight Scandals
Spotlight Revue
(aka: Spotlight on Scandal)
USA - 1943 - 79m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

Swing High
Jive Junction
USA - 1943 - 62m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Edgar J. Ulmer

Tender Comrade
USA - 1943 - 102m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Edward Dmytryk

The Texas Rambler
USA - 1935 - 59m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Robert F. Hill

Timber Queen
USA - 1944 - 66m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frank McDonald

The Unknown Guest
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Kurt Neumann

Up in Arms
USA - 1944 - 105m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Elliott Nugent

The West Side Kid
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Sherman

The Woman of the Town
USA - 1943 - 90m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: George Archainbaud

Women in Bondage
USA - 1943 - 72m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Steve Sekely