MFB: March 1943

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

March 1943

Vol. 10 No. 111

Andy Hardy's Double Life
USA - 1942 - 92m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

Bells of Capistrano
USA - 1942 - 78m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Morgan
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

The Black Swan
USA - 1942 - 87m - col
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Henry King

The Boogie Man Will Get You
USA - 1942 - 66m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Cat People
USA - 1942 - 71m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur
Followed by: The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Sep/1944 + Nov/1979).
Also reviewed: Jul 1981.

China Girl
USA - 1942 - 95m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Hathaway

Derrière la façade
France - 1939 - 85m - bw
Studio One (A) (cut)
D: Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande

Desert Victory
UK - 1943 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Roy Boulting, David MacDonald

The Dummy Talks
UK - 1943 - 85m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Everything Happens to Us
Hi'ya, Chum
(aka: Strait-Jacket)
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Harold Young

The Great Gildersleeve
USA - 1942 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Gordon Douglas
Followed by: Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943, Nov/1944), Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944).

Happidrome
UK - 1943 - 87m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Philip Brandon

He's My Guy
USA - 1943 - 92m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Hi, Buddy
USA - 1943 - 66m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Harold Young

Keeper of the Flame
USA - 1942 - 100m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George Cukor

Lucky Legs
USA - 1942 - 64m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Money for Jam
It Ain't Hay
USA - 1943 - 80m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton

A Night for Crime
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Alexis Thurn-Taxis

Quiet Please: Murder
USA - 1942 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: John Larkin

Russian Guerrillas
Секретарь райкома
(USA: We Will Come Back)
(aka: The District Secretary)
USSR - 1942 - 107m - bw
Associated-British
D: Ivan Pyryev

Seven Miles From Alcatraz
USA - 1942 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Edward Dmytryk

Shadow of a Doubt
USA - 1942 - 108m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

The Silver Fleet
UK - 1943 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley

Social Enemy No. 1
No Greater Sin
USA - 1941 - 85m - bw
Anglo-American (A) (cut)
D: William Nigh
Rejected by the BBFC in 1942 when submitted by United Artists under the film's original title, but passed with cuts the following year as Social Enemy No. 1.

Star Spangled Rhythm
USA - 1942 - 99m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

Submarine Alert
USA - 1943 - 66m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frank McDonald

Three Hearts for Julia
USA - 1943 - 83m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

Time to Kill
USA - 1942 - 61m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Herbert I. Leeds
Series: Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940, Mar/1941).

Underground Agent
USA - 1942 - 70m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Michael Gordon

Variety Jubilee
UK - 1943 - 92m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

When Johnny Comes Marching Home
USA - 1942 - 74m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

When We Are Married
UK - 1943 - 98m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Lance Comfort