MFB: April 1939

Introduction for newcomers

The Sign of the Cross

Monthly Film Bulletin
April 1939
Vol. 6 No. 64

The Adventures of Jane Arden
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
First National (A)
D: Terry O. Morse

Au Service de la France
Marthe Richard au service de la France
(USA: Marthe Richard)
France - 1937 - 95m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Raymond Bernard

Black Eyes
(USA: False Rapture)
UK - 1939 - 80m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Herbert Brenon

Blondie Meets the Boss
USA - 1939 - 75m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Broadway Serenade
(aka: Serenade)
USA - 1939 - 114m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Robert Z. Leonard

Crime Takes a Holiday
USA - 1938 - 59m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Everybody's Baby
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Family Album
La mazurka di papà
Italy - 1939 - 88m - bw
Anit (A)
D: Oreste Biancoli

The Fighting Texan
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Charles Abbott

First Offenders
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: Frank McDonald

Flight to Fame
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles C. Coleman
Also reviewed: Aug 1939.

The Flying Irishman
USA - 1939 - 71m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leigh Jason

Galloping Dynamite
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Harry L. Fraser

Gambling Ship
USA - 1938 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Aubrey Scotto

Les gens du voyage
(aka: People Who Travel)
France/Germany - 1938 - 120m - bw
Unity (A)
D: Jacques Feyder

Home From Home
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Smith

Home on the Prairie
USA - 1939 - 59m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Jack Townley
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Hotel Imperial
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Robert Florey

The Ice Follies of 1939
USA - 1939 - 82m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Reinhold Schünzel

King of Chinatown
USA - 1939 - 57m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Nick Grinde

King of Chinatown

King of the Turf
USA - 1939 - 88m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

The Lady and the Mob
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Benjamin Stoloff

The Little Princess
USA - 1939 - 93m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang

The Lone Wolf's Daughter
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
USA - 1939 - 71m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Peter Godfrey
Series: The Lone Wolf (1924).

Love Affair
USA - 1939 - 88m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leo McCarey

Made for Each Other
USA - 1939 - 92m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: John Cromwell

Magnificent Outcast
Almost a Gentleman
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins

Midnight
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Mitchell Leisen

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Norman Foster
Series: Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937, Jul/1937).

The Mystery of Mr. Wong
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Nigh
Series: Mr. Wong: Detective (1938, Dec/1938).

My Wife's Relatives
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gus Meins
Series: The Higgins Family (1938, Dec/1938).

Naples au baiser de feu
(USA: The Kiss of Fire)
(aka: Naples Under the Kiss of Fire)
France - 1937 - 83m - bw
European (A)
D: Augusto Genina

Naples au baiser de feu

You Can't Get Away With Murder

Navy Secrets
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Howard Bretherton

Night Club Hostess
Unmarried
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Kurt Neumann

Professor Mamlock
Профессор Мамлок
USSR - 1938 - 92m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Adolf Minkin, Gerbert Rappaport
Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Academy, then passed with cuts.

The Rebel Son
(aka: The Barbarian and the Lady)
(aka: The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba)
UK - 1938 - 88m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Alexis Granowsky

Renegade Trail
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Shadows Over Shanghai
USA - 1938 - 65m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Charles Lamont

The Sign of the Cross
USA - 1932 - 122m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Cecil B. DeMille
Also reviewed: Jan 1945.

The Sign of the Cross

The Silent Battle
(USA: Continental Express)
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Herbert Mason

Society Lawyer
USA - 1939 - 77m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Stars Over Arizona
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
Victor (U)
D: Robert N. Bradbury

St. Louis Blues
USA - 1939 - 92m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Raoul Walsh

Sudden Money
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Nick Grinde

Sword of Honour
UK - 1939 - 83m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

Tail Spin
USA - 1939 - 84m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Roy Del Ruth

Texas Stampede
USA - 1939 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sam Nelson

They Made Her a Spy
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Jack Hively

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
USA - 1939 - 90m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Henry Koster
Series: Three Smart Girls (1936, Mar/1937).

The Thundering West
USA - 1939 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sam Nelson

Toilers of the Sea
UK - 1936 - 83m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ted Fox, Selwyn Jepson

Too Dangerous to Live
UK - 1939 - 74m - bw
First National (A)
D: Leslie Norman, Anthony Hankey

Torchy Runs for Mayor
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Ray McCarey
Series: Smart Blonde (1937, Mar/1937).

Trapped in the Sky
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Trunk Crime
(USA: Design for Murder)
UK - 1939 - 60m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Roy Boulting

Western Jamboree
USA - 1938 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ralph Staub
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

What a Woman
There's That Woman Again
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alexander Hall
Series: There's Always a Woman (1938, May/1938).

Where the West Begins
USA - 1938 - 54m - bw
Victor (U)
D: J.P. McGowan

Wife, Husband and Friend
USA - 1939 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Within the Law
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Gustav Machatý

Les yeux noirs
(USA: Dark Eyes)
France - 1935 - 80m - bw
Unity (A)
D: Viktor Tourjansky

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
USA - 1939 - 79m - bw
General Film (U)
D: George Marshall

You Can't Get Away With Murder
USA - 1939 - 79m - bw
First National (A)
D: Lewis Seiler