MFB: August 1938

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1938
Vol. 5 No. 56

Alexander's Ragtime Band
USA - 1938 - 106m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry King

Always Goodbye
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Sindey Lanfield

The Blue Danube
UK - 1932 - 72m - bw
Equity British (A)
D: Herbert Wilcox
Original UK release: 1932 (W & F).

Booloo
USA/Sing - 1938 - 61m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Clyde E. Elliott

The Chaser
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Danger on the Air
USA - 1938 - 70m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Otis Garrett
Series: The Westland Case (1937, Dec/1937).

Dangerous Medicine
UK - 1938 - 72m - bw
First National (A)
D: Arthur B. Woods

Fast Company
(aka: The Rare-Book Murder)
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edward Buzzell
Followed by: Fast and Loose (1939, Mar/1939), Fast and Furious (1939, Dec/1939).

Free to Live
Holiday
(aka: Unconventional Linda)
USA - 1938 - 95m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: George Cukor

Frou Frou
The Toy Wife
USA - 1938 - 96m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

Gangs of New York
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: James Cruze

The Gay Impostors
Gold Diggers in Paris
USA - 1938 - 97m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Ray Enright
Series: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).

Gun Law
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Howard

Highway Patrol
USA - 1938 - 56m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles C. Coleman

Hittin' the Trail
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Robert N. Bradbury

Hold My Hand
UK - 1938 - 76m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Thornton Freeland

Hollywood Stadium Mystery!
USA - 1938 - 66m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: David Howard

I'll Give a Million
USA - 1938 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang

Invisible Enemy
USA - 1938 - 66m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: John H. Auer

I've Got a Horse
UK - 1938 - 77m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Smith

The Kid From Spain
USA - 1932 - 118m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Leo McCarey

The Lady Vanishes
UK - 1938 - 96m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Followed by: Night Train to Munich (1940, May/1940), Crooks' Tour (1940, Aug/1940), Millions Like Us (1943, Dec/1943 + Jun/1982).

Lassie From Lancashire
UK - 1938 - 81m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

Little Miss Broadway
USA - 1938 - 72m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Little Tough Guy
USA - 1938 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Harold Young
Followed by: Little Tough Guys in Society (1938, Feb/1939), Newsboys Home (1939, Mar/1939), Code of the Streets (1939, Aug/1939), Call a Messenger (1939, Feb/1940), You're Not So Tough (1940), Junior G-Men (1940), Give Us Wings (1940, Jun/1941), Hit the Road (1941, Sep/1941), Sea Raiders (1941), Mob Town (1941, Dec/1941), Junior G-Men of the Air (1942), Tough as They Come (1942, Jun/1942), Mug Town (1942, May/1943), Keep 'Em Slugging (1943, May/1943) / See also: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

Love Finds Andy Hardy
USA - 1938 - 91m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

The Marines Are Here
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Phil Rosen

Men Are Such Fools
USA - 1938 - 69m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Busby Berkeley

Monkey Business
USA - 1931 - 77m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Norman Z. McLeod

Old Mother Riley in Paris
UK - 1938 - 76m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

Outlaws of the West
Call the Mesquiteers
USA - 1938 - 55m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John English
Series: The Three Mesquiteers (1936, Feb/1937).

Prison Farm
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Louis King

Private Nurse
Numbered Woman
USA - 1938 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Karl Brown

Pygmalion
UK - 1938 - 96m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard

Queer Cargo
UK - 1938 - 61m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Howard D. Schuster

The Rage of Paris
USA - 1938 - 78m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Henry Koster

Red Lights Ahead
USA - 1936 - 70m - bw
British Screen Service (U)
D: Roland D. Reed

Reformatory
USA - 1938 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Lewis D. Collins

The Return of Carol Deane
UK - 1938 - 76m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Arthur B. Woods

Romance on the Run
USA - 1938 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gus Meins

Secrets of an Actress
USA - 1938 - 70m - bw
Warner (A)
D: William Keighley

The Shopworn Angel
USA - 1938 - 85m - bw
MGM (A)
D: H.C. Potter

Sky Giant
USA - 1938 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Son of the Sheik
USA - 1926 - silent - bw
Metropole (U)
D: George Fitzmaurice
Original UK release: 1926 (Allied Artists).
Series: The Sheik (1921).

The Speckled Band
UK - 1931 - 90m - bw
Equity British (A)
D: Jack Raymond
Original UK release: 1931 (W & F).

Speed to Burn
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Otto Brower
Followed by: Road Demon (1938, Nov/1938), Winner Take All (1939, May/1939).

A Spot of Bother
UK - 1938 - 70m - bw
General Film (U)
D: David MacDonald

St. Martin's Lane
(USA: Sidewalks of London)
UK - 1938 - 85m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Tim Whelan

The Sunset Trail
USA - 1932 - 62m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: B. Reeves Eason
Original UK release: 1932 (Universal).

The Texans
USA - 1938 - 92m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: James P. Hogan

Trouble in Paradise
USA - 1932 - 83m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Ernst Lubitsch

Wenn die Musik nicht wär
(USA: If It Were Not for Music)
Ger - 1935 - 89m - bw
Tobis (U)
D: Carmine Gallone

Western Trails
USA - 1938 - 58m - bw
General Film (U)
D: George Waggner

Whistlin' Dan
USA - 1932 - 65m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Phil Rosen

White Banners
USA - 1938 - 92m - bw
First National (A)
D: Edmund Goulding

Wives Under Suspicion
USA - 1938 - 69m - bw
General Film (A)
D: James Whale