MFB: December 1938

Introduction for newcomers

Angels With Dirty Faces

Monthly Film Bulletin
December 1938
Vol. 5 No. 60

Adventures of Chico: A Tale of the Strangest Friendship Ever Known
USA - 1937 - 60m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard

Angels With Dirty Faces
USA - 1938 - 97m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Michael Curtiz
Series: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

Annabel Takes a Tour
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lew Landers
Series: The Affairs of Annabel (1938, Sep/1938).

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
USA - 1938 - 57m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: James P. Hogan
Series: Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937, Oct/1937).

Border G-Man
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Howard

The Citadel
UK - 1938 - 110m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: King Vidor

The Dark Hour
USA - 1936 - 64m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Charles Lamont

The Dawn Patrol
USA - 1938 - 103m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Edmund Goulding

Disbarred
USA - 1938 - 58m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Robert Florey

Entrée des artistes
(USA: The Curtain Rises)
Fr - 1938 - 99m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Marc Allégret

Everything Happens to Me
UK - 1938 - 82m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Roy William Neill

Fast Play
Campus Confessions
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Archainbaud

Flight Into Nowhere
USA - 1938 - 63m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Fury in Paradise
Zamboanga: A Fanciful Tale of the Moro Sea Gypsies
Phil - 1937 - 65m - bw
Anglo-American (A) (cut)
D: Eduardo de Castro

The Great Waltz
USA - 1938 - 104m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Julien Duvivier

Guilty Trails
USA - 1938 - 57m - bw
General Film (U)
D: George Waggner

The Higgins Family
USA - 1938 - 54m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gus Meins
Followed by: My Wife's Relatives (1939, Apr/1939), Should Husbands Work? (1939), The Covered Trailer (1939, May/1940), Money to Burn (1939, Jul/1940), Grandpa Goes to Town (1940, Aug/1940), Earl of Puddlestone (1940, Jan/1941), Meet the Missus (1940), Petticoat Politics (1941, Jul/1941).

Hit the Saddle
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Mack V. Wright
Series: The Three Mesquiteers (1936, Feb/1937).

The House of Secrets
USA - 1936 - 70m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Roland D. Reed

Illegal Traffic
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Louis King

It Happened in Paris
A Desperate Adventure
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John H. Auer

Just Around the Corner
USA - 1938 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Lady Luck
USA - 1936 - 62m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Charles Lamont

The Law West of Tombstone
USA - 1938 - 73m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Glenn Tryon

Legions d'honneur
(aka: Legions of Honor)
Fr - 1938 - 96m - bw
Tobis (A)
D: Maurice Gleize

Lenin in October
Ленин в октябре
USSR - 1937 - 103m - bw
Progressive
D: Mikhail Romm

Many Tanks Mr. Atkins
UK - 1938 - 68m - bw
First National (U)
D: Roy William Neill

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins

Mr. Wong: Detective
USA - 1938 - 69m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Nigh
Followed by: The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939, Apr/1939), Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939, Jun/1946), The Fatal Hour (1940, Jun/1946), Doomed to Die (1940, Jan/1948), Phantom of Chinatown (1940, Jan/1948).

My Irish Molly
(USA: Little Miss Molly)
UK - 1938 - 69m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Alex Bryce

Old Bones of the River
UK - 1938 - 90m - bw
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Marcel Varnel

Paris Honeymoon
USA - 1938 - 92m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Frank Tuttle

Pasteur
Fr - 1935 - 75(69)m - bw
United Curzon (U)
D: Sacha Guitry, Fernand Rivers

Peck's Bad Boy With the Circus
USA - 1938 - 78m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Edward F. Cline
Series: Peck's Bad Boy (1934, Nov/1934).

Service De Luxe
USA - 1938 - 85m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Rowland V. Lee

Sharpshooters
USA - 1938 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: James Tinling
Followed by: Chasing Danger (1939, Aug/1939).

The Shining Hour
USA - 1938 - 76m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Frank Borzage

Stardust
(USA: He Loved an Actress)
(aka: Mad About Money)
UK - 1938 - 75m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Melville W. Brown
Photographed in colour, but the process proved so unsatisfactory, the film was released in black and white.

The Storm
USA - 1938 - 78m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Harold Young

Strange Faces
USA - 1938 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Errol Taggart

Submarine Patrol
USA - 1938 - 95m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: John Ford

Sunset Trail
USA - 1938 - 69m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Sweethearts
USA - 1938 - 114m - col
MGM (U)
D: W.S. Van Dyke

Thanks for the Memory
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: George Archainbaud

Under Strange Flags
USA - 1937 - 64m - bw
International (U)
D: Irvin Willat

Up the River
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Alfred L. Werker

Wanted by the Police
USA - 1938 - 59m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

The Ware Case
UK - 1938 - 79m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Robert Stevenson

While New York Sleeps
USA - 1938 - 63m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone
Series: Time Out for Murder (1938, Sep/1938).

You Can't Take It With You
USA - 1938 - 126m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank Capra

Young Dr. Kildare
USA - 1938 - 82m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harold S. Bucquet
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

The Young in Heart
USA - 1938 - 90m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Richard Wallace

Youth Takes a Fling
USA - 1938 - 77m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Archie Mayo