MFB: January 1938

Introduction for newcomers

Censor certificates

Glossary

A genuinely startling moment from an
otherwise innocuous comedy-mystery
(Sh! The Octopus)

Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1938
Vol. 5 No. 49

Amphitryon
Les dieux s'amusent
Fr/Ger - 1935 - 105(93)m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Albert Valentin, Reinhold Schünzel
French-language version of German film Amphitryon (1935), shot on the same sets with actors exclusive to each edition.

The Bad Men of Brimstone
USA - 1937 - 89m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: J. Walter Ruben

La belle equipe
(USA: They Were Five)
Fr - 1936 - 101m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

Big Town Girl
USA - 1937 - 66m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alfred L. Werker

Borrowing Trouble
USA - 1937 - 59m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Boy of the Streets
USA - 1937 - 76m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: William Nigh

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Louis King
Series: Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937, Oct/1937).

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Eugene Forde
Series: Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).

County Fair
USA - 1937 - 72m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Howard Bretherton

Courage of the West
USA - 1937 - 56m - bw
General Films (U)
D: Joseph H. Lewis

Danger Patrol
USA - 1937 - 59m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Dark Stairway
UK - 1937 - 73m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Arthur B. Woods

The Divorce of Lady X
UK - 1937 - 92m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Tim Whelan

Easy Riches
UK - 1937 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

Every Day's a Holiday
USA - 1937 - 80m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: A. Edward Sutherland

A Girl With Ideas
USA - 1937 - 70m - bw
General Film (A)
D: S. Sylvan Simon

La grande illusion
(aka: Grand Illusion)
Fr - 1937 - 114m - bw
The Film Society (A) (cut)
D: Jean Renoir

Gribouille
(USA: The Meddler)
Fr - 1937 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Marc Allégret

He Couldn't Say No
USA - 1938 - 57m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Lewis Seiler

Hitting a New High
USA - 1937 - 85m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Raoul Walsh

Hollywood Hotel
USA - 1937 - 109m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Busby Berkeley

Housemaster
UK - 1937 - 100m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Herbert Brenon

I Met My Love Again
(aka: The Other Road)
USA - 1938 - 77m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley

Incident in Shanghai
UK - 1937 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

The Invisible Menace
USA - 1938 - 55m - bw
First National (A)
D: John Farrow

Lily of Laguna
UK - 1937 - 84m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Love and Hisses
USA - 1937 - 82m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sidney Lanfield
Series: Wake Up and Live (1937, Jul/1937).

Love is a Headache
USA - 1938 - 73m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe

Love on Toast
USA - 1937 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Ewald André Dupont

Man-Proof
USA - 1938 - 75m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

Mr. Boggs Steps Out
USA - 1938 - 68m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Gordon Wiles

Mr. Reeder in Room 13
(USA: Mystery of Room 13)
UK - 1937 - 78m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Norman Lee

Murder in Greenwich Village
USA - 1937 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Albert S. Rogell

Over the Goal
USA - 1937 - 63m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Noel M. Smith

Owd Bob
(USA: To the Victor)
UK - 1937 - 78m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Robert Stevenson

Prescription for Romance
USA - 1937 - 70m - bw
General Film (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon

The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
UK - 1937 - 88m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Hanns Schwarz
Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934, Jan/1935).

Roaring Timber
USA - 1937 - 60m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Phil Rosen

Rosalie
USA - 1937 - 123m - bw
MGM (U)
D: W.S. Van Dyke

Sailing Along
UK - 1937 - 80m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Sonnie Hale

The Sea Fiend
The Great Manta
(aka: Devil Monster)
USA/Mex - 1935 - 56m/63m - bw
Coronel (U)
D: S. Edwin Graham
Also filmed in a Spanish-language version, El diablo del mar (1935), with some cast members exclusive to each edition. The film was re-released in the US in 1947 (copyrighted 1946) as Devil Monster, with an expanded running time of 63 minutes, achieved primarily through the addition of stock footage. UK distributors Mirror felt confident enough to offer the revised print as a 'new' film when screened in UK cinemas in 1949 (reviewed in MFB June of that year), with no mention of the previous release.

Second Best Bed
UK - 1937 - 74m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Tom Walls

She Had to Eat
USA - 1937 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair

Sh! The Octopus
USA - 1937 - 54m - bw
First National (U)
D: William C. McGann

Silver Top
UK - 1937 - 66m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George King

Sing, Cowboy, Sing
USA - 1937 - 59m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Robert N. Bradbury

The Singing Outlaw
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joseph H. Lewis

South Riding
UK - 1937 - 85m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Victor Saville

Sweet Devil
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
General Film (U)
D: René Guissart

Tall Timbers
(USA: Timberland Terror)
Aus - 1937 - 56m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Ken G. Hall

Tarzan's Revenge
USA - 1938 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Thank You, Mr. Moto
USA - 1937 - 67m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Norman Foster
Series: Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937, Jul/1937).

Thrill of a Lifetime
USA - 1937 - 75m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Archainbaud

Tovarich
USA - 1937 - 98m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Anatole Litvak

Wells Fargo
USA - 1937 - 115m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Lloyd

Women in Prison
USA - 1938 - 59m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Young Dynamite
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Metropole (A)
D: Leslie Goodwins

You're a Sweetheart
USA - 1937 - 96m - bw
General Film (U)
D: David Butler

You're Only Young Once
USA - 1937 - 78m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).