MFB: June 1939

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin
June 1939
Vol. 6 No. 66

Big Town Czar
(aka: Fighting the Racketeers)
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin

Boy Slaves
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
RKO Radio (H)
D: P.J. Wolfson

Buck Rogers (right)

Buck Rogers
USA - 1939 - 237m - 12 chapters - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Also released in a condensed feature-length version entitled Planet Outlaws (1953, Jan/1954), running 71 minutes. Another condensed feature, Destination Saturn (100m), was screened on US TV in 1966.

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
USA - 1939 - 56m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: James P. Hogan
Series: Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937, Oct/1937).

Carrefour
France - 1938 - 84m - bw
United Curzon (U) (cut)
D: Curtis Bernhardt

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
USA - 1939 - 104m - bw
First National (U) (cut)
D: Anatole Litvak

Double Crime on the Maginot Line
Double crime sur la ligne Maginot
(aka: Treachery Within)
France - 1937 - 101m - bw
Viking (A)
D: Félix Gandéra
Also reviewed: Mar 1938 + Sep 1945.

East Side of Heaven
USA - 1939 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: David Butler

The Face at the Window
UK - 1939 - 70m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George King

The Family Next Door
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joseph Santley

The Fighting Deputy
USA - 1937 - 61m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Fixer Dugan
(UK: Double Daring)
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (U) (cut)
D: Lew Landers

Forged Passport
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John H. Auer

The Four Just Men
(USA: The Secret Four)
UK - 1939 - 85m - bw
Associated-British (A) (cut)
D: Walter Forde

Frontier Scout
USA - 1938 - 61m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
UK - 1939 - 114m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Sam Wood

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Good Old Days
UK - 1939 - 79m - bw
First National (U)
D: Roy William Neill

The Gorilla
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
20th Century Fox (H) (cut)
D: Allan Dwan

Grand Jury Secrets
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: James P. Hogan

Hotel du Nord
France - 1938 - 95m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Marcel Carné
Also reviewed: Mar 1999.

Invitation to Happiness
USA - 1939 - 97m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Wesley Ruggles

It's a Wonderful World
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
MGM (A)
D: W.S. Van Dyke

The Jones Family in Hollywood
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Louise
France - 1939 - 83m - bw
European (A) (cut)
D: Abel Gance

Music Hall Parade
UK - 1939 - 80m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Mystery of the White Room
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Otis Garrett
Series: The Westland Case (1937, Dec/1937).

Mystery Plane
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: George Waggner
Series: Tailspin Tommy (1934).

Naughty But Nice
USA - 1939 - 89m - bw
First National (U)
D: Ray Enright

The Oklahoma Kid
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Panama Patrol
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Charles Lamont

Peter the Great
Петр Первый
(USA: Peter the First)
(aka: The Conquests of Peter the Great)
USSR - 1937 - 192m - bw
European (A) (cut)
D: Vladimir Petrov
Released in the USSR in two separate parts. Only the first part appears to have been screened in UK cinemas, cut down from 102 mins to 74m.

Return of the Cisco Kid
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Herbert I. Leeds
Followed by: The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939, Mar/1940), Lucky Cisco Kid (1940, Aug/1940), Viva Cisco Kid (1940, Jun/1940), The Gay Caballero (1940, Feb/1941), Romance of the Rio Grande (1941, Apr/1941), Ride on Vaquero (1941, Aug/1941), The Cisco Kid Returns (1945, Nov/1945), The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico (1945, Jun/1946), South of the Rio Grande (1945, Apr/1946), The Gay Cavalier (1946, Dec/1946), South of Monterey (1946, May/1947), Beauty and the Bandit (1946, Aug/1947), Riding the California Trail (1947, Nov/1947), Robin Hood of Monterey (1947, Jul/1949), King of the Bandits (1947, Jun/1950), The Valiant Hombre (1949, Jun/1949), The Gay Amigo (1949, Nov/1949), The Daring Caballero (1949, Jan-Feb/1950), Satan's Cradle (1949, Apr-May/1950), The Girl From San Lorenzo (1950, Aug/1950).

Risky Business
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin

Rose of Washington Square
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Secret Journey
(USA: Among Human Wolves)
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: John Baxter

Stagecoach
USA - 1939 - 96m - bw
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: John Ford

Stagecoach

Star Reporter
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
USA - 1939 - 93m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: H.C. Potter

Tell No Tales
(aka: A Hundred to One)
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Leslie Fenton

The Terror of Tiny Town: With an All Midget Cast. A Rollickin', Rootin', Tootin', Shootin' Drama of the Great Outdoors 
USA - 1938 - 62m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Sam Newfield

They Made Me a Criminal
USA - 1939 - 92m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Busby Berkeley
Series: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

Union Pacific
USA - 1939 - 135m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Cecil B. DeMille

Whispering Enemies
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Zenobia
(UK: Elephants Never Forget)
USA - 1939 - 73m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Gordon Douglas