MFB: May 1937

Introduction for newcomers

Simplicity itself: Two guys dancing in front of a
rear-projected image. And yet, this is one of the
greatest scenes in the history of cinema.
(Way Out West)

Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1937
Vol. 4 No. 41

23½ Hours' Leave
USA - 1937 - 72m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: John G. Blystone

Der Ammenkönig
Ger - 1935 - 103m - bw
Associated-British
D: Hans Steinhoff

Behind Your Back
UK - 1937 - 70m - bw
Paramount (U) (cut)
D: Donovan Pedelty

Borderland
USA - 1937 - 82m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Nate Watt
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Call It a Day
USA - 1937 - 90m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Archie Mayo

Captains Courageous
USA - 1937 - 115m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Victor Fleming

The Cave-In
Draegerman Courage
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Louis King

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
Fox (U)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone
Series: Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).

Cotton Queen
(aka: Crying Out Loud)
UK - 1937 - 80m - bw
BIED (U)
D: Bernard Vorhaus, Joe Rock

Double Exposures
(aka: Alibi Breaker)
UK - 1937 - 67m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

Fifty Roads to Town
USA - 1937 - 80m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Norman Taurog

Fifty-Shilling Boxer
UK - 1937 - 74m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

Generation of Conquerors
Поколение победителей
USSR - 1936 - 100m - bw
Apply Film Society
D: Vera Stroyeva

The Girl From Scotland Yard
USA - 1937 - 61m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Robert G. Vignola

Her Husband Lies
USA - 1937 - 74m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Edward Ludwig

Heroes of the Range
USA - 1936 - 56m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet

Hills of Old Wyoming
USA - 1937 - 78m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Nate Watt
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

The Holy Terror
USA - 1937 - 68m - bw
Fox (U)
D: James Tinling

Jim Hanvey - Detective
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Phil Rosen

Love is News
USA - 1937 - 77m - bw
Fox (U)
D: Tay Garnett

Marked Woman
USA - 1937 - 96m - bw
First National (A) (cut)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Maytime
USA - 1937 - 132m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Robert Z. Leonard

Midnight Taxi
USA - 1937 - 73m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Eugene Forde

Moonlight Sonata
UK - 1937 - 86m/49m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Lothar Mendes
Later re-edited and re-released as a short film entitled The Charmer (Oct/1943).

Mountain Justice
USA - 1937 - 83m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

Nobody's Baby
USA - 1937 - 68m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Gus Meins

The Perfect Crime
UK - 1937 - 69m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Ralph Ince

The Prince and the Pauper
USA - 1937 - 118m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Keighley

Ready, Willing and Able
USA - 1937 - 93m - bw
First National (U)
D: Ray Enright

The Return of a Stranger
(USA: The Face Behind the Scar)
UK - 1937 - 69m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Victor Hanbury

Romance in Paris
The King and the Chorus Girl
(aka: Romance is Sacred)
USA - 1937 - 94m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Mervyn LeRoy

San Quentin
USA - 1937 - 70m - bw
First National (A) (cut)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Shall We Dance
USA - 1937 - 109m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Mark Sandrich

Song of the Forge
(aka: The Village Blacksmith)
UK - 1937 - 82m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Henry Edwards

Step Lively, Jeeves!
USA - 1937 - 69m - bw
Fox (A)
D: Eugene Forde
Series: Thank You, Jeeves! (1936).

Storm in a Teacup
UK - 1937 - 87m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Victor Saville, Ian Dalrymple

Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith
UK - 1937 - 71m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

That Man's Here Again
USA - 1937 - 58m - bw
First National (U)
D: Louis King

Too Many Wives
USA - 1937 - 61m - bw
Radio (U)
D: Ben Holmes

Trouble in Morocco
USA - 1937 - 62m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ernest B. Schoedsack

Turn Off the Moon
USA - 1937 - 79m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis Seiler

Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave
[see: 23½ Hours' Leave]

Way Out West
USA - 1937 - 64m - bw
MGM (U)
D: James W. Horne

We Have Our Moments
USA - 1937 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Alfred L. Werker

When Love is Young
USA - 1937 - 76m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Hal Mohr

Whispering Smith Speaks
USA - 1935 - 65m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: David Howard

Wings of the Morning
USA - 1937 - 89m - col
Fox (U)
D: Harold D. Schuster

The Woman Between
The Woman I Love
USA - 1937 - 85m - bw
Radio (A)
D: Anatole Litvak

Woman Chases Man
USA - 1937 - 71m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: John G. Blystone

You Can't Take Money
Internes Can't Take Money
USA - 1937 - 78m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Alfred Santell
Followed by: Young Dr. Kildare (1938, Dec/1938), Calling Dr. Kildare (1939, May/1939), The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939, Feb/1940), Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940, Jul/1940), Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940, Jan/1941), Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940, Feb/1941), The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941, Aug/1941), Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941, Oct/1941), Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942, Jul/1942), Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942, Aug/1942), Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942, Jan/1943), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943, Jul/1943), 3 Men in White (1944, Jul/1944), Between Two Women (1945, Mar/1945), Dark Delusion (1947, Apr/1947).