MFB: May 1939

Introduction for newcomers

Alexander Nevsky

Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1939
Vol. 6 No. 65

21 Days
(aka: 21 Days Together)
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Basil Dean

Alexander Nevsky
Александр Невский
(aka: Warrior of Russia)
USSR - 1938 - 112m - bw
The Film Society (U)
D: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev

Ask a Policeman
UK - 1939 - 83m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Back Door to Heaven
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William K. Howard

La bête humaine
(aka: Judas Was a Woman)
France - 1938 - 100m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Jean Renoir
Also reviewed: Oct 1941 + Apr 1991.

Calling Dr. Kildare
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harold S. Bucquet
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

Christine
Un carnet de bal
(USA: Life Dances On)
(aka: Dance of Life)
(aka: Dance Program)
Fr - 1937 - 144m - bw
Cosmopolitan (A)
D: Julien Duvivier
Also reviewed: Dec 1937.

Dark Victory
USA - 1939 - 104m - bw
First National (A) (cut)
D: Edmund Goulding

Flying Fifty-Five
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Reginald Denham

The Four Feathers
UK - 1939 - 129m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Zoltan Korda

Full Speed Ahead
UK - 1939 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: John Hunt

A Gentleman's Gentleman
UK - 1939 - 70m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Roy William Neill

A Girl Must Live
UK - 1939 - 92m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Carol Reed

The Hardys Ride High
USA - 1939 - 81m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

The Hound of the Baskervilles
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Sidney Lanfield
Followed by: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Jan/1940), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, Oct/1943), Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942, Oct/1942), Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1942, Jan/1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), The Spider Woman (1943, Jan/1944), The Scarlet Claw (1944, Sep/1944), The Pearl of Death (1944, Nov/1944), The House of Fear (1944, Jun/1945), The Woman in Green (1945, Aug/1945), Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Jan/1946), Terror by Night (1946, May/1946), Dressed to Kill (1946, Jul/1946).

I Killed the Count
(USA: Who is Guilty?)
UK - 1939 - 69m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Frederic Zelnik

I'm From Missouri
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Theodore Reed

Innocence
Panenství
(USA: Virginity)
Czechoslovakia - 1937 - 84m - bw
Cosmopolitan (A)
D: Otakar Vavra

Jamaica Inn
UK - 1939 - 108m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Also reviewed: Aug 1979.

J’étais une aventurière
(aka: I Was an Adventuress)
France - 1938 - 103m - bw
Unity (A)
D: Raymond Bernard

The Kid From Texas
USA - 1939 - 71m - bw
MGM (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon

The Lady's From Kentucky
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Alexander Hall

The Lambeth Walk
(USA: Me and My Girl)
UK - 1939 - 84m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Albert de Courville

Let Freedom Ring
USA - 1939 - 87m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Jack Conway

Lucky Night
USA - 1939 - 82m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Norman Taurog

Man's Heritage
Spirit of Culver
USA - 1939 - 89m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joseph Santley

The Missing People
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Jack Raymond
Series: The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939, Mar/1939).

Nancy Drew... Reporter

The Modern Miracle

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

USA - 1939 - 98m - bw

20th Century Fox (U)

D: Irving Cummings

Nancy Drew... Reporter

USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Clemens
Series: Nancy Drew-- Detective (1938, Feb/1939).

On Trial
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Terry O. Morse

Orphans of the Street
USA - 1938 - 64m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John H. Auer

Pride of the Navy
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Charles Lamont

Prison Train
USA - 1938 - 64m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Gordon Wiles

The Saint Strikes Back

USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Farrow
Series: The Saint in New York (1938, Jul/1938).

Secret Service of the Air
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
First National (U)
D: Noel M. Smith
Followed by: Code of the Secret Service (1939, Jul/1939), Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Murder in the Air (1940).

Sergeant Madden
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Josef von Sternberg

Society Smugglers
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joe May

Spies of the Air
UK - 1939 - 62m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: David MacDonald

Two images from Spirit of Culver
(UK: Man's Heritage)

Streets of New York
USA - 1939 - 73m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Nigh

Trouble in Sundown
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Howard

Twelve Crowded Hours
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Lew Landers

Twenty-One Days
[see: 21 Days]

Two Gun Justice
USA - 1938 - 57m - bw
Curry (U)
D: Alan James

Whistling Bullets
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: John English

Winner Take All
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Otto Brower
Series: Speed to Burn (1938, Aug/1938).

Women in the Wind
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
Warner (A)
D: John Farrow

Wuthering Heights
USA - 1939 - 104m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: William Wyler

Yes, My Darling Daughter
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
First National (A) (cut)
D: William Keighley