MFB: February 1942

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1942

Vol. 9 No. 98

Among the Living
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Stuart Heisler

Bad Man of Deadwood
USA - 1941 - 61m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Bahama Passage
USA - 1941 - 82m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Edmund H. Griffith

Banana Ridge
UK - 1941 - 88m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Walter C. Mycroft

The Big Blockade
UK - 1942 - 73m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Charles Frend

Call Out the Marines
USA - 1942 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: William Hamilton, Frank Ryan

Channel Crossing
UK - 1933 - 70m - bw
W & F (A) (cut)
D: Milton Rosmer

The Corsican Brothers
USA - 1941 - 111m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Cracked Nuts
USA - 1941 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

A Cuckoo in the Nest
UK - 1933 - 87m - bw
W & F (A)
D: Tom Walls

Dangerous Lady
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Bernard B. Ray

A Date With the Falcon
USA - 1942 - 63m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Irving Reis
Series: The Gay Falcon (1941, Nov/1941).

Design for Scandal
USA - 1941 - 85m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Norman Taurog

Doctors Don't Tell
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Down Mexico Way
USA - 1941 - 77m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Farewell to Fame
Let's Go Collegiate
USA - 1941 - 62m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough

Flying Cadets
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton

Gambling Daughters
(aka: The Professor's Gamble)
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Max Nosseck

Gentleman From Dixie

USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Albert Herman

Hard Steel
UK - 1942 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Norman Walker

Hellzapoppin'
USA - 1941 - 84m - bw
General Film (U)
D: H.C. Potter

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
USA - 1941 - 120m - bw
MGM (U)
D: King Vidor

Hoppity Goes to Town
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
USA - 1941 - 78m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Dave Fleischer

How Green Was My Valley
USA - 1941 - 118m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: John Ford

Two evocative images from
How Green Was My Valley

In Old Cheyenne
USA - 1941 - 58m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Mercy Island
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: William Morgan

Mr. Celebrity
(aka: Turf Boy)
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

A Musical Story
Музыкальная История
USSR - 1941 - 84m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Aleksandr Ivanovsky, Gerbert Rappaport

Mystery Ship
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Outlaws of the Desert
USA - 1941 - 66m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Playmates
USA - 1941 - 96m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Butler

Professional Bride
Hard Guy
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Elmer Clifton
Also reviewed: Nov 1949.

Radio Revels of 1942
Swing It Soldier
USA - 1941 - 66m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Harold Young

Ride 'Em Cowboy
USA - 1942 - 82m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Arthur Lubin

Riders of the Timberline
USA - 1941 - 59m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Sailors on Leave
USA - 1941 - 71m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Albert S. Rogell

Sheriff of Tombstone
USA - 1941 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Sing Another Chorus
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

The Smiling Ghost
USA - 1941 - 71m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lewis Seiler

Somewhere in Camp
UK - 1942 - 88m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: John E. Blakeley
Series: Somewhere in England (1940, Aug/1940).

Sullivan's Travels
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Preston Sturges

Sullivan's Travels

Sunset in Wyoming
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Morgan
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Tarzan's Secret Treasure
USA - 1941 - 81m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe
Series: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, Dec/1955).

Terror on Tiptoe
UK - 1936 - 58m - bw
New Realm (A)
D: Louis Renoir

Texas
USA - 1941 - 93m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: George Marshall

Two Latins From Manhattan
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton
Followed by: Two Señoritas From Chicago (1943, Nov/1943).

Under Fiesta Stars
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Week-End in Havana
USA - 1941 - 81m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang

MFB: January 1942

Introduction for newcomers

Censor certificates

Glossary

Monthly Film Bulletin

January 1942

Vol. 9 No. 97

Adventure in Blackmail
Breach of Promise
UK - 1942 - 66m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harold Huth, Roland Pertwee

All American Co-Ed
USA - 1941 - 53m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: LeRoy Prinz

Appointment for Love
USA - 1941 - 89m - bw
General Film (U)
D: William A. Seiter

Birth of the Blues
USA - 1941 - 87m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Victor Schertzinger

Broadway Ahead
Sweetheart of the Campus
USA - 1941 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Edward Dmytryk

Broadway Limited
(aka: The Baby Vanishes)
USA - 1941 - 75m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Gordon Douglas

Cadet Girl
USA - 1941 - 68m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Ray McCarey

The Chocolate Soldier
USA - 1941 - 102m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Roy Del Ruth

The Deadly Game
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Phil Rosen

Dive Bomber
USA - 1941 - 132m - col
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

Dumbo
USA - 1941 - 64m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Ben Sharpsteen

Hearts in Springtime
Glamour Boy
USA - 1941 - 79m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Ralph Murphy

Hot Spot
I Wake Up Screaming
USA - 1941 - 82m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

In the Rear of the Enemy
В тылу врага
USSR - 1941 - 62m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Yevgeni Shneider

In the Rear of the Enemy

Kathleen
USA - 1941 - 88m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Harold S. Bucquet

Law of the Tropics
USA - 1941 - 76m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Ray Enright

Look Who's Laughing
USA - 1941 - 79m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Allan Dwan
Followed by: Here We Go Again (1941, Nov/1942).

The Man Who Came Back
Swamp Water
USA - 1941 - 88m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Jean Renoir

Million Dollar Baby
USA - 1941 - 100m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Curtis Bernhardt

Moving in Society
Mountain Moonlight
USA - 1941 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Nick Grinde
Series: Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938).

The Perfect Snob
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Ray McCarey

The Sea Wolf
USA - 1941 - 100m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

Shadow of the Thin Man
USA - 1941 - 97m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: W.S. Van Dyke
Series: The Thin Man (1934, Jul/1934).

Shining Victory
USA - 1941 - 80m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Irving Rapper

Shors
Щорс
USSR - 1939 - 92m/135m - bw
Soviet Agency (A)
D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

Small Town Deb
USA - 1941 - 73m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Harold D. Schuter

Strange Alibi
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Warner (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Swamp Water

They Met in Bombay
USA - 1941 - 92m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Clarence Brown

Thieves Fall Out
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Ray Enright

Torture Ship
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
New Realm (A)
D: Victor Halperin

Two-Faced Woman
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George Cukor

World Premiere
USA - 1941 - 71m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Ted Tetzlaff

MFB: December 1941

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1941

Vol. 8 No. 96

All Square
The Pinto Kid
USA - 1941 - 61m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

All That Money Can Buy
(aka: Daniel and the Devil)
(aka: The Devil and Daniel Webster)
(aka: Here is a Man)
USA - 1941 - 106m/84m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: William Dieterle
Also reviewed: Oct 1979.

Badlands of Dakota
USA - 1941 - 74m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen
USA - 1941 - 87m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Irving Cummings

The Big Boss
USA - 1941 - 70m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Charles T. Barton

Blood and Sand
USA - 1941 - 125m - col
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Rouben Mamoulian

Bob's Your Uncle
UK - 1941 - 76m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Bombay Clipper
USA - 1941 - 54m - bw
General Film (A)
D: John Rawlins

Burma Convoy
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Noel M. Smith

Citizen Kane
USA - 1941 - 119m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Orson Welles

The Cyclone Ranger
USA - 1935 - 60m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Robert F. Hill

The Devil's Pipeline
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Christy Cabanne

Flight Into Danger
Sky Racket
USA - 1937 - 63m - bw
Federated (U)
D: Sam Katzman

Flying Blind
USA - 1941 - 69m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Frank McDonald

Freshman Year
USA - 1938 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Frank McDonald

Frontier Days
USA - 1934 - 61m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Robert F. Hill

Great Guns
USA - 1941 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Monty Banks

Hi Gang!
UK - 1941 - 100m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Judy Goes to Town
Puddin' Head
USA - 1941 - 80m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Joseph Santley

Jungle Cavalcade
USA - 1941 - 76m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: William C. Ament

Last of the Duanes
USA - 1941 - 57m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: James Tinling

Law of the Range
USA - 1941 - 59m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Lucky Ralston
Law and Order
USA - 1940 - 57m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Man at Large
USA - 1941 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Eugene Forde

Mob Town
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
General Film (A)
D: William Nigh
Series: Little Tough Guy (1938, Aug/1938).

The Monster Walked
The Monster Walks
USA - 1932 - 63m - bw
Federated (H)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Rejected by the BBFC in 1932 when submitted by W & J as The Monster Walks, then passed uncut in 1941 as The Monster Walked.

Moon Over Her Shoulder
USA - 1941 - 68m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Alfred L. Werker

New York Town
USA - 1941 - 94m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Charles Vidor

Obliging Young Lady
USA - 1941 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Richard Wallace

Outside the Law
Citadel of Crime
USA - 1941 - 58m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Sherman

The Pittsburgh Kid
USA - 1941 - 76m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Jack Townley

Rags to Riches
USA - 1941 - 57m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Joseph Kane

Reg'lar Fellers
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

The Richest Man in Town
USA - 1941 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Robin Hood of the Pecos
USA - 1941 - 59m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Scattergood Meets Broadway
(aka: Blonde Menace)
USA - 1941 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Christy Cabanne
Series: Scattergood Baines (1941, Apr/1941).

Ships With Wings
UK - 1941 - 103m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Sergei Nolbandov

The Singing Hill
USA - 1941 - 75m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lew Landers
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

South American George
UK - 1941 - 92m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Sundown
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Henry Hathaway

Suspicion
USA - 1941 - 99m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

They Met in Argentina
USA - 1941 - 77m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins, Jack Hively

Tillie the Toiler
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

Tom Dick and Harry
USA - 1941 - 87m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Garson Kanin

Two in a Taxi
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Robert Florey

Unexpected Uncle
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Peter Godfrey

Unholy Partners
USA - 1941 - 94m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Mervyn LeRoy

Weekend for Three
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Irving Reis

MFB: November 1941

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

November 1941

Vol. 8 No. 95

Aloma of the South Seas
USA - 1941 - 77m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Alfred Santell

Angels With Broken Wings
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Bernard Vorhaus

The Avenging Stranger
God's Country and the Man
USA - 1937 - 56m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Robert N. Bradbury

Back in the Saddle
USA - 1941 - 73m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lew Landers
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Black Sheep of Whitehall
UK - 1941 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Basil Dearden, Will Hay

Blazing Justice
USA - 1936 - 60m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Albert Herman

The Border Legion
(aka: West of the Badlands)
USA - 1940 - 58m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Border Vigilantes
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Derwin Abrahams
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Buy Me That Town
USA - 1941 - 70m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Eugene Forde

Cash and Carry
Ringside Maisie
USA - 1941 - 95m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin
Series: Maisie (1939, Jul/1939).

Desperate Cargo
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine

Double Cross
(aka: Motorcycle Squad)
USA - 1941 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Albert H. Kelley

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
USA - 1941 - 113m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Victor Fleming

The Feminine Touch
USA - 1941 - 97m - bw
MGM (A)
D: W.S. Van Dyke

Forced Landing
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Gordon Wiles

The Gay Falcon
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Irving Reis
Followed by: A Date With the Falcon (1942, Feb/1942), The Falcon Takes Over (1942, May/1942), The Falcon's Brother (1942, Dec/1942), The Falcon Strikes Back (1943, Jul/1943), The Falcon in Danger (1943, Oct/1943), The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943, Mar/1944), The Falcon Out West (1944, Jun/1944), The Falcon in Mexico (1944, Dec/1944), The Falcon in Hollywood (1944, Mar/1945), The Falcon in San Francisco (1945, Oct/1946 + Mar/1980), The Falcon's Alibi (1946, May/1947), The Falcon's Adventure (1946, Aug/1947), Devil's Cargo (1948, Jun/1949), Appointment With Murder (1948, Oct/1949), Search for Danger (1949, Jan-Feb/1950).

The Great Man's Lady
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William A. Wellman

Hatter's Castle
UK - 1941 - 102m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lance Comfort

Henpecked
Blondie in Society
USA - 1941 - 76m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Henry Aldrich for President
USA - 1941 - 75m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Hugh Bennett
Series: What a Life (1939, Nov/1939).

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
USA - 1941 - 94m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alexander Hall
Followed by: Down to Earth (1947, Aug/1947).

Hold That Ghost
USA - 1941 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin

Honky Tonk
USA - 1941 - 105m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Jack Conway

International Lady
USA - 1941 - 102m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Tim Whelan

It Started With Eve
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Henry Koster

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
USA - 1941 - 71m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Jail House Blues
USA - 1941 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Albert S. Rogell

Life Begins for Andy Hardy
USA - 1941 - 101m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

The Little Foxes
USA - 1941 - 116m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: William Wyler
Followed by: Another Part of the Forest (1948, Mar/1949).

Lydia
USA - 1941 - 104m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

Married Bachelor
USA - 1941 - 81m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edward Buzzell

Marry the Bo$$'$ Daughter
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Thornton Freeland

Mexican Spitfire's Baby
USA - 1941 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins
Series: The Girl From Mexico (1939, Jul/1939).

The Monster and the Girl
USA - 1941 - 65m - bw
Paramount (H) (cut)
D: Stuart Heisler

Murder by Invitation
(aka: Murder at Midnight)
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Phil Rosen

My Life With Caroline
USA - 1941 - 81m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Lewis Milestone

Naval Academy
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton

Old Mother Riley's Circus
UK - 1941 - 80m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Thomas Bentley
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

Our Wife
USA - 1941 - 92m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: John M. Stahl

The Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
USA - 1941 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: James P. Hogan
Series: Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940, Apr/1941).

Redhead
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Riders of the Purple Sage
USA - 1941 - 54m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: James Tinling

Sealed Lips
USA - 1941 - 62m - bw
General Film (A)
D: George Waggner

Sergeant York
USA - 1941 - 134m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Howard Hawks

Smilin' Through
USA - 1941 - 100m - col
MGM (A)
D: Frank Borzage

Stand and Deliver
Bowery Blitzkrieg
USA - 1941 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Series: East Side Kids (1940).

Sun Valley Serenade
USA - 1941 - 86m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

Tanks a Million
USA - 1941 - 50m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Fred Guiol
Followed by: Hay Foot (1942, short), About Face (1943, short), Fall In (1942), Yanks Ahoy (1943, Mar/1944), Here Comes Trouble (1948), As You Were (1951, Oct/1952), Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952, May/1954). Footage from these films was later compiled into a 9-chapter serial, The Adventures of Sgts. Doubleday and Ames (1957).

Time Out for Rhythm
USA - 1941 - 75m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

The Vanishing Riders
USA - 1935 - 58m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Robert F. Hill

We Go Fast
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: William C. McGann

When Ladies Meet
USA - 1941 - 105m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Robert Z. Leonard

Wide Open Town
USA - 1941 - 79m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

A Yank in the R.A.F.
USA - 1941 - 98m - bw
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: Henry King