MFB: April 1941

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

April 1941

Vol. 8 No. 88

Back Street
USA - 1941 - 89m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Stevenson

Blonde Inspiration
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Busby Berkeley

Boom Town
USA - 1940 - 119m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Jack Conway

Chad Hanna
USA - 1940 - 88m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry King

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
USA - 1940 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Kurt Neumann
Followed by: Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941, Aug/1941), Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941, Nov/1941), Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941, Apr/1942), A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942, Sep/1942), A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942, Jan/1943), Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942, Feb/1943).

Hudson's Bay

USA - 1941 - 95m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Pichel

Jennie
USA - 1940 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: David Burton

Kipps
(USA: The Remarkable Mr. Kipps)
UK - 1941 - 111m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Carol Reed

Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
USA - 1940 - 59m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Charles Lamont

Love on the Dole
UK - 1941 - 99m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: John Baxter
Also reviewed: Jun 1982.

Major Barbara
UK - 1941 - 131m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Gabriel Pascal

Married But Single
This Thing Called Love
USA - 1940 - 98m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alexander Hall

Melody Ranch
USA - 1940 - 84m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Play Girl
USA - 1941 - 77m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Frank Woodruff

Road Show
USA - 1941 - 87m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Hal Roach

Romance of the Rio Grande
USA - 1941 - 72m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Herbert I. Leeds
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).

Rookies
Buck Privates
USA - 1941 - 84m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Arthur Lubin
Followed by: Buck Privates Come Home (1947, May/1947).

Scattergood Baines
(aka: Mainstreet Scandal)
USA - 1941 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Christy Cabanne
Followed by: Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941, Aug/1941), Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941, Dec/1941), Scattergood Rides High (1942, Jun/1942), Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942, Oct/1942), Cinderella Swings It (1943, Aug/1943).

Second Chorus
USA - 1940 - 84m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: H.C. Potter

This Man is Dangerous
(aka: The Patient Vanishes)
UK - 1941 - 73m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Lawrence Huntington

Trail of the Vigilantes
USA - 1940 - 75m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Allan Dwan

The Trial of Mary Dugan
USA - 1941 - 87m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Norman Z. McLeod

Victory
[see: Victory: An Island Tale]

Victory: An Island Tale
USA - 1940 - 79m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: John Cromwell

Virginia
USA - 1941 - 110m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Edward H. Griffith

The Wild Man of Borneo
USA - 1941 - 78m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Robert B. Sinclair

You're Out of Luck
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
Pathe (A)
D: Howard Bretherton