MFB: August 1939

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin
August 1939
Vol. 6 No. 68

6,000 Enemies
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George B. Seitz

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
MGM (U)
D: W.S. Van Dyke
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

At the Villa Rose
(USA: House of Mystery)
UK - 1939 - 74m - bw
Associated-British (A) (cut)
D: Walter Summers

Bachelor Mother
USA - 1939 - 82m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Garson Kanin

Bad Lands
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Lew Landers

Beau Geste
USA - 1939 - 112m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: William A. Wellman

Boys' Reformatory

Boys' Reformatory
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

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

Career
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Leigh Jason

Chasing Danger
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Ricardo Cortez
Series: Sharpshooters (1938, Dec/1938).

Cheer Boys Cheer
UK - 1939 - 84m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Walter Forde

Code of the Streets
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Harold Young
Series: Little Tough Guy (1938, Aug/1938).

Confidential Lady
UK - 1939 - 65m - bw
First National (U)
D: Arthur B. Woods

Devil on Wheels
Indianapolis Speedway
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Les disparus de St. Agil
(USA: Boys' School)
France - 1938 - 98m - bw
Monopol (A)
D: Christian-Jaque

Le drame de Shanghaï

(USA: The Shanghai Drama)
France 1938 - 105m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: G.W. Pabst

Flight to Fame
USA - 1938 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles C. Coleman
Also reviewed: Apr 1939.

Girl From Nowhere
Should a Girl Marry?
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Good Girls Go to Paris
USA - 1939 - 75m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alexander Hall

Hell's Kitchen
USA - 1939 - 81m - bw
Warner (H)
D: Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler
Series: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

Hell's Kitchen

Heritage of the Desert
USA - 1939 - 73m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander

Hidden Power
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Hostages
Les otages
(USA: The Mayor's Dilemma)
France - 1939 - 105m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Raymond Bernard

It Could Happen to You
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alfred L. Werker

I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany
USA - 1936 - 72m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Alfred T. Mannon
Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted by European, then passed without cuts.

I Was a Convict
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Aubrey Scotto

Just William
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Graham Cutts

Man About Town
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Mark Sandrich

The Man in the Iron Mask
USA - 1939 - 112m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: James Whale

The Man Who Dared
(aka: City in Terror)
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Crane Wilbur

Missing Daughters
USA - 1939 - 59m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Charles C. Coleman

Old Mother Riley M.P.
UK - 1939 - 77m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

Old Mother Riley M.P.

On Borrowed Time
USA - 1939 - 99m - bw
MGM (H) (cut)
D: Harold S. Bucquet

-One Third of a Nation-
USA - 1938 - 79m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Dudley Murphy

Racketeers of the Range
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: D. Ross Lederman

The Rich Bride
Богатая невеста
(USA: The Country Bride)
USSR - 1938 - 93m - bw
Progressive (U)
D: Ivan Pyryev

Second Fiddle
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sidney Lanfield

Shipyard Sally
UK - 1939 - 77m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Monty Banks

Sing, Sinner, Sing
USA - 1933 - 74m - bw
International (A) (cut)
D: Howard Christie
Original UK release: 1933 (PDC).

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Spellbinder
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Jack Hively

Stanley and Livingstone
USA - 1939 - 101m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry King, Otto Brower

Stronger Than Desire
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Leslie Fenton

Susannah of the Mounties
USA - 1939 - 79m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter

That Girl From College
Sorority House
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: John Farrow

Un de la légion
France - 1936 - 91m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Christian-Jaque

Undercover Doctor
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Louis King

Way Down South
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus

Where's That Fire?
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Young Mr. Lincoln
USA - 1939 - 100m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: John Ford