MFB: February 1940

Introduction for newcomers

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1940
Vol. 7 No. 74

20,000 Men a Year
USA - 1939 - 84m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

The Amazing Mr. Williams
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Alexander Hall

Balalaika
USA - 1939 - 102m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Reinhold Schünzel

Call a Messenger
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin
Series: Little Tough Guy (1938, Aug/1938).

Criminal Cargo
[see: Outside the Three-Mile Limit]

Dark Rapture
Magie africaine
(aka: Watusi)
Belgium/USA - 1938 - 81m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Armand Denis

Day-Time Wife
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Destry Rides Again
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: George Marshall

Destry Rides Again

Drums Along the Mohawk
USA - 1939 - 104m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: John Ford

Dust Be My Destiny
USA - 1939 - 88m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lewis Seiler

Escape to Happiness
Intermezzo: A Love Story
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Escape to Paradise
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton

Everybody's Hobby
USA - 1939 - 54m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William C. McGann

The Great Victor Herbert
USA - 1939 - 91m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Andrew L. Stone

The Honeymoon's Over
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Eugene Forde

The Housekeeper's Daughter
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Hal Roach

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
USA - 1939 - 117m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: William Dieterle

Judge Hardy and Son
USA - 1939 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

Little Accident
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Mamele
Poland - 1938 - 103m - bw
Unity (U)
D: Joseph Green, Konrad Tom

Meet Dr. Christian
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Bernard Vorhaus
Followed by: Remedy for Riches (1940, Mar/1941), The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940), Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940, Nov/1946), Melody for Three (1941, May/1941), They Meet Again (1941, Oct/1941).

Mexican Spitfire
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins
Series: The Girl From Mexico (1939, Jul/1939).

The Midas Touch
UK - 1940 - 68m - bw
Warner (A)
D: David MacDonald

Morton of the Mounted
Timber Terrors
USA - 1935 - 59m - bw
Equity British (U) (cut)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey
Series: Courage of the North (1934).

Mutiny in the Big House
USA - 1939 - 83m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: William Nigh

Mutiny on the Seas
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
USA - 1940 - 64m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

The Mysterious Mr. Davis
UK - 1939 - 58m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Claude Autant-Lara

On Your Toes
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Ray Enright

Prisons de femmes
(USA: Marked Girls)
France - 1938 - 102m - bw
European (A) (cut)
D: Roger Richebé

Prisons de femmes

Rio
USA - 1939 - 77m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: John Brahm

Les rois du sport
France - 1937 - 102m - bw
United Curzon (A) (cut)
D: Pierre Colombier

Scandal Sheet
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Nick Grinde

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
USA - 1939 - 84m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Harold S. Bucquet
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

Snares
Pièges
(USA: Personal Column)
France - 1939 - 111m - bw
Cinephone (A) (cut)
D: Robert Siodmak

Some Like It Hot
(aka: Rhythm Romance)
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Archainbaud

Spy for a Day
UK - 1940 - 71m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Mario Zampi

That's Right - You're Wrong
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Butler

They Came by Night
UK - 1940 - 73m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Harry Lachman

Twenty Thousand Men a Year
[see: 20,000 Men a Year]