MFB: January 1940

Introduction for newcomers
Censor certificates
Glossary

Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1940
Vol. 7 No. 73

Accord final
(aka: Final Accord)
France/Switzerland - 1938 - 82m - bw
European (U)
D: Ignacy Rosenkranz

Another Thin Man
USA - 1939 - 103m - bw
MGM (A)
D: W.S. Van Dyke
Series: The Thin Man (1934, Jul/1934).

Bad Boy
(USA: Branded)
UK - 1938 - 69m - bw
Radius (A)
D: Lawrence Huntington
Also reviewed: Mar 1938

Bad Little Angel
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Wilhelm Thiele

Band Waggon
UK - 1939 - 85m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Beware Spooks!
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Edward Sedgwick

Blue Montana Skies
USA - 1939 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: B. Reeves Eason
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

The Chinese Bungalow
(USA: The Chinese Den)
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: George King

A Chump at Oxford
USA - 1939 - 63m/42m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Alfred J. Goulding
Originally released in the US in a condensed version running 42 minutes. A longer print was released overseas (including the UK), and the latter edition is now considered definitive.

Peter Cushing (fourth from left, on floor) in one of his
earliest roles, alongside the immortal Laurel and Hardy
(A Chump at Oxford)

Convicts at Large
USA - 1938 - 57m - bw
Equity British (A)
D: Scott E. Beal, David Friedman

Danger Rides the Range
Three Texas Steers
USA - 1939 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U) (cut)
D: George Sherman
Series: The Three Mesquiteers (1936, Feb/1937).

Dr. O'Dowd
UK - 1939 - 76m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Herbert Mason

Enemy Agent
British Intelligence
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Terry O. Morse

First Love
USA - 1939 - 84m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Henry Koster

The Flying Deuces
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: A. Edward Sutherland

Gulliver's Travels
USA - 1939 - 76m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Dave Fleischer

Laugh It Off
UK - 1940 - 78m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: John Baxter, Wallace Orton

The Light That Failed
USA - 1939 - 99m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William A. Wellman

Ninotchka
USA - 1939 - 110m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Ernst Lubitsch

The Old Maid
USA - 1939 - 95m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Edmund Goulding

The Proud Valley
(aka: The Tunnel)
UK - 1939 - 76m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Pen Tennyson

The Rains Came
USA - 1939 - 105m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Clarence Brown

Remember?

USA - 1939 - 83m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Norman Z. McLeod

Remontons les Champs Élysées
France - 1938 - 100m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Sacha Guitry

Reno
USA - 1939 - 73m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: John Farrow

Return to Yesterday
UK - 1940 - 69m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Robert Stevenson

The Roaring Twenties
USA - 1939 - 106m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Raoul Walsh

She Married a Cop
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
USA - 1939 - 85m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alfred L. Werker
Series: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, May/1939).

Small Town Lawyer
Main Street Lawyer
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Dudley Murphy

The Spider
UK - 1940 - 81m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Maurice Elvey

Spies at Work
Sabotage
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Harold Young

Sued for Libel
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Leslie Goodwins

Television Spy
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Edward Dmytryk

Thunderbolt
USA - 1935 - 55m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Stuart Paton

Too Busy to Work
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Otto Brower
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Twisted Rails
USA - 1934 - 51m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Albert Herman

Waterfront
USA - 1939 - 59m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Terry O. Morse

The Wizard of Oz
USA - 1939 - 101m - col and sepia
MGM (A)
D: Victor Fleming
Converted to IMAX Digital 3-D (with 5.1 audio) for a 2013 re-release.