MFB: July 1940

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Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1940
Vol. 7 No. 79

20 Mule Team
USA - 1940 - 84m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

Behind the Door
The Man With Nine Lives
USA - 1940 - 74m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Nick Grinde

Blondie on a Budget
USA - 1940 - 72m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Busman's Honeymoon
(USA: Haunted Honeymoon)
UK - 1940 - 99m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Arthur B. Woods

The Case of the Frightened Lady
(USA: The Frightened Lady)
(aka: The Scarf Murder Mystery)
UK - 1940 - 81m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George King

La charrette fantôme
(USA: The Phantom Wagon)
France - 1939 - 93m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

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Earthbound

Cowboys From Texas

USA - 1939 - 54m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Sherman
Series: The Three Mesquiteers (1936, Feb/1937).

Dark Command
USA - 1940 - 94m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Raoul Walsh

Down Went McGinty
The Great McGinty
USA - 1940 - 82m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Preston Sturges

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
USA - 1940 - 77m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harold S. Bucquet
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

Earthbound
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Irving Pichel

Edison, the Man
USA - 1940 - 107m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Clarence Brown
Series: Young Tom Edison (1940).

Five Little Peppers at Home
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton
Series: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939, Dec/1939).

Forgotten Girls
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Phil Rosen

Forty Little Mothers
USA - 1940 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Busby Berkeley

Garrison Follies
UK - 1940 - 64m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

Girl in 313
USA - 1940 - 56m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Ricardo Cortez
Series: Hotel for Women (1939, Oct/1939).

Good Old Schooldays
Those Were the Days!
USA - 1940 - 74m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Theodore Reed

Hidden Gold
USA - 1940 - 60m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

If I Had My Way
USA - 1940 - 82m - bw
General Film (U)
D: David Butler

In Old Missouri
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938).

The Invisible Killer
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Sherman Scott]

I Was an Adventuress
USA - 1940 - 81m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Knight of the Plains
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
Equity British (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Lady Be Gay
Laugh It Off
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Albert S. Rogell

The Lone Wolf Strikes
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Sidney Salkow
Series: The Lone Wolf Returns (1935, Mar/1936).

The Marshal of Mesa City
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Howard

Men Without Souls
USA - 1940 - 62m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Nick Grinde

Miracles Do Happen
UK - 1938 - 59m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

Money to Burn
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gus Meins
Series: The Higgins Family (1938, Dec/1938).

My Favorite Wife
USA - 1940 - 88m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Garson Kanin

My Two Husbands
Too Many Husbands
USA - 1940 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Wesley Ruggles

On Their Own
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Otto Brower
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Rebecca
USA - 1940 - 130m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

Riders of Pasco Basin
USA - 1940 - 56m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Room for Two
UK - 1940 - 77m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Maurice Elvey

Rovin' Tumbleweeds
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Sherman
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

The Saint Takes Over
USA - 1940 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Jack Hively
Series: The Saint in New York (1938, Jul/1938).

The Showdown
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Virginia City
USA - 1940 - 121m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Michael Curtiz

Winners of the West
USA - 1940 - 247m - 13 chapters - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor

You Can't Fool Your Wife
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Ray McCarey