MFB: June 1940

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1940
Vol. 7 No. 78

And One Was Beautiful
USA - 1940 - 70m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Robert B. Sinclair

A Bill of Divorcement
(aka: Never to Love)
USA - 1940 - 74m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Farrow

Black Friday
USA - 1940 - 70m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Arthur Lubin

Buck Benny Rides Again
USA - 1940 - 82m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Mark Sandrich

Choose Your Partner
Two Girls on Broadway
USA - 1940 - 73m - bw
MGM (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon

The Conquest of the Air: John Monk Saunders' Story of Man's Greatest Achievement
UK - 1936 - 71m/66m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Zoltan Korda, Alexander Esway
The version reviewed in MFB was a revised edition, released in 1940 (for some reason the original was never reviewed). This print added new material to the 1936 original, including footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster.

Convoy
UK - 1940 - 90m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Pen Tennyson

Crashing Thru
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Elmer Clifton
Series: Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937, Apr/1938).

Danger on Wheels
USA - 1940 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Christy Cabanne

The Door With Seven Locks
(USA: Chamber of Horrors)
UK - 1940 - 89m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Norman Lee

Double Alibi
USA - 1940 - 60m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Phil Rosen

Dr. Cyclops
USA - 1940 - 77m - col
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Ernest B. Schoedsack

Florian
USA - 1940 - 91m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Free, Blonde and 21
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Ricardo Cortez
Series: Hotel for Women (1939, Oct/1939).

Gaslight
(USA: Angel Street)
(aka: The Murder in Thornton Square)
UK - 1940 - 84m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Thorold Dickinson

Gentleman of Venture
(USA: It Happened to One Man)
UK - 1940 - 81m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Paul L. Stein

Golden Gloves
USA - 1940 - 66m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Edward Dmytryk, Felix E. Feist

Green Hell
USA - 1940 - 87m - bw
General Film (A)
D: James Whale

The House of the Seven Gables
USA - 1940 - 89m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Joe May

Irene
USA - 1940 - 101m - bw and col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

It All Came True
USA - 1940 - 97m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lewis Seiler

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert B. Sinclair

King of Hearts
(aka: Little Gel)
UK - 1936 - 82m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell, Walter Tennyson
Also reviewed: Mar 1936.

Lillian Russell
USA - 1940 - 127m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Midnight Limited
USA - 1940 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
USA - 1940 - 60m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Charles Lamont

Safari
USA - 1940 - 80m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Edward H. Griffith

The Saint's Double Trouble
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Jack Hively
Series: The Saint in New York (1938, Jul/1938).

Saloon Bar
UK - 1940 - 76m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Walter Forde

Saps at Sea
USA - 1940 - 57m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Gordon Douglas

Star Dust
USA - 1940 - 90m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang

Three Cheers for the Irish
USA - 1940 - 99m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Three Crazy Legionnaires
Three Legionnaires
USA - 1937 - 65m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Hamilton MacFadden

Three Silent Men
UK - 1940 - 72m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Thomas Bentley

Untamed
USA - 1940 - 83m - col
Paramount (A)
D: George Archainbaud

Village Barn Dance
USA - 1940 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald

Viva Cisco Kid
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Norman Foster
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).

Wolf of New York
USA - 1940 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: William C. McGann

A Woman is the Judge
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Nick Grinde

Women Without Names
USA - 1940 - 62m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Robert Florey
Series: Men Without Names (1935, Jul/1935).