MFB: June 1941

Introduction for newcomers

The Penalty

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1941

Vol. 8 No. 90

Adam Had Four Sons
USA - 1941 - 108m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Adventure in Sahara
USA - 1938 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman
Also reviewed: Jan 1939.

The Case of the Black Parrot
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Noel M. Smith

The Devil and Miss Jones
USA - 1941 - 92m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Sam Wood

The Devil Bat
(aka: Killer Bats)
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Jean Yarbrough
Followed by: Devil Bat's Daughter (1946, Apr/1947).

The Face Behind the Mask
USA - 1941 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Robert Florey

The Fighting Chump
Dynamite Delaney
USA - 1936 - 77m - bw
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Rothman

Footsteps in the Dark
USA - 1941 - 96m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Free and Easy
USA - 1941 - 56m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George Sidney

Give Us Wings
USA - 1940 - 62m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Charles Lamont
Series: Little Tough Guy (1938, Aug/1938).

The Great Plane Robbery
USA - 1940 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lewis D. Collins

High Sierra
USA - 1941 - 100m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Raoul Walsh

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
USA - 1940 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Arthur Lubin

The Invisible Woman
USA - 1940 - 72m - bw
General Film (A)
D: A. Edward Sutherland
Series: The Invisible Man (1933, Apr/1934).

I Wanted Wings
USA - 1941 - 135m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Mitchell Leisen

Keeping Company
USA - 1940 - 80m - bw
MGM (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon
Followed by: This Time for Keeps (1942, May/1942).

Lady With Red Hair
USA - 1940 - 78m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Curtis Bernhardt

Maisie Was a Lady
USA - 1941 - 79m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin
Series: Maisie (1938, Jul/1939).

Meet Boston Blackie
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Robert Florey
Followed by: Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941, Nov/1942), Alias Boston Blackie (1942, Jul/1942), Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1943, Feb/1943), After Midnight With Boston Blackie (1943, Jul/1943), The Chance of a Lifetime (1943, Sep/1945), One Mysterious Night (1944, Mar/1945), Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945, Nov/1945), Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945, Feb/1946), A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946), The Phantom Thief (1946, Aug/1946), Boston Blackie and the Law (1946, Jan/1947), Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948, Aug/1948), Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949, Apr/1949).

Men of Boys Town
USA - 1941 - 106m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Norman Taurog
Series: Boys Town (1938, Sep/1938).

Once a Crook
UK - 1941 - 78m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Herbert Mason

One Night in the Tropics
USA - 1940 - 82m - bw
General Film (U)
D: A. Edward Sutherland

On Special Duty
Bullets for Rustlers
USA - 1940 - 58m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sam Nelson

The Penalty
USA - 1941 - 80m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harold S. Bucquet

Road to Zanzibar
USA - 1941 - 91m - bw
Paramount (U) (cut)
D: Victor Schertzinger
Series: Road to Singapore (1940, May/1940).

The Round Up
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
Paramount (U) (cut)
D: Lesley Selander

Sleepers West
USA - 1941 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Eugene Forde
Series: Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940, Mar/1941).

South of Suez
USA - 1940 - 86m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lewis Seiler

The Stranger
The Stranger From Texas
USA - 1939 - 54m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Sam Nelson

The Strawberry Blonde
USA - 1941 - 97m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Raoul Walsh

That Uncertain Feeling
USA - 1941 - 84m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Ernst Lubitsch

There's Magic in Music
The Hard-Boiled Canary
USA - 1941 - 80m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Andrew L. Stone

This Man Reuter
A Dispatch From Reuter's
USA - 1941 - 90m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Dieterle

Topper Returns
USA - 1941 - 88m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Roy Del Ruth
Series: Topper (1937, Aug/1937).

Topper Returns

Turned Out Nice Again
UK - 1941 - 81m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Western Union
USA - 1941 - 95m - col
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang

You're the One
USA - 1941 - 83m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Ralph Murphy