MFB: March 1940

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin
March 1940
Vol. 7 No. 75

Adventure in Diamonds
USA - 1940 - 76m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: George Fitzmaurice

Barricade
USA - 1939 - 71m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff

The Big Guy
(aka: Warden of the Big House)
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Arthur Lubin

Blondie Brings Up Baby
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Calling All Marines
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: John H. Auer

Calling Philo Vance
USA - 1940 - 62m - bw
Warner (A)
D: William Clemens
Series: The Canary Murder Case (1929).

Chasing Trouble
USA - 1940 - 64m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

Chip of the Flying U
USA - 1939 - 55m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ralph Staub

Chip of the Flying U

The Cisco Kid and the Lady
USA - 1939 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Herbert I. Leeds
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).

City of Chance
USA - 1940 - 56m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Ricardo Cortez

Congo Maisie
USA - 1940 - 71m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: H.C. Potter
Series: Maisie (1939, Jul/1939).

Crimes at the Dark House
UK - 1940 - 69m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: George King

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

Dead End Kids on Dress Parade
[see: On Dress Parade]

The Earl of Chicago
USA - 1940 - 87m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Richard Thorpe

Emergency Squad
USA - 1940 - 58m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Edward Dmytryk

Everything Happens at Night
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Fighting Mad
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Sam Newfield
Series: Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937, Apr/1938).

Flight at Midnight
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Sidney Salkow

Flight at Midnight

Four Wives
USA - 1939 - 110m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz
Series: Four Daughters (1938, Nov/1938).

Framed
USA - 1940 - 60m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Harold D. Schuster

Geronimo!
USA - 1939 - 89m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Paul Sloane

He Married His Wife
USA - 1940 - 83m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Roy Del Ruth

Hitler - Beast of Berlin
(aka: Hell's Devils)
USA - 1939 - 87m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Sherman Scott]

Invisible Stripes
USA - 1939 - 81m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Legion of Lost Flyers
USA - 1939 - 63m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Christy Cabanne

Let George Do It!
(USA: To Hell With Hitler)
UK - 1940 - 82m - bw
Associated-British (U) (cut)
D: Marcel Varnel

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
USA - 1940 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: David Burton

Money Isn't Everything
Jeepers Creepers
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938).

Mr. Wong at Headquarters
The Fatal Hour
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Nigh
Series: Mr. Wong: Detective (1938, Dec/1938).

The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
USA - 1937 - 60m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Nick Carter, Master Detective
USA - 1939 - 59m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur
Followed by: Phantom Raiders (1940, Aug/1940), Sky Murder (1940, Dec/1940).

The Night of Nights
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lewis Milestone

On Dress Parade

On Dress Parade
(aka: The Dead End Kids at Military School)
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Clemens
Series: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

One Hour to Live
USA - 1939 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Harold D. Schuster

Pinocchio
USA - 1940 - 88m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen

Pride of the Blue Grass
(aka: Steeplechase)
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William C. McGann

Private Detective
USA - 1939 - 55m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Noel M. Smith

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(see: Elizabeth the Queen)
USA - 1939 - 106m - col
Warner (U)
D: Michael Curtiz
Followed by: The Virgin Queen (1955, Oct/1955).

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Raffles
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Sam Wood

Scouts of the Air
Danger Flight
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: Tailspin Tommy (1934).

The Shop Around the Corner
USA - 1940 - 99m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Ernst Lubitsch

South of the Border
USA - 1939 - 70m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Sherman
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Spirit of the People
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
USA - 1940 - 110m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: John Cromwell

Swanee River: The Story of Stephen C. Foster
USA - 1939 - 84m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sidney Lanfield

Thou Shalt Not Kill
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: John H. Auer

Two Bright Boys
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joseph Santley

Le voleur de femmes
(aka: The Woman Thief)
France/Italy - 1938 - 87m - bw
Anglo-Continental (A) (cut)
D: Abel Gance

Warden of the Big House
(see: Big Guy, The)

We Are Not Alone
USA - 1939 - 112m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Edmund Goulding

The Witness Vanishes
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Otis Garrett
Series: The Westland Case (1937, Dec/1937).