MFB: November 1939

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1939
Vol. 6 No. 71

5th Ave Girl
USA - 1939 - 83m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Gregory La Cava

Amateur Detective
Irish Luck
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

The Angels Wash Their Faces
USA - 1939 - 86m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Ray Enright
Series: Dead End (1937, Oct/1937).

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

UK - 1939 - 84m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Thorold Dickinson

Bedtime Story
UK - 1938 - 71m - bw
Admiral (U)
D: Donovan Pedelty
Also reviewed: Mar 1938.

Blackmail
USA - 1939 - 81m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: H.C. Potter

The Angels Wash Their Faces

Blind Folly
UK - 1939 - 78m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Reginald Denham

Come On George!
UK - 1939 - 88m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Anthony Kimmins

The Dark Eyes of London
(USA: The Human Monster)
UK - 1939 - 76m - bw
Pathé (H) (cut)
D: Walter Summers

The Dark Eyes of London

Daughter of the Tong
USA - 1939 - 56m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Bernard B. Ray [as: Raymond K. Johnson]

Espionage Agent
USA - 1939 - 83m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Everything's on Ice
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Erle C. Kenton

Fifth Avenue Girl
[see: 5th Ave Girl]

The Forgotten Woman
USA - 1939 - 67m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Harold Young

French Without Tears
UK - 1939 - 86m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Anthony Asquith

The Frozen Limits
UK - 1939 - 84m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Marcel Varnel

Full Confession
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
RKO Radio (U) (cut)
D: John Farrow

Gibraltar
(USA: It Happened in Gibraltar)
France - 1938 - 105m - bw
Studio One (A) (cut)
D: Fyodor Otsep

The Girl From Rio
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Golden Boy
USA - 1939 - 99m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Rouben Mamoulian

Hawaiian Nights
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Albert S. Rogell

Hell's Cargo
(USA: Dangerous Cargo)
UK - 1939 - 79m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Harold Huth

Hoots Mon
UK - 1939 - 77m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Roy William Neill

In Old Monterey
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
UK - 1939 - 90m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Walter Forde
Series: Inspector Hornleigh (1939, Mar/1939).

I Stole a Million
USA - 1939 - 80m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Frank Tuttle

Lightning Triggers
USA - 1935 - 58m - bw
Curry (U)
D: S. Roy Luby

The Lion Has Wings
UK - 1939 - 76m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Powell (and Alexander Korda)

Lucky to Me
UK - 1939 - 69m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Thomas Bentley

Mickey the Kid
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Arthur Lubin

Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard
UK - 1939 - 65m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Fred Elles

Mutiny on the Blackhawk
USA - 1939 - 66m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Christy Cabanne

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Warner (U)
D: William Clemens
Series: Nancy Drew-- Detective (1938, Feb/1939).

Old Mother Riley Joins Up
UK - 1939 - 75m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Maclean Rogers
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

On the Night of the Fire
(USA: The Fugitive)
UK - 1939 - 94m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Brian Desmond Hurst

The Return of Doctor X
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
Warner (H)
D: Vincent Sherman
Series: Doctor X (1932, Jun/1978).

Rulers of the Sea
USA - 1939 - 96m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Lloyd

She Couldn't Say No
UK - 1939 - 72m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Graham Cutts

Smashing the Spy Ring
USA - 1938 - 62m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Christy Cabanne

Sons of the Sea
UK - 1939 - 82m - col
Grand National (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

S.O.S. Tidal Wave
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: John H. Auer

Stop - Look and Love
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Otto Brower

They Asked for It
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Frank McDonald

Thunder Afloat
USA - 1939 - 95m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz

Tidal Wave
[see: S.O.S. Tidal Wave]

Timber Stampede
USA - 1939 - 59m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: David Howard

Trois de Saint-Cyr
France - 1939 - 97m - bw
United Curzon (A)
D: Jean-Paul Paulin

Tropic Fury
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Christy Cabanne

The Under-Pup
USA - 1939 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Richard Wallace
Followed by: A Little Bit of Heaven (1940, Jan/1941).

Valley of Terror
USA - 1937 - 59m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Albert Herman

What a Life
USA - 1939 - 75m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Theodore Reed
Followed by: Life With Henry (1940), Henry Aldrich for President (1941, Nov/1941), Henry and Dizzy (1942, Jul/1942), Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942), Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943, Jun/1943), Henry Aldrich Swings It (1943, Jul/1943), Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943, Nov/1943), Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (1943, Aug/1943), Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (1943, Apr/1944), Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944).

A Window in London
(USA: Lady in Distress)
UK - 1939 - 77m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Herbert Mason