MFB: October 1939

Introduction for newcomers

The Cat and the Canary

Monthly Film Bulletin
October 1939
Vol. 6 No. 60

All at Sea
UK - 1939 - 76m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Smith

Blondie Takes a Vacation
USA - 1939 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Frank R. Strayer
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

The Cat and the Canary
USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
Paramount (H)
D: Elliott Nugent

Coast Guard

USA - 1939 - 72m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Edward Ludwig

Conspiracy
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Lew Landers

Discoveries
UK - 1939 - 68m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Redd Davis

Down Our Alley
UK - 1939 - 56m - bw
British Screen Services (U)
D: George A. Cooper

An Englishman's Home
(USA: Mad Men of Europe)
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Albert de Courville

The Girl Who Forgot
UK - 1939 - 79m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Adrian Brunel

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Alfred E. Green
Series: The Canary Murder Case (1929).

His Brother's Keeper
UK - 1939 - 70m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Roy William Neill

Hotel for Women
USA - 1939 - 83m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Gregory Ratoff
Followed by: Free, Blonde and 21 (1940, Jun/1940), Girl in 313 (1940, Jul/1940).

In Name Only
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Cromwell

Island of Lost Men
USA - 1939 - 68m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Kurt Neumann

Lady of the Tropics
USA - 1939 - 92m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Jack Conway

The Man They Could Not Hang
USA - 1939 - 64m - bw
Columbia (H) (cut)
D: Nick Grinde

Meet Maxwell Archer
(USA: Maxwell Archer, Detective)
UK - 1939 - 73m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

Million Dollar Legs
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Nick Grinde (and Edward Dmytryk)

News is Made at Night
USA - 1939 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alfred L. Werker

Night Work
USA - 1939 - 60m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Archainbaud
Series: Boy Trouble (1939, Mar/1939).

Nurse Edith Cavell
USA - 1939 - 108m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

Our Leading Citizen
USA - 1939 - 89m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Alfred Santell

Over the Moon
UK - 1939 - 85m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Thornton Freeland

Quick Millions
USA - 1939 - 62m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair
Series: Every Saturday Night (1936).

Range War
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

Sandy Takes a Bow
Unexpected Father
USA - 1939 - 78m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont
Followed by: Sandy is a Lady (1940, Dec/1940), Sandy Gets Her Man! (1940, Mar/1941), Bachelor Daddy (1941, Oct/1941).

Shadowed Eyes
UK - 1939 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Maclean Rogers

The Star Maker
USA - 1939 - 94m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Roy Del Ruth

Street of Missing Men
USA - 1939 - 65m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Sidney Salkow

Ten Days in Paris
UK - 1939 - 82m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Tim Whelan

These Glamour Girls
USA - 1939 - 79m - bw
MGM (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon