MFB: September 1940

Introduction for newcomers

The Sea Hawk

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1940

Vol. 7 No. 81

Alien Sabotage
Passport to Alcatraz
USA - 1940 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Amok
France - 1934 - 92m - bw
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Fyodor Otsep
Originally screened in London with a local certificate (Adults Only), then passed by the BBFC for general exhibition in 1951, subject to cuts.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
USA - 1940 - 88m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

Convicted Woman
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Nick Grinde

Covered Wagon Days
USA - 1940 - 56m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Sherman
Series: The Three Mesquiteers (1936, Feb/1937).

Dance, Girl, Dance
USA - 1940 - 90m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Dorothy Arzner

The Doctor Takes a Wife
USA - 1940 - 88m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Alexander Hall

The Fall of a Tyrant
Bílá nemoc
(USA: Skeleton on Horseback)
Czechoslovakia - 1937 - 103m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Hugo Haas

The Girl in the News
UK - 1940 - 78m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Carol Reed

Gold Rush Maisie
USA - 1940 - 82m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Edwin L. Marin
Series: Maisie (1939, Jul/1939).

Island of Doomed Men
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Charles T. Barton

La Conga Nights
USA - 1940 - 70m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Last Alarm
USA - 1940 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William West

Laughing at Danger
USA - 1940 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: On the Spot (1939, Aug/1940).

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
USA - 1940 - 71m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Sidney Salkow
Series: The Lone Wolf Returns (1935, Mar/1936).

Lucky Partners
USA - 1940 - 99m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lewis Milestone

One Crowded Night
(aka: It's Later Than You Think)
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Irving Reis

Rancho Grande
USA - 1940 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Sailors Don't Care
UK - 1940 - 79m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Saturday's Children
USA - 1940 - 102m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Vincent Sherman
Also reviewed: Oct 1940.

The Sea Hawk
USA - 1940 - 127m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

South of Pago Pago
USA - 1940 - 98m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Alfred E. Green