MFB: August 1943

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1943

Vol. 10 No. 116

Action in the North Atlantic
USA - 1943 - 126m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Bataan
USA - 1943 - 114m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Tay Garnett

The Black Shadow
Vengeance of the West
USA - 1942 - 61m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

The Bright Path
Светлый путь
(USA: Tanya)
USSR - 1940 - 101m/87m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (U)
D: Grigori Aleksandrov
Also reviewed: Nov 1942.

The Butler's Dilemma
UK - 1943 - 83m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Leslie S. Hiscott

The Charlie Chaplin Festival
USA - 1938 - 96m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Charlie Chaplin
Compilation of 4 short films, all produced in 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant.

Chatterbox
USA - 1943 - 77m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley

Cinderella Swings It
USA - 1943 - 69m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Christy Cabanne
Series: Scattergood Baines (1941, Apr/1941).

City of Missing Girls
USA - 1941 - 74m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Elmer Clifton

Escape to Danger
UK - 1943 - 84m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Lance Comfort, Victor Hanbury

The Flemish Farm
UK - 1943 - 82m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jeffrey Dell

The Good Fellows
USA - 1943 - 70m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Jo Graham

Heaven Can Wait
USA - 1943 - 112m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Ernst Lubitsch

Henry Plays Cupid
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
USA -1943 - 65m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Hugh Bennett
Series: What a Life (1939, Nov/1939).

Hitler's Madman
USA - 1943 - 84m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Douglas Sirk
Also reviewed: Sep 1978.

I Dood It
USA - 1943 - 102m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Vincente Minnelli

I'll Sell My Life
(aka: Some Call It Murder)
USA - 1941 - 73m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Elmer Clifton

The Iron Road
Buckskin Empire
USA - 1943 - 65m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Lesley Selander

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Leslie Goodwins
Series: The Girl From Mexico (1939, Jul/1939).

Mission to Moscow
USA - 1943 - 123m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Michael Curtiz

My Learned Friend
UK - 1943 - 74m - bw
Ealing (U) (cut)
D: Basil Dearden, Will Hay

Rhythm Serenade
UK - 1943 - 87m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Gordon Wellesley

Ridin' Down the Canyon
USA - 1942 - 55m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Silver Queen
USA - 1942 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Stage to Chino
USA - 1940 - 59m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Edward Killy

Striptease Lady
Lady of Burlesque
(aka: The G-String Murders)
USA - 1943 - 91m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: William A. Wellman

Tahiti Honey
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John H. Auer

They Met in the Dark
UK - 1943 - 104m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Carl Lamac

White Captive
White Savage
USA - 1943 - 76m - col
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Lubin

Wrongly Accused
Bad Men of the Hills
USA - 1942 - 58m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

Young Ideas
USA - 1943 - 77m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Jules Dassin