MFB: February 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1944

Vol. 11 No. 122

And the Angels Sing
USA - 1943 - 96m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

Battle for Music
UK - 1943 - 74m - bw
British National (U)
D: Donald Taylor

Crazy House
USA - 1943 - 80m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Crime by Night
USA - 1944 - 72m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: William Clemens

The Cross of Lorraine
USA - 1943 - 90m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Tay Garnett

Cry 'Havoc'
USA - 1943 - 97m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

The Dancing Masters
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair

Dangerous Blondes
USA - 1943 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Leigh Jason

Danger! Women at Work
USA - 1943 - 59m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Doughboys in Ireland
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lew Landers

Fighting Sea Monsters
USA - 1943 - 59m - bw
Grand National (U) (cut)
D: [uncredited]

Ghost Town Law
USA - 1942 - 62m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: Arizona Bound (1941, Apr/1943).

The Girl From Monterrey
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox

The Halfway House
UK - 1944 - 95m - bw
Ealing (A)
D: Basil Dearden

Happy Land
USA - 1943 - 73m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Irving Pichel

Heaven is Round the Corner
UK - 1944 - 103m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Maclean Rogers

Holt of the Secret Service
USA - 1941 - 85m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: James W. Horne
Condensed feature-length version of the same-named 15-chapter serial (1941).

In Old Oklahoma
(aka: War of the Wildcats)
USA - 1943 - 102m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Albert S. Rogell

The Lodger
USA - 1944 - 84m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: John Brahm

Madame Curie
USA - 1943 - 124m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Mervyn Le Roy

Mystery of the 13th Guest
USA - 1943 - 60m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine

Nearly Eighteen
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

The Nelson Touch
Corvette K-225
(aka: Corvettes in Action)
(aka: Corvette 225)
USA - 1943 - 98m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Richard Rosson

Northern Pursuit
USA - 1943 - 93m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Raoul Walsh

Old Mother Riley Overseas
UK - 1943 - 80m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Oswald Mitchell
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

Partisans
Народные мстители
(USA: The People's Avengers)
USSR - 1943 - 55m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Vasili Belayev

Passage From Hong Kong
USA - 1941 - 61m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: D. Ross Lederman

Riders of the Deadline
USA - 1943 - 70m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).

The Scorched Earth
USA - 1942 - 57m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Ben Mindenburg

The Seventh Victim
USA - 1943 - 71m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Mark Robson
Also reviewed: Apr 1979.

Shadows on the Stairs
USA - 1941 - 64m - bw
Warner (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman

She's for Me
USA - 1943 - 61m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Reginald Le Borg

Standing Room Only
USA - 1944 - 83m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Sidney Lanfield

Strangers of the Evening
(aka: The Hidden Corpse)
(aka: Who Killed Frank Daniels?)
USA - 1932 - 71m - bw
Gaumont (A)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

Submarine Base
USA - 1943 - 65m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Albert H. Kelley

Swing Fever
USA - 1943 - 79m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Tim Whelan

Tarzan's Desert Mystery
USA - 1943 - 70m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Wilhelm Thiele
Series: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, Dec/1955).

Thousands Cheer
USA - 1943 - 125m - col
MGM (U)
D: George Sidney