MFB: May 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1944

Vol. 11 No. 125

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
USA - 1944 - 107m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George B. Seitz
Series: A Family Affair (1937, Apr/1937).

The Battle for the Ukraine
Битва за нашу Советскую Украину
(USA: Ukraine in Flames)
USSR - 1943 - 72m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (A)
D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

The Battle of Russia: Special Service Division Information Film #5
USA - 1943 - 83m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Series: Prelude to War: Special Service Division Information Film #1 (1942).

The Beautiful Cheat
What a Woman!
USA - 1943 - 94m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Irving Cummings

Bermuda Mystery
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Benjamin Stoloff

Campus Rhythm
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Candles at Nine
UK - 1944 - 75m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: John Harlow

Career Girl
USA - 1944 - 69m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox

Casanova in Burlesque
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins

Chip Off the Old Block
USA - 1944 - 71m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

The Deerslayer
USA - 1943 - 67m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lew Landers

The Double Punch
Down Rio Grande Way
USA - 1942 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

Fanny by Gaslight
(USA: Man of Evil)
UK - 1944 - 107m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Anthony Asquith

The Forgotten Village
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Grand National (U) (cut)
D: Herbert Kline

Four Jills in a Jeep
USA - 1944 - 89m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: William A. Seiter

The Ghost Rider
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Followed by: The Stranger From Pecos (1943, Oct/1944), Six Gun Gospel (1943), Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943, Aug/1944), The Texas Kid (1943, Nov/1944), Raiders of the Border (1944, Feb/1945), Partners of the Trail (1944, Jun/1945), Law Men (1944, Oct/1945), Range Law (1944, Aug/1945), West of the Rio Grande (1944, Mar/1945), Land of the Outlaws (1944), Law of the Valley (1944, Feb/1946), Ghost Guns (1944, Aug/1946), The Navajo Trail (1945, Dec/1946), Gun Smoke (1945, Jun/1946), Stranger From Santa Fe (1945, Feb/1947), The Lost Trail (1945, Oct/1946), Frontier Feud (1945, Apr/1947), The Haunted Mine (1946, Aug/1947).

Hey Rookie
USA - 1944 - 77m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

The Hour Before the Dawn
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Frank Tuttle

The Impostor
(aka: Bayonet Charge)
(aka: Strange Confession)
USA - 1944 - 92m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

In Our Time
USA - 1944 - 110m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Vincent Sherman

Jacob Sverdlov
Яков Свердлов
USSR - 1940 - 124m - bw
Soviet Film Agency (A)
D: Sergei Yutkevich, M. Itina

Leopard Men of Africa
USA - 1940 - 65m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Allyn Butterfield, Paul L. Hoefler

Let's Have Fun
USA - 1943 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Melody Inn
Riding High
USA - 1943 - 88m - col
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

Ministry of Fear
USA - 1943 - 86m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang

Moonlight and Cactus
(aka: Cactus Round-Up)
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward F. Cline

Moonlight in Vermont
USA - 1943 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Edward C. Lilley

Mr. Muggs Steps Out
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine
Series: East Side Kids (1940).

The Navy Way
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: William Berke

Phantom Lady
USA - 1944 - 86m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Siodmak
Also reviewed: May 1978.

The Purple Heart
USA - 1944 - 99m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lewis Milestone

Roll On
Lawless Plainsmen
USA - 1942 - 59m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

Silver Spurs
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Strangest Case
The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case
USA - 1943 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Eugene Forde
Series: Crime Doctor (1943, Nov/1943).

The Sultan's Daughter
USA - 1944 - 64m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Swing Out the Blues
USA - 1943 - 73m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Malcolm St. Clair

Tampico
USA - 1944 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lothar Mendes

Tawny Pipit
UK - 1944 - 81m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Saunders, Bernard Miles

Tell Me Tonight
(USA: Be Mine Tonight)
UK/Germany - 1932 - 91m - bw
W & F (U)
D: Anatole Litvak

There's Something About a Soldier
USA - 1944 - 81m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

This Happy Breed
UK - 1944 - 115m - col
Eagle-Lion (A)
D: David Lean

Welcome, Mr. Washington
UK - 1944 - 90m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Leslie S. Hiscott

Whispering Footsteps
USA - 1943 - 54m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Howard Bretherton

You Can't Beat the Law
Smart Guy
USA - 1943 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer