MFB: September 1944

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1944

Vol. 11 No. 129

2,000 Women
[see: Two Thousand Women]

An American Romance
USA - 1944 - 151m - col
MGM (U)
D: King Vidor

Arizona Trail
USA - 1943 - 57m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Vernon Keays

The Black Parachute
USA - 1944 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Call of the Jungle
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Phil Rosen

Champagne Charlie
UK - 1944 - 105m - bw
Ealing (A)
D: Alberto Cavalcanti

Christmas Holiday
USA - 1944 - 93m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Siodmak

The Contender
(aka: Challenger)
USA - 1944 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Sam Newfield

Cowboy Commandos
USA - 1943 - 55m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: S. Roy Luby
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).

Striking imagery from
The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People
USA - 1944 - 70m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise
Series: Cat People (1942, Mar/1943).
Also reviewed: Nov 1979.

Days of Glory
USA - 1944 - 86m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Frontier Law
USA - 1943 - 55m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Elmer Clifton

The Ghost That Walks Alone
USA - 1944 - 63m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Lew Landers

Give Me the Stars
UK - 1944 - 90m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Maclean Rogers

Government Girl
USA - 1943 - 93m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Dudley Nichols

Her Primitive Man
USA - 1944 - 79m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

Hot Rhythm
USA - 1944 - 79m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

Lady, Let's Dance
USA - 1944 - 88m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Frank Woodruff

The Law Rides Again
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Alan James
Series: Wild Horse Stampede (1943).

Make Your Own Bed
USA - 1944 - 82m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Peter Godfrey

Marshal of Gunsmoke
USA - 1944 - 59m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Vernon Keays

The Mask of Dimitrios
USA - 1944 - 95m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Jean Negulesco

Moon Over Las Vegas
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Jean Yarbrough

Mr. Emmanuel
UK - 1944 - 97m - bw
Eagle-Lion (A)
D: Harold French

One Exciting Night
UK - 1944 - 89m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Walter Forde

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
USA - 1944 - 81m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis Allen
Followed by: Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946, Feb/1946).

Pardon My Rhythm
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Felix E. Feist

Passport to Destiny
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Ray McCarey

Rawhide
USA - 1938 - 58m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Roll Along, Cowboy
USA - 1937 - 57m - bw
Anglo-American (U)
D: Gus Meins

Sailor's Holiday
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke

The Scarlet Claw
USA - 1944 - 74m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Roy William Neill
Series: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, May/1939).

The Secret Code
USA - 1942 - 75m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Condensed feature-length version of the same-named 15-chapter serial (1942).

Shake Hands With Murder
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Albert Herman

She's a Soldier Too
USA - 1944 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Castle

Show Business
USA - 1944 - 92m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin

The Silver Key
Girl in the Case
USA - 1944 - 65m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: William Berke

Song of the Open Road
USA - 1944 - 93m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: S. Sylvan Simon

South of Dixie
USA - 1944 - 61m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough

Stars on Parade
USA - 1944 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lew Landers

Storm Over Lisbon
(aka: Inside the Underworld)
USA - 1944 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Sherman

Take It or Leave It
USA - 1944 - 70m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Benjamin Stoloff

They Came to a City
UK - 1944 - 78m - bw
Ealing (U)
D: Basil Dearden

Twilight on the Prairie
(aka: Prairie Buckaroos)
USA - 1944 - 62m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough

Two Thousand Women
(USA: House of 1,000 Women)
UK - 1944 - 97m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Frank Launder

The Underdog
USA - 1943 - 65m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Nigh