THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA. Marshall Grant-Realm Television_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Productions, c1949. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the story by

Oscar Wilde.

Summary: A dwarf, captured from his forest home to become the

companion of the beautiful young Infanta of Spain, dies of a broken

heart when he sees a mirrored reflection of his own hideousness.

Credits: Producers, Stanley Rubin, Louis Lantz; director, Sobey

Martin; screenplay, Oscar Saul; editor, Edward Mann.

BIRTHPLACE OF ICEBERGS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1939. 1

reel, sd. (Father Hubbard's Adventures)

Credits: Producer, Truman Talley; narrators, Father Hubbard, Lowell

Thomas.

THE BISCUIT EATER. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 8 reels, sd. Based

on a story by James Street.

Credits: Producer, Jack Moss; director, Stuart Heisler; screenplay,

Stuart Anthony, Lillie Hayward; photography, Leo Tover; film editor,

Edward Douglas.

THE BISHOP'S EXPERIMENT. Marshall Grant-Realm Television Productions,

c1949, 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on an incident in the novel

"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo.

Summary: An ex-convict, embittered by poverty, inhumanity, and

brutality, is reclaimed through a stubborn bishop's trust in him.

Setting, a French village in 1860.

Credits: Producer, Stanley Rubin; director, Charles Haas;

screenplay, Bess Taffel; editor, Jodie Copelan.

THE BISHOP'S WIFE. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., c1947. 109 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. From the novel by Robert Nathan.

Summary: An angel, coming to earth in the guise of a man, restores

happiness to an overworked young bishop and his neglected family.

Credits: Producer, Samuel Goldwyn; director, Henry Koster;

screenplay, Robert E. Sherwood, Leonardo Bercovici; music, Hugo

Friedhofer; music director, Emil Newman; film editor, Monica

Collingwood.

Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James

Gleason.

A BIT OF BLARNEY. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd.,

35mm. (Sing and Be Happy Series, no. 3)

Credits: Director, Harold James Moore.

BITTER SWEET. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 10

reels, sd., color.

Credits: Producer, Victor Saville; director, W. S. Van Dyke II;

original play, music, & lyrics, Noel Coward; screenplay, Lesser

Samuels; music director, Herbert Stothart; film editor, Harold F.

Kress. Technicolor.

BLACK ALIBI. SEE The Leopard Man.

THE BLACK ANGEL. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 80 min., sd.,

35mm. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich.

Credits: Producers, Tom McKnight, Roy William Neill; director, Roy

William Neill; screenplay, Roy Chanslor; music score, Frank Skinner;

film editor, Saul A. Goodkind.

BLACK ARROW. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944–45. 2 reels each (no. 1, 3

reels), sd. © Columbia Pictures Corp.

Credits: Director, Lew Landers; original screenplay, Sherman Lowe,

Jack Stanley, Leighton Brill, Royal K. Cole.

1. The City of Gold. © 20Oct44; LP13281.

2. Signal of Fear. © 27Oct44; LP13290.

3. The Seal of Doom. © 3Nov44; LP13308.

4. Terror of the Badlands. © 10Nov44; LP13315.

5. The Secret of the Vault. © 17Nov44; LP13326.

6. Appointment with Death. © 24Nov44; LP13350.

7. The Chamber of Horror. © 1Dec44; LP13359.

8. The Vanishing Dagger. © 8Dec44; LP13372.

9. Escape from Death. © 15Dec44; LP13387.

10. The Gold Cache. © 22Dec44; LP13407.

11. The Curse of the Killer. © 29Dec44; LP13420.

12. Test by Torture. © 5Jan45; LP13433.

13. The Sign of Evil. © 12Jan45; LP13441.

14. An Indian's Revenge. © 19Jan45; LP13443.

15. The Black Arrow Triumphs. © 26Jan45; LP13452.

THE BLACK ARROW. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 7 reels, sd., b&w,

35mm. An Edward Small production. Based on the novel by Robert Louis

Stevenson.

Summary: A romantic drama in which a young knight returns to his

castle and avenges the murder of his father. Setting, 15th century

England at the close of the War of the Roses.

Credits: Producer, Grant Whytock; director, Gordon Douglas;

screenplay, Richard Schayer, David P. Sheppard, Thomas Seller; film

editor, Jerome Thoms.

Cast: Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan,

Rhys Williams.

BLACK BART. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1948. 80 min., sd., color,

35mm.

Summary: A Western melodrama in which a bandit attempts to ruin the

Wells Fargo Company by a series of stagecoach robberies. Lola Montez

provides the love interest, and Sacramento in the '70's, the

setting.

Credits: Producer, Leonard Goldstein; director, George Sherman;

original story, Luci Ward, Jack Natteford; screenplay, Luci Ward,

Jack Natteford, William Bowers; music, Frank Skinner; film editor,

Russell Schoengarth.

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn, Percy Kilbride,

Lloyd Gough.

BLACK BEAR TWINS. Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., c1939. 1 reel, sd.

Appl. author: Ernest Horn.

BLACK BEAUTY. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1946. 6,874 ft., sd.,

35mm. Original story by Anna Sewall.

Credits: Director, Max Nosseck; screenplay, Lillie Hayward, Agnes

Christine Johnson; music director, Dimitri Tiomkin.

THE BLACK CAT. c1941. Presented by Universal Studios. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Burt Kelly; director, Albert S. Rogell; original

screenplay, Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo, Eric Taylor, Robert Neville;

music director, Charles Previn; photography, Stanley Cortez; film

editor, Ted Kent.

BLACK DIAMONDS. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1940. 6 reels.

Credits: Director, Christy Cabanne; original story, Sam Robins;

screenplay, Clarence Upson Young, Sam Robins.

BLACK DRAGONS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1942. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; director, William Nigh; original

story and screenplay, Harvey H. Gates; photography, Art Reed; film

editor, Carl Pierson.

BLACK DUCKS AND BROADBILLS. RKO Pathe, Inc. Distributed by RKO Radio

Pictures, Inc., c1946. 8 min., sd., 35mm. (Sportscope, no. 8)

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, William Deeke; written

by Jerry Brondfield; narrator, Andre Baruch; music, Robert W.

Stringer; editor, David Cooper.

Appl. author: Pathe News, Inc.

BLACK EAGLE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 8 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.

Based on the story, "The Passing of Black Eagle," by O. Henry

[pseud. of William Sydney Porter]

Summary: A young hobo becomes involved in a quarrel between a girl

rancher and a group of swindlers who have made trouble for her in a

horse trade. When one of the horses, Black Eagle, kills a ringleader

of the gang, and another outlaw dies under the hoofs of stampeding

horses, the hobo is free to return to the open road.

Credits: Producer, Robert Cohn; director, Robert Gordon; screenplay,

Edward Huebsch, Hal Smith; adaptation, Edward Huebsch; music

director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, James Sweeney.

Cast: William Bishop, Virginia Patton, Gordon Jones, James Bell,

Trevor Bardette.

BLACK EYES AND BLUES. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 2 reels.

Credits: Director, Jules White; story, Felix Adler; screenplay,

Clyde Bruckman.

BLACK FRIDAY. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1940. 7 reels.

Credits: Director, Arthur Lubin; original screenplay, Kurt Siodmak,

Eric Taylor.

BLACK GOLD. Allied Artists Productions, Inc., c1947. 90 min., sd.,

color, 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Jeffrey Bernerd; director, Phil Karlson; original

story, Caryl Coleman; screenplay, Agnes Christine Johnston; Indian

history and ethnology, Nipo Strongheart; film editor, Roy

Livingston.

Cast: Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille, Elyse Knox.

BLACK GOLD AND CACTUS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 1

reel, sd., color. (Lowell Thomas' Movietone Adventures)

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; music score, L. de Francesco;

photographer, Jack Kuhne; film editor, Russ Sheilds. Technicolor.

BLACK HILLS. Eagle Lion Films, Inc., c1947. 59 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Jerry Thomas; director, Ray Taylor; original

screenplay, Joseph Poland; incidental music, Walter Greene; film

editor, Hugh Winn.

Cast: Eddie Dean, White Cloud, Roscoe Ates, Shirley Patterson.

THE BLACK HILLS EXPRESS. c1943. Presented by Republic Pictures. 6

reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Eddy White; director, John English;

original story, Fred Myton; screenplay, Norman Hall, Fred Myton;

photographer, Ernest Miller; film editor, Harry Keller.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

BLACK LIMELIGHT. Released by Alliance Films Corp., c1938. 6 reels.

From the play by Gordon Sherry.

Credits: Director, Paul L. Stein; screenplay, Dudley Leslie, Walter

Summers; photography, Claude Friese-Greene; film editor, Lionel

Tomlinson.

Appl. author: Associated British Picture Corp., Ltd.

BLACK MAGIC. Edward Small Productions, Inc., Released through United

Artists Corp., c1949. 105 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel

"Mémoires d'un Médecin" by Alexandre Dumas.

Summary: The hypnotist, Cagliostro, pursues a flamboyant course in

18th-century France. Filmed in Italy.

Credits: Producer and director, Gregory Ratoff; screenplay, Charles

Bennett; music score, Paul Sawtell; film editors, James McKay, Fred

Feitshans.

Cast: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore,

Valentina Cortese.

BLACK MAGIC. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1944. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producers, Philip N. Krasne, James S. Burkett; director,

Phil Rosen; original screenplay, George Callahan; photographer,

Arthur Martinelli; film editor, John Link.

BLACK MARKET BABIES. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1945. 7 reels, sd.

Suggested by the article by Virginia Reid.

Credits: Producer, Jeffrey Bernerd; director, William Beaudine;

original story, George Morris; screenplay, George Wallace Sayre;

photographer, Harry Neumann; film editor, William Austin.

BLACK MARKET RUSTLERS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, George W. Weeks; director, S. Roy Luby; original

screenplay, Patricia Harper; music director, Frank Sanucci; film

editor, Roy Claire.

BLACK MIDNIGHT. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1949. 66 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: A Western about a young rancher and a wild stallion.

Credits: Producer, Lindsley Parsons; director, Oscar Boetticher;

story, Clint Johnston; screenplay, Erna Lazarus, Scott Darling;

music editor, Edward Kay; film editor, Ace Herman.

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Damian O'Flynn, Lynn Thomas, Kirby Grant,

Gordon Jones.

BLACK NARCISSUS. The Archers Film Productions, London. Released in the

U. S. by Universal-International, c1948. Presented by J. Arthur

Rank. 99 min., sd., color, 35mm. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.

Summary: A drama about five Anglican nuns who organize a convent

school in an abandoned palace in the Himalayan mountains. They

experience loneliness and ultimate failure in attempting to cope

with ignorance, delinquency, cynicism, and human passions.

Credits: Produced, directed and written by Michael Powell, Emeric

Pressburger; editor, Reginald Mills; music, Brian Easdale.

Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight.

Appl. author: Universal Pictures Co., Inc.

THE BLACK PARACHUTE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Jack Fier; director, Lew Landers; story, Paul

Gangelin; screenplay, Clarence Upson Young; film editor, Otto Meyer.

THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR. SEE The Chase.

THE BLACK RAVEN. Producers Releasing Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original

screenplay, Fred Myton; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

THE BLACK RIDER. Junior Western Productions. 22 min., sd., color,

16mm.

Credits: Producers, Abraham Gladstone, Charles Moore; director,

Kenneth Allen.

Cast: Shirley Cowan, Jerry Moore.

1Oct47; LU1223.

THE BLACK SWAN. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942. 7,859 ft.,

sd. From the novel by Rafael Sabatini.

Credits: Director, Henry King; screenplay, Ben Hecht, Seton I.

Miller; adaptation, Seton I. Miller; music director, Alfred Newman.

THE BLACK WIDOW. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 2 reels each, sd.,

b&w, 35mm. © Republic Pictures Corp.; no. 1–5, 28Jul47; LP1164; no.

6–13, 2Sep47; LP1217.

Credits: Associate producer, Mike Frankovich; directors, Spencer

Bennet, Fred C. Brannon; original screenplay, Franklin Adreon, Basil

Dickey, Jesse Duffy, Sol Shor; music director, Mort Glickman; film

editors, Cliff Bell, Sam Starr.

Cast: Bruce Edwards, Virginia Lindley.

1. Deadly Prophecy.

2. The Stolen Formula.

3. Hidden Death.

4. Peril in the Sky.

5. The Spider's Lair.

6. The Glass Guillotine.

7. Wheels of Death.

8. False Information.

9. The Spider's Venom.

10. The Stolen Corpse.

11. Death Dials a Number.

12. The Talking Mirror.

13. A Life for a Life.

BLACKBIRD FANTASY. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

THE BLACKBOARD. Gateway Productions, Inc., c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w,

16mm. (The Pirro Series, no. 9)

Summary: Pat teaches his puppet, Pirro, how to draw pictures on the

blackboard.

Credits: Directed and written by Alvin J. Gordon.

BLACKBOARD REVUE. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 644 ft.,

sd., color. (A Color Rhapsody)

Credits: Director, Ub Iwerks; music, Eddie Kilfeather; music

director, Joe De Nat. Technicolor.

BLACKMAIL. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 67 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, William J. O'Sullivan; director, Lesley

Selander; original story, Robert Leslie Bellem; screenplay, Royal K.

Cole; music director, Mort Glickman; film editor, Tony Martinelli.

Cast: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers.

BLACKOUT. Released thru United Artists, c1940. 10 reels, sd. A British

National film. Published in London under title "Contraband."

Credits: Producer, John Corfield; director, Michael Powell; original

story and screenplay, Emeric Pressburger; scenario, Michael Powell,

Brock Williams; music director, Muir Mathieson; photography, F. A.

Young; editor, John Seabourne.

Appl. author: British National Films, Ltd.

BLACKOUTS. SEE Bill and Coo.

THE BLACKSMITH SONG. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

BLANCHE FURY. Cineguild, Ltd., London, 1947. Released in the U. S. by

Eagle Lion Films, Inc., c1949. Presented by J. Arthur Rank. 93 min.,

sd., color, 35mm. Based on the novel by Joseph Shearing.

Summary: A drama of greed, illicit love, and murder on an English

estate in the early 19th century. Based on the famous Rush murder.

Credits: Producer, Anthony Havelock-Allan; director, Marc Allegret;

screenplay, Audrey Lindop, Cecil McGivern; music score, Clifton

Webb; music director, Muir Mathieson; editor, Jack Harris.

Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael

Gouch, Maurice Denham.

THE BLANK WALL. SEE The Reckless Moment.

BLANKING SHEET METAL ON THE SQUARING SHEAR. Division of Visual Aids

for War Training. 2 reels, sd.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

26Jul43; MU13773.

BLAZE OF NOON. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 91 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.

Credits: Producer, Robert Fellows; director, John Farrow;

screenplay, Frank Wead, Arthur Sheekman; music score, Adolph

Deutsch.

Cast: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix,

Sterling Hayden, Howard Da Silva.

BLAZING ACROSS THE PECOS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 6 reels,

sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: The Durango Kid helps a sheriff in foiling the efforts of a

gambler to seize control of a western town.

Credits: Producer, Colbert Clark, director, Ray Nazarro; screenplay,

Norman S. Hall; film editor, Richard Fantl.

Cast: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Charles Wilson, Thomas

Jackson, Patricia White.

BLAZING FRONTIER. Producers Releasing Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Sam Newfield; original story and screenplay,

Patricia Harper; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

BLAZING GUNS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer and director, Robert Tansey; original story and

screenplay, Frances Kavanaugh; photography, Marcel Le Picard; film

editor, Fred Bain.

BLAZING SIX SHOOTERS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 6 reels.

Credits: Director, Joseph H. Lewis; original screenplay, Paul

Franklin.

BLAZING THE WESTERN TRAIL. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 56 min.,

sd.

Credits: Producer, Colbert Clark; director, Vernon Keays; original

screenplay, J. Benton Cheney; film editor, Henry Batista.

THE BLAZING TRAIL. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1949. 57 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: A Western in which the Durango Kid unmasks the killer of a

wealthy rancher.

Credits: Producer, Colbert Clark; director, Ray Nazarro; screenplay,

Barry Shipman; editor, Paul Borofsky.

Cast: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Marjorie Stapp, Fred Sears,

Steve Darrell.

BLESS 'EM ALL. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942. 1

reel, sd.

BLI-BLIP. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942. 1 reel,

sd.

BLIND ALLEY. SEE The Dark Past.

BLIND SPOT. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1947. 73 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Based on a story by Barry Perowne.

Credits: Producer, Ted Richmond; director, Robert Gordon;

screenplay, Martin Goldsmith; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff;

film editor, Henry Batista.

Cast: Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, Sid Tomack.

BLIND WORKMEN IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY. John H. McAulay. Distributed by The

National Society for the Blind, c1942. 1 reel.

BLITHE SPIRIT. Released through United Artists, c1945. 10 reels, sd.,

color. A Noel Coward-Cineguild production. A Two Cities film.

Credits: Producer, Noel Coward; director, David Lean; musical score,

Richard Addinsell; music director, Muir Mathieson; photographer,

Ronald Neame; cameraman, William McLeod; film editor, Jack Harris.

Technicolor.

A BLITZ ON THE FRITZ. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943. 1,667 ft., sd.

Credits: Producer and director, Jules White; story and screenplay,

Clyde Bruckman; film editor, Edwin Bryant.

BLITZ WOLF. Loew's Inc., c1942. 897 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

Credits: Director, Tex Avery; story, Rich Hogan; animation, Ray

Abrams, Irven Spence, Preston Blair, Ed Love; music, Scott Bradley.

Technicolor.

THE BLITZKISS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 2 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Del Lord; story and screenplay, Harry Edwards.

BLITZKREIG BOMBARDIER. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1944. 1 reel, sd.

BLOCK BUSTERS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1944. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producers, Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz; director, Wallace Fox;

original story and screenplay, Houston Branch; photographer, Marcel

Le Picard; film editor, Carl Pierson.

BLOCK PARTY. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Screenliner, no. 2)

Summary: A Block Party on Mulberry Street in New York, with a

religious parade, carnival, and side shows, re-creates the

atmosphere of an Italian festival.

Credits: Producer, Burton Benjamin; director, Victor D. Solow;

written by Sumner Lyon; narrator, Ward Wilson; music, Nathaniel

Shilkret; editor, Isaac Kleinerman.

BLOCK PARTY REVELS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

THE BLOCKED TRAIL. c1943. Presented by Republic Pictures. 6 reels, sd.

Based on the characters "The Three Mesquiteers" created by William

Colt MacDonald.

Credits: Associate producer, Louis Gray; director, Elmer Clifton;

original screenplay, John K. Butler, Jacquin Frank; music score,

Mort Glickman; photographer, Bud Thackery; film editor, Edward

Schroeder.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

BLOCKING IN FOOTBALL. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Collaborator, Andrew Kerr.

BLONDE ALIBI. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 7 reels, sd. Based

on an original story by Gordon Kahn.

Credits: Producer, Ben Pivar; director, Will Jason; written for the

screen by George Bricker; music director, Edgar Fairchild;

cinematography, Maury Gertsman; film editor, Edwin Curtiss.

BLONDE AND GROOM. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943. 2 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Harry Edwards; story and screenplay, Harry

Langdon.

BLONDE COMET. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, T. H. Richmond; director, William Beaudine;

original story, Philip Juergens, Robin Daniels; screenplay, Martin

Mooney; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

BLONDE FEVER. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 7

reels, sd., b&w. Based on a play by Ferenc Molnar.

Credits: Producer, William W. Wright; director, Richard Whorf;

screenplay, Patricia Coleman; music score, Nathaniel Shilkret; film

editor, George Hively.