Credits: Associate producer, Hiram S. Brown, Jr.; directors,_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Witney, John English; original screenplay, Franklyn Adreon, Morgan

B. Cox, Ronald Davidson, Norman S. Hall, Barney A. Sarecky, Sol

Shor; music score, Cy Feuer; photographer, William Nobles; film

editors, Edward Todd, William Thompson.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

DRUMS OF INDIA. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 20 min., sd., color, 35mm.

Warner Bros.

Summary: Shows the scenic wonders and the people of India and tells

of their heritage dating back to 3001 B.C.

Credits: Written by Owen Crump; narrator, Truman Bradley; music,

William Lava.

DRUMS OF THE CONGO. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1942. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Henry MacRae; director, Christy

Cabanne; original screenplay, Paul Huston, Roy Chanslor; music

director, Charles Previn; photography, George Robinson; film editor,

Maurice Wright.

DRUMS OF THE DESERT. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1940. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Paul Malvern; director, George Waggner; original

story, John T. Neville; screenplay, Dorothy Reid, Joseph West;

photographer, Fred Jackman, Jr.; film editor, Jack Ogilvie.

DRY BONES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1

reel, sd.

DU BARRY WAS A LADY. Loew's Inc., c1943. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 11 reels, sd., color. Based on the play

produced by B. G. DeSylva and written by Herbert Fields and B. G.

DeSylva, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Freed; director, Roy Del Ruth; screenplay,

Irving Brecher; adaptation, Nancy Hamilton; music direction, Georgie

Stoll; music adaptation, Roger Edens; orchestration, George Bassman,

Leo Arnaud, Alec Stordahl, Sy Oliver; film editor, Blanche Sewell.

Technicolor.

DUCK PIMPLES. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1945. 1 reel,

sd., color. (A Walt Disney Donald Duck)

Credits: Director, Jack Kinney; story, Virgil Partch, Dick Shaw;

animation, Andy Engman, Hal King, John Sibley, Milt Kahl; music,

Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.

DUCK SOUP. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1942. 17 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, Bert Gilroy; director, Ben Holmes; screenplay,

Jean Yarbrough; film editor, Les Millbrook.

DUCK SOUP TO NUTS. Released by Warner Bros., c1944. 7 min., sd.,

color. (Looney Tunes)

Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, Tedd Pierce; animation,

Richard Bickenbach; music director, Carl W. Stalling. Technicolor.

DUDE COWBOY. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1941. 59 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, Bert Gilroy; director, David Howard; story and

screenplay, Morton Grant; music director, Paul Sawtell; editor,

Frederic Knudtson.

DUDE COWBOY. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

THE DUDE GOES WEST. Allied Artists Productions, Inc., c1948. 87 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: The adventures of a mild-mannered gunsmith from the Bowery

who goes to Arsenic City, Nevada, in the early '70's. A satire on

Westerns.

Credits: Producers, Frank King, Maurice King; director, Kurt

Neumann; original screenplay, Richard Sale, Mary Loos; film editor,

William Zeigler.

Cast: Eddie Albert, Gale Storm, James Gleason, Gilbert Roland,

Binnie Barnes.

DUDE RANCH BUCKAROOS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1943. 10 min.,

sd., color. (Sports Parade)

Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; director, Arnold Albert;

narrator, Lou Marcelle. Technicolor.

DUDE RANCHEROOS. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Shows dude ranch life in the Jackson Hole country of

Wyoming.

Credits: Written by Charles L. Tedford; narrator, Art Gilmore;

editor, Rex Steele.

DUDES ARE PRETTY PEOPLE. Released through United Artists, c1942.

Presented by Hal Roach. 5 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Hal Roach; director, Hal Roach, Jr.; original

story, Donald Hough; screenplay, Louis S. Kaye; music score, Edward

Ward; film editor, Bert Jordan.

THE DUEL DANCE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1944. 1

reel, sd.

DUEL IN THE SUN. Vanguard Films, Inc., c1946. 138 min., sd., color,

35mm. Suggested by Niven Busch's novel.

Credits: Director, King Vidor; screenplay, David O. Selznick;

adaptation, Oliver H. P. Garrett.

DUFFY'S TAVERN. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1945. 8,752 ft., sd. Based

on characters created by Ed Gardner.

Credits: Associate producer, Danny Dare; director, Hal Walker;

original screenplay, Melvin Frank, Norman Panama; music director,

Robert Emmett Dolan.

DUKE OF CHICAGO. Republic Productions, Inc., c1949. 59 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on a novel by Lucian Cary.

Summary: A retired middleweight champion becomes involved with

gamblers when he agrees to go back to prizefighting in order to

obtain money for a firm that is facing bankruptcy.

Credits: Associate producer, Stephen Auer; director, George Blair;

screenplay, Albert Demond; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Cliff

Bell.

Cast: Tom Brown, Audrey Long, Grant Withers, Paul Harvey, Skeets

Gallagher.

DUKE OF THE NAVY. Producers Releasing Corp., c1942. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, John T. Coyle; director, William Beaudine; story

and screenplay, Gerald D. Adams, William Beaudine, John T. Coyle;

music director, Clarence Wheeler; film editor, Guy V. Thayer, Jr.

DULCY. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 8 reels,

sd., b&w. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

Credits: Producer, Edgar Selwyn; director, S. Sylvan Simon;

screenplay, Albert Mannheimer, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph A. Fields;

music score, Bronislau Kaper; film editor, Frank E. Hull.

DUMB BELL OF THE YUKON. Walt Disney Productions, c1946. 7 min., sd.,

color, 35mm.

Credits: Director, Jack King; story, Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman;

animation, Don Towsley, Fred Kopietz, Ed Aardal, Sandy Strother;

music, Oliver Wallace.

DUMB-HOUNDED. Loew's Inc., c1943. 735 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

Credits: Director, Tex Avery. Technicolor.

DUMB LIKE A FOX. Screen Gems, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd. (Fable, no. 13)

Credits: Story, Allen Rose; animation, Louie H. Lilly.

THE DUMBCONSCIOUS MIND. Distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942.

633 ft., sd. (Phantasy, no. 20)

Credits: Producer, Dave Fleischer; directors, Paul Sommer, John

Hubley; story, Jack Cosgriff; animation, Grant Simmons; music, Paul

Worth.

DUMBO. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1941. Presented by

Walt Disney. 8 reels, sd., color. Based on the book by Helen Aberson

and Harold Pearl.

Credits: Screen story, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer; animation, Hugh

Fraser, Harvey Toombs, Milt Neil and others; music, Oliver Wallace,

Frank Churchill; orchestration, Edward Plumb. Technicolor.

DUMMY SONG. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Gould.

THE DURANGO KID. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Jack Fier; director, Lambert Hillyer; original

screenplay, Paul Franklin; cameraman, John Stumar; film editor, Dick

Fantl.

DUSSELDORF ON THE RHINE. b&w, 8mm.

THE DUTCH EMPIRE. SEE The March of Time, 1948.

DUTCH GUIANA. Twentieth-Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942. 1 reel, sd.

(The World Today)

Credits: Producer, Truman Talley; described by Lowell Thomas; music

score, L. De Francesco; film editor, Russ Sheilds.

THE DUTIES OF A SECRETARY. National Educational Films, Inc. for the

Underwood Corporation, c1947. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Appl. author: Richard Henry Koch.

DUTIFUL BUT DUMB. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 1,527 ft.

Credits: Director, Del Lord; story and screenplay, Elwood Ullman.

DUTY AND THE BEAST. Distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943. 561

ft., sd. (A Phantasy Cartoon)

Credits: Producer, Dave Fleischer; director, Alec Geiss; animation,

Grant Simmons; music, Paul Worth.

THE DYING THIEF. C. O. Baptista Films, c1947. 19 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

1Mar47; MP2246.

DYING TO LIVE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 9 min., sd.,

b&w, 35 mm. (Lew Lehr's Dribble-Puss Parade)

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; continuity, Phil Shea; music score,

L. deFrancesco; editor, Earl Allvine.

THE DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION. Jules H. Masserman. 12 min., 16mm.

DYNAMITE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 68 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A drama about the hazards of commercial dynamiting.

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,

William H. Pine; original screenplay, Milton Raison; music score,

Darrell Calker; film editor, Howard Smith.

Cast: William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon,

Douglas Dumbrille.

DYNAMITE CANYON. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1941. 6 reels, sd.

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

Robert Emmett, Frances Kavanaugh; music direction, Frank Sanucci;

photography, Jack R. Young; film editor, Fred Bain.

DYNASTY OF WONDERS. SEE Variety Views, no. 178.

E-BOB-O-LEE-BOP. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946.

1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Gould.

EACH DAWN I CROW. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1949. 7 min., sd.,

color, 35mm. (Merrie Melodies)

Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Ted Pierce; animation, Virgil

Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Perez, Ken Champion.

EADIE WAS A LADY. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Michel Kraike; director, Arthur Dreifuss;

original story and screenplay, Monte Brice; music director, M. W.

Stoloff; orchestrations, George Duning; film editor, James Sweeney.

EAGER BEAVER. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

THE EAGER BEAVER. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1945. 7 min., sd.,

color, 35mm. (Merrie Melodies)

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Tedd Pierce.

Technicolor.

EAGLE SQUADRON. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1942. 11 reels, sd.

From the story by C. S. Forester.

Credits: Producer, Walter Wanger; director, Arthur Lubin; original

screenplay, Norman Reilly Raine; photography, Stanley Cortez; film

editor, Philip Cahn.

EAGLE VERSUS DRAGON. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1943. 2 reels, sd.

(Featurette)

Credits: Producers, Joseph O'Brien, Thomas Mead; narrators, Jule

Mannix, Dan Mannix.

EAGLES OF THE NAVY. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., under the supervision

of Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy, c1943. 20 min., sd., color.

Credits: Written by Carl Dudley and Arnold Albert. Technicolor.

EARL CARROLL SKETCHBOOK. c1946. 90 min., sd., 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, Robert North; director, Albert S.

Rogell; original story, Frank Gill, Jr.; screenplay, Frank Gill,

Jr., Parke Levy; music director, Cy Feuer; photographer, Jack Marta;

film editor, Richard L. Van Enger.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

EARL CARROLL VANITIES. c1945. Presented by Republic Pictures. 10

reels, sd. Based on original story by Cortland Fitzsimmons.

Credits: Associate producer, Albert J. Cohen; director, Joseph

Santley; screenplay, Frank Gill, Jr.; music director, Walter Scharf;

photographer, Jack Marta; film editor, Richard L. Van Enger.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

THE EARL OF CHICAGO. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 9 reels, sd., b&w. From a story by Charles de

Grandcourt and Gene Fowler; adapted from the book by Brock Williams.

Credits: Producer, Victor Seville; director, Richard Thorpe;

screenplay, Lesser Samuels; music score, Werner R. Heyman; film

editor, Frank Sullivan.

EARL OF PUDDLESTONE. c1940. Presented by Republic Pictures. 7 reels,

sd.

Credits: Original screenplay, Val Burton, Ewart Adamson; music

director, Cy Feuer; photographer, Jack Marta; film editor, Ernest

Nims.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

THE EARLY BIRD DOOD IT! Loew's Inc., c1942. 805 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

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

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

Technicolor.

EARLY DOES IT. Reid H. Ray Film Industries, Inc., c1948. 23 min., sd.,

b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Designed for farmers in rural areas, the film stresses the

need for ordering parts for agricultural implements before

breakdowns occur, and explains the dealer's problems in supplying

parts.

Credits: Director, Reid H. Ray.

EARLY PLAY. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration

with Arnold Gesell and the Clinic of Child Development, Yale

University, c1947. 1 reel, si., b&w, 16mm.

EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND; Salem 1626–1629. Erpi Classroom Films,

Inc., c1940. 1 reel, sd.

EARLY SPORTS QUIZ. Loew's Inc., c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete

Smith Specialty) (What's your I. Q.? no. 13) An MGM picture.

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; screenplay, David

Barclay and Joe Ansen; film editor, Joseph Dietrick.

Cast: Dave O'Brien.

EARLY TO BED. Walt Disney Productions. c1941. 1 reel, sd. (A Walt

Disney Donald Duck)

THE EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD. The Vitaphone Corp., c1939. 1 reel, sd.

(Merrie Melodies) Leon Schlesinger Productions.

Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, Jack Miller; animation,

Robert Cannon; music direction, Carl W. Stalling.

EARTHBOUND. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1940. 8,035 ft., sd.

Based on a story by Basil King.

Credits: Director, Irving Pichel; screenplay, John Howard Lawson,

Samuel G. Engel; music director, Alfred Newman.

THE EASIER WAY. Presented by General Motors Corp. 12 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

5Oct46; MU1142.

EAST OF THE RIVER. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1940. 8 reels. A

Warner Bros.-First National picture. From the original story by John

Fante and Ross B. Wills.

Credits: Director, Alfred E. Green; screenplay, Fred Niblo, Jr.

EAST OF THE ROCKIES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

EAST OF THE SUN. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1944.

1 reel, sd.

EAST SIDE KIDS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1940. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; director, Bob Hill; original story

and screenplay, William Lively; photography, Art Reed; film editor,

Earl Turner.

EASTER PARADE. Loew's Inc., c1948. 103 min., sd., color, 35mm. An MGM

picture.

Summary: A musical comedy of the 1912 era.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Freed; director, Charles Walters; original

story, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett; screenplay, Sidney Sheldon,

Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett; music director, Johnny Green;

music, Irving Berlin; orchestration, Conrad Salinger, Van Cleave,

Leo Arnaud; film editor, Albert Akst.

Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules

Munshin.

EASTER YEGGS. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1946. 7 min., sd., color,

35mm. (Looney Tunes) (Bugs Bunny Special)

Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Warren Foster.

EASY AS PIE. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Dearborn Motors

Corp. 40 ft., sd., color, 35mm.

Summary: Shows the use of the Ford tractor with the Dearborn Motors

mould-board plow.

EASY COME, EASY GO. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 77 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on John McNulty's "Third Avenue" sketches.

Credits: Producer, Kenneth Macgowan; director, John Farrow;

screenplay, Francis Edwards Faragoh, John McNulty, Anne Froelick;

music score, Roy Webb; film editor, Thomas Scott.

Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Sonny Tufts, Dianna Lynn, Dick Foran, Frank

McHugh.

EASY DOES IT. Hugh Harman Productions, Inc., c1947. 1 reel, color,

16mm.

Credits: Director, Hugh Harman; original story, L. C. Macglashan;

screenplay, Robert Edmunds.

EASY DOES IT. Presented by Chevrolet. 1 reel, sd., b&w.

10Oct40; LU9990.

EASY GOING. Presented by Chevrolet. 1 min., color.

Credits: Technicolor.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Picture Service, Inc.

descr., & 35 prints, 20Mar41; MU10943.

EASY LIFE. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 2

reels, sd. (A Crime Does Not Pay Subject)

Credits: Director, Walter Hart; original story and screenplay, Alan

Friedman, DeVallon Scott; music score, Gerard Carbonara; film

editor, Philip Anderson.

EASY LIVING. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. c1949. 77 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Based on Irwin Shaw's story, "Education of the Heart."

Summary: A professional football player copes successfully with a

selfish wife and a weak heart.

Credits: Producer, Robert Sparks; director, Jacques Tourneur;

screenplay, Charles Schnee; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; music,

Roy Webb; film editor, Frederic Knudtson.

Cast: Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Lizabeth Scott, Sonny Tufts,

Lloyd Nolan.

EASY MILES. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Chevrolet Motor

Division, General Motors Corp. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

11Oct47; MU2385.

EASY MONEY. Gainsborough Pictures, Ltd., London, c1948. Released in

the U.S. through Eagle Lion Films, Inc., 1949. 94 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. "The Stafford Family Story" based on the play "Easy Money" by

Arnold Ridley.

Summary: Four episodes dealing with the reactions of winners of a

football pool—a suburban family in "The Stafford Family Story," a

henpecked clerk in "The Atkins Story," a conniving couple in "The

Night Club Story," and a fiddle player in "The Revolt of the

Double-Basses."

Credits: Producers, Sydney Box, A. Frank Bundy; director, Bernard

Knowles; screenplay, Muriel and Sydney Box; music, Temple Abady;

editor, V. Sagovsky.

Cast: Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Edward

Rigby.

EASY STREET. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1941. 1

reel, sd.

EASY STREET. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America. Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

EASY TO LOOK AT. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1945. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Henry Blankfort; director, Ford Beebe;

original screenplay, Henry Blankfort; cinematography, Jerry Ash;

film editor, Saul Goodkind.

EASY TO WED. Loew's Inc., c1946. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 13

reels, sd., color. From the screenplay "Libeled Lady" by Maurine

Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers and George Oppenheimer.

Credits: Producer, Jack Cummings; director, Edward Buzzell;

adaptation, Dorothy Kingsley; music score and direction, Johnny

Green; orchestration, Ted Duncan; film editor, Blanche Sewell.

Technicolor.

EAT ME KITTY EIGHT TO THE BAR. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox

Film Corp., c1942. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd. (A

Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Mannie Davis; story, John Foster; music, Philip

A. Scheib.

EATIN' ON THE CUFF. c1942. 1 reel, sd. (Looney Tunes) Leon Schlesinger

Productions.

Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, Warren Foster;

animation, Virgil Ross; music director, Carl W. Stalling.

THE EBB-TIDE. SEE Adventure Island.

ECCE HOMO (BEHOLD THE MAN). Produced in France. Released in the U. S.

by Alban J. Norris, Michigan Film Library, c1948. 94 min., sd., b&w,

16mm. In French with English titles. Previously released 1939, with

the title "Golgotha."

Summary: The story of Christ's last days on earth, from His entry

into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, to His meetings with the disciples

following the Resurrection. The story revolves chiefly around the

betrayal, the trial, and the crucifixion.

Credits: Director, Julien Duvivier; English version by Forrest

Izard; music, Jacques Ibert.

Cast: Robert le Vigan, Jean Gabin, Harry Baur, Charles Granval,

Andre Bacque.

LP1803.

ECHO RANCH. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1948. 3 reels, sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: The capture of thieves provides the plot in this musical

Western.

Credits: Producer and director, William Forest Crouch; screenplay,

Charles W. Curran; film editor, Leonard Anderson.

Cast: Red River Dave, Texas Tophands, Curley Williams, Kenne Duncan,

Diane Hart.

1947); MP2854.

ECSTASY. c1940. 4 reels.

Credits: Director, Gustav Machaty; story, Samuel Cummins.

Appl. author: Samuel Cummins.

Credits: Associate producer, Hiram S. Brown, Jr.; directors, William