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Midtown Theatre, the 1941 local theater herald advertising the films to be shown at a theater in New York City for the entire week of November 30th to December 6th. The films include: Port Arthur (released in the U.S. in the 1940s as "Orders From Tokyo"), the 1936 Nicolas Farkas French Russo-Japanese War melodrama ("A Thrilling Drama Of Russian Heroism vs. Japanese Treachery."; based on the novel by Pierre Frondaie) starring Danielle Darrieux, Anton Walbrook (billed as "Adolf Wohlbruck"), Charles Vanel, Karin Hardt, and Rene Deltgen. Note that this is a bizarre movie! It is apparently a French movie that was made in German (for unknown reasons!), in 1936. It appears it was intended to be released in the U.S. by Columbia Studios in 1941, and with the title "I Give My Life", and they printed lobby cards with that title, but they changed the title to "Orders from Tokyo" (probably because "I Give My Life" had been used by MGM in 1935, and they may have not allowed Columbia to use it)! Although there are Columbia lobby cards for this title, there is no saying there was definitely a Columbia release. There was also a release from "A.F.E. Pictures", which almost surely was released after Pearl Harbor, given the new tagline "A thrilling drama of Russian Heroism vs. Japanese treachery". If anyone knows more about this movie, please contact us and we will post it here. AND Flying Wild, the 1941 William West East Side Kids airplane aviation spy comedy featuring the East Side Kids (including Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan), Joan Barclay, Dave O'Brien (Dave 'Tex' O'Brien), Sunshine Sammy Morrison, and George Pembroke AND I Met a Murderer, the 1939 Roy Kellino English crime thriller starring James Mason, Pamela Mason (billed as "Pamelo Kellino"), Sylvia Coleridge, William Devlin, and Peter Coke AND The Headleys at Home, the 1938 Chris Beute family comedy starring Evelyn Venable, Grant Mitchell, Betty Roadman, Robert Whitney, and Vince Barnett AND Meet Boston Blackie "(of 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford' fame)", the 1941 Robert Florey Massachusetts New York City spy detective mystery crime thriller ("Mystery over Coney Island!"; "Spies in a freak show!"; "Murder in the 'Tunnel of Love'!"; "Story and Screen Play by Jay Dratler"; the first of the fourteen entries in this long-running extremely popular series that began in 1941; there had been four silent films in the 1910s and 1920s with the same character) starring Chester Morris (in the title role as Boston Blackie), Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim, Constance Worth, and Thelma Joel (as the Bat Woman!). Note that this was the first of the series, and Columbia did not expect big things from it, so they only created a two-color one-sheet on its first release!
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