Girls' School
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Brahm
Actors: Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Moore, Gloria Holden, Marjorie Main
King of Alcatraz
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1938
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Florey
Actors: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Carey, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Preston, Anthony Quinn
Room Service
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1938
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Seiter
Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson
Plot: Room Service is the only Marx Brothers film that was based upon a theatrical play and was not written by the brothers themselves. The story takes place in the Times Square district of New York City at the White Way Hotel. Groucho plays Gordon Miller a theatrical producer. Chico plays Harry Binelli his associate producer, and Harpo plays Faker Englund "the brains of the company". They are all living inside the hotel and they have run out of money. Now they must get a play put together from start to finish in order to pay the landlord that doesn't know they are broke.
Straight Place and Show
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1938
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Butler
Actors: The Ritz Brothers, Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier, Sidney Blackmer
Vacation from Love
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1938
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen, June Knight, Edward Brophy, Truman Bradley
Drum, The ( Drums )
Theatrical Release Date: 09/29/1938
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zoltan Korda
Actors: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree, Desmond Tester
Plot: In India, British forces face betrayal and death but 'loyal' Prince Azim (Sabu) is there to warn them by tapping messages utilizing his drum.
Men of Ireland
Theatrical Release Date: 09/29/1938
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Bird
Actors: Cecil F. Ford, Eileen Curran, Brian O'Sullivan, Gabriel Fallon, Daisy Murphy, Gerald Duffy
Childhood of Maxim Gorki, The ( Detstvo Gorkogo )
Theatrical Release Date: 09/27/1938
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Donskoy
Actors: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Yelizaveta Alekseyeva, Vasili Novikov, Aleksandr Zhukov
Story of a Cheat, The ( roman d'un tricheur, Le )
Theatrical Release Date: 09/26/1938
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sacha Guitry
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne, Rosine Deréan, Elmire Vautier
Time Out for Murder
Theatrical Release Date: 09/25/1938
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Actors: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell
Penny Paradise
Theatrical Release Date: 09/24/1938
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O'Dea, Ethel Coleridge, Maire O'Neill, Jack Livesey
Porky in Wackyland
Theatrical Release Date: 09/24/1938
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Clampett
Actors: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Plot: In search of the last Do-Do bird, Porky goes to a strange and mind-boggling land.
