Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 28 31st August 1941 – The Man They Could Not Hang, a 1939 Columbia Pictures Horror Film was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox and Roger Pryor star in this film. NB: Karloff plays Dr Henryk Savaard, a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. 12th September 1941 – Baby Be Good, a 1935 Fleischer Studios Animated Betty Boop Cartoon Short was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). NB: Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel. 21st September 1941 – The Dead End Kids: On Dress Parade, a 1939 Warner Bros Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell and Leo Gorcey star. 28th September 1941 – Behind Prison Gates, a 1939 Columbia Pictures Gangster Film starring Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop and Dick Curtis was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 9th October 1941 – The Gates of Alcatraz (aka Those High Grey Walls), a 1939 Columbia Pictures Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: the Hall Journal). This film stars Iris Meredith, Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix and Oscar O’Shea. 12th October 1941 – 3 Cheers for the Irish, a 1940 Warner Bros Comedy was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). This film stars Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, Irene Hervey and Virginia Grey. Warners Pressbook quote: “Shure its an O’Boysterous Hit with a McNificent Cast!” 27th October 1941 – George and Margaret, a 1940 Warner Bros UK Comedy starring Marie Lohr, Judy Kelly, Oliver Wakefield and Noel Howlett was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 2nd November 1941 – Mutiny on the Seas (aka Outside the Three-Mile Limit), a 1940 Columbia Pictures Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Jack Holt, Irene Ware, Harry Carey, Sig Ruman, Eduardo Ciannelli and Donald Briggs star in this film. 11th November 1941 – Boy Meets Girl, a 1938 Warner Bros ‘Screwball’ Comedy was screened by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy and Ronald Reagan star. NB: The screenplay was based on Bella & Sam Spewack’s Prizewinning 1935 Broadway Stageplay of the same name. 18th November 1941 – Scandal Sheet, a 1931 Paramount Pictures Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery and Harry Beresford star in this film. 25th November 1941 – Virginia City, a 1940 Warner Bros Western starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott and Humphrey Bogart was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 14th December 1941 – Castle on the Hudson (aka Years Without Days), a 1940 Warner Bros Film Noir screened by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). John Garfield, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien star. NB: This movie was a remake of 1932 Spencer Tracy film, 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing. 17th December 1941 – G Men, a 1935 Warner Bros Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by J Fry (source: Hall Journal). James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Margaret Lindsay, Robert Armstrong and Lloyd Nolan star. 18th December 1941 – A 1931 Paramount Pictures Thriller titled ‘M’ was screened in the Hall by J Fry (source: Hall Journal). This film stars Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut and Otto Wernicke. Directed by Fritz Lang. 19th December 1941 – Millions, a 1936 General Film Distributors Comedy was screened by J Fry (source: Hall Journal). It stars Gordon Harker, Richard Hearne, Jane Carr, Queenie Leonard and Ernest Sefton. 4th January 1942 – Dr Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, a 1940 Warner Bros Biopic starring Edward G Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya and Montagu Love was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source:
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