Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 36 27th January 1946 – Lost Horizon, a 1937 Columbia Pictures Fantasy film starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Isabel Jewell and HB Warner was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: Directed by Frank Capra. 29th January 1946 – Woman Tamer (aka She Couldn't Take It), a 1935 Columbia Pictures ‘Screwball’ Comedy was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke and Lloyd Nolan star. NB: As per Connacht Tribune 2nd March 1946, this movie was also screened in the Galway Town Hall Theatre in 1946, on March 3rd. 31st January 1946 – Slightly Honorable, a 1939 United Artists Mystery movie starring Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold and Broderick Crawford was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: Screened again 31st July 1947. 3rd February 1946 – Two-Man Submarine, a 1944 Columbia Pictures Action Film was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J Carrol Naish, Robert B Williams, Abner Biberman and George Lynn star. IMDb synopsis: “Medical researchers find mold on a remote South Pacific Island and develop penicillin in their secret laboratory.” Movie Poster Quote: “Two-Fisted Yank avenges Jap atrocities” 43 5th February 1946 – The Beautiful Cheat (aka Ten Percent Woman and What A Woman!), a 1943 Columbia Pictures Musical Comedy starring Brian Aherne, Rosalind Russell, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart, Edward Fielding and Ann Savage was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal and a Town Hall Cinema poster from the time). Coincidentally and somewhat confusingly, there is also a 1945 Universal Pictures Comedy titled The Beautiful Cheat (aka What A Woman!), starring Bonita Granville, Noah Beery Jr, Margaret Irving, Sarah Selby, Carol Hughes, Irene Ryan, Milburn Stone and Tom Dillon but based on the cast names on the Hall Cinema poster (see below), we believe we have the right film listed here. 7th February 1946 – Flesh and Fantasy, a 1943 Universal Pictures Anthology film, in 3 segments, starring Edward G Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Charles Winninger and C Aubrey Smith was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: the Hall Journal and a Town Hall Cinema poster from the time). NB: this film was inspired by the success of Julien Duvivier's previous anthology film, Tales of Manhattan (1942), also featuring Charles Boyer and Edward G Robinson, which would be screened in the Hall on 2nd October 1949. 10th February 1946 – There seems to be something of a difference of opinion here, between the Hall Journal and a surviving Town Hall Cinema Poster. The Poster records that One Exciting Night (aka You Can't Do Without Love), a 1944 Columbia Pictures Musical Comedy starring Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart and Mary Clare was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: a Town Hall Cinema poster from the time). Meanwhile, the Hall Journal suggests that Address Unknown, a 1944 Columbia Pictures Film Noir starring Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter van Eyck and Mady Christians was in fact screened by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Perhaps they were both screened as part of a Double Bill, unfortunately we can never know for sure? 43 Regarding the terminology used in the quote here, it’s important to remember the context that this film was made while the US was at war with Japan
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