Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 46 Rome, along with some of her entourage): Twentieth Century Fox ©. 17th October 1946 – Hold Back the Dawn, a 1941 Paramount Pictures Romance was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard and Rosemary DeCamp. 20th October 1946 – One Against Seven (aka Counter-Attack), a 1945 WW2 Film starring Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks and Harro Meller was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 22nd October 1946 – The Keys of the Kingdom, a 1944 Twentieth Century Fox movie starring Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Thomas Mitchell, Peggy Ann Garner, Edmund Gwenn, Roddy McDowall and Arthur Shields was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: The screenplay was based on AJ Cronin’s 1941 novel of the same name. This film would be screened again on 11th December 1949 and 11th November 1958. 24th October 1946 – We Dive at Dawn, a 1943 General Film Distributors WW2 film starring John Mills, Eric Portman, Jack Watling and Niall MacGinnis, as Royal Navy submariners, was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 27th October 1946 – The Phantom, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Cliffhanger Superhero Serial was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars Tom Tyler (as The Phantom), Jeanne Bates, Ernie Adams and John Bagni. NB: Like Columbia Pictures serial, The Black Commando (see above), this serial was originally comprised of 15 Chapters. It is likely that several episodes were screened together on this night, or perhaps an edited version of the entire serial was shown, in Feature Film form. 29th October 1946 – Bowery to Broadway, a 1944 Universal Pictures Musical Comedy starring Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Peggy Ryan, Susanna Foster, Donald O’Connor, Turhan Bey and George Dolenz was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 31st October 1946 – The Heart of a Nation (aka Untel pêre et fils), a 1943 Transcontinental Films Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: This French film stars Raimu, Michele Morgan, Louis Jouvet and Suzy Prim. 3rd November 1946 – Waterloo Road, a 1945 General Film Distributors Drama was shown by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt and Beatrice Varley star in this Sidney Gilliat directed film. Talking Pictures TV: “After Jim reports for military duty he suspects that his bride has been seeing another man.” 4th November to 17th December 1946 – No screenings in the Hall during this period (source: Hall Journal). 18th December 1946 – The Hall Journal documents that Daniel Ryan screened a movie, unfortunately it doesn’t record the film title! NB: Cineroad Shows screened Tarzan’s Secret Treasure in Ballygar on this date (source: Connacht Tribune 14th December 1946). 19th December 1946 to 7th January 1947 – No films screened in the Hall during this period (source: Hall Journal). 8th January 1947 – Maytime, a 1937 MGM Musical Romance starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and John Barrymore was screened in the Hall by the Cineroad Shows Eire Ltd, Dublin 45 (source: Hall Journal). 9th to 21st January 1947 – No Films were screened in the Hall at this time (source: Hall Journal). NB: Other activities. 22nd January 1947 – Treasure Island, a 1934 MGM Swashbuckling Pirate Adventure Film was screened by Cineroad Shows Eire Ltd (source: Hall Journal). This Victor Fleming adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel stars Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Dorothy Peterson, Nigel Bruce and Otto Kruger. NB: Would be screened again on 17th October 1947, see below. The book was originally published as The Sea Cook: A Book for Boys, written under the pseudonym of Captain George North. See also, 4th July 1961 entry below. 29th January 1947 – Mutiny on the Bounty, a 1935 MGM Maritime Film starring Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), Clark Gable (as Fletcher Christian), Movita Castaneda (as Tehani), Mamo (as Maimiti) and Franchot Tone (as Ensign Byam) was screened in the Hall by the Cineroad Shows Eire Ltd, Dublin 46 (source: Hall Journal). NB: Quotes from the original Movie Trailer: “Breaking every law of the Seven Seas!” “Two Years in production at a cost of $2,000,000.” This film won the Best Picture Oscar at the 8th Academy Awards, and was adapted for screen from Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall’s 1932 best-selling novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, which in turn was based on real life 18th Century events. 45 Cineroad Shows, a Mobile Film Unit, later became the Sight & Sound Film Library 46 Cineroad Shows was later to become Sight & Sound Film Library which continued to deal with the Athenry Town Hall in relation to film screenings
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