This’ll Make You Whistle (Cam & McLane). British musical comedy, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, chiefly noteworthy for a stubborn, Cockney prankishness calculated to cause U. S. audiences not to whistle but to squirm.
Gangster’s Boy (Monogram). Adolescent comedy drama showing how the high school career of a potential West Point athletic star (Jackie Cooper) is blighted by the reputation of his racketeer father (Robert Warwick).
Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year’s serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry (“Buster”) Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight.
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