List of films released in 1937 in USA
All films are released in 1937 in United States.
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- DirectorsWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.USA: 21 December 1937 (Los Angeles, California / Carthay Circle Theatre) (premiere)
- DirectorMarion GeringStarsEdward G. RobinsonNigel BruceConstance CollierA visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.USA: 22 April 1937
- StarsBilly BletcherDorothy ComptonEddie HoldenA compilation of five Oscar-winning Disney shorts, released to help promote the upcoming release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).USA: 19 May 1937
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsTom KeeneGwynne ShipmanJames BushWhen silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.USA: 4 January 1937 (premiere)
USA: 18 January 1937 - DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.USA: 17 April 1937
- DirectorsHarry L. FraserGeorge MelfordStarsFrank BuckSasha SiemelReginald DennyIn the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (Charlotte Henry), is engaged to neighboring planter Tom Banning (William Bakewell) but troubles are brewing for both plantations. When a load of rubber is put on a riverboat to be taken to port, the boat is attacked by river pirates and the crew is killed and the shipment stolen. Jim Murphy (LeRoy Mason). Elliott's plantation manager, is plotting with others to force Elliott to to sell his plantation. Adventurer Frank Hardy (Frank Buck)determines to find out who is behind the plot.USA: 1 September 1937
- DirectorTruman H. TalleyStarsMartin E. JohnsonOsa JohnsonLowell ThomasExpeditions in Borneo by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsWeldon HeyburnInez CourtneySelmer JacksonA tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJames EllisonTerry WalkerMorgan HillArmy training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies before the bet is finally decided.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJane WithersThomas BeckLouise HenryAn orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsIan HunterDorothy PetersonZasu PittsStory of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsJohn WayneDiana GibsonMontagu LovePacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneAnne NagelAfter rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.
- DirectorRalph StaubStarsWalter BrennanMary BrianLyle TalbotCappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsJohn LitelAnn SheridanMary MaguireA man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEddie CantorTony MartinRoland YoungA movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsPatricia FarrScott KolkGene MorganCap Collender (Arthur Loft), a showboat gambling racketeer, ensnares a collegiate rowing team's coxswain, "Squirt" Adams (Jimmy Eagles), into the sports-gambling racket. "Squirt" is also the brother of the All-American co-ed cheerleader Connie Adams (Patricia Farr), who is the sweetheart of the rowing team's captain Lance Corbett (Scott Kolk as Scott Colton). The latter, as expected of a hero name Lance with two broken ribs, manages to lead his team to the college regatta title against the newsreel-footage of all the 1936 west-coast college's rowing teams. He also un-ensnares his All-American sweetheart's wimpy brother from the Rowing Mobsters clutches.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsOle OlsenChic JohnsonMary HowardTwo zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being being jinxed.
- DirectorSam KatzmanStarsBruce BennettJoan BarclayMonte BlueJerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMarlene DietrichHerbert MarshallMelvyn DouglasA woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJane WithersJoan DavisSally BlaneWith the help of a young newspaperman Jane rescues a movie star who is caught held for ransom when she visits her hometown.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsJames EllisonMarsha HuntHarry CareyThe adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsKay FrancisErrol FlynnIan HunterColonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsFrankie DarroKane RichmondJune JohnsonDon Mallory is the younger brother of ace newsreel photographer Cliff Mallory, and is continually urging Cliff to let him become a cameraman rather than going to college. Cliff refuses. He is assigned to get some newsreel footage of heiress Betty Kelley, who has never been shot. She arrives at the airport accompanied by a phony Earl, to whom she is reportedly engaged, eludes the cameraman by dressing as the pilot and drives off before Cliff discovers the deception. She also destroys the film he shoots of her by sneaking into the Kelley's heavily-guarded estate. Don, with the help of his girl friend, Jean Roberts, fares better and while Jean attracts the attention of the guards, Don sneaks into the estate and makes off with the film, arriving back at the newsreel office in time to pass it off as Cliff's. When the film is released, Betty threatens a libel suit and finally buys the newsreel company as a compromise. She assigns Cliff to cover a baby parade. Meanwhile, the "Earl" finds himself in a dilemma. Instead of extracting money from the family, he is approached by Betty's father on a huge stock deal and, since the Earl is allegedly wealthy, he finds himself on the spot when Mr. Kelley marks him down for a $25,000 investment. His method of raising the money is to arrange for his confederates to rob a bank and he will go along as the gang leader. Don is in the vicinity and manages to film the robbery, and then eludes the gang. As the film is being ran in the projection room, disclosing the Earl as the robbery leader, the Earl and his henchmen arrive. A fast and furious battle ensues between the newsreel men and the gangsters, but Don and Cliff subdue them just as the police arrive. Cliff decides that Don's true calling is as a newsreel photographer. Fade to relief.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsTex RitterSyd SaylorWhite FlashTex and sidekick Grass join McGill's traveling show. When Price has McGill's wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay.