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There were quite a few new releases this week over the last 100 years — although none in 2011 — but only a very few were noteworthy. 1931 saw the release of a German classic and 1941 saw the last of four Abbott & Costello films released that year. 1951 gave us arguably the best adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and 1961 saw the release of one of the greatest ghost stories ever committed to celluloid. 1991 saw Bette Midler entertaining the troops, and Macaulay Culkin was tugging at heartstrings. These and more are celebrating anniversaries this week. Are any of your favorites on the list?
1921
November 27 – The Bonnie Brier Bush
- Cast: Donald Crisp, Mary Glynne, Alec Fraser, Dorothy Fane,Jack East, Langhorn Burton, Jerrold Robertshaw, Adeline Hayden Coffin
- Director: Donald Crisp
- Studio: Famous Players-Lasky British Producers
November 27 – The Lotus Eater
- Cast: John Barrymore, Colleen Moore, Anna Q. Nilsson, Ida Waterman, Frank Currier, Wesley Barry, J. Barney Sherry, Dorothy Mackaill
- Director: Marshall Neilan
- Studio: Marshall Neilan Productions, distributed by Associated First National
November 28 – Hail the Woman
- Cast: Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy, Tully Marshall, Vernon Dent, Edward Martindel, Charles Meredith, Mathilde Brundage, Eugene Hoffman, Muriel Frances Dana as David
- Director: John Griffith Wray
- Studio: Thomas H. Ince Productions, distributed by Associated Producers
1931
November 27 – Mädchen in Uniform
- Cast: Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Hedwig Schlichter, Ellen Schwanneke, Erika Mann, Gertrud de Lalsky, Marte Hein, Lene Berdolt, Lisi Scheerbach, Margory Bodker, Else Ehser, Ilse Winter, Charlotte Witthauer, Erika Biebrach, Ethel Reschke, Annemarie von Rochhausen, Ilse Vigdor, Barabara Pirk, Doris Thalmer
- Director: Leontine Sagan
- Studio: Deutsche Film-Gemeinschaft, distributed by Bild und Ton GmbH (Germany), Filmchoice (US)
- Trivia: The film opened in Germany on November 27, 1931, made its debut in London on April 1, 1932, and finally arrived in the US on September 20, 1932.
1941
November 24 – 49th Parallel
- Cast: Richard George, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Moore, John Chandos, Basil Appleby, Laurence Olivier, Finlay Currie, Ley On, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Leslie Howard, Tawera Moana, Eric Clavering, Charles Rolfe, Raymond Massey, Theodore Salt, O.W. Fonger
- Director: Michael Powell
- Studio: General Film Distributors LTD. (UK), Columbia Pictures (US)
- Trivia: The film premiered in London on October 8, 1941 and entered general UK release on November 24. The film’s US premiere was held on March 5, 1942 with the general engagement beginning April 15.
November 28 – Keep ‘Em Flying
- Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce, William Gargan, Dick Foran, Charles Lang, William Davidson, Truman Bradley, Loring Smith, William Forrest, Freddie Slack
- Director: Arthur Lubin
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Trivia: The film premiered in Detroit, Michigan on November 19, 1941, and opened in New York City on November 27 before its general release on November 28.
November 28 – The Corsican Brothers
- Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, H. B. Warner, John Emery, Henry Wilcoxon, Gloria Holden, Walter Kingsford, Nana Bryant, Pedro de Cordoba, Veda Ann Borg, William Farnum, Sarah Padden
- Director: Gregory Ratoff
- Studio: Edward Small Productions, distributed by United Artists
1951
November 27 – The Man with a Cloak
- Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly, Richard Hale, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts, Mitchell Lewis
- Director: Fletcher Markle
- Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 30 – Scrooge
- Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Glyn Dearman, John Charlesworth, Michael J. Dolan, Francis de Wolff, Czesław Konarski, Rona Anderson, Carol Marsh, Jack Warner, Roddy Hughes, Patrick Macnee, Brian Worth, Olga Edwardes, Miles Malleson, Ernest Thesiger, Louise Hampton, Peter Bull, Douglas Muir, Noel Howlett, Fred Johnson, Eliot Makeham, Henry Hewitt, Hugh Dempster, Eleanor Summerfield, Richard Pearson, Clifford Mollison, Hattie Jacques, Theresa Derrington, David Hannaford, Catherine Leach, Moiya Kelly, Luanne Kemp, Maire O’Neill, Tony Wager, Derek Stephens, Vi Kaley
- Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
- Studio: George Minter Productions, distributed by Renown Pictures
- Trivia: The film’s world premiere was held on October 31, 1951. The film began a limited US engagement on November 28, and went into general release in the UK on November 30. The wide US release began on December 2. Also known as A Christmas Carol.
1961
20th Century Fox
November 24 – The Innocents
- Cast: Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, Isla Cameron
- Director: Jack Clayton
- Studio: Achilles Film Productions, distributed by 20th Century Fox
- Trivia: The film opened in the UK on November 24, 1961 but was not released in the US until December 15.
November 24 – The Errand Boy
- Cast: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson, Robert Ivers, Pat Dahl, Renée Taylor, Rita Hayes, Stanley Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Isobel Elsom, Sig Ruman, Felicia Atkins, Doodles Weaver, Fritz Feld, Richard Bakalyan
- Director: Jerry Lewis
- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Trivia: The film premiered in Chicago on November 23, 1951. It did not open in the UK until December 28.
1971
November 24 – Man in the Wilderness
- Cast: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Prunella Ransome, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman, Norman Rossington, James Doohan, Bryan Marshall, Ben Carruthers, John Bindon, Robert Russell, Sheila Raynor, Judith Furse
- Director: Richard C. Sarafian
- Studio: Limbridge, Wilderness Films, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
1981
November 25 – Just Before Dawn
- Cast: Deborah Benson, Gregg Henry, Chris Lemmon, Jamie Rose, Ralph Seymour, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, John Hunsaker, Katie Powell, Charles Bartlett, Hap Oslund, Barbara Spencer
- Director: Jeff Lieberman
- Studio: Oakland Productions, distributed by Picturmedia
- Trivia: The film opened in France on November 25, 1981, followed by the US on November 27.
1991
November 27 – The Adjuster
- Cast: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale, David Hemblen, Rose Sarkisyan, Armen Kokorian, Jacqueline Samuda, Gerard Parkes, Patricia Collins, Don McKellar, John Gilbert, Stephen Ouimette, Raoul Trujillo
- Director: Atom Egoyan
- Studio: Ego Film Arts, Alliance Entertainment, distributed by Orion Classics (USA)
- Trivia: The film was screened at Cannes on May 13, 1991 and played several other festivals, including TIFF in September 1991, before opening in France on November 27. The film then opened in the UK and New York City on May 29, 1992, and received a limited US release in July 1992.
20th Century Fox
November 27 – For the Boys
- Cast: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O’Neal, Christopher Rydell, Brandon Call, Jameson Rodgers, Arye Gross, Norman Fell, Rosemary Murphy, Bud Yorkin, Dori Brenner, Jack Sheldon, Karen Martin, Shannon Wilcox, Michael Greene, Melissa Manchester, Steven Kampmann
- Director: Mark Rydell
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Trivia: The film received a limited US release on November 22, 1991 before going wide on November 27. The film did not open in the UK until February 7, 1992.
November 27 – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
- Cast: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, Martin Sheen
- Director: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
- Studio: Zaloom Mayfield Productions, Zoetrope Studios, distributed by Triton Pictures
- Trivia: The film was screened at Cannes in May 1991 and at TIFF on September 7 before opening in limited US release on November 27.
November 27 – Mayrig
- Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Cédric Doucet, Tom Poncin, Stéphane Servais, Richard Berry, Nathalie Roussel, Isabelle Sadoyan, Jacky Nercessian, Serge Avedikian, Michèle Bardollet, Christian Barbier, Denis Podalydès, Patrick Timsit, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Pierre Delage, Nicolas Silberg, Ève Ruggieri
- Director: Henri Verneuil
- Studio: Carthago Films S.a.r.l., Quinta Communications, TF1 Films Production
- Trivia: The film opened in France on November 27, 1991.
November 27 – My Girl
- Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne, Ann Nelson, Anthony R. Jones
- Director: Howard Zieff
- Studio: Imagine Entertainment, distributed by Columbia Pictures
2001
November 29 – Behind Enemy Lines
- Cast: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, David Keith, Olek Krupa, Joaquim de Almeida, Vladimir Mashkov, Marko Igonda, Eyal Podell, Laurence Mason, Leon Russom, Geoffrey Pierson, Vladimir Oktasec, Salaetin Bilal, Kamil Kollárik, Aernout Van Lynden
- Director: John Moore
- Studio: Davis Entertainment, distributed by 20th Century Fox
- Trivia: The film’s premiere was held in San Diego, CA on November 17, 2001. It first opened in wide release in Chile on November 29 followed by the US on November 30. The film opened in the UK on January 4, 2002.
November 30 – The Grey Zone
- Cast: David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler, Allan Corduner, Daniel Benzali, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne, Michael Stuhlbarg, Harvey Keitel, Kamelia Grigorova, Velizar Binev, Henry Stram, Lee Wilkof, Jessica Hecht, Hristo Shopov, Brían F. O’Byrne, Valentin Ganev
- Director: Tim Blake Nelson
- Studio: Millennium Films, The Goatsingers, Killer Films, distributed by Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions
- Trivia: The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2001, then opened in Spain on November 30. The film received a limited US release on October 18, 2002 and in Canada on November 1.
November 30 – Sidewalks of New York
- Cast: Edward Burns, Rosario Dawson, David Krumholtz, Brittany Murphy, Stanley Tucci, Heather Graham, Dennis Farina
- Director: Edward Burns
- Studio: Paramount Classics (United States), Buena Vista International (International)
- Trivia: The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on April 20, 2001. It did not open in the UK until April 5, 2002.
2011
- No new films were released this week in 2011.
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