MFB: August 1948

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1948

Vol. 15 No. 176

Above All Laws
Adventures in Silverado
USA - 1948 - 75m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Phil Karlson

Adventures of Casanova
USA - 1948 - 83m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Roberto Gavaldón

Berlin Express
USA - 1948 - 87m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Best Man Wins
USA - 1947 - 74m - bw
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: John Strauss

Big City
USA - 1948 - 103m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Norman Taurog

The Big Punch
USA - 1948 - 80m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Sherry Shourds

The Birds and the Bees
Three Daring Daughters
USA - 1948 - 115m - col
MGM (U)
D: Fred M. Wilcox

The Bishop's Wife
USA - 1947 - 105m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Henry Koster

The Black Arrow Strikes
The Black Arrow
USA - 1948 - 75m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Gordon Douglas

Blondie's Anniversary
USA - 1948 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Abby Berlin
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

The Bride Goes Wild
USA - 1948 - 98m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Norman Taurog

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
USA - 1947 - 64m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947, Jul/1947).

Bury Me Dead
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Bernard Vorhaus

Caged Fury
USA - 1947 - 61m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William Berke

Dangerous Years
USA - 1947 - 63m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Arthur Pierson

The Doctor's Gamble
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
USA - 1947 - 66m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: William Castle
Series: Crime Doctor (1943, Nov/1943).

A Double Life
USA - 1947 - 104m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: George Cukor

Dream Girl
USA - 1947 - 86m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Mitchell Leisen

The Exile
USA - 1947 - 92m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Max Ophüls

Forever Amber
USA - 1947 - 138m - col
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Otto Preminger

Fury at Furnace Creek
USA - 1947 - 85m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

The Gangster
USA - 1947 - 84m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Gordon Wiles

Gas House Kids Go West
USA - 1947 - 56m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine
Series: Gas House Kids (1946, Oct/1947).

The Horn Blows at Midnight
USA - 1945 - 78m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Raoul Walsh
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed uncut.

Intrigue
USA - 1947 - 90m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin

I Remember Mama
USA - 1948 - 116m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: George Stevens

Joe Palooka in The Knockout
USA - 1947 - 72m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Series: Joe Palooka, Champ (1946, Oct/1946).

Kiss of Death
USA - 1947 - 99m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Hathaway

Lady of Deceit
Born to Kill
USA - 1947 - 92m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Robert Wise
Also reviewed: Nov 1979.

Land of the Lawless
USA - 1947 - 60m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Life With Father
USA - 1947 - 111m - col
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Michael Curtiz

The Lone Wolf in London
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Leslie Goodwins
Series: The Lone Wolf Returns (1935, Mar/1936).

Lulu Belle
USA - 1948 - 87m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Leslie Fenton

My Brother's Keeper
UK - 1948 - 96m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Alfred Roome

My Dog Rusty
USA - 1948 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lew Landers
Series: Adventures of Rusty (1945, Dec/1945).

Night Club Girl
Glamour Girl
USA - 1948 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Nightmare Alley
USA - 1947 - 111m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Edmund Goulding

Out of the Blue
USA - 1947 - 85m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Leigh Jason

Philo Vance Returns
USA - 1947 - 63m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine
Series: The Canary Murder Case (1929).

The Pirate
USA - 1948 - 102m - col
MGM (U)
D: Vincente Minnelli

Port Said
USA - 1948 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Reginald Le Borg

The Prince of Thieves
USA - 1948 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Howard Bretherton

The Red Shoes
UK - 1948 - 136m - col
General Film (A)
D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Ride the Pink Horse
USA - 1947 - 101m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Montgomery

Does this title constitute a double entendre,
or do I just have a dirty mind?...

The Sainted Sisters
USA - 1948 - 90m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: William D. Russell

Sealed Verdict
USA - 1948 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Allen

Shaggy
USA - 1947 - 70m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey

Le silence est d'or
(aka: Man About Town)
(aka: Silence is Golden)
France - 1947 - 99m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: René Clair

Smart Woman
USA - 1948 - 93m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Edward A. Blatt

Song for Tomorrow
UK - 1948 - 62m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Terence Fisher

Summer Holiday
USA - 1948 - 92m - col
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Rouben Mamoulian

This Time for Keeps
USA - 1947 - 104m - col
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe

Trapped by Boston Blackie
USA - 1948 - 67m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Seymour Friedman
Series: Meet Boston Blackie (1941, Jun/1941).

The Wreck of the Hesperus
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John Hoffman

You Were Meant for Me
USA - 1947 - 92m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lloyd Bacon