Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1954
Vol. 21 No. 240
3 Steps to the Gallows
(USA: White Fire)
UK - 1953 - 81m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: John Gilling
The Actress
USA - 1953 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: George Cukor
The Affairs of Messalina
Messalina
Italy/France/Spain - 1951 - 109m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Carmine Gallone
All the Brothers Were Valiant
USA - 1953 - 94m - col
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Richard Thorpe
Appointment in Honduras
USA - 1953 - 79m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Jacques Tourneur
Arrowhead
USA - 1953 - 105m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Charles Marquis Warren
Beat the Devil
UK/USA/Italy - 1953 - 100m - bw
Independent / British Lion (A)
D: John Huston
The Bigamist
USA - 1953 - 83m - bw
Exclusive (A)
D: Ida Lupino
Blazing Bullets
USA - 1951 - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Bomba and the Jungle Girl
USA - 1952 - 70m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ford Beebe
Series: Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949, Nov/1949).
Cherokee Uprising
USA - 1950 - 57m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins
Conquest of Cochise
USA - 1953 - 70m - col
Columbia (U)
D: William Castle
Dynamite Pass
USA - 1950 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lew Landers
Flight to Tangier
USA - 1953 - 90m - col / 3-D
Paramount (U)
D: Charles Marquis Warren
The UK version distributed by Paramount was 2-D only.
The Floating Dutchman
(aka: Clue for a Corpse)
UK - 1953 - 76m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Vernon Sewell
Fort Ti
USA - 1953 - 74m - col / 3-D
Columbia (U)
D: William Castle
3-channel stereo
Fra Diavolo
The Devil's Brother
(aka: Bogus Bandits)
(aka: The Virtuous Tramps)
USA - 1933 - 90m - bw
Universal (A)
D: Hal Roach
Francis Covers the Big Town
USA - 1953 - 86m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Arthur Lubin
Series: Francis (1949, Jan-Feb/1950).
G.I. Jane
USA - 1951 - 63m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Reginald Le Borg
The Golden Blade
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
General Film (U)
D: Nathan Juran
The Golden Coach
Le carrosse d'or
France/Italy - 1952 - 100m - col
Films de France (U)
D: Jean Renoir
The Grace Moore Story
So This is Love
USA - 1953 - 100m - col
Warner (U)
D: Gordon Douglas
Himalayan Epic
Drame à la Nanda Devi
France - 1952 - 55m - col
Films de France (U)
D: Jean-Jacques Languepin
I Beheld His Glory
USA (TV) - 1953 - 55m - col
Dawn Trust (U)
D: John T. Coyle
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Family Theatre (1949-58).
Series: The Great Commandment (1939, May/1948).
It's a Grand Life
(aka: As You Were)
UK - 1953 - 102m - bw
Mancunian (U)
D: John E. Blakeley
Kansas Territory
USA - 1952 - 65m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins
The Kidnappers
(USA: The Little Kidnappers)
UK - 1953 - 95m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Philip Leacock
The Limping Man
UK - 1953 - 74m - bw
Eros (U) (cut)
D: Cy Endfield [as: Charles De Latour]
Meet Mr. Lucifer
UK - 1953 - 83m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Anthony Pelissier
Money From Home
USA - 1953 - 100m - col / 3-D
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall
The UK version distributed by Paramount was 2-D only.
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
(USA: Mr. Hulot's Holiday)
France - 1953 - 114m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Jacques Tati
The Neanderthal Man
USA - 1953 - 75m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Ewald André Dupont
Operation Diplomat
UK - 1953 - 70m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: John Guillermin
Our Girl Friday
(USA: The Adventures of Sadie)
UK - 1953 - 87m - col
Renown (U)
D: Noel Langley
Park Plaza 605
(USA: Norman Conquest)
UK - 1953 - 75m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Bernard Knowles
Planet Outlaws
USA - 1953 - 71m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Condensed feature-length version of 12-chapter serial Buck Rogers (1939, Jun/1939).
Prisoners of the Casbah
USA - 1953 - 77m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Richard L. Bare
Riders of Capistrano
USA - 1953 - 50m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Lew Landers
Two episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-55), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Prince of Padua Hills (1953).
The Robe
USA - 1953 - 134m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Koster
Followed by: Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954, Oct/1954).
4-channel stereo
Sabre Jet
USA - 1953 - 96m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Louis King
Sky Commando
USA - 1953 - 68m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears
The Snow Maiden
Снегурочка
USSR - 1952 - 69m - col
Gala (U)
D: Ivan Ivanov-Vano
South of Caliente
USA - 1951 - 66m - bw
Republic (U)
D: William Witney
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).
Das Testamant des Dr. Mabuse
(USA: The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse)
(aka: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)
Germany - 1933 - 122m - bw
The Film Society (A) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang
Also reviewed: May 1934 + Sep 1934.
Those Redheads From Seattle
USA - 1953 - 90m - col / 3-D
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis R. Foster
The UK version distributed by Paramount was 2-D only.
3-channel stereo
[see: 3 Steps to the Gallows]
Time in the Sun
Mexico - 1933 - 60m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Compiled from footage intended for Eisenstein's unfinished feature ¡Qué viva México!.
Torch Song
USA - 1953 - 90m - col
MGM (U)
D: Charles Walters
Trouble in Store
UK - 1953 - 85m - bw
General Film (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs
Tumbleweed
USA - 1953 - 78m - col
General Film (U)
D: Nathan Juran
The Twonky
USA - 1953 - 72m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Arch Oboler
Wings of the Hawk
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw / 3-D
General Film (U)
D: Budd Boetticher
The UK version distributed by General Film was 2-D only.
3-channel stereo
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