MFB: July 1953

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1953

Vol. 20 No. 234

The 49th Man
USA - 1953 - 72m - bw
Volumbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

Adorable Creatures
Adorables créatures
France - 1952 - 105m - bw
GCT (X) (cut)
D: Christian-Jaque

All I Desire
USA - 1953 - 79m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Douglas Sirk

Androcles and the Lion
USA - 1952 - 96m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Charles Erskine

Beautiful But Dangerous

She Couldn't Say No

USA - 1952 - 89m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

The Beggar's Opera
UK - 1952 - 94m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Peter Brook

Beware, My Lovely
USA - 1952 - 77m - bw
RKO Radio (X) (cut)
D: Harry Horner

The Captain's Paradise
UK - 1953 - 93m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Anthony Kimmins

City That Never Sleeps
USA - 1953 - 90m - bw
Republic (A) (cut)
D: John H. Auer

Cow Country
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lesley Selander

Elizabeth is Queen
UK - 1953 - 56m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Terry Ashwood

Fair Wind to Java
USA - 1953 - 88m - col
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane

The Fake
UK - 1953 - 81m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Godfrey Grayson

The Farmer Takes a Wife
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Levin

Fast Company
USA - 1953 - 67m - bw
MGM (U)
D: John Sturges

Forever Female
USA - 1953 - 94m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Irving Rapper

Fort Vengeance
USA - 1953 - 75m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lesley Selander

Genevieve
UK - 1953 - 86m - col
General Film (U)
D: Henry Cornelius

The Girls of Pleasure Island
USA - 1953 - 96m - col
Paramount (U)
D: F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer

The Glass Wall
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Maxwell Shane

The Glory Brigade
USA - 1953 - 82m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert D. Webb

Gunsmoke
USA - 1952 - 79m - col
General Film (U)
D: Nathan Juran

The Hitch-Hiker
USA - 1953 - 64m - bw
RKO Radio (X) (cut)
D: Ida Lupino
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

The Impostor
旗本退屈男 江戸城罷り通る
Japan - 1952 - 93m - bw
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: Tatsuo Ōsone

Isn't Life Wonderful!
(aka: Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop)
UK - 1952 - 83m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Harold French

Jamaica Run
USA - 1953 - 92m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis R. Foster

Johnny on the Run
UK - 1953 - 68m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Lewis Gilbert

The Juggler
USA - 1953 - 89m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Edward Dmytryk

The Last Posse

USA - 1953 - 73m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Alfred L. Werker

Meet Me at the Fair
USA - 1952 - 87m - col
General Film (U)
D: Douglas Sirk

Night Stage to Galveston
USA - 1952 - 62m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: George Archainbaud
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

No Escape
USA - 1953 - 74m - bw
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: Charles Bennett

Phantom From Space
USA - 1953 - 74m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: W. Lee Wilder

Pickup on South Street
USA - 1953 - 77m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Samuel Fuller

Prince of Pirates
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

A Queen is Crowned
UK - 1953 - 89m - col
General Film (U)
D: Carleton Knight

Raiders of the Seven Seas
USA - 1953 - 88m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

The Return of the Corsican Brothers
The Bandits of Corsica
USA - 1953 - 81m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Ray Nazarro

Salome
USA - 1953 - 102m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: William Dieterle

Scandal at Scourie
USA - 1953 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Jean Negulesco

Scared Stiff
USA - 1952 - 107m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall
3-channel stereo

Single-Handed

Single-Handed

(USA: Sailor of the King)
UK/USA - 1953 - 84m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Roy Boulting

Snake of Death
Quai de Grenelle
(USA: The Strollers)
France - 1950 - 90m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Emil E. Reinert

Sombrero
USA - 1952 - 103m - col
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Norman Foster

Spaceways
UK - 1953 - 76m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Terence Fisher

Stalag 17
USA - 1953 - 121m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Billy Wilder

The Sword and the Rose
(aka: When Knighthood Was in Flower)
UK - 1953 - 91m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Ken Annakin

Take a Powder
UK - 1953 - 58m - bw
Apex (U)
D: Lionel Tomlinson

Take Me to Town
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
General Film (U)
D: Douglas Sirk

Tarzan and the She-Devil
USA - 1953 - 76m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Kurt Neumann
Series: Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949, Jan-Feb/1950).

Titanic
USA - 1953 - 98m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Jean Negulesco

Tropic Zone
USA - 1952 - 91m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis R. Foster

Trouble Along the Way
USA - 1953 - 109m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

Twice Upon a Time
UK - 1953 - 75m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Emeric Pressburger

Way of a Gaucho
USA - 1952 - 91m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Will Any Gentleman...?
UK - 1953 - 84m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Michael Anderson

Young Bess
USA - 1953 - 112m - col
MGM (U)
D: George Sidney
3-channel stereo