Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1961
Vol. 28 No. 324
13 Ghosts
USA - 1960 - 83m - col / Illusion-O
Columbia (A)
D: William Castle
L'avventura
(aka: The Adventure)
Italy/France - 1960 - 145m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Michelangelo Antonioni
Also reviewed: Dec 1995.
Followed by: La notte (1960, Mar/1962), L'eclisse (1962, Mar/1963).
Behold Thy Son
黄色いからす
(aka: Yellow Crow)
Japan - 1957 - 104m - col
Gala (U)
D: Heinosuke Gosho
A Breath of Scandal
USA/Italy/Austria - 1960 - 98m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Michael Curtiz
Cinderfella
USA - 1960 - 88m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Tashlin
Circle of Deception
UK - 1960 - 100m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Jack Lee
Counterfeit
USA (TV) - 1960 - 50m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Charles R. Rondeau
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Five Fingers (1959-60).
Though the first to be reviewed by MFB, this was actually the very last episode of Five Fingers to be broadcast on US television. Others released in UK cinemas as standalone features are: Dossier (1959, short), The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959, short), Final Dream (1959, short), Thin Ice (1960, Aug/1961), The Judas Goat (1960, Dec/1961), A Shot in the Dark (1960, Aug/1961).
The Cow and I
Le vache et le prisonnier
France/W.Germany - 1959 - 119m - bw
Hillcrest (A)
D: Henri Verneuil
Death Comes From Outer Space
La morte viene dallo spazio
(USA: The Day the Sky Exploded)
Italy/France - 1958 - 82m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Paolo Heusch
La dolce vita
(aka: The Sweet Life)
Italy - 1960 - 173m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: Oct 1987.
Every Minute Counts
Chaque minute compte
France - 1960 - 101m - bw
Unifilms (X) (cut)
D: Robert Bibal
The Gargon Terror
Teenagers From Outer Space
USA - 1959 - 87m - bw
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Tom Graeff
Hell to Eternity
USA - 1960 - 132m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Phil Karlson
The House in Marsh Road
(aka: Invisible Creature)
UK - 1960 - 70m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Montgomery Tully
The House of the Angel
La casa del ángel
Argentina - 1957 - 76m - bw
Connoisseur (X)
D: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Kiiroi karasu
[see: Behold Thy Son]
Let's Be Daring Madame
Le coin tranquille
France - 1957 - 84m - bw
Unifilms (X)
D: Robert Vernay
Linda
UK - 1960 - 61m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A)
D: Don Sharp
Man Beast
USA - 1956 - 67m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Jerry Warren
The Man Who Was Nobody
UK - 1960 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
Montgomery Tully
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
Mark Twain's America
USA (TV) - 1960 - 52m - bw
[No distributor or certificate]
D: [uncredited]
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Project XX (1954-70).
Marriage of Convenience
UK - 1960 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Clive Donner
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
Midnight Lace
USA - 1960 - 105m - col
Rank / Universal-International (A)
D: David Miller
The Miracle
USA - 1959 - 121m - col / Technirama
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Irving Rapper
Never on Sunday
Ποτέ την Κυριακή
Greece/USA - 1959 - 97m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Jules Dassin
No Kidding
(USA: Beware of Children)
UK - 1960 - 86m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas
North to Alaska
USA - 1960 - 122m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Hathaway
4-channel stereo
Olympia
[see: Breath of Scandal, A]
The Plunderers
USA - 1960 - 94m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Pevney
Pote tin Kyriaki
[see: Never on Sunday]
Rockets in the Dunes
UK - 1960 - 57m - bw
Children's Film Foundation / Rank (U)
D: William Hammond
Screaming Mimi
USA - 1957 - 79m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Gerd Oswald
Shoot the Pianist
Tirez sur le pianiste
(USA: Shoot the Piano Player)
France - 1960 - 81m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: François Truffaut
Shoot to Kill
UK - 1960 - 64m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Michael Winner
Sotto 10 bandiere
[see: Under Ten Flags]
Spartacus
USA - 1960 - 196m - col / Super Technirama 70
Rank / Universal-International (A) (cut)
D: Stanley Kubrick
Also reviewed: Aug 1984.
6-channel stereo
Tess of the Storm Country
USA - 1960 - 84m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Paul Guilfoyle
Under Ten Flags
USA/Italy - 1960 - 111m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Duilio Coletti, Silvio Narizzano
Visa to Canton
(USA: Passport to China)
UK - 1960 - 75m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Michael Carreras
Woman of the Circus
Carola Lamberti: Eine vom Zirkus
E.Germany - 1954 - 91m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Hans Müller
Monthly Film Bulletin
December 1960
Vol. 27 No. 323
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
USA/UK/Spain - 1960 - 99m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Jack Sher
The Alamo
USA - 1960 - 193m - col / Todd-AO
United Artists (U)
D: John Wayne
6-channel stereo
Bijo to ekitai-ningen
[see: H-Man, The]
Black Nets
海人舟より 禁男の砂
(USA: Forbidden Sands)
Japan - 1958 - 103m - col
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Manao Horiuchi
Blitz on Britain
UK - 1960 - 71m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Harry Booth
The Boatmen
I batellieri del Volga
(USA: Prisoners of the Volga)
Italy/W.Germany/France - 1958 - 102m - col / scope
Rank / Welbeck (U)
D: Viktor Tourjansky
BUtterfield 8
USA - 1960 - 108m - col / scope
MGM (X)
D: Daniel Mann
Cage of Evil
USA - 1960 - 70m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Edward L. Cahn
Carthage in Flames
Cartagine in fiamme
Italy/France - 1959 - 115m - col / Super Technirama 70
Rank (U)
D: Carmine Gallone
6-channel stereo
The Cossacks
I cosacchi
Italy/Spain/France - 1959 - 113m - col / scope
Rank / Universal-International (U)
D: Giorgio Venturini [as: Giorgio Rivalta], Viktor Tourjansky
Crime & Punishment U.S.A.
USA - 1958 - 96m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Denis Sanders
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Ensayo de un crimen
Mexico - 1955 - 91m - bw
Connoisseur (X)
D: Luis Buñuel
The Crowded Sky
USA - 1960 - 105m - col
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Joseph Pevney
Dangerous Games
Les jeux dangereux
France/Italy - 1958 - 93m - bw
Unifilms (A)
D: Pierre Chenal
Dentonville
The Touch of Flesh
(aka: The 1,000 Faces of Dirty Me)
(aka: You've Ruined Me Eddie!)
USA - 1960 - 77m - bw
Mayfair (Banned)
D: R. John Hugh
Desire in the Dust
USA - 1960 - 102m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: William F. Claxton
Freckles
USA - 1960 - 84m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Andrew V. McLaglen
The Gentle Trap
UK - 1960 - 59m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Charles Saunders
G.I. Blues
USA - 1960 - 104m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Norman Taurog
美女と液体人間
Japan - 1958 - 87m - col / scope
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Ishirō Honda
Hot Hours
Heures chaudes
France - 1959 - 90m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Louis Félix
I Aim at the Stars
USA/W.Germany - 1960 - 106m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: J. Lee Thompson
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
USA - 1957 - 80m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Virgil W. Vogel
Series: The Egg and I (1947, Aug/1947).
Kindan no suna
[see: Black Nets]
Man in the Moon
UK - 1960 - 99m - bw
Rank (U) (cut)
D: Basil Dearden
A Mexican Affair
Flor de Mayo
(USA: Beyond All Limits)
(aka: Flowers of Mayo)
Mexico - 1959 - 100m - col
British Lion / Britannia (A)
D: Roberto Gavaldón
Night Heat
La notte brava
(USA: The Big Night)
Italy/France - 1959 - 95m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Mauro Bolognini
The Night We Got the Bird
UK - 1960 - 82m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Darcy Conyers
Passionate Affair
Tendre et violente Elisabeth
France - 1960 - 105m - bw
Unifilms (X)
D: Henri Decoin
Pay or Die
USA - 1960 - 109m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Richard Wilson
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
UK - 1960 - 94m - bw
British Lion (U) (cut)
D: Frank Launder
Series: The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954, Oct/1954).
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
UK - 1960 - 89m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (X)
D: Karel Reisz
Shadows
USA - 1959 - 81m - bw
British Lion (X)
D: John Cassavetes
The Spider's Web
UK - 1960 - 89m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Godfrey Grayson
Squad Car
USA - 1960 - 62m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Ed Leftwich
Suspect
(USA: The Risk)
UK - 1960 - 81m - bw
British Lion (A)
Roy Boulting, John Boulting
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
[see: 3 Worlds of Gulliver, The]
The Tingler
USA - 1959 - 82m - bw and col
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: William Castle
Designed to be shown in 'Percepto', a showman's gimmick in which certain seats within participating cinemas were wired to receive a mild electric 'buzz' at specific points in the narrative.
Tunes of Glory
UK - 1960 - 107m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Ronald Neame
The Unstoppable Man
UK - 1960 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Terry Bishop
Waga ai
[see: When a Woman Loves]
Walk Tall
USA - 1960 - 59m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Maury Dexter
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
La rivolta dei gladiatori
Italy/Spain/France - 1958 - 95m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Vittorio Cottafavi
When a Woman Loves
「通夜の客」より わが愛
Japan - 1959 - 97m - col / scope
Gala (U)
D: Heinosuke Gosho
Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1960
Vol. 27 No. 322
13 Steps to Death
Why Must I Die?
USA - 1960 - 86m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Roy Del Ruth
After School
Verbrechen nach Schulschluß
(USA: The Young Go Wild)
W.Germany - 1959 - 105m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Alfred Vohrer
Arashi o yobu otoko
[see: Stormy Man, The]
Beat Girl
(USA: Wild for Kicks)
UK - 1960 - 85m - bw
Renown (X) (cut)
D: Edmond T. Gréville
Chartroose Caboose
USA - 1960 - 76m - col / scope
Rank / Universal-International (U)
D: William 'Red' Reynolds
The City of the Dead
(USA: Horror Hotel)
UK - 1960 - 78m - bw
British Lion / Britannia (X)
D: John Llewellyn Moxey
Clue of the Twisted Candle
UK - 1960 - 61m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Allan Davis
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
The Criminal
(USA: Concrete Jungle)
UK - 1960 - 97m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Joseph Losey
Crossroads to Crime
UK - 1960 - 57m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerry Anderson
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
USA - 1960 - 123m - col
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Delbert Mann
Dinosaurus!
(aka: Return of the Dinosaurs)
USA - 1960 - 85m - col / scope
Rank / Universal-International (A) (cut)
D: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
The Fall of the House of Usher
House of Usher
USA - 1960 - 79m - col / scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman
Foxhole in Cairo
UK - 1960 - 80m - bw
British Lion / Britannia (A)
D: John Llewellyn Moxey
The Hand
UK - 1960 - 60m - bw
Butcher's (A) (cut)
D: Henry Cass
High Time
USA - 1960 - 103m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Blake Edwards
It Started in Naples
USA - 1960 - 100m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Melville Shavelson
Jungle Cat
USA - 1959 - 70m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: James Algar
Series: Seal Island (1948, short).
Liane: White Slave
Liane: Die weiße Sklavin
(USA: Nature Girl and the Slaver)
(aka: Jungle Girl and the Slaver)
W.Germany/Italy - 1957 - 87m - col
Anglo-Amalgamated / Gala (U)
D: Hermann Leitner
Series: Liane: Jungle Goddess (1956, Apr/1959).
Lights of Variety
Luci del varietà
(USA: Variety Lights)
Italy - 1950 - 94m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Love Now, Pay Later
Die Wahrheit über Rosemarie
(USA: She Walks by Night)
(aka: The Truth About Rosemarie)
W.Germany - 1959 - 108m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Rudolf Jugert
The Millionairess
UK - 1960 - 90m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Anthony Asquith
Nights of Temptation
Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia
(USA: The Nights of Lucretia Borgia)
Italy/France - 1960 - 113m - col / scope
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Sergio Grieco
Not a Hope in Hell
UK - 1960 - 77m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Maclean Rogers
October Moth
UK - 1959 - 54m - bw
Rank (A)
D: John Kruse
Portrait in Black
USA - 1960 - 113m - col
Rank (A)
D: Michael Gordon
Private Property
USA - 1959 - 79m - bw
Cross-Channel (Banned)
D: Leslie Stevens
The Siege of Sidney Street
UK - 1960 - 94m - bw / scope
Regal (A)
D: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
The Stormy Man
嵐を呼ぶ男
(aka: The Man Who Causes a Storm)
Japan - 1957 - 101m - col / scope
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Umetsugu Inoue
Surprise Package
UK - 1960 - 99m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Stanley Donen
This Rebel Breed
(aka: The Black Rebels)
(aka: Lola's Mistake)
(aka: Three Shades of Love)
USA - 1959 - 90m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Richard L. Bare
The Threat
USA - 1959 - 66m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Charles R. Rondeau
Too Hot to Handle
(USA: Playgirl After Dark)
UK - 1960 - 100m - col
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Terence Young
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
(USA: House of Fright)
(aka: Jekyll's Inferno)
UK - 1960 - 88m - col / scope
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher
Watch Your Stern
UK - 1960 - 88m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas
Young Jesse James
USA - 1960 - 73m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: William F. Claxton
Monthly Film Bulletin
October 1960
Vol. 27 No. 321
All the Young Men
USA - 1960 - 87m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Hall Bartlett
Anna of Brooklyn
Anna di Brooklyn
(USA: Fast and Sexy)
Italy/France - 1958 - 106m - col / Technirama
Columbia (U)
D: Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Lastricati
4-channel stereo
Bullfight
La course de taureaux
France - 1951 - 75m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Pierre Braunberger, Myriam Borsoutsky
Come Dance With Me
Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
France/Italy - 1959 - 91m - col
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Michel Boisrond
Depth Charge
UK - 1960 - 55m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Jeremy Summers
A French Mistress
UK - 1960 - 98m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Roy Boulting
The Giant of Marathon
La battaglia di Maratona
(USA: The Battle of Marathon)
Italy/France - 1959 - 102m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur (and Mario Bava)
The Girl and the River
L'eau vive
France - 1958 - 98m - col / scope
British Lion (U)
D: François Villiers
Hannibal
Annibale
Italy - 1959 - 103m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
In Six Easy Lessons
L'école des Cocottes
(aka: School for Coquettes)
France - 1957 - 100m - bw
Mondial (X) (cut)
D: Jacqueline Audry
Josette From New Orleans
USA - 1953 - 73m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Lee (possibly a pseudonym for Joseph Lerner)
Jungle Hell
Attack of the Jungle Women
USA - 1957 - 72m - col
Orb (U) (cut)
D: Joseph R. Juliano
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
(aka: Reach for Tomorrow)
USA - 1959 - 107m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Philip Leacock
Let's Make Love
USA - 1960 - 118m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: George Cukor
4-channel stereo
The Mobster
I Mobster
USA - 1958 - 81m - bw / scope
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman
The Music Box Kid
USA - 1960 - 75m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn
Ocean's Eleven
USA - 1960 - 127m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Milestone
One Foot in Hell
USA - 1960 - 89m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: James B. Clark
Piccadilly Third Stop
UK - 1960 - 90m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Wolf Rilla
Pickpocket
France - 1959 - 75m - bw
Mondial (A)
D: Robert Bresson
The Scavengers
USA/Philippines - 1959 - 79m - bw
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: John Cromwell
There Was a Crooked Man
UK - 1960 - 107m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Stuart Burge
Three Came to Kill
USA - 1959 - 71m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn
Three Moves to Freedom
Schachnovelle
(USA: Brainwashed)
W.Germany - 1960 - 104m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Gerd Oswald
Torpedo Zone
La grande speranza
(aka: Submarine Attack)
Italy - 1954 - 91m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Duilio Coletti
Walk Like a Dragon
USA - 1960 - 95m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: James Clavell
