Friday 13 November 2015

MFB: August 1959



Monthly Film Bulletin
August 1959
Vol. 26 No. 307


Arson for Hire
USA - 1958 - 67m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Thor L. Brooks

Ashes and Diamonds
Popiół i diament
Poland - 1958 - 104m - bw
Contempoary (X)
D: Andrzej Wajda

The Bridal Path
UK - 1959 - 95m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Frank Launder

The Captain From Köpenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
W.Germany - 1956 - 93m - col
Archway (U)
D: Helmut Käutner

The Crowning Touch
UK - 1958 - 75m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: David Eady

Don't Give Up the Ship
USA - 1959 - 89m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Norman Taurog

Downbeat
Daddy-O
USA - 1958 - 74m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Lou Place

Ferry to Hong Kong
UK - 1959 - 113m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Lewis Gilbert

Frogman Spy
Mizar
(USA: Frogwoman)
(aka: The Woman Who Came From the Sea)
Italy - 1953 - 107m - col
Archway (U)
D: Francesco de Robertis
The UK version distributed by Archway was printed in black and white.

Girls in Action
Operation Dames
USA - 1958 - 73m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Louis Clyde Stoumen

Ashes and Diamonds

Here Come the Jets
USA - 1959 - 70m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Gene Fowler Jr.

High Jump
UK - 1958 - 66m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Godfrey Grayson

A Hole in the Head
USA - 1959 - 120m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: Frank Capra

Ikiru
生きる
(aka: Living)
Japan - 1952 - 143m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Akira Kurosawa

I Want to Live!
USA - 1958 - 120m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Robert Wise

Jack the Ripper
UK - 1958 - 84m - bw and col
Regal (X) (cut)
D: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman

Johnny Rocco
USA - 1958 - 84m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Paul Landres

Journey Into Autumn
Kvinnodröm
(USA: Dreams)
Sweden - 1954 - 86m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Ingmar Bergman

Kiss of Fire
Goubbiah mon amour
France/Italy - 1956 - 95m - col / scope
Gala (A)
D: Robert Darène

Left Right and Centre
UK - 1959 - 95m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Sidney Gilliat

The Man Who Understood Women
USA - 1959 - 105m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Nunnally Johnson
4-channel stereo

The Miracle of the Hills
USA - 1959 - 73m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Paul Landres
4-channel stereo

Mon oncle
(aka: My Uncle)
France - 1956 - 116m - col
Hillcrest (U)
D: Jacques Tati

The Mouse That Roared
UK - 1959 - 90m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Jack Arnold
Followed by: The Mouse on the Moon (1963, Jun/1963).




Muhomatso no issho
[see: Rickshaw Man, The]

The Naked Maja
USA - 1959 - 112m - col / Technirama
MGM (U)
D: Henry Koster

Operation Bullshine
UK - 1959 - 84m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Gilbert Gunn

Prisons de femmes
(aka: Women's Prison)
France - 1958 - 100m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Maurice Cloche

The Rickshaw Man
無法松の一生
Japan - 1958 - 104m - col / scope
Curzon (U)
D: Hiroshi Inagaki

Say One for Me
USA - 1959 - 117m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Frank Tashlin
4-channel stereo


The Scapegoat
UK - 1958 - 92m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Robert Hamer

She Demons
USA - 1957 - 77m - bw
Orb (X) (cut)
D: Richard E. Cunha

Street Acquaintances
Straßenbekanntschaft
E.Germany - 1948 - 104m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Peter Pewas

Tall, Dark and Dead
USA - 1959 - 50m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Adrian Weiss
Two episodes of the TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1951-53), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Film series: Craig Kennedy: Criminologist (1953, Nov/1953).

Time of Desire
Hästhandlarens flickor
(aka: The Horsedealer's Daughter)
Sweden - 1954 - 87m - bw
Gala (Banned)
D: Egil Holmsen
Rejected by the BBFC in 1957 as The Horsedealer's Daughter, but screened in London with a local certificate as Time of Desire.

Tunnel Six
El tunel 6
Mexico - 1956 - 115m - col
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Chano Urueta

Verboten!
USA - 1958 - 93m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Samuel Fuller

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