MFB: February 1960

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1960

Vol. 27 No. 313

The Battle of the Sexes
UK - 1959 - 84m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (U)
D: Charles Crichton

Beginning of the End
USA - 1956 - 74m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Bert I. Gordon

Beloved Infidel
USA - 1959 - 123m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry King
4-channel stereo

Ben-Hur
USA - 1959 - 217m - col / MGM Camera 65
MGM (A)
D: William Wyler (and Andrew Marton)
6-channel stereo

A Cool Sound From Hell
Canada - 1959 - 71m - bw
Films de France (X) (cut)
D: Sidney J. Furie

The Desperate Man
UK - 1959 - 57m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Peter Maxwell

Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
USA - 1959 - 81m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: David Lowell Rich

Hiroshima mon amour
France/Japan - 1959 - 91m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Alan Resnais

Home is the Hero
Ireland - 1959 - 83m - bw
British Lion / Britannia (U)
D: Fielder Cook

The Jayhawkers!
USA - 1959 - 103m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Melvin Frank

Journey to the Center of the Earth
USA - 1959 - 129m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Levin
4-channel stereo

King in Shadow
Herrscher ohne Krone
W.Germany - 1956 - 104m - col
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Harald Braun

Labyrinth
W.Germany/Italy - 1959 - 94m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Rolf Thiele

Last of the Few
S.Africa - 1959 - 61m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: David Millin

Matti
Vildmarkssommar
Sweden/UK - 1957 - 85m - col
Eros (U)
D: Bertil Haglund, Lars V. Werner

Mission of Danger
USA - 1959 - 79m - col
MGM (U)
D: George Waggner, Jacques Tourneur
Three episodes of the TV series Northwest Passage (1958-59), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Frontier Rangers (1959, Jun/1959).

Never So Few
(aka: Campaign Burma)
USA - 1959 - 124m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: John Sturges
4-channel stereo

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
USA (TV) - 1958 - 79m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Foster
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Walt Disney Presents (1958-61).

Odds Against Tomorrow
USA - 1959 - 96m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Robert Wise

On the Beach
USA - 1959 - 134m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Stanley Kramer

Operation Petticoat
USA - 1959 - 124m - col
Rank (U)
D: Blake Edwards

Pillow Talk
USA - 1959 - 102m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Michael Gordon

Please Turn Over
UK - 1959 - 87m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Gerald Thomas

Plunderers of Painted Flats
USA - 1958 - 72m - bw / scope
Eros (U) (cut)
D: Albert C. Gannaway

Rice Girls
La risaia
(aka: The Rice Girl)
Italy - 1956 - 90m - col / scope
Mondial (A)
D: Raffaello Matarazzo

The Shakedown
(aka: The Naked Mirror)
UK - 1959 - 92m - bw
Rank / Alliance (X) (cut)
D: John Lemont

A Summer Place
USA - 1959 - 130m - col
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Delmer Daves

Tamango
France/Italy - 1957 - 104m - col / scope
Columbia / Vitalite (A) (cut)
D: John Berry

Too Young to Love
UK - 1959 - 88m - bw
Rank (X)
D: Muriel Box

A Touch of Larceny
UK - 1959 - 92m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Guy Hamilton

White Wilderness
USA - 1958 - 72m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: James Algar
This Oscar-winning documentary contains a notorious sequence in which a group of lemmings appear to commit 'suicide' by leaping from a cliff, but the footage was later exposed by the Canadian TV news programme The Fifth Estate (1981-present) as an act of deliberate cruelty by the filmmakers.
Series: Seal Island (1948, short).