MFB: July 1959

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1959

Vol. 26 No. 306

Battle Flame
USA - 1959 - 78m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: R.G. Springsteen

Crash Drive
UK - 1959 - 65m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Max Varnel

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
USA - 1959 - 90m - col
Dyro / Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Stevenson

Day of the Outlaw
USA - 1959 - 92m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: André De Toth

Deadly Record
UK - 1959 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Lawrence Huntington

The Devil's General
Des Teufels General
W.Germany - 1955 - 121m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Helmut Käutner

The Diary of Anne Frank
USA - 1959 - 171m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: George Stevens
4-channel stereo

The Hangman
USA - 1959 - 87m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Michael Curtiz

The Headless Ghost
UK - 1959 - 61m - bw / scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Peter Graham Scott

The Heart of a Man
UK - 1959 - 92m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

In the Wake of a Stranger
UK - 1959 - 64m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: David Eady

John Paul Jones

USA - 1959 - 126m - col / Technirama
Warner (U)
D: John Farrow
4-channel stereo

The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
Manina: La fille sans voile
(USA: The Girl in the Bikini)
France - 1952 - 86m - col
Gala (U)
D: Willy Rozier

The Littlest Hobo
USA - 1958 - 77m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Charles R. Rondeau

Lonelyhearts
USA - 1958 - 103m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Vincent J. Donehue

Lourdes and Its Miracles
Lourdes et ses miracles
France - 1955 - 90m - bw
Connoisseur (A)
D: Georges Rouquier

Man Mad
No Place to Land
USA - 1958 - 76m - bw / scope
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Albert C. Gannaway

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
UK - 1958 - 83m - col
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher

Middle of the Night
USA - 1959 - 117m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Delbert Mann

More Deadly Than the Male
UK - 1958 - 60m - col
Cross-Channel (X)
D: Robert Bucknell

Murder Preferred
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).

No Safety Ahead
UK - 1958 - 68m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Max Varnel

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

Oh No, Mam'zelle
Mam'zelle Nitouche
France/Italy - 1953 - 88m - col
Rank (A)
D: Yves Allégret

Paratroop Command
USA - 1958 - 77m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: William Witney

Pork Chop Hill
USA - 1959 - 97m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Milestone

The Possessed
Les possédées
(USA: Passionate Summer)
France/Italy - 1955 - 93m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Charles Brabant

Ride Lonesome
USA - 1959 - 73m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Budd Boetticher

Shake Hands With the Devil
UK - 1959 - 111m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Michael Anderson

Submarine Seahawk
(aka: Submarine X-2)
USA - 1958 - 83m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
UK - 1959 - 84m - col
Paramount (U) (cut)
D: John Guillermin
Series: Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955, Apr/1955).

Tempest
La tempesta
Italy/France/Yugoslavia - 1958 - 122m - col / Technirama
Paramount (A)
D: Alberto Lattuada

Tokyo After Dark
USA - 1958 - 81m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Norman T. Herman

Top Floor Girl
UK - 1959 - 71m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Max Varnel

To Tokyo After Dark
[see: Tokyo After Dark]

Web of Suspicion
UK - 1959 - 70m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Max Varnel

The Wild and the Innocent
USA - 1959 - 84m - col / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Jack Sher

Wolf Larsen
(aka: The Far Wanderer)
USA - 1958 - 83m - bw
Associated British-Pathe (A) (cut)
D: Harmon Jones

Woman Obsessed
USA - 1959 - 102m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Henry Hathaway
4-channel stereo