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MFB: June 1959





Monthly Film Bulletin
June 1959
Vol. 26 No. 305


Alias Jesse James
USA - 1959 - 92m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Norman Z. McLeod

Beyond This Place
(USA: Web of Evidence)
UK - 1959 - 90m - bw
Dyro / Renown (A) (cut)
D: Jack Cardiff

The Brain From Planet Arous
USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
Eros (X)
D: Nathan Juran

The Buccaneer
USA - 1958 - 120m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Anthony Quinn

The Case of Dr. Laurent
Le cas du Dr Laurent
France - 1957 - 110m - bw
Hillcrest (X)
D: Jean-Paul Le Chanois

The City Jungle
The Young Philadelphians
USA - 1959 - 136m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Vincent Sherman

Count Your Blessings
USA - 1959 - 102m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Jean Negulesco
4-channel stereo

Eighteen and Anxious
USA - 1957 - 93m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Joe Parker

For the First Time
USA - 1958 - 97m - col / Technirama
MGM (U)
D: Rudolph Maté
4-channel stereo

Frontier Rangers
USA - 1959 - 83m - col
MGM (U)
D: Jacques Tourneur
Two episodes of the TV series Northwest Passage (1958-59), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Followed by: Mission of Danger (1959, Feb/1960), Fury River (1961, Oct/1961).

Gidget
USA - 1959 - 94m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Paul Wendkos
Followed by: Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961, Feb/1962), Gidget Goes to Rome (1962, Dec/1963).

The Girl Friends
Le amiche
Italy - 1955 - 104m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Michelangelo Antonioni

Green Mansions
USA - 1959 - 104m - col / scope
MGM (U) (cut)
D: Mel Ferrer
4-channel stereo

Gunmen From Laredo
USA - 1958 - 67m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Wallace MacDonald

Hercules
Le fatiche di Ercole
Italy/France - 1957 - 105m - col / scope
Archway (U)
D: Pietro Francisci
Followed by: Hercules Unchained (1959, Aug/1960), Goliath and the Dragon (1960, Aug/1961), Gli amori di Ercole (1960), Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961, Aug/1962 + Jan/1986), Maciste contro Ercole nella valle dei guai (1961), Hercules in the Centre of the Earth (1961, Feb/1963 + Jan/1986), Ulysses Against Hercules (1962, Jul/1964), The Fury of Hercules (1962, Jul/1963), Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963, Nov/1966), Hercules Attacks (1963, Jun/1965), Hercules the Invincible (1964, Jan/1965), Ercole contro Roma (1964), The Triumph of Hercules (1964, Apr/1965), Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964, Mar/1966), Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (1964), Ercole contro i tiranni di Babilonia (1964), Kingdom in the Sand (1965, Feb/1966), Maciste el vendicatore dei Maya (1965).

Last Train From Gun Hill
USA - 1959 - 95m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: John Sturges

Lebedinoye ozero
[see: Swan Lake]

Lesson in Love
En lektion i kärlek
Sweden - 1953 - 95m - bw
Cross-Channel (X) (cut)
D: Ingmar Bergman

Look Back in Anger
UK - 1959 - 101m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X)
D: Tony Richardson

Lost, Lonely and Vicious
USA - 1958 - 72m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Frank Myers

Manhandled
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).

The Man Who Died Twice
USA - 1958 - 70m - bw / scope
Eros (A)
D: Joseph Kane

The Mating Game
USA - 1958 - 96m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: George Marshall
4-channel stereo

Missile Monsters
USA - 1958 - 74m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Fred C. Brannon
Condensed feature-length version of the 12-chapter serial Flying Disc Man From Mars (1950, Jul/1956).

Night of the Blood Beast
USA - 1958 - 63m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X)
D: Bernard L. Kowalski

Night of the Quarter Moon
(aka: Flesh and Flame)
USA - 1959 - 96m - bw / scope
MGM (A)
D: Hugo Haas
4-channel stereo

A Question of Loyalty
USA (TV) - 1957 - 50m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Walter Doniger
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Conflict (1956-57).

Riot in Juvenile Prison
USA - 1958 - 72m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Sapphire
UK - 1959 - 92m - col
Rank (A)
D: Basil Dearden

Satan's Satellites
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Fred C. Brannon
Condensed feature-length version of the 12-chapter serial Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952).

Serenade einer grossen Liebe
[see: For the First Time]

The Shaggy Dog
USA - 1959 - 101m - bw
Walt Disney (U)
D: Charles T. Barton
Followed by: The Shaggy D.A. (1976, Jun/1977), Return of the Shaggy Dog (1987).

Shark Reef
She Gods of Shark Reef
USA - 1957 - 62m - col
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Roger Corman

Some Like It Hot
USA - 1959 - 121m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Billy Wilder

Spoilers of the Forest
USA - 1957 - 68m - col / scope
Eros (U)
D: Joseph Kane

A Sunday Romance
Bakaruhában
(aka: In Soldier's Uniform)
Hungary - 1957 - 92m - bw
Curzon (X)
D: Imre Fehér

Swan Lake
Лебединое озеро
USSR - 1957 - 81m - col
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Zoya Tulubyeva

Ten Days to Tulara
USA - 1958 - 76m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: George Sherman

Ten Seconds to Hell
UK/USA - 1958 - 94m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Robert Aldrich

Terror in a Texas Town
USA - 1958 - 80m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Joseph H. Lewis
Also reviewed: Apr 1980.

The Terror Strikes
War of the Colossal Beast
USA - 1958 - 68m - bw and col
Anglo-Amalgamated (X)
D: Bert I. Gordon
Series: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957, Jan/1958).

The Tunnel of Love
USA - 1958 - 98m - bw / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Gene Kelly
4-channel stereo

The Unearthly
USA - 1957 - 73m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Brooke L. Peters

Warlock
USA - 1959 - 122m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: Edward Dmytryk
4-channel stereo

We Are the Lambeth Boys
UK - 1958 - 52m - bw
[No distributor or certificate]
D: Karel Reisz

Zorro Rides Again
USA - 1959 - 69m - bw
Eros (U)
D: William Witney, John English
Condensed feature-length version of the same-named 12-chapter serial (1937).

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