MFB: May 1959

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1959

Vol. 26 No. 304

Action Stations
UK/Spain - 1956 - 50m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Cecil H. Williamson

Al Capone
USA - 1959 - 104m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Richard Wilson

Badman's Country
USA - 1958 - 67m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

The Bandit of Zhobe
UK - 1958 - 81m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: John Gilling
4-channel stereo

Chikyu Boeigun
[see: Mysterians, The]

City of Fear
USA - 1958 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Irving Lerner

The Doctor's Dilemma
UK - 1958 - 99m - col
MGM (U)
D: Anthony Asquith

Eve Wants to Sleep
Ewa chce spaspać
Poland - 1957 - 98m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Tadeusz Chmielewski

Execution Night
USA (TV) - 1957 - 50m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Douglas Heyes
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Conflict (1956-57).

Goha
France/Tunisia - 1957 - 90m - col
Contemporary (A)
D: Jacques Baratier

Good Day for a Hanging
USA - 1958 - 85m - col
Columbia (A)
D: Nathan Juran

Horrors of the Black Museum
UK - 1959 - 81m - col / scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Arthur Crabtree

Idol on Parade
(aka: Idle on Parade)
UK - 1959 - 92m - bw / scope
Columbia (U)
D: John Gilling

Imitation of Life
USA - 1959 - 124m - col
Rank (U)
D: Douglas Sirk

Innocent Meeting
UK - 1958 - 62m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Godfrey Grayson

It Happened to Jane
(see: Jane From Maine)
(aka: Twinkle and Shine)
USA - 1959 - 97m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Richard Quine

Johnny Trouble
USA - 1956 - 79m - bw
Warner (U)
D: John H. Auer

The Journey
USA - 1959 - 125m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Anatole Litvak

The Last Temptation
Suor Letizia
(USA: The Awakening)
Italy - 1956 - 97m - bw
Intercontinental / Films de France (U)
D: Mario Camerini

Law vs. Gangster
USA (TV) - 1958 - 50m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Leslie H. Martinson
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Conflict (1956-57).

Legion of the Doomed
USA - 1958 - 75m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Thor L. Brooks

The Man in the Net
USA - 1958 - 96m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Michael Curtiz

Money, Women and Guns
USA - 1958 - 80m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Richard H. Bartlett

Monster on the Campus
USA - 1958 - 76m - bw
Rank (X)
D: Jack Arnold

The Mysterians
地球防衛軍
Japan - 1957 - 88m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Ishirō Honda

Night is Not for Sleep
Toi... le venin
(USA: Nude in a White Car)
France - 1958 - 92m - bw
Miracle (A) (cut)
D: Robert Hossein

Pattern for Violence
USA (TV) - 1957 - 50m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Leslie H. Martinson
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Conflict (1956-57).

Queen of Outer Space
USA - 1958 - 77m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Edward L. Bernds

Rio Bravo
USA - 1959 - 141m - col
Warner (U)
D: John Ford

Serious Charge
UK - 1959 - 99m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Terence Young

Some Came Running
USA - 1958 - 136m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Vincente Minnelli

Dubbed UK reissue of Night is Not for Sleep, under the film's US title.
Note the A certificate, though the BBFC database says it was an X,
despite still being somewhat shorter than the original French version.

The Sound and the Fury
USA - 1959 - 115m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Martin Ritt
4-channel stereo

That Jane From Maine
[see: It Happened to Jane]

Tiger Bay
(aka: Mystery at Tiger Bay)
UK - 1959 - 105m - bw
Rank (A)
D: J. Lee Thompson

Tonka
USA - 1958 - 97m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Lewis R. Foster

The Vixen
La lupa
(USA: She Wolf)
(aka: The Devil is a Woman)
Italy - 1953 - 93m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Alberto Lattuada

Watusi
(aka: The Quest for King Solomon's Mines)
USA - 1958 - 85m - col
MGM (U)
D: Kurt Neumann

Westbound
USA - 1959 - 69m - col
Warner (U)
D: Budd Boetticher

Whirlpool
UK - 1959 - 95m - col
Rank (A)
D: Lewis Allen

The Young Land
USA - 1957 - 89m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Ted Tetzlaff