MFB: September 1959

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1959

Vol. 26 No. 308

The Beat Generation
(aka: This Rebel Age)
USA - 1959 - 95m - bw / scope
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Charles F. Haas
4-channel stereo

The Big Circus
USA - 1959 - 108m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Joseph M. Newman

Blind Date
(USA: Chance Meeting)
UK - 1959 - 95m - bw
Rank / Sydney Box Associates (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Losey

Bobbikins
UK - 1959 - 90m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert Day

Le bourgeois gentilhomme
(USA: Would-Be Gentleman)
France - 1958 - 97m - col
Connoisseur (U)
D: Jean Meyer

The Boy and the Bridge
UK - 1959 - 91m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Kevin McClory

Eugene Onegin
Евгений Онегин
USSR - 1958 - 105m - col
Sovexportfilm (U)
D: Roman Tikhomirov

Face of a Fugitive
USA - 1959 - 80m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Paul Wendkos

The Gunfight at Dodge City
USA - 1958 - 81m - col / scope
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: Joseph M. Newman

Holiday for Lovers
USA - 1959 - 102m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Levin
4-channel stereo

House on Haunted Hill
USA - 1958 - 75m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: William Castle
Some screenings of the film included 'Emergo', a commercial gimmick in which an illuminated skeleton was flown over the audience at selected moments within the unfolding narrative.

Ievgeniy Onegin
[see: Eugene Onegin]

Juke Box Rhythm
USA - 1959 - 81m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

King of the Wild Stallions
USA - 1958 - 76m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: R.G. Springsteen

The Last Mile
USA - 1958 - 81m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Howard W. Koch

Life in Danger
UK - 1959 - 63m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Terry Bishop

The Mummy
UK - 1959 - 88m - col
Rank (X)
D: Terence Fisher
Followed by: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964, Oct/1964), The Mummy's Shroud (1966, Jun/1967), Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971, Nov/1971).

Murder at Site 3
UK - 1959 - 68m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Francis Searle

The Nun's Story
USA - 1958 - 151m - col
Warner (U)
D: Fred Zinnemann

Sleeping Beauty

The Sad Horse
USA - 1959 - 78m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: James B. Clark

Sleeping Beauty
USA - 1958 - 75m - col / Super Technirama 70
Walt Disney (U)
D: Clyde Geronimi
70mm prints were framed at 2.21:1, while 35mm prints were 2.55:1.
6-channel stereo

Taxi
Taxi: Roulotte et corrida
France - 1958 - 85m - bw
Miracle (U)
D: André Hunebelle

This Earth is Mine
USA - 1959 - 123m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Henry King

The Ugly Duckling
UK - 1959 - 84m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lance Comfort

Upstairs and Downstairs
UK - 1959 - 101m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Ralph Thomas

A Woman's Temptation
UK - 1958 - 60m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Godfrey Grayson

The World the Flesh and the Devil
USA - 1959 - 95m - bw / scope
MGM (A)
D: Ranald MacDougall
4-channel stereo

Wrong Number
UK - 1959 - 59m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U) (cut)
D: Vernon Sewell

Yesterday's Enemy
UK - 1959 - 95m - bw / scope
Columbia (A)
D: Val Guest

The Young Captives
USA - 1959 - 66m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Irvin Kershner