MFB: September 1963

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1963

Vol. 30 No. 356

80,000 Suspects
UK - 1963 - 113m - bw / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Val Guest

The Bay of St. Michael
(USA: Operation Mermaid)
UK - 1963 - 73m - bw
Rank (U)
D: John Ainsworth

Billy Liar
UK - 1963 - 98m - bw / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: John Schlesinger

The Birds
USA - 1963 - 119m - col
Rank / Universal-International (X)
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Followed by: The Birds II: Land's End (1993).

Bomb in the High Street
UK - 1963 - 60m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Terry Bishop, Peter Bezencenet

California
USA - 1962 - 75m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Hamil Petroff

Career Girl
USA - 1959 - 61m - col
Compton Cameo (Banned)
D: Harold David
Rejected twice by the BBFC under two different titles, Hot Car Girl (submitted by Associated British-Pathé) and Hide Out in the Sun (Air Express), but screened in London in 1963 with a certificate from the local council.

Cleopatra
USA - 1963 - 243m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
6-channel stereo

Doctor in Distress
UK - 1963 - 102m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Ralph Thomas
Series: Doctor in the House (1954, May/1954).

Eve
Eva
France/Italy - 1962 - 135m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Joseph Losey

Farewell Performance
UK - 1963 - 73m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Robert Tronson

Fidelio
Austria - 1956 - 88m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Walter Felsenstein

The Final Hour
USA (TV) - 1962 - 74m - col
Rank (U)
D: Robert Douglas
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of The Virginian (1962-71).
Series: The Brazen Bell (1962, May/63).

It's Hot in Hell
Un singe en hiver
(USA: A Monkey in Winter)
France - 1962 - 102m - bw / scope
Gala (A)
D: Henri Verneuil

Jason and the Argonauts
UK - 1963 - 103m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Don Chaffey

The Mistress
Älskarinnan
Sweden - 1962 - 77m - bw / scope
Gala (X)
D: Vilgot Sjöman

Operation Bikini
USA - 1963 - 84m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Anthony Carras

Papa's Delicate Condition
USA - 1962 - 98m - col
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

The Passionate Thief
Risate di gioia
Italy - 1960 - 105m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Mario Monicelli

PT 109
USA - 1962 - 139m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Leslie H. Martinson

Savage Sam
USA - 1962 - 104m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Tokar
Series: Old Yeller (1957, May/1958).

Siege of the Saxons
UK - 1963 - 85m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Nathan Juran

Tamahine
UK - 1962 - 95m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Philip Leacock

Vice and Virtue
Le vice et la virtu
France/Italy - 1962 - 105m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Roger Vadim

Young Guns of Texas
USA - 1962 - 76m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Maury Dexter