MFB: May 1945

Introduction for newcomers

This must have lifted audiences right out of their
seats in 1945! (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1945

Vol. 12 No. 137

Battement de coeur
(aka: Beating Heart)
France - 1940 - 97m - bw
Studio One (A)
D: Henri Decoin

Bring On the Girls
USA - 1945 - 92m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Sidney Lanfield

Czarina
A Royal Scandal
USA - 1945 - 94m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Otto Preminger

Dancing in Manhattan
USA - 1944 - 60m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin

Don Chicago
UK - 1945 - 80m - bw
Anglo-American (A)
D: Maclean Rogers

Earl Carroll Vanities
(aka: Moonlight Melody)
USA - 1945 - 91m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Santley

Hortobágy
(USA: Life on the Hortobagy)
Hungary - 1936 - 92m - bw
[No distributor or certificate]
D: George Hoellering
Not submitted to the BBFC, though screened in London under a local licence.
Also reviewed: Dec 1936.

The Jade Mask
USA - 1945 - 66m - bw
Ealing (A)
D: Phil Rosen
Series: Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).

Leave It to Blondie
USA - 1945 - 74m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Abby Berlin
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Let's Go Steady
USA - 1945 - 60m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Del Lord

Old Mother Riley at Home
UK - 1945 - 76m - bw
Anglo-American (A) (cut)
D: Oswald Mitchell
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).

The Picture of Dorian Gray
USA - 1945 - 109m - bw and col
MGM (A)
D: Albert Lewin
Also reviewed: Nov 1985.

She's a Sweetheart
USA - 1944 - 69m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Del Lord

Silent Partner
USA - 1944 - 56m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Blair

Soldier, Sailor
UK - 1944 - 51m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Alexander Shaw

A Song for Miss Julie
USA - 1945 - 69m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Rowland

Sudan
USA - 1945 - 76m - col
General Film (A)
D: John Rawlins

Tarzan and the Amazons
USA - 1945 - 76m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Kurt Neumann
Series: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, Dec/1955).

Under the Clock
The Clock
USA - 1945 - 90m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Vincente Minnelli

Utah
USA - 1945 - 77m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John English
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).