MFB: October 1946

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

October 1946

Vol. 13 No. 154

Angel on My Shoulder
USA - 1946 - 100m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Archie Mayo

The Big Sleep
USA - 1946 - 114m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Howard Hawks

Black Beauty
USA - 1946 - 74m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Max Nosseck

Blue Skies
USA - 1946 - 104m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Stuart Heisler

Two images from Till the End of Time

Canyon Passage
USA - 1946 - 92m - col
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Claudia and David
USA - 1946 - 78m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Walter Lang
Series: Claudia (1943, Oct/1943).

The Dark Horse
USA - 1946 - 59m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Will Jason

Detour
USA - 1945 - 68m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Edgar G. Ulmer
Also reviewed: Jul 1982.

Faithful in My Fashion
USA - 1946 - 81m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Sidney Salkow

The Falcon in San Francisco
USA - 1945 - 66m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Joseph H. Lewis
Series: The Gay Falcon (1941, Nov/41).
Also reviewed: Mar 1980.

The Flying Serpent
(aka: Killer With Wings)
USA - 1945 - 59m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Sherman Scott]

The Grand Escapade
UK - 1946 - 70m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John Baxter

Le grand jeu
France - 1934 - 120(111)m - bw
Film Traders (A) (cut)
D: Jacques Feyder
Rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Cinema House in 1934, then passed with cuts in 1946.

The Green Years
USA - 1946 - 127m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Victor Saville

Home Sweet Homicide
USA - 1946 - 90m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

If I'm Lucky
USA - 1946 - 78m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Lewis Seiler

I Ring Doorbells
USA - 1946 - 64m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Frank R. Strayer

Joe Palooka, Champ
USA - 1946 - 70m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Followed by: Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946, Apr/1947), Joe Palooka in The Knockout (1947, Aug/1948), Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948, Oct/1948), Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948, May/1949), Joe Palooka in The Big Fight (1949, Nov/1949), Joe Palooka in The Counterpunch (1949), Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950, Oct/1950), Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950, Apr/1951), Joe Palooka in The Squared Circle (1950, Oct/1951), Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951, Feb/1952).

King of the Stallions
(aka: Code of the Redmen)
USA - 1942 - 63m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Edward Finney
Series: Silver Stallion (1941).

London Town
(USA: My Heart Goes Crazy)
UK - 1946 - 126m - col
Eagle-Lion (U)
D: Wesley Ruggles

The Lost Trail
USA - 1945 - 53m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer
Series: The Ghost Rider (1943, May/1944).

Men of Two Worlds
(aka: Witch Doctor)
UK - 1946 - 109m - col
General Film (A)
D: Thorold Dickinson

Mrs. Loring's Secret
The Imperfect Lady
USA - 1946 - 97m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lewis Allen

Black Beauty

The New Adventures of Tarzan
(aka: Tarzan's New Adventure)
USA - 1935 - 257m - 12 chapters - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Edward A. Kull (and Wilbur McGaugh)
Originally released in the UK in a condensed feature-length version running 74 minutes, reviewed Aug 1935. Another feature-length version (Tarzan and the Green Goddess: The Amazing Sequel to the New Adventures of Tarzan) - containing different footage and a separate narrative - was released in 1937 (Aug 1937), before the full-length serial was screened in UK cinemas in 1946.

No Leave, No Love
USA - 1946 - 119m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Charles Martin

Of Human Bondage
USA - 1946 - 105m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Edmund Goulding

The Overlanders
UK/Australia - 1946 - 91m - bw
Eagle-Lion (U)
D: Harry Watt

The Perfect Marriage

USA - 1946 - 88m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Allen

The Shadow Returns
USA - 1946 - 61m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Phil Rosen
Followed by: Behind the Mask (1946, Feb/1947), The Missing Lady (1946, Apr/1947).

Strangler of the Swamp
USA - 1946 - 59m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Frank Wisbar

Suspense
USA - 1946 - 101m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Frank Tuttle

Swamp Fire
USA - 1946 - 69m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: William H. Pine

Tarzan's New Adventure
(see: New Adventures of Tarzan, The)

Theirs is the Glory
(aka: Men of Arnhem)
UK - 1946 - 82m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Brian Desmond Hurst

Three Little Girls in Blue
USA - 1946 - 100m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

Till the End of Time
USA - 1946 - 105m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Edward Dmytryk

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

USA - 1946 - 99m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Peter Godfrey

Unbroken Faith
Poland - 1946 - 56m - bw
Polish Film Association (U)
D: B. Lewin

The Unknown
USA - 1946 - 70m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Henry Levin
Series: I Love a Mystery (1945, Jun/1945).

Without Reservations
USA - 1946 - 107m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Mervyn LeRoy