The Big Lift |
Monthly Film Bulletin
April - May 1950
Vol. 17 No. 196
The Ballad of Berlin
Berliner Ballade
(USA: The Berliner)
Germany - 1948 - 77m - bw
London Films (U)
D: Robert A. Stemmle
Barbary Pirate
USA - 1949 - 65m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lew Landers
The Big Lift
USA - 1949 - 116m - bw
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: George Seaton
The Big Sombrero
USA - 1949 - 78m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).
Black Hand
USA - 1949 - 92m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe
Black Stallion
The Return of Wildfire
USA - 1948 - 63m - sepia
Exclusive (U)
D: Ray Taylor
The Blonde Bandit
USA - 1949 - 59m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Henry Keller
The Body Said No!
UK - 1950 - 75m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Val Guest
Canadian Pacific
USA - 1949 - 95m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edwin L. Marin
Cheaper by the Dozen
USA - 1950 - 86m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang
Followed by: Belles On Their Toes: The Further Adventures of the Gilbreth Family (1952, May/1952).
The Creeper
USA - 1948 - 64m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Jean Yarbrough
The Dancing Years
UK - 1949 - 97m - col
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Harold French
Dick Tracy
USA - 1937 - 290m - 12 chapters - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ray Taylor, Alan James
A condensed feature-length (73 mins) version of this serial was screened in UK cinemas in 1937 (reviewed Nov 1937).
Followed by: Dick Tracy Returns (1938), Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939), Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941).
Double Confession
UK - 1950 - 85m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Ken Annakin
Embraceable You
USA - 1948 - 80m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Felix Jacoves
Flaming Lead
USA - 1939 - 57m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Sam Newfield
For You I Die
USA - 1947 - 75m - bw
Associated-British (A) (cut)
D: John Reinhardt
The Girl is Mine
UK - 1949 - 51m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Marjorie Deans
The Inspector General
USA - 1949 - 101m - col
Warner (U)
D: Henry Koster
I Was a Shoplifter
USA - 1950 - 74m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Charles Lamont
Jour de fête
(aka: The Village Fair)
France - 1949 - 87m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Jacques Tati
Messenger of Peace
(aka: The Country Parson)
USA - 1947 - 86m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Frank Strayer
Mickey
USA - 1948 - 86m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ralph Murphy
Montana
USA - 1949 - 75m - col
Warner (U) (cut)
D: Ray Enright
Moon Over Montana
USA - 1946 - 55m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Oliver Drake
Mother Didn't Tell Me
USA - 1950 - 88m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Claude Binyon
Never Say Die
(aka: Don't Say Die)
UK - 1950 - 61m - bw
International (U)
D: Vivian Milroy
Night and the City
UK - 1950 - 101m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jules Dassin
No Man of Her Own
USA - 1949 - 97m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Mitchell Leisen
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
USA - 1949 - 94m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: John M. Stahl
One Touch of Venus
USA - 1948 - 81m - bw
Eros (U)
D: William A. Seiter
One Way Street
USA - 1950 - 79m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Hugo Fregonese
Outside the Wall
USA - 1949 - 81m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Crane Wilbur
Les parents terribles
France - 1949 - 98m - bw
Studio One (A) (cut)
D: Jean Cocteau
Prejudice
USA - 1948 - 57m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn
The Reluctant Widow
(USA: The Inheritance)
UK - 1950 - 91m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Bernard Knowles
Return to Life
Retour à la vie
France - 1949 - 120m - bw
Film Traders (A) (cut)
D: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Lampin, André Cayatte, Jean Dréville
Riders of the Dawn
USA - 1945 - 57m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Oliver Drake
Satan's Cradle
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Ford Beebe
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).
Side Street
USA - 1949 - 81m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Anthony Mann
Sins of the Fathers
Canada - 1948 - 96m - bw
International (A) (cut)
D: Phil Rosen, Richard J. Jarvis
Rejected by the BBFC in 1950, but passed with cuts in 1952.
State Secret
(USA: The Great Manhunt)
UK - 1950 - 104m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Sidney Gilliat
Stranger at My Door
UK - 1950 - 80m - bw
Monarch (A) (cut)
D: Brendan J. Stafford, Desmond Leslie
The Street Has Many Dreams
Molti sogni per le strade
(USA: Woman Trouble)
Italy - 1948 - 88m - bw
Archway (A)
D: Mario Camerini
Strong is the Seed
Australia - 1949 - 80m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Arthur Greville Collins
Sword in the Desert
USA - 1949 - 98m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: George Sherman
They Were Not Divided
UK - 1950 - 102m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Terence Young
Under My Skin
USA - 1949 - 85m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Jean Negulesco
Up for the Cup
USA - 1950 - 76m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Jack Raymond
Wabash Avenue
USA - 1950 - 93m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Koster
Wicked City
Hans le marin
France/UK - 1949 - 80m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: François Villiers
Shot simultaneously in French- and English-language versions.
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