MFB: August 1951

Introduction for newcomers

Vendetta

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1951

Vol. 18 No. 211

African Jim
Jim Comes to Jo'burg
S.Africa - 1949 - 58m - bw
Apex (A)
D: Donald Swanson

Alice in Wonderland
USA - 1951 - 75m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Armored Car Robbery
USA - 1950 - 67m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Richard Fleischer

As Young As You Feel
USA - 1951 - 77m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Harmon Jones

Blue Grass of Kentucky
USA - 1950 - 69m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

Calling Bulldog Drummond
UK - 1951 - 80m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Victor Saville

A Case for P.C. 49
UK - 1951 - 80m - bw
Exclusive (A)
D: Francis Searle
Series: The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (1949, Oct/1949).

Cattle Drive
USA - 1951 - 77m - col
General Film (U)
D: Kurt Neumann

Cheer the Brave
UK - 1951 - 63m - bw
Apex (U)
D: Kenneth Hume

Chelsea Story
UK - 1951 - 65m - bw
Apex (A)
D: Charles Saunders

Comin' Round the Mountain
USA - 1951 - 77m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont

Dick Turpin's Ride

The Lady and the Bandit

USA - 1951 - 78m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ralph Murphy

Father's Wild Game
USA - 1950 - 61m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Herbert I. Leeds
Series: Henry, the Rainmaker (1948, Jun/1949).

Footlight Varieties
USA - 1951 - 61m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Hal Yates

The Frogmen
USA - 1951 - 97m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

Fury of the Congo
USA - 1951 - 66m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke
Series: Jungle Jim (1948, Jun/1949).

The Gentleman From Arizona
(aka: Arizona Thoroughbred)
USA - 1939 - 71m - col
New Realm (U)
D: Earl Haley

Half Angel
USA - 1951 - 76m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Richard Sale

Here Comes the Groom
USA - 1951 - 114m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Capra

Home to Danger
UK - 1951 - 66m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher

Hotel Sahara
UK - 1951 - 96m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Ken Annakin

Insurance Investigator
USA - 1951 - 60m - bw
Republic (A)
D: George Blair

Jim Comes to Jo'burg

The Law and the Lady

USA - 1951 - 104m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Edwin H. Knopf

Lost Stage Valley
Stage to Tucson
USA - 1950 - 81m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Ralph Murphy

M
USA - 1951 - 82m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Joseph Losey

The Man With Thirty Sons
The Magnificent Yankee
USA - 1950 - 89m - bw
MGM (U)
D: John Sturges

Missing Women
USA - 1951 - 59m - bw
Republic (A)
D: Philip Ford

Moonlight Raid
Challenge of the Range
USA - 1949 - 56m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).

The Mozart Story
USA/Germany/Austria - 1942 / 1948 - 92m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Frank Wisbar, Karl Hartl
This is a dubbed + re-edited version of the 111-minute German/Austrian co-production Wen die Götter lieben (1942), with new scenes filmed for the English-language release. The revisions are so significant that it constitutes an entirely new production, rather than an alternate version of the original film.

Navy Bound
USA - 1951 - 60m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Paul Landres

Never Trust a Gambler
USA - 1951 - 78m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Ralph Murphy

No Highway
(USA: No Highway in the Sky)
UK - 1951 - 99m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Koster

No Questions Asked
USA - 1951 - 80m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Harold F. Kress

No Resting Place
UK - 1951 - 77m - bw
Associated-British (A)
D: Paul Rotha

Over the Border
USA - 1950 - 58m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Wallace Fox

The Prince Who Was a Thief
USA - 1951 - 88m - col
General Film (U)
D: Rudolph Maté

Red Mountain
USA - 1951 - 84m - col
Paramount (A)
D: William Dieterle

Shadows of the West
USA - 1949 - 59m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Ray Taylor

Short Grass
USA - 1950 - 73m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Lesley Selander

Sierra Passage
USA - 1950 - 73m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Frank McDonald

The Six Men
UK - 1950 - 65m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Michael Law

Smoky Mountain Melody
USA - 1948 - 55m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: Night Train to Memphis (1946, Jan/1947).

Strangers on a Train
USA - 1951 - 100m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

Susanna Pass
USA - 1949 - 66m - bw
Republic (U)
D: William Witney
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Target Unknown
USA - 1951 - 89m - bw
Eros (U)
D: George Sherman

Two of a Kind

USA - 1951 - 75m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin

Up Front
(aka: Up Front at Mauldin)
USA - 1951 - 91m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Alexander Hall
Followed by: Back at the Front (1952, Apr/1953).

Vendetta
USA - 1950 - 84m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Mel Ferrer

West of El Dorado
USA - 1949 - 58m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ray Taylor