Monthly Film Bulletin
June 1950
Vol. 17 No. 197
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
USA - 1949 - 68m - col
RKO Radio (A)
D: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney
Arson - Inc.
USA - 1949 - 63m - bw
Exclusive (U) (cut)
D: William Berke
Back Trail
USA - 1948 - 54m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Christy Cabanne
Barricade
USA - 1949 - 75m - col
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Peter Godfrey
Black Midnight
USA - 1949 - 79m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Oscar Boetticher
The Capture
USA - 1949 - 91m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Sturges
Champagne for Caesar
USA - 1950 - 98m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Richard Whorf
Chick Carter: Detective: Master Mystery-Smasher
USA - 1946 - 268m - 15 chapters - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Derwin Abrahams
Deported
General Film (A)
D: Robert Siodmak
The Dividing Line
The Lawless
USA - 1949 - 83m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Joseph Losey
D.O.A.
USA - 1949 - 83m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Rudolph Maté
Also reviewed: Jul 1982.
USA - 1950 - 75m - col
General Film (U)
D: Charles T. Barton
The Eagle and the Hawk
USA - 1949 - 86m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Lewis R. Foster
Ekstase
(aka: Ecstacy)
(aka: Extase)
(aka: My Ecstasy)
(aka: Rhapsody of Love)
Austria/Czech - 1932 - 82m - bw
Adelphi (A)
D: Gustav Machatý
Original UK release: 1938 (Cosmopolitan). Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted in the early 1930's, but screened in London under a local certificate. Subsequently passed for public exhibition in 1950 in a version pre-cut by the distributors. The complete film wasn't 'approved' until 1997, when it was passed for video with a PG rating.
Fake's Progress
UK - 1950 - 52m - bw
Arrow (U)
D: Ken Fairbairn
Father is a Bachelor
USA - 1950 - 85m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Norman Foster, Abby Berlin
Gun Talk
USA - 1947 - 57m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer
House by the River
USA - 1950 - 85m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Fritz Lang
Ichabod and Mr. Toad
[see: Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The]
In a Lonely Place
USA - 1950 - 93m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Nicholas Ray
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
USA - 1949 - 67m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: William Beaudine
Series: Bringing Up Father (1946, Aug/1947).
Key to the City
USA - 1949 - 98m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: George Sidney
The Kid From Cleveland
USA - 1949 - 77m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Herbert Kline
King of the Bandits
USA - 1947 - 64m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Christy Cabanne
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).
The Last Bandit
USA - 1949 - 79m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Last Holiday
UK - 1950 - 88m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Henry Cass
The Lone Climber
UK - 1949 - 59m - bw
General Film (U)
D: William C. Hammond
Also reviewed: Mar 1973.
Mrs. Mike
USA - 1949 - 97m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Louis King
My Friend Irma
USA - 1949 - 85m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall
Followed by: My Friend Irma Goes West (1950, Jan/1951).
The Mysterious Poacher
UK - 1949 - 50m - bw
General Film (U)
D: William C. Hammond
Also reviewed: Mar 1973.
A Night of Fame
Al diavolo la celebrità
(aka: Fame and the Devil)
It - 1949 - 90m - bw
DUK (U)
D: Mario Monicelli, Steno
Old Mother Riley, Headmistress
UK - 1950 - 75m - bw
Renown (U) (cut)
D: John Harlow
Series: Old Mother Riley (1937, Aug/1937).
One Sunday Afternoon
USA - 1948 - 90m - col
Warner (U)
D: Raoul Walsh
Orphée
(aka: Orpheus)
Fr - 1950 - 112(95)m - bw
Films de France (A) (cut)
D: Jean Cocteau
Followed by: Le testament d'Orphée, ou Ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (1959, Jul/1960).
Over the Garden Wall
UK - 1950 - 92m - bw
Mancunian (U)
D: John E. Blakeley
Paul Temple's Triumph
UK - 1950 - 80m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Maclean Rogers
Series: Send for Paul Temple (1946, Sep/1946).
Phantom Valley
USA - 1948 - 51m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
Please Believe Me
USA - 1949 - 87m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Norman Taurog
Prelude to Fame
UK - 1950 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Fergus McDonell
Riders of the Whistling Pines
USA - 1949 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John English
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).
Rim of the Canyon
USA - 1949 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John English
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).
Roll, Thunder, Roll!
USA - 1949 - 58m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins
Series: The Adventures of Red Ryder (1940).
Sentence Suspended
Military Academy With That Tenth Avenue Gang
USA - 1950 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: D. Ross Lederman
Sign of the Dagger
Trail to Laredo
USA - 1948 - 5m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
USA - 1950 - 85m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Elliott Nugent
So Long at the Fair
UK - 1950 - 86m - bw
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough
Someone at the Door
UK - 1950 - 65m - bw
Exclusive (U) (cut)
D: Francis Searle
Stage Fright
UK - 1950 - 111m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Stampede
USA - 1949 - 76m - sepia
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Street Corner
USA - 1948 - 73m - bw
New Realm (A - London) (cut)
D: Albert H. Kelley
Rejected by the BBFC in 1948, but passed with an A rating (after cuts) by London council. Similar cuts were imposed by the BBFC when the film was finally passed with an X certificate in 1952.
Stromboli: Terra di dio
It - 1949 - 107(81)m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Roberto Rossellini
Also reviewed: Nov 1980.
Too Dangerous to Love
Perfect Strangers
USA - 1949 - 88m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Bretaigne Windust
Unknown Island
USA - 1948 - 75m - col
International (A)
D: Jack Bernhard
Unmasked
USA - 1949 - 59m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Blair
The Wolf Hunters
USA - 1949 - 68m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Oscar Boetticher
Followed by: Snow Dog (1950, Apr/1951), Call of the Klondike (1950, May/1951), Yukon Manhunt (1951), Northwest Territory (1951, Aug/1952), Yukon Gold (1952, Feb/1953), Fangs of the Arctic (1953, Feb/1954), Northern Patrol (1953, Jan/1955), Yukon Vengeance (1954, Jul/1955).
Wrong Number
The Arkansas Swing
USA - 1947 - 63m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
The Yellow Cab Man
USA - 1949 - 84m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Jack Donohue
Zamba the Gorilla
Zamba
USA - 1949 - 72m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: William Berke
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