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MFB: November 1949



Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1949
Vol. 16 No. 191


Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
[see: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer]

Les amants de Verone
France - 1948 - 110m - bw
Blue Ribbon (A) (cut)
D: André Cayatte

The Argyle Secrets
UK - 1948 - 63m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Cy Endfield

Bad Boy
USA - 1949 - 85m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Kurt Neumann

Bomba the Jungle Boy
USA - 1949 - 65m - sepia
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ford Beebe
Followed by: Bomba on Panther Island (1949, Apr/1951), The Lost Volcano (1950, Oct/1950), Bomba and the Hidden City (1950, Oct/1951), The Lion Hunters (1951, Oct/1952), Elephant Stampede (1951, Jun/1952), African Treasure (1952, Aug/1953), Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952, Jan/1954), Safari Drums (1953, Apr/1954), The Golden Idol (1954, Jan/1955), Killer Leopard (1954, Aug/1955), Lord of the Jungle (1955, Dec/1955).



Brimstone
USA - 1949 - 89m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer
USA - 1949 - 85m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Charles T. Barton

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
USA - 1949 - 85m - col
General Film (U)
D: George Sherman

Captain China
USA - 1949 - 80m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lewis R. Foster

C-Man
USA - 1949 - 75m - bw
International Film Renters (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Lerner

Come to the Stable
USA - 1949 - 95m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Koster

The Countess of Monte Cristo
USA - 1948 - 75m - bw
Eros (U) (cut)
D: Frederick De Cordova







Crime and Punishment
Brott och straff
Sweden - 1945 - 80m - bw
Film Traders (A)
D: Hampe Faustman

The Crooked Way
USA - 1949 - 87m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Robert Florey

The Damned
Les maudits
France - 1946 - 100m - bw
Films de France (A)
D: René Clément

Dear Wife
USA - 1949 - 88m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Richard Haydn
Series: Dear Ruth (1947, Jul/1947).

The Eagle Has Two Heads
L’aigle à deux têtes
(aka: The Double-Headed Eagle)
France - 1948 - 93m - bw
Studio One (A)
D: Jean Cocteau

East of Java
South Sea Sinner
USA - 1949 - 88m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

The Enchanted Valley
USA - 1947 - 80m - col
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey

Everybody Does It
USA - 1949 - 98m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edmund Goulding

False Paradise
USA - 1948 - 60m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: George Archainbaud
Series: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935, Oct/1935).




The Fighting O'Flynn
USA - 1949 - 93m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Arthur Pierson

Flaming Fury
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
British Lion (U) (cut)
D: George Blair

The Forsyte Saga
That Forsyte Woman
USA - 1949 - 113m - col
MGM (U)
D: Compton Bennett

For the Love of Mary
USA - 1948 - 92m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Frederick De Cordova

The Gal Who Took the West
USA - 1949 - 84m - col
General Film (U)
D: Frederick De Cordova

The Gay Amigo
USA - 1949 - 62m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Wallace Fox
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).

Ghost of Hidden Valley
USA - 1946 - 59m - bw
Adelphi (U)
D: Sam Newfield
Series: Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940).

The Great Sinner
USA - 1949 - 109m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert Siodmak

Hard Guy
(aka: Professional Bride)
USA - 1941 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Elmer Clifton
Also reviewed: Feb 1942.

Home of the Brave
USA - 1949 - 86m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Mark Robson

Into the Straight
Australia - 1949 - 75m - bw
Eros (A)
D: T.O. McCreadie

Joe Palooka in The Big Fight
USA - 1949 - 66m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Cy Endfield
Series: Joe Palooka, Champ (1946, Oct/1946).

Landfall
UK - 1949 - 87m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ken Annakin

The Life of Riley
USA - 1949 - 87m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Irving Brecher

Look for the Silver Lining
USA - 1949 - 105m - col
Warner (U)
D: David Butler

Ma and Pa Kettle
USA - 1949 - 74m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Charles Lamont
Series: The Egg and I (1947, Aug/1947).

Man From Texas
USA - 1948 - 71m - bw
Renown (U)
D: Leigh Jason



No Escape
Over the Santa Fe Trail
USA - 1946 - 64m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro

La nuit de décembre
(aka: Night in December)
France - 1939 - 83m - bw
Film Traders (A)
D: Curtis Bernhardt

Overland Trails
USA - 1948 - 58m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Paid in Full
USA - 1949 - 104m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William Dieterle

Premier bal
France - 1941 - 114m - bw
Fairsham (A)
D: Christian-Jaque

The Price of Crime
Law of the Canyon
USA - 1947 - 55m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
SeriesThe Durango Kid (1940).

Prince of Foxes
USA - 1949 - 107m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry King

Prison Warden
USA - 1949 - 61m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Seymour Friedman

The Rats of Tobruk
(USA: The Fighting Rats of Tobruk)
Australia - 1944 - 68m - bw
Renown (A) (cut)
D: Charles Chauvel

Ride, Ryder, Ride!
USA - 1949 - 58m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins
Series: The Adventures of Red Ryder (1940).

A Run for Your Money
UK - 1949 - 85m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Frend





Rusty's Birthday
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Seymour Friedman
Series: Adventures of Rusty (1945, Dec/1945).

Saddle Pals
USA - 1947 - 71m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lesley Selander
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

The Search
USA/Switzerland - 1947 - 104m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Fred Zinneman

The Sea Wall
West of Dodge City
USA - 1947 - 57m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
SeriesThe Durango Kid (1940).

Shamrock Hill
USA - 1949 - 71m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Skimpy in the Navy
UK - 1949 - 84m - bw
Adelphi (A) (cut)
D: Stafford Dickens


The Search


The Spider and the Fly
UK - 1949 - 95m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Robert Hamer

Streets of San Francisco
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: George Blair

Such a Pretty Little Beach
Une si jolie petite plage
France - 1948 - 88m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Yves Allégret

Task Force
USA - 1949 - 116m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Delmer Daves

That Midnight Kiss
USA - 1949 - 98m - col
MGM (U)
D: Norman Taurog

The Threat
Smoky River Serenade
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Derwin Abrahams

Trouble Makers
USA - 1948 - 65m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Series: Live Wires (1946, Jun/1946).

Wagon Wheels Westward
USA - 1945 - 55m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: R.G. Springsteen
Series: The Adventures of Red Ryder (1940).

White Heat
USA - 1949 - 110m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Raoul Walsh

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