Monday, 13 July 2015

MFB: November 1950


Introduction for newcomers

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1950
Vol. 17 No. 202



After the Storm
Nach dem Sturm
Austria/Switzerland/Liechtenstein - 1948 - 96m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Gustav Ucicky

Batman and Robin
(aka: The New Adventures of Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder)
USA - 1949 - 263m - 15 chapters - bw
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet
SeriesBatman (1943).

Bruce Gentry: Daredevil of the Skies
USA - 1949 - 207m - 15 chapters - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr

Captive Girl
USA - 1950 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: William Berke
Series: Jungle Jim (1948, Jun/1949).

David Harding, Counterspy
USA - 1950 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro

The Desert Hawk
USA - 1950 - 77m - col
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Frederick De Cordova

Dick Barton at Bay
UK - 1950 - 68m - bw
Exclusive (U) (cut)
D: Godfrey Grayson
Series: Dick Barton: Special Agent (1948, Apr/1948).

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
USA - 1938 - 299m - 15 chapters - bw
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Ford Beebe, Robert Hill
Also released in a condensed feature-length version entitled Mars Attacks the World (1938, 68 mins). Later re-edited and released as a 100-minute feature film for US TV, Deadly Ray From Mars (1966).
Series: Flash Gordon (1936 / Condensed feature-length version: Feb 1945 / Full-length serial: Aug 1972).


Flesh Will Surrender
Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo
Italy - 1947 - 94m - bw
GCT (A)
D: Alberto Lattuada

Frightened City
The Killer That Stalked New York
USA - 1950 - 79m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Earl McAvoy

Furia
Italy - 1947 - 89m - bw
International (A)
D: Goffredo Alessandrini

Girl of the Year
The Petty Girl
USA - 1950 - 87m - col
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin

Grand Canyon
USA - 1949 - 65m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Paul Landres

Harbor of Missing Men
USA - 1950 - 59m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: R.G. Springsteen

Heaven and Earth
Le sorcier du ciel
France - 1949 - 115m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Marcel Blistène

Her Favourite Husband
(USA: The Taming of Dorothy)
UK - 1949 - 79m - bw
Renown (A) (cut)
D: Mario Soldati

Her Wonderful Lie
Addio Mimí!
USA/Italy - 1949 - 84m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Carmine Gallone

Hollywood Barn Dance
USA - 1947 - 72m - bw
Falcon (U)
D: Bernard B. Ray

The Jackpot
USA - 1950 - 87m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang

Keep an Eye on Amelie
Occupe-toi d'Amelie..!
France - 1949 - 95m - bw
Archway (Adults Only - London)
D: Claude Autant-Lara
Rejected by the BBFC in 1950, but screened in London with a local rating. The film was finally 'approved' by the BBFC in 1951, when it was passed - apparently uncut - with an X certificate.



The Men

A Life of Her Own
USA - 1950 - 108m - bw
MGM (A)
D: George Cukor

Macadam
(aka: Back Streets of Paris)
France - 1946 - 99m - bw
GCT (A)
D: Marcel Blistène, Jacques Feyder


The Magnet
UK - 1950 - 79m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Frend

The Men
(aka: Battle Stripe)
USA - 1950 - 87m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Fred Zinnemann

The Mill on the River
Il mulino del Po
(USA: The Mill on the Po)
Italy - 1949 - 107m - bw
Archway (A)
D: Alberto Lattuada

My Blue Heaven
USA - 1950 - 96m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Koster



Passionelle
Pour une nuit d'amour
France - 1946 - 88m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Edmond T. Gréville

Port of New York
USA - 1949 - 82m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Laslo Benedek

Return of the Frontiersman
USA - 1950 - 74m - col
Warner (U)
D: Richard L. Bare

Soho Conspiracy
UK - 1950 - 85m - bw
DUK (U)
D: Cecil H. Williamson

The Tioga Kid
USA - 1948 - 54m - bw
Renown (U)
D: Ray Walker
Series: Harmony Trail (1944, Jan-Feb/1950).

When You're Smiling
USA - 1950 - 74m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Joseph Santley

The Woman in Question
(USA: Five Angles on Murder)
UK - 1950 - 88m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Anthony Asquith

The Woman With No Name
(USA: Her Panelled Door)
UK - 1950 - 84m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Ladislao Vajda

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