MFB: October 1950

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

October 1950

Vol. 17 No. 201

All Quiet on the Western Front
USA - 1930 - 147m/103m - bw
Universal (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Milestone
Followed by: The Road Back (1937, Aug/1937).

Assignment in China
State Department: File 649
USA - 1949 - 86m - col
International (A)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Peter Stewart]

Blackout
UK - 1950 - 73m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Robert S. Baker

Blonde Dynamite
USA - 1950 - 66m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine
Series: Live Wires (1946, Jun/1946).

Cage of Gold
UK - 1950 - 83m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Basil Dearden

The Cariboo Trail
USA - 1949 - 80m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Convicted
USA - 1950 - 90m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin

The Cowboy and the Indians
USA - 1949 - 69m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John English
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Cowboy and the Prizefighter
USA - 1950 - 59m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins
Series: The Adventures of Red Ryder (1940).

Crossed Trails
USA - 1948 - 53m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Customs Agent
USA - 1950 - 71m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Seymour Friedman

Dakota Lil
USA - 1950 - 85m - col
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Lesley Selander

Duchess of Idaho
USA - 1950 - 98m - col
MGM (U)
D: Robert Z. Leonard

Federal Agent at Large
USA - 1950 - 60m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: George Blair

Fighting Man of the Plains
USA - 1949 - 94m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edwin L. Marin

The Fireball
USA - 1950 - 84m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Tay Garnett

The Flying Saucer
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
International (U)
D: Mikel Conrad

Gone to Earth
(aka: The Wild Heart)
UK - 1950 - 110m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Also reviewed: Nov 1986.

The Great Rupert
(aka: A Christmas Wish)
USA - 1950 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Irving Pichel

I'd Give My Life
USA - 1936 - 71m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
USA - 1950 - 65m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough
Series: Joe Palooka, Champ (1946, Oct/1946).

Johnny One-Eye
USA - 1950 - 80m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Robert Florey

Kill the Umpire
USA - 1950 - 78m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Lloyd Bacon

The Lost Volcano
USA - 1950 - 73m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ford Beebe
Series: Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949, Nov/1949).

Love of a Clown: Pagliacci
Pagliacci -Amore tragico-
Italy - 1948 - 80m - bw
Montana (A)
D: Mario Costa

Love That Brute
USA - 1950 - 85m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alexander Hall

Manon
France - 1949 - 96m - bw
Grand National (Adults Only - London)
D: Henri-Georges Clouzot
The film's UK release was delayed by 'considerable censor trouble', as per the MFB, and the version reviewed in this issue had been passed by London's council with an Adults Only rating. It was finally 'approved' for general exhibition in 1951, when the BBFC awarded it an X certificate, apparently without cuts. How generous of them.

Manon

The Milkman
USA - 1950 - 87m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles T. Barton

Mister 880
USA - 1950 - 90m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edmund Goulding

A Modern Marriage
USA - 1950 - 65m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Paul Landres

Mr. Ashton Was Indiscreet
The Senator Was Indiscreet
USA - 1947 - 81m - bw
Eros (U)
D: George S. Kaufman

No Trace
UK - 1950 - 76m - bw
Eros (A)
D: John Gilling

The Outriders
USA - 1950 - 93m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Roy Rowland

The Reformer and the Redhead
USA - 1950 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Riders in the Sky
USA - 1949 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John English
Series: In Old Santa Fe (1934, May/1954).

Right Cross
USA - 1950 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: John Sturges

Rookie Fireman
USA - 1950 - 62m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Seymour Friedman

Saddle Tramp
USA - 1950 - 76m - col
General Film (U)
D: Hugo Fregonese

September Affair

USA - 1950 - 105m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William Dieterle

Sierra
USA - 1950 - 82m - col
Eros (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

Stella
USA - 1950 - 76m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Claude Binyon

Tarzan and the Slave Girl
USA - 1950 - 74m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Lee Sholem
Series: Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949, Jan-Feb/1950).

Texas Kid, Outlaw
The Kid From Texas
USA - 1950 - 85m - col
Eros (U)
D: Kurt Neumann

Three Little Words
USA - 1950 - 102m - col
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe

The Tomahawk Trail
The Iroquois Trail
USA - 1950 - 86m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Phil Karlson

The Violent Hour
Dial 1119
USA - 1950 - 75m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Gerald Mayer

Wagon Master
USA - 1950 - 86m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: John Ford

Without Pity
Senza pietà
Italy - 1948 - 91m - bw
Archway (A) (cut)
D: Alberto Lattuada