Wednesday, 12 August 2015

MFB: May 1953





Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1953
Vol. 20 No. 232



3000 A.D.
Captive Women
(aka: 1000 Years From Now)
USA - 1952 - 65m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Stuart Gilmore

Actors and Sin
USA - 1952 - 85m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes

Battle Circus
USA - 1952 - 87m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Richard Brooks

The Battle of Stalingrad
Сталинградская битва
USSR - 1948/1949 - 192m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Vladimir Petrov
Released in two separate parts (98m and 94m respectively).
Part 2 reviewed: MFB Oct 1954.

Les belles de nuit
(USA: Beauties of the Night)
(aka: Night Beauties)
France/Italy - 1952 - 87m - bw
International (U)
D: René Clair

Bwana Devil
USA - 1952 - 79m - col / 3-D
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: Arch Oboler

City Beneath the Sea
USA - 1953 - 86m - col
General Film (U)
D: Budd Boetticher

The Clown
USA - 1952 - 91m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Robert Z. Leonard

Code Two
USA - 1953 - 68m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Fred M. Wilcox

Confidentially Connie
USA - 1952 - 70m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Edward Buzzell

The Cruel Sea
UK - 1952 - 126m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Frend

Cry of the Hunted
USA - 1953 - 77m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Joseph H. Lewis

Desert Legion
USA - 1953 - 84m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Joseph Pevney

The Desert Rats
USA - 1953 - 88m - bw
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: Robert Wise


Desperate Moment
UK - 1953 - 88m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Compton Bennett

Destination Gobi
USA - 1953 - 90m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert Wise

Dream Wife
USA - 1953 - 99m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Sidney Sheldon

Everything is Rhythm
UK - 1936 - 69m - bw
Associated-British (U) (cut)
D: Alfred J. Goulding

Fanfan la tulipe
(USA: Fan-Fan the Tulip)
France - 1951 - 102m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Christian-Jaque

The Final Test
UK - 1953 - 91m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Anthony Asquith

Force of Destiny
La forza del destino
Italy - 1949 - 100m - bw
Anglo-Continental (U)
D: Carmine Gallone

The Girl Who Had Everything
USA - 1952 - 69m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe

Grand National Night
(USA: Wicked Wife)
UK - 1953 - 80m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Bob McNaught

House of Blackmail
UK - 1953 - 72m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

I Confess
USA - 1953 - 94m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

Infidelity
Altri tempi
(USA: Times Gone By)
Italy - 1952 - 120m - bw
Regent (A)
D: Alessandro Blasetti

Intimate Relations
(USA: Disobedient)
UK - 1953 - 86m - bw
Adelphi (X)
D: Charles Frank

King of the Bullwhip
USA - 1950 - 60m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Ron Ormond
Series: Dead Man's Gold (1948, Mar/1952).

Laxdale Hall
(USA: Scotch on the Rocks)
UK - 1952 - 77m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: John Eldridge

The Lovers of Toledo
Les amants de Tolède
France/Italy/Spain - 1952 - 82m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Henri Decoin, Fernando Palcios

The Lusty Men
USA - 1952 - 96m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Nicholas Ray

The Medium
USA/Italy - 1951 - 84m - bw
Film Traders (X)
D: Gian Carlo Menotti

Monsoon
USA/UK - 1952 - 86m - col
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Rod Amateau

My Son John
USA - 1952 - 90m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Leo McCarey

Never Let Me Go
UK - 1953 - 94m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Delmer Daves


Peter Pan
USA - 1953 - 76m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Followed by: Return to Never-Land (2002, Apr/2002).

The President's Lady
USA - 1953 - 97m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Levin

Remains to Be Seen
USA - 1953 - 89m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Don Weis

Ride the Man Down
USA - 1952 - 89m - col
Republic (A)
D: Joseph Kane

Rodeo
USA - 1952 - 70m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine

Rogue's March
USA - 1952 - 84m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Allan Davis

Sally and Saint Anne
USA - 1952 - 90m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Rudolph Maté

San Antone
USA - 1952 - 88m - bw
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Sea Devils
UK - 1952 - 90m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Raoul Walsh

Seminole
USA - 1953 - 86m - col
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Budd Boetticher

Small Town Girl
USA - 1953 - 93m - col
MGM (U)
D: Leslie Kardos

Stop, You're Killing Me
USA - 1952 - 86m - col
Warner (A)
D: Roy Del Ruth

Street of Shadows
(USA: The Shadow Man)
UK - 1953 - 84m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Richard Vernon

Tangier Incident
USA - 1953 - 76m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lew Landers

Thunder on the Trail
The Thundering Trail
USA - 1951 - 56m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Ron Ormond
Series: Dead Man's Gold (1948, Mar/1952).

Torpedo Alley
USA - 1952 - 83m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lew Landers

The War of the Worlds
USA - 1953 - 85m - col
Paramount (X)
D: George Pal
3-channel stereo

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
UK - 1953 - 87m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Arthur Crabtree

Young Chopin
Młodość Chopina
(aka: The Youth of Chopin)
Poland - 1951 - 121m - bw
Bond Films (U)
D: Aleksandr Ford

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