MFB: December 1955

Introduction for newcomers

To Hell and Back

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1955

Vol. 22 No. 263

Black Tuesday
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Hugo Fregonese
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with heavy cuts.

Canyon Ambush
USA - 1952 - 53m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Desert Sands
USA - 1955 - 86m - col / scope (2.55:1)
United Artists (U)
D: Lesley Selander

Double Jeopardy
UK - 1955 - 55m - bw
Eros (A)
D: John Guillermin
Two episodes of the TV series Sailor of Fortune (1955-56), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Dust and Gold (1955, Nov/1955).

The Fighting Chance
USA - 1955 - 70m - bw
Republic (U)
D: William Witney

The Girl Rush
USA - 1955 - 85m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Robert Pirosh

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer

גבעה 24 אינה עונה
Israel - 1955 - 101m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Thorold Dickinson

Joe MacBeth
UK - 1955 - 90m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Ken Hughes

Josephine and Men
UK - 1955 - 98m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Roy Boulting

King Dinosaur
USA - 1955 - 55m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Bert I. Gordon

King's Rhapsody
UK - 1955 - 93m - col / scope
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

Las Vegas Shakedown
USA - 1955 - 66m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Sidney Salkow

Marcelino
Marcelino pan y vino
(USA: The Miracle of Marcelino)
Spain/Italy - 1955 - 90m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Ladislao Vajda

No Smoking
UK - 1955 - 72m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Henry Cass

Phantom of the Jungle
USA - 1954 - 75m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Three episodes of the TV series Ramar of the Jungle (1952-54), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: White Goddess (1953, Jun/1953).

Port of Hell
USA - 1954 - 71m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Harold D. Schuster

Queen Bee
USA - 1955 - 91m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Ranald MacDougall

The Rawhide Years
USA - 1955 - 84m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Rudolph Maté

The Respectable Prostitute
La p... respectueuse
France - 1952 - 95m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Marcello Pagliero, Charles Brabant

The Road to Denver
USA - 1955 - 90m - col
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Seven Angry Men
(aka: God's Angry Man)
USA - 1954 - 90m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Charles Marquis Warren

Seven Angry Men

The Respectable Prostitute

Seven Cities of Gold
USA - 1955 - 103m - col / scope (2.551)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert D. Webb
4-channel stereo

A Slice of Life
Tempi nostri
(USA: The Anatomy of Love)
Italy/France - 1954 - 134m - bw
Archway (A)
D: Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot

Stock Car
UK - 1955 - 68m - bw
Butcher's (A) (cut)
D: Wolf Rilla

Stolen Time
(aka: Blonde Blackmailer)
UK - 1954 - 59m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Charles Deane

Storm Over the Nile
UK - 1955 - 107m - col / scope
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Terence Young, Zoltan Korda

Target Earth
USA - 1954 - 74m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Sherman A. Rose

Tarzan the Ape Man
USA - 1932 - 100m - bw
MGM (U)
D: W.S. Van Dyke
Followed by: Tarzan and His Mate (1934, Jun/1934), Tarzan Escapes (1936, Dec/1936), Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939, Jul/1939), Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941, Feb/1942), Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942, Aug/1942), Tarzan Triumphs (1943, May/1943), Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943, Feb/1944), Tarzan and the Amazons (1945, May/1945), Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1945, Feb/1946), Tarzan and the Huntress (1947, Jun/1947), Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948, Feb/1949).

Texas City
USA - 1952 - 55m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Texas Lady
USA - 1955 - 85m - col / scope (2.00:1)
RKO Radio (U)
D: Tim Whelan

They Can't Hang Me
UK - 1955 - 75m - bw
Independent / British Lion (A)
D: Val Guest

Tiger in the Sky
The McConnell Story
USA - 1955 - 101m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Warner (U)
D: Gordon Douglas
4-channel stereo

A Time to Kill
UK - 1955 - 64m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Charles Saunders

To Catch a Thief
USA - 1955 - 107m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

To Hell and Back
USA - 1955 - 105m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Rank (A)
D: Jesse Hibbs
4-channel stereo

Two Acres of Land
Do Bigha Zamin
दो बीघा ज़मीन
India - 1953 - 131m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Bimal Roy

The Vanishing American
USA - 1955 - 86m - bw
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Wichita
USA - 1955 - 81m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Jacques Tourneur