MFB: July 1955

Introduction for newcomers

Moonfleet

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1955

Vol. 22 No. 258

20000 Leagues Under the Sea
USA - 1954 - 126m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Walt Disney (U)
D: Richard Fleischer
4-channel stereo

5 Against the House
USA - 1955 - 83m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Phil Karlson

The Age of Indiscretion
L'età dell'amore
(USA: Too Young for Love)
Italy/France - 1953 - 85m - bw
Archway (X)
D: Lionello de Felice

Ain't Misbehavin'
USA - 1955 - 81m - col
General Film (U)
D: Edward Buzzell

Battle Taxi
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Herbert L. Strock

Bedevilled
USA - 1955 - 86m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (A)
D: Mitchell Leisen
4-channel stereo

Brigadoon
USA - 1954 - 102m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (U)
D: Vincente Minnelli
4-channel stereo

Casimir
(USA: Three Feet in a Bed)
France/Italy - 1950 - 96m - bw
Regent (A)
D: Richard Pottier

Cattle Queen of Montana
USA - 1954 - 88m - col
RKO Radio (U) (cut)
D: Allan Dwan

Chicago Syndicate
USA - 1955 - 83m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears

Confession
(USA: The Deadliest Sin)
UK - 1955 - 90m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Ken Hughes

Crashout
USA - 1955 - 83m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Lewis R. Foster

Daddy Long Legs
USA - 1955 - 127m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jean Negulesco
4-channel stereo

East of Eden
USA - 1954 - 114m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Elia Kazan
4-channel stereo

Female on the Beach
USA - 1955 - 97m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Pevney

Five Against the House
[see: 5 Against the House]

The Gambler From Natchez
USA - 1954 - 88m - col
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Henry Levin

The Hornet's Nest
UK - 1955 - 64m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Saunders

I Cover the Underworld
USA - 1955 - 69m - bw
Republic (A) (cut)
D: R.G. Springsteen

I Have a New Master
L'école buissonnière
France - 1948 - 89m - bw
Film Traders (U)
D: Jean-Paul Le Chanois

It Came From Beneath the Sea
USA - 1955 - 77m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Robert Gordon

Jump Into Hell
USA - 1955 - 82m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: David Butler

Jupiter's Darling
USA - 1954 - 96m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (U)
D: George Sidney
4-channel stereo

Kiss of Fire
USA - 1955 - 86m - col
General Film (U)
D: Joseph M. Newman

The Lovers of Lisbon
Les amants du Tage
France - 1954 - 123m - bw
Films de France (A) (cut)
D: Henri Verneuil

The Marauders
USA - 1955 - 81m - col
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Gerald Mayer

Marty
USA - 1955 - 89m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Delbert Mann

Millionaires for a Day
Millionnaires d'un jour
(USA: A Simple Case of Money)
France - 1949 - 82m - bw
Regent (U)
D: André Hunebelle

Moonfleet
USA - 1955 - 86m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang
4-channel stereo

New York Confidential
USA - 1954 - 86m - bw
Warner (X) (cut)
D: Russell Rouse

One Desire
USA - 1955 - 94m - col
Rank (A)
D: Jerry Hopper

Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-tai

Outlaw's Daughter
USA - 1954 - 74m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Wesley Barry

Pirates of Tripoli
USA - 1954 - 70m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Felix E. Feist

The Secret
UK - 1955 - 80m - col
Eros (A)
D: Cy Endfield

Shan-po and Ying-tai
Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-tai
梁山伯与祝英台
(aka: Butterfly Lovers)
China - 1953 - 122m - col
Gala (U)
D: Sang Hu, Huang Sha

The Sleepwalker
Boniface somnambule
France - 1951 - 87m - bw
Astral (A) (cut)
D: Maurice Labro
Series: L'héroïque Mr Boniface (1949).

Stranger on Horseback
USA - 1955 - 65m - col
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: Jacques Tourneur

The Team From Our Street
Команда с нашей улицы
USSR - 1953 - 88m - col
Plato (U)
D: Aleksei Maslyukov

Texas Bad Man
USA - 1953 - 62m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Three Cases of Murder
UK - 1953 - 99m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: George More O'Ferrall, David Eady, Wendy Toye
Also reviewed: Sep 1986.

Torrents
France - 1947 - 100m - bw
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: Serge de Poligny

Ulysses
Ulisse
Italy - 1954 - 117m - col
Archway (U)
D: Mario Camerini

Untamed
USA - 1955 - 109m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Henry King
4-channel stereo

Vigilante Terror
USA - 1953 - 72m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins

Violent Saturday
USA - 1955 - 90m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Richard Fleischer
4-channel stereo

We're No Angels
USA - 1954 - 106m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Michael Curtiz

Wicked Woman
USA - 1953 - 76m - bw
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Russell Rouse
Rejected by the BBFC in 1953, then passed with cuts in 1960. The version reviewed here was screened under licence.

Yukon Vengeance
USA - 1954 - 68m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine
Series: The Wolf Hunters (1949, Jun/1950).