Monthly Film Bulletin
October 1955
Vol. 22 No. 261
African Fury
Skabenga
(aka: The Killer Lust)
S.Africa - 1955 - 61m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: George Michael
All That Heaven Allows
USA - 1955 - 89m - col
Rank (U)
D: Douglas Sirk
Blackboard Jungle
USA - 1955 - 99m - bw
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Richard Brooks
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.
The Blue and the Gold
An Annapolis Story
USA - 1955 - 81m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Don Siegel
Cast a Dark Shadow
UK - 1955 - 82m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Gilbert
The Deep Blue Sea
USA - 1955 - 89m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Anatole Litvak
4-channel stereo
Dial Red "0"
USA - 1955 - 63m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Daniel B. Ullman
Followed by: Sudden Danger (1955, Apr/1956), Calling Homicide (1956, Jul/1957 + Aug/1957), Chain of Evidence (1956, Feb/1957), Footsteps in the Night (1957, Apr/1957).
Five Guns West
USA - 1955 - 73m - col
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Roger Corman
The Flaw
UK - 1954 - 61m - bw
Renown (A) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher
The Flying Eye
UK - 1955 - 54m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William C. Hammond
French Cancan
(aka: Only the French Can)
France/Italy - 1955 - 105m - col
Miracle (A) (cut)
D: Jean Renoir
Fury in Paradise
USA/Mexico - 1954 - 66m - col
Monarch / British Lion (U)
D: George Bruce
The Gold Express
UK - 1955 - 58m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Guy Fergusson, Colin Bell
The Hawk of Wild River
USA - 1952 - 53m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
Headline Hunters
USA - 1955 - 70m - bw
Republic (A)
D: William Witney
House of Bamboo
USA - 1955 - 101m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Samuel Fuller
4-channel stereo
How to Be Very, Very Popular
USA - 1955 - 90m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Nunnally Johnson
4-channel stereo
Junction City
USA - 1952 - 53m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
Lady and the Tramp
USA - 1955 - 76m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Walt Disney (U)
D: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Followed by: Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001).
4-channel stereo
A Life at Stake
USA - 1954 - 77m - bw
Monarch / British Lion (U) (cut)
D: Paul Guilfoyle
A Man Alone
USA - 1955 - 95m - col
Republic (U)
D: Ray Milland
Man of the Moment
UK - 1955 - 88m - bw
Rank (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs
Mon Phoque
Mon phoque et elles
(aka: My Seal and Them)
France - 1950 - 95m - bw
Astarte (U)
D: Pierre Billon
Murder is My Beat
USA - 1955 - 77m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Edgar G. Ulmer
My Sister Eileen
USA - 1955 - 107m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Richard Quine
The Night Holds Terror
USA - 1955 - 84m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Andrew L. Stone
The Quatermass Xperiment
(USA: The Creeping Unknown)
(aka: The Quatermass Experiment)
UK - 1955 - 82m - bw
Exclusive (X)
D: Val Guest
Followed by: Quatermass 2 (1957, Jun/1957), Quatermass and the Pit (1967, Nov/1967).
Reluctant Bride
(USA: Two Grooms for a Bride)
UK - 1955 - 72m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Henry Cass
Son of Sinbad
USA - 1953 - 88m - col / 3-D
RKO Radio (U)
D: Ted Tetzlaff
Though shot in 3-D, the film ran into censorship difficulties in the US and was shelved for two years before being released worldwide in 2-D, cropped from 1.66:1 aspect ratio to widescreen Superscope (2.00:1).
The Spoilers
USA - 1955 - 82m - col
Rank (U)
D: Jesse Hibbs
Stolen Assignment
UK - 1955 - 62m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Terence Fisher
Series: Final Appointment (1954, Nov/1954).
Value for Money
UK - 1955 - 93m - col / VistaVision
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Ken Annakin
The Village
Sie fanden eine Heimat
Switzerland/UK - 1953 - 98m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Leopold Lindtberg
The Virgin Queen
UK - 1955 - 92m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Koster
Series: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, Mar/1940).
4-channel stereo
The Woman for Joe
UK - 1955 - 91m - col / VistaVision
Rank (U)
D: George More O'Ferrall
You're Never Too Young
USA - 1955 - 103m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Norman Taurog
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