MFB: July 1958

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1958

Vol. 25 No. 294

10 North Frederick
[see: Ten North Frederick]

The Big Money
UK - 1956 - 86m - col / VistaVision
Rank (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

Camelia
Mexico - 1953 - 110m - bw
Mondial (A) (cut)
D: Roberto Gavaldón

China Doll
USA - 1958 - 99m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Frank Borzage

Dracula
(USA: Horror of Dracula)
UK - 1958 - 82m - col
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher
Followed by: The Brides of Dracula (1960, Aug/1960), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965, Feb/1966), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968, Dec/1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969, Jun/1970), Scars of Dracula (1970, Nov/1970), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972, Nov/1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973, Mar/1974).

Empire of the Sun
L'impero del sole
(USA: Empire in the Sun)
Italy/France - 1956 - 93m - col / scope
Archway (U) (cut)
D: Enrico Gras

Fort Dobbs
USA - 1958 - 89m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Gordon Douglas

Fort Massacre
USA - 1958 - 81m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: Joseph W. Newman

Fraülein
USA - 1958 - 97m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Koster
4-channel stereo

Fugitive in Saigon
Mort en fraude
France - 1957 - 105m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Marcel Camus

Heaven Fell That Night
Les bijoutiers du clair de lune
(USA: The Night Heaven Fell)
France/Italy - 1958 - 95m - col / scope
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Roger Vadim

Hot Spell
USA - 1958 - 86m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Delbert Mann

Kanał

I Married a Woman

USA - 1956 - 85m - bw and col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Hal Kanter
Badly cropped from 1.85:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as 'RKO-Scope'.

It Happened in Aden
C'est arrivé à Aden
France - 1956 - 88m - col / scope
Films de France (A) (cut)
D: Michel Boisrond

Kanał
(aka: Canal)
Poland - 1956 - 97m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Andrzej Wajda

The Key
UK - 1958 - 134m - bw / scope
Columbia (A)
D: Carol Reed

The Last of the Fast Guns
USA - 1958 - 82m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: George Sherman

Law and Disorder
UK - 1958 - 76m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Charles Crichton

The Law and Jake Wade
USA - 1958 - 86m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: John Sturges

Manhunt
From Hell to Texas
USA - 1958 - 98m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Hathaway
4-channel stereo

Maracaibo
USA - 1958 - 88m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Cornel Wilde

Marjorie Morningstar
USA - 1958 - 122m - col
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Irving Rapper

Mother India
भारत माता
India - 1957 - 172m - col
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: Mehboob Khan

Two dramatic images from
Mother India.

No Time for Sergeants
USA - 1958 - 110m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Mervyn LeRoy

On the Run
UK - 1957 - 70m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Ernest Morris

The Price of Love
Interdit de séjour
France - 1954 - 85m - bw
Films de France (X) (cut)
D: Maurice de Canonge

A Question of Adultery
UK - 1958 - 84m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Don Chaffey

Raintree County
USA - 1957 - 166m - col / MGM Camera 65
MGM (A)
D: Edward Dmytryk
Though photographed in 65mm, the film was released in 35mm only, with 4-channel stereo sound.

Raw Wind in Eden
USA - 1958 - 93m - col / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Richard Wilson

Run Silent Run Deep
USA - 1958 - 93m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Robert Wise

She Didn't Say No!
UK - 1958 - 97m - col
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Cyril Frankel

The Spaniard's Curse
UK - 1958 - 80m - bw
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Ralph Kemplen

Ten North Frederick
USA - 1958 - 102m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Philip Dunne
4-channel stereo

There's Always a Price Tag
Retour de manivelle
France/Italy - 1957 - 118m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Denys de La Patellière

Thundering Jets
USA - 1958 - 73m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Helmut Dantine

Tread Softly Stranger
UK - 1958 - 90m - bw
Renown (A) (cut)
D: Gordon Parry

When the Devil Drives
Sait-on jamais...
(USA: No Sun in Venice)
France/Italy - 1957 - 96m - col / scope
Cross-Channel (X) (cut)
D: Roger Vadim

The Wind Cannot Read
UK - 1958 - 115m - col
Rank (U)
D: Ralph Thomas

Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
USA - 1958 - 123m - col / Cinemiracle
Rank (U)
D: Louis de Rochemont III, Bill Colleran
7-channel stereo

Wolf Dog
Canada - 1958 - 69m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Woman of Evil
La reine Margot
(aka: Queen Margot)
France/Italy - 1954 - 93m/125m - col
Archway (X) (cut)
D: Jean Dréville

Wonderful Things!
UK - 1957 - 84m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

MFB: June 1958

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1958

Vol. 25 No. 293

Another Time, Another Place
UK - 1958 - 95m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Lewis Allen

The Bachelor Girl
La garçonne
France - 1957 - 105m - col
Mondial (X) (cut)
D: Jacqueline Audry

Battle of the V-1
(USA: Missiles From Hell)
UK - 1958 - 109m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Vernon Sewell

Blazing a Trail to the Stars
Дорога к звездам
(USA: Road to the Stars)
USSR - 1957 - 52m - col
Rank (U)
D: Pavel Klushantsev

Blonde in Bondage
Blondin i fara
Sweden - 1957 - 91m - bw
Eros (X)
D: Robert Brandt

The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
野口英世の少年時代
Japan - 1956 - 50m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Hideo Sekigawa

The Camp on Blood Island
UK - 1958 - 82m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Val Guest
Followed by: The Secret of Blood Island (1964, Jul/1965).

Cry Terror!
USA - 1958 - 96m - bw
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Andrew L. Stone

A Dangerous Age
Canada/USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
Films de France (A)
D: Sidney J. Furie

Flaming Frontier
USA - 1958 - 70m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Frontier Gambler
USA - 1956 - 69m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Hidden Fear
USA/Denmark - 1958 - 83m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: André De Toth

Blazing a Trail to the Stars

White Nights

High Hell
UK - 1958 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Burt Balaban

I'll Defend You, My Love
Difendo il mio amore
(USA: Defend My Love)
Italy/France - 1956 - 95m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Giulio Macchi, Vincent Sherman

Kathy O
USA - 1958 - 99m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Jack Sher

Kumonosu-jo
[see: Throne of Blood]

Maria
María la Voz
Mexico - 1955 - 85m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Julio Bracho

Merry Andrew
USA - 1958 - 103m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Michael Kidd
4-channel stereo

Noguchi Hideyo no shonen jidai
[see: Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi, The]

No Time to Die
(USA: Tank Force)
UK - 1958 - 103m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Terence Young

Once Upon a Horse
USA - 1958 - 85m - bw / scope
Rank (U)
D: Hal Kanter

Roots
Raíces
Mexico - 1954 - 103m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Benito Alazraki
The version reviewed in the MFB is listed as running 78 minutes, and mentions that one of the three stories which make up the narrative has been dropped altogether. However, the version listed at the BBFC database is considerably longer, indicating that the 'approved' version contained all three stories - but was still cut for an X certificate.

Running Target
USA - 1956 - 82m - col
Monarch / British Lion (U)
D: Marvin R. Weinstein

Satchmo the Great
USA - 1957 - 64m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: [uncredited]

The Sea Wall
La diga sul Pacifico
(USA: This Angry Age)
Italy/USA - 1957 - 104m - col / Technirama
Rank (A)
D: René Clément

Smiley Gets a Gun
Australia - 1958 - 90m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Anthony Kimmins
Series: Smiley (1956, Aug/1956).

South Pacific
USA - 1958 - 170m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Joshua Logan
6-channel stereo

Stage Struck
USA - 1958 - 95m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Sidney Lumet

St. Louis Blues
USA - 1958 - 93m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Allen Reisner

Suicide Battalion
USA - 1958 - 79m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Throne of Blood
蜘蛛巣城
Japan - 1957 - 105m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Akira Kurosawa

Through Hell to Glory
Jet Attack
(aka: Jet Alert)
USA - 1958 - 69m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Thunder Road
USA - 1958 - 92m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Arthur Ripley

Touch of Evil
USA - 1958 - 93m/111m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Orson Welles
Originally released in a version assembled without Welles' participation. The film was re-edited/restored to his written specifications in 1998.

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Earl Bellamy

Underwater Warrior
USA - 1958 - 91m - bw / scope
MGM (U)
D: Andrew Marton

Up the Creek
UK - 1958 - 83m - bw / scope
Warner (U)
D: Val Guest
Followed by: Further Up the Creek (1958, Nov/1958).

White Nights
Le notti bianche
Italy/France - 1957 - 107m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Luchino Visconti

Womaneater
UK - 1957 - 71m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Charles Saunders

The World Was His Jury
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

The Young Lions
USA - 1958 - 167m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Edward Dmytryk
4-channel stereo

MFB: May 1958

Introduction for newcomers



Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1958

Vol. 25 No. 292

6.5 Special
[see: Six-Five Special]

The Bad One
Sorority Girl
USA - 1957 - 61m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman

Bonjour Tristesse
UK - 1957 - 93m - col / scope
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Otto Preminger

Cabiria
Le notti di Cabiria
(USA: Nights of Cabiria)
Italy/France - 1957 - 117m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: Oct 1999.

Calabuch
(USA: The Rocket From Calabuch)
Spain/Italy - 1956 - 93m - bw
Curzon (U)
D: Luis García Berlanga

Cattle Empire
USA - 1958 - 83m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Charles Marquis Warren
4-channel stereo

The Come-On
USA - 1956 - 83m - bw / scope (2.00:1)
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Russell Birdwell
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Crash Landing
USA - 1958 - 64m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

Desire Under the Elms
USA - 1958 - 111m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (X)
D: Delbert Mann

The Duke Wore Jeans
UK - 1958 - 89m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas

Dunkirk
UK - 1958 - 135m - bw
MGM (U) (cut)
D: Leslie Norman

Escape From San Quentin
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears

A Farewell to Arms
USA - 1958 - 152m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Charles Vidor
4-channel stereo

From Blossom Time to Autumn Frost
Gyöngyvirágtól lombhullásig
(aka: Fight for Life)
Hungary - 1953 - 88m - bw
Contemporary (U) (cut)
D: István Homoki Nagy
Short version reviewed: Aug 1954.

Gideon's Day
(USA: Gideon of Scotland Yard)
UK - 1958 - 91m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: John Ford

Going Steady
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Fred F. Sears

Gunsight Ridge
USA - 1957 - 84m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Francis D. Lyon

Handle With Care
USA - 1958 - 82m - bw
MGM (U)
D: David Friedkin

Heart of a Child
UK - 1958 - 77m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Clive Donner

Killer Dino
Dino
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Thomas Carr

The Land Unknown
USA - 1957 - 77m - bw / scope
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Virgil W. Vogel

The Lawless Eighties
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw / scope
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

The Long, Hot Summer
USA - 1958 - 117m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Martin Ritt
4-channel stereo

Milady and the Musketeers
Il boia di Lilla
(aka: Vengeance of the Musketeers)
Italy/France - 1952 - 88m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Vittorio Cottafavi

The Moonraker
UK - 1958 - 82m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: David MacDonald

The Mysterious Satellite
宇宙人東京に現わる
(USA: Warning From Space)
Japan - 1956 - 87m - col
Gala (U)
D: Koji Shima

Naked in the Sun
USA - 1956 - 82m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: R. John Hugh

The Notorious Mr. Monks
USA - 1958 - 70m - bw / scope
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Kane

Old Yeller
USA - 1957 - 81m - col
Walt Disney (U) (cut)
D: Robert Stevenson
Followed by: Savage Sam (1962, Sep/1963).

Orders to Kill
UK - 1957 - 111m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Anthony Asquith

Peyton Place
USA - 1957 - 157m - col / scope
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Mark Robson
Followed by: Return to Peyton Place (1961, Jun/1961), Murder in Peyton Place (1977), Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985).
4-channel stereo

The Quiet American
USA - 1957 - 122m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Saddle the Wind
USA - 1958 - 84m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert Parrish
4-channel stereo

The Seventh Seal
Sjunde inseglet
Sweden - 1957 - 95m - bw
Contemporary (X)
D: Ingmar Bergman

The Sheepman
USA - 1958 - 86m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: George Marshall
4-channel stereo

Showdown at Boot Hill
USA - 1958 - 71m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Gene Fowler Jr.

Warning From Space

Six-Five Special
UK - 1958 - 85m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Alfred Shaughnessy

The Strange Awakening

(USA: Female Fiends)
UK - 1958 - 69m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Montgomery Tully

Teacher's Pet
USA - 1957 - 120m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: George Seaton

Uchūjin Tōkyō ni arawaru
[see: Mysterious Satellite, The]

A Woman of Mystery
UK - 1957 - 71m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Ernest Morris

The Young and the Guilty
UK - 1958 - 67m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Peter Cotes