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MFB: August 1957





Monthly Film Bulletin
August 1957
Vol. 24 No. 283


After the Ball
USA - 1957 - 89m - col
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Compton Bennett

The Aristocrats
Les aristocrates
France - 1955 - 100m - bw
Curzon (U)
D: Denys de La Patellière

Around the World in Eighty Days
USA - 1956 - 175m - col / Todd-AO
United Artists (U)
D: Michael Anderson
6-channel stereo

Atoms for Peace
Атомная энергия для мирных целей
USSR - 1956 - 78m - col
Plato
D: Dmitrij Bogolyepov

The Bachelor Party
USA - 1957 - 92m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Delbert Mann

Booby Trap
UK - 1956 - 71m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Henry Cass

The Bride is Too Beautiful
La mariée est trop belle
(USA: Her Bridal Night)
(aka: The Bride is Much Too Beautiful)
France - 1956 - 93m - bw
Renown (A) (cut)
D: Pierre Gaspard-Huit




The Burglar
USA - 1957 - 90m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Paul Wendkos

Calling Homicide
USA - 1956 - 61m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Bernds
Series: Dial Red "0" (1955, Oct/1955).
Also reviewed: July 1957.

Crime in the Streets
USA - 1956 - 91m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Don Siegel
Also reviewed: Feb 1984.

Dragoon Wells Massacre
USA - 1957 - 97m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Harold D. Schuster

Dragstrip Girl
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn

End As a Man
The Strange One
USA - 1957 - 99m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Jack Garfein




Face in the Night
(USA: Menace in the Night)
UK - 1956 - 75m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Lance Comfort

Five Clues to Fortune
UK - 1956 - 129m - 8 chapters - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joe Mendoza

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
USA - 1957 - 88m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Norman Taurog

The Garment Jungle
USA - 1957 - 87m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Vincent Sherman (and Robert Aldrich)

The Great Lover
Don Juan
France/Spain/Italy - 1955 - 93m - col
Films de France (A)
D: John Berry

The Happy Road
USA/France - 1956 - 100m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Gene Kelly

A Hatful of Rain
USA - 1957 - 108m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Fred Zinnemann
4-channel stereo

Hell Drivers
UK - 1957 - 108m - bw / VistaVision
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Cy Endfield



The Hidden Woman
La escondida
(aka: The Hidden One)
Mexico - 1956 - 103m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Robert Gavaldón

His Other Woman
The Desk Set
USA - 1957 - 103m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang
4-channel stereo

Hot Rod Rumble
(aka: Road Devils)
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Leslie H. Martinson

The Hypnotist
(USA: Scotland Yard Dragnet)
UK - 1956 - 88m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Montgomery Tully

Interlude
USA - 1957 - 89m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Douglas Sirk

Island in the Sun
UK - 1957 - 123m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Robert Rossen
4-channel stereo sound.

I Was a Teenage Werewolf
USA - 1957 - 75m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Gene Fowler Jr.
Followed by: How to Make a Monster (1958, Feb/1959).




The Key Man
(USA: Life at Stake)
UK - 1957 - 63m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Montgomery Tully

The Little Hut
USA - 1956 - 90m - col
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Mark Robson

Little Mook
Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck
(USA: The Story of Little Mook)
E.Germany - 1953 - 100m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Wolfgang Staudte

Lucky to Be a Woman
La fortuna di essere donna
(aka: What a Woman!)
France/Italy - 1955 - 91m - bw
Intercontinental (A)
D: Alessandro Blasetti

A Man Escaped
Un condamné à mort s’est echappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut
(aka: Gestapo... Lyon)
(aka: A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth)
France - 1956 - 102m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Robert Bresson

Man From Tangier
(USA: Thunder Over Tangier)
UK - 1957 - 67m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Lance Comfort

Marguerite de la nuit
(USA: Marguerite of the Night)
France/Italy - 1955 - 126m - col
Curzon (X)
D: Claude Autant-Lara

Miracle in Soho
UK - 1957 - 98m - col
Rank (U)
D: Julian Amyes

Monkey on My Back
USA - 1957 - 93m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: André De Toth




The Night the World Exploded
USA - 1957 - 64m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

Othello
Отелло
USSR - 1955 - 108m - col
Gala (A)
D: Sergei Yutkevich

Ride the High Iron
USA - 1956 - 73m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Don Weis

Rumble on the Docks
USA - 1957 - 82m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears

Saint Joan
UK - 1957 - 110m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Otto Preminger

Second Fiddle
UK - 1957 - 73m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

Seven Years in Tibet
UK - 1956 - 75m - col
Curzon (U)
D: Hans Nieter

Something of Value
USA - 1957 - 113m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Richard Brooks

The Story of Esther Costello
USA - 1957 - 104m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: David Miller




Sweet Smell of Success
USA - 1957 - 93m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Alexander Mackendrick

The Tall T
USA - 1957 - 77m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Budd Boetticher

These Dangerous Years
(USA: Dangerous Youth)
UK - 1957 - 92m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Herbert Wilcox

This Could Be the Night
USA - 1957 - 104m - bw / scope
MGM (U)
D: Robert Wise
4-channel stereo

Time Lock
UK - 1957 - 73m - bw
Independent / British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Gerald Thomas

The Wayward Bus
USA - 1957 - 89m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Victor Vicas
4-channel stereo

The Young Don't Cry
USA - 1957 - 89m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Alfred L. Werker

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