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MFB: December 1956





Monthly Film Bulletin
December 1956
Vol. 23 No. 275


5 Steps to Danger
USA - 1956 - 81m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Henry S. Kesler

7th Cavalry
USA - 1956 - 75m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Joseph H. Lewis

The Animal World
USA - 1956 - 80m - col
Warner (U)
D: Irwin Allen

Assignment Redhead
(USA: Million Dollar Manhunt)
UK - 1956 - 79m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Maclean Rogers

Autumn Leaves
USA - 1956 - 107m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Robert Aldrich

The Battle of the River Plate
(USA: Pursuit of the Graf Spee)
UK - 1956 - 119m - col / VistaVision
Rank (U)
D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Bermuda Affair
USA - 1956 - 77m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: A. Edward Sutherland

The Best Things in Life Are Free
USA - 1956 - 104m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Michael Curtiz
4-channel stereo

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
USA - 1956 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Fritz Lang
Badly cropped from 1.37:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as 'RKO-Scope'.

Il bidone
(aka: The Swindlers)
Italy/France - 1955 - 112m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Federico Fellini

Canyon River
USA - 1956 - 80m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Harmon Jones

Checkpoint
UK - 1956 - 84m - col
Rank (U)
D: Ralph Thomas

Circus Friends
UK - 1956 - 63m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gerald Thomas

Crashing Las Vegas
USA - 1956 - 62m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Jean Yarbrough
Series: Live Wires (1946, Jun/1946).

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
USA - 1956 - 81m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Foster
Three episodes of the TV series Disneyland (1954-58), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955, Feb/1956).

Death of a Scoundrel
USA - 1956 - 120m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Charles Martin

Dry Rot
UK - 1956 - 87m - bw
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Maurice Elvey

Five Steps to Danger
[see: 5 Steps to Danger]

Flight to Hong Kong
USA - 1956 - 88m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Joseph M. Newman

Friendly Persuasion
USA - 1956 - 137m - col
MGM (U)
D: William Wyler





The Grasshopper
Попрыгунья
(aka: The Cricket)
(aka: Featherhead)
USSR - 1955 - 90m - col
Contemporary (U)
D: Samson Samsonov

The Gun Runner
Santiago
USA - 1956 - 93m - col
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Gordon Douglas
Badly cropped from 1.85:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as 'WarnerScope'.

Harbour of Desire
Le port du désir
(USA: House on the Waterfront)
France - 1954 - 95m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Edmond T. Gréville

Harvest
Regain
France - 1937 - 127m - bw
Academy (A) (cut)
D: Marcel Pagnol

High Society
USA - 1956 - 107m - col / VistaVision
MGM (A)
D: Charles Walters

House of Secrets
UK - 1956 - 97m - col / VistaVision
Rank (A)
D: Guy Green

I've Lived Before
USA - 1956 - 82m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Richard Bartlett

The Lone Ranger
USA - 1955 - 85m - col
Warner (A)
D: Stuart Heisler
Followed by: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958, Sep/1958).

Mam'zelle Pigalle
Cette sacrée gamine: Mme Pigalle
(USA: Naughty Girl)
(aka: That Naughty Girl)
France - 1955 - 86m - col / scope
Films de France (U)
D: Michel Boisrond

Moby Dick
USA - 1956 - 115m - col
Warner (U)
D: John Huston

Nightfall
USA - 1956 - 78m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Jacques Tourneur

Overland Trail
Trail Riders
USA - 1942 - 57m - bw
Gerrard (U)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).

Please Murder Me
USA - 1956 - 76m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Peter Godfrey

The Search for Bridey Murphy
USA - 1956 - 84m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (X)
D: Noel Langley

The Sharkfighters
USA - 1956 - 73m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: Jerry Hopper

The Slave Woman
La cortigiana di Babilonia
(USA: The Queen of Babylon)
Italy - 1954 - 109m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Smoky Canyon
USA - 1952 - 54m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).

Somebody Up There Likes Me
USA - 1956 - 110m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert Wise

Teenage Rebel
USA - 1956 - 94m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Edmund Goulding
4-channel stereo

These Wilder Years
USA - 1956 - 91m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Roy Rowland

A Touch of the Sun
UK - 1956 - 80m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Gordon Parry

U.F.O.
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers
USA - 1956 - 90m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Winston Jones

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