Monthly Film Bulletin
February 1958
Vol. 25 No. 289
Affair in Havana
USA/Cuba - 1957 - 75m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Laslo Benedek
April Love
USA - 1957 - 99m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Levin
4-channel stereo
Baby Face Nelson
USA - 1957 - 83m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Don Siegel
Border Rangers
USA - 1950 - 60m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: William Berke
Challenge the Wild
USA - 1954 - 68m - col
Eros (U)
D: Frank A. Graham
Chase a Crooked Shadow
UK - 1957 - 87m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Michael Anderson
Chicago Confidential
USA - 1957 - 73m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Sidney Salkow
The Cold Heart
Das kalte Herz
(aka: Heart of Stone)
E.Germany - 1950 - 106m - col
Gala (U)
D: Paul Verhoeven
Count Five and Die
UK - 1957 - 92m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Victor Vicas
4-channel stereo
Craig Kennedy Investigates
USA - 1957 - 50m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Harry L. Fraser
Two episodes of the TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1951-53), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Craig Kennedy: Criminologist (1953, Nov/1953).
Destination 60,000
USA - 1957 - 64m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: George Waggner
Don't Go Near the Water
USA - 1957 - 107m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Charles Walters
4-channel stereo
Doorway to Suspicion
USA - 1957 - 54m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Dallas Bower
Double Fraud
USA - 1957 - 50m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Adrian Weiss
Two episodes of the TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1951-53), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Film series: Craig Kennedy: Criminologist (1953, Nov/1953).
UK - 1957 - 64m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Charles Saunders
The Enemy Below
USA - 1957 - 97m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Dick Powell
4-channel stereo
Escapade in Japan
USA - 1957 - 93m - col / Technirama
RKO Radio (U)
D: Arthur Lubin
From Hell It Came
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X)
D: Dan Milner
Ghost Diver
USA - 1957 - 76m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Richard Einfeld
Gun Duel in Durango
(aka: Duel in Durango)
USA - 1957 - 74m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Sidney Salkow
Happy is the Bride
UK - 1957 - 84m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Roy Boulting
Hear Me Good
USA - 1957 - 82m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Don McGuire
Her Crime Was Love
Dunja
Austria - 1955 - 99m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Josef von Báky
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| The Cold Heart |
USA - 1957 - 64m - bw / scope
MGM (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
4-channel stereo
The Invisible Boy
USA - 1957 - 89m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Herman Hoffman
Jailhouse Rock
USA - 1957 - 97m - bw / scope
MGM (A)
D: Richard Thorpe
Kiss Them for Me
USA - 1957 - 102m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Stanley Donen
4-channel stereo
The Living Idol
USA - 1956 - 100m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Albert Lewin
4-channel stereo
The Lonesome Trail
USA - 1955 - 74m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Richard Bartlett
My Gun is Quick
USA - 1957 - 90m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: George A. White, Phil Victor
No Down Payment
USA - 1957 - 101m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Martin Ritt
4-channel stereo
Pather Panchali
পথের পাঁচালী
(aka: Song of the Little Road)
India - 1955 - 115m - bw
Curzon (U)
D: Satyajit Ray
Followed by: Aparajito (1956, Mar/1958), Apur Sansar (1959, May/1961).
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| Pather Panchali |
Paths of Glory
USA - 1957 - 86m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Stanley Kubrick
Also reviewed: Aug 1984.
The Persuader
USA - 1957 - 76m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Dick Ross
Plunder Road
USA - 1957 - 72m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Hubert Cornfield
Der Postmeister
[see: Dunja]
The Ride Back
USA - 1957 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Allen H. Miner
Rodan
空の大怪獣 ラドン
Japan - 1956 - 82m - col
RKO Radio (X)
D: Ishirō Honda
Followed by: Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster (三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦, 1965), Invasion of the Astro Monsters (怪獣大戦争, 1965), Destroy All Monsters (1968, Dec/1969), Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (ゴジラvsメカゴジラ, 1993), Godzilla: Final Wars (ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ, 2004).
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| The Secret of Two Oceans |
Sayonara
Warner (A)
D: Joshua Logan
4-channel stereo
The Secret of Two Oceans
Тайна двух океанов
USSR - 1955/1956 - 151m - 2 episodes - col
Gala (U)
D: Konstantine Pipinashvili
Produced over two years and originally released in two separate episodes. The UK version distributed by Gala was a condensed feature-length edition, running 102 mins.
Soapbox Derby
UK - 1957 - 64m - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Darcy Conyers
Son of a Stranger
UK - 1957 - 68m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Ernest Morris
Violent Playground
UK - 1957 - 108m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Basil Dearden
Wetbacks
USA - 1955 - 80m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Hank McCune
The Wild Party
USA - 1956 - 91m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Harry Horner
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.
Windom's Way
UK - 1957 - 108m - col
Rank (U)
D: Ronald Neame
Witness for the Prosecution
USA - 1957 - 116m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Billy Wilder
Young Girls Beware
Méfiez-vous, fillettes!
(aka: Good Girls Beware!)
(aka: Look Out Girls)
France - 1957 - 90m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Yves Allégret
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