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MFB: July 1957





Monthly Film Bulletin
July 1957
Vol. 24 No. 282


The Admirable Crichton
(USA: Paradise Lagoon)
UK - 1957 - 93m - col / VistaVision
Columbia (U)
D: Lewis Gilbert

Attack of the Crab Monsters
USA - 1957 - 63m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman

At the Stroke of Nine
UK - 1957 - 72m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Lance Comfort

L'auberge rouge
(aka: The Red Inn)
France - 1951 - 94m - bw
Cross-Channel (X)
D: Claude Autant-Lara

The Buster Keaton Story
USA - 1957 - 91m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Sidney Sheldon

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

China Gate
USA - 1957 - 90m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Samuel Fuller
4-channel stereo

Fire Down Below
UK/USA - 1957 - 116m - col / scope
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Robert Parrish

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
USA - 1957 - 122m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: John Sturges

How to Murder a Rich Uncle
UK - 1957 - 79m - bw / scope
Columbia (A)
D: Nigel Patrick

The Incredible Shrinking Man
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Jack Arnold

Joe Butterfly
USA - 1957 - 90m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Jesse Hibbs

Joe Dakota
USA - 1957 - 78m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Richard Bartlett

The Kid From Canada
UK - 1957 - 57m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Kay Mander

Last of the Badmen
USA - 1957 - 80m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Paul Landres

Law of the Streets
La loi des rues
France - 1956 - 100m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Ralph Habib

Lizzie
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Hugo Haas




The Lonely Man
USA - 1957 - 87m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Henry Levin

Lovers and Lollipops
USA - 1955 - 82m - bw
Intercontinental (U)
D: Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Man in the Vault
USA - 1956 - 72m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Andrew V. McLaglen

Not of This Earth
USA - 1956 - 67m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X)
D: Roger Corman
Also reviewed: Jun 1981.

The Oklahoman
USA - 1957 - 75m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Francis D. Lyon

Pay the Devil
Man in the Shadow
USA - 1957 - 80m - bw / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Jack Arnold

The Prince and the Showgirl
UK - 1957 - 115m - col
Warner (A)
D: Laurence Olivier

The Rising of the Moon
Ireland/USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
Warner (U)
D: John Ford



Rock You Sinners
UK - 1957 - 59m - bw
Small (U)
D: Denis Kavanagh

Run of the Arrow
USA - 1956 - 85m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Samuel Fuller
Badly cropped from 1.85:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as 'RKO-Scope'.

The Seventh Commandment
Le septième commandement
France - 1956 - 98m - bw
Regent (A)
D: Raymond Bernard

The Shadow on the Window
USA - 1957 - 72m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: William Asher

The Shiralee
UK - 1957 - 99m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Leslie Norman

Silk Stockings
USA - 1957 - 117m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Rouben Mamoulian

The Spirit of St. Louis
USA - 1957 - 134m - col / scope
Warner (U)
D: Billy Wilder
4-channel stereo

Tea and Sympathy
USA - 1956 - 122m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (X)
D: Vincente Minnelli
4-channel stereo




That Girl Elisa
Élisa
France - 1956 - 92m - col
Regent (X) (cut)
D: Roger Richebé

That Woman Opposite
(USA: City After Midnight)
UK - 1957 - 83m - bw
Monarch (A)
D: Compton Bennett

The Tommy Steele Story
(USA: Rock Around the World)
UK - 1957 - 82m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerard Bryant

Trouble for the Legion
Legione straniera
Italy/France - 1952 - 85m - bw
DUK (U)
D: Basilio Franchina

The Unholy Wife
USA - 1957 - 95m - col
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: John Farrow
Badly cropped from 1.85:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as 'RKO-Scope'.

Valerie
USA - 1957 - 80m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Gerd Oswald

The Vintage
USA - 1957 - 92m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Jeffrey Hayden
4-channel stereo

The Way to the Gold
USA - 1957 - 94m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert D. Webb
4-channel stereo

Westward Ho the Wagons
USA - 1956 - 85m - col / scope
Walt Disney (U)
D: William Beaudine

Wild Barbara
Divá Bára
Czechoslovakia - 1948 - 79m - bw
Gala (U)
D: Vladimir Cech

Woman of the Red Sea
Africa sotto i mari
Italy - 1953 - 88m - col
Gala (U)
D: Giovanni Roccardi

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