MFB: June 1957

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1957

Vol. 24 No. 281

12 Angry Men
USA - 1956 - 96m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Sidney Lumet

Air Strike
USA - 1955 - 67m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Cy Roth

Beau James: The Life and Times of Jimmy Walker
USA - 1957 - 107m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Melville Shavelson

Boy On a Dolphin
USA - 1957 - 111m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jean Negulesco
4-channel stereo

Cannibal Attack
USA - 1954 - 68m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Lee Sholem
Series: Jungle Jim (1948, Jun/1949).

Casanova
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova
(USA: Sins of Casanova)
(aka: Adventures of Giacomo Casanova)
Italy/France - 1955 - 95m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Steno

Checkmate
USA/Switzerland - 1953 - 60m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Gene Martel

The Crooked Sky
UK - 1957 - 77m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Henry Cass

The Cruel Tower
USA - 1956 - 79m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Lew Landers

The Curse of Frankenstein
UK - 1957 - 83m - col
Warner (X) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher
Followed by: The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958, Sep/1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964, Jun/1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967, Jun/1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969, Jul/1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970, Nov/1970), Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973, Apr/1974).

Cut-Throat
Le couteau sous la gorge
(aka: The Knife to the Throat)
USA - 1956 - 91m - col / scope
Regent (A) (cut)
D: Jacques Séverac

Dark Venture
USA - 1956 - 85m - col
Exclusive (U)
D: John Calvert [as: John Trevlac]

The Daughter of Mata-Hari
La figlia di Mata Hari
(USA: Mata Hari's Daughter)
Italy/France - 1954 - 98m - col
Regent (A) (cut)
D: Carmine Gallone, Renzo Merusi

The Devil's Pass
UK - 1957 - 56m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Darcy Conyers

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
USA - 1956 - 83m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears

Eight Witnesses
UK/USA/W.Germany - 1954 - 60m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Lawrence Huntington

Elena
Daniele Cortis
Italy - 1946 - 95m - bw
Gala (U)
D: Mario Soldati

Female Jungle
USA - 1956 - 73m - bw
Orb (A) (cut)
D: Bruno VeSota

La fille de Mata-Hari
[see: Daughter of Mata-Hari, The]

Flesh and the Spur
USA - 1956 - 78m - col
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Fort Yuma
USA - 1955 - 80m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Lesley Selander

Friends for Life
Amici per la pelle
(USA: The Woman in the Painting)
Italy/France/Spain - 1955 - 100m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Franco Rossi

The Girl He Left Behind
USA - 1957 - 103m - bw
Warner (U)
D: David Butler

The Girl in Black Stockings
USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Howard W. Koch
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Half-Human
USA/Japan - 1957 - 64m - bw
Eros (X)
D: Kenneth G. Crane (and Ishirō Honda)
Comprised of newly-shot American material intercut with footage from the Japanese film 獣人雪男 (1955), intended for the US marketplace.

Hour of Decision
UK - 1957 - 81m - bw
Eros (A)
D: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Jungle Beyond
Gjensyn med Jungelfolket
Norway - 1950 - 83m - col
Curzon (U)
D: Per Høst
Distributed in the UK by Curzon as a short film, running 43 mins.

Jujin yukiotoko
[see: Half-Human]

Kill Me Tomorrow
UK - 1957 - 80m - bw
Renown (U)
D: Terence Fisher

Kronos
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Kurt Neumann

Let's Be Happy
UK - 1957 - 106m - col / scope
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Henry Levin

Mademoiselle de Paris
(USA: Mademoiselle From Paris)
France - 1955 - 92m - col / scope
Regent (A)
D: Walter Kapps

Man Afraid
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Harry Keller

The Man Without a Body
UK - 1957 - 80m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: W. Lee Wilder, Charles Saunders

Monster From Green Hell
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Kenneth G. Crane

Murder Reported
UK - 1957 - 58m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Charles Saunders

Naked Paradise
(aka: Thunder Over Hawaii)
USA - 1956 - 68m - col
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Roger Corman

Night in Havana
The Big Boodle
USA - 1957 - 83m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Richard Wilson

Obsession
France/Italy - 1954 - 103m - col
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Jean Delannoy

Pepote
Mi tío Jacinto
(aka: Uncle Hyacynth)
Spain/Italy - 1956 - 91m - bw
International (U)
D: Ladislao Vajda

Public Pigeon No. One
USA - 1956 - 80m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Norman Z. MacLeod

Quatermass 2
(USA: Enemy From Space)
UK - 1957 - 85m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Val Guest
Series: The Quatermass Xperiment (1955, Oct/1955).

The River's Edge
USA - 1957 - 86m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Allan Dwan
4-channel stereo

Rock All Night
USA - 1957 - 62m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Roger Corman

She-Devil
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Kurt Neumann

The Steel Bayonet
UK - 1957 - 85m - bw / scope
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Michael Carreras

Stranger in Town
UK - 1957 - 73m - bw
Eros (U)
D: George Pollock

Street of Sinners

USA - 1957 - 80m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: William Berke

Suicide Mission
Shetlands gjengen
Norway - 1954 - 93m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Michael Forlong

The Teahouse of the August Moon
USA - 1956 - 123m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Daniel Mann
4-channel stereo

Train to Tombstone
USA - 1950 - 57m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: William Berke

Twelve Angry Men
[see: 12 Angry Men]

Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Typhon sur Nagasaki
France/Japan - 1956 - 115m - col
Curzon (U)
D: Yves Ciampi

Voodoo Woman
USA - 1957 - 75m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Wakamba!
USA - 1955 - 65m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Edgar M. Queeny

The Young Stranger
USA - 1957 - 84m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Frankenheimer