MFB: June 1958

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1958

Vol. 25 No. 293

Another Time, Another Place
UK - 1958 - 95m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Lewis Allen

The Bachelor Girl
La garçonne
France - 1957 - 105m - col
Mondial (X) (cut)
D: Jacqueline Audry

Battle of the V-1
(USA: Missiles From Hell)
UK - 1958 - 109m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Vernon Sewell

Blazing a Trail to the Stars
Дорога к звездам
(USA: Road to the Stars)
USSR - 1957 - 52m - col
Rank (U)
D: Pavel Klushantsev

Blonde in Bondage
Blondin i fara
Sweden - 1957 - 91m - bw
Eros (X)
D: Robert Brandt

The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
野口英世の少年時代
Japan - 1956 - 50m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Hideo Sekigawa

The Camp on Blood Island
UK - 1958 - 82m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Val Guest
Followed by: The Secret of Blood Island (1964, Jul/1965).

Cry Terror!
USA - 1958 - 96m - bw
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Andrew L. Stone

A Dangerous Age
Canada/USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
Films de France (A)
D: Sidney J. Furie

Flaming Frontier
USA - 1958 - 70m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Frontier Gambler
USA - 1956 - 69m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Hidden Fear
USA/Denmark - 1958 - 83m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: André De Toth

Blazing a Trail to the Stars

White Nights

High Hell
UK - 1958 - 85m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Burt Balaban

I'll Defend You, My Love
Difendo il mio amore
(USA: Defend My Love)
Italy/France - 1956 - 95m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Giulio Macchi, Vincent Sherman

Kathy O
USA - 1958 - 99m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Jack Sher

Kumonosu-jo
[see: Throne of Blood]

Maria
María la Voz
Mexico - 1955 - 85m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Julio Bracho

Merry Andrew
USA - 1958 - 103m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Michael Kidd
4-channel stereo

Noguchi Hideyo no shonen jidai
[see: Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi, The]

No Time to Die
(USA: Tank Force)
UK - 1958 - 103m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Terence Young

Once Upon a Horse
USA - 1958 - 85m - bw / scope
Rank (U)
D: Hal Kanter

Roots
Raíces
Mexico - 1954 - 103m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Benito Alazraki
The version reviewed in the MFB is listed as running 78 minutes, and mentions that one of the three stories which make up the narrative has been dropped altogether. However, the version listed at the BBFC database is considerably longer, indicating that the 'approved' version contained all three stories - but was still cut for an X certificate.

Running Target
USA - 1956 - 82m - col
Monarch / British Lion (U)
D: Marvin R. Weinstein

Satchmo the Great
USA - 1957 - 64m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: [uncredited]

The Sea Wall
La diga sul Pacifico
(USA: This Angry Age)
Italy/USA - 1957 - 104m - col / Technirama
Rank (A)
D: René Clément

Smiley Gets a Gun
Australia - 1958 - 90m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Anthony Kimmins
Series: Smiley (1956, Aug/1956).

South Pacific
USA - 1958 - 170m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Joshua Logan
6-channel stereo

Stage Struck
USA - 1958 - 95m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Sidney Lumet

St. Louis Blues
USA - 1958 - 93m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Allen Reisner

Suicide Battalion
USA - 1958 - 79m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Throne of Blood
蜘蛛巣城
Japan - 1957 - 105m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Akira Kurosawa

Through Hell to Glory
Jet Attack
(aka: Jet Alert)
USA - 1958 - 69m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Thunder Road
USA - 1958 - 92m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Arthur Ripley

Touch of Evil
USA - 1958 - 93m/111m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Orson Welles
Originally released in a version assembled without Welles' participation. The film was re-edited/restored to his written specifications in 1998.

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
USA - 1957 - 71m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Earl Bellamy

Underwater Warrior
USA - 1958 - 91m - bw / scope
MGM (U)
D: Andrew Marton

Up the Creek
UK - 1958 - 83m - bw / scope
Warner (U)
D: Val Guest
Followed by: Further Up the Creek (1958, Nov/1958).

White Nights
Le notti bianche
Italy/France - 1957 - 107m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Luchino Visconti

Womaneater
UK - 1957 - 71m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Charles Saunders

The World Was His Jury
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

The Young Lions
USA - 1958 - 167m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Edward Dmytryk
4-channel stereo