Thursday, 29 October 2015

MFB: May 1958


Introduction for newcomers



Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1958
Vol. 25 No. 292


6.5 Special
[see: Six-Five Special]

The Bad One
Sorority Girl
USA - 1957 - 61m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman

Bonjour Tristesse
UK - 1957 - 93m - col / scope
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Otto Preminger

Cabiria
Le notti di Cabiria
(USA: Nights of Cabiria)
Italy/France - 1957 - 117m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: Oct 1999.

Calabuch
(USA: The Rocket From Calabuch)
Spain/Italy - 1956 - 93m - bw
Curzon (U)
D: Luis García Berlanga

Cattle Empire
USA - 1958 - 83m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Charles Marquis Warren
4-channel stereo



The Come-On
USA - 1956 - 83m - bw / scope (2.00:1)
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Russell Birdwell
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Crash Landing
USA - 1958 - 64m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears

Desire Under the Elms
USA - 1958 - 111m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (X)
D: Delbert Mann

The Duke Wore Jeans
UK - 1958 - 89m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas

Dunkirk
UK - 1958 - 135m - bw
MGM (U) (cut)
D: Leslie Norman

Escape From San Quentin
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Fred F. Sears

A Farewell to Arms
USA - 1958 - 152m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Charles Vidor
4-channel stereo

From Blossom Time to Autumn Frost
Gyöngyvirágtól lombhullásig
(aka: Fight for Life)
Hungary - 1953 - 88m - bw
Contemporary (U) (cut)
D: István Homoki Nagy
Short version reviewed: Aug 1954.

Gideon's Day
(USA: Gideon of Scotland Yard)
UK - 1958 - 91m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: John Ford





Going Steady
USA - 1957 - 81m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Fred F. Sears

Gunsight Ridge
USA - 1957 - 84m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Francis D. Lyon

Handle With Care
USA - 1958 - 82m - bw
MGM (U)
D: David Friedkin

Heart of a Child
UK - 1958 - 77m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Clive Donner

Killer Dino
Dino
USA - 1957 - 78m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Thomas Carr

The Land Unknown
USA - 1957 - 77m - bw / scope
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Virgil W. Vogel





The Lawless Eighties
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw / scope
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

The Long, Hot Summer
USA - 1958 - 117m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Martin Ritt
4-channel stereo

Milady and the Musketeers
Il boia di Lilla
(aka: Vengeance of the Musketeers)
Italy/France - 1952 - 88m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Vittorio Cottafavi

The Moonraker
UK - 1958 - 82m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: David MacDonald

The Mysterious Satellite
宇宙人東京に現わる
(USA: Warning From Space)
Japan - 1956 - 87m - col
Gala (U)
D: Koji Shima

Naked in the Sun
USA - 1956 - 82m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: R. John Hugh

The Notorious Mr. Monks
USA - 1958 - 70m - bw / scope
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Kane

Old Yeller
USA - 1957 - 81m - col
Walt Disney (U) (cut)
D: Robert Stevenson
Followed by: Savage Sam (1962, Sep/1963).




Orders to Kill
UK - 1957 - 111m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Anthony Asquith

Peyton Place
USA - 1957 - 157m - col / scope
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Mark Robson
Followed by: Return to Peyton Place (1961, Jun/1961), Murder in Peyton Place (1977), Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985).
4-channel stereo

The Quiet American
USA - 1957 - 122m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Saddle the Wind
USA - 1958 - 84m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert Parrish
4-channel stereo

The Seventh Seal
Sjunde inseglet
Sweden - 1957 - 95m - bw
Contemporary (X)
D: Ingmar Bergman

The Sheepman
USA - 1958 - 86m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: George Marshall
4-channel stereo

Showdown at Boot Hill
USA - 1958 - 71m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Gene Fowler Jr.


Warning From Space



Six-Five Special
UK - 1958 - 85m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Alfred Shaughnessy

The Strange Awakening
(USA: Female Fiends)
UK - 1958 - 69m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Montgomery Tully

Teacher's Pet
USA - 1957 - 120m - bw / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: George Seaton

Uchūjin Tōkyō ni arawaru
[see: Mysterious Satellite, The]

A Woman of Mystery
UK - 1957 - 71m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Ernest Morris

The Young and the Guilty
UK - 1958 - 67m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Peter Cotes

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