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MFB: April 1960





Monthly Film Bulletin
April 1960
Vol. 27 No. 315


12 to the Moon
USA - 1959 - 75m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: David Bradley

The 3rd Voice
USA - 1959 - 79m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Hubert Cornfield

The 400 Blows
Les quatre cents coups
France - 1959 - 99m - bw / scope
Curzon (A) (cut)
D: François Truffaut
Followed by: Antoine et Colette (1962, short, first included in the anthology feature Love at Twenty [1962, Oct/1964], then issued as a separate item in its own right), Baisers volés (1968, May/1969), Bed and Board (1970, Aug/1971), Love On the Run (1978, Nov/1979).

Alert
Алерт
USSR - 1959 - 78m - bw
Plato (U)
D: Boris Lyakhovsky

And the Same to You
UK - 1959 - 70m - bw
Eros (U)
D: George Pollock

The Angry Silence
UK - 1960 - 95m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Guy Green


Lords of the Forest reviewed Jan 1960.



The Bat
USA - 1959 - 80m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Crane Wilbur

Beast From Haunted Cave
USA - 1959 - 75m - bw
Grand National (X)
D: Monte Hellman

Blood and Steel
USA - 1959 - 63m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Bernard L. Kowalski

Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons
UK - 1960 - 93m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: W. Lee Wilder

Born to Be Loved
USA - 1958 - 82m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Hugo Haas

Bottoms Up
UK - 1960 - 89m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Mario Zampi






The Bramble Bush
USA - 1959 - 105m - col
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Daniel Petrie

Carry On, Constable
UK - 1960 - 86m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas
Series: Carry On Sergeant (1958, Sep/1958).

Cash McCall
USA - 1959 - 102m - col
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Joseph Pevney

Counterplot
USA - 1959 - 77m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Kurt Neumann

Devil's Partner
USA - 1958 - 75m - bw
Grand National / Independent (X)
D: Charles R. Rondeau

A Dog of Flanders
USA - 1959 - 97m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: James B. Clark
4-channel stereo




Faces in the Dark
UK - 1960 - 85m - bw
Rank / Welbeck (A) (cut)
D: David Eady

The Flying Fontaines
USA - 1959 - 84m - col
Columbia (U)
D: George Sherman

Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Pardonnez nos offenses
France - 1956 - 80m - bw
Films de France (X) (cut)
D: Robert Hossein
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Gigantis the Fire Monster
ゴジラの逆襲
(aka: Godzilla Raids Again)
(aka: Godzilla's Counterattack)
Japan - 1955 - 82m - bw
Eros (A)
D: Motoyoshi Odo
Series: Godzilla (1954, Feb/1957).

Goliath and the Barbarians
Il terrore dei barbari
Italy - 1959 - 100m - col - scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (U) (cut)
D: Carlo Campogalliano

Gunfire at Indian Gap
USA - 1957 - 70m - bw / scope
Eros (U)
D: Joseph Kane

Hell Bent for Leather
USA - 1959 - 82m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: George Sherman




Home From the Hill
USA - 1959 - 148m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Vincente Minnelli

Inn for Trouble
UK - 1959 - 90m - bw
Eros (U) (cut)
D: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Let's Get Married
UK - 1960 - 91m - bw / scope
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Peter Graham Scott

Marie-Octobre
France - 1958 - 102m - bw
Mondial (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

Never Take Sweets From a Stranger
(USA: Never Take Candy From a Stranger)
UK - 1960 - 81m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Cyril Frankel

The 400 Blows

Plan 9 From Outer Space
USA - 1958 - 79m - bw
Grand National / Independent (X)
D: Edward D. Wood Jr.

The Purple Gang
USA - 1959 - 85m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Frank McDonald

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
USA - 1959 - 101m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Budd Boetticher

Roadracers
USA - 1959 - 78m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Arthur Swerdloff

Surrender - Hell!
USA - 1959 - 85m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: John Barnwell




Goliath and the Barbarians



The Third Voice
[see: 3rd Voice, The]

The Vampires
I vampiri
(aka: The Devil's Commandment)
(aka: Lust of the Vampires)
Italy - 1956 - 81m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Riccardo Freda

When Comedy Was King
USA - 1959 - 72m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert Youngson
Series: The Golden Age of Comedy (1957, Aug/1958).

Your Money or Your Wife
UK - 1959 - 91m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Anthony Simmons

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