MFB: December 1959

Introduction for newcomers

Ilya Muromets

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1959

Vol. 26 No. 311

1001 Arabian Nights
USA - 1959 - 76m - col
Gala (U)
D: Jack Kinney

Les amants
(aka: The Lovers)
France - 1958 - 88m - bw / scope
Mondial (X) (cut)
D: Louis Malle

Babette Goes to War
Babette s'en va-t-en guerre
France - 1959 - 103m - col / scope
Columbia (A)
D: Christian-Jaque

Battle of the Coral Sea
USA - 1959 - 85m - bw
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: Paul Wendkos

Behemoth the Sea Monster
(USA: The Giant Behemoth)
UK - 1959 - 70m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Douglas Hickox, Eugene Lourié

The Best of Everything
USA - 1959 - 121m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Jean Negulesco
4-channel stereo

Cinerama South Seas Adventure
USA - 1958 - 108m - col / Cinerama
Cinerama / Robin International (U)
D: Francis D. Lyon, Walter Thompson, Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Basil Wrangell
7-channel stereo

Deadline Midnight
-30-
USA - 1959 - 96m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Jack Webb

The Epic Hero and the Beast
Илья Муромец
(USA: The Sword and the Dragon)
(aka: Ilya Muromets)
USSR - 1956 - 93m - col / scope
Gala (U)
D: Aleksandr Ptushko
4-channel stereo

Frankenstein's Daughter
USA - 1958 - 85m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Richard E. Cunha

Friends and Neighbours
UK - 1959 - 79m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Gordon Parry

The Horse Soldiers
USA - 1959 - 120m - col
United Artists (U)
D: John Ford

It Started With a Kiss
USA - 1959 - 104m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: George Marshall
4-channel stereo

Man Accused
UK - 1959 - 58m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Montgomery Tully

The Mating Urge
USA - 1959 - 79m - bw
Gala (A)
D: [uncredited]

Never Love a Stranger
USA - 1957 - 91m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A)
D: Robert Stevens

Pier 5, Havana
USA - 1959 - 68m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Power Among Men
UK - 1958 - 90m - col and bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Alexander Hammid, Gian Luigi Polidoro, V.R. Sarma, Victor Vicas

The Savage Eye
USA - 1959 - 68m - bw
Contemporary (X) (cut)
D: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick

SOS Pacific
UK - 1959 - 91m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Guy Green

South Seas Adventure
[see: Cinerama South Seas Adventure]

Strictly Confidential
UK - 1959 - 62m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Charles Saunders

Summer Interlude
Sommarlek
(aka: Illicit Interlude)
(aka: Summerplay)
Sweden - 1950 - 97m - bw
Cross-Channel (A)
D: Ingmar Bergman

The Giant Gila Monster: Jan 1960

Sweet Beat
(USA: The Amorous Sex)
UK - 1959 - 55m - bw
Archway (A)
D: Ronnie Albert

That Kind of Woman
USA - 1958 - 92m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Sidney Lumet

They Came to Cordura
USA - 1959 - 123m - col / scope
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Robert Rossen

We Die Alone
Ni liv
(USA: Nine Lives)
Norway - 1957 - 97m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Arne Skouen

The Witness
UK - 1959 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Geoffrey Muller

The Wonderful Country
USA - 1959 - 98m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Robert Parrish