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MFB: January 1959





Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1959
Vol. 26 No. 300



Apache Territory
USA - 1958 - 70m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro

Bell Book and Candle
USA - 1958 - 102m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Richard Quine

Blonde for Danger
Sois belle et tais-toi
(USA: Be Beautiful But Shut Up)
France - 1958 - 110m - bw
Mondial (A)
D: Marc Allégret

Cage of Doom
Terror From the Year 5000
USA - 1958 - 66m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Robert J. Gurney Jr.

Fiend Without a Face
UK - 1957 - 73m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Arthur Crabtree

Frontier Gun
USA - 1958 - 69m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Paul Landres



Girl on the Run
(aka: 77 Sunset Strip)
USA - 1958 - 77m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Richard L. Bare

Gun the Man Down
USA - 1956 - 68m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Andrew V. McLaglen

Hold Back Tomorrow
(aka: No Tomorrow)
USA - 1955 - 75m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Hugo Haas

Home Before Dark
USA - 1958 - 135m - bw
Warner (U)
D: Mervyn LeRoy

Hong Kong Confidential
USA - 1958 - 68m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

The House of Lovers
Pot-Bouille
(USA: Lovers of Paris)
France/Italy - 1957 - 118m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Julien Duvivier

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
USA - 1958 - 159m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Mark Robson
4-channel stereo

In the Money
USA - 1958 - 61m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: William Beaudine
Series: Live Wires (1946, Jun/1946).





Island of Lost Souls
USA - 1932 - 70m - bw
Eros (X) (cut)
D: Erle C. Kenton
Rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Paramount in 1933, then passed with cuts in 1958. The uncut version was 'approved' in 1996.

Juvenile Jungle
USA - 1958 - 69m - bw / scope
Eros (A) (cut)
D: William Witney

The Light in the Forest
USA - 1958 - 92m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Herschel Daugherty

The Lost Missile
USA - 1958 - 71m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Lester William Berke

Love Slaves of the Amazon
USA - 1957 - 81m - col
Rank (A)
D: Curt Siodmak

Man of the West
USA - 1958 - 100m - col / scope
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Anthony Mann

Mardi Gras
USA - 1958 - 107m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edmund Goulding
4-channel stereo





No Room for Wild Animals
Kein Platz für wilde Tiere
(USA: Bambuti)
W.Germany - 1956 - 79m - col
Astral (U)
D: Bernhard Grzimek, Michael Grzimek

Nowhere to Go
UK - 1958 - 87m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Seth Holt

The Old Man and the Sea
USA - 1957 - 87m - col
Warner (U)
D: John Sturges

Operation Teutonic Sword
Unternehmen Teutonenschwert
(aka: General Speidel: The Archives Testify)
E.Germany - 1958 - 51m - bw
Plato (Banned)
D: Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike
Preceded by the short film Urlaub auf Sylt (1957), also banned by the BBFC.

The Reluctant Debutante
USA - 1958 - 95m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Vincente Minnelli
4-channel stereo

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
USA - 1958 - 87m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Levin

Sally's Irish Rogue
(USA: The Poacher's Daughter)
UK - 1958 - 74m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: George Pollock

The Screaming Skull
USA - 1958 - 68m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Alex Nicol





The Sign of Zorro
USA - 1958 - 90m - bw
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Foster, Lewis R. Foster
Compiled from material in the TV series Zorro (1957-59).
Followed by: Zorro, the Avenger (1958, Jun/1960).

The Solitary Child
UK - 1957 - 64m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Gerald Thomas

The Square Peg
UK - 1958 - 89m - bw
Rank (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs

The Stain on the Snow
La neige était sale
(USA: The Snow Was Black)
France - 1953 - 110m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Luis Saslavsky
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Strictly for Pleasure
The Perfect Furlough
USA - 1958 - 93m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Blake Edwards

Timbuktu
USA - 1958 - 91m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Jacques Tourneur

tom thumb
USA/UK - 1958 - 92m - col
MGM (U)
D: George Pal

The Two-Headed Spy
UK - 1958 - 93m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: André De Toth

Voice in the Mirror
USA - 1958 - 102m - bw / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Harry Keller

Wild Heritage
USA - 1958 - 78m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Charles Haas

Wink of an Eye
USA - 1957 - 72m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Winston Jones

Without You It is Night
Ohne dich wird es Nacht
W.Germany - 1956 - 104m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Curt Jürgens

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