Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1961
Vol. 28 No. 324
13 Ghosts
USA - 1960 - 83m - col / Illusion-O
Columbia (A)
D: William Castle
L'avventura
(aka: The Adventure)
Italy/France - 1960 - 145m - bw
Mondial (X)
D: Michelangelo Antonioni
Also reviewed: Dec 1995.
Followed by: La notte (1960, Mar/1962), L'eclisse (1962, Mar/1963).
Behold Thy Son
黄色いからす
(aka: Yellow Crow)
Japan - 1957 - 104m - col
Gala (U)
D: Heinosuke Gosho
A Breath of Scandal
USA/Italy/Austria - 1960 - 98m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Michael Curtiz
Cinderfella
USA - 1960 - 88m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Tashlin
Circle of Deception
UK - 1960 - 100m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Jack Lee
Counterfeit
USA (TV) - 1960 - 50m - bw
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Charles R. Rondeau
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Five Fingers (1959-60).
Though the first to be reviewed by MFB, this was actually the very last episode of Five Fingers to be broadcast on US television. Others released in UK cinemas as standalone features are: Dossier (1959, short), The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959, short), Final Dream (1959, short), Thin Ice (1960, Aug/1961), The Judas Goat (1960, Dec/1961), A Shot in the Dark (1960, Aug/1961).
The Cow and I
Le vache et le prisonnier
France/W.Germany - 1959 - 119m - bw
Hillcrest (A)
D: Henri Verneuil
Death Comes From Outer Space
La morte viene dallo spazio
(USA: The Day the Sky Exploded)
Italy/France - 1958 - 82m - bw
Archway (U)
D: Paolo Heusch
La dolce vita
(aka: The Sweet Life)
Italy - 1960 - 173m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: Oct 1987.
Every Minute Counts
Chaque minute compte
France - 1960 - 101m - bw
Unifilms (X) (cut)
D: Robert Bibal
The Gargon Terror
Teenagers From Outer Space
USA - 1959 - 87m - bw
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Tom Graeff
Hell to Eternity
USA - 1960 - 132m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Phil Karlson
The House in Marsh Road
(aka: Invisible Creature)
UK - 1960 - 70m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: Montgomery Tully
The House of the Angel
La casa del ángel
Argentina - 1957 - 76m - bw
Connoisseur (X)
D: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Kiiroi karasu
[see: Behold Thy Son]
Let's Be Daring Madame
Le coin tranquille
France - 1957 - 84m - bw
Unifilms (X)
D: Robert Vernay
Linda
UK - 1960 - 61m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A)
D: Don Sharp
Man Beast
USA - 1956 - 67m - bw
Grand National (A) (cut)
D: Jerry Warren
The Man Who Was Nobody
UK - 1960 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
Montgomery Tully
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
Mark Twain's America
USA (TV) - 1960 - 52m - bw
[No distributor or certificate]
D: [uncredited]
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Project XX (1954-70).
Marriage of Convenience
UK - 1960 - 58m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Clive Donner
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
Midnight Lace
USA - 1960 - 105m - col
Rank / Universal-International (A)
D: David Miller
The Miracle
USA - 1959 - 121m - col / Technirama
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Irving Rapper
Never on Sunday
Ποτέ την Κυριακή
Greece/USA - 1959 - 97m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Jules Dassin
No Kidding
(USA: Beware of Children)
UK - 1960 - 86m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas
North to Alaska
USA - 1960 - 122m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Henry Hathaway
4-channel stereo
Olympia
[see: Breath of Scandal, A]
The Plunderers
USA - 1960 - 94m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Pevney
Pote tin Kyriaki
[see: Never on Sunday]
Rockets in the Dunes
UK - 1960 - 57m - bw
Children's Film Foundation / Rank (U)
D: William Hammond
Screaming Mimi
USA - 1957 - 79m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Gerd Oswald
Shoot the Pianist
Tirez sur le pianiste
(USA: Shoot the Piano Player)
France - 1960 - 81m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: François Truffaut
Shoot to Kill
UK - 1960 - 64m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Michael Winner
Sotto 10 bandiere
[see: Under Ten Flags]
Spartacus
USA - 1960 - 196m - col / Super Technirama 70
Rank / Universal-International (A) (cut)
D: Stanley Kubrick
Also reviewed: Aug 1984.
6-channel stereo
Tess of the Storm Country
USA - 1960 - 84m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Paul Guilfoyle
Under Ten Flags
USA/Italy - 1960 - 111m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Duilio Coletti, Silvio Narizzano
Visa to Canton
(USA: Passport to China)
UK - 1960 - 75m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Michael Carreras
Woman of the Circus
Carola Lamberti: Eine vom Zirkus
E.Germany - 1954 - 91m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Hans Müller
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