Tuesday 24 November 2015

MFB: July 1960





Monthly Film Bulletin
July 1960
Vol. 27 No. 318


12 Hours to Kill
[see: Twelve Hours to Kill]

5 Branded Women
USA/Italy - 1960 - 115m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Martin Ritt

Ali and the Camel
UK - 1960 - 135m - 8 chapters - col
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Henry Geddes

The Angry Red Planet
USA - 1959 - 83m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Ib Melchior

Battle Inferno
Hunde: Wollt ihr ewig leben
(aka: Inferno)
(aka: Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?)
W.Germany - 1959 - 111m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Frank Wisbar

The Beatniks
USA - 1958 - 79m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Paul Frees





The Big Night
USA - 1959 - 72m - bw
Paramount (U)
D: Sidney Salkow

Black Orpheus
Orfeu Negro
France/Italy/Brazil - 1958 - 106m - col
R.D. Purie / Curzon (A)
D: Marcel Camus
Converted to 70mm for a 1977 re-release, though this involved cropping the original 1.37:1 frame.

Born Reckless
USA - 1959 - 79m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Howard W. Koch

Boyd's Shop
Ireland - 1960 - 55m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Henry Cass

Camp of Violence
Un hecho violento
(aka: Violent Fate)
Spain - 1959 - 96m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: José María Forqué

The Challenge
(USA: It Takes a Thief)
UK - 1959 - 89m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: John Gilling

The Chaplin Revue
USA - 1960 - 117m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Charlie Chaplin

A Death of Princes
USA (TV) - 1960 - 52m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John Brahm
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Naked City (1958-63).

Dentist in the Chair
UK - 1960 - 88m - bw
Renown (U)
D: Don Chaffey
Followed by: Dentist On the Job (1961, Aug/1961).

The Diary of a High School Bride
USA - 1960 - 72m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Burt Topper



Five Branded Women
[see: 5 Branded Women]

The Fugitive Kind
USA - 1959 - 121m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Sidney Lumet

A Generation
Pokolenie
Poland - 1954 - 90m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Andrzej Wajda

Les grandes familles
(USA: The Possessors)
France - 1958 - 93m - bw
Cross-Channel (A) (cut)
D: Denys de La Patellière

Gun Fever
USA - 1957 - 83m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Mark Stevens

The House of Intrigue
Londra chiama Polo Nord
(aka: London Calling North Pole)
Italy - 1959 - 100m - col / scope
Archway (A) (cut)
D: Duilio Coletti





The Hypnotic Eye
USA - 1960 - 79m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: George Blair

Inherit the Wind
USA - 1960 - 128m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Stanley Kramer

Jazz on a Summer's Day
USA - 1960 - 86m - col
Hillcrest (U)
D: Bert Stern

Jovanka e l'altri
[see: 5 Branded Women]

Kidnapped
USA - 1959 - 95m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Stevenson

A Generation

The Leech Woman
USA - 1959 - 77m - bw
Rank (X)
D: Edward Dein

Lost Lives
Vite perdute
(USA: Lost Souls)
Italy - 1958 - 86m - bw
Archway (A) (cut)
D: Adelchi Bianchi, Roberto Mauri

The Man in the Middle
(USA: 48 Hours to Live)
UK/Sweden - 1959 - 77m - bw
Archway (A)
D: Peter Bourne

Never Let Go
UK - 1960 - 91m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: John Guillermin

Normandie-Niémen
France/USSR - 1959 - 120m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Jean Dréville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh

The Nudist Story
(aka: For Members Only)
(aka: Pussycats Paradise)
UK - 1959 - 90m - col
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Ramsey Herrington





Oscar Wilde
UK - 1960 - 98m - bw
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Gregory Ratoff

Paris, Palace Hôtel
(USA: Paris Hotel)
France/Italy - 1956 - 105m - col
Rank (A)
D: Henri Verneuil

Rififi and the Women
Du rififi chez les femmes
(USA: Riff Raff Girls)
France/Italy - 1959 - 110m - bw
Regal (X) (cut)
D: Alex Joffé

Sergei Eisenstein
Сергей Эйзенштейн
USSR - 1958 - 50m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Vasily Katania

The Sign of the Gladiator
Nel segno di Roma
(aka: Sheba and the Gladiator)
Italy/France - 1958 - 100m - col / scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Guido Brignone (and Riccardo Freda)

Slave Women of Corinth
Afrodite: Dea dell'amore
(USA: Aphrodite: Goddess of Love)
Italy - 1958 - 87m - col / scope
Archway (A)
D: Mario Bonnard




Sons and Lovers
UK - 1960 - 100m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Jack Cardiff

Stefanie
W.Germany - 1958 - 99m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Josef von Báky

The Subterraneans
USA - 1960 - 89m - col / scope
MGM (X)
D: Ranald MacDougall

Tall Story
USA - 1960 - 91m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Joshua Logan

Teenage Lovers
Too Soon to Love
USA - 1959 - 85m - bw
Rank (X)
D: Richard Rush

Le testament d'Orphée, ou Ne me demandez pas pourquoi!
France - 1959 - 83m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Jean Cocteau
Series: Orphée (1950, Jun/1950).

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
(USA: The Man With the Green Carnation)
UK - 1960 - 123m - col / Super Technirama 70
Eros (X)
D: Ken Hughes

Twelve Hours to Kill
USA - 1960 - 83m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

Village of the Damned
UK - 1960 - 77m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Wolf Rilla
Followed by: Children of the Damned (1963, Apr/1964).

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