MFB: March 1961

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

March 1961

Vol. 28 No. 326

The Bandit
La Cucaracha
(USA: The Soldiers of Pancho Villa)
Mexico - 1959 - 97m - col
Unifilms (X)
D: Ismael Rodríguez

Blackjackets
Raggare!
Sweden - 1959 - 88m - bw
Cross-Channel (Banned)
D: Olle Hellbom

Blueprint for Robbery
USA - 1960 - 87m - bw
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Jerry Hopper

The Breaking Point
(USA: The Great Armored Car Swindle)
UK - 1960 - 59m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Lance Comfort

Caged
Nella città l'inferno
(USA: ...and the Wild Wild Women)
(aka: Hell in the City)
Italy - 1958 - 110m - bw / scope
Cross-Channel (A)
D: Renato Castellani

The Cola Game
女子大学生 私は勝負する
Japan - 1959 - 87m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Noriyuki Itaya

The Crowning Experience
USA - 1959 - 102m - col
MPA (The Good Road) (U)
D: Rickard Tegström, Marion Clayton Anderson

Doctor Blood's Coffin
UK - 1960 - 92m - col
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Sidney J. Furie

Flaming Star
USA - 1960 - 92m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Don Siegel
Also reviewed: Mar 1984.

The Full Treatment
(USA: Stop Me Before I Kill!)
UK - 1960 - 109m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Val Guest

The Grass is Greener
UK - 1960 - 104m - col / Technirama
Rank / Universal-International (A)
D: Stanley Donen

The Hole
Le trou
(USA: The Night Watch)
France/Italy - 1959 - 132m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Jacques Becker

Human Condition I: No Greater Love
人間の条件　第一部純愛篇、第二部激怒篇
Japan - 1959 - 208m - bw / scope
Gala
D: Masaki Kobayashi
Followed by: Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959, Aug/1961), Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (人間の条件　完結篇　第五部死の脱出、第六部曠野の彷徨, 1961).

The Mark
UK - 1961 - 127m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Guy Green

Massacre
USA - 1955 - 75m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Louis King

Wolfpack

Human Condition I: No Greater Love (left)

The Nazi Crimes and Punishment
Wieder aufgerollt: Der Nürnberger Prozess
(USA: Hitler's Executioners)
(aka: The Nuremberg Trials)
W.Germany - 1958 - 90m - bw
Astral (X) (cut)
D: Félix Podmaniczk

Night is My Future
Musik i mörker
(aka: Music in Darkness)
Sweden - 1947 - 87m - bw
Mayfair (A) (cut)
D: Ingmar Bergman

Ningen no joken
[see: Human Condition I: No Greater Love]

No Greater Love
[see: Human Condition I: No Greater Love]

No Love for Johnnie

UK - 1960 - 111m - bw / scope
Rank (X)
D: Ralph Thomas

Der Nürnberger Prozess
[see: Nazi Crimes and Punishment, The]

Nymphettes
Les nymphettes
(USA: First Taste of Love)
France - 1960 - 85m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Henri Zapharatos

Offbeat
(USA: The Devil Inside)
UK - 1960 - 72m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Cliff Owen

The Rebel
(USA: Call Me Genius)
UK - 1960 - 105m - col
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Robert Day

The Secret of the Purple Reef
USA - 1960 - 81m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: William Witney

The Trunk
UK - 1960 - 72m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Donovan Winter

Watashi wa sobusuru
[see: Cola Game, The]

Wolfpack
Die Halbstarken
(USA: Teenage Wolfpack)
W.Germany - 1956 - 97m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Georg Tressler